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AUGUST 18. 1906. THE SUNNY SOUTH FIFTH <PAGE Womens’ Suffrage Movement Experiences Great Impulse the World Over « M AN may scoff, and refuse to believe, but the faot nevertheless remains that the cause of woman suf frage Is making Its way. The battlo begun fifty years ago Is steadily be ing carried to success. It ^ was not the fortune of the yJL^ great pioneer of the move- ment, Susan B. Anthony, _ to live to see the time when every woman in the a. . , United States should have |he right to cast a vote at presidential lections, but a generation from now «■«: robnbly find this an accomplished fact. Most persons have little Idea of the etenrtv gain that Is being made bv the woman's suffragists. It has become tha masculine habit to dismiss the entire ernsade lightly as a sort of a freak that would soon run Its course, but a glance at what has nctually been accomplished how 3 a most astonishing gain. In the United States thore are four) commonwealths that grant full right of suffrage to women without any restric tion. In eighteen others they are al lowed to vote on school Issue, and lr two store the female tux payers nrs given, the right to vote on all matters pertaining to the expenditures from the treasury, which they help to keep full. SITS IN PARLIAMENT. This Is a good showing for one coun try, but there are others In which It !s far outstripped. Take for Instates* Finland. There a woman not only has the right to voto Just the same as a man. but she can also sit In parliament. So In New- Zealand. Australia, Sweden, ‘ Norway and Iceland women are granted liberal use of the ballot. an ( ] In Great Britain,- for all Its reputation of con servatism, a woman can vote at all elec tions save those for members of parlia ment. The . International Council of Women 1 Is an agency of prime Importance in I carrying on the propoganda. It meet* once In every five years. I.ondon, in 1899. saw the first gathering; Beilin, ^ At Last ^ By EDITH C. M. DART. m Susan B. Antliony, One of the Great Pounders of the Cause. tentlon. An American Quaker, Hannah Whitehall Smith, is one of the prime fac tors In the contest, and she occupies a position very similar to that which another Quaker. Susan B. Anthony, held in this country for so long a time. Mrs. Smith went to England shortly after the war. Her husband dying she remained there, one of her daugh ters married a well known art critic; the other is the wife of the Honorable Bertrand Russell. Countess Russell lias been a prominent worker in every move- ln 1904, the second, and the third will be ! m ’nt of the fight 'for an unrestricted hold in Canada In 1909. j ballot. Thla conclave Is the occasion for tak- j It Is a somewhat curious fact that moil ing an account of stock, for reporting j archies seem more willing to give women plete equality with their husbands and brothers. CLERK OP SENATE. A woman. Miss Lillie Pardee, elected clerk of the Utah senate, signed the cre dentials of the first senators the state to Washington, a situation without prece dent or succession u£> to this time. This brief glance at the progress for the woman's cause shows a most aston ishing change of public sentiment from the days when Susan B. Anthony first took up the battle. She preached the doctrine and was reviled and caricatured even by members of her own sex. She insisted on her right to vote, oast a ballot, was arrested ARBARA WARING had practically learned and mastered the difficult art of being poor when Fate presented her whimsically with abundance. Every body, even she. felt It to be more or less a fantas tic happening. She wondered at first what she was going to do with It all; that was be fore she had learned that, along with a fortune. Fate always bestows methods for ltg disposal —sudden and unknown acts of duty, fam ily claims that had only been sleeping dogs until their opportunity awoke them to b^rk. She found out also that a great deal of money may be expended upon the getting of simple things, if such hap pen, moreover, not to be the simple things for which others ask. With a sort of gasping relief she ran off to the sea, to a household of merry, affectionate. noisy creatures she had once schooled and loved. They made much of her In their own breezy fashion, quite unaffected by her change of cir cumstances except that It gave BUCh an unfailing excuse for teasing. She was discovering among them that the girl In herself was not so much crushed and dead as neglected. She kept cropping up and asserting herself In the most unlooked-for daily' fashion. "You are getting prettier and younger every day’, Mother Bab,” one of the dies, mandolin, guitar and stage proper ties. “We shall toe back at 10.” “It's really 'too bad to >troop off and leave you " "Good-by, good-by!" Without a word to one another the two left moved away. Barbara went upstairs to tho drawing room, its many windows open to the sea' that entered like a song. She did not attempt to play for some time, but sat In the peace of the deserted room listening, fearing a step on the stairs. Mme came. He was smoking, after all, downstairs in his own room. She need not imagine her music was inducement to bring him here, she told herself, yet, Just for tonight, the very last night—. She started. Ed ward was standing In the doorway. He stood watching her with that same strange flicker in his sober ey’es. He crossed the room and sat opposite her, still silent and smiling. “Shall I play? What would you like?” She did not wait for his answer, but began. The man, listentng, knew that it was liis presence. Ills obvious presence, that kept the magic out of her melody. He gave a grim attention to it for a few moments, then got up and went into the Inner room. She thought he had gone, and a faint current of something mys terious crept into her music; it relieved her, soothed the unrest of her mood, flowed with a momentary healing over her Jarred spirit. As she ceased a servant entered with a telegram. She was looking at it un opened when he came back. She knew escape was too late. “Come outside. You have had enough bills; one each apiece, an’ one each apiece private. ’Ope it's money, an' I might 'ave a chance o' get- tin' my wages. Thcr money box in this 'ouse seems ter be as hempty as ther larder.” And Miss Polly Smutts. general servant to Mr. and Lovedgy, Paradise Mrs. girls exclaimed, watching a little excite- | music. ment ruffle the quietness of her gray j “You nnjfcn y r ou have,” she corrected, , , , „ , i - . . for the acf, and sentenced |t> pav a fine just what progress has been made, and some measure ot powr at the ipoils than , ’ ,, . . _ I . for illegal voting. She never paid the for planning the efforts of the next five! 410 republics. Thus the only two coun- yrars. .tries In Europe where women have ab- Delj»Tates all over the world are no v j s °hitely no legal rights are France and working so that the 1909 conference j ^ w ** zer * an ^- at '^ both of these are re may show big advance*. 1 P ut, Hcs. Even far off China has been reached, and at the next conclave a represen tative will sit ifrom the Flowery King- COUNTESS RUSSELL, Great English Woman Suffrage Advocate. dom. A Japanese council of women Is now being formed, and it will have a member at the next session. Those countries where women have moderate recognition are striving for more, as for instance in Great Britain. Sweden and Norway, where women are allowed to vote at every election save those for the choice of members of par liament. It Is hoped by 1908 to have done away with even these barriers. Holland Is now the center of one of the strongest fights being made in the cause, and no less a "person than Queen Wilhelmina herselif is adding a voice for full recognition of her sex. The min istry is engaged In revising tho consti tution, which having been framed a long while ago stands In need of some Im provement to keep pace with modern times. Quick to take advantage of an op portunity the women of Wllhelmlna’e realm submitted their request for euf- fr.-i.ge, accompanying It with detailed In formation as to the excellent result that haa been attained In every place Where women have been granted a ehere In the government. The plea made a deep hnpreaslon oo tho ministry, and ft It probable that the j new Instrument of government will go far toward abolishing undoubted abuses that exist in the way the state treats its women. In their plea tha Dutch women In stanced Tasmania as a Una example of the use their eex makes of the ballot, j Although it was the first election ever held under the system, almost fifty per cent of the nawly qualified women j cast their ballots, and they voted so In telligent! y that the new state assembly is admittedly the best body of lawmak ers Tasmania ha* ever had. EMBARRASSED BRITISHERS. The woman's suffrage fight In England Is causing the ministry no little loss of eleep. In faot It may be said accur ately that no public measure in Great Britain today Is stirring up more oour Th© United States has been much more progressive in its treatment of the fe male half of the population. A woman can exercise every franchise right of a man in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming land Colorado—there is absolutely n o dis tinction. Wyoming 1 was the first to grant the privilege, which it did in 1890. when the territory was admitted as a state. Fox a time the best women of the new state served on Juries, but lately this I practice has been somewhat disrontin- I nod. m many iparts of the state women | hold important offices, and discharge I their duties with fidelity and enterprise. IN COLORADO. Colorado extended tho right of suffrage to women in 1893. In that common- | wealth the place of superintendent of I public instruction is conceded by the poli- j ticlans to tho women us one that can j best be administered by a mother, anil | tlie wise administration of several wo- J men hns greatly advanced the standard ' of the school system. ) Ten women have toecn elected to the I Colorado legislature since man granted j tho fair sex right to vote, tout no more : than three have ever been members at j one time. None of those cbosen has . failed to do good work, and some worthy j bills are on the statute books because j women legislators were able to deal with I [problems that had baffled man's skill , to remedy. ! Idaho gave its women the right to cast the ballot in 1896, and they were not slow to avail themselves of it, ono. Mrs. T. B. Jeffers, riding 60 miles on horse back to her old home in order to have her voto registered. Three women were elected to the legis lature, and one of these in the midst of an important session, was called upon to act as chairman of the house committee of the whole. She discharged her task with a success that won the praise of memehrs of all parties. Many counties in these western states have elected women treasurers with the outcome that tho public money has been expended with much Increased regard for that commandment which places the ban on stealing. Utah, while still a territory, had given women a right to vote as far back as 1870, but this was withdrawn by the Erkman-Tucker act of 1887. When Utah came In as a state, it insisted on having the women suffrage provision firmly established In its constitution, and today the women of that state stand on a corn- money, blit the condemnation stands against her on the records to this day. All the advance has been accomplished by agitators who had no vote to start with, but could only get a hearing through winning male electors to their cause. When the wonders of the last fify years eyes and flush her smooth cheek. "Isn't she. Isn't she, Edward?” the girl cried merrily. The man’s watching eyes had a sudden spark of something new and strange. Barbara drew a blind of blank forbidding over the youth lr. her own. Her cheeks flamed, not with the blush of mere reproof, but something fiercer. The man saw it, and began to talk in stantly with much detail of something else. Sho thanked him for it secretly, but with that barb Implanted by the careless school girl hand rankling. It was so long that a man had looked at her with that flash in his eyes, the brief admiration of the moment as she called it to herself. She thought she could meet it calmly enough now, yet the old savage throb had leaped In response to thajt look. When she was twenty site met a man obviously attracted by herself, not by any of her attributes—music, deftness, or mental quickness of perception—but by herself. For the first time her wishes were antioijrated, her lightest words re membered and quoted, her tastes studied, in that old and sure fashion never to be set aside or Improved upon, in the primi tive pleasure of a wooer. She opened out. like a flower to the sun. until tho blow fell. He was not in earnest; it was a summer's amusement, no more! The realization came crashing across her life, destroying not alone her hope but some faith in herself. What really mat tered was not so much the loss of a lover as the loss of her self. She emerged front the silent conflict altered only to herself. She had killed that part of her nature, she told herself somewhat grandiosely, and certainly the corpse had shown no sign of life until this afternoon, when a girl's nonsense drew that flash fi*ont a man's eye. and that instinctive cruel response from her- trylng to talk lightly. “You sometimes make a mistake about me,” lie said abruptly. There were winding steps that led front the drawing room window to the garden. He followed her, going carefully, to escape her trailing gown. There was a sort of rampart at one end with a low sandstone bench that overlooked the sea. The air was full of soft sounds and scents. He could only just see her face, and the soft sweep of cheek that gave distinction to her profile. A little fold of her gown trailed acres® the bench as they sat. He took it between his fingers. “I like your shadowy black frocks. I don’t like women, as a rule, in black gowns. This is like twilight, fine and (frail. Is that why you chose it, Bar bara ?’' For the first time he called her by her name. She wag dumb. There was pierc ing swiftly through her distaste and fear something stronger. He tried to see her face in the gloom. From sheer incapacity tp finesse he took the one course that convinced—the direct ono. “I want you,” he said. “It's not the way to >put it; men don't say it bluntly like that—men who know how to woo. I never did. never tried, or wanted to be fore. I urn too old to learn the rules of the difficult game. I only sppeat I want you. Does it seem enough?" He took her trembling hands. "1 want you to marry me. After all, it’s what they come to In the end. thosu pretty tricks and speeches, those by ways I can't learn. Let it bring me near you.” "But if I can’t?’’ There was an edge, half malice, half unconcealed content, in her voice. You must! I’ll have to try and learn the other fellows' methods if you won't The Broker’s Man "F OUR letters this momin’—. And Geoffrey, throwing hJs arms two fer missus an' two fer I around the newcomer, kissed her not marster. Them two is | once - hut twice. "Geoffrey! How dare you!” “Why, what's the matter, Phyll? If a man can't kiss his wife's aunt, whose wife’s can he kiss?" ■‘\Ahy, bless him, of course he can kiss me, and a bonny lad he is, too. There, my dear, fake that, and that.” 'Oh, I can't stand this! Auntie, dear, won't you come and take your things off and rest a little?” "Certainly, my dear. Well, I am proud of my nephew. Au revolr, love; I will be down in a minute.” She kissed her hand at the door, until Phyllis, with a vicious shove, pushed her out. “By Jove! Fancy the old girl turning up at the same time as the broker's man! I must be off now and find that money. Halloa! here’s tliat old incu bus." The red-faced man entered the room, and Geoffrey seized him by the shoulders and pushed him into a chair. “Now, you sit there, you human vul ture, and" if you dare tell anybody that your is not Adam Black, I'll—I’ll squelch you.” As Geoffrey bounced out of the room pityfully. the red-faced man looked after him “Nice lunatic asylum this is! My name being Adam Black, why should I deny it? I’ve tried to explain, but he won't let me say a word. There’s something wrong somewhere. Halloa! who's this? Another lunatic?" The door opened and the elderly fe male who had gone upstairs with Phyi- lis entered. Adam Black looked at her with surprise. "What? Sophonistoa!” "Adam! Well, thank goodness, there being in this house. But doing here?" to my nephew, Geoffrey Villa, busied herself in putting the fin ishing touches to the breakfast table, just as Mrs. Lovedav entered the room' “Good morning, Polly; breakfast ready?” “Yes'm; such as it is. It don't take long ter cook brekfus’ in this 'ouse. Tea an toas' an' tea, wiv a hoccasional halg, or a 'igh-dried red 'ering fer a change. 1 wo letters fer you'ni.” I thank you, Polly. Now run away and bring tup the tea. Two letters; oh, Isba de l °‘ itfu! ~ onc irom Aunt Sophon- "•My Dear Niece—I crossed over fro*: New York last week, and will come u.p to London and spend a few days with you, arriving about 10 o’clocck. All news when we meet. I am dying to see what you are like; you Were onlv a baby when I saw you last in England. Your lovin'’ aunt. SPOHONESBA SKilNXER.” How kind of her; I do hope she will like me, vfor she is very, very rich, while I— Oh! good gracious what is th "Mme. Aurelie t'or the tenth time begs i is . °” e ” 1 bei . ' inclose her account, amounting to £27 are . 5s 3 3-4d. Mme. Aurelie’s assistant T Paying a visit will call upon Mrs. Loveday tomorrow at : ,. v . e , J '.. 10 o'clock, with instructions not to leave - . , r, Mrs. Loveday’s premises without tho i Loveday. ^ ^ visiting my niece, Phyllis tveday s premises mLnuui iuc , ,, _ . , money" Lor! Fancy your niece and my "Oh,'what shall I do? Geoffrey knows I ae ,P he ;W being^ man and wife! Have you nothing of this bill, and I know he is' self. Edward Banks was an elder son of come to me liko this! the house by another marriage. He was J She shuddered, and for an Instant, ir the Inexplicable ebb and flow of emo- MRS SABAH PLATT DECKER, An American Leader. are summed up. the bloodless revolu tion effected ' ■ women like MLiss Antho ny, Miss Estcile Reel, Mrs. Sarah Deck er and the Countess Russell will not be lost sight of. of THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES. (Front The Chicago News.) “Treatment accorded to prisoners war in the early part of the nineteeth century would not be endured for a mo ment in the twentieth century," says an English writer. “To say that we starved them of necessaries is a fact. French prisoners were kept in durance on board hulks at Portsmouth and Bishops Walth am. Cases are on record of the dogs of British officers paying a call on hoard being decoyed below, where they were killed and converted into cutlets, while tho masters were chatting on the deck. Rats In the hold were fished for with hooks baited with ration beef, and. when caught and cooked, were eagerly de voured. Tho French prisoners to kill monotony gambled.; the counters were rations One mau at JRoehester lost his rations for eight days running and died of starvation.” An English court has sentenced a wo man to imprisonment because she re fused to speak during a trial. The old penalty for remaining mute under similar conditions was being pressed to death. The form of sentence set forth "the I and out of the oriel window at the eve- removed by age and a certain differ ence, not so much age as a change of mental outlook, from the merry, pleasure- loving throng of half-brothers and sisters, whom he secretly protected from them selves at every turn. There was noth ing superior in Ills attitude. “Old Ted " was looked up to laughingly, yet with much earnestness underneath the fun, as mingling in himself the Joint roles of an autocrat and a most susceptible chan cellor of exchequer. He was Inevitably the arbiter of family destinies in his quiet, conclusive way of decision. Barbara stepped into the family atti tude straightway. Oddly enough. al though her years and his own tallied, she regarded him much as his young sisters did, to his own amusement at first. Lately a vaguo doubt crept In. It was never expressly defined, not even when his flashing eyes set her pulses dancing on the summer afternoon when they sat looking at the blue waters of tho bay beyond the tamarisk bushes at the garden's end. She escaped with only one thought— not that—not that again; A line of Browning came to her, then and later, as the situation developed: “She had A heart—now shall I say?—too soon made glad Too easily impressed.” It was rot a comment that would have come from anybody else on 'this girl with the brown hair, and eyes at which few looked long enough to find the hidden light that sometimes reduced them from insignificance to positive beauty. Edward Banks had discovered the latter, and he looked again, always to encounter that Instant wiflidraiwal of the vague some thing that tantalized him behind the soft reticence, of voice and eye, that echoed in and out of The music she played to herself of an evening In ffie shadows of the great and, as she 'thought, empty Orawing room. lie watched and waited. Barbara eluded more than ever. He told himself that lie was too old to make experiments, ho must be sure, though every day cau tion became 'harder; she felt that what •had toeen, was returning, and would not let herself see the difference of this, the real 'thing, from that old youthful imita tion passion. He hid his feelings far less cleverly than he Imagined from their object. She was continually averting their slight ex piession, scheming against betrayal and against her own response day after day, until she felt forced to act. She dis patched a letter that would ibring her a telegram and she would fly. She looked across the gay dinner table tion, she seemed carried (from him. "You don't know me yet,” he weait on; “you have taken other people's views ot me. I shall be different to you—quite different, if you will let me show you myself, apart from everybody else. I have a prophetic fer lg about us—I had it from the beginning. I suspect I am going to make you want me, more than you know.'' Insurgence returned—was overflowing all. \ ou can't make me what you more —" She broke off laughing, the sud denly timid. “Don't you gee—why?' He did, though to the latest day of t'heir life together he could never be brought to understand how it came about. very hard up himself. I must keep it from him somehow. But this woman going to sit in the house until she gets the money—it is 9:30 now. so she will be here in half an hour. I must go out ana get the money somehow, ueoftrey would never forgive me. ’ At this moment Geoffrey Loveday, still struggling with a refractory cuff link, entered the room. “Any letters, Phyllis?” "Yes, Geoff; there are two for you. Aunt Sophonisba, from New York, is coming today, to stay with us for a while.” “That's g.md. She's the one with the money, isn't she? We must treat the old lady nicely, and perhaps she will remember us. Halloa! wbat's this? Adam Black—who is Adam Black?" "Isn't he the uncle your mother used to talk about, the one who left England forty years ago, and hasn’t been heard of since?" “By Jove! I believe you are right." (Roads.) “Have arrived in England after forty years' absence, anc] have just heard of your existence. Should like to see what sort cf a chap you are, so will run up and spend a day or two with you. Yours, “ADAM BLACK. " “My aunt and your uncle—we shall be quite a party. I—I don't think I want any breakfast, Geoff; I am going out to do some shopping.” “All right. "Id girl; don’t mind me.” Geoffrey Loveday gulped down a cup of tea as he watched his wife leave the room. "Thank goodness, she's gone before I opened this letter. Poor old darling, she doesn't know the trouble we are hi. What have the vampires got to say now? “Messrs. Stumpy & Short beg to inform Mr. Geoffrey Loveday "that they are sick and tired of ills promises to pay tlielr account of £49 3s 6d, and to notify him that they are about to put In an ex ecution forthwith.” “What? Horrible, horrible! A broker's man in Paradise Villa. It must not. shall not be! Where are my boots? Polly, Polly told 'em that we’re fixed it up to get married?" “Told them? They won't listen to any thing. There's something wrong here, Adam, and we must put it right. My niece doesn't know me, and Insists that Ini a woman from her dressmaker's come to dun her for a bill.” “And my nephew thlniis I’m the broker’s man.” "But. Phyllis knows you as Adam Black.” "Y'es^ my nephew insisted upon me pretending to be myself.” ‘•nil! this is getting mixed up. Phyllis introduced me to Geoffrey as Sophonisba Skinner, and dared nie to undeceive him.” "I'll tell you what it is. Sophy. Phyl lis doesn't know that Geoff is expecting the brokers, and Geoffrey doesn't know that Phyllis is being dunned by her dressmaker.” “I believe you are right. What shall we do?" "Leave me alone with Phyllis, and I'll get her to confide in me. You tackle Geoff, and get him to confide in you. Hush! here is Phyllis now; leave us— go quickly.” ‘‘Ah! little darling; back again, eh? Come and sit down with old Uncle Adam and let us have a quiet talk. Why, what’s the matter? Y'ou’ve been crying. Come, come, tell me all about It.” "Oh, uncle, I'm so unhappy! I've been so wicked, and I've deceived Geoffrey. I don’t know what to do. There is a dreadful woman here, and she won’t go away until I pay my dressmaker's' bill." ‘Oh, tut, tut; that’s bad. Do you mean that fine, handsome woman I saw here just now?" "Yes, and she’s—she's a hateful crea ture " "But she said she was your aunt.” Yes. I told her to; and I introduced her to Geoffrey as Aunt Sophonisba— and he kissed her.” ' Dear, dear, hew shaking! And how much do you owe this dreadful wom an?" "It i:?-£27 16s 3 3-4d." "My word! Well, well, let me see what I can do. Come £jong to Geof frey's den. and 'J'll see if I cand find “Yes, sir; I'm here, sir; an’ ef yer .ft“ see if I ca please, sir, there's a earroty-'alred man ] * n m > . portmanteau. ' wiv muttlng-chop whiskers a-standin’ in .' ^ u dea f’ kind uncle! I sh the 'all. an' 'e ses 'e's come ter stay.” y< . u ~ lov . e J '? u lorever. And in her gratitude Phyllis her arms around Adam's neck Geoffrey entered the room. “Here, confound you; how dare you? Phyllis, I'm—I'm—I'm shocked!” jirlsoner shall be laid in some low dark house, where she shall be naked on the earth and one arm shall be drawn to one quarter of the house, with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner let it be done with Ills legs, and there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear —or more." There the man had to lie. On the following day he was given three morsels of bread without water; on the following, water, but no bread. And this was his diet until lie died. Says The London Times of May, 1806: "A decently dressed woman was last night brought out Into Smtthfleld lor sale, but the brutai conduct of tliq | bidders induced the man who was, or pretended to be, her husband, to refuse ' to sell her; on which a scene of riot and j confusion highly disgraceful to our po lice took place.” “An,” UNSATISFACTORY. sighed tho lovesick youth. MISS ESTELLE REEL, National Superintendent Indian Schools. you would only return my love!” "That's just what I intend to (do.” re- | plied the maid with the cold storage I heart. "I haven't any earthly use for It.” * And still Hie wasn’t satisfied. ntng sea. The sound of the sea caime like a faint song between the pauses of laugh ter ami talk of the pleasant company, a \ ague, sad retrain of waves that lapped the foot of the cliff below the gardens. Barbara thought, not of the beauty of the evening, but of how ciesolate she would be tomorrow night -away from them all, alone! The sound of her own name broke In- "Why! You will be all toy yourselves tonight. Ba, you and Ted; I had for gotten we ure all going out to this pas toral play, rehearsal thing. How rude of us"—tile speaker laughed without peni tence. “You must entertain one another Ba; play to him. Old Ted would like that ” “He iwould,” Interpolated Edward. "And it' toe's good he may smoke in the drawing room; he could never toe happy after dinner without.” "Couldn’t toe?" Bartoara avoided the glance direct across the dinner table. They went off In a (body, (bearing fid- RELICS FROM SUNKEN WARSHIPS (From The London Chronicle.) Memories of one of the greatest and most tragic disasters In the annals of the British navy are recalled by the recovery of several interesting objects from the wreck of tho Ramillies. off Bolt Head, on the south coast of Devon. The Ramillies, a lino of battle ship of ninety guns, sailed from Plymouth on February 13, 1700, on her fatal voyage, with a crew oT 700 on board. The weather was rough and speedily develop ed into a terrible gale. According to tra dition. when night came on one of the crew warned the officers that the ship was In a dangerous position In Bighury bay, only a few miles from Plymouth. At the time it was believed that the ship was far out at sea. and the man. for his presiynption. was put In Irons, but that night the vessel struck a sub merged rock, which ever since has been known as the Ramillies rock, and Im mediately foundered. Out of the 700 men on board only two were saved. One of the survivors, named Will Wise, though his leg was broken, climbed the rocks and was found next morning in a pit which to this day is known ns Will Wise's pit. During the present week some fisher men from the neighboring village of Hope, with the assistance of a diver, have been exploring the scene of the wreck. Their explorations have resulted in the recovery of a brass wheel, with the king's broad arrow, a brass weight and a lugger guard, all In a good state of preservation. On the rocky sea bottom the diver also found four large guns. incrusted to gether, and a large quantity of round shot. Among tho villagers of Hope are some old people who can remember a song that used to be sung in connection with the wreck and the man who was drowned while in Irons. MARRY 5!H Big List of Descriptions and . Photos Fr©e (sealed) Stan dard Cor. Club, ioS Avers Av. Chicago SONG-POEMS si** kiss WATCH and CHMIi Omula* AnetlfM ••tcL. Full seven n»ky !••»! movement. Dottblo bunting richly vugmrsd (old AaJehed e>M. 0 root sit bargain ever offered. “Tnrwutod to keep perfect time for 20 ?£ars Cat this oat »nd mmA St to ut *lt> jour Mme, pet o|oo nod express efflee gddrcea end we will tend the wntch nod t beautiful chain to you by eipreen for isttaleutloo. If no mpreosatod poy ex pense agent $8.75 end express obnrrea bad tWy IN yours. Mention line wunted Aw with nosey watch. Address: "Lost. lost, all Is lost! Too late! too late! Oh. Aunt Sophonisba. and your fat legacy! Oh, Adam Black, my fat tingle— no, I mean. oh. what shall I do? Don't stand staring there; send up the man with the pork-chop whiskers.” "Mutting-chop, I sed, sir.” “Pork op mutton, send him up. and I'll eat him. Oh. to keep it from Phyllis for a day or two longer! How to do It? Ah! I have an Idea. Make him my uncle until I go to the city and find the money. I must, ft shall he done.” At this moment a short, stout, red- faced man entered the room with an apologetic air. "And so. sir, this Is how you do your scurvy business. Enter a man’s house and take possession without a “With your leave' or 'By your leave.' But. un derstand me, sir, I will not be trifled with. You are here, and here I suppose you must stay. Now, listen to me, and do as you are told. My wife's aunt Is coming here to spend a few days, and our fat legacy would vanish If she knew the brokers were in. I am now going to the city, to beg, borrow or steal money, and until I come back and pay you out your name is Adam Black, from Tinibuctoo or anywhere, and my uncle. Do you understand? My uncle! Hush! not a word, not a whisper; here comes my wife. ” With a wave of Ills hand, he pushed the man on to the couch, where he bobbed for a few seconds. “Ah, Phyllis, my darling, here is my uncle, Mr. Adam Black, arrived a little before his time, but none the less wel come, eh?" “Oh, certainly not. I hope we shall all spend a very happy time together. Welcome, uncle, to Paradise Villa." And to Godfrey's horror she threw her arms around the fat man’s neck and kissed him. "Here, here, stop that! What do you—” “Oh. surely, Goeff, you don't mind me kissing your uncle?" •'Certainly not.” chortled the fat man, “little darling that you are. Do it again.” "Oh. I shall go mad in a minute! Here, uncle, come along to my den and take your things off.” “Certainly, my boy. Oh. you sly dog, she is a beauty; you can pick 'em out. Little darling.” The red-faced man stood at the door beaming like a cherub and kissing his hand to Phyllis unttl Geoffrey, with backward jerk dragged him from the room. , , , ‘Ah! What a kind-faced man he is! But I must not stay here; I must get out and find the money for Mme. Au- relio. Oh! If that woman should come— What is it, Polly-” ‘‘Ef yer please'm. there's a female ooman In ther 'all wiv a ban’-box, an’ she ses she's come ter stay." "Oh, dear, I am lost. What can I do. Oil! I must see lier and plead with her. Geoff must not know who she is. nor his uncle either. Oh. how unfortunate it all Is. What can I say? Ah! dare I do it for a few hours? I will-I must. Since she has presumed to intrude into this house, I must make the best of it. and for the time being she must be Miss Sophonisba Skinner, my aunt, from New York Pollv show the person up.” “Yes’m. This is what I calls a reg'lar r’ynl reception.” ‘“Make haste. Polly. And If the worst conies to the worst. I must confess all to Gi offrev's uncle.” Further thought was precluded toy the entrance of an elderly female, who come in width such precipitancy that she seemed to have received some assistance from Polly Smutts. •‘And so. miss, your employer, Mme. Aurelie. has presumed to disturb the .peace find quietness of this 'hair pv home by Instructing you to make this your abode until I pay you the sum of £27 16s 3 3-4d. Verv well, you shall have the money In a few hours, but in the meantime there are others to consider— my husband and his uncle; so please un derstand me that during your stay here you are to be known as Miss Sophonisba Skinner, my aun\ from New York.’ "Why. bless the girl, I—” Not* a word; here comes my husband “It is only Uncle Adam, Geoffrey, your dear old uncle.” “Yes, it's only dear old uncle. Como along, Phyllis, my pet. and see what I can find tor you. Little darling." “Oh! I—3 shall kill him; I know I shall. I can't get the money anywhere. A nice time this Is. Adi! here comes Phyllis’ aunt.” "Anything wrong, Geoffrey?” “Yes, everything's wrong; the broker's man Is in possession.” “The broker's man?” “Yes; a carroty-haired brute with pork-chop whiskers.” "Do you mean that distinguished look ing gentleman I met in this room a few minutes ago?” “Oh, you've met him, have you?” “But he said he was your uncle.” “And I said I’d kill him if he didn’t. You see, Phyllis doesn't know what a hole I'm in, and I—I Introduced tho broker’s man to her as Adam Black, and—and—she kissed the brute!” “And how much does this Interesting gentleman want?” "Exactly £49 3s 6fl.” “Well, dear, here is a bank note for £50.” "By Jove. aunt, you are a trump! N w I can get rid of the incubus, and see some prospect of us having a pleasant time.” “Well, surely you are going to kiss me for it?" "Rather; as often as you like.” And while Geoffrey was engaged in this pleasant occupation Adam Black en tered with his arm around Phyllis. “Geoffrey, take your arm from that woman’s waist." “You scoundrel, how dare you place your arm around my wife?” "Woman, there is your money; take it and begone.” “Man, your money is inere; take it and clear out.” “Geoffrey!” "Phyllis!” “What does this mean?" asked Phyllis. “It means that tins man Is not my uncle, but a low broker's man sent by Stumpy & Short to take possession of our goods. Now, pray, who is this woman ?” She—i s not my aunt, hut a—a woman sent by Mme. Aurelie.' my dress maker, to collect a bill I owe her.” "But she lent me £50." “And your uncle lent me £27 16s 3V, d.” “What does it all mean? Perhaps you two can explain." While they were all staring at each other, PoW.v made an exciting entry. “Oh. if ver please, sir, there's a 'ooman a-sitt!n' on a 'all chair with a red face, a-puffin' like a gramphirfrse. an' a man a-sittin' on another 'all chair as smells of beer, an’ ther 'ooman ses brokers or no brokers slie ain't ngoin' ter stir ithout £27 16s 34id, and they're a-glarln' at each other. Shall I send the "ooman down ther front teps on 'e ear. nmm ?" "Good heavens! Caji there be a mis take"!! Who are you. sir?” “Well, if you have pome to your senses and will allow me to get a word in edge ways. I will do the honors. T—am Adam Black, from Canada, and this lady—” “Is Sophonisba Skinner, from New York." “We met on the steamer coming across.” “And are shortly going to be mar ried." “Oh. Geoffrey, what have we dcnel” “Made a couple of prize lunatics of ourselves through trying to deceive each other. Uncle, aunt, what can we say or do to show our remorse?" “AYell, speaking for both of us, I should say. pay the two people downstals* and say nothing more, but let us all devoto oursedves to spending a haptpy time.” ‘ 'Eo,'. ’ear," shouted Polly. ‘So you two turtle doves can kiss and make it up, and promise never to do it Oh, Geoff, such a surprise! Here’s Aunt again." said Sophonisba, “while I, tha Sophonistoa. from New York.” j terrible woman from the dressmaker s, “By Jove! I am glad to see you. Wei- will dej the same with—’’ come, aunt, welcome!” | “The broker’s man."