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$ kf* "fe THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA, MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, Publisher. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. —Berlin lias 14 persous whose annual income exceeds $250,000. —The word "eossack" is Turkish and moans "free man" or "free lance. —A Venezuelan orchid now 011 ex hibition in London is valued at $5000. —Boston is agitating the question of prohibiting the ringing of church bells —The number of persons cremated in (Jerniauy from 1878 to 1899 was 3110. —Canadian towns and cities are stead ily growing, and many of them quite rap idly. —Tobacco is now raised in County Meath, Ireland, where it grows luxuri antly. —The evictions in Ireland of the past year were only 454, the lowest in twenty year —Some of the English towns are being infested by fraudulent collectors for the war fund. —One hundred wounded Germans were found in the hospital at Jacobsdal, in South Africa. —There is a movement in the Malay Slates to send a mounted volunteer corps to South Africa. It is a curious fact that a negro has never been known to tame an elephant or any wild animal. —In the years ISOO-lSfKi the number of families who left Alsace-Lorraine for France was over TWO. —Trolley lines in Connecticut last year carried 59,084.02 passengers, and the steam lines, 5O,2t!0,4l8. —Among 100,000 Germans there are twenty-one suicides every year, most of them aged between 20 and 30 —Though Spain is an agricultural country, it had to import last year more than $15,(HX,000 worth of grain. —The plum known as the "Abund ance"' is a cross between a Japanese plum and the American wild plum. —Koumania is to have three new rail way lines constructed at a cost of $10, 540,000, exclusive of rolling stock. —At Zurich the theological faculty of the university finds that it has only eight students for ten professors this winter. —A news vender of North London was sentenced to a seven-day term in jail for crying false war news 011 the streets. —It is predicted th:\t our whole re maining area of white pine forests will be practically denuded within live years. —The balance of trade in favor of the United States for the seven months end ing January 1 amounted to $313,728,182. —Gen. Funston is stationed in the central part of Luzon and has 4000 men under him, scattered about in small gar risons. —Shipping tolls at the Suez canal in January yielded $1,304,400, against $1, 410.000 in January. 1S99, and $1,408,000 in 1898. —London medical pajters discuss an outbreak of typhoid fever at Exeter, which has been traced to consumption of raw cockles. —The California currants sold in this country are so carefully cleaned that they command better prices than Corinth ian currants. —The great need of Havana is a mod ern slaughtering plant, and plans have be* 11 made for one to l»e built at the expense of the city. —Prof. Agassiz's exploring expedition with the Albatross has found the ocean live and one-half miles deep near the Island of Tonga at Eua. —Descendants of the missionaries in the Hawaiian islands constitute about •lie-twentieth of the white population, exclusive of the Portuguese. —.V compilation of dates from the year 41 »5 to 1807 indicates that Japan must expect a destructive earthquake about mice in two and a half years. —Colorado produced last year $31. 122.100 in gohl. $12.580.250 in silver, $4, »41J)29 in lead. $1,854,220 in copper and $577,500 in zinc and inanganiferous iron. —Statistics of the Massachusetts rail way commissioners show that the aver age cost of railway equipment per mile "f main track in that state last year was .'4(5.149. —The timber supply of Georgia has been estimated by lumbermen of that state as sufficient to last only nine years at the present rate of sawing, 2.000,000 feet daily. —Hamburg and Bremen cannot agree as to which has the larger fleet, but both are proud of the fact that Germany has the two biggest steamship companies in the world. —Judge Woodward of Wilkesbarre, I a., discharged a prisoner the other day because he was unable to decipher the commitment papers made out by a justice of the peace. —Payments out of the British ex chequer by the formal returns averaged during February almost exactly $5,000, OOO per week over the average of the preceding year. The President's summer tour this ear wiH begin in July or August and will include a trip to the launching at Sail Francisco of a battleship, to be christened Ohio. —Nome City, the new milling town on the Alaskan coast, already has a news paper—a four-page sheet which measures about 11x10 inches, but which sells at cents a copy. Lats have lately been overrunning certain parts of the northern district of Dundee. Recently a ^year-old girl, who is 11*1 deaf and dumb, was badly in jured by these pests. 1 hrough state aid there have been built 111 .New Jersey about 450 miles of hard roads. Counties, boroughs, town ships and other municipalities have con slmeted as many more. —Russia is probably the only country that could raise a regiment composed en tirely of generals, who number 1248 7 iihi i1" sa,aries au aggregate of rubles a year. 1 he Yorkshire (Eng.) brewers are gradually bringing into use motor trac tion cars for the conveyance of beer to their customers. The cars are stated to le much more economical than horses ton mills of 1870 had increased to fifty two 189!. ^-""glish insurance societies are badlv divided ever the question of war risks Some refuse to have the volunteers at any price, while others think the men as sate in South Africa as at home catch ing influenza. —Several new 10-inch guns mounted on disappearing carriages have been placed 111 the^ fortifications guarding Fran cisco harbor. Experts say the harbor is now proof against anything that may try to steam into it. —Since vaccination has been compul sory in German cities, in 1874, only a few cases of smallpox has been observed and most of these occurred in foreigners coming from countries without commil sory vaccination. —The Sultan of Turkey is most in quisitive as to what is said and written about him abroad. Every day trans lations are laid before him from the newspapers of the world, and these are all closely perused. —The corporation of Lincoln, England have resolved, if possible, to make the largest and deejiest boring for water in •Vmn Klngd"ni- will be over -4UUU feet deep and not less than twelve inches 111 diameter at the bottom. —Kansas is to have a cucumber farm scale. The project is to secure 1100 acres near Lawrence, 011 the line ot the proposed electric railroad. The cucumber crop matures jilst as the school term ends, when pickers can be easily se cured. —Over the main gateway of the Paris exposition at the entrance to the Champs fcilysees a startling innovation in sculp ture will be seen. The figure of the City of Paris" will be represented as a woman dressed according to the latest fashion of 1900. —An interesting subject of discussion 111 the mining press of Europe is as to' the location of the oldest coal mine in Europe. According to Herr F-rantz Buett genbach, coal was mined before 1113, and it has been thought that coal was first found in the Liege district. --The city of Winchester, Va„ passed a law tyst week which is designed- to break up the mosquito pest there. The •law requires that each property owner fchall pour kerosene oil over every pool, sink or drain on bis premises froni time" to time, and the police 'foree is em powered to see that tjje ordinance i$ en'1 forced, A LOVE SONG. Who cares for winter wild without, Who cares for frost and snow, When all the one he thinks about, Is where the roses grow? Her smiles are sweet as sunshine bright Her eyes like heaven's own blue She fills for me the world with light— "ffeoangp stae*&'"<l{ar" arid true!" Who cares foi winds that bitter blow, For sleet or stinging rain, When he at heart doth surely know— His love gives love again? Her whispers are like leaves attune, With wonder of the wind Her very presence sweet as June- Enchanting heart and inind! -William Bruuton in Good Housekeeping. IF THE HEART BE TRUE. All things can never go badly wrong If the heart be true and the love be strong For the mist if it comes, and the weepiug rain Will be changed by love Into sunshine again. —George MaeDonald. THE HIGH PLANE OF HOUSE HOLD DUTIES. To the girls who are learning the prac tical lessons of every day domestic life present conditions come as a matter of course, while to the older women they are a revelation. You do not realize how it is all made so much easier to you than it was to your mothers, and how infinite ly easier it is than your grandmothers ever dreamed it could be. Science has revolutionized domestic matters, and you are just in time to realize the greatest benefits from her discoveries. Knowing this, have you not a new respect for the every-day things which you have been accustomed to treat with indifference? Are you so much greater and wiser than the scholar and scientist that you can scorn and belittle that to which he con siders it worth while to bring training and education and years of thought and study to improve. I11 your hands is to lie in a greaf meas ure the unravelling of the domestic prob lem. which for so long a time has been vexing the home. For some inexplicable reason the duties which go to making a happy and a comfortable household have fallen into disrepute the homely tasks which lie (.lose at hand are looked upon with a disfavor, and in some cases, a contempt which they do not deserve. It has boon the fashion to speak of the routine of household matters as "monoto nous," and young women have openly scorned the assumption of them, as be ueath the educated, cultivated woman. There has been a drifting away from the home and its influences, and the girls have been impatient to get out into the world and to strike out for themselves, in some new, untried way. In a measure this is right enough. The eagerness to do something worth while, to become a part of the working force of the world, is a natural and a noble ambition for any girl. One would not give a tig for the girl who did not want to make a place for herself, where she might be recognized: who did not want her influence to be felt for the bettering of the world. Only the question comes, what is her better way. the wide road of the outside world, or the sheltered path about the home field. This question every girl must answer for herself, as the best promptings of her inner nature suggests. But there is one word of caution and suggestion to speak just here. When this question conies to be a personal one. be sure that you argue'fairly with yourselves. Do not let desire stifle duty. It is so easy to make oneself believe that the thing which one wants to do is the right thing to be done. Eyes and ears are shut to the other side, and be cause one won't hear and see, she re mains blind and deaf. Then, with only one side presented, says she has "argued the whole thing out." The only way this can be done is for every girl who has the question to set tle to be honest with herself, true to her own heart, to resect and honor the home side of life in its simplest relation and to remember that the homeliest and hum blest tasks and duties become glorified and uplifted if done in the true spirit of service. Of late years it has been considered "broadening" to look outside of the home for employment and interest, and there has been, in consequence, a belit tling of home duties and avocations. The real importance of the domestic care taker has been overlooked and underval ued. Other things have assumed such unfair proportions that th^re has come to be a_ false standard of measurement. It is going to be the work of the women of the near future, those who are gix-ls now, to begin the correction ot* this standard, and to help put the science of domestic management upon the high plane where it belongs. Surely there can be nothing better and nobler than to pro vide the resting place for the world's workers, to make the home where the children shall be taught the nobler side of life, and where they shall be protected and made happy until the time comes for them to prepare either to become work ers themselves, or to in turn make the home for the worker. And there is one more thing to remem ber. and that is that the woman or girl who disdains household duties, and af fects to have no knowledge of them, writes herself down as a vulgarian of the most hopeless stamp, who knows nothing of the trend of events, and fails most sig nally to read the signs of the times. This is the sermon the woman might have preached from the text, which was of her own giving. And every word is gospel truth.—Boston Herald. HOW TO SELECT A WIFE. Since marriage is the perfect state, whj is it that we poor mortals so often make the wrong selection in the choice of a wife? Is it due to our system of separat ing young people just when they should be growing up together, of allowing boys and girls to meet as strangers when it is most essential that they should be well acquainted, of knowing nothing of each other's characteristics and having onlv their feelings to guide them, or, in other words, when each is a mystery to the otherV The women of today are better educat ed on this subject than the men their ideals are higher, their advisers are bet ter. Men as a rule are too self-confident they believe they "know it all" and they are imposed upon by the girls least wor thy of their regard or respect, who lack character, intellect, and in fact every thing but beauty and the art of imposing upon them. Few men are a match for a designing woman the better the man the more easily is he victimized because he attributes to the object of his affection ail sorts of impossible virtues. The majority of unhappy marriages are due to the lack of any fixed ideals of noarried life, and in this respect men are the chief sinners. They marry because their friends marry, or because they want a home, or because they imagine they are in love with a pretty face all insufficient reasons for taking upon one's-self the re sponsibilities of marriage before one has met the proper mate. A happy marriage is the making of any man, and the happi est people are the married ones. hen a man contemplates marriage seriously, and sets out to find himself a wife, he should be worthy of one he must not expect a foolish girl of 20 to develop, even as the years go on, into anything but a foolish woman a girl who at the age of 20 has not begun to realize that •i ir not tt" GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES, frivolity will never realize it. However young the wives men mar ry, unless there is the proper material to rnu nP°n they do not make good wives, the right material is plastic, the wrong is liable to ugly twists the right material is also open to ennobling influences that not only lift her but have their beneficial effect upon the husband. The right sort of woman makes life 011 this earth about as pleasant as it i»- well we should have it.—John Strange Winter in the American Queen. TO WIN THE CHILDREN. "No subject can be of more vital im portance in the home and to us as moth ers than home influence," says Bertha Wood Larrabee, in the Mothers' Journal. The mother who has won and knows how to keep the confidence of her children has learned one of the most precious lessons of motherhood. It is one of the most natural things in the world for a child to trust and confide in mother, and unless some barrier blocks the way a child will always naturally and voluntarily make a confidante of its mother. "The mother who begins with her chil dren by allowing, them—not teaching them, but just simply allowing them—of their own-free will to confide her has a hold on her children that she.1 will never lose. In order to keep the confi dence of her children, mother prove herself worthy of confidnce. Let ner life be such that the child, even the baby, who learns sooner than we think, may see nothing bat what is pure and tender. Let him always find her full of sympathy rfnd ready to listen to the "'JiBh Btorie*.- TJj? w$er d«?s •IMV3, this will know all that transpires in her child's life, not only when he is with her, but when he is^out .with other, cliil dreu^—for-the- child mind will be so-anx ions that dear mamma shall know,- all that has happened that it will tell all with an innocence and trust that comes only with intimacy. "When children return from their play, give them an opportunity to tell what they have been doing, and many a story of wrong innocently done wiil be as innocently related. Here, then, is the mother's opportunity she may now tell her children of the wrong, show them why it was wrong, and she will still have their confidence but if instead of receiv ing her children with loving arms and listening to their childish stories she has. perhaps, rather harshly, told them to keep quiet, aud not come where she was with their muddy boots, she has lost her best opportunity to know of the wrong that has been done or if, upon hearing of that wrong, she has scolded them for their childish mistake, she has lost their confidence, and the evil once committed will be more easily repeated, and when repeated will be concealed, and the sec ond step downward has been taken." THE HONEYMOON. The honeymoon is that period which follows marriage when each sees in the other the perfect ideal. The time is not necessarily of one or two months' dura tion it not infrequently extends through out the lifetime, though the period may last but a week, when the bandages are rudely torn from the eyes and the idol is revealed a mortal with all a mortal's faults and failings. This is the trying time, which makes or mars married life, and which makes the first year a trying one. The real habits, manners, tempers and whims are seldom known, Tor the long est courtship fails to reveal them only the close relation of marriage shows the true character. The first discord is apt to arise over some triviality. It should never be allowed to rise. There should be 110 first quarrel the sky is never quite the same thereafter. Both should bo willing to discuss fully and fairlv any subject on which they do not perfectly agree, anil to give way to the judgment ot the other when right or truth de mands it for if husband and wife have not mutual confidence and love to meet each other half way in the settlement of all questions, then their chances of hap piness are not worth very much. A woman should not take offense too easily. She should at the beginning of married life realize that her husband 1 ,not sympathize with her everv thought and feeling any more than she sympathizes with his preferences and whims nor, if the truth were to be told, would she care for him if she could mold him to her purpose—if, in other words, he were without individuality. Upon all essential points husband and wife natur ally stand upon the same ground, and upon matters of divergent opinions each should have the privilege of holding what appeals to his judgment for it is only in allowing people to live their own lives that the honeymoon may be extended throughout a lifetime.—Mrs. Ernest Tur pi in American Queen. THE VOICE TELLS. "I shall never forget the first time I saw &o-aiid-So, said someone, speaking of a very homely woman with a very finely-educated mind. "It was at a wom an convention, and when I saw her I thought she was the maid belonging to speakers. But the moment she began to talk I saw my mistake. fhe was one of the homeliest women I ever saw. and hadn't the least idea of how to dress, but the audience was fair ly charmed with her." GIRLS WITH TOO MUCH CAN DOR. Some girls are very complacent ov their candor. Now let me whisper to you. that while you must invariably speak the truth, you are not always called upon to indulge in brutal and offi cious truth-telling at the expense of kind ness. 011 may be perfectly sincere, yet not go into society armed with a club with which to knock your acquaintances ai1 J*011 to he always acting the lole of a self-appointed policeman, lou need not tell your friend that you do not like her new hat and that its shape does not suit her head. She has the hat and must wear it. You need not interfere with another friend though she come late to church. Her own family can speak to her about this. The popu lar girl is never intrusive. She says a sweet and pleasing thing if she honestly can, or else she remains silent. And this is but saying that a popular girl cannot get along without being a sensible girl. Dear girls, there are better things than being popular: do not try to be so at the expense of any tine quality. Be your best always, and make your lives a bless ing to others. Let popularity come if it will, but never set it in the first place, as a thing to seek.—Margaret E. Sangs ter in Ladies' Home Journal. A GOOD EXAMPLE. After all, the cheerful spirit is but an example of "that brave attitude toward life of which Stephenson wrote. It is a courageous bearing of inevitable burdens, a determination not to fret and not to add to the sorrows of the world. The gospel of happiness is one that every woman should lay to her heart. What it means to a man to come home to a cheerful wife, only he knows who has to fight the hard battle of life. A com plaining wife can kill the last bit of hope and courage in a troubled heart, while a cheerful helpmate gives new life to be gin the fight all over again. The mother who iillcnvs Irt ciiildiou to grow ui moody and discontented, subject to blues and sulks, is failing in her first dutv. She is handicapping them in the race of life. The sunshiny man or woman has everyone for a friend, for this troubled old earth must borrow its mirth, "it has troubles of its own," aud some of the disagreeable, jaundiced countenances we meet on life's highway are enough to turn honey into gall and wormwood. THE HOME WEDDING. "For the home wedding," writes Mrs. Burton Ivingsland, "the house is made bright with flowers. The mother and sisters of the bride receive the guests. The father first appears when he enters the room with his daughter. As the hour strikes, the clergyman takes his place, facing the company, followed by the bridegroom and his best man, who stand at his left awaiting the bride. Two ushers mark off an aisle with broad white ribbons, attaching them at the ends, and they precede the rest of the bridal partv, who enter at the farthest corner of the room. The bridesmaid or maids follow the ushers, and the bride comes last with her father. Or, the ushers may precede the best man and the one bridesmaid, and the bride and bridegroom follow. At a house wedding they often have no at tendants and rarely any music. At the conclusion of the service the clergyman congratulates the bride and bridegroom and then retires. They then turn to be greeted, first by their parents, next by the members of the two families anil near relatives, afterwards by everyone present. All wish them happiness. lie freshments are served in the dining room and may be simple or elaborate, as one chooses." The opening of the door to permit the departure of a bride and groom has here tofore been the signal for a general pelt ing with rice—a Chinese custom convey ing wishes for good health and pros perity. But this custom has been so abused with vulgarity, often producing injurious results, that it is being discarded at the weddings of careful people, and showering the bride with rose leaves or loose flowers has been instituted. These flowers are then again picked up and kept as souvenirs by the guests. NEW SHIRT WAISTS. The new wash shirtwaists are very loug-waisted in front and rather short at the back. Fitting correctly under the arms and with wide shoulders, they look a good deal like last year's waists till contrasted with a left-over. Then it wijl be seen that this season's waist is lmilt along better lines and with more graceful jauntiness. Shirtwaists or wash silks are going to be worn a great deal, and the run on flannel waists is tre mendous. Almost all waists are made with self cuff and a collar band, with an attachable shaped stock collar. When a linen collar is worn or a white stock and scarf are chosen, linen cuffs should be set inside the waist cuffs. Only a white stock should be worn with a colored or print shirtwaist unless the stock har monizes with the shade of the waist. SALAD HINTS. Cream or Xeufchatel cheeses or the home-made cottage cheese should be served with fruit saiads, and auv kind of thin, crisped craters, or bread cut in thin sliees, the crust removed, and then the slices rolled ami tied with baby rib bon to make them attractive. Bear in mind that it is quite as im portant to have the salads thoroughly chilled as to have soups perfectly hot. Lukewarmness is not commendable in either of these courses any more than it is in friendship or religion.—TCIIa Morris Ivretschmar in the Woman's Home Com panion. POISON IN NUTMEGS. Cases are not infrequently reported in which children, and sometimes grown persons, are poisoned by the free use of nutmegs, it not being generally known that this article of common household use is_ really a deadly poison. This is true, in fact, of most condiments but the misuse of these articles, such as pep per, capsicum, etc., are so obnoxious to the taste, except when taken in very minute quantities, that the consumer is warned in a very positive manner be fore he has an opportunity to do him self serious injury. This is not the case, however, with the nutmeg. This nut. which contains a poisonous principle, may be consumed without inconvenience, ill ro.l,1(1 quantities sufficient to produce fatal cou scqucnces. The New Geology. Heretofore the geological history of the earth has been studied only in the record of stratified rocks and their contained fossils. But in every place there have been* land-periods in which, of course, erosion took the place of sedimentation. This kind of record is very imperfect, because there are 110 fossils. Until re cout lv no account was taken of these iosion periods except as breaks of in definite length in the record—as lost in ter\ ills. But now. and mainly through the work of American geologists, inter pretation of these erosion periods has failly commenced, and so important has this new departure in the study of geolo gy seemed to some that it has been hailed as a new era in geology, connecting it more closely with geography. Heretofore former land periods were recognized by unconformities and the amount of time by the degree of change in the fossils, but now the amount of time is estimat ed in existing land surfaces by topograph ic forms alone. This idea was introduced into geology by Maj. .T. W. Powell, and has been applied with success by Wil liam Morris Davis, W. J. McGee and (••hers.—From "A Century of Geology" by Prof. Joseph Le Conte, in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. A Southern Woman's Enterprise. A young woman whose home is within a few miles of Augusta, Ga., makes a comfortable living for herself and her mother by growing bulbs and selling them to Northern seed houses. She inherited about fifty acres of land which the neigh bors said was too poor to sprout eowpeas. She bought a mule and went to work clearing up and fertilizing. Now she has a beautiful bulb and flower farm.—In diauanolis News. WHERE KRUGER WILL MAKE HIS LAST STAND. Advices from correspondents inside the Boer lines state that Pretoria, of which we show a view above, is being making.a final stand there, should the burgher armies be beaten back by the British in the t&an sw^n|er t^fqf^ij^^foe So!Jt^ MipWP ».xr »r,,he oral Enthusiastic Celebration of Sham rook Day. HER VISIT TO DUBLIN. Ireland and the Shamrock Now nopjlizins the Attention of LondJit l'eople. Oreat Brltuln Irritated. London, March 17.—Between the lines of the politely-worded editorial comments on President McKinley's expression of willingness to aid in the restoration of peace between Great Britain and the Boer republics can be discerned many evi dences of an inward irritation which the less responsible public does not hesitate to outwardly express, while even mem bers of the government privately display pique that of all the powers America should have consented to assume what one official designated as the "ungracious role of suggesting some form of inter ference," to which he added this expres sion: "Englishmen cannot help contrast ing the perfect correctness of the attitude of openly-unfriendly France with the of fer of the United States, which, if it had come from a less disinterested source. oal.v BULLER'S ARTILLERY IN A. HOT PLACE. British artillery preparing to retreat in the face of the enemy. The horses, which have been kent in comnintive .,.f WEM GDEE1 En8,,sh Mo- London, March 17.—Shamrock day promises to vie with Primrose day in the hearts of the people, judging from the enthusiasm with which, for the first time in the history of the nation, Loyalists all over the United Kingdom are celebrating and everywhere the green is conspicuous. From Windsor castle where the Queen observed the day by wearing a sprig of genuine four-leaved shamrock, to the east end of the shuns of London, where the ragged urchin glories in his morsel ot green weed, nearly everyone sports something in the shape of a green favor. A word from her ma jesty has turned the emblem of semi disloyalty into a badge of honor and has made the shamrock the most prized ot all the plants in the British isles. By the Queen's order the bills in the curfew tower of Windsor castle, honored St. Patrick this morning Irish airs played by the Grenadiers enlivened "the Queen's luuchccn. and on London's man sion house floats a new loyal Irish flag with the Union Jack in the upper corner and a crowned harp in the center of a green field, as distinguished from the Irish Hag which bears the harp without the union or crown. The street venders have done a roaring trade with flags, buttons, clover, moss spinach, bits of green ribbon, etc. Houses aud stores lavishly display green flags and bunting, and Irish soldiers and sailors showing special pride in wearing the national em blem. have been regarded as an uu- 'friendly act." There is no doubt that the overtures of the United States, even through care fully worded, have sensibly irritated Great Britain as a whole, while circles es pecially friendly to the United States ex press open regret at the opportunity of fered to critics to compare the refusal of M. Delcasse. the French minister of foreign affairs, to gratify the hostile sen timent in France by making proposals to Lord Salisbury which were sure of rejec tion with what they testily call the 'Tn ferferonce" of Washington, and which, though only tentative and clothed in words of perfect friendliness and courtesy, came at an inopportune mo ment, when the supreme self-sufliciency of the British empire is the predominat ing feeling of the day. Everywhere one hears expressions of satisfaction that while the answer to the proposal was clothed in. words of perfect courtesy, the language of Lord Salisbury in "brush ing aside" President McKinley's proffer was so extremely definite as to kill all possibility of a repetition of the offers from any source, unless those proposing them are desirous of being recognized as openly antagonistic to this country. No Outside Ii tsrference. Emphasis is laid on the fact that Great Britain declared at the outset her un willingness to consent to any outside in terference, and therefore, as, according to the well-established principle of in ternational law that the right of inter vention is conditional 011 the willingness of both parties to the quarrel to accept the good offices of a mediating power, such interference was, in this case, otrt side the bounds of diplomatic possibili ties and gave Lord Salisbury full justi fication for his "retort courteous." Outside the international politics, Ire land and the shamrock largely monopolize the attention of London. The internecine strife in the Nationalistic ranks engen- Africsp r?p»Jljp declares that bis jpep will die fighting it) tjje trenches yatfeej —TT-T dered by the Dublin corporation's ad dress to the Queen and the bitterness felt in Loyalist circles in Ireland at the outward exhibitions of disrespect of her majesty, keep the officials guessing as to what is likely to occur at the Irish capi tal next month. An official in the office of the chief secretary of Ireland, Gerald Balfour, said he was not surprised at the Nationalists opposing the address of welcomr, "which, necessarily, was either hypocrisy or a lie, in addition to which it would go far to stop the flow of Ameri can contributions." Speaking of the Queen's visit, the same official said he had little doubt that "wigs would litter Dublin green" before the visit was concluded. Supply of Shamrock Insufficient. Ill the meantime St. Patrick's dav is being observed throughout the United Kingdom as never before. The supply of shamrock is quite insufficient to meet the demands. The new yacht built for the Queen in the government dockyards, at a cost of about $2,500,000, will probably never be used by her majesty. Her "instability palpably demonstrated at the time of her undecking. has caused the Queen to take a strong dislike to the vessel and the al terations necessitated so materially re duced her comfort and convenience' that it is believed they will render the vessel unsnited for the purpose originally in tended. The probability is that the yacht will ultimately be renamed Enchantress and converted into a dispatch vessel foi the use of the admiralty. Bicycles for Volunteers. Of the $2,000,000 which the govern ment purposes to spend in developing the volunteers $250,000 will be spent, at the rate of $10 per man, to encourage each ieginient to form a company of bicyclists. Lord Lansdowne. the secretary of war. and George Wyndham, the parliamenta ry secretary of the war office, both ride wheels and they know from personal expe rience what can liedonewith the machine 011 the fine English roads. Of course they do not expect the soldiers to use the wheels on the South African plains or in the Indian hill country, but they aver that in assembling for home defense and in concentrating at any point 011 the coast battalions of bicyclists could trans port themselves and their arms and am inuuition and emergency rations with less fatigue and with as much speed as though 011 horseback. A volunteer trained to the use of the bicvele. they claim, would have at hand for instant use the means of reaching, by a direct road, a point of mobilization possibly twenty or fifty miles distant. With a bicycle it would be as though a ciiar-rer stood ready saddled at the volunteer's door. NURSES IN THE WAR. Views of 5""onie Who Are Now v inir in South Africa. Nurses who are serving in hospitals in South Africa say it is astonishing how severely wounded many of the soldiers can be and still live. A11 added discom fort from which the wounded suffer is the intense heat. At Pietermaritzburg the thermometer often registers IMS de grees outside and 04 degrees in the wards. A temperature of SS degrees i* considered cool. X-rays are uuiversally used in the hos pitals. After a battle nurses and sur geons are on duty night and day in the theaters, as these places of sufft ring are called. In all cases the men con sider it a disgrace to be ill of typhoid or dysentery, and would rather be wounded. They say the most awful ex perience is lying wounded on the field after a battle waiting to be picked up and wondering if they will be found at all. Sometimes it is claimed that they endure forty-eight hours of this sus pense. Women nurses are not peimitted to serve 111 stationary hospitals at all. while base hospitals only four are allowed for every 100 beds. At Mafeking Ladv Sarah Wilson is in charge of the auxili ary hospital. It is said that where wom en nurses are employed they give their patients unstinted care and sympathy. The English ambulance trains used in South Africa are declared to he models of comfort and common sense, each beiii" splendidly equipped with a kitchen, pan try and dispensary. The bunks are ar ranged on either side of a narrow center aisle, and have detachable sides, so that the patient can be easily slipped from stretcher to bed. One hundred men can be comfortably accommodated. As they are without water for weeks on the field of battle, the men generally begged to be bathed before anything further is done for their relief. Tliev are then put to bed and operated upon if the case is urgent, though this is not done on the train if it can be avoided. Each man is provided with a shirt, sponge, brush, socks, handkerchief, knife, fork, spoon and cup within reach. The trains carry two musing sisters, several trained orderlies and surgeons. In a recent discussion in England as to when a man should be considered incapa citated for service, it was stated that 110 age limit should be set. In fact, it is claimed that age, so long as it does not accompany physical incapacity, has the advantage of youth in the varied expe rience it brings to the work.—Xewr York Tribune. Romance in Austrian Court. The often-postponed marriage of tin Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria to Count Lonyay seems to be 011 the eve of occurring at Trieste, where Count Lonyay has taken a residence and whith er Princess Stephanie departed from Vi enna Thursday. Neither the Vienna nor the Brussels courts are any more favor ably disposed toward the groom than when the marriage was first mooted. King' Leopold thinks it a scandal only a little less terrible than that of. his eldest daughter, while Queen Henrietta hides her head in shame. But Princess Stephanie, regardless of It all throws up her court life, diamonds alul.[gold-embroidered robes, has her in: 'coihe" reduced from 800,000 to 200,000 c^Q^QS a,ud goes to live with a .pcor voun try gentlernnu. The people of Vienna, it is' said, scarcely tailk of unything but this great sacrifice for the sake of lovo._ February. Folic Lore. .. There are many legends to explain'"leap year and February's curtailed existence, and there is a curious similarity between two belonging to vastly-different conn tries. A legend in Egypt says that the god of February plays forfeits with the moon and loses, while an ol.d Norman folk story tells that February used to have 'armany days as the'other months, but lost a day to January and to March in gambling. Another French legend ex plains that February originally had twen ty eight days, but that one year an old woman who tended sheep laughed at him for being so mild, so the offended god borrowed a cold day fro© March and A?', the hen in WOMAN'S SPRING WARDROBE. How the Besl-Dressid Women will Attire Themselves At Easter, The new spring gowns, made all of one material, and not with separate waists as heretofore, will be much worn. The separate waists will be of light silks and muslins or other thin materials. Almost all the new spring stuffs are of a soft, clinging quality, which makes them adaptable to the present style of gown. There are to be some lovely silk mus lins with bunches of flowers'and sprays of vines and buds worn. The smartest shirtwaist will be made tucked back and front from the neck down, and the tucks will be rather wide than otherwise. The great tendency is to make the waist line as long as possible in front. The tailor and walking skirts will bare ly sweep the ground and the long trains have entirely passed away with the habit and close-fitting backs. The return of the bustle is heralded. It is not a large affair, but small, well shaped. Sleeves are still worn tight, and are much trimmed. They are quite long, and the smartest ones are made ending in a point which covers the top of (lie hand to the knuckles. Collars are to be worn high, but not as stiff as they have been. The new hats are made of some fancy straw braids, tulle, or silk nets of the most fantastic shapes. Breasts, birds, wings and feathers are much less worn.' iinl you can't have enough flowers.— Edith Lawrence in the March Ladies' Home Journal. THE BRIDE AND GROOM. No More Ki &i:i^:the It'iiit the Bride on Her Fateful Day. "The wedding ring completes the cir cle. typical as is the ring itself of the perpetuity of the compact," writes Mrs. Burton Ivingsland 111 the Ladies' Home Journal. "Inside the ring—always a plain gold one—are engraved the initials of bride and bridegroom, and the date of the marriage. It is placed on the third finger of the left hand because of the fsiueiful conceit that from that finger a nerve goes straight to the heart. "Some say that the word 'obey' in the marriage service is an anachronism and holds only those who choose to be bound, but American women do not often feel their chains. In some provinces of Rus sia the bride's father gives her a little cut with a whip, which instrument of cor rection he then presents to the groom for future emergencies. "The kiss formerly given by the young husband to his bride after the words, 'I pronounce you man and wife'—for which so many rehearsals were necessary—has gone out of fashion. "It is a time-honored observance of wedding etiquette that the bride shall not stin by the bridegroom 011 the fateful day until she appears coming up the aisle to meet him. Hence the custom of the bridegroom's waiting at the altar. The bridal procession is for him—not a pa .reaiit for the guests." hy fie Lingered. At a recent sitting of the grand jury 111 old gentleman of foreign birth was ailed in to tell about the stealing of his .vat eh. He saiil it was a silver wateh. and had st $15 when it was new. but that was long ago. Then he gave all the particu lars with which he was acquainted con cerning the theft of his timepiece, going into details concerning family affairs that amused some of the jurors and seemed to be tiresome to others. His oldest son's little girl had once lost the watch, and they had found it under the back porch, and a man named Sowders had put in a new mainspring, for which he charged 35 cents more than the price agreed upon when the watch was left to be repaired. At last the testimony was all in and the witness was excused, but he kept his chair. "You must go," said one of the jurors. Still the old man sat there. "That's.,all we shall want of you," said the state's attorney. The man who had los't a watch made 110' move. "Come, come," said the foreman, "we want to proceed to other business." Yet the old man kept the witness chair. "Why don't you go?" demanded an other of the jurors, who had approached and shaken the shoulder of the former owner of a watch, to make sure that no sudden, terrible stroke of any kind had come upon him. "Veil," the witness asked, "vhere do I get my watch?" The matter was explained to him. and as he left the room his face showed plainly enough that one more man had lost faith in the American jury system. Private Charities Preferred by the Poor. Anyone who is at all familiar with the feelings of the plain people must be aware that, as a rule, they' are more Will ing to be sent, in case of sickness, to a hospital managed by a private corpora tion than to one managed by the public. Yet a vigorous agitation to abolish all public aid to private charities has been lately set 011 foot by many well-meaning citizens, who, it seems to me, look at the subject too exclusively from a theo retical standpoint. On the other hand, as the supervisor of Catholic charities in New York city has very well put that side of the question, the "private institu tions give the use of their grounds, build ings and equipments to the public with out charge, and in addition do the work cheaper than it could be done in public institutions."—E. P. Wheeler in Atlantic. In Gay New York. Announcement is made of the engage ment of Miss Ivatherine Stauffer Clark, the youngest daughter of United States Senator William A. Clark of Montana, to Dr. Lewis Rutherford Morris of Xew George J. Gould and Russell Sage will be petitioned by the Public Education association to appoint certain free days during the spring for public school chil dren 011 the elevated roads in the inter ests of nature study. The plan is to take the children to the country or to the various parks. The association will also ask for a free day at all big flower, plant and bird shows. Mts. Miiinie Seligman Cutting, the ac tress, has been sued bv Anna "McNallv a dressmaker, to recover $4N1 for goods Supplied and work performed by her for Mrs. Cutting. The latter denies that she owes the amount claimed. A private view was given at Tiffany & Co. of the exhibit which will be sent the Paris exposition. The display is one of the most unique as well as costly ever seen in this city. The value of the col lection, it is said, is between $l,500,0Ui and $2,000,000. Most of the artistic do signing was done under the direction of Paulding Farnham. The artistic effect of some of the vases and trinkets is re markably fetching. The figures have been carved out of the solid metals, ami not cast and then attached to the pieces, as is frequently done. Frank Beard, who took a stenographic report of the Molineux trial, has sent in a bill for $4354 for his services. The comptroller looked it over, and it is un derstood that Mr. Eeard will have to sue the city for his money. The fire extinguishers at Tony Pas tor's theater went 011 a rampage, 'liie machines are the kind that are to !,• found in most theaters, which release a torrent of water all over the building as soon as the temperature of the building goes above the danger point. The ap paratus got out of order and down canic the water—200 gallons of it. A quan tity of valuable costumes aud scenery was ruined, and the stage made so wet that there is certainly 110 dinger of its catching fire for a day or two. Scattered about the rooms of an auc tion house ill West Twenty-eighth street, like the discarded pages of a torn novel, the household goods of Kate (.'base Sprague await their further scattering under the hammer of some glib auction eer. They tell a tale of life and love's tragedy aud sorrow. Printed in letters of red and black over the door is the in vitation. It is an epitaph, and leads: NKXT IMPORTANT SALIO. The contents of the colonial resi (lence of the late Hou. Salmon 1\ Chase, chief justice of the Supreme court of the t'nited States. lie moved from Edgewood, near Wash ton. It seems like a dissecting room—like some ghastly place where a post-mortem examination is being made. For here and there are the dismembered effects of her who once had Washington at her feet the enchantress of a great senator tin? destiny of men who helped to make the destiny of the nation the woman in whose thrall congressmen, members of the cabinet, ambassadors, generals, even a President, were willing captives the woman who made and unmade men, and who died in poverty after her own bril liant life had been wrecked. The vogue of the automobile, which ha ceased to create comment in the crowded streets of New York, only emphasizes tie increasing popularity of equestrian exer cise. The bridle paths of Central park have begun to fairly rival the celebrated promenades a eheval of the Bois do Bou logne or the splendid avenue in Hyd-r park. A few years ago our equestrians were limited to the fashionable set. Now the fashionable and unfashionable canter side by side through the park and the uptown riding schools do a thriving busi ness among the new rich and the semi leisnrely industrial class. There are "select" organizations, and these are beginning to hold their annual reunions, to which they invite their trienils. atifl noinahitmicps anA -vftiicb wrt to be classed among tin- Lenten pas times. One of these soirees lias just been given by the band of young people known as the Tuesday Evenig club. A prettier exposition of the haut ecole it would be difficult to imagine. Young ladies and gentlemen were al most equally matched and formed such a cavalcade as is seldom seen massed together. Altogether, it was a high class "society circus." in which a well known and popular master of the hounds played the pnrt of clown and contributed to the gayety of the spectators. The effect was that of a cotillon per formed 011 horseback. The most suc cessful figure was decidedly the jeu ile banc, ill which a couple of young la dies endeavored to capture a shoulder knot of ml ribbon from a single cava lier. The maneuvers of I he single man to outwit his fair adversaries were at once graceful and amusing. The honors in this spott were carried off, on the men's side. «y an expert polo player, who managed to prolong the con test until it was a question if" either of his fair pursuers would capture the shoul der-knot. and 011 that of the ladies by a quick-witted young girl who snatched the trophy from a more defenseless cavalier almost immediately. BEGINNING OF CRONJE'S CAPTURE. All manner of races, iii'-luding those of the egg and spoon, the needle and thread, the saber and the rubber ball and a comic nightgown race, diversified the programme. The only mistake of the evening was the frame race, in which the nervous and high-strung animals were brought up against what must hive been to them a blank wall—composed of thiu white paper stretched over a frame and exacted to pierce it. This was some thing they almost unanimously refused to do. often rearing and plunging to an extent that threatened to unseat their riders. Altoge ther the open winter has been very favorable to equestrian exercise, and morning and afternoon see almost the same number of riders. A Troop Ship's Water Supply. The ship's ordinary supply would be to tally inadequate for the requirements of, say, 1000 troops, besides horses: but the difficulty is overcome with the a hi of a good condensing apparatus. From the tanks into which the water is condensed (about twenty tons and upward a day) extra iron pipes are run to suitable po sitons on different decks, and drawoff cocks are fixed. Under the cocks for sup plying the horses tubs are placed into which the water is run. In the soldiers* quarters small pipes are fixed, and the supply is taken from spring cocks, the amount allowed being usually six pints a head a day, except when the vessel is in the tropics, when one gallon a head is allowed. To provide against any break down of the condenser, portable iron tanks, holding about 400 gallons each, are placed in the lower holds and filled. Life pnmps are then fixed fore and aft on the main deck, and the suction pipe from the pumps is taken down close to these tanks aud finished' with a union, onto which a rubber suction hose is screwed, and led .to. each tank as re quired. A rising'main taken from pump is turned down and run parallel with the main supply, and finished at the same points.—Building World. —In Japan handkerchiefs are made of paper, cords are twisted from it and imi tations of Cordova leather are skillfully -contrived from it. In 1892 Japan pro duced $5,000,000 worth of paper. Artillery starting out on the bold dash into the very heart of the enemy country that compelled the surrender of Gen. P. A. Cronje and his brave fight ers. These are the guns whose Jyddjte sbfclls made such awful havoc in tUp S "A •-•'m