University of South Carolina Libraries
H The PLANTERS LOAN and SAYINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA., Organized IS70. Oldest Savings Hank In Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital in City. Pays Interest and Compounds every G months. TROS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1898. VOL. LXIII. NO. 13. A SNOW all fie railers were dim with snowing, Dear, I knew. Over tho hills the wind was blowing, Tot in my dream my heart was going, Ever to And where flowers were growing, Dear, for you. HEY all cried-every one of the Bells, from Peggy, -who ?was sixteen, down to Rufus (who was four and despised a cry-baby), when old Mr. Pigeon moved away. He was such a tried and trusty friend, and, if he was sixty, such a con genial companion. He was always ready to go fishing or coasting with the boys, or to take the girls to drive; although ho was a bachelor and lived alone, he had a double carriage and the largest sleigh on Pippin Hill-be cause he had as large a heart, Peggy said. He knew so much about the .wild things in the woods as "The Huuter's Own Book," and on a rainy day or when one had the mumps or measles he would tell stories by the dozen-stories that were worth tell ing, too, for he had been " 'round the world and home again," and kuew all there was to know about cannibals and buccaneers and wild men, aud all such distinguished and interesting | people. It happened that the only houses on the tip-top of Pippin Hill were the Belfry (I suppose the Bells', house may have received that name because Papa Bell always spoke o? his children as his "small fry;" auyway, that is what every one in Bloomsboro' called itj aud the Pigeon house, which had belonged to Mr. Pigeon's grandfather. The houses backed up to each other, 11 and there was a mutual backyard fence, so, of course, it was very desir able that the neighbors should be ' friendly aud congeuial; more than this there was a mutual apple tree, i The guarled, old "high-top sweeting" 1 was directly on thc boundary linc bc tween the two estates, and the mutual : fence had been cut in two to make j space for it. Its branches were low und spreading, in spite of its high top, aud they spread very impartially over the Bells' smooth lawn and over Mr. Pigeon's orchard, and dropped their delicious fruit-early, the first sweet apioles t?at there were-almost as evenly as if it were measured on each uf their OWIIW'O lam'. /-PWrv terence was that the August sunshine lay longer upon Mr. Pigeon's side, so the Brpt red and yellow, mellow aud juicy apples dropped upon his orchard I y grass-and he tossed them up to 11 Christine in her seat in the low crotch of the tree, the seat that he had made for her. It was Christine who thought thc most of Mr. Pigeon and he of her, be cause they both had a twist, Christine said. She could always speak of her trouble cheerfully, even jokingly, j You would scarcely have though that I y she minded it at all; it was a spinal , I weakness which had bowed her shoul- ? 1 tiers and twisted her head to one 1 side. The others didn't miud much | 1 when Christine was left out of things; j j they were a rough, merry set, but Mr. j < Pigeon had always remembered her. His twist was in one of his legs; he had to wear an uncomfortable iron boot, and walked with a queer, side ways motion. When Becky, who was eleven and was called the Bloomsboro' Budget because she carried all the news, came home with the dreadful intelligence that Mr. Pigeon was going to move away, no one would believe it. "In the first place it's too dreadful to be true, and in the next place he would have told us," said Peggy. But it really proved to be true. Mr. Pigeon's sister-his own sister!-had gone to law to obtain a share of her grandfather's estate, which he had failed to bequeath to her because she had gone contrary to his wishes in Borne way, and the only share she would have was that old estate on Pippin Hill. Perhaps the law might force her to take something else as her share since he had held possession there so long; but she was Hitty, aud he sbould give it up to her. That was what Mr. Pigeon said in answer to the indignant remoustrauces of the Bells. She was Hitty; that was all | he would say; perhaps it wasn't much oi a reason, but the Bells understood. "We all know what it is to give up things to peeble just because they are Iky or Polly or John. So it happened that thc Bells' debt Mr. Pigeon went away to a little house that he owned down at Pequan ket Mills and Miss Mehitable Pigeon came to live at the old place ou Pip pin Hill and owned half of the high top sweeting tree. And the very first thing she did it was September when she came was to threaten to have Tommy Bell arrested, because when je shook their side of the tree her side shook too, and she said the top of the tree leaned toward their .side and more apples fell there, so when the apples were picked and divided she must have an extra bushel. She threatened to have their yellow kitten drowned because he scampered after the flying leaves iu her garden and, she did havo their cross gobbler killed be cause he ran after her red morning gown, as a gobbler will, you know, and gobbled at ber. He wasn't much loss and she sent him home plucked and dressed, with the message that she should have eaten him if s'.:e had not feared he would be tough! She complained that Becky's pea cock squawked and Dicky's Guinea pigs squeaked, and the vane on their stable ; had "a rusty squeak" that kept her awake night-;; and if one of the - little Bells mounted the fence she came out and "shooed" him off ns if he were a chicken. Christine, who was inclined to look on the bright sid? and to think well of ever}' one, said thar she would proba bly grow betier when they got better acquainted, and she gave Tommy aud 'DREAM. Thore were no flowers bv hill or river, Sweet to shine. But (Iowa whoro shadowy willows shiver I heard a Hopo in tho branches quiver, And I seut it homo to your heart forever, My Valentino. -Mabel Earle, in Harper's Bazar. little Rufus five, cents each not to use their bean slingers over the fence or make faces through the knothole. But instead of growing better their new neighbor grew worse. She had the mutual fence built up ten feet high, she had the branches of the sweeting tree lopped off where they interfered with the fence, and Chris tine's seat thrown down to the ground so roughly that it was broken. She said she had let people impose upon her all her life, aud she wasn't going to any more. Papa Bell, who was an easy man and absorbed in his business, said he supposed that so many children and squeaking things did make them troublesome neighbors; but he thought they should have to remonstrate with Miss Pigeon about the fence, because it took away so much of their sun shine. Christine begged him to wait; she always would believe that people were going to be better, and she knew there must be something good about Miss Pigeon because she looked like her brother-"only the twist seemed to be in her mind, poor thing!" It was November when Christine's seat was thrown out of the tree, so she could not have used it jxay more that season anyway; aud when any one asked her how she was going to do without it iu the spring, she always auswered: "Perhaps Miss Hitty will be good by that time." But that transformation didn't seem in the least likely to any one else. She never forgot that Mr. Pigeon had said she was Hitty, though how she could ever be Hitty to auybody was more than the other young Bells could understand. Christine Avonld bow to her, too, ?ind smile, shyly, although Miss Pigeon only scowled dreadfully iu response. Far more difficult to forgive than their own wrongs was the injury that she bad inflicted upon her brother. He wrote to them doleful letters which 3howed plainly how homesick he was for the good nir and tho good-fellow ship of Pippin Hill. One of the neighbors who saw him at Pequanket said ono would hardly kuow him ho ind "pined away" so. Christine turned a little pale when a-?.Jw^..-,*_+ivi. ..n""t. nt,, ^,1 me put on her thinking-cap. ?he jouldn't go to school like the others, she couldn't go skating; in fact, there vere so many things she couldn't do :hat it would have been very dis jouraging to one whe believed less irmly than Christine did that things is well as people were going to be metter; but that gave her all the more :ime to wear her thiukiug-cap. And Christine's thoughts were pretty apt ?0 blossom into deeds some way. Christine had made the Christmas vreaths of evergreen and holly from meir own Pippin Hill woods, and she jad sent two beauties to Miss Pigeon, ivho had promptly returned them with the message that she didn't want such rubbish littering up her house. Now when they heard [that sad news from Mr. Pigeon she was making valentines. She had a very dainty knack with both pencil and brush, for a fourteen year-old girl, and her valentines were more beautiful thau any that could be bought in the shops, or so Blooms boro' youug people all thought. The fashion of sending valentines might wane elsewhere, but always flourished in Bloomsboro', perhaps be cause Christine Bell kept it up. She sent them to the very last people who expected to have a valentine-to ne glected old people and forl?n sick peo ple, to Biddy Maguire just from the old country, and "kilt" with home sickness, and to Antony Burke, the old miser, for whom noone had a civil word and who, perhaps, didn't de serve one. And for every valeutine that was disregarded or thrown im patiently aside, a dozen made a little warmth and comfort in a sad heart; for nobody has yet begun to under stand how great is the day of 3mall things. Christine was more mysterious than usual this year about her valentines; she colored when Peggy said she would better send one to Miss Pigeon, but they never thought she would; they thought she was only sensitive about her Christmas wreath. When Mr. Pigeon went away he gave Chris tine an old desk that he had had since he was a boy. It had initials and hearls and anchors cut into it and was whit tled at every corner; you would have known if you'd seen it anywhere that it bad belouged lo a boy. Hut Chris tine would have it in her own room; she thought it was beautiful. It had his ?boy-letters and diaries in it, and she had laughed and cried over them. And now she had found in that old desk "material for tho very queerest, valentine she had ever made; and although she liked to share the fuu of making her valentines with the others, she was a little secretive about that. What should the paper be but a leaf from one of the old diaries, one side all written over in au unformed, boyish hand; and this is what was written on it, the ink faded by time: "i cant l>ar<; to rico becos hity has the Feever and . cant bare knot to rite becos it semes liko toling sombo .dy. she held mi baud tito when she did knot now eny boddy last uite and i did knot let them send m? to bed the fellers say if she does di i hav other sisters but they are knot hity the fellers do not understand wen enybody sais she will ewer hav a bo like our ayusta hity sais tho Ton. Tinker verse and that m cens me as is roto on tho 1st lee! of this Diry mi name is Thomas Tinkhnm Pigeon hity has ?ot a Temper but so hav a Good Men y Peepio and she is Good way inside and she ls hity and .dui and i will alwys liv together but "i caul bare to rito etty more for i want to now what tho doktor sais, they say a fuller mnst be A Mau but wen it is hity i cant bare-" Here the words beeume illegible on the old yellow paper; thore were blots I and .smudges as of tears. Though ; valentines are supposed to bc dainty, ' Christine didn't try to clean it a bit! j Ana on trie unwritten side, instead of painting any of ber pretty flowers or drawing hearts or cupids, she only wrote "the Torn Tinker verso" which Hitty had lovingly quoted to her broth er: .'Tom Tinker's my true love, and I am his dear, M gang along wi'him his budget to bear.': It certainly was a very queer val entine. Christine thought it would probably be returned, even more scornfully than the Christmas wreath -if Miss Pigeon should guess who sent it-aud she would be likely to guess that it carno from the Belfry; for she knew that her brother had given them many oi his belongings. She sent it with fear and trembling, and she told none of the others, for the older ones seemed, in their hearts, to share tho feeling of Tom and little Kufus, that the only proper form of approach to Miss Pigeon was bean slinger in hand. The valentine wasn't returned; but nothing seemed to come of it. The Bells' Jane heard from Miss Pigeon's Jane that her mistress had neuralgia. One day after March had come, and a bluebird had been seen to alight nyoix the high-top sweetiug tree, as Chris tine came along the garden path there came a shrill, imperative voice through the knothole in the fence. "If you have any more of those leaves, shift" them through the key hole; if you have the whole diary throw it over the fence." Of course Christine wasn't going to do that with the diary that seemed so precious; but she did send it around to Miss Pigeon's door by old Jeremy, the gardener, for none of the boys svould go. It was about a week after that a man nade, under Miss Pigeon's direction, I i new seat in the crotch of the apple ! :ree-a seat that was delightfully com fortable for a back that wasn't straight. Miss Pigeon seemed to know just how. When it was finished she went up aud examined it and tried it. Then she jailed to Christine, who was sitting on ;he porch. "I'm a cantankerous old woman. I vas born cantankerous," she said. 'But there's your seat!" No one at the Belfry kuew what to bink of Miss -Pigeou; it was little Rufus's opiuion that a good fairy had apped her with li or wand and turned ter into something else, and he was nuch disappointed to find, on peep- ', ng through the knothole, that she ; ooked just the same. "It's delightful," Christine said, i lowly. "But it isn't exactly what I ! neant by the valentine," she added, I o herself. But a few days after, what Chris- ! ine had meant by the valentine real y did happen*- sometimes things that eem too good to be true do come to lass in this world. Miss Pigeou aounted the high buggy iu which he drove herself nud weut down to 'equanket; when she came back Mr. 'igeon was with her! Tommy dis ard an? ^r??se?r^"shout. Ittl ttre oung Bells rushed pell-mell into the pple tree an-I dropped from its ranches into Miss Pigeon's orchard -even Peggy who was sixteen- j honting and laughing and crying all ogether. They quite forgot Miss ' 'igeon until her harsh voice broke j nto the whirlwind of greetings; with ll its harshness there was a queer ittle quaver in it! "He's come back ?md he's going to | tay," she said. "It is he that be- | ongs here and not I. If you're born 1 sith a cross-grained disposition you've ; ;ot to get over it when you're young or j 'ou'll have to have more'n a ten-foot : euee between you and other people! j !'m going back to nursing people in a | lospital-yes, I can, though you j vouldu't think it; and they like me! There's a doctor I know who has in- j .ented a new contrivance for-for j miking backs siraight"-her voice j eilly broke now, but she recovered i ?erself instantly: "they're easier to straighten than crooked dispositions! j Pm goin^ to send one here, an I want 1er to try it. She nodded toward Christine, aud then she turned away suddenly. Little Rufus ran after her -prudently keeping his hand on the j bean-stinger in his pocket. (They bad liscovered at an carly stage of the ac pmintance that if Miss Pigeon had a weakness it was a terror of the bean ilingers.) "Are yon really just the i <ame? Didn't a good fairy turu you into something else?" he demanded, breathlessly. Miss Pigeon turned and looked lown upon him, her strong features working. "Yes, she did!" she answered, . gruffly. . "Did she tap you with her wand?" pursued little Kufus eagerly, de lighted with this confirmation of be liefs that were scorned in his home circle. "She didn't tap me with a wand," said Miss Pigeon; "she seut me aval entine!"-The Independent ?IENT?FIC AND INDUSTRIAL. _ j In a new bicycle saddle a fluid-t ight enshion is filled with glycerine or sim ilar syrup and enclosed by a leather covering to make a flexible seat. The experiments in progress for , several weeks on the Air Line Division of the New Haven Railway, in the use, of crude petroleum for laying the dust, have proved that material to be well adapted for the purpose. A new process of manufacturing artificial stoue has been patented in Eugland. The stone is found in steel molds, which can be adjusted to any size, shape or design for which the finished stone made be required, and solid blocks weighing several hundred pounds have been easily produced. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles, taking : the whole surface of the globe at 107, 000,000, and its greatest depth sup posedly equals the height of the highest mountain, or four miles. Thc Pacific Ocean covers 78,000,000 square miles, the Atlantic 25,000,000, the Mediter ranean 1,000,000. The Revue de 1'Electricite states that the construction of the first elco- j trie railway in France is to be com- , menced immediately by the Paris, j Lyons mid Mediterranean Company. The line will connect Fayet and Chainonnis. Th? carriages will be auto-motor, and the current will be taken from n lateral rail by means of metallic brushes. The line will have :t length of over eleven miles?, and will i Dross the River Arve live times. THE CHRISTIAN FLAG. ? A distinctively Christian flaghill soon be adopted by a large number of churches throughout the country with out regard to denomination'. Buttons on which the flag is conspicuously shown are already being worn, ??st rally day at Brighton Chapel, Coney Island, a well known Christian worker had been announced to make an ad dress. The chapel was well filled and when the time for the address liad come the speaker failed to appear. The superintendent of the school?C. C. Overton, after apologizing for the absence of the speaker, was obliged to take his place. The subject of his talk was "The American Flag." On the platform was a beautiful flag, the gift of James H. Perry Po3t, G. A. R. Mr. Overton dwelt upon tho principles for which the flag stood, the devotion of its followers, the loyalty, fidelity and constancy which should be shown by Christ's followers. The want of a Christian flag impressed Mr. Overton, and as ho told the writer, "the Chris tian flag appeared to be floating in tho air as I was speaking,, and I gave the -**? Words ty tA&VY J.CROSBY. KLM. J.-72:7?. ^ audience a description of it then and there, as it stands upon our platCprm to-day. I believe it was an inspira tion from heaven of a banner that should wavo triumphant over the world." The flag is most symbolic. The ground is white, representing peace, purity and innocence; in the upper corner is a blue square, the color of the unclouded sky, emblematic of heaven, the homo of the Christian, also a symbol of faith and trust. In the centre of the blue is the cross, the en sign and chosen symbol of Christianity; the cross is red, typical of Christ's blood. Every sect of Christ's follow ers can iudorso the flag, and it is equally applicable to all nations. It stands for no creed or denomination. Miss Fanny J. Crosby, the Christian poet, has written the words of the hymn and R. Huntington Woodman the music here reproduced. Neither the flag, hymn nor music has been copyrighted and all aro dedicated by M'.-. Overton to the followers of Christ the world o ver. -Brookin Eagle. Nrsic ty R. EUNTIKGT0?? TVO?DtJAJf. The Christ-ian Flag!- be . hold it, The Christian Flag? ?* . furl il. The ..Christian flag! God; bless iii And bill ir with ft Hut all the world may Now throw it to Ut? see breerc, ?nil . lions The "Joy - Jul strain pro Thc blood stained cross ?IT Je . sus, Who died to* make na And may it ware tri nm - phant O'er land and dis . tani .Trom?f I. long. To ev . 'ry clime and na ', tion, We lend it forfi lo . day, Tree. Th? Christ-ian Flag! un . furl it. And o'er and o'er a . gai?, seas. Till AD the"wide ere . a . Hon Up - .on its folds shall gare, God speed its gio . rions mis-sion, With ear . nest hearts wt Oh. may il bear the mes-sage "Good will ai.d pear* to And all the world o . ni . ted, Our lording Sav . lour pray. mm'.', pr.Jse Chorus. The Chrlst-lan Flag.'be . hold it. And hail U with ft song) And lei tie voice of mil - lions The joy . f ui ?Irai* pr? . long. A lluncnrlnn'n Letter Home. "That I will, thank God. earn fif teen guldens a week," dictated the Huugariau laborer. "Well," asked the letter writer, "and what else shall I say?" "What else! Did you ever see! a letter writer, and yet he does not know what else to say. Who else shall say? Who else shall know? I? Am I a writer?" "All right. I'll say you like Amer ica and that it is a better country than Hungary." "The dence it is!" the laborer shouted. "But you can say this-that it i? awful big. Write just as I tell you, do you hear, or I won't pay you a cent. 'America is so big! Dear papa and mamma, and dear wife and all, when I go to work I ride in such a wagon-car they call it here- and it runs without horses. May I sink into the earth if there ia as much as the tail of a horse to pull it, and it runs awful fast, so Tenn fly iu it more luau au hour aud there is still not a bit of open field in sight-all Ameri ca, America, and nothing but America. Forty times forty villages like ours would not como up to this great vil lage, America. But it's too noisy and nobody knows anybody else, and I feel so lonesome, and, oh. I do wish I could go home."-New York Com mercial Advertiser. Kluc IN Cool; Ked, Hot. The thermometer seems to fall six degrees when you walk info a blue room. Yellow is an advancing color; therefore a room fitted up iu yellow will appear smaller than it is. On the other hand, blue of a certain shade introduced generously into a room will give an idea of space. Red makes no difference in regard to size. Green makes very little. The number of passengers who used the railways of this country during the vear endiug .lune 30, 1896, was 511,772,737, / CARROLL D. WRIGHT. United States Commissioner of Labor Ha* Been Honored Abroad. Carroll D. "Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, who has just been honored with membership in the Institute of Franco and honorary membership in tho Imperial Eussian Academy of Sciences, is one of the foremost statisticians of the world. Few statisticians, says the Chicago Times-Herald, have been as careful as he to present bare facts and to present theta as fully aa the statistician can. It was bc who originated the now famous and much misquoted saying, "Figures do not lie-, but liars figure." CARROLL D. WRIGHT. The noted labor statistician began life as a country schoolmaster in Now Hampshire, his native State, and went from. pedagogy into law. Dropping his commentaries for his musket he went to the war, and, after fighting to tho end of the strife, ho resumed his law work and was admitted to the bar. In 1871 and 1872 he was a New Hampshire Legislator, anti was soon thereafter placed in charge of the State Labor Bureau, to take which position he gave up a practice of $10,000 a year. In 1880 he supervised the na tional census in 'Massachusetts, and his work attracted much attention for its thoroughness. In 1885 he was made the first Labor Commissioner of tho United States. His published works make a very considerable library of labor statistics. How a Porcupine Fights a Snake. "Several years ago I was an in terested spectator at a combat between a hedgehog aud a huge blacksnake," said W. D. Ingraham, of Memphis. "I came upon the scene just as the hedgehog begau the attack upon the snake, which was lying stretched out ou the road asleep. The hog advanced cautiously upon the reptile and seized fewleet,'' and, rolling himself into a compact, spiny ball, awaited develop1 ment8. The snake, upon being thus rudely awakened, turned in fury upon its antagonist, striking the hog again and again with its fangs. The wily hedgehog, securely intrenched within its spiny armor remained perfectly motionless, all the while, allowing the snake to keep up the attack. At every stroke the jaws of the smake would become filled with tho spines, until, at last, exhausted and bleeding from dozens of wounds caused by the needle like spines of tho hog, the snake gave up the battle. This was evidently what the hedgehog was waiting for, as he immediately proceeded to roll over the 8iiake again and again until he had comp'etely disembowelled his vic tim."-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. KLONDIKE SKY-SCRAPERS. Calhodral and Court House at Dawson City, Metropolis of the Gold Field. These are not very imposing struc tures certainly, says tho New York Journal. They could not be called "sky scrapers," but the citizens of Dawson City, who have gone to court fortune in tho Klondike, dignify these tiny houses with the names of cathe dral and court house. The judge does not bother about strict formali ties, but he rules, in this hnstily built little temple of justice, as carefully and as justly as if he were holding court in New York for a sensational murder trial, with leading lights of the bar present, and being sketched every hour for the papers. In the little cathedral nearby there are no gorgeous appointments resem bling a si age setting, no music by highly paid artists. The little wooden chairs are not remarkably comforta ble, and the music must be made by the attendants at service. Women in that part of the globe cannot be accused of going to church to see the style of hat her deafest foe has just purchased. They all wear 1 _i CATHEDRAIi AND COURT HOUSE OF DAW SON CITY. fui hoods. Through dreary snow fields thc Klondikero plod to offer prayers for their dear ones at home, and to ask for success in their self banishment. And the petitions rise to the throne on high just as surely as if they pierced lofty ceilings and stained-glass windows to reach their destiuation. Crows and Caws. "Why is it," asked the inquisitive one ".that a rooster crows, and a crow caws?" It is trno that u rooster roosts, but nobody ever heard of a crow crow ing. This is a question that should occupy the attention of the scientific. A woman, perhaps, could answer the query, why doesn't a crow crow? At a breath she would say: "Just 'cause." -New Orkans Times-Democrat. Applied Tholr Own Law. No sooner was La Fronde started in Paris with women for compositors and printers than the Government inter fered with it for violating the law pro hibiting night work for girls, recently passed at the instance of the advocate* o? women's rightu. Xow Glove* Have Black SI Heh I liff. "We sell six pairs of gloves with W?iek stitching to one with the white," said tho mau at the glove counter, "anil all the new gloves are coming over with the black stitching." Wbat Women Are YVearJnff. Velveteen waists, plain, dotted, plaided and checked. Chains of pearl beads to which em pire fans are hung. Covert cloths in new green, castor and gray shadings. Ready-made scrolls of colored braid edged with gold cord. Attachable yokes of pink liberty silk and cream lace. Vagar?as of tho Empress of Austria. The Empress of Austria has just landed in San Remo, Italy, from her yacht, the Mir am ar, and has taken np her quarters at the Royal Hotel. She travels strictly incognito under the name of the Countess of Hohenembs. In spite of her sixty-one years she still wears her hair black and there is not a wrinkle perceptible on her cheeks or forehead. The Empress is rauch in terested in amateur photography. She has with her her collection of over 1000 portraits of pretty young Women and graceful girls, which she has "taken" with her own ?amera. The subjects of the photographs dwell priucipally in Mediterranean towns at which Her Majesty has stopped from time to time in her various cruises. South of Frauce beauties occupy a prominent place in the collection, which is said to be tho most remark able in Europe. Each card bears up on the reverse side some account of the model. As Tilings Vserl to lte. It is not so long since woman was preached to as if she were a child, and must be constantly reminded of her duties, lest she should step outside of the narrow circle known as "woman's sphere." Jane Austin, out of defer ence to the views of her relatives, concealed her writings from the gaze of chance visitors by laying a hand kerchief over the pages of her manu script. Mrs. Somerville was en treated not to bring disgrace upon her family by persisting in her studies of mathematics; even the clergy was dis quieted, and shejwas condemned from tho pulpit. Caroline Herschel's glo rious work in astir. u ;my was done amid discnnrfT^mpnto und T}]CTP io social prejudice. But hov.-thoroughly womanly tho most gifted women ever are! Professor Maria Mitchell left the most delightful memories to her pupils, and many a student endured the mathematical work of astronomy for the sake of the professor's person ality. One of these pupils said that she had forgotten all she ever learned about the sun, moon and stars, but she never could forget the gatherings where Miss Mitchell was the hostess, and she should always remember the bouquets and souvenirs at every plate, and the poetry, in that print-like handwriting, made for every one of her girls.-New York Tribune. OMo'd Little Kindergarten. Few people know that the original seed of the kindergarten movement in the United States was sown in Ohio. The sower was no less an authority thau a woman presonally associated with Froebel in much of his tentative work at Kielhaw. This woman opened thc first practical working kinder garten school in America at Colum bus, Ohio, in 1858. Her name was Caroline Louisa Frankenberg, a na tive of Hanover, n rmany. Tho hum ble one-story frame house in which this quaint spinster set up her house hold gods and labored to inculcate in the capital's infant prodigy the theo ries of the master, Froebel, is still standing. Miss Fraukeuberg made her first visit to Ohio in 1838, but thinking the time was not ripe for the project, she returned to Kielhaw in 1840, where she taught six years under Froebel's direction; then Dresden andSkeptzen shared her labors for eleven years, when she again set sail for America and established the kindergarten at Columbus. It was with the greatest difficulty Miss Frankenberg gathered a few pu pils into ber modest room. The highest tuition she received was seventy-five cents a week per pupil. To the parents the making of paper birds, boats, caps, modeling in clay, marching and singing were simply child play-a capital way to amuse children and keep them out of mis ? chief. Miss Fraukenberg was au accom plished women of force and d?termin ation. There was much of the aris tocrat in her manner and bearing. She invariably wore a lace cap tied under the chin, while black lace mitts covered her shapely bauds. To eke I out a living she was finally forced to add lace making and various kinds of needlework, in which she was skilled, to her kindergartner school. Disabled by an accident, she be came in her sixtieth year an inmate of the Lutherau Orphan Home aud Asylum at Germantown, Pa. In that institution she successfully intro duced the kindergartner system in 1865. Miss Peabody is said to have visited there and got many of the Froebel ideas she tried to put in prac tice in her tentative efforts at Boston before visiting Europe. Miss Frankenberg remained at the tho home until 1882, when she died of old age. Her tomb may be seen in St. Nicholas graveyard, adjoining the home, where the kindergartner sya rem is perpetuated on the lines laid down by Froebel's first disciple in America. - Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Go* sip. Lucy Curtis is the Mayor of Cimar r?n, IM o., runs the town, conducts a general store and is the leader of the local Sorosis. Mrs, Elizabeth Wiauard of Canal Dover, Ohio, has a 300-acre farm and $50,000 in cash, yet she waa fonnd the other day in her house in the last stages of starvation. Mme. Diaz, wife of the Mexican President, has founded a hone where girls can always find employment, ? nursery where children of working women are cared for, and a Magdalen home for repentant sinners. Dr. Marie Louise Benoit of Lowell has been appointed medical interno in the New York state Craig colony for epileptics at Sonyea, Livingston Coun ty. She is the first woman appointed as a medical interne in the state hospital serv? of New York. Miss Lilian Lees, one of the six sisters who accompanied Mrs. Ormis ton Chant to Greece, and one of the nurses who did good work during the Graeco-Turkish War, has been ap pointed matron of the Hospital Samaritano, San Paulo, Brazil. Miss Fay Fuller, of Tacoma, Wash., has been appointed harbor mistress of that port and is the only woman in the world holding such a position. Miss Fuller became prominent in the West a number of years ago by being the first woman to ascend Mount Tacoma. Mrs. Ann J. Stiles, who erected Stiles Hall at a cost of $31,000, for the religious and social uses of the stud ents of the University of California, died recently in Berkeley at the age of eighty-four. Mrs. Stiles was born in Milbrae, Mass. She had lived in California since 1856. Among the new works of charity undertaken by the Baroness Hirsch, in addition to carrying ont the plans of her husband, are the establishment of a maternity hospital at Munich, a large donation to a Warsaw hospital, and the founding of twenty-five an nuities for indigent gentlewomen. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has a new suitor in the parson of Prince William of Wied, ?ast twenty-one years old, who is at the present mo ment a lieutenant of the cavalry regi ment of Gardes du Corps at Potsdam, in the splendid uniform of which he looks so handsome and dashing that he has become a serious rival to Prince Harold of Denmark in the graces of Queen Wilhelmina. When the Prince and Princess of Wales were visiting an exhibition in Loudon recently on reaching the dairy tum, tUB Ueail U1.UW.11 JIU-muumuu ww from Denmark. Is it true?" The manager hesitated a moment, and then said: "No, your highness; Denmark sends np the best Princesses, but De vonshire the best butter.!' Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, lives her own quiet life, among the hills of Braemar, doing her errands like the wife of a crofter. The Duchess of Fife is the wonder of the district, and many an uppish dame has been inclined to sneer at the mo destly dressed young lady who enters a village shop, orders a pound or two of that, a few yards of ribbon, eto" and carries them off to her carriage as \ if she were doing part of her day's work. _ Costume Accessories. Tiny jackets of lace for he me gowns. Shirt waists of dotted French flan nel. French challie in large floral de signs. Foulards having plaid and bayadere patterns. Embroidered edgings in lacelike patterns. ' Kich plaid sash ribbon in the eight inch width. White lawn waists covered with diagonal tucks. Whipcords and silk and wool poplins in street shades. Very bright cerise velvet, miroired, for dress accessories. Elaborate passementerie in mohair braid of several kinds. [Collar bands and belts of silvei studded with turquoise. Liberty satin in bright colors for shirt waists and teagowns. Flowered nets, beaded, embroidered or woven for teagown fronts. Ombre stripes in taffeta for linings and in moire for evening wear. Organdie waists trimmed with three colors of narrow satin ribbon. Transparent shirt waists having white or colored taffeta ribbon collars. Sash lengths of ribbon in bayadere effects with a knotted fringe on either edge. Vests of black mousseline covered with tiny cross puffings of white mousseline. Tailor suitings in smooth cloths of two tones, with tan, gray, light brown and grayish green predominating. Largest Safe In the World. The highest, if not actually th* largest, safe in the world has jus! been constructed in Liverpool by a well known safe manufacturing firm for i bank in Scotland. Ii. is a steel struc ture, quite as big as many a cottage, or even a house. It is built in two stories, and is in height rather more than seventeen feet. Its other meas urements are; Depth fifteen feet, width thirteen feet. The whole is di vided off into rooms or chambers of a fair sizv. The enormous safe is to stand in a large room, its bottom rest ing on steel girders. It is believed that this kind of safe is immensely su-. perior to chambers or vaults built of stone, having fireproof and burglar proof doors, because all such vaults can be undermined, as has actually happened in more than one instance. As this safe stands free of the ground, it is, of course, quite impossible that it can be entered by any process of undermining without detection.-Cin I cirnati Enquirer. -. One hundred and forty-eight British ! soldiers are in possession of the Vio* j toria Cross,