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~p p-N -- d- . * ESTABLISH ED 1844. TI- WEEKLY ED1TIGQ WINNSBORO. S.C.. MARCH 22, . IN MEXICC The cactus towers, straight and tall, In: Through fallow fields of chaparral; Of And here and there. in paths apart, An Aduskv peon guides his cart. An And yokes of oxen journey slow, Tn In Mexico. And oft some distant tinkling tells Wt Of aruleteers, with wagon bells, Th That jangle sweet across the maize, An And green agave 2.talks that raise Co Rich spires of blossoms, row on row, An In Mexico. -Upon the-whitened city walls A The golden sunshine softly falls Of On archways set with orange trees, A I On paven courts and balconies. En Where trailing vines toss to and fro, An In Mexico. And patient little donkeys fare Of With laden saddle bags. and bear Bu Through narrow ways quaint water jars, Th Wrethed round with waxen lily stars, Un And scarlet poppy budsthat blow, In ) - In Mexico. --E mal THE DESP _A TrRUIE S BY CY WARJ e-e-e3e- e - ge;r-gesre The slanting shafts of the setting sho< sun glanced along the level pools and two gilded the ripples and shimmering had shoals of the quiet river-the Green and river-that lay along the edge of the by ] Adobe desert, like a band of braid at low the bottom of a woman's skirt. A beft moment later the red sun dropped be- real hind the Wa'nsateh mountains,and the his day was snuffed out like a candle. by Suddenly, now, a great bla::k cloud was shoved its shoulders uporer the hills L behind which the sun sank. With for majestic swiftness it lifted its head, whE spread out its dark wings, shadowed rive the waste and filled the wild canyons shea --with awful gloom. Far out toward the the'foothills the unshod. feet of a mountain cayuse were beating the as t hard face of the desert, urged on by his the cruel spurs of. his pitiless master. For more than siyhours the horse and she rd.r had been simmering in the sam- dal mersun, and now they we!camed the shadowsducked their heads and dived in under the cloud; the horse eager for the-cool, and therider for the cover of, eiht wdosAmoetltrI -re Across the desert another rider isdn ndeis~ ~ ~ ~ ~~i knwpa hyaena ing t live rgivernghis- steed ofe sjeel, s and it c stareg, the io tel ring driver is fmpa the rain begins to. little e window. A moment later Gree t is faltin e furiosly, roaring upon the rado, roof of the cab and blurring the head- and ght. The iron horse and the ca thse Cany are ranning neck and neck now. Both sad' ders know t tatlthey are nearing the lived. stver, and so slacken their apeed. As and t he cayuse comes to the water's edge Th he~ braces his feet and stops short. Wl Theauius upirst impulse is to din iahs mout, abandon his horse and find. at the faingoadnbidge, plunge ino the e mutonarin rier Thand swit currncang-* rive rick hm sees tealgt of the engcomo- oreth hieadh hnes fuis upn. sh rtou uset uner the ride. stnsGee- h wheyon the idg hre *thelengopetostheod dripdak.I the oupie an rea the ktrea hsetiongfoef the reas the adwa < rivebn theon the bhidge h oevent ho HeAsthe lcousetivetocmed nsin ia leaupeusl upn the lrdee prsmangl indtu lopeds uptoth sustin tecysad T he amenia weresl sain thadee roaingrier The siftrcurren wear- noer rieeaimdownteman the aentine's lieoI headligtrhin fud poned hmat the rest s. swet uneThe bride. afounl~htj W * Aeynd o, biger the enotn is oo in't6ppen the ccuants of te dadwre hirtire orst therea ofo the manondead, horsenLyn thefo- they gachin the eco rivent bant Grelow Rietnhenehoever, thearkened itytold hims touchednlast laoehd takn the towe, bbe ad thel- cedae lopedi up kile the oatio (wh es a Wiethe tnaso) erele stal hosearn es- ad trapelerA seal fromth aent Stat aikev mahaleguad goane dowpased thrad to he u trinutat the bridgepsrao hpagtht th Itfrol te igheedy peop atd the toge -tah, desperado did ibethreld-btae abova passeng ere. Whnte*eca tl - inglle up tosen the stanan totheed tey ths agend tolda the mrsar of the oel thled -"Thneda' i'ourm n "adrtire mar hroea andeheny iethey suegandein the end. lgett wooden hote, whid when cale thed herked e numberi of strager's hast thamthd macrshal and Cone o hen san -wmonn upf ta door; Aoedepr .bih adohdk t the it w as robbed an rde caoldn, ailld thed opeao (whoua oay TI the agent asstoen ou and es-a hoe capeA tea door ae Unieud tte aboi mhtalad ntow thead Beoe cF lokrthe murloxhdepr. coul dsrip- aea fg iondh thteeperator hbeadi gonl~]o theI from theoufrightenedppeopleried the thea Ugn tGenRvrt eiv htsr rivl o te sraner - Fa iquid syllables, the ories ,ar fruit venders faintly rise-. I under thick palmetto shades. I down cool-covered colonnades, tides of traffic gently flow, In Mexico. en twilight falls more near and elear 3 tender southern skies appear, i down green slopes of bloomimg lines ne cascades of cathedral chimes; I prayerful figures worship low, In Mexico. %nd of lutes and witching tones; silver onyx, opal stones; azy land, wherein all seems 3hanted into endless dreamrs; I never any need to know, in Mexico. life's "aquiet, swift advaaee; slipped into such gracioas trance. 3 restless world speeds on, tnfelt, heeded. as by those who dwelt olden ages, lon,- ago, In Mexico. en Stein, in Karisas City Journal. ERADO. ToRY. VIAN. ters in the narrow hallway. The officers retreated,for the first shot jarred the hanging hall lamp out left them in the dark. Covered is own smoke, the desperado fol d the men down the stairs, and re he had been missed he was al ly over the back fence mounting orse. The horse was shot down me of the posse,and the desperado compelled to foot it. eaving the desert lauds,he headed the canyon, and at dawn rested re the trail touched the Green r. Here he found a brush hut, a pherder and a rude rowboat on ban4scof the swollen stream. Ferry me over," said the stranger, lie shepiferd came yawning from hut. Not for your fleece, my buck ep," gaid the boatman; "yon river's igerous." So's this," said the man, - flourish his firearms. "Ferry me over P. ." hen the boat bad reached the mid of the wild river the desperado ught-his gun-out again and ordered re o ver. The terri . eepmau tried 1 the fugitive that the river was ;sabie, ereuat low water-that a way down the Grand joined the 2, and the two,forning the Colo went leaping, plunging, boiling churning through the Cataract on, through which (the Indians no white man had passed and The hunted man only smiled wirled his pistol. two men would dash through cataracts, over white foaming and the next hour their frail vould be drifting silent'y between ftly shaded walls that gav e back, . io, the faintest riisple of water, almost whispered wor ds, few. h they were, that passed betw~een Lvo voyagers. idenly they found themselves in mnyon, driving dpown the raging< ru. Going over falls the boait Iriven against a boulder near the . o violent had been the shocki oth men wvere cast upon a shelf a cnrve of the river unhurt. e walls here rose thousands of .lmost perpendicularly. As the1 touched the wall above and - thene was no escape. The little ig plee on which the two men4 themselves was filled with drift .Hanging to the rock that hadK sed them was a long rope that een iip the boat; this the desper ished out. Te'l build a raft," said the out He made the sheepman carry logs, limbless and scarred,cross .nd pieces of bridge timber that drifted for hundreas of miles the mad river, and were gnawed he '.hitching post in front of a :ry church. ien he had lashed a lot of thies her he told the sheepman to~get d, and the sheepman said he'd rst. - Ih ight,"' said the .smniing villain. he wild report 4-~ his revolver the canyon,and went on and out ugh side canyofis, thundering its as back to the two men there in wfnl gorge. The bullet wthirred the shepherd's ear. c more on the breast of the ag streaum the men, nowt on the raft, were tempting Fate. They at down, hanging to the ropes, times beneath, sometimes far a the mad torrent; leaping from rest of high falls, shooting rapids :aperig over awful cataracts, At nd of an hour they emerged from arrow canyon and entered a long ci of deep, green water, slowly ng, Aun-kissed and quiet. So seeed 4the beautiful river that were oblige'd to take markers on hore to see if they really ino'.ed.I way, at the end of the stretch of aful wvater, the- river seemed to Aross its path a wall rose, red iigh. The water, running over, aowing down the face of the cliflf, streaked and striped the red stone antil it looked in the sun like a beautiful piece of tapestry, the desperado called it Tapestry ,and so it has been called ever Le river, however, did not cnd .Swinging in a long, graceful e, growing swifter and swifter, it ed into a narrow pass and became ring, frothing cataract. r some moments they saw noth id heard only the' 'awful tumult e boiling river, andl then with a that split the eurreut near the iddle of the stream. When the shepherd had wiped the spray from his eyes he saw that he was alone. The force of the sho:-k had thrown his companion into the water. He had landed, and now came limping along the bank of the river. The desperado smiled out over the foam at the helpless shepherd, who be gan to hope that the fellow would shoot him and end the awfal-suspense, but the fearless outlaw did nothing of the sort. To the shepherd's amaze ment, the man on shore-safe and free from the mad river-began to undress. When he had stacked his wet garments on a rock he walked a few rods along the bank and plunged in. Midway between the rock and the shore there was a whirlpool-a suck-hole, as the shepherd said-aud it was to avoid this that the man had gone so far up stream. He was an expert swimmer, but he was weakened from-nve-work and the long fast, and so the current proved too strong for him. It carried him past the shepherd, and suddenly his feet pointed to the suck. Round and r und, faster andrfaster, as he came at each turn nearer the neck of twe funnel, the doomed man wLirled, while the shepherd looked on, power less. As lie drew near the fatal centre the force of the water stood him up; he waved his hand, smiledl at the shep herd, and shot down to the botto'm of the foaming river. Knowing that to remain there was to perish, the shepherd suc-eeded in reaching theshore. Half starved he reached the cabi of a miner who was washing gold in the cany -n of the Color ado. There we found him--a white-haired young .man-while on our way to the San Juan goldfields in 1893, and from his own lips heard this story.-Saturday Evening Post. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A pet flea has been known to live six years. Surgeons say that T. C. Orr, of Fort Worth, Tex., has a set of teeth in his lungs. Illinois monument dealer- --ant a law enabling them to seize toljstonles for bad debts. Nearly 8000 cats were receivedl last year at the London Institution for Lost and Starving Cats. The Red sea would reach from Wash ington to Colorado, and is three times ' swdeas Lake? per cent. of those entitled to vote ook the trouble to do so Malaga usually has about 16 rainy lays a year, and at least 200 days e vhen there is not a cloud in the bine n K V. a The people of ancient Tyre were E ch experts in dyeing that Tyrian L luple remains unexceled to this day. b There was a superstition among the neient Romans that it was un'ortu ate when star.iug on a journey to neet a frog in the road. In traveling rom Rome to this country, however, he old superstition became twisted, Ls the old-fashioned negroes believe i t sign of good fortune to meet a "hop oad" in their path. In Waukegan, Wis., is an old church which has no steeple, because of a 1 ~ourt mandate forbidding such a con-1 traction. In 1862 a severe storm e wept over the town hurling the orig nl spire against the house next doort ud wrecking it. The owner of the( iose got out an injunction restraiu g the trustees of the el u ch from uildong another spire, andi this orde i ias held for 38 years. The goose was a part of every me-i lieval feast in furope. It is saidto 1 save been the first domesticated fowl, td was regarded by the Egystians as 4 acred. At one time its us&sat feas~s < rvas restricted to those of royalty.< [ Greece their flight was regarded as in omen for which people watchmed muxiously. The breeding of geese as an important indnstry in some *arts of Europe dluring the Middle S City or mna~ Drinker. Take a stroll along any of the treets of New York, and particularly hose of less aristocratic pretensions, sd you will note that New York peo ie drink milk--and some cream,while ill of them are happy in utilizing a very convenient sort of mid air dairy Eor the. purpose of keeping the lacteal provender in a wholesome condition, is well as away fromn the prying nose pthouse cat. On five out of s, awelve window sills the observer - .slee anywhere from one to 'three ittle white niilk jars, looking, awvay ip, like ready-made snowvballs, wait ing to be pelted by small boys on the eads of passers below. Prhaps in no other city in the world .does this custom of. purveying milk in small glass jars, from a half pint to a couple of quarts, obtain to such an extent as it does in New York. Up among the windows yon will find the white bottles ranged in rows, while down below it the doorsteps are the empty ones awaiting collection by the man from the dairy lunch house or the delicatessen shop or the milk depot. If the milk jars on window sills are a fair index of the amount of the prodnet consumed in New York, taken together saith those on back window sills and in ice chests, the cows in the various boroughs sur rounding, not to speak of the time honored pump auxiliary, must be kept hustling to supply the daily demand. A Title That 1s "Created." Each Prince of Wales is "created." The title''was origially granted by Edward 1 to his eldest son "and his heirs, the hing of England," so eash Prince of Wales retains the title after mounting the throne until he divests himself of it by Iormally passing it along to liis' hieir apparent. CHILDBEN'S UCn I c The Conceited Coins. "Fm just as good as silver"' The Nickel proudly cried; "The head of Madam Liburty Is stamped upon my side. I am as white -e shining As any di,""an 1 He needn't put on any airs, Fm twice as thick as he!" t "I'm every bit as good as gold!" The Penny blustered loud; "That tiny, thin gold dollar He needn't feel so proud; I For all his airs ard graces I do not give a big: I'm burnished just-as bright as he, And half againas big!" And when the Cent and Nickel Went out upon their way, Alas! the world still held them cheap, Whatevor they 'might say. The Double Eagle smiled. "You'll flin," He said, "that par is par: It doesn't matter how you boast, But what you really are!" -Outlook. How. ird Work. Perhaps you fancy the birds don't work. Just watch them next time you have a chance and you'll find they are busy every minute. During the summer thrushes get up before 3 o'clock in the morning and don't go to bed till after 9 o'clock at ,night, .so they 'work nearly. 19 hours. Think of tis next time you feel inclined to grumble when you have something4 to'.do for mother. Blackbirds are'nos so~ industrious. They only work 17 hours, but during that'time they. feed their little ones between 40 and 50:times. Have you ever seen a nest o'f young birds? If you have, I dare say that you have noticed that tlieir mouth is always open, as though-they were ready for a meal. So Mr. and. Mrs. Dicky Bird have a pretty busy time. He Mean'Zto'Be Polite. During the vis#'_* f the Prince.ss o'f Wales to the Lon hospital a little blind boy in o - the wards was sitting on.A and the princess spoke to him. n.of the hospital, thinkin ce for the lad to ko eak ing to him, s ho has been spe cess of Wal e come up and s,,e aices -h c C u .., The bow was made and 9 en a .me the spee "How are -you, t iss?'-a siee- which was hardly t :pected, but w ,h was answered by re minutes cdhversation, and the | oy returned to his chair proud and appy- s Is A Chicken 'ithout Wings. 0 Chickens with exploring disposition N oietimnes come to grief, and such o as the fate that befell a young occu- p ant of a Sonth Carolina barnyard. he chick one day found itself on the rehold of the stable. It began itsb sual round Of exploration, and pres tly scampered into a stall occupied z yv a mule. This fellow, moved'either c y hunger or a had temper, put down is head and bit off the poor little '1 ick's two wings! Strange to relate, but true, never-- t eless this chicken lived to grow up. f f course it was never as other chick- f as, and it ha-l to be very careful about It nuing too fast. It could tear along a st aight Line without trouble, but C it turned a corner on the run, over went. In losing its wings it had ost its equilibrium.t The poor thing came to a premature1 2 . One night- it fell off the roost, d landed exactly on its back. With-I t its wings it could Liot right itself, 1 d the next morning it was dead. -How a D~og Was Sold. I Here is atrue dog story: A family down towvn having a false rtinoeof the room's of the honse )la:ed some red paper~~ behind it to ~ive it the effect of firel One of the oidest days the dog belonging to the ousehold came in from out of doors d seeing the paper in the grate, de berately walked up to it and Ilay on before it, curled up iajghe best -ay to r-eceivye the glowing Jilat as it te from - the fire.- He~iemained or a few momnents. Feeling no art,he raised his-head and looked er his shoulder at the grate. Stilt eliug no heat, ite went across aind :arefully applied his nose to thesgi-ate mud smelt it. It was cold' as ice. With a' look of the most supreme isgst, his tail cur-led down betwe-en is legs, every hair oli his body say z, "'Tm sold," the dog. tr-ot'ed out )f the room, not even deigning to cast .lo>k at the p'arty in the room who rad watched his actions and' laughed o- heartdly at his' misfor-tunes. That -1 log had reason-as well as instinct. roy Times. Doll Kindergairten. Over in Germany there are 5000 ~bildren in one district alone who are ~mployed to 'dress dolls and help in] he manufacture of various kinds o'fi uvs. All the children who do this vork are under 12 years of age. They ire taught the~ art of dressing a dolli it the tender age of four. At the i1 ae time, according to the compul1- - mory education law, they are obliged a go to kindergarten for at least one ea, and that term is devoted to such biggs as the making of dolls and Iressing. them, .doing ever-ything, ini ac, excepting molding the heads, whichb is done by men expert at it. Aoftf' hat the German children have hr- -r four years of study, wheni h - e allowed to gp into the doll -factories to adit'to the family' s Income to the extent ofi a few centst The ehildren who go to the kinder arten have lots of fun making clothes yr the dollies, and so fond do they et of some of the little waxen-faced reatures that they are often sore at eart when the matron comes around na' collects them all, to be sent broad, many to America, where more ortunate little girls may buy them nd keep them for their own. Dogs and Monkeys in the Mirror. I saw a performing monkey the ther day. He went through many ricks very successfully. Toward the nd of the performance he was ordered o put on his cocked hat before a-hand nirror which he did. He was next old to set it straight, and he tried on iis general's headgear repeatedly at lifferent angles, causing much laugh ;er. When all was over, and the >rgan man, his helpers and the two nonkeys were preparing to depart, I saw that "tbe general" had possessed :imself of the little mirror and was studying his own countenance witl reat delight. He had placed th< glass on top of the barrel organ, aut be bent over it again and again, grimacing energetically. He after ward pickerl up his mirror and con templated himself earnestly and cou tentedly at different angles. His fact had been profoundly sad; like the faces f most monkeys I have seen but now the wrinkles smoothed them selves out and he nearly smiled! Why is it that dogs hardly ever re gard a picture as anything but a fla surface with patches of . color dottet over it? In all my large canine ac quaintance I know but one <tog wh sees that portraits are likenesses o people. As for his own reflection ii a glassa dog generally mistakes it fo an enemy and "goes for" it. Later when knocks on the nose and absene, of scent have done their part in con vincing him of his mistake, a dog wil look coldly, not to say despiteful.ly, q the mirror., Sometimes it is as i (logs resented their reflections a caricatures of themselves.-Londo -News. . The Pet Ileavier Thatar'oke JaiL. Professor - W.- W.' WicTntyre -< Toronto has, or had, .a'wonderful P( beaver named Buff. - Buff was caught in a .rhap at 1ovT sick ltke. He was a fine young beae abodf eighteen months old. Buff was soon quite tame, writ( Professor McIntyre, so that the tral pers could stroke him and he seeme to like it. nip . as en-uip Bufftir Puit into plorin rou h ge door into the kitchen,awd ence wandering all Over the house. t was easy to trace hi,; trail, as tell tLie signs in the shape of chairs and ules minus a leg, perhaps two, were trewn in every direction. He was imt up again, but cut his way out uce more,. this time, being beaten -itli a small switch, he thundered up a tlie fioor-with his tail, uttering a itiul cry. As it was evident that he could not e kept in the house, a small stone ouse was built for him. Buff was quite an attraction to the eighborhood, and numbers of people ane to see him, so that he was ail rvs sure of a liberal supply of bread. here was a small pond about 200 et from the house,aud the boys used take him to it daily, first having istened a small rop~e around each hind not. Buti would s wim under wat ill e came to the end of his tether, then he would come to the sar~ace d swim back to the shallow water, ,here he would sit and wash himself. A large sugar kettle was stunk in he ground and filled with water for iim. HEe was also given a quantity f popiar wood. He saw what this ueant, and set to work, cutting the rood into pieres about two feet long, etting them on end, resting agatinsi he upper rim of the.k.ettle. When ie had built the frame~work of quite ia arge house he took mouthfuls ol arth, and with it stoppe:1 all holes ud cracks, making his house frost >rof. He ex1.ibited a keen interest n everything about the place. Before og the first snowv fell, and Bufi ought his house, wher.e he spent the vinter. When spriag returned he eeued possessed by .a longing foi- hie ld home. It had been his habit to mt wood given to him into lepgths of bout two feet. One evening the boys gave him an xtra large~ supply. of wood, and his ;eemed delighted. When all wai uiet in the night Buff worked c~on inously, and, piling his short sticks igh enough for him to rea- h the .top >f the fence he regained his liberfy and 'eturned to his brothers., C:-eeks Gather Ferns. "An employment which hundreda >f poor Greeks, living in and near fw York City find quite profitable al :his seson of the year is fern gather ng, said a fern dealer in New Yorb Jity. Up to ten years ago this in lustry was exclusively in The hands oi few Frenchmen, but in the fall of 90 these men happened to engagi he services of four or five Greeks t< ieln them collect ferns. Once ii iated into the secrets of thc trade the 3reeks decided lo go into the business 'or themselves, with the result thai hey and a large num~ier of their coun rmen, now monopolize the supply >f ferns sent to the New York mar sett"-Washington Star. Shincles From Stumps. A new industry has sprung up is he cut-overpine lands of Minnesota. % Michigan shingle manufa-.turer has cated east of Sandstone with ma :hinery suitable to transform the :housa~nds of large stumps int( thing es. These stumps now stan~i rom two to four feet above gr-ound Lud are as sounid as the day the tres vas cut. - fl"f Tha hi FOR WOLFNS BENEFT. o p 4 as Wave Lines. fa The stitching on some smart cloth inj gowns in pastel shades, mastic, rose th, pink, turquoise or white is applied in be undulating lines instead of the familiar ra: straight across lines. The skirt must be acenrately measured before being an stitched,so that the curves may be ac- so curately spaced, -and so that no extra | tri length too small to admit another cure I ou may cause an awkward interval in the wi smooth undulations. The effect is th acknowledged to be very good. fr h( Black Waterea Ribbon. established baud of black velvet rib- vE boa which encircled the throat of the h winter's belle,a fe w girls,swift to seize al a newer fashion, wear strips of black sl watered ribbon. Black velvet ribbon la never goes out of fashion, year in and Pf year out. It is universally becoming. t but it has not the chic, so to speak, of the watered ribbon, which is suf- W ticently becoming, and a pretty girl will look pretty under most circum- I stances. Raising Turkeys. . i Miss Anita Martin is known all m through Texas as the"Turkey Queefi," p] on aecount of the many turkeys which te she has raised on her ranch in that gi I state. So great has been the increase n in Miss Martin's business since s & started w itffour turkeys five years si ago that she now employs two women w to help take care of her 100 stbck n, birds. Miss Martin sells the turkeysj fc r to regulai enstomers, and claims to t( haI e cleared $25 -0 this year. The i most expensive birds are those which U feed on nuts and other fancy foods; T which render their flesh sweeter and-1o more palatable. All the eggs are- :v hatched by incubators and the- food t which the turkeys eat is grown on the i ranch, thus saving much expeuse. a! Miss Martin heartily recommends all Iw women to enter the turkey 'raising a , industr. i She Is Prison Cbaplain. For several years Mrs. May Preston 1 " losson has been an interested and 0 r unselfish worker among the prisoners c I of the state penitentiary at. Laramie, r, s Wyo., and when the chaplain left the a city his place was offered Mrs. Slos- t) a son.- Ste. an ordained minister 'denomina. as had Tng misins a ind niision-~~d dwr an I can preach an excellent serion.- Her influence with the pris ouers is great, and she makes- her, chapel services so attractive that pris oners are anxions to attend instead of viewing them as part of prison disci pliue. Music, vo: al and instrumental; readings and -short talks on various appropriate topics intersperse the regalar religious exercises. Mrs. Slos son gives her services without any salary, from pure devotion to the work, and it is sail of her by the warden and other officers that her bright and cheerful influence ia creat ing a-i atmosphere of hopefulness throghout the institution. The Woman Chemist. The woman chemist who has -been the most signal influence for artistic effort in this country and, has given work to many younger experimenters is the founder and originator of the Rockwood pottery in Cincinnati. It was her rersonal knowledge of the native clays and their possibilities that gave stimulus to the project. Nol Iother city has as many working women chemists as Cincinnati,although there are some in Pittsburg and other manufacturing centres. A chemist who travels all over the Union in -the brewer's interests tells'of women who. are working in that branch of chem-~ ists' processes. There is a New Jersey woman who has made a special study of poisons. Wheni anti-toxin was first being experimented with as a pre ventive foi diphtheria this young woman,.-then newly graduated from a Berlin institute, was the chief assist-' auf of the professor . conducting the' work. She helped- make the cultures ad persontilly administered the Gial doses to the guinea pigs for prelimin-i ary experiment. WmnMine Owners. Practical mining does not seem to suggest itself. as a feld in which '.women can achieve dist'ntian, but the constantly interiu'inber of womei mine owners in Colorado and o other mining states yroves that 'there is no reason why the women of the iqu future wili not compete with men on equal ground in this important de- fu partent of industry. Many mines in Colorado are owned by women, and wi some are even directed by their femi ine . owners, who have quickly| adapted themselves to the work. Two| or three ypars ago a school teacherI while spending her vacation in Ari-b zona, located some promising claims hr through her knowledge of geology.. She secnred some good specimens; hr sold her locations in p nver and then ed turned professional ~pector. She has followed the business with per- en sistence and intelligence, and is now on making a most excellent livelihood,1i. with good prospects of securing~a for- Ia tune. A Seattle e~xchange recently Ibl recorded the sales of two groups of. mines located in the Kalso, B. . district. The locations had been made 5 by the woman and she stood by thea.g for seven'years until she finally ne-i gotited a sale. She secured $125, 000 to s her share, the buyers being Eng- di ish and French capitalists..-Denver Repubican. .r The empire gown is one-of the pret--I ar tiet of alh styles for.. the little girl, .ge 'whether for school or -pai-ty wear: "It j t2 ngs scant and straight, save be id, where there is a double box at. The short arm puffs are be ming, whether as a short sleeve' or a fnish for a long guipure sleerve. Le bodice is. finished :with a'. bet tened behind with a bow and ~ost, ; ends. This passes directly under e arms, and wide shonlder collar, rtha or fichu effect finishes the ar agement about the neck. Very short, small boleros in pleated d belted underdress are used for me of the little dresses. One has a ple bolero, very short, and slashed each side with the front trimmed th vertical pleats in clusters of ree, a cluster on each side of the :nt, from the little jacket to the am, one on each side of-,the back in e same way, a row of small White. ttons behind to the belt of stitched Ivet. The pleats are stitched down lf the distance of the skirt and then [owed to flare -in graceful fans. ,The eeves are of stitched velvet in circa-, r lines. The model is in blue-gray istel cloth, with silver fiagree but ns, stitchings of white silk and a trker shade of velvet, also stitched ith white for sleeves and-belt. For Women Who Rea4 Club -Pape. Every paper should be constructed ter a carefully. laid plan. The ad ess to be delivered will best com and attention-if its language is 'sim;-: e and forceful and every though rsely put. L6ng sentences ma;:be aceful, but the average woman has At sufficient command of her _breath - deliver them effectively. T same iprseriousness which prompts a >, -a oman to put away her natural man- - er o expression in preparing a paper r public reading suggests to her of n to dress in. a most ,unfortunate shion. No gown ' trusted atil it has worn off t 'newes he stamp of newnbss is especially bectiouable in a platform gown.' - o -oman wants-what-she: wears tota act-attention from ,what she says et the gown for publie speaking be elegantly simple as the dcasto 'ill allow. - Let it be as comfort9ble possible and as becoming. -' Nr' -hen it can be avoided, -wear-gloves ' pon the platform. The gloved hand almost as much an anomaly as the iled face. It carries with it asense - f artificial constructioi haro o ae.. Let-the lungs, abov6 Uik om. A gownmay be'asigh 4ast as fashi-er demanda-but le chest there sho LOnl chatever.-ThZ -Seen in Retail Stores. -- Cheval mirrors mounted -in maple, k and birch. Parlor cabinets and canio cases ex isitel inlaid. Pullef ribbon belts in black and a [I ran~ge of 'fancy shades. ' - Box couches of various sizes covered. th- plain or figured denim. -- Velour and tapestry tablecovers and rtieres in a broad variety of cors. Odd lots of framed pictures, fancy udoir clocks, leather goods and rich Suede leather- chatelaine bags em oidered with steel beads and mount in siler. Pastels, etchings, water colors and gravings in ebony, gilt, and fancy h frames. - Han dsome collections of Oriental. f d domestic ~rugs in exquisitely ended plorings." Short lengths in pearl and cut .jet impes as well asin bead. 4gd spans ed passementeries. Bich assortments of jeweled bi as, bels and, girdles 'embodying stinctly new design ideas. Spec'4al offerings in spangled -ir, , 6gissance robes as well -as i l rta offancy nets and tissues Card';easu, poke