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WOMEN ASJSPIES. 5 show M S«cr«t S[ 0* ‘ service Military Arent.. is one branch of military duty tor ■ m h women show especial aptitudo- 8 of secret service. They make excel - I *. antes More patient and persevering B arising socrets. and since the days of H many Samsons have been shorn of I Hr Strength through the wiles of de- ■ women. Still it is scarcely fair to I £Li secret service agents as spies. The ■ i«mciefl of military service require that ■ 4,1 arals shall be furnished with informa- ■ '?n as to the enemy, and the man or worn- I 'who risks life in order to serve her own | Smtry and cause is quite on another ■ from the Judas who sells his own H for the enemy’s gold. Nina Diaz ■ ‘tXvimr her mother to a convict prison, i iath the’ possible fate of .La Centa in re- I is «“ oh j° ct aXecration : 80110 I novd’ fording the Potomac in a heavy I Zein of wind and rain at midnight to I rrv the news of a premeditated attack to I ter brother in Stuart’s cavalry stirs hearts I ’ with adoTiration for her unselfish courage. I " Secret service was carried to the utmost I v> -f n ctionduring’tTie war of the rebellion, I thegoveminent of the United States I <>T er 12,000,000 for that purpose. I Vet them were few traitors on either side. I Many « the s P^ es were women, and it is I often that sex gave them no protec- I tio The great obstacle to the successful em- I women as spies is that, with I women will betray any I one elsefor the sake of a lover. Nay, more, I in a transport of jealousy a woman may I betray the man whom she loves to impris | onment and death. -If she is in love on I the side which she is serving and her lover I keeps her in a good humor, she is invalu- I »blo. Otherwise disastrous experiences I way occur. I One of the most active and useful agents I of the Confederate government during the I first half of the war of the rebellion was I an English woman of rankr-a Lady I Eleanor N., a relative of Lady Macdon i ‘ ’aldpwifeof the late premier of Canada. I Visiting in Richmond during the winter of 1861 she became engaged to a Virginian who was later on an officer of high rank in the southern army, and was, of course, ready and anxious to serve him and the cause which he espoused. A subject of the British governfaent, residing in Can ada, with friends in Richmond, she went back and forth with the mails for the state department at Richmond. Some times she went all the way under a flag of truce. Sometimes the letters were brought to her in Baltimore and sometimes in New York. It was not until 1863 that she was detected, and then chiefly through her prostration by grief at the loss of her loveu, who was killed in a skirmish near Richmond. At this news she became care less, lost the nerve and perfect self posses sion which had hitherto borne her through all dangers, and when the letters were found in her baggage broke down and con fessedVlverything. « The Forests of Cuba. Cuba still possesses 16,000,000 acres of virgin forest abounding in valuable tim ber, nene of which is useful as coarse con struction lumber, while nearly every foot would be salable in the United States and bring high prices. Cuban mahogany and cedar are particularly well known in the "United States. The mahogany is very Aard and shows a handsome grain, and is * preferred by many to any other variety in common Use. The indfeeht Spain drops the reins of government in Cuba and trade ■ delations are re-established with the States there will be a movement, both inward and outward, of forest products which wifi have a beneficial effect upon the in dustry in both countries. Fin* to feel the force of this movement toward rehabilitating Cuba will be the lumbering interests of thd south Atlantic and gulf coasts. Prior to three years ago they looked upon Cuba as an excellent outlet for the coarse end of the mill cuts, and since that market has been closed to r permit'theeprosecution of a most hideous and revolting war the coarser grades of yellow pine produced at coast points have been marketed with great difficulty and seldom at a profit. It iS unfortunately true that Cuba will bo unable to realize so promptly from a movement to re-establish her mahogany and cedar trade, for it is claimed by prominent operators that the industry has been so completely crippled by the ravages of war that a period of time running from 12 to 18 months will be re quired before logs can be landed at ports in this country.—Lumberman’s Review. “Remember the Maine!” The fact that certain very excellent peo ple have oome together and formally pro tested against “Remember the Maine I” as j a warcry, on the ground that it gives ex- ■ pression to an abominable spirit of venge ance, with which I heartily agree, was brought to my landlord’s attention, and I | was astonished by his utterances. “Isn’t it better,” he said, “to look the .thing square in the face? This is a war of revenge. If we knew at this minute that every ‘reconftcntrado’ would be dead and buried before we could land in Cuba, I even if we knew that every man on the Island other than the Spaniards and those who favor them was dead and buried, the i war would go right on. If there had been no Maine, there would have been no war. p The simple fact is that every man in the navy, from the admiral down, ‘remembers the Maine.’ It may be‘abominable,' but .there are lots of things of that sort con nected with war. It makes no difference ’ what congress said, and I for one don’t . assume that congress meant what it said. Among the people, in the army, and espe dally in the navy, ’Remember the Maine I’ b the warcry. Everyman feels it, every gun roars it, every shot whistles, it, every flag signals it. It is the root and branch of the whole thing. ” —Time and the Hour. Sublime Faith. a woman here in town who is fearfully afraid of thunder. She says it Isn’t at all the lightning that frightens ■h-£?•. She rather enjoys the glare, but she can’t endure the noise. She is going to •pend the summer on one of the big wheat S,! Brn ' s in North Dakota, and I went to see ■»I toe ot^er Any while she was packing. , tra y of her trunk she stowed away '■ a long narrow box full of palm y trips. I asked her what in the world were, and after a bit cf fencing she stud: I don’t care, they’re just palms L j?* 1111 Sunday palms. You know they L Buch terrific thunderstorms out on the prairie, and I simply can’t K fiv* , heaL takng these Palm Sun- I -zy J** na sfor—well, you know if you burn I J 4 wlll ke °P a storm away. ” And what does that S. A. G. on the fe* neanf ” 1 “ked. ILrie. said she, “that means St. An -1 8 Guidance. If you put that on I F it; neVer gets lost. I don’t want j ’“y Palma. ’’—Washington Post. -V ? A' . THE MOHAMMEDANS. The Queer Manner In Which They MU Up Religion and Marder. The month of Ramadan, in which the first part of the Koran is said to have been revealed, is observed as a fast by all Mohammedans. The fast extends over the whole “month of raging heat” and involves extraordinary self denial and self control. No food or drink of any kind may be taken from daybreak until the . appeamnee of the stars at nightfall. The rigor with which a Mohammedan observes this fast and the great gulf be tween its observance and obedience to. the moral code are both illustrated by a story told in the life of one of the he roes of India, Major John Nicholson. While Nicholson in 1854 was deputy commissioner in Bannu, a native killed his brother and was arrested. He was brought before Nicholson on a very hot evening, looking parched and exhausted, for he had walked many miles, and it was the month'of Ramadan. “Why,” jxclaimed Nicholson, “is it possible that you have walked in fast ing on a day like this?” “Thank God,” answered the Ban nuchi, “I am a good faster. ” “ Why did you kill your brother?” “I saw a fowl killed last night, and the sight of the blood put the devil in to me.” “He had chopped up his brother, stood a long chase and been marched in here, but he was keeping the fast,” wrote the commissioner to a friend, that he might know what sort of blood thirsty and bigoted people he, Nichol son, had to govern. One day a wretched little child was brought before the commissioner. He had been ordered by his relatives of the Waziri tribe to poison food. “Don’t you know it is wrong to kill people?’ ’ asked Nicholson. “I know it is wrong to kill with a knife or a sword, ” answered the child. “Why?” “Because the blood leaves marks, ” answered the trained poisoner. A Pathan chief, who fell by Nichol son’s side in a skirmish, left a little son, upon whom the English officer lavished care and attention. One day the 7-year old boy asked his protector to grant him a special favor. “Tell me first what you want. ” “Only your permission, sahib, to go and kill my cousins, the children of your and my deadly enemy, my uncle, Faltri Khan.” “ To kill your cousins?’ ’ exclaimed the Englishman, horrified at the answer. “Yes, sahib, to kill all the boys while they are young. It is quite easy now. ” “You little monster! Would you murder your own cousins?” “Yes, sahib, for if I don’t they will certainly murder me.” The little boy wished to follow Pa than usage and thought it very hard that his guardian should prevent his taking so simple a precaution. DID THE GLRLS PAI NT? How the Qaeation Waa Decided and a Bet Paid. • Two well known society swells went to the Imperial theater one afternoon when “East Lynne” was the,bill. A few evenings before there had oeen dis cussed at their club the subject of wom en painting theij; faces. Several girls were mentioned who were suspected by their admirers of wearing an artificial carnation bloom. Others defended the young damsels and said it was natural. How to find out and win a wager that was laid then and there was the subject of the young men’s visit to the Imperial. “East Lynne” is a play which ought to make all women cry, they reasoned, for it makes even men’s throats grow thick. They sent tickets for reserved seats to the girls under discussion, beg ging them to invite whomsoever they pleased of their acquaintances, as they, the donors, would not be able to escort them. * The ruse was successful. In an upper box sat the young men ready to win or lose the wager, and right below, in the parquet, where they could see their faces and every move of their hands, were the young women. There Were six of them, two of whom shed copious tears and hesitated not to wipe them away with their handkerchiefs, while the other four never winced. Among those who did not cry were the girls suspected of laying on the red pigment, and it was on just that evi dence that the bet hinged. That night the wager was paid with a supper at the University club. —St. Louis Repub lic. . " She Will Teach Bonnet Making. Mlle. Valentine About, daughter of Edmond About, the author, is going to open a “class in hat and bonnet mak ing. ’ ’ Everybody in Paris is surprised at the necessity for it, as during his lifetime About kept open house in his hotel* on the Rue de Donai, and a fete that he gave to tlje Authors’ society in the chateau he had just bought at Pon toise is remembered as almost princely. By what reverse of fortune A bout’s family were left destitute nobody seems to know. Although he himself began life humbly as the son of a gfocer, his daughter was a brilliant young society woman brought up in luxury, and every body is admiring the courage with which she has undertaken to solve the difficult problem of the “struggle for life.” —Boston Woman’s Journal. Her Tacky Day. A North Carolina paper says: “A negro struck his wife two terrible blows on the head with an ax. The negro escaped to the woods, and his wife soon revived and said: ‘I mighty glad he done it, kase now he’ll stay cl’ar er de neighborhood en I won’t have ter suppo’t him no mo’. It wuz a lucky day fer me w’en he hit me wid dat axF ” Very few of us are as thankful as that for these little blessings in disguise.-r Atlanta Constitution. : JAPANESE DECORATION DAY. The VUlt to the Cemeteriet Fullowed by Eports and Picnics. Army dril), discipline, infarction and parade, with magnificent doeorationa, flags and symbolism in leaf, flower and extem porized material, form tho first part of the celebration exercises Then follow wor ship, the ceremonies of religion, visitation of the shrines and cemeteries by soldiers, people, dignitaries and priests. After re freshing the inner man come the afternoon sports, picnics, fireworks and general re laxation with lanterns, boats, river joys and promenades or moon viewing at night. Let me describe an occasion that I remember well. It was in the far in terior, away from the seaports, where the true life of the people is seen. In the days of 1871, when the national spirit was bursting the cocoon of feudal ism, it would be like describing “the Mul ligan guards” or Falstaff's company to tell of the parade of a provincial regiment in hybrid transition dross. Uniformity was, however, gradually established in a na tional army, navy and civil administra tion, and then I saw in Fukui these same Echizeii troops smartly dressed in neat uniform of French style with the mikado’s crest on their caps. They looked very promising. In Tokyo afterward, during three years, I saw 10,000 troops at a time,’ with their drills, evolutions, dress parades and of barrack life and training. In caamestficss and perseverance they al ready showed what loyal soldiers could do in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877, and what, with the uprising of the nation, was possible in Korea and China in 1894-5. On May 4 as I remember, tens of thou sands of people visited the new cemetery in Fukui, called the Sho-Kon-Sha, or Soul Beckoning Rest. Among the new tombs of the loyal men slain in the civil war of 1868-70 fluttered many colored streamers and banners with memorial inscriptions. Hundreds came with beautiful flowers to lay before and upon the monuments. In the afternoons the ladies of the prince’s household visited the cemetery in their gorgeous embroidered silk gowns and gir dles. Then I thought myself back in the middle ages, when the figures now cn playing cards were realities, as gorgeous With their colors. Their hair was dressed in magnificent style in an exaggerated sort of pompadour, outraying from the fore head, flanking the temples in sort of semicircle or halo pad gathered backward into a long, single, tress, which in most cases went down to the waist and in some almost to their feet, the back part of the hair on the head being held together by a pretty horn or tortoise shell comb. One gracious lady, the prince’s wife, who with her husband did so much, in my year of loneliness, when I saw only rarely a white man’s face, to make my lot comfortable, was dressed in a simple but very rich garb of white and crimson silk. The flower decorated monuments, the streaming pennants, the fluttering banners and the new and shining monuments, with the reverent and exceedingly polite and well bred crowds of people in that new cemetery—which contrasted in its fresh ness with the century old dalmios’ ances tral burying ground not far away, where the mosses and lichens seem to have been feeding on the granite for ages, and, on the other hand, with the large city ceme tery below, with its cremation furnaces and ascending columns of smoke, having near by a great mound many rods long and wide and several feet high, where in. indistinguishable mass lay the ashes and bonesdrn’tafianfty swepttn successive and old time periodical famines—made a scene forever impressed on my memory. Tradition locates the burial place of one of Japan’s 123 emperors on this hill. Hence it is a place of much interest. —ln dependent. The Ameer of Afghanistan. There is nothing of that slatternly un tidiness, combined with lavish expendi ture, in the ameer’s establishment that characterizes the residences of Indian princes. Except on state occasions, when he dresses in a sort of European uniform, he wears a long, loose coat made of some lovely pale colored French brocade or sat in, lined in winter with fur—sable, stone marten or red foxes’ feet perhaps—and in summer with tho shot glace silks that come from Bokhara. Harmonizing with these, but seldom matching them, are his skullcap and handkerchief, the whole making a charming mass of color with his couch, which is draped in the most elab orate style and is constantly being altered. In summer it is generally covered with silks and satins, and in winter with cash mere shawls, furs, etc., and has a velvet valance bordered with a massive gold fringe. I have constantly seen him throw off a shawl that offended his eye because It did not harmonize with tho rest and order in another, and when ho chooses his handker chiefs for tho day (never Ibss than three or four, for he snuffs, as do most Afghans) ho mechanically, as it were, holds first one and then another up against his coat, and if he does not fancy the shade'throws that ono down and takes up another, and so on until he is satisfied, talking all the time as if he were hardly conscious of what ho was doing.—Pearson’s Magazine. The French Red Cro». According to tljp Figaro of Palis, the French Rod Cross has recently opened a subscription for the benefit of the future wounded of the Spanish-American war and has headed it with a contribution of 50,000 francs. “To speak frankly,” says tho writer of the article, “we owe this ac tion to foreign nations, for they all showed an admirable generosity toward our wounded during tho war of 1870-1. The United States sent us at that time 600,000 francs; Canada, 300,000; Spain, 20,000; Italy, 19,000; little Denmark, 160,000; the Argentine Republic, 250,000; Chile, 100,000; Peru, 60,000; Russia, 50,000; in all about 3,000,000 francs. “Our Red Cross, having spent more than 12,500,000 francs for our wounded during the fatal year, had still remaining in its treasury more than 2,000,000 francs. At present the society has on hand 8,000, - 000 francs. It sent to Spain 30,000 francs for the wounded in the Carlist war, 297,- 000 in tho Turco-Russian war, 90,000 for the wounded in Tunis, 530,000 for Ton ’quin, 316,000 for Madagascar—in all 3,000,000 francs since the war with Ger many. The president of the society is now General Fevricr. ” Cuba and Junta. A woman who speaks Spanish tells me that we don’t even pronounce the name of the island we’re fighting about correctly. She confesses that she has heard “junta” pronounced “hoonta, ” which I believe is the proper pronunciation, frequently, but she declares that even those among us who say “hoonta” call Cuba “Kcwba.” It isn't “Kewba” nt aB, she says. It’s “ Koo ba,” and hereafter let us try to pronounce it correctly.—Washington lost. CATACOMBS ,N AMERICA. The Only Burial Place o f the Kind la Thto Country. Knowing what you expect to sue hero it is only natural for you to enter the ceme tery with Mino little nervousness and trepidation, but you are reassured when you do enter tho big gate, for there is nothing uncanny or “triste” yet to bo seen. On the contrary, this Mexican “God’s acre” is all tranquil and bright and beautiful, and you do not think even of the square black letu red spaces that are honeycombed, one above the other, all the way around tho great wall of the pan thesn. These square spaces, five rows of them, contain a vault each, and that is where the Interment is made. It is an enormous ].lacv, this cemetery , and well that it is e >, f<* during the great typhus epidemic in 1893 it received, so people say, about a third of the then popu lation of Guanajuato. 1 or a time the city council kept some sort of tally on the deaths, but as later on Cig council itself and most of the phy .dcL.ns succumbed to the fatal disease no c;»unt was kept, and interment was made in a grengirench dug in tho center of tlio pantheon/one coffin, with a spring in the bottom, serving for all, when tho ceremony of a coffin was used nt all. However, waiving the matter of epidem ics, in Guanajuato when a person dies the family at once arrange to rent ono of the boxlike spaces in this pantheon, rent $ 1 per month, payable in advance. Then the “deader” (as Sentimental Tommy has it) is put away in one of the vaults—not to wait the last trump, but to await tho next pantheon pay day. When the day comes, if the family can’t ralso the sl2 for tho next fiscal year, the city council has the vault unsealed, the coffin taken out and the “deader” transferred to the huge pas sages below the pantheon, in the cata cumbas. The catacumbas comprise enor mous underground passages that run all the way around the pantheon. The pantheon man pushes back a big flat stone over in a corner of the cemetery and Invites yon to step ifito a small dark hole which admits only ono person at a time and contains a small, winding stone stair, built pretty much oh the corkscrew plan. Some godless person, with more sense of humor than grace, has placed the tallest, ugliest and uncanniest (if there is such a word) of all tho mummies at the very bot tom of the last step, so arranged that as you descend the crooked stalss you land right into his bony arms. It is truly a grisly thing to see, once yon are safely there. Imagine to yourself long, seemingly endless white passages, silent as only death can make them, heaped up at each end with great piles of bones—the bones of those who refused to mummify— and lined thickly with mummy after mummy, horrible, brown, skinny things, fastened in a starring position against tho walls, many of them with their grin ning, fleshless faces turned toward other mummies, as though in conversation, oth ers with heads bowed, as in meditation or prayer, and others with faces blankly staring up at tho stone walls above! Once seen, it is a thing that you do not soon forget Along one slde arethe gentleman mum mies, on the other the ladies, and indis criminately mixed among them are the poor baby mummies. There is not, strange to say, the slight est hint of a-disagreeable odor; rather there is a smell of lime. The place is beau tifully clean and white, and there are even some birds that build down here and bring up their young ones among the mummies.—Dr. Gilbert Cunningham in Godey’s Magazine. Imperfectly Understood. At a certain cast end Sunday school some time ago the teacher talked to the in fant class upon the evils connected with strong drink. Tho little tots of 4 and 5 listened attentively to a long tirade against the rum demon. Finally the teacher cried: “Wine is a mocker!” > The children pricked up their ears at the teacher’s vehemence. “Wine is a mocker!" she cried again, like one of the prophets of old. The children looked very grave Indeed. “Wine is a mocker!” cried the teacher for the third time, and then she turned and wrote the sentence in big letters on the blackboard. “Now, children,” sho exclaimed as she whirled around, “I want you to tell me what wine Is.” The little ones looked about vacantly. “Wine is a mocker!” cried the teacher. “Now, what is wine, first little boy?” Tho first little boy looked thoughtful. “Wine—is—a—marker,” he drawled. “No, no,” said the teacher. “Next lit tle boy.” The next little bey looked still more thoughtful. “Wine—is—a—market,” he ventured. “No, no,” fidgeted the teacher. “Next little boy.” The third little boy smiled. He was a self confident little boy. “Wine—is—a—monkey,” he bravely announced. And then the teacher gave It up.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. *• Vitality of the Wild Goose. Farmer H. N. Clement of Lowell, Lake county, Ind., was*gunning in the Kanka kee marsh. He came upon a flock of wild geese and baggod several of them, ono of which astonished him by having as a breastpin an arrow 9 inches long. That goose became the wonder of the neighbor hood and the study of scientists, the only conclusion reached being that wherever the wild bird came from there it got the arrow, so unique in formation that it oould be assigned to no tribe of Indians In the United States or any other known coun try. Finally Professor O. T. Mason of the National museum said the bird and arrow could have come from no other place on the globe than ‘’the Yukon valley, for ex cept in that region no such arrows are made. Science does not pretend to say how long the goose had carried tho arrow of a Yukon tribesman until it met its death from the shot of a civilized gunner down on an Indiana marsh. The bird disdained the weapon of a savage, but turned its legs up to tho marksmanship of the Hoo sier farmer years afterward and thousands of miles from its summer home in arctic desolation as it was journeying south ward.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Hope. “Hope is a fine thing,” said Mr. Stay bolt, “sure. We’d boa pretty miserable lot, most of us, without it. And a man can get along very comfortably for quite a spell on nothing else, without doing a 1 blessed thing but hope that things will come his way. But while hope makes a bright light it doesn’t give out very much heat; if a man wants that, ho must dig for It. It is a fort unate thing for a man to make this discovery early, and the man who mixes the most digging wftn his hope fulness has the most resison to be hopeful. ’’ —New York Sun. j■in » _ i . —r~rnr * AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ”CASTORIA,” AND “ PITCHER’S CASTORIAAS OUR TRADE MARK. Z s DR. 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