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TALE OF MIDWINTER JOYS IN THE FRIGID LAND OD THE AURORA Two little girls have arrived in this port T from the Arctic, alter passing two most rigorous winters above the seventieth par allel, and they are as hale and hearty as any two children who have been spending the same time in comfortable homes in San Francisco. One of them is at the St. Nicholas Ho tel with her aunt, Mrs, Green, and Cap •tain Green of the steam whaling bark Alexander, and in the course of an even ing she can entertain visitors with inter- j esticg stories of the cheerless, dreary j wastes of tnow and ice. "I "was homesick and tired of the Arctic; I dia not like it all," she exclaimed, with something suggesting a sigh of relief, in answer to a request for her impressions of the frozen north. "And I would not play with the Mazinkas," Bhe added after a pause; "they are repulsive. There was | nothing but snow and ice, aniMt was so ' cold you could not stay out for an hour. ! Still, I had lots of fun. I learned to read j and write and crochet and sew, and the | •officers taught me to dance, and I learned 1 the Mazinkas' language." What appeared funniest of all in th*at queer region was the persistent tendency of icecream to become as hard as iron if not eaten quickly. It was no trouble to make icecream, but keeping it soft was another matter, especially when chafing dishes were not plentiful. By watching j the Indians hunt and fish she grew ex- ; pert in catching salmon trout through holes cut in the ice, and could hold her seat on a sled flying over hummocky snow with any little barbarian. >The two children met at Herschel Isl § where whaling ships make their jf liter quarters. One was from Honolulu, Jijas Lucie McGuire, the other from Ala meda, Miss Dorotay Porter, daughter of Captain Porter of the whaling steamer Jessie Freeman. Lucie and Dorothy were for all the world like two little Esquimaux ! when they were introduced to each other and told to be playmates — an instruction which was wholly unnecessary, consider ing the fact that within the whole Arctic circle there was possibly not another white eirl. Lucie was then about eight years and her companion a year or two younger. They were soon fast friends and together managed to make the hours pass pleas- ; antly in their winter prisons. The sailors i carved dolls for them and played Esqui- j i jnau- dogs by hauling them on sledges I ] THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE What of Dreams, ir\ WKicK Jime and Place Pass for J^avjgnt It is the enunciated doctrine of our yschools that life is best defined as "a pe ■culia'r-mode of activity, the life of the com plex organism called man being the ag gregate of the vital activity of oil its com ponent parts; that each of these compo nent parts possesses an independent ca pacity for development and maintenance; the harmonious unity of action of all forming the normal life— beaitb." Such is the explanation of the phenomenon of lift given by thm schools. It is further taught that "the his- I tory of this complex organism is one of g incessant change. The man of to-uay is \ not the man of yesterday, nor will he be the man of to-morrow. Physical and chem • ical agencies are at work creating and de stroying — there is no rest." incident occurring during my col lege days U id much toward stimulating inquiry, into the phenomenon of life. ♦Saturdays were often soent in the search for objects of natural history among the hills and woods. In one of these expedi tions during an early spring day my com panion* and myself found a cave. The opening was bidden among the brambles, half way up a rocky hill. The cave was not an extensive one; simply a crevice in the loose rock formed by the interspacing soil bavins been washed out by the perco lating water of rains. There were no stalactites or other cave . formations, and we had soon explored the small cavity. We were about ieaving when Geo-ge, my companion, found a dark object, like a bundle, in a remote corner of the cavern. The object proved •to be a small female bear in a state of tor- j por.' We secured her bearship with a cord and carried our trophy home suspended •from a pole carried on our shoulders. The bear Jived for several years, being adopted as the pet of the college. The incident gave rise to much reading upon the subject of hibernation. The curious phenomenon was made the sub ject of a lecture by one of the college pro fessors, who explained it as being "a sus pension of certain^of the animal func tions." The explanation may have proved sat isfactory to some of the students; tome the- matter was one for the deepest thought. What was it? Why was it that ra human being could not undergo a like condition.? Tbe bear is a warm-blooded animal; so is the man. How were "cer- tain of the physical functionasuspended" ? •if the bear, why not the man? The study . of the evolution of the higher types of organization, both animal and vegetable, discloses the fact that both are governed by the same "mode of activity." The primordial cell multiplies itself by du \plic»te subdivision into aggregations of cells, each one the repetition of tbe other, until, shaped by some power (not defined in the teachings of any' of the schools), a limit is reached, beyond which a structural dif ferentiation occurs that, growing more de cided with development, gives distinction to the type. As between the animal and • the vegetable, orthodox science is silent regarding the similarity or dissimilarity " of their vital foree — both have life. ' In the museum at Sntro Park is a vase which contains seeds taken from an Egyp tian mummy's case. It was the custom of the Egyptians to place some wfieat in the mummy case, so that the tenant of the Casket might not want for food. From •one of these mummy cases some wheat •was taken, and placed in the hands of the ctrtef gardener at the Royal Gardens at Kew, in England, who planted the kernels and succeeded in raising from them a crop 'of strange wheat. What was that con dition of tbe seed during the long cen turies of its repose within the coffin of the itzyptian? Was it life? Of a certainty ■ifas not performing any vital function. M^her was it dead, for disintegration had • noTiaken place. Its capacity for living was not impaired, for although it had slumbered during a period marking 3000 seed times, vet its vital force dwelt in it; and under the Bkillful nursing of an Eng lish gardener the grain of wheat harvested by Pharaoh blossomed and bore fruit of its kind for Victoria. What was the shape and form of the vitality? The answer re quires a keener perception of the subtle over the snow, or helpine them fish; and then when the frigid air compelled every body to stay aboard ship the tots were amused in various ways. Every little kindness from the hardy seaman is stiLi remembered, so that the children look back to Herschel Island in midwinter with many pleasurable recollections. There were fifteen vessels in winter quarters at the island, and as six or seven captains were accompanied by their wives, the season was not so dreary as might be expected. Among the effi'rers of the ships were musicians, accomplished performers on the violin, guitar anil mandolin, and some Hawaiians and Mexicans, who sang sweetly. Besides, there was more or less talent in the way of comedy. The ladies entertained quite liberally, and one ship had a steward, a Japanese, who had filled a similar position on a man-of-war. The ladies made good use of him when they found that he took especial pride in preparing surprises for every dinner. And so with music, song, comedy, receptions, card parties, private theatricals and banquets, varied on fine days with sled rides, the long northern night and the twilight days were bearable. "But I was tired fcf it," protested little Lucie, "and I often wished to be home again. There was no one to play with but Dorothy, and we had to stay on board ship nearly all the time. It was so cold we could not stay out over an hour, and when the sou'westers blew ' the air was full of snow and the mercury dropped to 40 below zero. Then we were like prison ers for a week at a time. That was not nice." "Not quite so nice as the sunshine of Honolulu?" "Indeed, no; and I often longed to be there." The bright little girl was reminiscent by this time and began to relate her ex periences during two winters in the frozen regions. "I had to wear heavy woolens and my ordinary clothes, and outside them all a dearskin coat to my feet. It was lined with flannel. I had a hood lined with flannel and trimmed with wolverine, also Esquimau boots and dearskin mittens over woolen stockings and glovee. They kept me warm, still I could not stay out long or I would be frozen. When the ship put in at L'nalaska for coal and provisions a lady gave me books, and auntie then forces of nature than attains in-tbis pres ent age. We pride ourselves justly upon our marvelous skili in microscopy, yet the moat powerful microscope at our com mand is useless in determining whether or not a seed of wheat has parted -with its vitality. What is that peculiar "mode of activity" known as sleep? Is it a suspension of some of the independent activities by certain component parts of the organism? iro far 8b external phenomena are con cerned, complete unconsciousness attains in profound s'.eep. Wn^t is this condition, that, virtually suspending .-. portion of the physical manifestations of life, yet bestows enhanced power and capability of exercise upon :he mental organism? Orthodox science, with all its boasted knowledge, does not explain the dream life. Thought flows on apparently auto matically, and often in coherent sequence, uniformity and order. Sometimes the sequence is strangely incongruous, but because it is so, can we say tbat the means of averting a fantastic dream shall never be known? The process of reasoning may be, and often is, carried on during sleep with more vigor and success than during AS HE SPOKE A CHILD TUGGED AT HIS KNEE. the waking hours. Condorcet in his dream-life solved the difficult mathemati cal calculations that his wide-awake mind utterly failed to grasp. Condillas, when engaged in bia "Cours d'Etude," fre quently developed and finished a subject in his dreams that be had conceived and abandoned in the waking hours from sheer lack of mental capability to con struct fitting imagery. Coleridge states that his "Kubla Khan" (pronounced by competent critics to be one of the finest poems known) was composed by him during sleep. What is this condition, this phase, this state, this aream-liie, in which time, place THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1896. taught me to read and write. I did not i know my alphabet on going into the Arctic, but on comine out I read all the books and could write. Was the Mazinka language hard to learn? I don't know. First I understood what the Mazinkas said and then I spoke their language; it was easy." Lucj told how the Alexander had sailed through a pass in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian group and through the Bering and circumstance pass for naught? In dreams the dead are with us alive and well. The oldest of earth's inhabitants greet us with the familiarity of friends of to-day. Though the languages of the period when these gliostly visitors existed as mortal are so deeply buried in antiquity as to be beyond our waking understand ing, yet in dreamland we hold intelligent converse with them; space is annihilated; we are with friends at the very antipodes; j we visit strange lands, strange planets ! even, and with the dream-life vision see ; much that has no counterpart upon the broad face of the globe. Shut out by sleep from the consciousness of earth-Hie we see beings unknown to the waking senses and that have no place in the log cataloeue of earthly species. We cer tainly see in dream-hfe things that cannot under any circumstances be said to be borrowed from our wakeful perceptions. We see new and glorious forms of beamy; we hear strains of music surpassing in di vine harmony all that ever our waking I senses comprehend; we look upon me | chanical forms and devices of which not the slightest conception could by any pos sibility have occurred to our waking hours. Are Buch things real? Can or thodox Bcience say they are not? The positive philosophers who refuse to concern themselves with anything save ! phenomena immediately cognizable by j the senses may be, and undoubtedly are, j able to satisfy their spirit of inquiry by dismissing the "dream" subject asa "mani- I festation of energy exhibited by an auto j matic and undirected development of I latent impressions of the cerebrum." I quote the language of a distinguished philosopher (?). What is electricity? A manifestation of energy. Are dreams, then, electrical ? These questions are linked with the sim ple matter I have before alluded to — the sleeping bear— a matter so simple that tte self-appointed oracles of science look upon it as not worth the consideration. During the siege of Vicksburg, in 1863, a soldier was wounded by the explosion of a .'-hall, a small spicula of the iron missile penetrating the man's skull. Tne soldier was sent to the hospital and became a puzzle to the surgeons. • He was thought to have received only an abrasion oi the Sea into the Arctic Ocean, past Point Bar row, and cruised as far as Cape Bathurst before getting back to Herschel Island for the winter. "At Herschel Island," she continued, "we settled in a cove for the winter! TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN THE LAND OF ICE. ! When the sea began to freeze the anchor i was pulled up and then the steamer was i fust. The men built a house over the neck and 3oon the snow fell and covered the ship and house together. I did not scalp, which quickly healed; but, strange to relate, he totally forgot himself. He did not know his own identity. All mem ory of hia former existence faded. He had no recollection whatever of home or family. For twenty years this man lived on, with all his former life that occurred pre vious to his wound a blank. O herwise he was mentally sound. Then after a lapse of twenty years he was again wounded in the head, this time by a railroad accident He was then operated on by surgeons and" his skull trepanned, when it was found that a 6liver of iron was imbedded in his brain (the fragment of a shell). The piece of iron was removed, and then — he utterly forgot everything connected with his life of the last twenty years and memory took up the thread at the point where it was broken by the explosion of the shell at Vicksiair^. Where had the soldier been during these twenty years? Who was it that occupied his physical cerement dur ing that time? Was It the same ego? C uld John Smith be held responsible during the twenty years between 1863 and 1883 for what John Smith did prior to 1863? The soul is the essential part of the human being. Its individuality is a very recent fact in the history of our elobe, and but few souls are really conscious of their individuality. Psychic force has just be«un to assert itself among the higher spheres of terrestrial humanity. The soul is beyond all conditions of time and space. It> human manifestations are shaped by environments, ju«t as the character of the grain is i-overned by the conditions of soil and cultivation. In sleep the physical conditions that are molded in waking hours by habit and custom are no longer dominant, and thus the soul unloosed ' from the chains of matter roams, or rather drifts — hither, thither — in so-called dreams. Everything in nature has its comple ment. The magnet has its positive and negative poles. Only in the lower forms are found the possessora of a half of the whole. Many years ago a great teacher said, '"There are no marriages in heaven." There could not be. The soul is« androgy nous It is a complete entity; what, were we to define it according to our physical conception, we should term a blended duality. F. M. Close, D.Sc. A CHILD'S PLEA It Turned the Scales and Elected Storms to Office The Speaker of the Evening sat in front of the Globe Hotel, smoliing his cigar. The committee, much to his relief, had left him alone for a minute, as they went to see that everything was arranged at the hall. It was late in the fall and the cam paign was nearing its close. The crisp night air sent a chill to the bone, and as the Speaker of the Evening drew his warm coat about him his attention was attracted by a child who stood near to his chair, timidly hesitating upon a closer approach. "Are you the speaker?" piped a tremb ling little child as she drew a step nearer. As a cheerful and reassuring response came in the affirmative, the little one without further hesitancy stepped close to his chair, and just above a whisper said : "When you make a speech to-night will you aay something for my papa? No one has said anything for him, and he is home, sick. My mamma says if dome one would only say a word for him, when they are sneaking for all the rest, he might be elected; and mamma says if he isn't elected she don't know what we'll do." "Who is your papa?" "Martin Storms." "What is he running for?" • "I don't know, but whatever it is, if you will say something for him, mamma says ho will be elected." "You sit here a moment," said the Speaker of the Evening, taking the little, frail flower ana placing her in his chair. As he turned around he met the chairman of the County Committee, who had come to notify him that the band were to tender him a serenade after the meeting. With little heed to what was said, he asked; "Who is Martin Storms?" "Oh, he's a worthless fellow we nomi nated for Township Justice as a sort of joke." . like the short days and twilijfht, but we bad lots of fun all the same. The funniest thing used to be the dogs, acting like pack-mules. The sailo # rs trained the doss to carry little bags, one on each side, just like saddle-bags, and when the men would go out fi3hing they would take the dogs along. Each dog would carry ten fish in the bags, five on each side, and follow one after another the same as mules. When they got tired they would lie down care "His nomination a joke?" "Of course, why? He won't get a dozen votes." "We will see about that," said the Speaker of the Evening, as he returned to the chair where the child waa waiting. "You may tell your mamma that I will speak for your papa to-night." As he said this, the child sobbed with joy and, throwing her little, bony arms around his neck, Kissed him again and again. Tbe dim liteht on the porch prevented the County Committeeman from seeing a tear or two that night, and if he had he may not have asked the question or received the reply which followed. "Who was that?" "The child upon whom you have played a jove," answered the Speaker of the Evening, as he turned abruptly ano went to his room in the hotel. The meeting opened that night with its usual preliminaries, aDd as the Speaker of the Evening advanced there was not one in the audience who did not feel that something out of the usual run of political speeches was comincr. It was out of the usual run. It was a speech of a lifetime — a speech which left impressions of a lifetime. If poor Martin Storms could have heard what was said about him that night he would have felt that the compensation for all his troubles in life had been complete. When the Speaker of the Evening closed there was not a dry eye in the house or a heart that had not made ?onie resolution concerning the candidacy of Martin Storms. There was no serenade that night, and Careless Driving. as the Speaker of the Evening climbed the stairs to his room he found a little bunch of colorless flowers at his door, that was all; but the day after the election he re ceived word that Martin Storms had run ahead of his ticket. Jtjdson Brusie. The funeral of a workman in Japan costs from 3s 6d to s*. The coffin is sup plied for Is; for cremation, 3s is paid, and the mourners cheer themselves with refreshments which cost about 6d, and sometimes go as high as a shilling:. Clive was only a little over 20 when he embarked on his career of conquest of India. fully so that the fish would not be turned out of the bags. After a rest they would start off again and trot home to the ships. I learned to fish like the men when the mate cut holes in the ice for me, but that was after the Mazinkas showed me how to catch fish. "The sailors used to go out for deer gen erally with an officer and a native, and they would nearly always return with a deer on their sled. Then we would have venison for a long time with salmon trout. That was all we wanted for tbe table with the stores. "Indian traders used to come from 200 miles in the interior with deer meat and skins, and it was lots of fun to see them give everything for matches, tobacco and knives, or whatever they wanted. Some times they used to ask for soap. J think some of them have learned how to wash ani to use soap, but the little Mazinkas don't. "Captain Sherman of tbe Beluga had a made for me, but Captain Tilton of the Newport copied off mine and made one for Dorothy before I got mine, and I was mad. The men used to haul us about and hitch up dogs for us, and we used to go coasting downhill on the island. Once the sailors hauled us to the fresh water pond where they got ice about four miles from the cove. It was fun to see them with harness over their shoulders run ning two by two and pullinn a long rope with a sled at the end. Mr. Whittaker, a missionary, came from 200 miles in the interior to see us. He had a sled and three dogs, and he used to take Dorothy and me on long rides. He tied us down so we wouldn't fall out. When he left everything was lonely again, though we soon grew to be satisfied with rides around the ships and toboggans down the snow hills. "Killing bears is great fun, too, but I was terribly frightened when I saw the first one. They are all big white fellows, and look like the ice or snow till you see them more. They come out when they smell blubber and have a good feed. We saw one from the ship. He was on the ice rolling over and over and having a good time after feeding on blubber. My uncle saw him and went off with men In a boat. He crawled ov r the ice, and when he got r.ear the bear he fired his rifle. The bear rolled over and seemed to be dead, but the rext thing they knew he was in the water and swimming for the boat. ON GENTILITY AND HORSES Some pertinent Suggestions About tke Way of a Driver With J4is Horse We hear a good deal nowadays of the thoughtlessness? and rudeness of wheel men, who, more than almost any other class of people it sometimes seems, appear to look upon the thoroughfares of city and country alike as existing for their ex clusive use. lam inclined to think, how ever, that the wheelman, and when I say wheelman I mean regardless of sex a rider of the bicycle, Is only a greater nuisance than the horseman because he is just now more numerous. It almost seems as if there is something in the possession of a horse that has a ten dency to make us forget the rights not only of less favored individuals on foot, but of other riders and drivers besides ourselves. Some time ago I was one of a small party of riders who were cantering along a country road. Suddenly one restive horse broke into a run, and in an instant the others had followed suit, and we were rushing along, pell-meii, helter-skelter around a slight bend in the rosd. When this was reached we saw before us a hand some phaeton, drawn by a big, fat, well groomed horse. A lady was driving and she peered out anxiously, as she heard the clattering hoofs of our party. The horse heard the clatter as well, and was prancing and rearing with excitement. We were so close that pulling up was out of the question, so we did the next best thing and got by as quickly as possible. But when our animals were once more under control and without a thought but that my companions would do the same I rode back to apologize for what had been our unavoidable discourtesy. I was sur prised to find that no one else in the party seemed to consider this necessary. "Peo- pie should not drive animals that are likely to be rattled by the approach of a galloping horse and we couldn't have stopped, anyway," said one. The obvious reply to this that people should not ride horses that they cannot stop seemed to be regarded as a non sequitur. The riders in this case were all women, but I have seen men do things equally outrageous with no apparent idea that the rights of others should be respected. Only a day or two ago I saw a rider bear down at full gallop upon a young girl who was pushing a baby carriage across the street. He had nearly a block in which to pull up, but he never drew rein, so the girl drew back. The horse's flying feet missed the carriage by a line and sent a shower of mud into the baby's face. Cer tainly no bicycle-rider ever perpetrated a greater outrage. There is a law in England requiring an equestrian to pull up and pass an unat tended lady at a walk. This"even if she is herself on horseback. Some such law we should have in this country for the pro tection of women and children, if not ail pedestrians, from the carelessness of rid ers and drivers. To be sure there is un doubted truth in the argument that pe destrians should be on the lookout. The man on foot has the advantage over the one who is riding or driving a horse, that he has only his own movements to control and can slop, turn back or hasten much more promptly than the horseman can make his charge do any of these things; but whether the pedestrian does this or not the horseman should never fail to rec ognize his own responsibilitylin the matter. ] Before the men could get away he had one paw upon the boat, and then uncle shot him dead. They tied a rope round the bear's neck and hauled him to the ship. I think those bears are very cute. "But I dvi not like to see the men huat baby walrus, because it was so sad to see the mother catch the young one in her fins and sit up and beg. The mother wal rus would know when the men with rifles were going to kill the young ones, and they would make the most pitiful moans. You would think they could speak, and they'd hold the babies up against their breasts, co I could not look itt the sailors kill them. "We had a grand time a year ago last April, when little Helen Herschel Sher man was born on board the Beluea. Her father is captain of the Beluga. All fifteen ships at the island had their flairs flying, and Helen was born under the American flag. They called her Herschel after the island. She was christened on Sunday, when four days old, by a minister visiting there on his rounds to see the natives. Then we had a party and lots of fun. We \ also had birthday parties and fancy dress balls. As the Beiuga had the largest deck, 411 parties and theatricals were given aboard her, and her big deckhouse I was decorated with flaes, bunting and j Chinese lanterns. The men would make eouvenirs for each banquet — this is one," and the interesting child showed a minia ture sled painted white and containing a yellow satin bag which had been filled with salted almonds. "These amusements were always in the evenings, though it was hard to tell one part of the day from another. There was co little light I often longed for the sun. In the morning I studied my lessons and needlework and afterward I used to go out coasting or playing, but in the even ings there was nothing to do, because all the old people played cards. "In the summer it was nice enough. I wore a short deerskin coat and a felt hat and woolens trimmed with minx. Her schel Island is covered with all kinds of pretty flowers — forget-me-nots, poppies and other kinds— and Mr. Warren, who was killed by a whale, used to take me j and Dorothy up the hills to gather j flowers." After the excitement attending the kill ing of the first whale wore off Lucie de clared she took no interest in whaling, but only longed to be home again- In particular does the average horseman, if he suspects that he has done any dam age by careless driving, deem his one duty to be to get out of sight. It, is seldom that one turns back to render assistance when he has been the cause of an accident. The driver who goes along a '"main trav eled road' reading is the bete noir of the highway. Such an act ought to render a man liable to summary arrest. It would seem as if the commonest regard for pub lic safety would show any man the impro priety of reading while driving, yet when ever I take my drive abroad I am almost sure to encounter at least one such of fender. Indeed, I was recently obliged to turn to the left, across an electric track, to avoid a driver who, perched upon the seat of a huge wagon, was busily improving his mind, oblivious of the fact that his team of great draught horses had strayed to the wrong side oi the road and were entirely out of their right of way, while his whole attention was engrossed by the newspaper spread upon his leather-aproned knees. The woman who takes a friend out for a drive and becomes engrossed in conversa tion, to the fonretfulness of her horse, is another offender against the equities, but not more so than are the irresponsible lads who drive our milk and grocery wagons. Two such I saw, some time since, cut in across the way of a lady who was driving, turn their vehicles in such a way that she could neither drive forward nor back out, and then Btop. She was obliged to rein up and wait until the two friends had finished the conversation for which they had halted. Then they drove on and allowed her to do the same. The two men who halt their horses and, with their wagons side by side, proceed to discuss the political situation are known to every driver. They are as übiquitous a nuisance as the man who goes through a crowd with his umbrella under his arm. Then there is the driver who turns oat to pass you, and having got his horse's head past your animal's, immediately turns back into the road, to the imminent peril of your horse's legs. There is noth ing discourteous in going ahead of an other driver when the road is wide enough to admit of the maneuver, but whoever does it should bear in mind that the horse which he is passing is not standing still, but moving forward, and that allowance should be made, in coming back to the middle of the road, not only for having passed the slower equipage bat" for the distance which the horse has probably traveled while you were passing it. If you turn back into your track too quickly your hind wheels are likely to graze this horse's forelegs. Then, too, some drivers have a way of whipping up as soon as they realize that they are passed and there is a chance that you may not hold your vantage after all, but will, instead, come into unexpected collision with your neighbor's wheels. Now that the rains are with us again th >re are mud puddles to encounter every now and again, and the woman who de sires to «hine in the eyes of her fellows as possessing some lingering ideas of cour tesy, even although she rides or drives a horse, will never let her steed go splashing through one of these, sending a disagree able shower of soiliDg drops up into the faces of passers-by. Certainly there is no time when a gen tleman may so appropriately offer his services or a lady so frankly accept them as when the latter is having difficulty with a horse, and no pride in equestrienne skill or hesitation on the score of eti quette need preven her from accepting them. On the other hand, however, a lady will never presume upon the general opinion in which women drivers are held, in claiming more than is her due in right of way. I have seen feminine drivers hold calmly on their way, up the wrong side of a thoroughfare, making heavy teams and light rigs alike make way for them, know ing perfectly well taat they were in the wrong, but sure in the knowledge that the average man will always turn out for them. I should hate to see any accident, but it sometimes seems to me that it might be well could such drivers have one or two salutary lessons. Miss Russill. 25