IsssT.Y ,j7I 1 M I CRAZED BY HAIR BLEACH. rr-l HE danger of using peroxide of I hydrogen for blenching the lialr lias again beeu demonstrated, lu the cane or Pell Do Forest, n well known actress of New York, who has Just been placed In an atrium on Long Island. Miss Do Forest la scarce i!U years of ago. Hhe wiim for a lone time ouo of the belles of Newark, N. J. jWhen 18 years old she took It Into her willful mind to bleach her hair, and the entreaties of her mother and slater were of no avail. Copious washes of ammonia were followed by thu use of the peroxide, and noon her brown loeks leeamo (-bunged to the golden tint Just nt that time she made the nc ciiialntance of a Tnudevllle actor. She was a graceful dancer, and was finally TKI.L PR FORRCST Induced to appear with hi m on the stage in the whirlwind dance, which has since made her famous. They trav eled about the country together under the name of the De Forrest s, and Dell, notwithstanding the entreaties of her partner, continued to apply the power ful bleaching solution to her hair. She grew irritable, accusing her dancing partner of plotting against her life, and occasionally refused to perform her dance on the ground that enemies were In the audience, waiting a chance to kill her. Her condition becoming worse she was takeu home and, having been declared insane, was takeu to an asylum. A Handsome Cushion, In many households there Is very lit tle to spend on an elaborately embroid ered pillow cover. But it Is possible to make one In a short time that will be very effective and decorative. To do this take a square of dunlin of a rich red XASII.T MAHE, BUT KFFKCT1VE, shade and outline In heavy black filo selle lu one corner three conventional flowers. In the opposite corner outline one flower and darn the petals of them nil with black filoselle, working the cen ters lu buttonhole stitch to form a honeycomb effect, as shown. Then, with Japanese gold thread, couch around nit the petals outside of the black outlining. A very rich oriental eifect will be the result. Edge the cushion with a hemmed rulUe of the denim Ave Inches wide. New Field for Women, The first, woman to enter the profes sion of pharmacy In our country was Mrs. Jane Lorlng, of ltoston, lu 18UO. She was a grand-aunt of the famous Congressman, Under the old system there was no State supervision of the profession, and anyone could take It up who desired without any legal I m pod I menU. Under this system over 1.2D0 womeu became pharmacists. Of late years, however, there has been a pro found change In the Industry. Tartly to prevent competition or, rather, to restrict It partly to raise the profes sional standard and partly to protect the public, colleges of pharmacy have been started In various places in the country and laws passed requiring all candidates to pass examinations almost as strict and dlfllcult as those laid down for physicians and lawyers. The new system has cut down the number of candidates, both male and female. In Massachusetts not more than 8 score of women have passed the exam ination lu the past fifteen years. In New York the number is said to be nearly fifty, and In the various States of the Union the entire total Is below COO. Many marry and leave tho call ing; a few have retired, and a few have continued their studies and have become physicians or chemists. At the present time the total number of wom en who practice pharmacy either aa proprietors, clerks or apprentices is es timated to be about 1,500. j I The Woman's Watch. Fashionable watches are very small; the ordinary size Is about an Inch In diameter. They are carved with dec orations, either lucrusted with dia monds or covered with colored enam els. If there Is a fob or pin It Is dec orated, to match. There. are also plain gold cases perfectly smooth. The old ,0k : i MO Geneva patterns of engraved concen tric Hues seem to have disappeared. There Is an awkwardness In placing a watch on feminine dress. , If It is pinned on one side of the bodice It looks foolishly like a society decoration, and if It Is worn on a lung chain dan gling from the neck the chain Is too con spicuous, because It is out of harmony with the dress. Iloth these fashions are seen, the last one preferable. The chain in vogue Is of Ave links. Inter spersed with pearls. Better than eith er of these Is the fob chain or clmte- llne clasp, and It Is the only method that taste can Justify for a watch worn out In sight. New York Advertiser. Clara Norton's Victory, Those who believed that Miss Clara Barton was departing on a fool's er rand when she started for Turkey with relief for the Armenians, lu face of the Sultan's order that she . would not be permitted to distribute it, are now called upon to witness the success of this noble wom an's elTorts. With indomitable pluck, she refused to take no for an answer from the Sultan, and went along calm ly with her preparations, proceeded to Constantinople on her humane mission, and there made a personal plea to be allowed to administer succor to the mis erable Armenians. At first she was only partially successful, but .now comes the gratifying news that Tewflk Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, has given his assent to the demand that all relief nfforded to the Arme nians by the agents of the American Red Cross Society shall be distributed unconditionally, except that one mem ber of the Turkish relief commission shall be present. Kemarknble Wheel woman. Tlllle Anderson Is perhaps possessed of more endurance and speed qualifi cations that go to make up the success ful long-distance cyclist than any whcelwomnn in America. She is a na tive born American of Swedish de scent and is 23 years old. Almost since her first year on a wheel she has been known as a scorcher of such ability that even the hardiest men riders have never be,eii anxious t.- test her speed and stamina a second time on the road. In the recent six-day eighteen-hour race at the Second Hegimeut Armory, Chi cago, she broke no less than fourteen world's records for womeu, winding up the week by riding 344 1-8 miles In T1LI.IK ANDEItSOX. the stipulated time. Better still Is her record In the Tattersall's race. She not only won, but created a series of new records for a twelve-lap track for all distances up to a.0V miles, which dis tance she accomplished In eighteen hours, or a trille less than a twenty mile gait from start to finish. IUustratsa a I'h Me of Clrrlcallim. One of the most famous of mediwval utterances is a curious mixture of dia- bolioal wit and savage fanaticism. It is told of the Papal Legate Milo, at the suck of Beziers, in the"oruBade" against the Albigoois. History, or tradition, says that when it was asked how it wonld be possible to distinguish the heretics in the town from the Catholics the legate criod ont: "Kill them all I God will know his own." So the story goes. But did the legate ever say it? Or was it said by Arnold, the Cisteroian abbot? Did anybody sny it? The only thing absolutely certain is that, express iug, as it did, in the pithiest style, the spirit of mediaeval fuuntioism in religion, it might very well have been ottered by somebody. London News. Real Fire Is Invisible. No eye, says the scientific writer, has ever seen real fire. The flame Is leap ling In strange, fantastic form, fifteen or twenty Inches upward from the coal and with It Is a good deal of black, sooty smoke. The sooty smoke and the flames are one and the same, with only a difference of temperature. The soot which forms the flame Is redhot. coal or a particle of carbon. The real fire we do not see. The Instant that the carbon atoms become really combus tion, they are Invisible. In burning three pounds of carbon, the heated state of which gives us flame, the fire work Is done by eight pounds of oxygen. The oxygen we do not coe. The carbon we only see just before It Is burned; and the result of the burning Is eleven pounds of the compound of oxygen and carbon, which is invisible. No Saving of Time. "Before they are married," said the Cornfed Philosopher, '"It usually takes st least half an hour to tear himself sway from her presence." "And after?" queried the neophyte. "About the same length of time. You see, then she has to tell him ever so many things she wants hlir. to bring home." Indianapolis Journal. Theccral flowers, so called, are ani mals. A coral reef resembles a bed of anemones. THE ELECTRIC 6PIRIT. With wild wins fettered I rklo the wires, My II fu hmlH Issue In bllndlns Ore. Brlulit 1iumm are wrought by my flylnf uream. But my touch la flume, and ror klM U death. Since nmn liatli bound m with coil and chain, Kor H'i nor spueo ouii Dm word restrain, I wind uiy oii-clus of buruinif speed Thu round stout) over to nerve liU need. Of wurrinif winds I am kins and lord; Thn storm oin wieldltiK my radiant sword. I laugh hi IlKht aa thu swift strokes fly, Tho sullen thunders niuku alow reply. With uiyatlo passion I yearn from far To my went home 'ncuth tho northern star, And thence, on thu vuat black walls of night, I fling- groat ruya from my gatos of light. Time (lec before me, and none may know My course aa from star to star I go, For I am llfu. In the utmost dark Uod'a touch enkindled my fervid apark. Think ye to know me. O ye who raise Sly torch of Huiiih un tho world'a highways? Auk him wh(we throne la the control light Of oountleaa a una lu their wheeling flight. With fierce strength fettered, I ride the wires. Prnmethetu spirits have tamed my fires, But Uod alonu, in his ohoacn hour. Can free tho force of my nameless power. Slurion Couthuuy Smith. A KUSE THAT LOST. 1)0 wus my first love, and so far as I oau toll, she muy prove to be my only one. She is now a buxom wife: with some four or live rosy, romping children, and I am still a bachelor. But time is a great healer, and I can now tell the story of my luckless suit with Dora Rndgwick without a paug. Dora wus the only daughter of a re tired London medicul man, At the time I first made her acquaintance her father bud retired from practice and was a widower. I fell bead over heels in love with the girl though I can hardly be lieve it when I look at her today and she consented to marry me if the old doctor guve his consent. She never pro fessed to have any deep uffectiou for me ; she liked me, however, and was willing to become my wife if her papa approved. But the eccoutrie old man wonld not hear of it. I remember how dejected I was after he hud told me, with consid erable vigor, thut I could not become his son-in-law, and how indignant I felt at his declining to give me any reasons for his decision. The following day I met an old college friend in Bond street Douglus Bligh. " You are not looking very bright," he said. "What are you worrying about? Bligh also was a doctor. Be had walk ed the sninn hospital as old Rndgwick,' only many years later. "A love affair," I confessed, with a forced smile. "Ah I I thought something of the sort. Girl thrown you over?" "No, not the girlthe father t" "Oh, that's nothing I If the lady is willing, love will find ont a way, and papa will come round. " "Be is a pigheaded old doctor I beg your pardon, but I suppose a doctor may sometimes be pig heuded like the lest of us?" "Undoubtedly. Do I know him?" "Dr. Gordon Rndgwick." "Oh, yes. I am acquainted with him. I alto once met Miss Rndgwick. I con gratulate you, old fellow. A charming young lady, 'pon my word. But the old man ha I ha no wonder he rejected you I" "Why?" "You are too healthy I" "Too heulthy !" "Yes. You ought to have some in teresting and deep seated disease some thing complicated and lingering 1" "I what on earth are yon driving at, Bligh?" "Don't yon know? He's" and he touched his forehead with his forefinger. "You don't mean it?" "Yes. He is mad on one point He has a contemp': for healthy people, and respects only those who are , suffering from some terrible disease." "But his daughter never told me." "She doesn't know. They have kept it from her. And this is thecanse of his want of parental affection. There is ab solutely nothing the matter with the young lady. Mow, what he wants is a son-iu-law riddled with disease. You must get some internal growth or" "Good heavens, Bligh I" "Come with me and I will coach yon up in all the symptoms of a most inter esting malady. Everything will then turn out according to your best wishes. " ' "But how did yon discover you were in possession of this striking disease?" said Dr. Rudgwick in a state of ecstasy. "Well, I have had suspicions for a long time," I replied, "that something was wrong, but I kept the opinion to myself. A fow days ago, however, I tried to insnre my life, and the medical officers of half a dozen companies reject ed me. I then went to a first class man, was thoroughly overhauled, told exactly what was the matter with me and in formed that I was one of the most ex traordinary cases that had ever come under his notice. Be gives me only six months." "Ah I The symptoms are most remark able. I have not been so interested for a long time. It is certainly a very curious case, unprecedented in its complexity." "Do you really think it is so serious?" "Oh, I hope bo. I think I may safely assert that the man yon have consulted is absolutely correct in his diagnosis, if the pymptoms are as you cay. " "Do yon think I shall survive it?" ".Not unless you allow the course of the disorder to be interfered with by those sentimental quacks who binder the advance of pathological science by seek ing cures. " "But six months is very short," I said despondently. I "Not at all. With care, the thing may be induced to run its coune even more quickly. Drugs and a low diet may be made to do a good deal in accelerating matters." "What would yon advise? Should I consult Sir John" "No, no, nol Don't consult anybody. Don't meddle with it, or yon may spoil 11." "But perhaps a cure" "Cure, sir) Don't talk such sickly nonsense, or I shall begin to tbiuk it possible that yon could do such a mean and dishonorable thing as to rob medical science of one of the most instructive, bouutiful and striking cusos that huve ever enriched the literature of -pathology." "What, then, is the use of pathology Jf doctors are not to cure?" "Putbology, sir, treats of diseases, their causes, effects uud symptoms. It is a branch of knowledge, an interesting abstract study, a recreation. It has nothing to do with treatment, cures and luch like quackeries. " "Bat what may be sport to you is death to us." "Why, we must all die, and what could be nobler than to die in the cause of science? By the way, yon were speak ing to me about my daughter the other duy." I shook my head in a melancholy manner. 'Well, I have been thinking I spoke hastily. She is yours. I shall be proud to have you as a sou-in-law. To watch the course of your coupluint will be a privilege and a delight. Marry as soon us ever you like. 1 think yon will find Dora somewhere about the house. See her und fix the mutter up. " But Dora wus not to be seen that duy. She had gone to her room indisposed. When I called the next morning, the housekeeper told me thut Miss Rndg wick hud gone on a visit to friends at Brighton, but had left a note for me. I opened it and reud as follows: "I overheard yonr talk with papa, and am so very, very sorry for you. I do so hope that your stute is not so bad as you fear, and that you will not lose courage and will soon get well. "Of course everything must now be at an end between us. It would be mad ness to talk of marriage. I shall always think of yon as a very deur friend, and I want yon to believe that you will have my most sincere syniputhy. ' I put the letter in my pocket and went home. What a mess I hud made of it I First I had gained the consent of Dora and failed to obtain that of her futher. Now I hud obtained the doc tor's consent and lost the daughter's. Fancy her overhearing all that I said and thinking I wus speaking the truth about the diseased stute of my body I And yet, why should she huve supposed I was lying? One thing was certain. I must find her out and explain alL Dr. Rudgwick knew the name of the friends whom Dora had gone to, bnt he could not tell me the address. He had been uccustomed to allow her to go and come pretty much as she pleased. A week passed, several days of which I had spent at Brighton, without any thing being heard of her. One morning I strolled round to Dr. Rudgwick's to learn whether bis daughter had written, when I saw an empty cab standing at the door. . "Miss Dora has jnst arrived, sir. I'll tell her you are here. " I stepped into the drawing room and waited. In a few minutes I heard the dear girl running down the stairs. My heart leaped with joy. "How do yon do?" she said, placing her little hund in mine und looking in to my eyes with infinite pity. "I do hope you are better. You axe looking pretty well." "My dear Dora, I was never better in my life. That was all untrue about my illness. I am in perfect health." "Untrue?" "All of it. I will explain it to yon another time." "Then you are not going to die in six months?" "I hope not, nor in six decades. Are yon sorry?" "Sorry? Of course not, but" "I have your father's consent to our marriage. Darling, you will now be mine?" "Impossible!" "How so?" "Well, the fact is I I am mar ried I" I sprang back amazed. "You see, I thought you were a doom ed man. I heard it from your own lips. Marriage with yon would have been mad, impossible. And papa's strange talk alarmed me, especially when he gave his consent. I was terrified and feared his anger. So I went away to friends at Brighton. There I met Cap tain Ainswortb. Be was my first love, and I have never really lost my affection for him. He asked me to marry him, and well, I did so at once, as he is go ing out to India. You really cannot blame me, can yon?" - No; I didn't exactly blame her, but I cursed my fate, and I told Bligh that he was the biggeBt fool in his profession, for which he has never thoroughly for given me, though he says he 'has. Lon don Tit-Bits. Napoleon's Adrloe About Bortanss. Louis, who was governing Holland with reference to its own best interests, and ordering the affairs of bis own fam ily rigidly, bnt admirably, received a se vere and passionate reprimand from the emperor for his economy. What was wanted was pay for the troops, plenty of conscripts, encouragement for the Dutch Catholics, and a giddy court, where men would forget more serious things and where Queen Bortense could make a display. "Let your wife dance as much as she wants to. It is proper for her age. I have a wife 40 years old, and from the field of battle I recom mend ber to go to balls, while yon want one of 20 to live in a cloister, or, like a wet nurse, always bathing her child." Professor Sloane in Century. A Bond. "Yes," said the Cnmminsville sage, "I don't doubt that having fought in the same regiment is calculated to bind men together firmly, and so is a mem bership in the same lodge, but for real, heartfelt sympathy gimme two fellows who have the same kind of rheuma tism. "Cincinnati Enquirer. GUIDES' TRAIN3 IN SAFETY. A Tonnf Woman of Kama With Impor tant Matter on llxnd. Mis Byrd Wutkius of Topoka has the distinction of being the only woman train dixputohnr, on a single track, in the United States, und the responsibility of such a position uttuchcii no Utile im portance to tha yonu wumuu who holds it. Miss Wutkius is stationed at Junction City, on the Kansas division of the Un ion Puciflo railway, n through linn from Kansas City to D.'uver anil its branches, the Junction City uud Fort Kearney brunch, from Junction City to Concordia mid Belleville ; the Solomon City branch, from Solomon City to Boloit, and the Salinu und southwestern branch, from fcjalinu to MoPhcrsou. Miss Wutkius is one of the three "shifts" working eight hours each, and is on the second "trick," as the time between 4 o'clock in the ufternoon and midnight is culled. She is in full charge MISS nVIID W ATKINS. of the ofllcn during that time. Her dnties as dispatcher on a single track differ materially from those of a double track dispatcher, us meeting points must be made for all trains going in opposite di rections. She is a Eentuckian by birth. Her fa ther, who was a lawyer, died 14 years ago, leaving a wife and three daughters, of whom Miss Byrd is the eldest. She is jnst past 23, and her progress in the line of work she has chosen has been rapid. Her first situation was that of operator for the Union Paoilio at Deer Trail, Colo. From that place she weut to To peka and was employed by the same railroad there forfonr years, nntil Octo ber, 1894, when she was promoted to Junction City as train dispatcher. Few women have the clear head and steady nerve required to fill such a posi tion. Miss Wutkius is a nice looking girl, with a tall, slender figure, and has blue eyes and light brown hair. Her manner is pleasing and refined. "When I first went into the office," she said, "the superintendent remarked that I should be accomplishing a great deal If I learned to be a train dispatcher withont swearing. I mnst confess that I have more sympathy with men on that score, but when I feel obliged to find an outlet for my feelings I just get up and walk ronnd and round the table. I have had no accidents since I began not even a narrow escape." Miss Watkins is said to be the youn gest dispatcher on the road. The South west Railway Record publishes a para graph complimentary to the young lady, and an official of the road is quoted as saying, "I wonld not give her up for any man dispatcher on oar system. " Kansas City Star. Don't Use Slang. Bishop Potter's word at the Vassar Alumnae association, at its luncheon re cently, deserves acoentuation. His talk dealt with the abuses und claims of our mother tongue. "Slang, "said he, amoug other things, "is one of the greatest dan gers to which our tongue is subjected. Just as a coin is debased, so is a lan guage, and in this connection I will say that the dialect story, with allot its ten derness and pathos, is of doubtful val ue. " He urged upon his hearers the ne cessity to avoid the danger of which be felt sure every woman present was con scious, "that of giving vigor to expres sion by the aid of slang." He spoke, too, of the risky stimulant to the use of slang among young women from the fact that such words on their lips oreate a laugh among men. "Believe me," closed the brshop eemestly, "that on the testi mony of young men themselves you can wear no charm greater than that of re served, cultivated, choice speech. Use your eye, your mind, yonr lip, to lift up the great tongue, Shakespeare's tongue, which we all inherit." Mr. Bllnn'a Idea. A reception was given recently to Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn of Califor nia at the equal sulfrago headquarters, Portland, Or. Mrs. Bliuu said that all the political parties of her state except the Democratic had indorsed the pend ing woman suffrage amendment by reso lutions or planks in their platforms. Mrs. Blinn thought thut the accumula tion of vast rolls of suffrage petitions had better be discontinued. She said the work of securing tbem was expensive and burdensome, and no attention was paid to them. What is needed is to edu cate men into the understanding that suffrage for women will benefit meu a. well as women, and then thuir opposi tion will cease. Lady Wilds' Maaterplacs. The recent death of Lady Tilile of London recalls the fact, says u Loj Ice paper, that it was she who v,ro;p famons leading article, headed "J.ij. Alea Est," in the Dublin Nation, wi.u ,. constituted the chief count in thn crown indictment for high treason Hguiu.-t the editor of that journal, who is now Sir Charles Qavan Duffy, an octogenarian literary reclue at Nice. The article in question was published at the height of the revolutionary fever in 1843. As a sample of blood stirring English prose it still retains its place in a number of collections, and especially those) issued on the other side of the Atlantic. Five to ten drops of eardnmon In hot water will relievo an Infant during an attack of eolle. Charcoal Is a good remedy for flatu lency and acidity of the stomach. Dose . ono coffeeHpooiif ill. An exclusive milk diet Is pronounced the best for one who bus chronic ca tarrh of the stomach. Five grains of pheiineetlne taken ev ery three hours may be used with good effect In cases of neuralgic toothache. It Is claimed thut cod-liver oil, cocoa butter, cocoannt oil or sweet oil rubbed Into the skin will have a fattening effect. A little bicarbonate of soda or some milk of magnesia, ndded to milk used in Infant's food, will preveut It from curdling on the stomach. A good remedy for canker sore mouth can be made by dissolving one dram of chlorate of potash In six ounces of hot water. Use as a mouth wash every three hours. The safest treatment In washing an ear that discharges somewhat Is to use a warm saturated solution of boric acid, applied with an ear syringe sev eral times a day. Pure sulphurous (not sulphuric) acid Is a very good remedy for ringworm. The pure acid should be applied twice a duy. Cases of barber's Itch yield to the same treatment. Persons suffering with nervous palpi tation of the heart will find a good remedy In a mixture composed of equal parts of Hoffman's anodyne and com pound spirits of lavender. One tea spoouful taken hi water every two or three hours Is a dose. Quinsy sore thront may be relieved by using a gurgle composed of ten drops of peppermint, one dram of pure carbolic ncld and three drams of alco hol. Place ten drops of this solution in a tencupful of hot water, and gargle every three hours. A standard prescription for a bard cough is the following: Muriate of ammonia, two drams; fluid extract of cubebs, two drams; brown mixture, two ounces; syrup of wild cherry bark, enough to make four ounces. The dose for an adult Is one teaspoonful every three hours. OUR MINISTER TO SPAIN. Man of Extreme Determination and of Highly Strung Character. Ilauuis Taylor, the American minis ter at Madrid, who nurrowly escape-' being mobbed by a crowd of enraged Spaniards when the Senate's action on Cuba was made known In Spain, Is a man of extreme determination and of a highly Btrung nature. He Is a splen did representative of those Americans who believe In resenting promptly and MINISTER TAYLOR. plenteously the slightest Insult to na tional honor. It was through his quick action that the scientist Concas, who reviled Americans In a public address, was forced to apologize. Mr. Taylor la a native of North Carolina, and is 43 years old. At a very early age he moved to Alabama. In Mobile he rose to eminence In the practice of law. His argument before the United States Su preme Court several years ago on the constitutionality of the anti-lottery law won much praise from the legal pro fession. It was read carefully by Sen ator Morgan, and so favorably did it Impress that statesman that be recom mended to Mr. Blaine, who was Secre tary of State, the appointment ef Mr. Taylor In the arbitration of the Bearing Sea matter. Colonel W. C. Oates, Gov ernor of Alabama, commended Mr. Taylor to the President for the Spanish mission, and he was appointed to this post on April 6, 1803. Gladstone's Podding. Shelley once blurted out that pud- ding was a prejudice, but according to a contemporary, which tells the follow ing exciting story, Mr. Gladstone mere ly regards the habit of eating it too hot as a prejudice. "One day, not long ago, he was going for a drive Into Ches ter after luncheon. His pudding was very hot, so he went away from the table, changed his clothes, got ready for the drive and came back and fin ished his pudding, tlfus saving the ten minutes during which his pudding cool ed r He Knew. Teacher Now, suppose there were five boys going skating and they had only three pairs of skates; how many boys would have to look on? Boy I know; the two that got the worst of the fight Harper's Round Table. Drug Clerk "How will yon have yonr soda hot or cold?" Customer "Guess I'll have it hot; haven't time to wait for it to get cold." Roxbury Ga xette.