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To Local Igents.
Now is the time for oar local agents to
work. See the extraordinary induce*
menta on 5th page. Send for sample
copies and agents’ outfit
Deak Auntie and Cousins: I’ve so often
wished to join the happy band of your family
circ.e, but until now have not had the courage
to rap for admittance. My only draw back was
the dismal thoughts of that dreaded waste
basket
Well, as I have started to write my letter at
last although I hare a mind to retreat, but I
will summon up my courage and proceed.
Future President, I like your letters very
much
Lynwool, I think you write too sweet for
s-nytblng. I a fact I enjoy all of the letters.
B'.lly Bent, you are too witty for any use—such
wit as it is.
1 am fourteen years old, very large for my age:
have dark brown hair, dark blue eyes. Am very
good looking.
Say, do you all know Zirline of the Household
if so how do you Use him? I think himatiptop
lellow if you could converse with him you all
would think so too.
Well I musn't waste too much time on the
waste basket. I hope my letter will not bo re
jected. We all read your paper and Uke the L.
Ji. immensely.
Weil I will say good bye till we meet again.
_ . , Yours. Frank Howakth.
Robeline, La.
Dear Aent Judy: Please, won't you let this
simple, molest child come in? I only claim to
be mama s baby boy, although I might intro
duce myself as an earl or duke.
I know some of you aspiring girls are setting
your caps for future President, and how your
hea-ts go pit-a-pat at the thought ot being fu
ture mistress of the White House.
Crazy Tom, why didn't you fight that waltz
-question to the end? Of dancing, I can say that
a quadrille is very pleasurable but when it
comes to waltzing, well, I'd rather take my
hugging sitting dowa. Mow jnst look at that
Meddler, making faces at me! I won't play
now.
Some one suggested that each cousin tell the
happiest moment of their life. Fen' unmarried
people would like to tell their happiest moments
but I won t hesitate to tell mine as they were
spent sitting on the back steps, eating bread
and butter with pretty, little black-eyed Susie.
Ah! happy day when I was young and inno
cent
Cousins, bewa-e of that Doctor! he was born
to kill and not to cure: let me tell you, while
reading the last Sunny South I unluckily
struck the l>r’s letter, a spring in my jaw snap
ped and the rebound was so great that it sent
me over the back of my high chair, and I bump
ed my head three times in the same place, but
ma caught me on the third bounce and belt me
while my pious bui set my jaw and gave me a
lecture on cutting teeth on jaw (crackers.)
Ma is waiting to tuck me in my little bed, so
good night. Here aunt Judy, squeeze my hand
quick before uncle Punch looks.
Don't somebody waut to take care of
Mama’s Baby Boy.
To levsdukrs.
We went the Bunny South on ante
everywhere, end ask that each news
dealer send in his order right away
Also send for sample copies free.
Dear Aunt Judy: Here I come; another
stranger knocking gently at the door' Who will
welcome me? I nave long wished to be one of
your L. B. contributors, but my extreme timidi
ty, and the sens) of my own inability to com
pete with the brighter intellects that grace your
columns, have kept me silent, however if 1 es
cape the confines of t nat terrible waste basket,
waich is staring me in the face as I write, 1
shall congratulate myself.
To your sweet Earnest Willie my heart Intui
tively turns, while ptin and anguish wring thy
brow, a ministering angel I would be.
‘ Friendship has the power
To socthe afllictiou in its darkest hour."
You must have gathered great comfort from
Little One's letter.
Johnnie, I thine the circulating library a good
suggestion of yours. I Uke with it as I am very-
fond of reading. How many of the cousins are
wllliDg to put Johnnie s plan on foot?
Future President, if yon are a staunch Demo
crat 1 will begin at once to lectioneer in your
behalf and when you take the government Into
your hand3, be sure to make times better, and
give the farmers' daughter more money to spend.
What a lovely home you have? A beautiful
country seat, is said by all my friends and vet
the barber’s girl has more money! I guess I
must live ou the reputation which the country
geatleman s estate carries and be content
Before closing 1 must ask Little Due. Pansy or
some of tne cousius to write me; you will find
my address with Auut Judy. Hilda.
Dear Letter Boxers: While Aunt Judy Is
off to the mountains, I’ll push open the door
aud slip in to have a short chat and a little fun,
if you will let me; for
' While the eat s away,
The mice '11 play.’-
And I hope the waste-basket accompanied the
dear Auntie in the capacity of a work-basket
for I’m sure I'll leel more at ease to “disperse,”
than I would if I knew it was right here. We
miss Aunt Judy, thoJgh; so I’ll shed a tear for
the bright face'that is absent, and begin.
Let me tell you of my visit to our State Insane
Asylum a few weeks ago. Although I had al
ways had a horror of seeing the unfortunate in
mates of such an institution, still my curiosity
got the best of ma, and I consented to accom
pany a party of friends on a pleasure visit there,
and spent a very pleasant d.y in the buildings
and surrounding park. It is only a few miles
by rail from here; so after a very pleasant and
refreshing ride we arrived at the town of Mil
ledgeville, where we boarded the dummy for
the Asylum grounds In a lew minutes we saw
through the mists, on the distant hills, three
massive brick buildings that cover several acres
of ground, surrounded by a lovely garden oi
tropical trees and beautiful flowers aud shrub
bery and as we approach the gate we see the
plaving waters of a fountain, built by an inmate
of tne Asylum, before the front door of the
main building. At the hundreds ot windows
on the flout side are white pale faces, with that
vacant stare of the maniac poeriug out at us—
some raving, screaming and jabbering; others
huddled together, laughing, talking and sing-
in fiere-we find husband and wife, brothers and
sisters grandfathers and mothers from t ie
cradle' to the grave; there a sal, sweet face,
with sorrow on every feature—a mother mourn-
iue for her son, till her mind gives way. her
reason departs; here a fond lover mourning for
his bride' lift, has no pleasure tor him; his heart
is dead he grieves his life away; now a mother
rocking an emptv cradle, her songs of lullaby as
she rocks the empty cradle ot her dead babe,
ring out shrill and sad.
Further on we see the glass man. who is afraid
to be touched, for fear he will break and many
other wonderful specimens of hallucinations,
but my heart sickens, I care to see no more,
and when once a ;aiu I breathe the fresh air and
see the blue skies of heaven, 1 can bat utter a
prayer of thanks to the Almighty God, for his
greatest blessing to me - a sound mind, and ask
uitv for these poor souls of darkness.
* C*ri why didn’t you tell the Letter Boxers of
vour accident in crossing the creek? it is too
good to keep, but I am afraid to tell it on yon I
am sure the Letter Boxers, would as I did enjoy
a hearty laugh.
Cecil dear, do write to me real soon, yon treat
me real badly, I don’t believe you love me like
y< SnethWne, I would that I conld tell yon what
an impression yon made on me, and how much
I enloved my drive with yon. I intended seeing
vou again, for I received a letter from Cart, the
evening after our drive and wished to tell yon
of it bit I heard yon had left for home, so I did
not go up to see yoo. I hope yon will like our
little city and its people, as wefi as they did you
and come back again some day
Tar Heel Titua, Go die Ashburne, Jacqueline,
Dearie and Fidele all of yon; please come beck,
your places cannot be filled. ......
I hope I havn't been too bad and talkative
this morning, I’ve enjoyed my chat and seeing
you all so much, that I fear I’ve stayed too long,
so I’ll throw a kiss and lots of love to ail.
i am as ever the same, Tete-a-tete*
Deab Aunt and Cousins: As Ole Fnle says,
I think I have gotten myself Into hot water.
Well Ole Fule, I wlU begin with you. I wUl
forgive you this time If yon will promise not to
do so any more. Yon are like I to.'d a friend of
mine once, you are hard to understand. Write
often, plseae; your letters are very interesting.
No Blue Eyes, I won’t tike back what I said.
“Once resolved, I never waver;” as to the flog
ging, I think I can stand that. Bat let’s be
friends—not enemies
Bansine, there was a yonng lady from yonr
City visiting relatives here this summer. Won
der if you know her.
Lynwood have you seen vour friend since yon
demolished his potato patch and rose bosh? Did
he look cross eyed at you?
Alvin King must have been ugly if the sight
of his face would stop a cyclone Bat that cap
would fit most of the boys here
Chipper, welcome. I like yon very much.
Come soon, please.
Bernard, Johnny-Jump-Up, come soon, too,
and all the cousins.
Periwinkle, come again. Were yon acqna
ed with a young lady who attended senoo
last winter whose initials were M. E.
o in ill of mine.
Jane Apple, Good Little Girl Rose Bud. Flor
ida Girl, Joker, Future President. Hattie May
and all the new cousins whose names I've for
gotten don’t let your visits be lew and far be
tween.
Dearest Te Ouza. Miriam, where are you all?
How did you all Uke, “My Nom De Guerrie?”
Wasn't Dr. Louis a cute little trick?
I wonder who will be the next to say their
sty about the city and country girl. For my
part I think enough has been said on the sub
ject. Suppose we stop cousins and discuss
something more entertaining. Books is the
subject under discussion now I believe and in
deed they are a great source of pleasure to me.
What have you all decided to give auut Judy
for a present? 1 can't think what it shall be.
Jobny you can get my address from aunt
Judy.
Algy, I think Lynwood and Cecil are the two
writers you are interested in so highly. Ami
correct? Write immediately and let us know.
Beryl
Dearest Cousins: The shades of night have
fallen upon our little city and fair Luna, cast
ing her softened beams earthward, gilds with
silvery radiance each shrub and flower. All
nature is as still and calm as peace itself and in
this quiet, holy hour, I come to hare a little
chat with yon.
The evening is so mild and beautiful, I will
not go into my room where the light burns
“dim and low,” but will sit on the veranda and
give myself up to its bewitching charms, it is
so sweet out here. The air is loaded with the
'me of the many-hued flowers.
The myriad o? stars gleaming tnrough the
cloudless sky, seem like the eyes of angels keep
ing watchful guarl over the world, and the
entle moonbeams clothe everything with
reamy fascination.
But what shall we talk about?
Melancholy Will, you look so sad over there
in the big arm chair, I fain would say some
thing to cheer you. Come join me on the ver
anda and let Urana chase all sad thoughts away;
and you, also, sweet Hascal won't you join us
on the moonlit veranda? Dear girl, I could not
' ’ shedding tears of sympathy for yon when 1
your sad sweet letter, as my own life has
been similar to yours.
Lynwood, you are such a sweet, ‘ old maid” it
surprises me greatly, that some one of ‘the lords
of creation” basnotcaptured you long ere this. I
judge though from your style, that you are
rather hard to capture.
Crazy Tom, why don’_ _
deserted our hand altogether?
Cousins, I anticipate a visit to Florida next
winter aud expect to travel extensively over the
state and trust I may meet with some of the
cousins in my travels. I think I would enjoy
my trip doubly, were I to meet with some of the
young folks of this department
Black eyed country Tack, do let ns hear from
you again, yonr letters interest me greatly, for I
think 1 know you
Aunt Judy and uncle Punchie we children
are anxiously awaiting a letter from you both,
and hope you will favor your little nieces and
nephews with a letter from each of you very
soon aud tell us what von have been doing all
this long time, that you have not been in our
midst.
I would Uke to correspond with some of the
cousins my address is with sunt Judy.
Ta Ta, D. xie Lassie.
Oak Bowery
I IDear Aunt Judy and Cousins: f As I’ve brok-
en the i ;e, it is no longer a Hurculeau task to
visit you all agiin. I hope some of you will
give mi the warm Southern handshake, and bid
me welcome.
I am alone in my sanctum, sitting at the win
dow watching the little chickens enjoy their
supper, as they have just been fed.
Tnis Is the most delightful time of the day,
half past 5 o’clock, and the odor of myrtle and
honeysuckle, is wafted to me by the gentle
hyr that lovingly fans my cheek,
ur Florida climate is indeed delightful!
Everything is deliciously cool, and invigorating
a copious shower has refreshed mother earth,
the plants and fragrant flowers, that all nature
seems smiling with pleasure. I can hear the
mournful whispering of the tall pines in the
distance, there is a kind of music in their sad
song that recalls so vividly to mind my childhood
(I’m not yet out of my teens, so don’t think me
a centenarian). —v.
When a little girl I’d spend hours in a beautl
f ul grove near my old home in Middle Florida.
’Twas a lovely retreat, softly carpeted with
golden straw. I think those hours were among
the happiest of my life, but of course I didn’t
think so then. “Ulessiugs brighten as they
take their flight,,’ and how we all love to revert
to the good old times that are gone! How I’d
like to build castles in the air, thinking what
I’d do when I got to be a laly grown. So few
lives are what we anticipate, and I think after
all the greatest happiness is found, in anticipa
tion.
I was always very found of reading and a
great lover of Dickens; would never get weary
poaring over Pickwick Papers. Barnaby Itndge,
David G'opperfield and Oliver Twist. How often
I’ve bathed my pillow in tears, grieving over
poor Oliver’s and David's troubles.
I've just finished Cooper's Leather Stocking
stories and am charmed with them. His kero
is nature’s own nobleman, and shows that the
perfect g-ntleman is not always very learned or
a splendid conversationalist; in fact his grand
hero, Pathfinder, could not even speak the
king's English correctly.
Wc all admire a highly educated cultured
man or woman, but unless his or her intellect
makes them better, it does vice versa. It takes
an educated man to be a smart, shrewd rascal.
“Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.”
We have all parts of the globe represented In
our little town. I used to Io >k upon a Yankee
as something dreadful, but have entirely
changed my opinion Some of my dearest
friends are Northerners, and I've heard a great
many say that they loved the South and South-
ern people as well, if not better, than the North.
We had a picnic lately and there were only
two Southern girls there. One little dark eyed
Yankee threatened to throw those two • rebels”
in the river, but as bur handsome brother had a
soft place in his heart for one of the blue eyed
lassies she changed her mind.
Aunt Judy, if you find my letter too long, I
hope the w. b. will be convenient.
I turned the house up side down to-day, look
ing for relics of better days. Mamma dreads my
investigating moods I found in an old trank her
Journal kept 30 y’rs ago (what a long time that
seems to me), what pleasure I found in turning
the faded leaves of that little book! sbe was
about my age then, and how like to a beautiful
garland seemed life, it was all eolenc derose,
without a faded flower to mar its bright besnty.
Papa was a handsome young Dr. from the old
Dominion, that came a wooing and bow will
ingly she gave her young heart into his keeping.
If any of the cousins would like to know any
thing about Florida, I think I conld give them
the information desired.
I attended a backwood picnic the other day
and saw for the first time the real Florida crack
er. I didn't know before that we had such il
literate people in my beloved state.
I must say Anre voir twilight is stealing o’er
the landscape. With much love to anntJndy
and all the cousins. I am affectionately.
Florida Girl.
He Ruled Revelation
AT A CRITICAL MOMENT LAMARTINE
SHOWED SPLENDID COURAGE.
The only reliable vegetable substitute tor cal-
omel, which acts on the liver, blood, kidneys and
stomach, and best anti-billions purgative is
Msguire's Cnndnrango. Indorsed by Arch
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia; Rev. McNally, of
St Loots, and a host ot prominent people, C .
A curious thing to do notea in connec
tion with negro minstrelsy is the fact
that all the instruments originally iden
tified with burnt cork shows came from
Africa, including the bones, tambourine
and castanets, which were taken to
Spain from Africa by the Moors.
rm.-An Fits awpeedjtre g fa. mre a
Great Nerve Restorer. NoMlaaftor tat dart
use Marvellous cures. Treatise and tkOOfaial
bottle treeto Fiternes. Bend to Dr.
Arch 8t, Phllrdelphla, Fa.
As a Result the Flag of Franco Today Is
the Tricolor of the Republic and Not
the Red Banner of Communism—A
Notable Centennial.
In a certain sense French history con
tains no more picturesque character than
that of Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamar
tine, who was born at Macon, France, a
century ago and died at Paris in 1869.
He was a Gaul of the Ganls, with all
their vivacity and versatility, and dur
ing his longlife of nearly eighty yean
he played many parts and saw many
thrilling scenes. It is due to him more
than to any other man that France was
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.
not deluged with blood in the early days
of the revolution of 1848, and, princi
pally for that reason, his grateful coun
trymen propose next October to cele
brate the centennial of his birth at the
place where their gallant, gifted and ec
centric hero first saw the light of day.
Even that exclusive and conservative
body the French academy will partici
pate in the ceremonies, and has desig
nated Francois Coppee, one of the most
distingnished of its number, to deliver
an oration and read a poem on what
promises to be a most memorable occa
sion.
Think of it! An existence began amid
the roar and tumult of a revolution,
which reached manhood’s magnificent
fruition at the climax of a second popu
lar rising, and found its end jnst as the
first ominous mlitterings of destiny pre
saged the downfall of an empire and the
resuscitation of the republic of ’93, “one
and indivisible!” The conditions were
favorable for the thriving of a genius,
and the genius was there to grasp thh
splendid opportunity.
Lamartine was a student till 1814, a
soldier from that time on until Napoleon’s
downfall, and in 1817 a foil fledged poet.
The succeeding fifteen yeans were de
voted to literary and diplomatic labors.
In 1832 he set ont with his wife and
daughter on a journey to the east that
was conducted with the most lavish
magnificence. So princely was his prog
ress that the Arabs called him the French
emir and gave him unbounded devotion
in return for vast expenditure.
On his return home he published his
“Voyage to the Orient” and “Jocelyn, a
Poem of Love and Duty.” Then he en
tered political life and made remarkable
progress as an orator, supplementing his
public labors by issuing a “History of
the Girondins,” a work to which in
great measure was due the revolution of
1848. When the downfall of royalty
came in February of that year, and the
insurgent and famishing crowds surged
into the Hotel de Ville demanding bread
and work and also the unfurling of the
red flag, Lamartine scored the triumph
of his life. No more thrilling incident
embellishes his graphic “History of the
Revolution.”
He says that as the mob surged about
him in a frenzy of excitement he succeed
ed in calming the tumult by a sort of
patriotic hymn on the people’s victory—
so sadden, so complete, so unlooked for
even by the most ardent friends of lib
erty. He called God to witness the ad
mirable humanity and religions mod
eration which the people had hitherto
6hown alike in the combat and their tri-
violance to the government; you may
command it to change the colors of the
nation and the colors of France. If yon
are so ill advised and so obstinate In er
ror as to impose upon it a republic of
party and a flag of terror the govern
ment is as decided as myself to die rather
than dishonor itself by obeying yon.
For myself my hand shall never sign
that decree. I will resist even to the
death that symbol of blood, and yon
should repudiate it as well as I, for
the red flag which yon bring ns has
never gone beyond the Champ de Mars,
dragged red in the blood of the people in
*91 and ’93; bat the tricolor flag has
mils the tour of the world, with the
name, the glory and the liberty of our
countiy.”
At these words Lamartine, interrupt
ed by unanimous cries of enthusiasm,
fell from the chair which served for hia
tribune into the arms stretched ont on
all sides to receive him. The cause
the new republic was triumphant over
the bloody recollections which they
wished to substitute for ib The hideous
crowd which filled the hall retired
amidst cries of “Vive Lamartine! Viva
le Drapeau Tricolor.” The danger, how
ever, was not over. The crowd which
had been carried away by his words was
met by another crowd which had not
been able to penetrate into the hall, and
which was more vehement in words and
gesticulations. Menacing expressions,
LAMARTINE AVERTING A REIGN OF TERROR.
ardent vociferations, cries of suffocation,
threatening gestures, discharges of fire
arms on the stairs, tatters of a red flag
waved by naked arms above the sea of
heads rendered this one of the most
frightful scenes of the revolution.
“Down with Lamartine! Death to La
martine! No temporizing—the decree,
the decree or the government of traitors to
the lamp post!” exclaimed the .assailants.
These cries neither caused Lamartine to
hesitate, to retire, nor turn pale. At the
sight of him the fury of the assailants,
instead of being appeased, increased ten
fold. Muskets were directed at his
head, the nearest brandished bayonets in
his face, and a savage group of twenty
with brutal, drunken visages charged
forward with their heads down, as if to
break through with an enormous batter
ing ram the circle which surrounded
him. The foremost appeared bereft of
reason. Naked sabers reached the
head of the orator, whose hand was
slightly wounded. The critical moment
had arrived; nothing was yet decided.
Hazard determined which should pre
vail. Lamartine expected momentarily
to be thrown down and trampled under
foot. At that instant one of the popu
lace sprang from the crowd. A ball dis
charged from below grazed his face
and stained it with blood. While it
still flowed he stretched ont his hands to
Lamartine. “Let me see him; let me
touch him,” said he; “let me kiss his
hand! Listen to him, oh, my citizens!
Follow his counsels; yon shall ktrike me
before touching him. I Wll die a
thousand times to preserve That good
citizen for my country.” With these
words he precipitated himself into his
arms and held him convulsively em
braced. The people were moved at this
scene, and a multitude of voices again
exclaimed: “Vive le gonvernement pro-
visoire! Vive Lamartine!”
This proved the climax of his glory.
His popularity thereafter waned, and in
1851 he retired from public life and de
voted himself to literary work. The
city of Paris gave him a country, seat in
1860, and in 1867 Napoleon HI granted
him for life the income from a capital
of 500,000 francs. Death prevented him
from enjoying the imperial bounty for
more than two years. Bnt his demise
was mourned and his memory is honored
by a great people, whom, at a critical
moment, he saved from acts of madness
by a sublime exhibition of moral and
physical courage.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Mrs. George B. McClellan has been en
tertaining elaborately in London.
Franlein Johanna Maestrick, a German
girl of remarkable beauty, has made her
debut in Lisbon as a bullfighter.
Miss Tait, daughter of the late arch
bishop of Canterbury, is one of the inde
fatigable workers among the London poor.
Miss Annie, daughter of Millionaire
Heyward Cutting, of New York, is en
gaged to Baron Verier, of Brussels, Bel
gium.
Mrs. Hnltlah Arnold, of Mendon, Mass.,
celebi ated her 99th birthday anniversary
recently and said that “she felt as well as
when 18.’’
Brigham Young’s youngest daughter has
announced her intention of entering on a
lecture tour shortly. Her subject will be
“Mormonism.”
Lady Florence Dixey excels in nearly all
popular athletic sports. She rows and
rides well, and plays tennis and cricket
with great enthusiasm.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the Amer
ican novelist, was recently married to Dr.
Tenfel, of Stuttgart, one of the most emi
nent practitioners of Germany.
Jean Ingelow, who has an honored place
in literature, lives in retirement with her
mother in Kensington, England. She ]a
now 55 years old, and has never married.
Miss Kate Marsden, an English woman,
has been decorated by the empress with
the insignia of the Russian Red Cross for
services as a nurse during the war with
Turkey.
Mrs. Dr. Emma E. Chase, of St. Louis,
who was recently elected a full member of
the American Dental association, is the
first, lady on whom the honor has been
conferred.
Miss Helen Graser, of Cincinnati, is a
customs broker, doing a large business. It
is a difficult work that takes extensive
knowledge of the tariffs and monetary
systems of all the countries of the world.
Miss Cooper, niece of J. Feni more Cooper,
is a member of the Bellevue Training
School for Nurses. She is a tall, slender,
graceful girl of the brunette type, with
the brilliant eolori ng of that class of beauty.
IT IS WELL TO KNOW.
That the occasional use of saline altera
tives is advisable in the morning.
That borax water is excellent to remove
stains from the hands and heal scratches
and chafes.
That if a large basketful of charcoal he
placed in a damp cellar where milk is kept
the milk will be in no danger of becoming
tainted.
That if a cellar has a damp smell and
cannot lie thoroughly ventilated a few
trays of charcoal set around on the floor,
shelves and ledges will make the air pare
and sweet.
That a person may stand between the
poles of the strongest magnet, one of which
might hold up a ton of iron, without the
slightest perceptible effects upon any of
the bodily functions being produced.
That the danger of infection from impure
water is only slightly reduced by filtration
through sand, bacteria passing through at
all times, but in larger numbers just after
the filter has been cleaned, and again after
it has been in use for some time.
That one ounce of alcohol raises the pulse
three beats per minute, or, In other words,
causes the heart to beat while its effects
last at the rate of 4,300 beats more than
natural in the twenty-four hours. The
heart cannot be made to do this extra work
without suffering.
That a remedy for tender feet is cold
water, about two quarts, two tablespoon-
fnls of ammonia, one tablespoonful of bay
rum. Sit with the feet immersed for ten
minutes, gently throwing the water over
the limits upward to the knee. Then rub
dry with a crash towel and all the tired
feeling is gone.
THE LATEST IN JEWELS.
FRANCOIS COPPEE.
umph. He placed prominently forward
that sublime instinct which, the evening
before, had thrown them, when still
armed, but already disciplined and obe
dient, into the arms of a few men who
had submitted themselves to calumny,
exhaustion and death for the safety of
alL “That,” said Lamartine, “was
what the sun beheld yesterday, and what
would he shine upon today? He would
behold a people the more furious that
there were no longer any enemies to
combat; distrusting the men whom
but yesterday it had intrusted with the
lead—constraining them in their liberty,
insulting them in their dignity, disavow
ing their authority, substituting a revo
lution of veneeance and nnnishment for
one of unanimity and fraternity and
commanding the government to hoist,
in token of concord, the standard of com
bat to the death between the citizens of
the same country! That red flag, which
was sometimes raised as the standard
against our enemies when blood was
flowing, should be furled after the com
bat in token of reconciliation and peace.
I would rather see the black flag, which
they hoist sometimes in a besieged town
as a symbol of death, to designate to the
bombs the edifices consecrated to hu
manity, and which even the balls of the
enemy respect. Do yon wish, then, that
the symbol of yonr republic should be
more menacing and more sinister than
the colon of a besieged city?” “No, no,”
cried some at the crowd. “Lamartine is
right; let ns not keep that standard, the
symbol of terror, for our citizens.” “Yes,
yes,” cried others, “it is ours, it is that
of the people, it is that with which
we have conquered. Why should
we not keep after the conflict the
colon which we have stained with
our blood?” “Citizens,” said La
martine, after having exhausted
every argument calculated to affect the
imagination of the people, “yon mar do
The Importance of Women.
I heard a distinguished judge in an up
town club burst into a torrent of abase
because the papers devoted two or three
columns to wliat he called the intermin
able nonsense about who Mrs. Astor
might be. “Nobody cares a rap,” said
the judge, throwing the paper across
the room, “whether old Bill Astor’s
wife is called Mrs. Astor, Mrs. William
Astor or Mrs. Dingbats. As for her
niece, her name is Mrs. William Wal
dorf Astor, and everybody who knows
her calls her Mamie. It’s the most
transparent nonsense for the papers to
devote such valuable space to a family
squabble.”
Yet a moment’s thought would have
convinced the judge that the papers
were on the right track. The question of
which of the Mrs. Astors has the right
to the distinctive title of the family was
of more interest to thousands and thou
sands of feminine readers than Mr.
Blaine’s letter to Mr. Frye or any su
preme court decision that has ever been
rendered. The subjects which claim the
attention of women have a mortgage on
publicity today.
Women are everywhere. They are
cashiers, typewriters, stenographers,
clerks, canvassers, doctors, dentists, edi
tors, lecturers, lawyers, deacons and rail
way presidents, and their influence is
patent in every walk of life. Annie
Goodwin was a working girl. This is
one reason for the great uproar which
has been aroused by her fate.—Philadel
phia Times.
In the declaration of principles pub
lished by the Personal Rights league the
basis of them all is a statement that the
productive forces now in existence are
abundantly capable of supplying all the
reasonable wants of all the people. What
is needed is that these forces be properly
organized and distributed, so that one
nun will not commit suicide because he
cannot find work, while another has
an income of half a million a year, and
is hard put to it to devise ways to spend
it all. The league believes that the sys
tem of co-operative ownership will do
away with both the wage system and
these inequalities of fortune.
There are nearly a quarter million
schoolmistresses in the Union, and yet
at teachers’ conventions they let the few
men do nearly all the talking, make the
rules and hold the offices. In Massa-
chusetts there are ninety women teach
ers to one of the other sex. In Ger
many the proportion is exactly opposite,
and there are ninety men teachers to
one woman.
A silver match box has black enamel
spots representing a domino.
Admirers of the unique are now able to<
wear a key ring of silver, representing a
curved horseshoe nail.
An exceedingly pretty pendant for
queen chain is a smiling moonstone baby’s
face encircled by small diamonds.
To meet the prevailing taste for simplicity
enff buttons of white enamel, with small,
light bine anchors and red stars inter
mingled, have been produced.
Some people like to have their initials on
their possessions. To gratify this class gold
glove bnttoners, with initials in gold wire
forming the pendants, are being produced.
Two diamond doves with outstretched
wings, holding suspended between their
beaks a beautiful sapphire in an invisible
setting, make an elaborate and very valua
ble lacepin.
A very pretty and attractive match box
has the front etched with the figure of a
siren seated on a rock and singing to the
accompaniment of a lyre, while the sea rolls
about her feet.
Young lovers, after having a dime split
in half, each take a portion and get their
jeweler to mount, it in any peculiar manner
that appeals to their fancy. Many curious
searfpius and bracelet 1 tangles are the re
sult.
Good fortune should certainly follow the
presentation of a lacepin representing a
horseshoe and a wishbone intertwined.
The ornament is of Roman gold, and for
get-me-nots of enamel are artistically
arranged about the pieces.—Jewelers’
Weekly.
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An ingenious device which has been suc
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At the recent medical congress in Berlin
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dreamed of outside the profession, and
many tributes to the beneficence of its
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In some hospitals in Europe it is cus
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The idea of utilizing electricity for canal
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by trolleys, as in the overhead system now
so extensively used for street railways.
The electric compass is having an excel
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it has been adopted, as the steering in such
cases has markedly improved. The object
of this invention is to indicate by an eleo-
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deviation from the course laid down
through the carelessness of the man at the
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est route, quickest time, au 1 the only line run
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