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THE WINDS Of the sons and daughters ot Ocean, Nursed in their mother’s lap, The wind called East, I’m sorry to say, Is a poevisli, tyrannical chapl The West wind is calmer and kinder, And, in lior feminine way, She often rebukes the lowering clouds And carries the raindrops away. In his wild, stentorian fashion, The wind of the North is fr-'o, Wasting liis hfc in riot and noise, The prodigal son of tho foil In a purely nr id- nly manner, The wind of ! a South is mild; Aiul tho Ocean's : ■ npi ail daughter Is doubtless the 1 csf beloved chil l. -XVil ivn 11. Hajna, in IndepenJe. t liESET 1)7 r(RATES. “The Singapore Tracing Comany, limited,” was and is ah organization owning half a • o en brigs and schooners which voyage among the islands of the Indian Ocean, and traiiic for pepper, spices, cinnamon, beeswax, figs, rare woods, medicinal roots and herbs, etc. On one occasion—th is was twenty years ago—this company received an order from Sydney, Australia, for a great quantity of sharks’ brains. It seemed that some eminent quack doctor in the colony had made the discovery that sharks’ brains was tlic great panacea the medical world had been looking for to cure nil diseases. They were dried and then pulverized and mixed witha certain roof, and, as silly as it may look to you, the people went wild over the new cure. I presume that the quack had a corner on the root part ot the cure, but lie could not corner the other por tion. t harks arc plentiful all about Australia,.but they could not be cam lit fast enough to sujtp.y the demand. The price during the h - gilt of the excitement was is! an ounce for the dried brains, and $7 an ounce for the mixture. The craze lasted about 7 months, by which time the swindler had made his pile and was ready to skip. Then everybody ridiculed everybody else, and the price of sharks’ brains dropped to .70 cents per pound, ot which figure the Chinese used them for a banquet di-h. When the order was received at Singa pore I was mate of a small schooner called the kittle Duke, and it was plan ned that I should be set ashore on some of ihe i-lands to the north of Australia to fill it. I had voyaged from Singapore to Torresi Strait several times, and after a little talk 1 selected South Aroo Island as the most convenient place for carry ing out the purpose. There are seven of these islands in a group oil the New Guinea coast. While the water from the Straits of Malacca to those of Torres are really the Indian Ocean, they are laid down on maps and cliaits as diiier ent seas .lava, Flores, Banda, and Ara fura. W e had once been cast away on the coast of South Aroo. and had found the waters almost alive with sharks. We knew it to be uninhabited, and about twenty miles long by ten broad. Our outfit was very simple. I was to have a couple of meu with me, and we tool; a tent, a lot of shark lines, a couple of lances, and bedding and provisions. For firearms we had revolvers, and dou ble-barreled shotguns, and after a long and tedious voyage, during which we called at several islands, we finally east anchor oil South Aroo, and were safely landed on a sandy beach. The schooner was in haste to got away, and two hours after landing us she was out of sight. We were to he left on the island from fourteen to twenty days. Near where we landed was what sailors call a rip, that is, a narrow channel between the main land and a sand bar. This channel was about sixty feet wide, fifteen or twenty deep, and open at both ends. The san i bar was not over four feet above high tide, half a mile long, and not so much as a spear of grass grew upon it. We didn’t have to look twice to seethatthis rip was our sharking ground. A dozen dorsal I ns could be seen cutting the wa ter, and a p.ece of salt pork .liuug out resulted in a light, in which a score of the monsters participated. We ere; ted onr tent in the edge of tbe fored, set up -our windlass above high water, and next morning after landing wero'aH ready to begin work. Our method of proceding was very simple. Our windlass' Was a roller, provided with a handle on'ei ther end and resting in crotchets. One end of the shark line was made fast to this and the hook at the other was bated and flung out... When a shark was last we brought him in by turning the windlass. While the two men turned i stood at the edge of the water with a lance and jabbed him as he got near enough. There may be spots where the shark; is more numerous than off the New Guinea coast, but I doubt it. There was no waiting about the business of catching them. No sooner was the baited hook thrown iu than a shark seized it and was fast. They were not I ground shirks, nor shovel-noses, but the | genuine man-eater, ranging from nine to i fifteen feet in length, and terribly strong and fierce. An ordinary man would be snapped in two by one of these fishes as easily as a boy bites tuto a cracker. We had to so ure the brains and spread them in the sun to dry, and this made it slow work. Our catch the first day was seventeen. We increased this to twenty on the second day, and for foflE days maintaned that figure. On the after noon of t e fourth day a sad calamity occurred. The spring at which we got our water wa< about four hundred feet inland, and we had cut a path to it. We had seen a few snakes, but thev seemed desirous of avoiding us as much as possible, and none of us were a’armed about them. < u this afternoon, as one of my helpers went after water, he was struck by a snake lying in the tangle, and although he was back within live minutes, I could tell by his looks that he bad received a deadly bite. In ten minutes he was rolling on the ground :n agony, and in 1 Id ecu his body began to swell. While he had not seed the ser pent, we had no doubt of its species. It is known in the East as the collar snake, and is found on all the islands iu the Jndim Ocean. ,It attains a length of two feet, and has a white ring or collar about its neck. There is no more poisonous snake. In forty ra nutes from the time the man received the bite he was dead, and his body was a terrible sight to look at. When we had buried our companion in the sands we loaded our guns with line shot and went snake hunting. We - « killed a round dozen of the collar snakes between the tent and the spring, and felt assured that the firing would rid the neighborhood of any which had es caped us. They had probably been drawn that way by the scant of the blood and meat. The tragedy had upset us both, and neither was inclined to sleep that night. It was well that we were in wakeful mood. Ever since the Indian Sea was navigated by European vessels there has been more or less piracy. At this time almost every island had its boss wrecker, who was no better than a pirate. While not daring to attack a ship, if she was caught in distress it went hard with her. It was a quiet,star light night, and;*! was sitting outside the tent while' my comrade was lying down inside, .when I caught a sound from the water whic n alarmed me As I rose up and advanced I caught sight of a native craft stealing into the rio from the lower side. She was from the Pindo Islands, to the north of us, and was a spice boat She had a single mast and a lateen sail, and during a ca m was pulled by oars. I ran back to my companion, aud we crept forward on hands and kn ees to discover the object of the visit. Had the men been honest they would have been talking and singing. They would not have come into the rip had they not known of our presence and tho fact of their coming so quietly boded ill lor us. The craft was grounded about lUO feet above us, aud twelve or fifteen natives leaped out on the beach. When we had seed this much we re turned to our tent, secured the three guns and course ammunition, and took up our stations between the tent and the water. In five minutes we had burrowed our rifle,pits and charged the guns with buckshot. It was not for us to open the light. We could just make out the group of figures around the boats and they would soon let us know whether they were friends or enemies. We had just got fairly settled when we saw the crowd stealing over the sands in the direction of the tent. All had spears and clubs, and their cautious movements proved them bent on mischief. When they came up quite close to the tent they raised a loud yell aud dashed forward, hurling their spears and swinging their clubs, and it was two or three minutes before they discovered that the tent was unoccupied. Then, as they huddled together, we opened fire. They were not more than sixty feet away, and the buckshot had to tell. There were screams, and shouts, and a stampede. All broke for the boat —all who were on their feet after our fire. Two or three men had been left in charge of the craft, and as soon as they heard the firing and veiling a panic seized them, and they pushed the boat off, sprang; into her, and made oif down the rip. Nine natives were thus left in the lurch. They raised a great cry, calling aud commands ing, but those in the boat did not even reply. The situation was this: We had the feiiows penned up on a neck of without cover, aud we had firearms and they had none. 1 have no doubt we had been spied upon before they came to make the attack, and very likely they believed there were three of us. They were afraid to attack ns, and as for sur render it was not to be thought of. In the five years I sailed among the islands I never knew a quarrel between white men aud natives to terminate in a draw, fine party or the other ran away or were wiped out. These wreckers had meant to butcher us. Had 1 offered them terms, they would have refused. Had they captured us alive, they would have lanced us off-hand, aud been .astonished at any protest. Lying in our Vide pits, we > otli realized that it was a ques tion of the survival of the strongest, ami that we would have mo relief until the last man was wiped out. \Ye heard them chattering, and cursing for an hour or so, the leader evidently seeking to work their courage up to the attacking point, and then ah was quiet. Daylight came at last, and what was our astonishment to discover that the nine had crossed the channel to the saud bar, leaving most of . their weapous on the main spore. We also soon discov ered why they had braved the shafts to. reach that spot. The .boat had- run 1 down the rip, circled around outside the surf, which was very light there, and at ts muted fo land on the head of tbe.bar. The fellows flad swam over expecting to ' be taken oil', but the craft had struck a rock and filled and sufik in fifteen feet of water. There must have been three ; men with her, for the number on the bar Was now twelve. The only explana : tion of why the sharks did not seize any of the nine was that they had followed the boat out and around. Well, that was the situat.on, and 'no two men ever had a neater plropori a gaifg of cutthroats. They had their knives albhri>, "■ while wp had shotguns, a.m it would have been the easiest sort of work to bowl them over in succession bv off-hand shots. By, our volley w hen attacked we had kiljed three and wohuded a fourth so that he could not leave the spot. That made the strength of the attacking party six teen. I could talk all the lingoes of the islands, and I askgd, the wounded man who they were and why they had at tacked us. lie said the boat was from ttie Pindos. and the name of her Cap tain was Abyan. They had attacked us for the sole object of pluuder. The fel low liadseveial buckshot in his left groin and others in his log, and Hold him he was fa ahy w ounded. “It was so written,”he calmly replipd. “Be so kind as to finish me.” “Kill you?” “Certainly. I would do as well by i you.” “But I cannot do it.” “Then I will. I waited for morning in hopes my friends would kiil you, but us they have not, and as all must die,' I will go first.” “"•> - He had his naked knife in his hand, and before I could move to prevent lie drew it across his'throat, and two min';, utes later was dead. We now had the living to look out for. As I told you, -it was only about sixty feet across the rip, wad we could look right into their eyes. A more bloodthirsty dozen could not have been scraped together in the East. Had they been humbled by the situa tion I should have at least hoped to see them get away, but they were not. On the contrary, they were brazen pud de fiant. As soon as they saw us moving they uttered shouts of defiance and brandished their knives, and because we did not begin shooting they taunted us with cowardice. Just what steps to take I did not know. I stood guard while my com panion prepared breakfast, but there was little fear of any of them crossing the channel. The sharks had come in until they actually crowded each other, and out beyond the surf we could see their dorsal fins by the score. The na tives saw the situation in all its dangers, but they continued defiant. I called tc ask them why they had attacked us, as we had done them no harm and were not trespassing on their domain, and tho leader shouted back: “You are a dog! You are not fit to live! Yes, you are a dog and a coward! I have wet my hands in the blood of half a hundred white-faced dogs, and I am only sorry that 1 haven’t your heart to throw to these fishes!” “Well, what are you going to do?” I asked as I choked back my anger. “What is it to you, dog? Come! You are a cbward,: Now that it is daylight you tremble before us and dare not shoot! Ilq! I believe you will run away!” My companion was for killing them off at once, but I was more merciful. While I knew they thirsted for mv blood, and would kiil me if they got the chance, it seemed awful to shoot them down in their helpless situation. After breakfast we sat down opposite them with our guns in our hands, when those who had knives began to flourish them, and their taunts were renewed. The leader finally worked himself up to such a pitch of anger that he threw his knife across at me. It came whirling and whistling through the air and entered the sand beside me. I replied with a snap shot which stretched him dead. Ilia fall only enraged the others, and I had scarcely finished reloading when my companion said: “Take care! They are going to try and swim the channel!” They scattered along the bar its full length, like skirmishers going to the front, and at a given signal all sprang into the water. Had there been no sharks we could have answered for every black head crossing the channel. By spreading out they hoped to distract tho attentiou •of the monsters, and reasoned that a portion of them would get over to attack us. But there were too many sharks. For about live minutes the sight was terrible. It seemed as if there were three or four sharks for every victim, and they fought over the feast like so many tigers: Not a mac lived to make twenty strokes toward us. In ten minutes after I tired my shot we were rid of the whoie gang aud ready to resume our labors, nor were we annoyed aitain before the schooner took us off.— New I'otJc Hun. The German Soldier’9 Equipment. A new outfit is being rapidly intro duced throughout the whole German army. • One, indeed, of the alterations, as it does not involve any. new equip ment, lias been already taken up by all the regiments—that is, the strapping of the overcoat round the knapsack instead of over the shoulders and across the body. This has the great advantage of allowing the man to breathe more freely aud to open his coat if he wishes. The kuapsaciv itself has been changed and is of a longer shape than before. It con sists of two pat knapsack proper and the pocket,former containing « linen, the latter the famous ge” and bacon. The belt V outfit, all important, aud ke the whole equipment fast, the b#., hangs the bayonet, en W'sl'.ortened that it is i light dagger not a foot in front two pouches are at tached, each containing thirty cartridges ithe uon commissioned officers have smaller pouches holding only fifteen each). Behind is a third pouch, which contains forty cartridges, made up in two pasteboard cases. These are a re serve,: and were formerly kep; in the knap ack. By. this change the soldier carries twenty cartridges more than for merly, On the rignt hangs the bread wallet, which is-larger than the old pat tern. , It has no longer a belt of its own, but hangs directly from tho sword belt, thus relieving the (best. The water flask is hookedjOti the bn ad-wallet. The' pannikin used to be fastened in the mid dle of the knapsack, but is now laid flat On the top with the forage-cap, tvhieb xvas formerly under the flap of the knap sack, below it: The combined result is that the soldier’s chest is almost quite freh, and that the air can circulate - be tween'the knapsack and his back. He can-also by merely undoing his belt take off tho whole of his accoutrements. The .trenching tool is npt earned opi the sol dier’s back, but. hangs .at his left, side With the, bayonet.—N?.' James's Gazette., One New Yorker’s Physical Training: I was at the country house of a New York, lawyer ,the other night, says T. C, Crawford, m the New 1 oik World. If all New York business men fo„ow his coursey the English cannot reproach up with being negligent in the matter of physical training. This friend, who lias as many busy and hard-worked hours daring the day as any one in Nevv York, when he reaches home drops ail care arid goes in for riding, walkiug and •athletics. In the morning he is up at (5, into a cold plunge, and'then he is off for an hour’s run or r.de on horse back. Then when lie returns he ha- his rub down, his solid breakfast, and is away before 9 to the city. In the evening hp puts on flannels and runs fot a half-hour before turning in. .After the I run fie hits the yielding and defenseless bag until 10:30, and then to bed. The result is that he is brown and hardy, al though engaged daily in a nervous strain tnat would soon pull down a man of average fi-ame. Origin of “ Boom.” A writer in 'Notes and' Queries traces the history of “boom” in its present half slang sense of exceptional prosperity, and can carry it no further back than iSTi), wherefore the W'.o gather rises to remark that for at least a century the word has been current in the'sniddle South, as ex pressing a superlative condition. At first we make no doubt that the appli cation was a trite onomatopv ic, a stream was “booming” when its flood tide roared through the land, then crops, when warm rain and hot sunshine made them grow asbv magic, were metaphori call “booming,” trio, so it is no wondor that when coal and iron and wondrous water powers builded cities in a night, as it were, and made the was f e places precious, that their habitat was. spoken of as having a boom UNIQUE INDIAN JEWELRY. ARTISTIC SILVER ORNAMENTS 07 THE PUEBLOS AND NAVAJOES- Remarkable Results Produced by Primitive Implements—Earrings Bracelets and Rings. In the quaint Territory of New Mcx j ico there still flourish two aboriginal races, wholesale wearers of jewelry, whose silversmiths turn out work unique and characteristic in design, and of re markable neatness when we consider their rude appliances. Tliese are the Pueblos and the Navajoes. The Pueblos are commonly classed as Indians, but Indians they are not. Pure . blooded descendants of the ancient Az tecs or Toltees—there be ethnologists who pretend to tell which, but their grounds are ludicrously shadowy—(the Pueb'os) dwell in neat, substantial adobe houses, till the soil, build irriga ting works, weave their blankets and tend their flocks as they did centuries before the first European foot trod the new continent. They are the oldest civi lized race in the western hemisphere, and the most interesting. Of the count less Pueblo villages whose ruins mark nearly every township of New Mexico, only nineteen are now inhabited. Of the flat),OOD Pueblos whom the Spanish conqnistadores found, only 0000 remain, but the little remnant is at present hold ing its own very fairly. This is the sim ple race whose ancestors made old .Mexico ind filled it with its wonderful monuments. The Navajoes, on the other hand, are straight Indians —nomads, warriors and hunters —who never till the soil nor in habit a house, and whose rude hogans are tenanted no longer than suits their roving disposition. Their only indus tries are stock raising, weaving the most beautiful and the most durable blankets known to the world, and thumping out a semi-barbaric, but always graceful, jewelry. The tribe numbers eighteen thousand souls, supposed to occupy a reservation lying half in Mexico and half in Arizona, but generally well scattered over the whole circumambient county. The tribe has about SIOO,OOO worth of silver jewelry and ornaments. Silver is the only metal used by either Pueblo or Navajo for purposes of orna mentation. For gold they have no use whatever, and it is only those approxi mate to the railroad and therefore con versant with white man’s ways who will even receive Uncle Sam’s yellow r dinero. Silver, however, is in universal demand with them, and it is astonishing what store they have of it. Their supply is now' drawn almost exclusively from the cartwheel dollars of the Yankee and Mexican daddies. . The silversmith among either Pueblos or Navajoes is a person of mighty in fluence. Upon ‘his inventive and me chanical skiU each aborigine depends for the wherewithal to cut an imposing figure at the feast-day dance or the bet staggering horse race. His tools are simple, not to say crude. A hammer or two, a three'cornered tile, a rude iron ptinch or two- and a primitive arrange ment for soldering comprises his outfit. If he is a Pueblo, one of the little rooms in his house, equipped with a bench, serves him for a workshop; if a Navajo, his smithy is under the alleged shelter of hishogan—an open-faced hovel of cedar branches and sarth—and a smooth stone is his workbench. The simplest form of silver ornament is the button, a decoration of which both races are immensely fond. Akin to the buttons aie the striking bell disks which glisten upon every well-to-do. Pueblo and- Navajo on festal occasions. These are always circular,, slightly arched, average four inches in diameter, are handsomely made, and average $3 in weight. From Sour to a dozen of these arc worn, strung-upon, a narrow thong, as a belt. Some ultra dandies have a shoulder belt of them besides. In horse trappings the well-to-do Nava o is partiieularly gorgeous. Be sides a large weight of sundry silver i ornaments on K his saddle his “Sunday ’ bridle is one mass of sil er and but an infinitessimal fraction of the leather sub 'stratum is visible. It is nothing uncom mon to see S4O to S6O weight in silver on one bridle. The straps are covered with silver sheaths, aud more or less heavy pendants dangle upon the foretop and from, the ...tuts: 'The Pueblos occasionally thus besilver thpir bridles, but are not as daft on.the fashion as are the Navajoes. , The most popular form of jewelry with both races is the bracelet. In early days it had its useful as well- as its . onia.- mental adaptation. To protect the. wrists from tne vicious stin’g-qf the bow- string- the melt very commonly wore a* iii'oad wristlet of leather, tied at one side with a buckskin thong. The sims plest bracelets—commonest with the NdvajbesA- are simply round circlet. 4, ’ generally tapering a little. to the ends, and marked with little file-cut lines. A silver dollar is usually. ontirely used up in hammering one of them out. Finger rings are a little-less numerous than the articles aforesaid, but are still common enough, and remarkable skill is often displayed in their workmanship., Plain round rings of the American, mat trimonial pattern are almost unk.hdwn here, -the fashion being in cha&ed binds and sets. AThe Navajoes set’ native nets or turquoise in rude box; settings and the Acotna smith sometimes makes a curious stagger at a crown sotting. One of the most unique native rings is of the nature of a' cpHi&o--. ring, the, j “cameo” being cut from an American dollar with Liberty’s head protuberant thereon. . '. A silver ornament peculiar to the T’ue blos is the dres-pin worn by the women. Their-dresses are something like blank-* ets, worn over one shoulder and under the other, reaching.just below the knees and fastened down the right side with huge pins. These are something brass, but generally of silver, made by solder ing two or three 25, -or 50-cent pieces upon a pin. Sometimes the coins are left intact, sometimes polished and chased. Iha ve seen a really elegant one made of a polished and concaved .dollar, covered with relief work and set with imitation opals from a cheap American piece of trumpery. — San Francisco C ro tie’e. The Bank of England has just finished % series of experiments with electric light and likes it so well that it has de cided to adopt it permanently instead of gas. SELECT SIFITXUS. London contains 120 hospitals. The temple of Diana was four bun dred feet high. The Koran says all flies shall perisp save one, the bee fly. The palaces of Rome each accom'- modated about 250,000 people. It is regarded as a deith warning in Germany to hear a cricket's cry. A real, live princess keeps a millinery store in Fifth avenue, New 5 ork. Mr. Robert Ilonner paid .Mr. William H. Vanderbilt $40,0 )0 for Maud F. The Tapuya Indians in South Amer ica say the devil assnmes the form of a fly. In China the highest recommendation a man can have is the fact of his having a wife. . Cremation is still illegal in France, so Frenchmen have to go to Italy for the purpose. In Mexico young ladies give a few drops of their blood as a charm to the young men. . ,-v Rain is, m some parts of our own country, expected to follow unusually loud chirping of cricikets. Some interesting prehistoric relics have just been found buried under 300 feet of lava in a table-mountain tunnel, near Sonora, Cal. Babylon was sixty miles within the walls, which were twenty-five feet thick and thiee hundred feet high, with one hundred brazen gates. A woman living near the banks of the Tiber once sold her possessons in Rome, and it was learned that she possessed four hundred slaves. The Bank of England monopoly was established by the prohibition, by act of Parliament in 170 S, of any company ex ceeding six persons acting as baukers. Mrs. G. Booth, of Washington County, ded recently at Knoxville. Tenn., in the log house she was born in, ninety eight years ago. 'She had never been away from home over five miles. In 314 Constantine declared that liberty was a right which could not be taken away, affirming Unit sixty years of captivity could not take from the free born the right of demanding liberty. When Queen Victoria went this yea: from Windsor to Osborne she took a number of her favorite cats with her, and now every English lady* takes her cats with her from “to country or country to to wn. * Mr. Blood worth, of-l Griffin, Ga., has grown this year twelve ears of corn upon one stalk and fourteen squashes upon a single ai mof vinaj s , o it is entirely cred ible that from a garden one-sixteenth of an acre he has so*d $35 worth after sup plying his family. One of the English regiments is ex perimenting with a machine called a centrecycle, which has four small wheels a foot in diameter and one large one in the-center. It is said that the invention makes climbing a hill as easy, for a cycler as rolling off a log. An eagle, six feet from tip to tip, and with talons nearly two inches long, was killed in, Georgia the other day, but it took two loads of shot and a rifle ball to do it, anil then the bird took such a death grip on its perch that the tree had to be cut down to secure it. Sumner Howard, formerly Speaker to the Michigan House of Representatives and now a lawyer with a tine practice in an Arizona town, accepted a few shares of stock in an undeveloped mine last fail as a retainer ir* a murder case. A few days ago he was offored <IOO for the stock, but declined to part with it. A modern French custom at baptisms is that of presenting all the guests with sugar almonds in a bonbonniere, which has the appearance cf a roll of parch ment. On this roll are inscribed the names of the child, of the parents, god parents,. the date of the birth, and christ ening, and the mime of the church where the ceremouey was performed. The weat-lier vane in the shape, of a large grasshopper, which adorns Fancuil Hall in Boston, is said. to. have been placed there by the owner of the hall, who was also .a wholesale groeer, as a sign of his occupation. ’'The-grasshopper was the s'gn ot the Wholesale Grocers* Association of Boston. Mr. Fancuil was a prominent inember.’Of. this association. Railroad conductors get, a great deal, of medical information and the under , standing of tnany helpful little schemes in the, course of a long year’s run. Many of jive conductors' who, among the many other ills and ailings of their passangers, have found that ‘of a particle of dirt or cinder in the eye to be of the most fre quent ana 'painful, carry with ’them a supply of horse hair.- Their experience jnakes them‘.experts in doubling the hair and drawing it over, the eye while the lid is closed. Mollie Stark. The speech popularly attributed to- General uoha Stark on going into the battle of Bennifrftfton, xYugust 1 iff. 1777, was: "Boys, wa hold that field to-night, or Molße's,Stark’s a widow.” Iliswife,. the daughter OfV-Caleb Page, of 1-iarkl tdwn,- nows; DaAbartofi, N. 11., was named Elizabeth, and though there is mucli’diseussion about the matter, its Is probable, that-’ the legend . is correctly given by Rev. J. i‘. Eouman iti’ his cen tennial poem of the “Battle of Ren .ningtoa:” -The morning ran** —there stood the- foe; » Stark eyed them astliey stood; ' Fe w words Do spske-s’t.wa3 not a time Fot- morulas lug mood-. - t‘Bae there the enemy, my boys! • valor's' might, Beat Ahem, Or'BdttyStark will sleep - In widbwh'oAd to-night.” "J Star. /r A* Difference. was young.” said good Miss Jean, weren’t ashamed to learn to cook. They didn’t spend tlieir time between ■ The pariOV Und,ihe fashion-book, ■ Nor d;d: they t ike three hours to dress!” (Sfie rais-dher, bands in consternation.) , ; “And drearn.of, nothing more «or less • Than picnic-, parties and-flirtation j Wtien I wan young!” -■ “When J.°u were young! I dare say, when, Ah! when indeed;" mused naughty Alice, “I'm glad I didn't live ju-t then,” She said albud, with playful nialiee. “Not Hitt? Tnvsure the cause is clear-* They never knew my Cousin Harry! Another reason, aunty dear— You see the maidens didn’t marry When you were young!” —Martha T. Tyler in Judgt. NitWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. The white petticoat is] a thing of the past. The most fashionable women wear no bustles. The plain hem at the bottom is again in vogue. Jacket fronts are a. feature in the new tea gowns. Few fdathera are seen on the dressiest fall bonnets. Fur will be much used in trimming winter gowns. Many young women are now seeking a business education. Borders are a prominent feature of the best stuffs this season. Mrs. Sheridan is still young, being blit thirty-five and beautiful. Queen Victoria has had wicker baskets made for her cats to travel in. Strings of bonnets come from the very back, not the ears, this season. 1 . The Czarina is so passionately fond of dancing that she is called ‘la Santerelle.” The Duchess of Rutland has just com pleted an excellent guide to Homburg. Cloth-finished flannels are the pre ferred wear of women of taste but limited means. Mrs. Ella Transom has challenged Mrs. Shaw to a whistling match for SSOO a side. Nearly all the new fall stuffs display solid colors with stripes of different weaves. Fanny Fern never wrote a word for publication until she passed her fortieth birthday. Plain woolens with deep borders of cashmere are among the importations of fall goods. Miss Edg-eworth wrote her stories, in a common sitting room, surrounded by her family. Twenty-three Montana mail routes are to be run for four years by a woman, Mrs. Ira Me Lane. ‘ Mary A. Livermore began her minis terial life in Chicago as pastor of the I niversalist Church. Dr. Harriet .Tones lias charge -of the woman’s department of the Insane Asy lum at Weston, W. Va. There are no plain, tight-fitting tailor gowns among the fall importations of Par s and London dresses. Round hats are very large and elabor ately trimmed, but the brims are not so wide nor so eccentiic as formerly. Mrs. E. R. Holbrook is superindent of department of woman’s work in the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition. Many of the newest woolens show a decided double twill with a deep rice lined Persiap border along one edge. Miss Sarah A. Brown, of Lawrence, Kan.,is candidate for State Superintend ent of Rublic Schools en the Prohibition ticket. Many fine twilled woolens have-ribbon stripes two or three inches wide in blacks, crossbars or shaded effects woven throughout. The Association for the Advancement of Women, better known as the Woman’s Congress, will hold its annual meeting November 14, 15 and 16. In China girls are not obliged to go to school at all. Their position in the em pire is so insignificant that no provision is made for their education. Airs. E. L. Knowles,, of Montana, who is studying/ law, has been appointed notary public—the only woman in. the territory holding that office. The,Empress of Japan is rapidly be coming the best-informed woman of her time. She is a hard student of German, Russian, French and Italian. Camel’s hair cheviots, soft yet fine, come in Cloth shades bordered with a deeper tone, and are among, the most de sirable of all the season’s offering. Jet-black birds are worn, with straw or felt hats. The black and suede straws are faced with black velvet, a plaiting of lace lying next the face. Elbow ruffles of sheer muslin, simply hemmed, and standing frills, with long fichu ends, or else coming down the front of the bodice, .arc quaintly pretty. In England women are again taking to wearing gaiters. The e are made to measure-and are of almost any kind of cloth.’ The ffavorite, hpwever, is the or dinary drab.' The fashionable h&t should look as though it had been put- on wrong side forethbstv, All bat .trimmings arc placed far at tlip back, and the front is quite bare-®f any ornament. 4 The'wife of .bimator Sherman is one of the leading horticulturists of this coun try. She not only knows all of the at tractions of the garden but understands how to make them thrive. Mrs. Harvey, of Sftanklin, Isle of Wight, has founded an instit nation there which is doubly philanthropic. It is a home for old ladies and a training-school for servants'at the skme time. Chantilly lace with Leaf edges or Greek squares in open pattern is the. favorite now for trimming, and is set in two knife-plcnted rows, turning opposite wavs, about the. necks, of many new gowns. Tlierfcis a great variety in sashes, both as to coldr find stuff! but the favorites 'Wo tho wide half belts, which come down from under the arms, - the soft, loosely knotted Turkish sash, and the fine di aphanous sitsh. of the tint and texture of the rainbow. The famous'“NcHy Bly,” of the New York World. is a pretty auburn-haired giti with pretty bjown eyes and sweet face. , Her name is Miss Cochrane and it goes with without saying that it will be famous if the young lady continues her daring exploits in journalism. The will of Mrs. Anne Seguin, the motheF-in-law of the charming opera singer, '/elda regain, gives the latter the annual intofest of $20,000 on condition that she does not again The figure, is so small as to be of little ac count to a girl disposed to marry. Ilomt says that sets, of decorated china, such as used to sell eight or ten years ago for s*h), are now put on the market .for «20. This is. mainly owing to the decline in the price'paid the painters ol it. A class of girls has been educated ns declarators, and do the werrk as well and far cheaper than of old. Edwin Booth, the actor, haunts studios end Auokes a pipe,