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Hetty Green Is said to be studying stenography. It is not suspected that she Intends to add to her income by taking a salaried position. Long before school boards were es tablished in England. Canadian child ren were instructed free of cost be tween the ages of 7 and 12. This edu cation is compulsory. Tho London papers are gravely pointing out, as a result of the anarch istic troubles, that "Patterson, N. J., ought to be closely watched." This is placing in an elevated position the city heretofore known to fame as "the best circus town in the country." The consumption of tea In tho Uni ted States was estimated at 80.1KJ0.000 pounds in 1890: Great Britain and Ire land, 18-1,500.000 pounds: Russia, 37,550.000 pounds, and Panada. 22,401,000 pounds. In coffee, the past year, it is estimated that the con sumption in the United States was 712,224,000 pounds. "There lias never been a time when the coatless man has not been found with us. He is to be found in the mills and factories; in the fields and the mines—everywhere, indeed, where hard labor is expected of mankind. He does not stop to ask what conven tion decrees with respect to either coat, collar or vest. lit? just takes them off, says the Philadelphia Inquir er. The uselessnoss of anarchy Is tersely pointed out by the Kansas City Star UK follows: "Assassination of crowned heads by anarchists has never aecom plished anything for the good of so ciety. Tlie idea that rulers would be frightened into liberal government lias not proved true. The same de gree of improvement would have taken place in the governments of the world without assassination." New Zealand was the first country In the world to introduce a system of state pensions for its old and needy people—that is to say. every man and woman who lias attained tlie age of tJ. years and lias resided for 25 years In the colony is entitled to a pension of about $1.75 per week. The sum ne cessary for this purpose has increased In one year by over $390,000, and now something like $950,000 is required an nually to pay these pensioners of the state. Henceforth the amount is to be taken out of the general revenues of the country, and how long the col ony will be able to bear the strain re mains to be seen. A new line of work for agricultural departments is pointed out in an an nouncement by the Pennslyvania de partment ul'its purpose to use all avail able means of beautifying the land scape in that state. All classes have been invited to assist in this work, the road commissioners, the forestry coui inlssbns. private citizens, and corpora tions. Where Nature lias furnished a basis of beauty, an attempt will be made to develop her evident purpose, in villages and along highways, m country places and upon the bunks of reams. This is not to be done in a haphazard way. The best expres sions uf rliral landscape development In England have been studied, and as far us practicable, will bo copied, or rather the methods and principles which have produced tliein will be ap plied under these new conditions. Before the outbreak of the war with Spain freight vessels were lying idle in many a seaport at home and abroad. Demands incident to hostilities in South Africa and in the Far East have been u active that now not enough vessels arc afloat to do the business of the world. It is officially estimated that the wheat crop of India is 184,000.000 bush els, against 230.000.000 bushels last sea son. and 227.000.000 bushels the average of five years oast. * $ * THE MISSION ©F MIRANDH - "Then, whether with hope or whether with dread My strength came back with a leap ing thrill, Though my lips were close to her gold en head I would not move till I knew lior will!" —Anon. Stell used to wonder IE all women who had a mission were as intolerant as her Aunt Miranda. Stella father was a traveling man and seldom at home. Stell's mother was absorbed in her club duties and her aspirations toward authorship. So Miss Miranda Baxter, who was quite old enough to have a daughter of her own had a not perverse fate prevented this possibil ity, took upon herself much of the care and training of her wayward niece. At least Miranda considered Stell wayward because she never could bo brought to see the doleful side of existence. "But I don't want to go slumming," she would declare. "The only time I did go with you I cried half the night after. It seemed so dreadful to go into people's houses without being asked. I was afraid of hurting their feelings. Then, I'm not wise like you. I don't know anything about sores and rheumatism, and bottled —no, bottle babies. I seemed to have been only impertinent when I couldn't help. You may take all my month's pin money for the poor people. It will help them more than being visited by an ignorant girl." Whereat Miss Miranda would heave a gentle sigh of resignation. "I have always supposed that every individual has a special mission to perform in this world. I cannot dis cover what yours may be. You do not admire good pictures " "Not the shocking ones, Aunt Mi randa. Not some of Dore's, nor those by that Russian artist with the long name. They are appalling!" "You do not read the papers, do not keep abreast of current events." "I read the papers in—in spots. I can't read about murders, and mutila tions. and dreadful things like those. I should be sure to dream of them." She was wondering if, to have a mission in life, it was necessary to have a nose shining like a well-pow dered door-knob for lack of a puff of pearl powder. "One must confront the unpleasant facts of life. Only last week I spent an hour reading an instructive book on the early history of the Abyssln lans to a woman who was dying of a cancer which " "O, please don't!"* entreated Stell, who had gone white as a snowdrop. Miss Baxter shook her head. Stell wondered how that scant drab hair would look if it were softly waved in stead of being strained back in so un compromising a fashion. "There! You shrink from human suffering!" "Don't you—ever?" "I face it unflinchingly. I fear, Es tella, that your sensibilities are blunt ed. You don't even enjoy music." "Don't I though?" cried Estella. "Not the dreadful, dreary things, of course. Not the dismal music which makes me wonder why God made flowers, and singing birds, and water falls, and rainbows, and little children, and everything beautiful! But the gay, happy music which makes one want " Miss Baxter's weary gesture checked the impetuous speech. "I fear you never will find a worthy mission in life, Estella." .Stell irreverently hoped she never would if such discovery necessitated going corsetless. Perhaps her aunt looked well enough when her form was trim and young. But now that thirty-seven blustery winters had drifted over her head one fancied her bulky proportions would be improved by properly applied restraint. "What is yours, Aunt Miranda?" "To do good to all with whom I como in contact. Now, I mean to of fer my assistance to that gentleman who has moved in across the street. His two motherless children shall have tho advantage of my instruction—of my advice." Stell gasped. "You mean the Stan leys. The people who have bought that place of Vanbarthyn's! Why— tho boy is 14, the girl 16. They have governess, tutor, and 1 know the housekeeper is a most capa " "To accomplish my mission in life I shall look after the welfare of those youthful souls at present confided to the care of hirelings." "But the girl is almost as old as I am!" Stell was aghast. "Not by four years. You are almost 20, Estella, and you still require guid ance!" It was Stell's turn to sigh. She could not help wishing one could be vaccinated against the conviction of a mission. Barring that, she wished one might, after a brief stage of the ailment, enjoy immunity. Roderick Stanley, ex-Senator and former cattle kiug, still good to look upon, and comparatively young, gazed in astonishment upon the picture which presented itself to him on the following evening. In his library a matronly looking woman with a pale, brick-dust skin, was reading aloud to his children. And the youngsters were looking decidedly uncomfortable under tho infliction. "Papa!" cried the boy, dashing to meet his father. "This is Miss Bax ter!" Tho girl made explanation with a fine courtesy, delightful in one so young. "Miss Baxter lives directly opposite. She has heard mamma is dead. She is kind enough to wish to help us." The pale biiokdust of Miss Baxter's complexion became a deep brickdust as she volubly explained the benevo lent and disinterested nature of her attempt. Roderick Stanley concealed his astonishment as well as possible. His charming manners stood him in good stead —in such good stead, in deed, that Miss Miranda went home with a warmer glow in her left side than a fly-blister could have caused. That night she put up her hair in kid curlers. "I'm thinking of having my three front teeth put in on bridgework," she confided to Stell. "A plate Is so old fashioned. And I'm thinking, too, of getting a new gown. I used to wear lavender nicely—but perhaps that's rather quiet. Mr. Stanley seems grate ful for my assistance. You must be come acquainted with tho young girl. You children may have interests in common. I grieve to remark that — like you—she Is disposed to be frivo lous. My influence will remedy this, I trust. Do you think I had better get a tailor-made gown—boned? Or an organdy—pink, say. An organdy is so feminine." "Whom did you see there, Aunt Mi randa?" "The staff-all of them. I explained to the governess the desirability of including moral advice with mental instruction. The boy's tutor seemed somewhat indifferent. He is elderly, 40 perhaps. I made plain to the house keeper that the improper cooking of cereals was responsible for many seri ous ailments of the young." When Will Baxter got back from a trip he remarked to his wife that Mi randa was becoming "downright gid dy." Mrs. Baxter murmured some thing about second childhood, and went back to the paper she was pre paring for the Fortnightly. Stell had met the Stanleys. She and the girl had much In common—more than Miss Miranda approved. She continued eager in giving her unsought advice. She garbed herself quite gorgeously, and she indulged in vanities she j would have deemed criminal a few months previous. Four months j passed. The Stanleys were going to | their summer home at Waukesha. Miss Miranda might have accompan ied them were it not for a treacher ously early attack of her annual com plaint—hay fever. Stell went with Ive Stanley, however. The girls had a delightful time together. Stell's ap petite for beauty was insatiable. She drank in with joy every hour of the radiant days. Watching her pleasure in all things fair, sweet and gracious, Roderick Stunley felt himself grow young again. The night of their re | turn to the city the young folks had a fine frolic. Tho curtains in the library were drawn, the mimic logs under the tiled mantel were blazing bravely. The place was a little world of flickering gleams and warm, wavering shadows when Roderick Stanley opened the door. He stod amazed—amused, look ing at his son. Iva, and a few of their companions circling around the figure in the middle of the room—a cau- t Why Soldiers Carry Sticks $ ENGI.ISU TOMMY ATKINS IS NEVER SEEN WITHOUT A CANE '/IV W It is a question that has often been asked in barracks —who first suggested it? Nobody knows. From time im memorial drill sergeants have carried sticks, and drum majors, too, and pos sibly the practice first emanated from that fact. Soldiers nearly always have to buy the canes, or "swaggers," as they are called. Some regiments provide sticks for the men, but if you lose the first you then have to buy the second and subsequent ones. It is in the regulations to carry canes, and when a soldier goes out — that is, in walking out order—the guard at the barrack gates would challenge him if he didn't have a stick. A soldier one day couldn't find his cane, and knowing that he would be challenged If he didn't have something in his hand, he passed through the gates all right with a poker in his fist. Some regiments—the rifles, for In stance —have canes with the badge of the regiment stamped on the head.— Pearson's Weekly. tious, groping figure with outstretched arms. That sound—near the door! The blindfolded victim stood trans fixed. Suddenly she dashed in the di rection whence the noise had pro ceeded. "I've got you!" She had flung her arms around the man standing smiling there. "It's Paul —you're 'it/ Paul!" And she strove to tear the handker chief from her eyes. There was a commotion—a boister ous shout. Stanley laid a restraining hand upon the bandage. He stooped until his lip 3 touched the fragrant bronze-gold hair. "Having me. will you keep me, Stell?" he whispered eagerly. "0!" she answered. "O! It is— you!" "You're fooled, Stell!" shouted Paul Stanley. "It's only papa. You're 'it' yet." But Estella, her lovely face lifted, was looking up into the pleading eyes of her lover. "You don't—you can't want me!" There was a ring of mockery in her happy voice. "I'm only the silliest kind of a girl!" "Your laughter sunshine all things sweet!" "Come on!" shouted the impatient young people. "I haven't any mission. I'm not like Aunt Miranda." The quizzical violet eyes laughed up at him. "Thank God for that! But. bless Aunt Miranda! But for her I might never have won you!" When Miss Miranda heard the news she evidenced decidedly unrighteous anger and perturbation. "The men are fools!" she declared. "All fools!" "But he is so dear!" insisted Stell. "And I love him so much! And I never dreamed of being so happy! And he says if it were not for you " "That's the worst of it!" groaned Miss Miranda. —Chicago Tribune. WOMEN DOCTORS. a Chlacsi' MiuiHter Shjts They Should (iu to the Orient. Wu Ting Fang, the new Chinese minister to the United States is a veritable genius. Besides being ac complished in Chinese literature and a statesman of rare ability, he is a lin guist and a philosopher. He was the principal attraction at the recent com mencement of the Woman's Medical college of Philadelphia, and, of course, was set down for a speech. "Since 1 came to this country," he said, "1 have met women doctors, lawyers and journalists, but until I received the in vitation to make this address it had never occurred to me that women had advanced so far as to have an institu tion exclusively devoted to the train ing of women for the medical profes sion. I am particularly interested in this institution, because of the Chinese girl, who, after studying here, returned to her native land, where she has since made a great success. In China it is generally believed that there is one sphere for women and another for men. The world has acted upon this belief for ages. I am glad that women have gained such a position in the medical profession that they cannot be removed. There are medical works in the Chinese language, containing medical knowledge gained from the experience and practice of long ages. It is a great pity that this contribution of knowledge cannot be available to the whole world because of the great difference in language. The Chinese attach great value to the practice of medicine. If the good people of the European nations and of America had only sent medical missionaries to China missionary troubles would hap pen rarely. If you were to ask my ad vice today, young ladies, I should say with Horace Greeley, 'Go west, young lady,' stop not on this side of the Pa cific, but go until you arrive in China. Go to China if you find this country too crowded in your profession. There is room enough and work enough there for all." Mover Domeslicateil. The wild goose is susceptible to a certain amount of domestication, it readily consorts with the tame flocks, learns that no harm is intended and will come to feed as readily as its companions. It never loses its in born desire for wandering, however, and in autumn and spring will honk constantly to bands of former com panions passing over in migration. I When Cronje surrendered and his | sword was taken from him, according ] to the custom of war, he made up foi | the material loss of the weapon by | sporting a thick club stick of largo I dimensions. This idea he got from | our officers at the front, who, when in | undress uniform, usually carry small, j smart-looking canes, but as he was a general, while the officers he saw car rying canes were those mostly of sub ordinate rank, he came to the conclu sion that an officer of his rank should have something bigger and more tan gible than a mere delicate stick, hence his appearance one day with a huge club in his hand —a large, unwleldly heavy-looking stick, as strong as the leg of a dining table. The British soldier carries a stick as a set-off against slouching, as many civilians do who carry nothing in their hands. Privates generally carry light canes, noncommissioned officers fair ly stout sticks and officers go In fo( the more expensive and showy kind— but all soldiers of the queen carry stick*. KINGS ARE ECONOMICAL. RULERS MUST LOOK OUT FOR WAYS AND MEANS* TOO. Emperor William a Shining Illustration of How a Monarch Can Scrape and Save —Queen Victoria Quite Thrifty—Priuoe of Wales Becoming More Prudent* Monnrclis who save money! To the average mortal, who associates unlim ited resources with the idea of royal ty, says a writer in the Chicago Trib une, the assertion that not a few of tills world's rulers are Just as saving in their personal and household ex penses as the average housekeeper— in some cases more so— will be sur prising. Of course, in this respect the person of the king or queen must be separated from the official character, ivliose "representation" requires ex pensive splendor for reasons of State, for courtesy's sake, or because cus tom so decrees. The king is, officially, eminently a public character; his household affairs are as much his own affairs as those of the private citizen are to the latter. In fact, the common mortal can enjoy much greater privacy than royalty. Emperor William 11. of Germany af fords a striking example of this dis tinction. The world at large undoubt edly is of the opinion tlint the German monarch, much given to spectacular display and expensive Journeys, and a great lover of art in all its branches, spends fortunes in the maintenance of liis private establishment. The re verse is the case. William 11., as a private individual—if this epithet can be used of a monarch—is of quite a saving disposition, and in his house hold every branch is regulated by fig ures. Each department lias so much to spend annually and no more. The appropriation for each of the depart ments is calculated to a nicety; not beggarly, of course, but quite within bounds of reason. In fact, many mem bers of the titled or moneyed aristoc racy are "high flyers" compared with the head of the house of Holienzollern. As soon, however, as a "representa tion" is deemed necessary the case is different, and in this respect the im perial court of Berlin is probably the most expensive among royalty. The German empire, as such, pays not one cent toward the "representa tion" which is incumbent upon the King of Prussia as German Emperor. The Prussian princes receive not one cent from the treasury of the State. In ense they have no resources of their own, their expenditures have to be met by an annuity paid them by the Emperor. The latter lives during the greater part of the year in the new palace in Sans Souci, and his establish ment there comprises the Emperor and Empress, the imperial children and their tutors and governesses, the lady chamberlain, and three ladies in wait ing. The court chamberlain, generals and military aids of the Emperor live in rotsdam and Berlin. During his travels William 11, has his own cuisine and lodgment mostly in his special train or on board the imperial yacht Holienzollern The Emperor has repeatedly refused to incur expenses which many a rich private citizen would incur without hesitation were he so minded, and it is a well authenticated fact that he lias repeatedly explained ids economic turn by saying that he has six boys growing up who will soon marry and have their own royal households, which are bound to make heavy in roads upon his exchequer, because the number of available Protestant prin cesses with kingly dowers is alarming ly small in Europe. The Emperor, on the other hand, is personally exceedingly rich. He once called himself the greatest land pro prietor in Prussia, which is no doubt true, because the "Manual of the ltoyal Prussian • Court and State" shows that the Holienzollern crown estates comprise seveuty-eiglit landed estates and fifteen forests, which are under rational administration highly developed, and the proceeds of which form the bulk of the imperial income. In this respect William 11. is by 110 means an expensive "gentleman farm er," but an agriculturist who looks to results as fully as much as to appear ances. The saving disposition of William 1., the grandfather of the present Em peror, is well known. A little episode Is Illustrative of tills fact. When the first child of "Unser Fritz" was born— the present Emperor—William I„ in the first Joy of being a grandfather, sent for the court jeweler to select a present for the Crown Princess, the present Empress Dowager Frederick. Several costly ornaments were submit ted for the inspection of William 1., the prices ranging from $1:5,000 up ward. "No, no! my dear sir," exclaimed the King. "The things are very pretty, but much too dear for me. Why, if I expended $25,000 for a present for my daughter-in-law at the first child, and half a dozen children inqre are to come, why, I would have to spend a fortune. No, no; take the pretty things away, and let me see something cheaper." Many other stories of a similar trend could be told of the saving turn of William I. Yet he was by no means stingy, but a cheerful giver. Person ally, he was altogether unpretentious and not even given to display in point of the army, the reorganization of which was the work and the ambition of his life. He appeared in dress uni form only if circumstances demanded. Otherwise, he rested content to be cnlled "the greatest non-commissioned officer." In years gone by the saying In court circles was that the Prussian court was the most saving, but the house hold of Queen Victoria of England now Is undoubtedly the most econom ical administered in all royulty. The Queen has her methods of saving, and site has laid up an immense fortune, which is not encronched upon even in case of the marriage of her chil dren and grandchildren, for in such cases Parliament always steps in with great liberality. Since the Prince Con sort died the Queen has abolished all court functions which encroach upon her private means. True, there are still a number of "drawing rooms," receptions and functions demanded by State interests and representation, but being such, the expenses are borne by the State. Her personal entourage is most sim ple, and strictly confined to the court charges established by law and cus tom. Not long ago a delegation of London merchants had it represented to the Queen that her long periods of absence from London hurt fnshionnble business. The delegations of the Lon don guilds were told that her Majesty was too far advanced in age to stand any great amount of entertaining be sides the customary court events. "Aye," the speaker of the delegation is reported to have said, "her Majesty is old, and we surely wish her long life, but the longer she lives the short er will be our business lives, because the absence of the court kills busi ness." The Princess of Wales does not fill the void caused by the saving pro pensities of the Queen. The future Queen of the British Empire knows no finery, no luxury, no representation. She appears almost invariably in tail or-made gowns. At home she sits down with her private secretary and figures closely on receipts and dis bursements, of course, simply for pas time, as the courtiers assert. She looks quite rigidly to detailed account ing, for In point of cash the Princess lias an account separate from that of her husband, Albert Edward of Wales, who used to be a high-flyer. "Used to be" is correct, for the Prince of Wales is no longer the "rounder" he formerly was. Ho is not as "near" as his royal spouse, but he has be come much more careful in personal expenditures. The only expensive penchant of the Princess of Wales is lace. That is, she likes to buy and own rare laces, but she wears them rarely. When she does appear "at court" her costumes, however, are dreams in Valenciennes and Mechlins. Not long ago the Prin cess sent a trusty messenger to Am terdam to purchase a rare handker chief. said to be the oldest and most unique pattern of Mechlin lace from an impoverished Flemish family, and she paid $15,000 for the piece. Truly, "a Queen's lace handkerchief." The Italian court is saving; indeed, extremely so. The higli life of the court of Victor Emmanuel is a thing of the past, greatly to the regret of the older class of courtiers who knew the "He Galantuomo" in his prime. En tertainments at the Italian court are so rare and so unostentatious that the merchants in Borne complain even more bitterly than those of London. New Idea About Congeniality. A recent marriage gives a new idea about real congeniality. The young man and the young woman first met tit a yacht club meet. Each was al ready engaged to be married, but in each case there was something lack ing. But these two discovered that their souls were in full sympathy. They both liked yachting; that was the first straw They both delighted in canoeing; second straw. They both were enthusiasts over swimming; by tlic time this discovery was made tlicy were head over heels in love. The last straw came when they confessed to one another that five hours' swimming a day was as nothing. The other en gagements were snapped, broken, and in a short time the wedding came. For a wedding journey they chose a trip iu a sailing yacht, over the sides of which they would dive now and then to swim, getting In their five hours a day in the water without the slightest trouble.—New York Sun. About a •'ll" nnil nn "F." Messrs. Gaze, the Lonuon tourist agents, had occasion to send a cable gram to "Abbaeey, Paris," recently. Page, their clerk, left a "b" out of the address, and this mistake was fol lowed by the postottice, who also made 0110 of their own, by turning a *'c" into an "0." Consequently, the cable j reached Paris as for "Abacoy," and I went astray. Messrs. (iaze dismissed Page be cause lie refused to write to the post oltiee in certain terms referring to himself which were dictated by tlieui and disliked by him. lie sued liis employers in Westmin ster County Court, and obtained judg ment. A new trial was applied for by Messrs. (iaze, but this Judge Lumley refused, saying the jury had found their order to the clerk was unreason- „ able. Birth Notice by Co<lc. A Nuneaton doctor raised some mer riment in the Divorce Division yester day, says the London Mail, l>y de scribing an arrangement lie had made with a client for the secret announce ment of a birth by telegraph. If the expected child proved to he a hoy, the client—Charles William Tur ner, a cycle agent, living at Lutter worth—was to wire to the doctor "Gentlemen's safety bicycle arrived;" if it were a female, "Lady's safety bi cycle arrived" was to be the form. The latter was the signal that the event called for. Whon tlo Vauderbilts Worn PartneiH. In the first directory of New York City, published over a century ago, the Vanderbilts whose names appear were not of the old commodore's ancestry. At that time the forbears of the pres ent family of multi-millionaires were farmers on Staten Island.