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if HE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA j L. C. KAY>~K, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits } ?110,000. Facilities of our magnificent New Vanlt .|eoniaining -110 t-afoty-Lock Boxes. Differ ten: 8izes aro offered to our patrons and I.t?o public at 83.00 to 310.00,per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, ?A. Pajg interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Harne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1901. VOL. LXVI. NO. 32 Diamon? Watche? Jewelry. Oar fall stock is now ready Diamonds, Fine Jewelry, ( Sil$er_-Ware, Plated Ware, 1 Give ns a call when in the city. English Women as Curates. Each year brings out original modes by which women can either earn en tire support or a liberal supply of pin money. A :.iew field has been opened "by au English rector of high standing, who recommends the appointment of women curates, believing that in mauy churches they cnn fulfil the office more satisfactorily than men. Two women have" been appointed to this position already, and, by their excellent work, are doing much to pave thc way for other women. . Price Paid For a Swell Coiffure. A New York hairdresser recently re ceived $35 for going out to a fashion able winter suburb to dress the hair of one of fortune's favorites for a lo cal entertainment. His services were Talued at S20, and the remainder of the sum was paid for his expenses. He left New York early one morains, and did not get back uutil nearly mid night on the same day. A carriage met him at the station, at the hotel a room was set aside for his use, and after luncheon the carriage stood once more at the door to take him to his client's hous .. The session with the hot irons was followed by dinner at the hotel before the train left for New York.-The American Hairdress er. The Woman and Her Clothes. , "When a woman devotes one-half of her life to thoughts of dress she abso lutely takes the whole question out of its?3^per relegan to her life, and be t-3MHH?&e talents whjc* God gave her r-jfc?3fe writes Edward Bole, in rtyly to a woman coixVsponcF _- ?ututo .j&a^UUes'.Horne Journal. "Lt " is, indeed, "a^ grave question whether she does not debase herself. Nor will she be 'well dressed;' the chances are far greater that she will be 'over dressed.' No woman whe has any re gard for what is worth while in this world, and for what will bring her the surest and fullest happiness in the long run, will so dissipate her ener gies and vitality. The right to dress prettily and becomingly belongs to every woman. It is her birthright and her duty. A disregard of dress, or the affectation, of queer or freakish dress ing, does not belong to a normal wom an. But to make dress one of the vital things of life is carrying it beyond the ridiculous point and close to the crim inal. And it is just this rightful ad justment of the things in life which simplicity does for us. It gives a right ful place and a rightful value to each. It doesn't belittle the one nor distort the other." The Automobile For Women. In operating a steam automobile one hanl is devoted to the steering lever, pushing it whichever way it is de sired to tura the vehicle. The steam lever governing the speed occupies the other hand, and one foot operates the brake, while the other foot rings the bell when necessary. The operation is easy to learn, and not as difficult in practice as the operation of a sewing machine, while its noise is no more disagreeable than that of a steam ra diator. The writer has for years been too lame to operate a sewing machine, but finds no difficulty in operating an automobile. In form, the steam auto mobile is modeled after the horse ve hicle, and I know of one which from its beautiful lines is called "Black Beauty." _ It is always the narrowness of even a country road, regardless of its length, which perplexes the beginner in'auto mobile operation, but bicyclists have already gauged the width of ro&&, and can or?ii that phase of their auto mobile education. But even if one has never learned to ride a bicycle or drive a horse, one soon learns to guide an automobile automatically; auto mobile obedience is immediate, and the mastery gained of mind over matter is a huge satisfaction. Both English and French automo bile costumes are worn. Some form of close headgear which cannot easily be blown off is a necessity, and New York authorities in such matters rec ommend a- cap somewhat resembling a man*S cap, but made in two colors with a gilt or silk cord across the front-Mary A. Booth, in Good House keeping. Mothers and Children. Mothers wear themselves out and do an injury >to their children in not teaching them to help themselves and to be helpful to others. The amount of care thai a child requires is very different from that which it may from indulgence demand. If the child were better for ir one would not grudge the time and weariness that the mother or nurse spends, but the child is de frauded in the exercise of these pow ers which ean only develop by being put into use. It is better for a child to go to sleep by itself than wheu it is rocked and sung to sleep, but as a gen eral thing mothers prefer the bondage of the process of wvooing sleep for their children, and so tie themselves up and add to their burdens without in the least increasing the comfort of the child. Mothers would spare them selves greatly if they would only ieara that the training of the child be is, r for inspection. Watches, y?? rut (?lass, Clocks, Sterling \W Taney Goods, Etc. /?V Write for onr new Catalogue. /l\ 1 & CO., Jewelers, f &2??????* gins "with the earliest weeks, and that they can make the child understand many things that they would not be lieve possible. When tho ?ir.fh.er is remonstrated with for spon.^g the child by over-indulgence she will say: "My child is different from others; she is more nervous. If I do not take her up she will cry and make herself sick.'' The child in i he beginning, Anding that the mother ran to it the minute it began to cry. of course soon learned this method of summoning her. It also perceived that the louder the cry the greater the indulgence, consequently it develops speedily into a'despot be neath "whose tyranny the mother grows wan and pale. When it is said of her. '.She is'a perfect slave to her children." she looks satisfied and pleas?d. as if she had won a martyr's crown, instead of which she has uselessly squan dered her strength and prevented the child from learning proper habits, which are as necessary to his growth and development as it is that he should learn to walk instead of being kept on his knees creeping the rest of his life, because he may fall and hurt himself, and cry now and then.-Dr. Grace Peckham Murray, in Harper's Bazar. WIEN AW THHR WAYS** Miss Ellen Terry acknowledges her fifiy-third birthday. In the London schools last year 37, 000 girls were taught to cook. Senator Mason'? daughter, Ruth. Is to join him and his son in law practice. In 1800 the first pntent ?ver issued to a woman was granted-for straw weaving. u?Forty-seven per cent, of the women &C!'roa$e-4ij^J?"3^^ are Russians. Mme. Patti is- especially fond of j chicken, and ha3 it in various forms, from broth to roast, three times a day on many of her singing days. Queen Wilhelmina was a lonely child. Impressed hy her own desolate ness, she would threaten her dolls, for punishment, with being kept from hav ing anybody to play with. Colorado's one woman legislator, Mrs. Evangeline Hearz, does not neg lect housekeeping for lawmaking. She cooks well, dresses well and has a tidy home for her husband and two boys. Sarah Grand, the novelist, says she was fourteen years old oefore she ever, went to school. She theu made up foi lost time in the rest of her studies, hut never learned to write a clear hand. Two giris in New York City are mak ing a comfortable living keeping si bookshop. They make it a practice tc take subscriptions for magazines, and in many other minor ways attend to the needs of their customers. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton disap proves of the trailing dress, and has given the elevator boy positive In structions to show no woman up to her apartments who is wearing a trailin;? dress. She is probably afraid of the microbes. Scallops border many flounces ano many side trimmings on skirts. Chatelaines of chain steel, with or without fringe, are very popular. Old Flemish lace-grayish -white and coarse in texture-with the design out lined in gold threads, promises to be a favorite trimming. Parasols are to be tucked and rufflec" and the most beautiful ones appliqued in lace. Both solid colors and flowered designs are shown. The new silk grenadines are shown in lovely designs all in black, and there are all grades, kinds, colors and prices in the other grenadines. Outing skirts are considered more stylish now when made without a plaid or contrasting color on" thc un der side. The colors have been grow ing more subdued, and now it is con sidered in better taste to have the twe sides alike. The keynote of the summer frock seems to be the continued popularity of tucks. They are of all widths and kinds in vertical, horizontal and dia mond lines, and they appear in every department of dresses, well, from lin gerie to hats. 1 There have never been so many thin materials in white as this season. Nat urally white frocks are expensive on account of the laundering, hut on the other hand they do not fade, which the delicate shades are apt to do, only lasting- about half thc season. Double rosettes are made of velvet ribbon an inch wide, and have only two comparatively short ends, finished with some little ornament of gold or silver. These are worn lower on the bodice at the side when the waist fast ens at one side over a short vest. Scarcely a new skirt is made without the bias flounce nt the foot. It is a scant flounce, but it must be worn to stamp the skirt as modish. This fash ion is better '.-xemplified in cloth than anything else; but summer gowns are being made in this style as well. * $ A Need S p BY VIRCINI I lacked five years of my two-score and-ten, and was living alone in the snug little house left me by my father, just on the outskirts of London. The house, a few valuable articles of plate and some ?5000 constituted all my worldly goods. I kept them all under my own personal surveillance. Of banks I had my own opinion, and I knew a far safer place for my little hoard than intrusting it to strange and perhaps dishonest men. I wa3 sitting one afternoon in ray pretty little drawing room, revolving in my mind the improvement a little paint and wall paper might be. and at the same time unwilling to expend the necessary sum, when my neat little maid-servant announced that a gentle man had called to see me. I took a hasty glance in the mirror to convince myself that my hair was in order and my cap-ribbons on the proper angle, when his shadow dark ened the threshold. I glanced up; I fear I blushed. His dark eyes were fixed so penetratingly upon me that mine fell beneath their glance. I had caught but a passing glimpse of the handsome face and tall, manly form, but dared not look again. "You will pardon me, madam-" he began. "Not madam," I interrupted; "Miss Loring." "Miss Loring." he repeated after me. "I ventured on the madam, because I thought it could not be possible Miss Loring could have been permitted to retain that prefix she so evidently pre fers." Presumptuous it may have been in a stranger, but spoken in'a low, musi cally modulated voice, it did not pre sent itself to me in the right light. I instantly tried to remember all the heroes I had read of in the romances I procured from the library, and to de termine which one of them he most re sembled. There was one great void which heretofore had always existed In my life-a romantic adventure. Singular as it may seem, I had never had one. My heart began to palpitate as I thought that possibly the need would now be satisfied. "I almost hesitate to make known to you the cause of my visit, lest you should regard it in the light of an im pertinent intrusion," he continued; "but in passing by your house, I no ticed the upper room in your back building, which is peculiarly adapted for a studio. I am an artist and in search of just such an apartment, for which I am willing to pay a most lib err.I ?'rice. I shall occupy it only dur ing a few hours each day. If Miss Loring will not accede to my request, wiii she not at least pardon it?" yHe. bowed low and deferentially be fore me. My brain was in a whirl." ' What could his proposition mean? Had he seen me and made this a pre text to know me? I could not tell. I dared not ?rust myself as yet to give a decided answer. "I will think the matter over." I said, and I fear there was a slight tremulousness in my tone. "If you will call tomorrow I will let you know my decision." "I will leave you my card, then," he replied, drawing his cardcase from his pocket, and placing a delicately en graved card on the table. "I am quite willing to pay a pounH a week, and if you accede to my request. I shall con sider myself indeed your debtor." I rose and courtesied as he bowed himself out. A pound a week! It was munificent. I need no longer study ways and means as to paint and wall paper. I should be able to do all that I had planned, and more. Why, then, should I hesitate? Why had I not said yes at once? Perhaps he never would return. My heart sank at thc thought, to a depth no mere pecuniary loss could have entailed upon it. Had this stranger, then, made an impression upon that susceptible por tion of ray anatomy? He looked younger than my real age-but what of that? Doubtless I looked far younger than my years. At the last taking of the census I had given my age at 28, and, further than a slight elevation of his eyebrows, the census taker showed not the slightest surprise. I thought after wards the movement was a nervous affection, and was sorry that I had not proposed a specific cure. I took up the card from the table. It bore the name of Algernon Vernon. Algernon! I might have known he would possess such a name! I tried in vain to rivet my wander ing thoughts upon the latest romance. Nothing its pages contained equaled this new and absorbing element in my life. All my doubts concerning my re solve had fled. On the morrow I would accede to Mr. Vernon's request. Not even the neighbors could find food for gossip, inasmuch as he would occupy the room only during a few daylight hours. But why had he selected mine? The houses on either side of the street were of the same construction. Evidently he had a motive other than appeared on the surface for wishing to gain an entree into my humble abode. Next day found bc in a state of ner vous agitation lest he should disap point me; but there was no occasion for it. Promptly on the hour of the day pre ceding he arrived, and I made known to him my acquiescence in bis propo sition; but this time he drew a chair before the fire at my request, and we had quite a Facial and very pleasant chat. He would not remove all his artist belongings at present, he said. He .was engaged on one work which par ticularly occupied him, and which he hoped to finish in time for the Royal Academy; after that he might have a request to make of me. Had I ever been told by artists that ray profile was a study .' Ab, he meant, then, to ask me to paint my picture! What a triumph over that horrid Williamson girl, who had said that one day. not far off, my nose and chin would meet! Evidently she did not unVrstand true art. I have such a trick of blushing. I A LORI NC. Satisfied. $ t never can get over it. I blushed now, and murmured that any request Mr. Vernon might make I was sure I would be but too glad to comply with. Then he rose to go, but before doing so he placed a one-pound note in my hand. "Invariably in advance, Miss Lor ing," he said, almost apologetically. "It is a rule from which I never devi ate." The next day he came. He brought with him nothing but the picture on which he was at work, his paints and easels, and one or two wooden models^ Of course I never intruded upon him at his work, but he grew into the hab-. it, as he passed the open door of the sitting room, to drop in and talk with me. One afternoon, when he had lingered'; over his painting longer than his wont, and seemed more tired, I asked him to stay and take a cup of tea with me. I could not but see how gladly he consented. Of course did my guest all j honor. With my own hands I drew the old heirlooms from their covers and placed them on the table. With par donable pride I ushered him into the room. "Are you not afraid to live alone, Miss Loring," he asked, "with so much valuable silver?" "Oh, no!" I answered; "I keep it lu a safe built in the wall, and sleep with the key under my pillow. No one would think of looking for it there." And then I went on to explain to him my horror of banks, and now. ranch of my worldly goods I preferred to have under my personal supervi sion. "It is not safe," he insisted. "I wish I had the right to refuse to allow you to run such risk." With what tenderness he uttered the last sentence! To what was it the. prelude? It must not come upon me' too suddenly. I could not bear the fullness of its ecstacy. but I no longer doubted what for long I had suspected -Algernon's heart was mine. As he bade me good night he held and pressed my hand. I fear my head, in spite of the injury to my cap, fell one brief instant on his ? manly shoulder. I heard something like a sigh ; then he tore himself away. I .as again alone. Thc next day I did not see him on way to the studio. Two men were \ him, so he could not stop. They1 w rather rough-looking men-evl-. de models. Shortly after one of th*: tassed down the stairs and went out. Then Algernon came. "Where is your visitor?"I asked, "They have both gone," he said. I thought it strange I had not seen j the other man pass, tout soon Alger- ] non's. presence made rae forget al] j else; only he seemed distrait'and IirStTj ease. Perhaps I had been too cold, too dis tant, and so had wounded his noble heart. I silently swore to throw off the mask of maiden modesty, and show him more of the true heart which beat but for him. Before, however, I had gotten my courage to the point, he had gone. I sat alone for two, perhaps three hours, until the twilight fell. Then a sudden desire assailed me to go up and look at the progress of his work. I had not seen the picture since the day it came, and he had been with me a fortnight. Softly I opened the door. The pic ture was on its easel, covered with a cloth. The cloth I gently raised, but I could discover on the canvas no change. Doubtless, lost in thought of me. Algernon had striven in vain to pursue his art. I sank into a chair and gave myself up to sweet reverie, when suddenly I started. A loud and violent sneeze sounded close beside rae. I sprang to my feet and looked about the room. It was empty, save for the two wooden models and myself. One of these models Algernon had evidently been copying, since he had dressed it in the brigand hat and coat he kept for that purpose, and which he once had shown me. A great terror assailed me** I searched every corner of the room. In vain-I could discover nothing. At last I went out. but taking the key from the door I locked it behind me. On my way down stairs 1 caught a glimpse of Jenny's (my maid of all work) young man, escaping through the back door. I did not approve of followers, but Jenny was so good and faithful that I sometimes had to shut my eyes to the somewhat frequent visits of the young butcher, who evidently intended her to share his lot. Somehow my recent fright made the presence of a man, even the butcher, a thing to be de sired. "Tom!" I called. He came back, bowing awkwardly. "I don't mind if you stay to tea." I said. "I had a little fright just now, and I'm nervous. I'd feel better to know you were in the kitchen, within call." "Thank ye, miss! but I can't stay to night, and ye needn'i be nervous, for I'm just after seeing Mi Vernon look ing out of the studio window." "Mr. Vernon has been gone two hours," I said. "Well, certainly it was some one else in the studio, for I certainly saw a man's head by the window when I came in, a half hour ago." His assertion made me doubly ner vous. "It is very strange," I said; and then I told him what had happened. "Let me go up and look, Miss Lor ing." he suggested. Consenting. I led thc way, 'jut stood back that he might enter alone-Jenny meanwhile bringing up the rear. It was now quite dark. Tom struck a light. The room was silent and empty. Had some ghost been playing us tricks? Doubtless If Tom had had only my story he would have been at once satisfied that my imagination only was at fault. As it was, he looked about him puzzled and perplexed. Sud denly he made a spring forward. "Don't, don't!" 1 cried. "You will disturb the model!" But too late. He already had clutched it by the throat, and, to my intense consternation and amazement, it,,] too, became endued with animal For a few moments the two struggled f?*. the mastery, Jenny and I mean while screaming at the top of our lungs; but before the police arrived Tem had Dound the man's hands, and stood triumphant over his prostrate form. He soon made piteous confession. Il was not his fault. He had been hired to open the door at midnight to Mr. Algernon Vernon, an.l was to as sisi, .in carrying off the booty. "Mr. Algeron Vernon?" I gasped. The fellow smiled a hideous smile. "Yes, miss," he said. "His real name is Jake Brown, however. He said there'd be no trouble in fooling the old woman, and that he had a sure thing of it." The old woman! I would almost rather they had taken my silver and my bonds.1 Algernon! Algernon! Still my heart echoes the desolate cry! Still it-is" empty! Jake Brown' ' 3?yet believe the name, at least, was basest slander on the part of his ac complice, whose term of imprisonment has just expired. Algernon escaped detection; but I have the wooden models and the un finished painting (judges pronounce it a chromo) to recall the one romantic episode in a old maid's life.-Saturday Night. NEW LICHT ON THE DWARF?, _ Sir Harry Johnston Improve? n Favorito Opportunity lo Study Them. In the month of July last Sir Harry Johnston of the Uganda Protectorate, having occasion to go into the Congo Free State to meet its officials, im proved the opportunity to restore to their homes a number of pygmies who had been kidnapped V a German ad venturer with a view to sending them to the Paris exposition. Johnston ar rested the German, released the pyg mies and restored thom to the huts of leaves and branches where they live in the great forest. Most explorers vho have seen the dwarfs of Africa have brought home only meagre information on account of the timidity of these little people. Their greater ocr.?dcnce in Sir Har ry Johnston may ha"e been d"e to j the fact that he broupht their friends l^uack to them. At any rate they gave I dum the very unusual privilege of ^making many photographs of them l:TMid of their dances, implements and [^wellings. Anthropological measure laments were also made by a member j?$t the party and the publication of [these detailed studies of the dwarfs promises to give a good deal of fresh [Information about them. 'j?Some anthropologists have detected I .Teeemblances between the languages spoken by the dwarfs in widely separ ated localities and have inferred from ??Yis .fact that they were descendants Vf an ancient people who had been _-;cat^red by tho Intrusion o? stronger tribes.' But Sir " H. Johnson arrived at the conclusion that these Congo "dwarfs no longer sneak an original language of their own, but talk, in a slightly corrupted form, the language of the taller negroes in whose neigh borhood they dwell. He found their intelligence, as a rule, to be well de veloped, and though they are often very ape-like in apr' '.rance, they are usually of a winnip and cheerful dis position, and their dances are so frol icsome and gay as to distinguish them In that respect from the average Afri can.-New York Sun. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. In Japan poor children have labels with their names and addresses hung around their necks, as a safeguard against being lost. Elongated ear-lobes are considered a mark of beauty in Borneo. Girls with this feature reaching down to their elbows are not uncommon. Congress is said to contain one member who is opposed to all legisla tion on the ground that there are al ready too many laws in existence. He favors repealing laws alreadly exist ing. In India, China, Japan and adjacent countries arc about 400,000,000 people who rarely eat meat; yet they are strong, active and long lived. Darwin is authority for tho statement that the Andean natives perform twice thy work of ordinary laborers, and sub sist almost entirely on a diet of ban anas. The British Medical Journal says that a valuable ram, the property of a grazier in New South Wales, lost its front teeth, and being unable to nibble satisfactorily, was slowly dying from semi-starvation. The services of a dentist were secured and artificial teeth were inserted so successfully that the ram is now thriving as well os ever. When General Wolfe fell on the plains of Abraham, before Quebec, in the war known to Americans as the French and Indian war, the regiment with which he had long been identi fied, the Forty-seventh Loyal North Lancashire regiment, went into mourn ing, and has not abandoned it in the nearly a century and a half since. The officers still wear black blended with their gold braid. The Isar river is one of the curiosi ties of Munich, Bavaria. It is chiefly noted for running rapidly and for ho ing nowhere near the battlefield of Hohenlinden, the poet to the contrary notwithstanding. It is a river some times white as milk, ai others green as grass, and it is probably the only river bf its size in the world which has no boats on it. Nor may one bathe in it on account of the swiftness oi the cur rent. Its principal use seems to bc for people to drown themselves in; but it also serves a real purpose, because its waters are diverted to flush sewers. After performing this service th-; waters run as babbling brouks in the city park and are utilized by the wash erwoman for laundry purposes. A jeweler of Humboldt. Neb., ls said to have built for his own use an au tomobile which weighs but 149 pounds. o o A Moral and Social Force to Be Q Beckoned AVith 'QOGOGGOOGOGOQGGOOOOGOQCGOO j I HOW THE SUNSHINE I li SOCIETY GREW, g I 1 O Beckoned v." i tn. ? 1 C? O OGQOOOGOGOOQGOOOGOGOQGQOOO The amazing growth of the Interna tional ?Sunshine Society, especially in churches and Sunday-schools of va rious denominations, has aroused much interest in many quarters. To the questions so often asked, '"How did the Sunshine Society orig in-ire':" "What is ita object?" "What has it accomplished?" and "How do 2I?S. CTN'THIA WESTOVEK ALDEN". (Founder and President of the Siclety.) you do the work?" the following an swers were made. During the holi days several years ago the President General, Mrs. Cynthia Westover Al den, was the recipient of a number of cards from her co-workers on the New York Recorder, as well as from outside friends. On Christmas Day she pro tested, and said thai, while she had enjoyed her gifts, she would have had Infinitely more pleasure in their re ceipt if Hie donor* had not written their names on them. This statement horrified her audience, who, with one accord, exclaimed: "What! You wouldn't give our pres ents away, would you?" "Why not?" was the answer. "What do you do with yours?" A laughing f SOCIETY HOTTO .-GOOD CHECH? [ Have-you-fi?d?km Pi5i.it on. Iwds not. given foi P?JJ it-on. Let it- frdvet dowi Let it-wipe- ?notk Till-m he?vcn thc Pass- it an Coi_Or\5 - YELLOW s WHITE FIOWEFV- J investigation soon developed the fact that the waste-basket was the ultimate destination of most of the cards re ceived. Sonic spent a few mouths tacked on the wall, until flyspecked and discolored; others were used as bookmarks until lop-eared; then all were thrown away without having given an additional ray of sunshine to any one beyond the immediate recip ient. "Suppose you take the history of one pretty ten-cent card that came to me a year ago," said the President-General. "It had au exquisite little poem on it, and I enjoyed it so much that I thought at once of an old uncle who would ap preciate it, and forwarded it to him. He, as I thought he would, did enjoy it, and so much that he Immediately recalled another old friend to whom it would appeal with special force. So he copied the poem and sent the card on. This recipient found the sentiment so sweet that she, loo, felt called upon to pass it on, and before the seveu days' holiday was over the card had carried its Christmas message to six different people." Inspired with this idea of sending out remembrances that might be mul tiplied fourfold, a new set of cards was given by the staff to the Presi dent-General, who immediately sent them all out again. The thanks re ceived for those cards were so pretty that an Item was made of it in the paper. This caused further corre spondence, and resulted in a club for the exchange of friendly greetings. This was formed in February. 1S90. The name "Chat" was at first chosen for the column, but in time the mem bership grew so large that a club badge and the motto "Good Cheer" were se lected, and the name "Shut-In" given ts the society. On January 15. 1S9G, the name of the society was cnanged to tbe Sunshine Society. This change was made because of conflict with a shut-in society organ ized in 1884. Changing the word Shut in to Sunshine did not interfere with the club motto or pin. The object of the society is to incite its members to the performance of kind and helpful deeds, and to thus bring the sunshine of happiness into the greatest possible number of hearts and homes. Its active membership consists of the people who are desirous of bright ening life by some thought, word or deed. The club motto. "Good Cheer." was furnished hy Mrs. W. H. Chase, of LerTerts place. Brooklyn. The floral emblem is the coreopsis, selected from thousands of sugges tions sent in by members. The flower ( hoflen was sent hy Mrs. Richard Nor ton, ol' Hlghsrowu. N. J. The coreop sis is a beautiful yellow, and is a per ennial ol' tin* daisy and sunflower family. The club colors are yellow and white, and were selected hy Mrs. K. L. fcco?eld, Stale President ot' the Cou neetleut Division. Yellow is typical of Hie golden sunshine, and white is em blematic of the purity of purpose that characterizes the sunshine work. The song decided upon by the majority vote of the members is "Scatter Sun shine," the words of which were writ ten by Lanta W. Smith aud the music by E. O. Excell. The growth of the society has been almost phenomenal. Starting from a thought, it has grown until its mem bers now number many thousands. From one parent society branches have sprung up. until every State in the Union is represented with regularly enrolled Presidents. When a State has ter branches, each ouc consisting of nt least ten members, it becomes entitled to a State President. Besides the various States and Territories of the United States, there are also branches in foreign countries. At the beginning of each year a new rollbook is opened, which contains the names ">f all who have paid their annual ?es. The membership fees are not oner ous, consisting merely of some sugges tion that will bring "sunshine" to some of the members of the society. For instance, exchange of books, pa pers, pictures, etc.; ideas that may be utilized to advantage in the sick room; work or employment that can be fol lowed by a "shut-in"; fancy work; holiday suggestions; sending flowers; a general exchange of ideas beneficial to thc members. The Board of Directors Is greatly pleased by tue fact that an Increasing number of members are, of their own accord, choosing to let the kind acts that coustitute their dues take the form of regular contributions to the eudowment fund, teu, twenty-five or fifty cents a week. Several are giving even more. The International Sun shine Society has never asked for money, and its officers serve without pay, but the passing on of articles sent by members requires cash for stamps and expressage. One of the strongest organizations iu the society is the New York State Division, of which Mrs. William Tod Helmuth is the energetic President. The vice-President is Mrs. Nellie E. C. Furmau, of Brooklyn, who has di rect control of the Long Island de partment. Mrs. Furman possesses rare executive ability and many of the plans originated by her are adopted by sister State Divisions. The large illustration, showing a busy pceue at the headquarters of the International Sunshine Society in New York City, is reproduced from the Christian Herald. MODERN ELECTRIC CAR SEATS. Individual Chairs That Can Be Faced in Any Direction. When one has become accustomed to tbe long trolley cars now adopted aa a standard in this city, and par ticularly lo the cross seat future, the REVOLVING CHAIR SEATS. old type of lengthwise seats and short er cars appear as out-of-date as the re membrance of bob-tail cars filled with straw in winter. It is so much more satisfactory not to be seated facing a long row of staring, curious passen gers: but progress is not to be halted merely at the cross seats and already auother improvement is being intro duced. On the Brooklyn Heights line, an experimental car is being operated, equipped with chair seats. The interior of the car is shown in one illustration and the details of the seats In the other. These cars are also designed to be converted into summer cars when the season rolls around. The seats are individual, so there can bc no uncomfortable crowding, and are arranged in pairs, one seat of the pair being slightly in advance of the oth er. By pressing a pedal at the base INDIVIDUAL STREET CAR SEATS. the chah can be turned through half a revolution, thus permitting parties of four to have their seats facing. If so desired, besides allowing for the re versing of the seats at the end of the trip. The seats are offered both cov ered with imitation leather and in cane, lt is asserted that they have been found very convenient by both passengers and conductors alike. Philadelphia Record. UNSPOKifl. When you owe a fellow money, It ?3 alway** kind o' funny How you'd just a little rather that you didn't chance to meet. Of course you mean to pay it, And you know he wouldn't say it If he even got to thinking you a trifle indiscreet. You know he wouldn't hone you For the temporary loan you Unthinkingly asserted you would very promptly pay; But, though cordially you greet him. It is true you never meet him But you wonder if he's thinking of the things he doesn't say. -Puck. HUMOROUS^ "Why do you turn so many heads?" asked Opportunity. "So that I may shout 'Rubber!"' elucidated Fortune. "I suppose you'll be telling people that I'm a fool." "No, dear. There are some things we must keep to our selves." "Sir," said the young man, "I ask for your daughter's hand." "Young man," replied the father. "I am not disposing of her in sections." Nell-Mrs. Newrlch wants to im press everybody with her wealth. Belle-Yes; she never puts less than a five-cent stamp on her letters. She-Don't you agree with me that the romantic drama is preferable to tragedy? He-Oh, I don't know. Pd just as soon have snivel as drivel. Marie-It is queer that you never can buy me the kind of necktie I want. Arthur-I don't try to buy you the kind you want; I buy you the kind you ought to want. Smith-That dress suit of yours is rather old-fashioned. Jones-Non sense! I've been wearing it for 10 years now, and you're the first mart who ever said that about it. "How did you like my 'Ode to Lim burger Cheese?' " asked the poet. "It was both odious and odorous." replied the man wi , 1. .ving read it felt that he could afford to be brutal. Blobbs-I suppose Talkalot wears hats with those little air holes in there because they give his head the proper ventilation. Slobbs-Or may be he finds them easier to talk through. "Ah, Mirabelle!" he sighed. "May I not hope that you will be mine for ever and for ever?" "If you wish to hope that long. Mr. Sophtie, ' she re plied, "I don't ?uppose I could stop you." "That meter doesn't seem to be as large as the old one," commented the property owner. "Do you think it'll do?" "Don't worry7-bo-t>s.^replied the gas office employe, reassurm^?p^?Sit?i?"*^* fill the bill." "So you're a professional nurse/now. I thought you were just a lady's maid." "I was. but I've been in the service of Mrs. Imogen Ayshen for four years, and she's a professional invalid, you know." "I've b?en on this road 10 years," said, the brakeman on . a local train to a passenger who complained^ bf" the? slow time, "an' I know what I'm talk ing about." "Ten years, eb?", said-the passenger. "What station did you get on at?" A Mathematical Prodigy. It is said that a little six-year-old girl in Bloomington, 111., is the young est salaried employe in the United States. Her name is Florence Monte Miller, and she is the daughter of a real estate operator in Bloomington. The precocious little one is said to have been able to read and do simple problems in arithmetic before she was four years old. Not long ago, the story runs, as she watched her father making entries in bis day book, she asked if she might help him. Wishing to humor the child, Mr. Miller told Florence that she must first prove her ability by copying on* on a sheet of paper all the entries he had made in the great leather bound book. To hts surprise. Florence succeeded in doing this with perfect accuracy. The handwriting was neat and legible, and not a single error marred the transcription. Then Florence was allowed to post the entries from the day book into the ledger, and since that time has been a recognized member of her father's staff. The child attends school, but seems to be happier in play hours with her ledgers than in amusement. She has shown talent, also, for drawing and writing, and altogether is regarded as a prodigy. The Hoy and the Do?. There is no truer friendship than that of the boy and the dog. There are no happier days to which the grown man may look back with a tender* regret for their passing than the days spent in the old home fields with the faithful four-footed compan ion of youth. Confidence between boy and dog was perfect The dog per haps was not a thoroughbred, and had come into the world minus a pedigree, but the boy accepted him for what he N was, and in the blessed ingenuousness of youth may even have found an oc casion of added pride in the dog in some characteristic which he now knows was highly to the animal's dis credit as determined by the bench show standards. And as for the dog, on his part, too, he took the boTT?r>w^" what he was, asking of him no more than that he should condescend to make himself a demigod for unstinted confidence, affection and worship. If the scientists would devise a way to represent the care-free happiness of boyhood days in some equivalent of '%?& foot-pounds, the amount of it jurdy accredited to the companionship of hoy and dog would be expressed io many tons.-Forest and Stream. Itewtoratlon of thu Mooee. Thirty years and more have passed since the kingly moose was driven, through lack cf proper protection, from his grand ancestral home in the forests of the Adirondacks; and now, after this long lapse, the royal exile is about to be reinstated in his ancient - domain. No project will be watched by sportsmen with keener interest; nor has there ever been a movement set on foot relative to the wild game which means so much to so many. Field and Stream.