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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1898._._VOL. LXIII. NO 3 THE DAY When youth is with ns all things seem But lightly to be wished and won; "We snare to-morrow^in a dream And take our toil for work undone; ; "For lifo is long, and time a stream That sleeps and sparkles in the sun. What need of any haste?" we say; "To-morrow's longer than to-day." But when our hands And still our labors And time goes past u Last twilight wanii "It is not hero-the t Too brief is life for And yet what need o "To-morrow's long 1 THE MAJOF .ELLO!" said Mr. Clinton, as he read his letter at the breakfast table, "why, here's one from old Macpherson He's como back from India at last, and wants to pay ns a visit. Of course he shall -the sooner the better. Why, it's twenty years since I set eyes on the dear old fellow." Now, when Mr. Clinton mentioned MacPherson's name, Miss Nabb, his guest, gave a slight jump. "Is that Major MacPherson of the -?" she inquired, in an unnaturally natural voice, if the expression maybe used. "That's the man. I was at school with him-let me see-why more than thirty years ago, and, though I have seen nothing and heard little of him since he weut to India, we aro sworn friends for life. Have yon met him, then?" And Mr. Clinton cast a quick, scrutinizing glance at poor Miss Nabb. "I rather think," she gasped out, "that he must be a man I used to seo n good-at least, something of, once upon a time." Then Miss Nabb took a long sip of tea. being apparently nuder the im pression that the large breakfast cup would conceal the color of her cheeks. If ever there was a typical old maid it was Miss Nabb. She had "nerves" and some years before had consulted a doctor, who had given her ? medicino which, as he cynically remarked- to a friend, "would act powerfully on her imagination." After the co: .versntion at the break fast titblo already described, Miss Nabb's nerves were much iu evidence. Not that they were in pain, but they were all in a flutter. "I think, perhaps, I had bi off in a day or two," sho rema Mrs. Clinton. "Why?" answered her host feigned surprise. "We were yourwould stay with us for at : fortnight," "But won't you want my rc for auoth er visitor? He'scom? ?suppose?" "The day after to-morrow, ^ r?ut there are plenty of spa: rooms." Now Miss Nabb knew there were plenty of spare bedrooms and Mrs. Clinton knew that sho knew it, but Miss Nabb had got information she burned to receive and she actually thought her willingness was not dis covered. And then she thought that perhaps ii; was her duty to stay and recruit her health, and her thoughts took a new direction. Two days after a carriage drew up to the door. Thero was as great a re moving of rugs as if it had been mid winter and then tho cheerful sounds of old, long-separated friends greeting in the hall. "Come into the library," cried Mr. Clinton. "It's warmer there, but I'm afraid there isn't a fire, and the tem perature is under ninety degrees. Why, you don't look a scrap changed!" Miss Nabb did not put in an appear ance till tea time. Then she entered in a casual sort of way, and with such remarkable composure that only her heightened color betrayed her inward agitation. "Miss Nabb, Major MacPherson. Miss Nabb tells me that sho rather thinks you arc an old acquaintance." "Oh-ah-um! How do yon-do?" said the Major, shaking hands with stiff courtesy aud a most elaborate bow. "How do yon do?" said Miss Nabb. "Oh! is that my tea, Maria? Thank yon so much!" Then the Major pulled his moustache and sat on the edge of the chair, whilo Miss Nabb nursed her teacup on a sofa at the other sido of the room. Next morning was wet, and Miss Nabb discovered for the first time that the drawing room was draughty-a fact which Mrs. Clinton did not believe, but under tho circumstances would not deny. The result was that thc spinster had to take her knitting into the library. "I hope the gentlemen won't make an incursion," sho said, "but if they do I can clear ont." She had not been seated there long in solitary state before tLe door opened and she was alarmed by tho appear ance of both Mr. Clinton and Major MacPherson. She immediately entered upon a flurried explanation and apol ogy. "Quite so, quite so," said her host, "but we don't object to ladies' society, do we? Eh, Major?" "Not at all," jerked out the Major, and then ho gave a dry little cough. "Well, now, I must be off for half an hour to interview that confounded gardener of raine. You will excuse me, won't you?" For some time silence reigned in tho room, tho Major to all appear ances intent upon his paper, and Miss Nabb, though most anxious for con versation, boping that she might not have to begin. But the clock moved on, and tbs Major, when he had fihished one paje of the Times, simply turned over and started on a fresh one, and the good Ja'ly's patience began to give way. "Ho you suffer from toothache?" she asked, casually, "as yon used to when-" "Not often-not often now, though this villainous climate may bring it back again," answered the major, and BEYOND. And when to-morrow shall destroy The heaven of our dreams, in vain Our hurrying manhood we employ To build the vanished bliss aga!::; We have no leisure to enjoy, "So few the years that yet romain; So muoh to do, and ah!" we say, "To-morrow's longer than to-day." ore'worn and weaK, ; seem noblest, s like a bleak ag to t?o west, ?liss we seek; happy rest, f grief?" we say; ;er than to-day. rs RETURN, f ? then ho added, "that was an excellent remedy you told me about." "Ah," replied the lady in a low voice, "you have not forgotten that?" "I have a long memory for some things," said the Major, and went on reading. "I often nsed to wonder when you had gone away,"Miss Nabb continued presently, with a little quaver in her voice, ."whether you were still surfer ing." "Not from toothache," said the Major, rather gruffly. "I beg your pardon?" said Miss Nabb, interrogatively. "Not from toothache." And he went on reading. Miss Nabb took some moments to ponder over this dark saying and to devise means for carrying on the con versation. But she was relieved from her difficulty by the Major himself, for suddenly he dropped the newspaper on his knee and carefully looking away from her, jerked.out, "Good old times those were, weren't they?" Miss Nabb responded with a little sigh, but the ice was broken and in a few minutes the two were busily en gaged in talking over reminiscences of former times-of picnics, walks and parties which they had enjoyed to gether, of people they had met and in terests they had shared in the days when Miss Nabb had been admittedly one of the belles of the countryside, The conversation went briskly for ward and as the past revived, the two grew more and more animated and yet neither was quito at crise. To tell the truth there was one epi sode to which Miss Nabb hoped the Major would allude, but to which ho had not the remotest intention of mak ing any reference whatever amless she touched on it herself. Time after time she brought him right opto the dread ed sub??"*hutha i~-. ??* ; .. <"?* M>? ouU aeniy retired imo a shell. "Was it you who-who-sent those flowers before tho last ball-when you were going to India?" "There was a letter with them," said tho Major rather shortly, gazing into a remote oorner of the room. "You knew tho handwriting." Miss Nobb started and stared and showed signs of tearfulness. "There wasn't any letter-indeed - there wasn't," she pleaded. "And I didn't like to wear them in case some one else-I mean-" And her voice broke down as she added:* 'And then you wouldn't dance with me at all." "No letter!" shouted the Major. And jumping up ho began to pace the room, while tho memory of long years of mourning for false love rolled over his mind. "No letter! Curse the boy! He must have dropped it, and I addressed it properly." Had it, then, been all a gigantic mistake? While he had moped and sulked at that miserable farewell ball, had she been wondering and sad and loving him all the time and waiting for him to speak? And during all those long years of pining in India and of vain struggling to forget, had the heart of the one woman he had ever loved been sore and desolate, hoping and waiting his return? Now, the Major was au experienced man, prompt to act on emergencies and gallant withal, though somewhat misogynistic. Tho Major finds the English climate much more tolerable now, serves on a Board of Guardians, makes political speeches of portentous length and is a devoted husband, and Mrs. McPher son has given up dieting and her nerves trouble her no more.-London Answers. Athletic George, of Greece. "* King George, of Greece, in the earlier years of his reign, often par ticipated in the feats of running and leaping of which his countrymen are so fond. lu order to conceal his identity, he entered the contests under the name of George Papadopoulos. In a certain amateur contest which he won he was accused of being a pro fessional. As "George Pepndopoulos" naturally could not givo a satisfactory acconut of his identity and antece dents, the crowd became convinced that he really Avas a professional. In order to escape rough treatment he confessed his identity-not to tho crowd, but to a police officer, who managed to get him away to a placo of safety without permittiug the crowd to discover that they haf '?een threat ening their sovereign. Licking bv Machinery. A new envelope-sealing machine is being tried in a Government office. Tho machine works something like a priutiug press. The envelopes are fed into rollers, one of which is moistened from a small trough of water, through which it revolves. A folder closes the envelope, which then passes through two other rollers, pressed and dropped into a receptacle. The ma chine is run cither by electrio motor or by pedal. It is claimed that it will seal 250 envelopes a minute when tho operator becomes expert. In a recent test a batch of 27,000 circulars is said to have been easily sealed by one ma chine in something over three hours. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, A newly patented ruling machine has a reservoir to hold the ink or color connected by flexible tubes or strips of flannel laid on the pens, which aro held on a frame by movable clamps. A new ferret muzzle for use in hunting rabbits, etc., has one or more short spikes in the tip of the muzzle to drive the animal out of its hole and yet prevent the ferret from killing it. To protect horses' feet from injury on barb-wire fences a faxible metal band is used, whioh is adapted to fasten around the foot, with an armor shield at the rear to prevent the barbs entering the flesh when the horse gets its foot caught on the wire. A Michigan man has patented an air ship, comprising a cigar-shaped infla table vessel, a oar attached to it by pivoted arms, so that the car can be tilted np or down to guide it; the pro pelling and steering being done by the usual fan-blade propellers. In a recently designed refrigerator the ice chamber is formed of a series of parallel bars, set in one side of tho refrigerating chamber, which hold cracked ice and permit the free circu lation of air betweon the bars and around the small pieces of ice. A procession of icebergs sent against the surface of tho sun would melt at the rate of three hundred million cubic miles of solid ico a second, and its heat is estimated to produce a force of about ten thousand-horse power tb every square foot of ita sur face. Of the children born alive one fourth die before eleven months, one third before the twenty-third month, half before their eighth year, two thirds of mankind die before the thirty-ninth year, three-fourths before their fifty-first year, and of about twelve thousand only one survives a whole centiiry. Sudden and great fluctuations in the level of water in wells in stormy weather, closely corresponding to the fluctuations in wind-velocity recorded by Profesor Langley, have been ob served by Dr. Rennel Nartini. This explains tho popular tradition that bad weather may be predicted from the sudden rise and fall of wells. Curiously, however, small and rapid changes of barometer are more certain to affect wells than large changes. . Frank W. Very, of the Ladd Ob servatory, Providence, B. I., has made some curious observations on the flight of migrating birds seen at night crossing tho face of the moon. He watched them with a telescope of four inches aperture, magnifying forty times. The observations were made in the latter part of September. Tho great majority of the birds moved from north to south, and 'traveled in _w^uaionied to looi? for saints and evangelists among tho members of the police. Hero, however, it is different, and for some strange reason or other the chieftainship of tho detective de partment at Scotland Yard seems to develop tendencies of a distinctly re ligious character. The former head of the bureau, Colonel Monroe, re signed his offico/which is worth $0000 a year and allowauce3, in order to de vote himselves entirely to missionary work in India, and now his successor, Robert Anderson, who has achieved particular distinction in connection with tho watching of the Irish leaders in tho United States, has startled his countrymen by his publication during tho past week of an extraordinary book, extitled "The Silence of God," in which ho ascribes the spread of atheism to the failure of the Omnipo tent to provont crime. This theory is all the more remarkable from tho fact of its being voiced by the head of the department which is, above all others, devoted to tho investigation and .'pun ishment of crime,- Mr. Anderson ex presses the opinion that the divine toleration of such a monster of iniquity as the present Sultan of Turkey is a striking illustration of "tho silence of God." He is quite celebrated in his way as a lay preacher, and inasmuch as his ideas aro familiar to his sub ordinates and to thoso who aro am bitious for promotion, the detective branch of the Loudon polico is distin quiehed nowadays from tho remainder of the forco by its essentially Sunday school behavior.-London Corre spondance St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Goose Flower. . A floral wonder at the Chicago Chrysanthemum Show was tho goose flower exhibited by W. H. Chadwick. This is a flower that grows on a run ning vine, and sometimes measures over forty inches in length and fifteen or twenty inches in breadth and thick ness. It looks less like a goose than an armadillo with a slender tail five feet long. The first feeling one has on seeing it is to run away for fear it may jump on him and bite him. It is not fragant, but quite the reverse. As a general thing it has no odor, but there are times when it exhales an effluvium compared with which tho smell of a gino factory is a double distilled handkerchief extract. It is a Brazilian flower, and is raro in this country, though it was exhibited at tho World's Fair and was introduced some years before that by Sturtevaut, of l?ordertown, N. J.-Chicago Times Herald. Liberalizing Russin. Russian administration has under gone a vast change since tho accession of tho reigni..g Czar. Quite recently, at a great industrial centre, a large bony of operatives went on strike and refused to resume work at the bidding of the police. In tho old days this refusal would havo been followed by a nv'itu ry repression-but in tho present the authorities were told not to iucerfero unless the public peace was disturbed by the strikers. In the Baltic provinces tho Draconian odicts of the Holy Synod affecting the Lutheran population havo been practi cally abolished, and Lutherans are now no longer obliged to send tLoir children to schools directed by mem bers of the Greek Church. T (San Francisco Correspondence.) Much as has been written concerning Hr/waiian scenery, it isa subject about which literature can never be exhaust ed. People of all Nations and of all climates are still continuous in their praise of the tropical verdure and scenery that can be lound in the midst of the Pacific Ocean. There has been resident in tho Islands for some time a Scotchman-Mr. Charles H. Ewart, of Dalbeattie, Scotland, whose soul was moved by the beautiful vision which he describes in the fol lowing poetic language: "Wo ore in an amphitheatre of mountains rising to an altitude of 3000 add 4000 feet, with a glowing raiment of leaf and blossom from baso to . summit, save in spots where tho red earth peeps through tho radiant curtain, as a foil to the flames of ir idescent greens, and the fire of thc blossoms that havo enfolded the hills in their shining embrace. Here and there a j?nuacle where no plant has' found grace to.grow stands out a pur ple silhouette agniust the soft blue of a topaz-tinted sky. Oaves and fissures aro cleft in the steeps of these mrmri i?..!... '-, fiiiji toni ?rr-:.: ?^r-?' A SCENE ] at tho base, nearly a thousand feet high, and poiuting 'Godward through the blue,' like the spire of nome mighty cathedral. This mono lith carved and fashioned by some by gone convulsion of nature when the hills 'glared at heaven through folds of fiery bair,' is swathed in a glorious garment of green and gold chequered with the rose and the azure of the bells of tho convclvuli that dangle from the cordon .of vines that engird it," Thc valley in thc early morning may be clear of mists, and a soft mountain breezo murmuring among the foliage, but at times it is filled with the noiseless ebbing and flowing of white vapor borne in from the sea. and out of this shimmering ">ea of mist tho towers and minarets o', thc moun tains arise clothed with mosses and ferns, and draped %vith garlands of eddying vines, that cover thc face of HARBOR OF the elif?s, n".<l droop over the edges of giddy precipices in "cataracts of bloom," till they aro swallowed up in tho "white mists that choke tho vnle. and biol tho aides of the bewildered hills." Although sugar cane is indigenous in Hawaii, litllo a!tempt was made toward its cultivation until 1835, when a plantation waa started at ?Kauai, and ? HAWAII ? $ 'rofitably Grown-Opportu- ^ -The Musical Kanaka. ^> several sugar mills were built. These mills were worked by the aid of mules and oxen, and the process was slow and laborious. What a contrast to the mills of the present day, where tue cane is taken and made into crystals of sugar. There is no royal road to wealth in Hawaii, and any one who anticip?t i such a condition had better stay away. No man can go about blindfolded and pick up dollars in the streets, but no -country cfters a better opportunity [AWAII. and final reward for honest, earnest rind constant labor. Especially ia this t&uo in the coffee industry. The pretty homos and coffee area of Olaa are an evidence of this. I Butter is selling in Hilo at $1 a roll, ?t is quoted in San Francisco at six teen cents to twenty-four cents a Sound! There every held is as dry as abone. In Hawaii every field is per petually green. The dairy business dffers a much belter opening thau any Hue of merchandising. And as a by product lo the dairy, hogs will pay magnificently. Pork is retailing at twenty-five cents a pounds. The ad vertising columns oftW" . -?I ?N HAWAII. flowers, potatoes, cheese, roll butter, ! crab apples, quinces, onions.' Those1 aro imported from a country over two j thousand miles distant. The Hawaiian Tnspector-Geaeral OJ Schools, Mr. Henry ^chiller Town send, speaking of thc educational sys tem of the islands, says that the popu lation of the Hawaiiau Islands is small J and the school system is necessarily small. The total population exceeds one hundrod thousand slightly, of which fourteen thousand were attend ing school ar. tho end of last year. Ten thousaud were in the public schools. Fifty-six per cent, of all tho children attending school at that time were of native Hawaiiau descent, and twenty-five were Portuguese. The re maining nineteen per cent, represents a large number of nationalities. The English language is practically the only language as a means of com munication or instruction in tho Ha HONOLULU. : waiian schools. And hero lies the . difficulty of thc work. Just imagino I the teachers of California trying to ; teach the children ofthat Stato through ; the Arabic language. Yet English is i probably as difficult for thc children of Hawaii as Arabin for those of Cali- ; ; for ni a. History, literature, natural j ; science and even arithmetic must be j taught under groat diOigulJies, Eda- j cative instruction under these condi tions is a well nigh nnsolved problem. But conditions are rapidly changing. The English language is coming into NATIVE HAWAIIAN ISLANDERS. use at n means of communication among the graduates of the common schools, many of whomliave no other language in common. Thus it is creaping into the homes of the people, even. When the children learn even crude English from their mothers, the teacher's task will be much simplified. For many years there have been schools in Honolulu, and Hilo especially, adapted to the needs of the children of English-speaking parents. Lately similar schools have been opened in a number of other locations, and still others will be opened shortly. These are not essentially different from schools of similar grade in America. A regular public high school is in pro cess of organization in Honolulu, tho greater number of the departments be ing already in working order. The endowed institution known as Oahu College, has long offered full prepara tion for any collego-in America, and many of its graduates have entered leading American colleges on advanced standing. But the English-speaking children do not enjoy a monopoly of tho privi leges of education beyond the common school course. The Kamehameha Schools, with their magnificent equip ment and no less magnificent endow ment, are open to those of native Hawaiian blood and to no others. Manual training and industrial educa tion are leading features of these schools, and few similar schools in America are so well equipped for work on these lines. Tho natives are very fond of music. The guitar on account of the softness of its tone, is their favorite instru ment. Tho royal Hawaiian band, which a few years ago made a tour through tho United States, was com posed of native Hawaiians, all of whom were accomplished musicians. BED FANTON. Randolph's Body In an Oak's Embrace. BamlnhVi. vas carried to Vireinia .i;:h.i .?.<?.,. j." the groan*!: tb? ir... : xs tho roots of an old oak had burst it asunder and wrapped round and round his body, holding him in a long 3inbi-aco close to the Stato ho had loved so well.-Philadelphia Times. Smncsllnj; Didn't Tay. A young man in Khodo Island, the Dwner of a yacht, was recently pun ished for an attempt at smuggling. Ho took his yacht to Halifax, Nova Scotia, last summer, and while t'.ore purchased some $2000 worth of .ul phonal and phenacetine. Theso he brought to this country, and then found he could not dispose of them without detection. He finally became apprehensive that tho authorities would find him out, so ho went to the customs officer and confessed to hav ing the drugs. These were confiscated and the young man now has concluded that crime doesn't pay.-Medical Eec ord. Cut a Sheep In Two With a Broadsword. At a recent athletic exhibition in Boscombo, England, one of the feat ures of the day was a sheep-slaughter ing contest, the prizo going to the one who could kill a live sheep with a sin glo blow. Many unsuccessful at tempts were made with broadswords and axes. A Surrey hercules, how A CLEAN SWORD SWEEP. ever, won the prize, a purso of $50, by cutting a full-grown sheep squarely in two with a broadsword. It was conceded to be the neatest piece of swordsmanship over seen in England. Whoro Ho Worked. The prisoner was making his ap pearance before the magistrate for the hundredth timo. ..Well," said the magistrate, "you here again?" "Yes, your worship," responded the prisoner. "What's the charge?" ."Vagrancy-same as before, your worship." "It seems to me you are hero about half your time." "Bather more or less, your wor ship." "Well, what do you do it for? Why don't you work?" "I do, your worship, more than half my time." "Ah, now," said the magistrate, surprised, "if you can tell me where you have ever worked I'll let you off.'"' "In prison, your worship," smiled the prisoner, and the court kept ita wowJ.- Tho Rival. Skating Costume*. A very attractive skating costume is made of velvet, velveteen or corduroy, according to one'e bank account. The skirt is short and the jacket is finished with fur collar and cuffs. A hat to match completes the smart effect. * Court Stenographer a Woman. Miss Annie White, whore appoint ment as stenographer of the Superior Civil Court for Suffolk County, Mass., a few years ago attracted considerable notice, recently resigned her position, married Mr. Charles Bartlett, a prom inent lawyer of Boston, [and with him has gone abroad for several months. Miss White was an expert in her pro fession. Her position was worth 83000 per year, with a summer vacation of three months, and she filled it with unusual ability. It will be of interest to those who believe that a business life renders a woman, unattractive to learn that the acquaintance which ripened into marriage began in the court where Miss White was employed. A Famous Woman Physician. Dr. Susan A. Edson, who has just died in Washington at the age of seventy-four years, was one of the best-known women physicians in the United States. She was born on Jan uary 4, 1823, near Auburn, N. Y., and was graduate.1 from the Cleveland Homoeopathic College March 1, 1S54. Eeturning to her home soon afterward she quickly built np a large and lucra tive practice. This, however, she abandoned when the war broke out, as she believed it to be her duty to do all she could to ameliorate the suffer ings of the soldiers, and she rendered invaluable professional services to the sick and wounded in hospitals. She was one of the physicians summoned to attend President Garfield after Le was shot, and during the long illness of tho President she was, it is said, at his bedside more frequently than was any other of the attending physicians. As a mark of appreciation for her ser vices to Mr. Garfield during his long illness Congress voted Dr. Edson $3000. She was for many years physi cian to the Garfield family.-New York Tribune. , Tip? o it .I c?oi><? '->. ? : ?' ' te* '?- '.'.<?'- i it geneiui.j . to bring a popular fashion up to its limit of favor, and sashes may be said to have taken a fair ?*nrt tl"3 summer. I There is no end to the styles and no limit in clegunce or price. The old I Boman sash, with fringed ends, is j with us again, and nearly everybody i has an old ono somewhere that was much treasured in early youthful days. Take it out aud have it cleaned, if necessary, and wear it with white house gowns. A rather startling sash is made of the new velvet and satin-striped ribbon in three shades of geranium red. It is about five inches wide, and is made with two loops at tho waist, and the bias ends are edged with very deep plisses of mousseline de soie to match the ribbon. Another is of plaid, the royal Stuart pattern, trimmed on the ends with plaitings of black mousseline. A royal purple moire of superb quality, with trim mings of black mousseline, has an un mistakable air of elegance. May Have Meant Well. It takes fully six months for a story like the following to become public property, says the Washington Star: Last season a Washington woman, possessing both social and charitable ambitions, elected to give a reception. The affair was to be very exclusive. Judge of tho surprise when a bundle of invitations was left at the door of a hospital in town upon whose board of managers Mrs. Z. serves. The invita tions were found to be addressed to the trained nurses of the institution, and great was tho wonder that tho pro fessional ranks had been invaded for society recruits. A few days elapsed, and Mrs. Z. paid a visit to the hospital. Making herself extremely agreeable, she re marked to the nurses: "Well, girls, I hope you received cards to my reception?" Smiles and acknowledgments an swered in the affirmative, and Mrs. Z. went on complacently: "Indeed, I was only too glad to re member you all. I appreciate how much work and how little play you girls have, and I thought you would enjoy a little glimpse of society fun." "No doubt of it, Mrs. Z.," ono of the nurses spoke np, "but none ot us is likely to have a gown suitable to wear at such a function." "Oh, that need not trouble you in the least," returned the smiling Mrs. Z. "Now, my ide?is this. Of course, I understand you have no. evening gowns, and that you know very few society people, but these facts must not interfere with your getting a peep at my guests ?md eating some of my supper. I thought the whole thing would be simplified if you all came in your pretty uniforms and caps, and took up your stations in the dressing rooms. You would only have to assist ! tb.d ladies with their wraps and you could see the gowns to such good ad vantage, and-" But such a choruc j of indignant exclamations rent the I air at that juncture that Mrs. Z. 's sen tence was never completed. The social veneering must be thickly coated on Mrs. Z., for to this day she does not seem to understand why the nurses meet her advances with frigid indifference, and why her visits to the hospital are no longer pleasant. Gossip. A woman ninety-sevp i years old rides a bicycle in Dubn iue, Iowa. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has just sailed for Europe, to remain there un^ til spring. j Prominent women have started a movement for a national university in' Washington. Mr3. Rachel Harding, who died re-' cently in Cincinnati at the age of 106,-' wa? born in Baltimore in 1791, | The ex-Empress Eugenie is seventy-J one years old. She is the daughter of Count Cyprien de Montijo, a Spanish grandee. The Secretary of the Interior has appointed .Mrs. S. M. Fitts, of 'Lynn,' Mass., to the position of pension claim attorney. . Mrs. Mary Van Uleok, eighty-four years old, earns a good living sewing carpets at Joliet, 111. She also makes money cooking fine dinners on festal occasions. The daughter of ex-Senator Ingalls; of Kansas, is to enter the church training and deaconess house of the1 Protestant Episcopal Charon at Phila delphia, J Miss Bay, who writes over the pen name of "Jack Carlton," has given $10,000 to aid in the establishment of a colony for colored people in Ala bama, to be known as the "Cedar Lake colony." , The Queen of Italy has presented to her daughter-in-law, the Princess of Naples, a beautiful bicycle with a richly gilded frame and an ivory han dle bar, ornamented with the arms of the house of Savoy. The Dnchess of Sutherland is the President of the recently established National Association for the Care, of the Feeble Minded in London. The association has opened a home in West London for the training of girls in laundry work. Queen Victoria is six months younger than Mrs. Gladstone. Bar oness Burdett-Contts is five years older than the Queen. Lady Louise Tighe, who was at the ball the night before the battle of Waterloo, was a young lady when the Queen was born. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has been ap pointed on the Board of Regents ol the University of California. The ap? ..: .??'..? * v^r*. ci.,;- wu?*. '.: hst t',...- .m", ii - ... . i m ., 3<i 'o o;.t. . ? vt "-?>? , 3&u : vu 3'i::r-:.v.r, fct??? >v .TV? hail civ?- ?npotn *? .?. J '.ilia SUcv fifi or - ?.?. ??iftl medical corps are expectedto consume six months. ? Fashion Notes. White marabout is used" ort children's white felt hats, it is so light, airy and delicate. ; A natty cap is made of astrakhan with curled quill feathers standing np at one side. The newest shade of blue is best described as the shade of cornflower when it has begun to fade. Bright colors are seen this year in tho gloves. Vivid reds, greens and blues are shown in great variety. Some of the latest materials shown are corded silks and wool poplins, with changeable effects, produced by the mixture of colored silk and wool. On account of the popularity of the Russian blouse 1 ?dsome belts are are very much in demand. Some beautiful designs are shown in ham mered silver and gold set with mock jewels. For nicer wear the reps or poplins are fashioned with a blouse, gored skirt, small sleeves and an epaulette effect; high collar, tiny square yoke and folded belt of velvet of a darker or contrasting shade. A pretty Russian blouse for a miss of fourteen years accompanies a skirt of the same blue serge; the blouse opens over a narrow vest of light-yel low cloth, with tiny gilt buttons edg ing the blue and black cord loops crossing the vest. Cord and buttons trim the band collar, wrists and nar row, flat belt. Scotch plaids are rampant this sea-^ son, and como in several different* materials, all of which are smart and serviceable. To begin with, there is the regular all-wool Scotch plaid; then there is the silk and wool, the poplin and tho silks. For school wear, the first is the best, and the darker plaids are to be strongly advocated. Black hose are worn by girls with all dresses except white or very light party frocks, that require white stock ings and slippers. Two-button Iud gloves in brown, tan and gray tints are also worn by little ones. After fifteen years misses wear the hook, snap or button gloves similar to their elder sisters, only keeping within sub dued shades. ? jf^The now muff is a small mountain in size. One of novel design, shown among the new importations, is made of black velvet gathered in double frills fully two and a half inches wide. These stand up like ruches all over the foundation, and not in regular lines, but rather curved around, giving a very peculiar effect. The velvet has the appearance of being gathered sev eral times and tho threads pulled out, leaving only the marking of the stitches to show. A knot of lace and a bunch of violets trim one side. Emeralds are popular, and tur quoises, in spite of the imitations that ono would fancy might cheapen them, form part of every well-stocked jewel case, and a good many that are not so well stocked. The newest and most channing thing in turquoises that I have seen for a long time was on tbe pretty white throat of a lovely little American woman, at a ball at one of the "^rauch summer resorts. It was a ! dog collar of turquoises and white j opals, the opals cut into disks and ! strung alternately with blu? stone*. .