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way* 1 - 1 > » .t' iiwi'Wr mu *•+>*< - ! Ufore thaa tCTeuty firo per cent, of the population of Spain live on farms. They tell a story in Lisbon He., of e man who in his prosperity builded him a 125-foot henhonse, and, when adversity overtook him, hied himself thithc" with fiis wife, and, after mak ing some alterations, lived there modestly but in comfort. Says the Philadelphia Press: “What a wonderful romance is wrapped up in the life story of the late Blanche K. Bruce! Prom slave to statesman. From the shadow of tho auction block to tho fierce light of a public career; from obscurity to tho repre sentative of a race. The colored man need not go outside his own racial environment for inspiration to a great and useful career. As Booker T. Washington has said, tho ultimate fate of the colored man lies largely in his own hands/’ DEADLY NEW BULLETS. “Just come aboard from the Hainc, sir!” was the simple formula by which Master-at-Anns Load announced to the officer of the dock of tho receiving ship Vermont, at tho Brooklyn Navy Yard, his own arrival and that of four of his shipmates who had escaped from tho wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor. Mon of action are men of few words. Sailors are generally tender-hearted men, but in the navy little time is expended on outward expression of sentiment. Reports are brief and orders are stern. It is a hard, though not necessarily a hardening, life. "While much is sai"! from time to time of our trade relations with Great Britain, Russia, Germany and other European Powers, but little is said of our trade relations with Switzerland; and yet, according to the Atlanta Con stitution, we yearly import from this little republic goods amounting in valuo to several millions of dollars. Last year our imports from Switzer land aggregated 313,109,040. But what does this little country product that, in spite of our abundant sources, we necessary to skts'id so much my Jlhat marketj^ answer Ur pbstioa is the UNENVIABLE LOT OF THE MEN WHO MUST FACE THE MAGAZINE GUNS. One of tho MoUem Style Mli<itle« Will I’a*;* Throngh Seven Soldlem Stood in I.tno —A Le:ulen Hull Will I.»y Vnw an Ad- vuiicinc Foe—Wounded Self*Treated. It has been said that the new army rifle is “humane”—that it punctures clean holes, and is less likely to inflict dangerous injury. According to the best evidence, however, the fact is very much the other way. Tho new- stylo bullet, very long and with a diameter about the same as that of a lead pencil, leaves the gnu with a velocity of half a mile a second, with a pressure behind it of forty thousand pounds per square inch. Four miles from the muzzle of the weapon, it is traveling at a rate of one hundred yards a second, and will penetrate the abdomen of a man w ho happens to bo in the way. Owing to its velocity, and to its rotary motion of twenty-four hundred revolutions a second, it de velops an explosive energy when it strikes anything at a moderate range, splintering bones into'small pieces ayd effectually destroying any organ like the liver or kidney. Owing to these conditions, a man who is hit in an arm hone or leg bone by a bullet from a modern rifle must in nearly every instance die or submit to amputation. A hole through an im portant blood vessel, | being punched cleanly out, results in profuse and dangerous hemorrhage right away, so that tho victim is likely to die before surgical aid can arrive. Much valua ble information in this lino has been obtained by firing exiicrimentaliy at corpses at various ranges, and observ ing tho character of the injuries .in flicted. It has Ijeen found in this man ner incidentally,'.that one of these bul lets will pass through seven men stood in line. Tho French have done a good deal of experimenting with silhouetted- soldiers, cutout of boards and fire from given distance’ F*3m the suiting hits tln y'have tried to reckon, casualty percentages. Under i£ 0( ] ern conditions troop: within fy-ing distance of an enemy will have t^, nieet a veritable hail of bullets., A NjAnlern rifle is able to deliver forty^i a minute. Herr jPrinz, a Ger- jruan military surgeon, writing of the recent civil war in Chile, says: “The Balmacedists, who were no cowards, declared that their astonishment, caused by the terrible storm of pro-Jj STRANGE MONSTER, THIS. Living Below Ground, It Seeds Neither Light Nor Air. That an animal may live nearly two hundred feet below the surface of the earth without a bit of sunshine or the smallest opening for the admittance of fresh air seems an incredible thing, but Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., has just received scientific proof that such a thing is possible. The proof, too, is conclusive, for it is the possession of the animal itself and a ^4;* Xi ho re-Ptosci r ound in Article*. Amount. Bilk and silk goods «3,62^,173 Cotton and woolen tissues. Laces aud embroideries.,.. Straw goods Clocks and watches Music boxes Cheese Leather goods Aniline colors All other articles 720,:r.r. 5,222,G7;l 33a,m 82a,cd;. 98,21(1 715,327 27,437 643,7;>1 800,072 Total $13,103,010 Is there not a valuable lesson for us in tho foregoing (able? If little Switz erland, with its sterile rocks and re stricted environment can furnish tho United States r.loao with products ag gregating in value high up into tho millions, ought there to be any limit to our own possibihti; t? Tho United States Agricultural partment has recently sent out some interesting figures bearing upon last year’s cotton crop. These figures show that tho entire acreage allotted to tho cotton crop aggregated 23,278,209 acres, and that the crop itself aggre gated 8,532,705 bales, or .37 of a bale to each acre. Tho acreage of la year’s cotton crop is distributed among the various States in the following manner, the percentages being used instead of the exact figures: Texas 24.877 Georgia 15.227 Mississippi 14.075 South Carolina 10.974 Alabama 9.771 Arkansas 7.037 Louisiana 6.617 North Carolina 6.115 Tennessee 2.771 Indian Territory 1.027 Florida 571 Oklahoma 413 Missouri 282 Virginia 135 Kentucky 00! Utah 001 Kansas 007 From tho foregoing table it appears that Georgia is accredited with ^1.877 per cent, of the entire acreage devoted to cotton last year, and that she ranks in the list second only to Texas. In the quantity of cotton actually pro duced, Georgia also ranks second. With respect to sea island cotton, how ever, she ranks first. Of sea island cotton Georgia last year produced C4,- 6C8 bales, Florida 26,431, South Caro- jectilcs, left them unable to use their^ own weapons.” In a battle the rifles described will be supplemented by im proved Gatling guns, which fire one thousand shots a minute, with a A inile aTBi U.f. AN CNDEBGROCND MONSTER. (An animal that lives nearly two hundred feet below the surface of the earth without a bit of sunshine or fresh air. ] careful and accurate description of its manner of living and the method of its capture. The animal referred to is a species of the salamander, but it is much dif ferent from the little red lizard-like animals that are often found in mud puddles after a hard raiu. Indeed, it could not live for any length of time in the open light and air like the sala manders with which we are acquaint ed. The bottom of an artesian well 181 feet deep which was recently bored at San Marcos, Texas, seems to be the only place where the little creature has been able to exist; at least, the only place where it has ever ! been found. The three specimens of this won derful little animal, which has been christened with the scientific name of Typhlomologe—the name feeems as strange as the animal—w-ere given to the Cornell University, Xfuseum by Hector von Bayer, architect and engineer of the United, States Fish Commission. It is sajrtt that only six of the species have eTer been found, and that these haY* all come from the same artesian As it has several peculiar char- fcteristics heretofore entirely unknown to scientists to have existed in living animals, the typhlomologe is the most important and interesting of all tho remarkable tailed bactrachians. The illustration gives the reader a good idea of the appearance of the ani mal in a general way, but a close ex amination shows the most striking peculiarities. Its skin is pure white in color, and there is no external eye whatever. Its legs are unusually long for such a small animal, the propor tion being greater than ever before known among tailed batrachians. zle velocity of a qnartc: of a second, and au effective range of one and a half miles. Under such circum stances, obviously, it will not be pos sible for military commanders to risk their troops in the open inasmuch as to do so would bo wholesale suicide. To illustrate tho destructiveness of modern weapons on land, let it be supposed that a command is well post ed aud concealed with a six-gun bat tery of those small breech-loading cannon, a couple of Gatliugs, and a regiment of 701) infantry armed with Krag-Jorgensen rifles. A hostile force of twice the strength approaches to within a distance of 3000 yards. The range being carefully calculated, al lowing for the expansion of the cones of fire from the artillery, the six can non will cover a line of 1440 yards. At the word firing begins, and in ouo minute thirty-six shrapnel are hurled at the advancing foe. They burst 2000 yards in front of the enemy, scatter ing 10,800 messengers of death _nong them. In the same minute the two Gatlings deliver 2000 shots, and tha 7000 rifles discharge 14,000 projec tiles. In sixty seconds tho space oc cupied by 1500 men has been swept by a tremendous storm of 26,800 mis siles, and two-thirds of the oncoming soldiers are laid low. One more min ute, with another such discharge, and few survivors are left to tell tho tale of the disaster. The wounded in a modern land battle will have small chauce of res cue. It will not be possible to remove them from the fighting line daring the conflict, because the hospital bearers attempting the task would be killed. The best that can be hoped is to at tend to them within the next twenty- four hours. Tho stern facts having been realized, instruction has been given to every private in the United States Army in the art of taking care of himself in case he is hurt. He carries at his belt what is called a “first-aid packet,” containing a roll of bandages, au antiseptic compress, and antiseptic gauze, inclosed in a sealed rubber casing. If he suffers from a bullet wound, ho stuffs a plug of tho gauze into the hole aud applies a bandage. This may save his life and give the surgeon a chance when there is an opportunity for treatment. X-Rays In War .Hospital*. Milwaukee man, one Lyndo ra lley, appears be the first man to use the X-ray in the war hospitals in case of hostilities with Spain. The great ease with which a bullet or splin ter could be found iu the humau body with this strange light commends its use at once. It would seem that tho Government officials would ap prove of its adoption. According to Mr. Bradley, it would bo a very sim ple matter to provide for the ray on a war vessel, but the introduction of a machine on the field would be attend ed with considerable difficulty. For instance, a small engine, boiler and dynamo aud the machine itself would Jiavo to be put on wheels for field service. This outfit, however, would be much lighter and more easily transported than would be imagined, aud the one Mr. Bradley has designed could be built iu a week. Mr. Brad ley has long been au enthusiast in the use of tho X-ray and has done some excellent work with it. In ease of war he proposes to build a machine aud offer his services to the Govern ment. I’oor Carlotta. The latest news which has been given to a sympathetic w’orld concern ing the condition of poor, mad Car lotta, the ex-Empress of Mexico, is Better Than Cat*. A savant has discovered how to slay mice and rats by means of a bacillus, which he has named after himself, and which is supposed to be far more fatal than the cat. Tho exports of tho port of San Francises during 1897 amounted to liua 10,709 bales and Texas 2500 bales. 1 8-10.000,000; the imports to $39,000,- '000. Jeweled Button*. Jeweled buttons are seen on hand some gowns of silk and velvet. Tur- quois, rubies, emeralds and topazes are the jewels most in use. The but tons are of medium size, and are real ly works of art. Women Student* In Switzerland. According to a recent report made by H. Bleuler, the Commissioner of Education in Switzerland, there are now 614 young women taking courses in Swiss universities. Geneva has 331 female students, Zurich 166, Lausanne aud Berne each sixty, Bale two, while the Universities of Neufchatel aud Freiburg have none. Old Black Glove*. Nothing is better to renovate black silk or ribbon than the water in which a pair of old black gloyes has been boiled. Use a quart of water for each pair and boil till the color is extracted. In cleaning with it do not iron the ribbon, but pin it smoothly on a board or table, or roll it round on a new rolling pin devoted to this purpose. that she has never rallied from the shock which dethroned her reason at the time when her husband, Maximil- lian, was shot and that her health is in such a state, she can survive but a short time. _ Sex and tho Dreg*. It is quite evident that vagaries in dress do not signify in man what they do iu woman. A threadbare coat and bad taste in dress w-ith a man do not always mean that he has a threadbare brain. Ho may be a gentleman of cul ture and—of misfortune. “But,” as a sociologist once remarked, “he may have hard work to make people be lieve it.” Nevertheless he can force belief in the proper environment, and then his shortcomings iu dress are of ten hailed as idiosyncrasies of genius. With a woman it is different. A badly dressed woman, so either through ca price or absolute lack of feminine taste, is rarely agreeable and good humored. There are exceptions, however, but even then, no matter how fascinating her conversation may be, no matter how her common sense and knowledge pf interesting things may attract one, she can never overcome the effect of bad dress; the higher the order of her iacoomplishments the more pronounced become her imperfections of clothing. Yet she seems to glory in the anomaly, when she should feel ashamed at it. Gossip. * Miss Edith Grier Long, a graduate E if Wellesley College, has been work- ng since July, 1895, as pastor’s help er in the South Congregational Church iof Bridgeport, Conu. Mrs. Tingle, wife of tho Rev. G. W. Tingle, pastor of tho Congrega tional church of Jewell, Iowa, has been licensed to preach, and is sup plying the church at Gilbert. The 250 nurses who have been em ployed during the typhoid epidemic at Maidstone, Eng., are to bo presented with silver medals by the Maidstone authorities, in recognition of the town’s gratitude for thoir services. Tho regular Baptist Church lias three ordained women—tho Rev. Mary |C. Jones in the State of Washington In 1882; the Rex*. Frances E. Town- slcy, 1885, and the Rev. Edith Hill Brooks of Kansas, this year. Tho laje Mary Cowden Clarke for fche last fifty years of her life never permitted any change in the style of ler dress, and invariably wore the licturesque and old-fashioned gowns which were in vogue in the late forties. Miss Florence Higgins has just been appointed professor of oratory and director of the department of elocution in the Northern Indiana College of Law at Valparaiso. Miss Higgins is the pnly woman now occupying such a position. Mrs. Boomer, President of the Local Council of Women in London, Panada, has been appointed a member iof the High-Sohool Board of that city. The appointment was made by the Board of Aldermen, and it is the first time that a woman has held the posi tion there. Mrs. Cora ChaplaiffWeed of Musca tine. la., has presented a petition, signed by 1,809 prominent citizens of her state, in which she asks for a diplomatic appointment to either Switzerland or Germany. The peti- is at present in the hands of President McKinley. Mrs. Weed is a trustee of a leading college in Iowa. Large congregations greeted Rev. Edith Hill-Bockcr at the First Baptist Church in Guthrie, Okla., where she has lately held a week’s meetings. fThe Oklahoma State Capital says: '“Many who had heard of her work ia Kansas were prepared to hear eloquent discourses, but all admitted that she jwont far beyond theif expectations.” Oneida, N. Y., has a child-study club of twenty-five members, who have been listening to a series of lectures by Mrs. Cornelia James. The mothers of Baldwinsville, N. Y., have a “Woman’s Union” for a similar pur pose, aud large and flourishing mothers’ clubs are to bo found in Oswego and Syracuse, the latter being Under the direction of Mrs. Eller Mitchell, Ph.D. There is on foot in Chicago a move ment to establish a hospital for tin free treatment of women too poor foi medical attendance, and a building o: fifty-six rooms, 3111 Indiana Avenue has been biased for the purpose, is claimed that there is in Chicago n< hospital where self-respecting poo; women can obtain free treatment, ex cept by students, who are allowed attend to such cases for the experienci gained. A new and profitable employme for women is introducing flour. Seven firms who advertise their flour tin world over are now hiring women o: a salary and paying all their travelin expenses, to introduce a particular brand of flour into towns aud citia where it is not well-known. Two wo men are employed to go together, s that the matter of one traveling alon is obviated, and a certain amount o territory is assigned them. *»Mrs. Carrie Williams of Sau Dieg has for several years carried on in i small way the culture of cocoons fo silk manufacture. She gives some in terosting facts concerning it, whic] ought to open the way to an immensi American industry. In forty w< from the time the first leaf is fe$, th dress can be worn. The fine or coars quality of the silk is dependent upo tho size of tho leaf. One acre mulberry trees will bear three pick* ings every year. Fashion Xo!os. Among the prettiest summer goods for next season will be seen flowered muslins on plain and brocaded grounds, barege muslins, plumetis, grass lawns and plain batistes. Bright colors will be a feature of next sum mer’s dress fabrics. • Blouses, with very handsome jew eled belts aud dog-collars to match, are still in great favor for theatre and demi-dress opera wear. Most of th* latest models are finished with some sort of a pretty yoke or guimpe of fab ric differing from the blouse itself. American manufacturers have pro duced a very af.tractive lip^ 4Lsaj(ii striped moires this season whron far more soft and pliable than the moirep of other days,for they are much lighter in texture, aud the usual still underwob or filling is now omitted in the weaving. French mohair retains all its ac quired popularity for certain uses ip the world of fashion, and among <5the* spring materials are found some novel and pretty varieties in serge, armure, basket, trellis and whipcord weaves in many stylish patterns, and also in very handsome colorings. Odd arrangements of plaited frill ing, braid, velvet aud lace . ore very much used by fashionable dress makers on bodices, redingotes and princess gowns fastened at the lefl side, and a very dressy appearance ie imparted to otherwise simple gowns by the addition of these trimmings. For middle-aged women stylish gowns are made of black silk warp. Woolen goods are made with a skirt having two bias milliner’s falls,headed with a fancy silk gimp. The front has an Eton effect, with square revers and belt, pointed iu front, of satin. Vests and collars of white silk are covered with cream lace. High satin collars finished with standing lace fraises, elaborate Queen Anne ruches, detachable blouse, or flat vest fronts, long Birectoire scarfs with fluted ribbon-bordered ends, and exceedingly dainty French - looking berthas and Marie Antoinette ficht are all reproduced among the chari] ing et ceteras in dress for next seasc A device suggested by a Frer dressmaker to one of her customer to wear, where one’s arms are not plump as desired, a dress sleeve ir of the glove. This is for the toilette for a reception and uses. It is a fashion that is pa larly easy to copy at the mome^ the little poufs at the top of: sleeves form the surrounding glove almost as if the arms were Wearing the sleeves in this wa tributes to the dressy finish of ] pie toilet. The most popular colors coming season are the porcell ciuth, turquoise, cadet and blues, all the pretty shades and beige, Russian and - greens and violet to be used for a contrast in trimming. T all the tints from cream to ange will be worn, aud also : deep rose pink. Light fawi browns and beiges are csj favor just now for the gowns made for early moi_ And so is a blue and grtiy* which is useful in all 4 weather.