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Bushmen Hunting the Ostrich. The bushman divests himself of all his encumbrances; water vessels, food, cloak, assegai and sandals are left be hind. Armed only with his how, ar rows and knife, he sets forth. The nearest ostrich is feeding more than a mile away, and there is no covert but the long, sun-dried, yellow grass, but that is enough for the bushman. Worming himself over the ground with the greatest caution, he crawls flat toward the bird. No serpent could traverse the grass with less disturb ance. In the space of an hour and a half he has approached within a hun dred yards of the tall bird. Nearer he dare not creep on this bare plain, and, at more than twenty-five paces, be cannot trust his light reed arrows. He lies patiently hidden in the grass, his bow and arrows ready in front of him, trusting that the ostrich may draw nearer. It is a long wait under the biasing sun, close on two hours, but his in stinct serves him, and at last, as the sun shifts a little, the great ostrich feeds that way. It is a magnificent male bird, jet black as to its body plumage and adorned with magnificent white feathers upon the wings and tail. Kwaneet’s eyes glisten, but he moves not a muscle. Closer and closer the ostrich approaches. Thirty paces, twenty-five, twenty. There is a slight musical twang upon the hot air, and a tiny yellowish arrow sticks well into the breast of the gigantic bird. The ostrich feels a sharp pang and turns at once. In that same instant a sec ond arrow is lodged in its side just under the wing feathers. Now the stricken bird raises its wings from its body and speeds forth into the plain. But Kwaneet is quite content. The poison of those two arrows will do his work effectually. He gets up, follows the ostrich, tracking it after it has dis appeared from sight by its spoor, and in two hours the game lies here before him amid the grass, dead as a stone.— Longman’s Magazine. Accidents on British Koads. During 1890 there were 1,090 per sons killed and 5,877 injured on the British railroads, 93 of the killed be ing passengers and 4-17 employes. The total number of passengers carried that year, exclusive of season-ticket Kolders, was 980,339,077, so that the proportion of the passengers killed was one in 10,541,287. Left Destitute! Not of worldly goods, but of all earthly com forts, is the poor wretch tormented by mala ria- The fell scourge is, however, shorn of its thong in advance by Hostetter’s Stomach Hit ters, its only sure preventive and remedy. 1?5 -spepsia. biliousness, constipation, rheuma tism, nervousness and kidney complaints are also among the bodily afflictions which this beneficent medicine overcomes with cer tainty. Use it systematically. Sin may he ugly, hut it understands the art of beauty culture. State of Ohio, City of Toledo,! „ Lucas County, f ' Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the ■senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney <fc Cos., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars lor each and every case of catarrh that can not be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my (,—*—| presence, this oth day of December, -(seal -A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason. 1' —> —') Xotary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces ©f the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. A Prose Poem. EE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay t’ever, Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. Ladies as well as men, use these goods. No opium or other harmful drug Used in their manufacture. EE-M. is used and recommended By some of the best citizens Of this country. If your dealer does not keep EE-M. Send 13c. for package of tobacco And 6c. for package of cigarettes. Direct to the EE-M. Company, Atlanta, Ga., And you will receive goods by mail.. Pits permanently cured. No fits or nervous less after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. #n. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the pnost obstinate coughs.—Rev. D. Buchmukl l.Eit, Lexington, Mo., Feb. 24, ’94. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. IMPURE BLOOD Body Covered With Eruption., but Hood's Hus Cured. “My body was covered with eruptions caused by impure blood. I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it entirely cured me. 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The Wheal Creates a Good Demand In the Lumber Trade. The continuing and growing demand for cycles has its effect upon ihe hard wood lumber trade. It is estimated that there will be produced in Ameri can factories this year nearly 800,000 bicycles. Practically all of these are equipped with wood rims. Each wood rim requires L’Vi feet board measure, and allowing one-third for waste, that would mean a consumption of 6,000,000 feet, almost exclusively rock elm. This is for the rims alone, to say nothing of the guards and handle bars, but of the latter there is another story, says the Lumberman. The consumption of 6,000,000 feet or thereabouts of rock elm does not iook very large in a business which is ac customed to deal with hundreds of mil lions, but when it is remembered that only about 15 per eent. of hard maple is available for rim purposes, and that therefore 40,000,000 feet of one of the minor hard woods must be handled over in order to obtain this material, the importance of the bicycle demand in this special way will be recognized. We spoke above of wooden handle bars. That is to be the next thing in bicycles, according to authorities on the subject. Wood, principally hick ory, perhaps a little ash, is to be used instead of steel tubing, not because of any decrease in weight, but because of the superior elasticity of the wood, making the wheels easier to ride and less fatiguing to the hands and arms. Furthermore, it will be an advantage to tho manufacturers, as bent tubing is a difficult article to manufacture, whereas hickory can be bent into any desired shape; and then again, the new bars will be cheaper. There is no prospect of any less number of bi cycles being manufactured in the near future than in the present or the past, and perhaps 1,000,000 bicycles next year may be placed new upon the mar ket. A considerable portion of them, it is said, perhaps the majority, will have hickory bars made of second growth hickory. That is another thing for the hard-wood men to take note of. But the consumption of lumber, due to the bicycle trade, does not stop with this. There is crating. What that amounts to no one seems to know, but about every bicycle, sooner or later, is in vested with a crate of its own, and this requirement must mean a con siderable increase in consumption of coarse lumber, so, though the bicycle is largely a thing of tubing, wire and forging, it has some influence on the lumber trade. Hostile Indians in Alaska. A Klondike miner who recently vis ited W. W. Wcare at the offices of the North American Transportation and Trading Company in San Fran cisco, Cal., said that there were moun tains of gold in Alaska, and that more of the yellow metal would rpmain in the ground for years to come than would be taken out, for the reason that it was located in territories where hostile Indians abounded. He said: ‘‘There are tribes in Alaska which have never seen a white man. have never been counted and never even mentioned by name. The Innuits, or Eskimos, live on the north and north west coasts and up the lower Yukon, Copper and Tanana rivers; they are identical in race with the Klamaths, Apaches and Navajos of this country, and are fierce and dangerous. The Thlinkets live on the southern coasts, and are the merchants, traders and pack-carriers. On islands off the coast live the Hydas, who are often practically white, and are supposed to be of some unknown race—possibly the same as the Japanese.” A White Throat Racer. George Stewart, while working on the farm of J. Kennedy Tod, the New York banker, at Sound Beach, Conn., came upon a reptile known as a white throat racer, which was coiled behind a rock. He procured a gun and fired at the snake, slightly wounding it. The snake, a monster, sprang at liim and hit him on the shoulder, hut was knocked to one side. Mr. Stewart seized a rail, and for more than an hour there was a run ning fight between him and the snake. When it was finally killed the reptile was found to measure eight inches around and nearly ten feet in length. The snake is the largest ever seen there. —Trenton (N. J.) American. Needle and Thread In Her Ankle. Dr. E. C. Tinsley performed an oper ation upon the left ankle of Mrs. John Routh, of Jeffersonville, Ind., which revealed a rather remarkable condi tion. Mrs. Routh had been suffering from sharp pains in the ankle, and the Incision showed that a piece of darning needle an inch long, with a piece of thread, had found lodgment there. The thread was encysted.—ln dianapolis Sentinel. Four new railway lines —three of them tributaries to the St. Gotthard line —have Just been opened in Swit zerland. Express trains from Berlin to Rome by way of Zurich will soon be run over one of these new roads. yyy 'When to Uno Phosphate*. The tendency of phosphate to revert to insoluble forms when brought in contact with dry earth makes it neces sary to use it only in places and at times when plenty of rains will supply the moisture to keep its plant food in condition for use. Hence phosphate is much more effective used on fall grown grain, or on the crops planted very early in the spring. If a long spell of dry weather follows its appli cation the phosphate will revert so that water alone will not again dissolve it. But in soils which contain any organic matter the water they contain must have an excess of carbonic acid gas, which is derived from the. decay of plants. It is this carbonic acid gas in spring waters that makes them bubble up as they come out of the earth and adds greatly to their pulatableness. In their passage through the soil these waters have come in contact with much carbonic acid gas, and have necessarily absorbed a part of it. But on lime stone soils this spring water has already absorbed as much lime as it eiui'Tiold. Consequently it is less valuable to make phosphate of lime soluble than is ordinary rain water which has ab sorbed its carbonic acid gas directly from the atmosphere only. The best effects of superphosphate of lime are to be found on land that is low, moist and full of vegetable mould. This usually has but little lime, and what carbonic acid gas its water con tains is free from that mineral. This is very important. The value of super phosphate consists very largely in its excess of phosphate over the lime it contains. So soon as more lime is added, this excess combines with sul phurie acid, which must exist in all superphosphate. This makes it mere ly sulphate of lime. Hence the prac tice of some farmers in extending their high-priced superphosphate by adding to it of gypsum or land plaster is a great mistake. At its best, the super phosphate contains all and more of this gypsuui than the soil requires. To add more only puts the whole of the phosphate into a condition where it can only be dissolved when brduglxt into contact with carbonic acid gas, or some other equally powerful solvent. Both potash and salt are excellent for top-dressing land on which phos phate has been drilled witb the grain crop. It is not best to try to mix these and drill them together. The super phosphate in moist soil will help the plant best alone. Besides, both salt and potash draw moisture from the air so rapidly that when mixed with phos phate they make it too wet and sticky to drill evenly. But applied in spring or fall, pliospliated winter grain, either salt or ashes, will produce a very re markable effect in enabling both the grain crop and the grass or clover seeding to utilize the phosphate ap plied the fall before. Salt especially should always be used on pliosphated land in the spring. It will be all washed away by winter and spring freshets if it is applied in the fall. Practical Sheep Husbandry* The sheep should be clipped clean about tbe bind part-:, lest tilth may gather aud attract the blow flies. A mixture of glycerine and fish oil in equal parts is excellent to smear those parts ofthe sheep as a preventive of fly blow. Never force tbe sheep to jump over bars or fences half let down. Their weak shin Irenes may be snapped like glass rods by catching between the rails. The hateful flies will soon be at work. Prepare for them by using tar on the sheeps' noses; it drives off the flies by its smell; or the flies stick in it. If mixed with grease of any kind, half and half, it w ill be less apt to harden and dry. While at pasture the sheep should have aceess to salt. A flock will visit the salting place twice a day regular ly. Halt is a good tonie and prevents indigestion which produces destruc tive diarrhoea, ajj the worse when the weather is w arm. Plant a bit of fodder corn, none of the sweet kinds, in readiness for the weaned lambs by and by. It is food and cool shelter for them. Plant in rows thirty inches apart, and plant ten inches apart in the rows. By using the succeeding early kinds one may have fresh feeding all through the summer aud up to frost. Before the flock is turned out for the summer, the feet should be put in the best condition. The sole should be pared and tbe toes clipped, other wise there may be trouble with sore feet. It is a common impression, it can not be called a belief, that sheep do not require water. A flock that has access all the time to it will drink several times a day. Ewes from which the lambs have been taken should be examined twice a day to avoid injury to the udder. It is as necessary to dry off a ewe as it is to dry off the cows. Stocking of the udder is also a bad thing in warm weather, on account of the danger from blow flies, should the udder fester and discharge matter. In docking lambs it is always nec essary to draw the skin up toward the root of the tail before the cut is made. r lhe cut is best made by a pair of shears, so that it shall not he too smooth; a common pruning shears is I a good thing to make the cut with, as a rough wound does not bleed much. But the bleeding may be checked any how in a short time by applying a little powdered bluestoue to the wound and drawing the wool over it by means of a little tar. This is all I that is needed. j Overfeeding is one of the worst dangers to which a lamb can be ex posed. To feed the ewe tw'o ears of corn over a quart of bran and a hand ful of oil cake three times a day will be sure to make trouble with the lambs, not to mention feeding a pint and a half of cow’s milk a day. Of course one wants to do the best with a pure-bred lamb, but it must not be killed with kindness. One of tl.ie special traits of the pure-bred sheep is that they do better than the common ones on the same feed. Deduce the ewe’s grain; don’t give musty hay, and give no cow’s milk to the lambs. The condition of the newly born lamb is duo to that of the ewe. A weak ewe will bring a weak lamb or a dead one, and the cause of the weak ness may go back for some time. Give the weak lambs some cow’s milk, fresh and warm, and give the ewes a bran mash with two ounces of linseed meal in it, Diarrhoea in yearlings may be treated by giving only one single tea spoonful dose of castor oil morning and night for u few days. To make a ewe own her lamb put a little salt with some sugar in it on the w 001, and put* the ewe in a narrow stall, and tie her. Enclose the lamb in the stall with the ewe. Sheep are hardy animals, and if kept dry and well fed will thrive and enjoy life in the coldest weather, be ing naturally provided with a warm coat that is impervious to the cold if it is only dry. A dark, warm stable is as a dungeon to them; they will pine and fret and in this condition n sheep will not eat. The confinement of your ewe is doubtless what is the mat ter with it. The feeding, too, is not sufficient, nnd that the ewe declined the rations mentioned shows it to be a sensible animal. Some grain is most desirable for sheep in the winter. It acts well on the bowels, while only dry fodder, unless it is the best of clover hay, is not enough to keep them in good thrift. If only four ounces of grain is given it will do much good. Oats is an excellent grain for tho flock.—American Sheep Breeder. Voullry Firkins;*. Pullets do not fatten as rapidly as hens. Keep the drinking vessels out of the sun. Wheat is one of the best egg-pro ducing foods. Coarse bones in a fowl indicate coarse meat. After the breeding season is over sell the roosters. “Darkness in the comb of a fowl in dicates indigestion. Good blood will tell in fowls as well, as in other farm animals. Using a good spray pump is a quick way of applying whitewash. If chicks are allowed a free run on light, warm days it will add consider ably to their vigor. New blood in poultry is the basis of beauty, vigor and prolificness. Intro duce it at least every two years. One object in keeping poultry is to use them, as agents in converting grain I into something more valuable. One good way of preventing disease 1 among poultry is to breed away from it; get stock that is free from disease. A point always to be observed in shipping poultry to market is to see that it never gets in later than Friday morning, as there is not much selling to retailers Saturday. They lay in their supply the day before. Keeping the best of the early hatched pullets, and especially those that are from liens that are good layers, is one of the cheapest anil best ways of im proving the poultry on the farm. But ill order to lessen the liability of mak ing a mistake, ill a majority of caSes it will be better to select out the number of pullets desired to keep, and then mark them in some v ay, so that in i selling off the young pullets there will ibe no mistake. A little care in this i line at the right time will help rna- I terially in securing better pullets. .No Prisons in Iceland. In Iceland there are no prisons, and the inhabitants are so honest in their hnbits that such defences to property as locks, bolts and bars are not re quired; nor are there any police in the island. Yet its history for 1000 years records no more than two thefts. Of these two cases one was that of a na tive, who was detected after stealing several sheep, but as he had done so to supply his family, who were suffer ing for want of food, when he had broken his arm, provisions were fur nished to them and work was found for him when able to do it, and mean* while he was placed under medical care; but the stigma attached to his crime was considered sufficient punish ment. The other theft was by a German, who stole seventeen sheep. But as he was in comfortable circumstances and the robbery was malicious, the sen tence passed upon him was that he should sell all his propeity, restore the value of what he had stolen and then leave the country or be executed, and he left at once. But, though crime is rare in Ice land, and its inhabitants are distin- j guislied for honesty and purity of morals, there is, of course, provision for the administration of justice, which consists, first of all, by appeals to the court of three judges at Reykjavik, the capital; and lastly in all criminal and most civil eases, to the Supreme Court at Copenhagen, the capital of Den mark, of which kingdom the island forms a part. The island of Panaris j (one of the Lipari group) is equally fortunate in having neither prisons nor lawyers, and being absolutely des titute of both paupers and criminals.— Boston Transcript. | Hon tlu? Moon ■ Fixes Soft ('mb Prices | The prices for the soft crabs are I governed largely by the phases of the 1 moon. The sloughing season of the j crab is after the dark of the moon, in ! creasing as the moon nears its full. Operated upon by the unvarying law of supply and demand, as the supply becomes more abundant at the moon’s full, prices often drop to ten or fifteen cents per dozen, while at other sea sons the fancy prices at from sixty to eighty cents are received. —Philadel- phia Record. r HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. J When Fingers Are Stained. When the Ungers are stained in ! peeling fruits, preparing green wal j nuts, or in similar ways, dip them in ] strong tea, rubbing them well with a 1 nail brush, and afterward wash them in warm water aud the stains will dis i appear. Doorchcd Linen. To restore scorched linen, take two ouious, peei and slice them and ex ! tract the juice by squeezing or pound ing. Then cut up half an ounce of white soap and add two ounces of Fuller’s earth; mix with them the onion juice and half a pint of vinegar. Boil this composition well, aud spread it, when cool, over the scorched part of the linen, leaving it to dry thereon. Afterwards wash out the linen. llay Qulltfl. The inveterate sewing woman’s last, worst gift to the world is the; hay quilt. It is made of flannelette, cre tonne or wool and a few armfuls of hay. The good art sewed across the top and bottom from side to side at distances of about fourteen inches; then the hay is put in lightly and the remaining side sewed down. When the hay becomes limp the quilt may be hung before the lire, aud it will soon become crisp again. The warmth of these quilts cannot bo realized except by those who have tried them.—New York Journal. To Clean Carpets. For cleaning the spots on the carpet ox gall or ammonia and water are ex cellent. 'The proportion is one table spoonful of household ammonia to four parts of water, or use one tabiespoon ful of ox gall to one quart of water. Apply with a sponge or flannel not too wet and rub until nearly dry. Lime spots may be removed with vinegar. This must be used quickly and washed off immediately. For soot, cover with salt or cornmeal and sweep up. To remove ink spots pour on milk, and as it becomes colored absorb with a blot ting or other soft absorbent paper; coarse butcher’s paper is good. As soon as the ink is removed wash with warm water and castile soap—nothing stronger—to remove the grease of the milk. Silver's* Tarnish. To remove stains from silver, especi ally such as are caused by medicine or by neglect, use sulphuric acid, rubbing it on with a little flannel pad, then rinsing the articles most carefully at once. For less ingrained stains, the pulp of a lemon, whose juice has been used for lemon squash, may be recom mended, as both efficient aud harm less. Indian silver and brass is al ways cleaned by natives with lemon or 1 imes. It may be as well to warn house keepers in these days, when pretty serving is such a consideration, that, where one had to reheat food in a sil ver dish from which it s impossible to shift the eatable, a baking tin should be half tilled with hot water, a doubled sheet of paper should be placed in this and the silver dish stood upon it, after which it will take no harm from the effects of the oven heat. Again, as eggs and vinegar are alike apt to dis color plated or silver dishes, always run a little weak aspic * jelly over the silver dish before dishing the mayon naise, etc., to be served in it, and if this coating is allowed to set before putting in the other materials the dish will suffer no damage that hot soap and water will not easily remove. Recipes. Pears With Whipped Cream —Peel five medium-sized pears, which must be perfectly ripe. Cut the fruit into eighths the long way of the pears, re moving the cores. In serving add a tablespoonful of powdered sugar to each dish of the pears and on top place two teaspoonfuls of whipped cream. Cheese Fingers—One cupful of flour, one tahlespoonful of butter, one quarter of a cupful of grated cheese, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne, one-half of a tea spoonful of baking powder; mix with water as for biscuit. Roll out thin; cut in finger lengths and bake pale brown in a moderate oven. Eels en Matelote au Gratin—Cut two pounds of eels into inch lengths and rub inside with a little salt. Fry an onion, cut small, in a little butter; add the eel, a pint of broth, half a bay leaf, six pepper cones and three cloves. Simmer three-quarters of an hour and pour into a shallow baking pan; cover with bread crumbs; dot with butter and bake a light brown. Broiled Tomatoes—Three or four tomatoes of good size properly slioed are quite sufficient. After peeling and chilling them to keep them firm slice them. Season with two saltspoonfuls of salt and a sin-inkling of pepper; dip them in melted butter and then in sifted bread crumbs. Cover with a tin pan to keep in the heat and broil for eight minutes, turning them when they browu. If they “run” dredge a little flour over them. Serve on a hot dish, with a little butter on each slice. Puree of Green Peas—Take two cups of tender young green peas, a small slice of salt pork, one onion, a carrot, three sprigs of parsley, a branch of soup celery, a bay leaf, one clove, a teaspoonful of pepper, half a cupful of rich cream and one tablespoonful of rich butter. Put the salt pork in a kettle over the fire, and when it has fried a light brown add the onion and carrot sliced fine, the parsley minced, the bay leaf, celery and clove. Pry the vegetables a delicate brown; add one quart of hot water and the peas. Let it cook slowly for an hour. Then re move and strain through a puree sieve. Add the cream and butter. Serve with croutons. At (J aril midi’s Tomb. The other day the Crow-n Prince of Naples, when at sea, sailed in the neighborhood of Capera and suddenly landed in the company with au ,'officer audvisited Garibaldi’s tomb. The Prince remained a long time in contempla tion, with his head uncovered, and gathered a branch of Oleander growing near the hero’s grave as a present to the King. The improvised visit was not known to the Governor of the Island until after the Prince had left. Scotch and Welsh volunteers at Aldershot, England, are getting praise for their unanimity in church-going on Sunday and hymn-singing. hhtyyt rrcclous StoiM.'M Fade* The powerful chemical effects of tho sun are felt even by precious stones. I The ruby, sapphire and emerald suffer less than other colored stones in this respect, but it lias been shown In ex periment that a ruby lying in a shop window for two years became muoh lighter in tint than its mate, kept in a dark place during that period. Gar nets and topazes are more easily af fected. Pearls are said to show de terioration with age, but if they are not worn constantly they will recuperate wonderfully during brief vacations spent in quiet and darkness. The only species of ill luck which the prac tical person believes the opal will bring to its owner is that of loss if the stone is exposed carelessly to heat. It is liable to crack, being composed principally of silicic acid, with a little water. l'oftfng Sittorfi Before* a Camera. “As to the actual work under a skylight, only a few general hints may be given, as here each must ‘work out her own salvation,’” writes Frances Benjamin Johnson in an article, “What a Woman Can Do With a Camera,”, in the Ladies’ Home Jour nal. “Do not attempt to pose people, or to strain, your sitters into uncom fortable or awkward positions, in or der to obtain picturesque effects. Watch them, and help them into poses that are natural and graceful. Study their individuality, striving to keep the likeness, and yet endeavoring to show them at their best. Avoid em l>liasizing the peculiarities of the face either by lighting or pose; look for curves rather than angles or straight lines, and try to make the interest in the picture centre upon what is most effective in your sitter. The one rule of lighting is never to have more than a single source of light. Many por traits, otherwise good, are rendered very inartistic by being lighted from several different directions.” The American Girl in Fiction. ‘ ‘Sometimes the characteristic t3 r pe of the American heroine of fiction is vulgar, sometimes cold-hearted, or un kind, or willful, or indiscreet, but she is never stupid,” writes “Droch” in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “That is the verdict of contemporary observers on the American girl. Whatever she may be or do she always has her wits about her; she is ‘smart. ’ While her father delights in managing factories, stock operations, or railroads, she de lights in managing men. And in every kind of fiction which she domi nates the men seem to be uniformly glad to lie managed by her. Often in fiction she has been lacking in certain graces—chiefly the supreme grace of tact. But there are signs that our novelists have discovered that the American girl possesses this grace also, and so it happens that to-day she trails through fiction not only with fine clothes, and a beautiful face, and generous deeds, and witty, if imperti nent remarks-—hut there is develop ing around her a gracious mnuner, an unconscious simplicity that shows it self in consideration for the weak nesses of others—in addition to that keen knowledge of their foibles which was always hers. What we , have yet to hope for is that her wealth or her poverty may lie made less obtrusive and less a significant part of her al ways attractive personality.” The Women of Tennessee. In the success of the Tennessee Cen tennial Exposition the energetic wo men of that State has been a powerful factor. Their work did not appear upon the surface until after the gates were opened and the grounds were thronged with visitors from everywhere. It was then noticed that their building was the most beautiful of all there; that its interior construction was a model, so far as exhibiting, seeing, hearing, com fort and convenience were concerned. The next point noticed was the excel lence and value of the articles ex hibited in its rooms and hails. Every woman’s industry had there some product or creation as its expon ent; every State showed its friendly offices in some object of beauty or of value. The history of Tennessee was written in curios, relics, paintings, manuscripts, miniatures and ancient documents, and suggestions for the benefit of the women of the State, for the education of the children of Ten nessee and for the amelioration of its existing conditions were conspicuous every here and there. , Fine taste was manifested in the sequence of exhibits and in the ar rangement of objects. Every precau tion was taken to make the visitors feel at home and to supply any particu lar want. Officials were always on duty, re ceiving guests with charming courtesy and extending to every friend a hos pitality worthy of the capital of that heroic commonwealth. Their work breathed a spirit of American ambition, energy and pro gress. It showed that the women of the Volunteer State were not behind those in any part of the Union in pa triotism, public spirit and unflagging industry. When it is remembered that Ten nessee is not a rich State, nor Nash ville an opulent city, that the financial resources of the exposition were not over large, and the women depended chiefly upon their own exertions to make their department of any worth, their success is all the more praise worthy au<l their efforts the more re markable. They have done much for the exposi tion and for Nashville. They have done more for the State. They have helped to make Tennessee popular, to attract immigrants, enterprise and capital. These are the things needed by every growing community, and what ever supplies the want is to be com mended and admired. —New York Mail and Express. Gossip. There are 215 women serving ou school committees in Massachusetts, There are twenty-five Bulgarian; women studying medicine at the Fac ulty of Nancy in France. Out of the enormous number of women in Constantinople—the popu lation is a million—not more than 5900 can read or write. For the first (time in several years there are no women at Cambridge Uni versity (England) this year in the first class in either classics or mathematics. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Beed, of Chicago, has been elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Booietyof Loudon, this in honor of her successful work in Hin doo and Persian literature. Mrs. Alphonse Daudet once told of an old aunt who slept in the room next her room, and who every even ing recounted all the doings of the day to the portrait of her husband, dead years before. The Princess Louise is engaged in sculptoring the figure of an angel with, out-stretched wings, which is to be placed over the altar in the Prince Henry, of Battenberg Memorial Chapel at St. Mildred’s Mrs. Harriet Smith Cushing, the temperance and woman suffrage leader, who died at her home in Leavenworth, Kan., on August 12, was the origin ator of the Woman’s Club, aud was well-known in New York. Elizabeth Mai’bury, playwright ar.d adaptor also of Sardou and other Frauch dramatists for the American stage, has just been decorated by the French Government with the purple ribbon that indicates an officer of the French Academy. One of the pioneer women doctors in England, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, at one of the jubilee congresses .spoke of tho earnings of successful women running from SIOOO to SSOOO per an num. The London Woman says the higher sum is one seldom reached, however. France is not usually considered centre of feminine advancement, yet a recent census shows that it has 2150 feminine authors and journalists, while its female sculptors and painters amount to 700. Of the authoresses 1000 are novelists, 200 “lyrical poets” and 150 educational writers. Jt is said that Helen Keller is much interested in matters of dress and that she is especially particular about the color of her dress. She has a fondness for the frou-frou effect of her skirts, the rustle that betokens silken linings. In all tbe minor particulars of tbe toilet she is exquisitely fastidious. In Chicago there is a colored wo man who practice law with success, she passed the examinations with great, credit and received her license to prac - tice. Miss Platt speaks German and French with ease, and so secures good patronage from foreigners; her prac tice is of the office rather than the court room. Fashion Note*. A gray and black feather boa wsti be found among the nejv trousseaux French women never wear a glove too tight, so it lasts longer and wears better, and encourages them to buy t good quality as well. Stockinet and good rubber drew shields can be washed in warm soap • suds, pulled into shape and dried by hanging them in a window. Odd effects, combining features ir a faucy short-skirted jack-bodice and t slashed bolero, appear upon the new est gowns for autumn wear. A scientist declares that the fine complexion of English girls is due to the fogs which so frequently sweep over Albion. Dampness seems to per meate the flesh and keep the skin soft. The overskirt continues to put ia claims for favor this season, and models pointed in effect and quite ar. long as the underskirt before they are drapped appear among approved fash ions for the fall and winter. One or two leaders of fashion, net. noted for ideas of economy, have worn, gowns of one material for the sleevea and skirt and a second for a blouse, belt, collar and epaulette. This idea might be worked up in making over silk and woolen gowns from last sea son. The slashed” models,, giving the effect of a long square apron front, reach quite to the bottom of the sec. ond skirt, and on tailor costumes of cloth, mohair, tweed, cheviot, etc., the slashed edges are decorated w ith silk gimps put in various fanciful de signs. On French overskirt gowns some have very loug sharp shawl points, trimmed with triple frills, sometimes wide, sometimes very narrow. On such gowns the underskirt is trimmed to match, but the greater portion of the underskirts are finished with a deep machine-stitched hem. America’** First Cotton Mill. The tablet which is to mark the site of the first cotton mill in America was put in place yesterday at the corner of Dodge and Cabot streets, North Bev erly, says the Boston Herald. Thera was no formal exercises, hut among those invited by the Beverly Historical Society to be present was the Hon. Kj S. Bautoul, of Salem, as the result *•♦ whose researches the fact was demon stratpd that this was really the first cotton mill in America. It seems that, when Mr. Bautoul was Mayor of Salem he was invited to Pawtuek R. 1., to attend the celebration of the centennial of the opening of the first cotton mill in America. He did not go, but he began to look up the history of the cotton mills. The result de monstrated beyond doubt that the mill | in Beverly antedated that in Paw i tucket by some years. The facts arc substantiated by no less a person than ! George Washington, who on liis tone through New England made a visit to this mill in 1879, and recorded at length his impressions. This was s j year before Slater came to America, I and two years before he started hit* i mill in Pawtucket. The Beverly mill | vras built and running in 1788.