CANAL AT RAPIDS BOARD OP ENGINEERS TO MEET AT PORTLAND MAY II. Declilon on Plans Will Then Be Reached May Modify Harta Plan to Keep Within Limit Will Also Examine Route Scheme for Continuous Canal From Big Eddy to Cclllo. Washington, April 15. Representa tive Moody, before leaving Washing ton, bad a final conference with the member of the Board of Engineers having under consideration the open ing of the Columbia River from The Dalles to Celilo, and was informed that the Board will meet In Portland May 11 to consider more fully all data that has recently been collected by Major Langfitt regarding the portion of the river to be improved. Mr. Moody says that, while It la Im possible to say what the Board will finally report, its conclusion will largely depend upon calculations to be based on data that has been com piled by Major Langfitt, bearing on the several modifications or substi tution for the Harts' project. Mr. Moody alsp had under consider ation with the engineers the removal of one of the reefs at Ten-Mile Rap Ids, with a view to facilitating steam boat navigation up to the lower end of the proposed state portage road That proposition will be considered by the Board when It meets. The Board will prooably visit the obstruc tions In the river and will determine , for Itself the need of blasting on this reef. Having viewed the river dur lng the Summer, the Board at Its coming .meeting will have opportunity to see the stream at the high stage of the water and form a better idea of tne volume of water to be controlled. The Board will make an extraordi nary effort to devise a practical plan that can be carried out at a cost not exceeding Captain Harts' estimate for his original scheme, and there Is some hope that such a plan may eventually be found. In the light of data that has been collected bv Ma. Jor Langfitt, the Board will be able closely to estimate the cost of the several modifications of the Harts project that have been proposed and will also be able to estimate the cost or other schemes that have been brought forward by other engineers. Mr. Moody has urged that if the Harts' plan In an amended form Is not agreed upon, the Board seriously consider the proposition of a contin uous canal from the Big Eddy to Ce lilo, and determine whether or not auch a canal can be built by making use of natural channels through the rocks to the south of the river, at a cost not greater than Harts' estimate. This suggestion will be Investigated and, If it proves feasible at reason able cost, may be accepted, as the ad vantages of a continuous canal are recognized by many of the officers. ENQINES CRASH HEAD-ON. Four Are Killed and Two Mora Will Die Details Meager. Halifax, N. "S., April 15. Four per sons killed, two fatally hurt, at least one missing, and several others slight ly Injured Is the record of a head-on collision on the Inter-Collonial Rail way which occurred just before mid night last night near Windsor Junc tion, 17 miles from Halifax. The poles and telegraph line along the roadside were wrecked, and this city was cut off from communication with the outside world for hours. The trains in collision were the Canadian Pacific Railway express . from Montreal and Boston for Hall fax, and a fast freight from Halifax for Montreal. The conductor and driver of the freight had orders to take the siding at Windsor Junction and let the express cross, but. for some unknown reason, Driver Cope land of the freight, ran past' the Junction on the Eain line and met the express two miles beyond. It Is thought that Copoland may have lost control of his train, which was made up of 75 cars. The freight was running 25 miles an hour and the express, which was two hours late, was traveling about 45 miles an nour. Doth trains were hauled by new and powerful locomotives, and they crashed together on a level piece of road skirting a lake. Proposed Treaty With Cuba. Havana April 15. Minister Squires today outlines to President Palma and Foreign Secretalry Haldo the details of the permanent treaty between Cuba and the United States In accordance with the proposition prepared at Washington. The naval stations agreement, the ratification of which is now pending in the Senate, will not be reopened, but It is understood that ownership of the stations, is covered In the treaty, in addition to the Isle of Pines and the Piatt amendment features. There Is no doubt thnt a permanent treaty will be concluded soon. Slide nisses Passenger Train. Salt Lake, April 15.-A special to the Herald from Evanston, Wyo., says that a landslide occurred at the east end of the Aspen tunnel late today burying the Union Pacific tracks 18 or 20 feet for a distance of 200 or 300 feet and badly caving In the end of the tunnel. It la thought the tracks cannot be cleared for at least 24 hours. No one was killed in the slide as far as known. The east-bound pas senger train had Just passed through the tunnol when the slide came down the mountain. Just missing the train. Coal Mine Explosion. n.ansas uiiy, April 15. A special to the Journal from South McAllster, I. T says: Five men were killed and two severely burned today by a gas explosion in wine u or tne Kansas & Texas Coal Company at Carbon, I. T. The cause of the explosion Is un known. Seventy-five men were In the mine, but all escaped Injury except the peven who were working In the chamber where the explosion occurred. CUT IN TWO BY 5TEAAER. Schooner Run Down on Gulf two Chil dren and Sailor Drowned. St Louis, April 15. A special to the Republic from Galveston, Tex., says: The schooner Margaret L. Ward was rammed and sunk by the South ern Pacific steamer El Rio, 25 miles east of Galveston Bar, last night Two children of Captain McKown, of the schooner, were lost and one sea man of the same vessel. According to Captain McKown, all his lights were burning brightly and every possible signal made to avert the collision, but the big steamer bore straight down upon the doomed ves sel, cutting her in two and sending her to the bottom immediately. From accounts of the collision given by the engineer, Clark, and. Chief Mate In galls, It was about 30 seconds from the time of the colloslon until the Ward sunk. The captain had his family on board. They were asleep In the cab in. The mate saw the steamer and started to ring the bells. The whole crew turned out; all bells were ring ing, the whistles were blowing, all hands on deck were shouting for dear life and both anchorage lights were showing when the El Rio struck the schooner carrying away her aft-gang way and wheel-bow and cutting into the cabin. All hands took to the rigging. Cap tain McKown had his son in his arms, but was struck with something In get ting Into the rigging and the little fel lew slipped into the sea. Mrs. Mc Kown gave the little girl to one of the sailors who was lost in trying to save her. RAISED FROM THE DEEP. One of the Spanish Ships Sunk by Dew ey's Fleet at Manila. Manila, April 15. The warship Reina Christina, the flagship of Ad miral Montejo, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey, was floated and beached yesterday. The skeletons of about 80 of her crew were found in the hulk. One skeleton was evidently that of an officef, for It had a sword by Its side. There are fifteen shell holes In the hull of the Relna Christina, one made by an eight-Inch and others smaller. The main injection valve is missing, showing the ship was scut tled when abandoned. The hull Is in fair condition. Captain Albert R. Couden, com manding the naval station at Cavlte, took charge of the remains of the sail ors, expressing a desire to give them an American naval funeral. The SpanlBh residents are anxious, how ever, to ship the Bkeletons to Spain, and It Is suggested that the transport Sumner convey them to Spain by the way of the Suez Canal in June. A wrecking company Is endeavoring to raise all the sunken Spanish war ships. PERUVIAN CIVILIZATION. Or. Max Uhle Has Been Able to Trace It Back 2,000 Years. San Francisco, April 13. The ear liest American civilization, for ante dating the generally accepted limits of pre-Columbus culture, has been traced In Peru by Dr. Max Uhle, di rector of the anthrologlcal excava tions and explorations of the Univer sity of California in that country. Where heretofore Inca traditions had led scientists to believe that Peruvian civilization extended back only a few centuries before the coming of the Spaniards, the archeologlcal work of Dr. Uhle has established the fact that a great civilization flourished 2000 years earlier, at the least esti mate, and that a cultured race, of higher development than the Incns was In existence before the Trojan war. This remarkable discovery follows as a result of the studies made in the two expeditions which Dr. Uhle led m recent years at the expense of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and under the aus pices of the University of California. DAM BURSTS IN COLORADO. Irrigates Valley Too Suddenly and Drives Out Residents. Delta, Colo., April 14. The dam of the Bonney reservoir, near Olathe. 15 miles from this city, gave way early today, causing damage estimated at from $50,000 to $75,000. The reser voir is owned by the Garnet Ditch & Reservoir Company and furnished water for irrigating the Garnet mesa. The company's house below the dam was demolished, and Its occupants bnrely escaped with their lives, being forced to wade through several feet of water In their night clother. Riders were sent out to notify the farmers living along the Uncompah gree River above Delta, and it Is thought that all escaped before the flood reached them. Crops in many places will be ruined, and several hundred head of cattle are reported as lost The Denver & Rio Grande track was washed out for a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. . Religious Riots at Brest. Brest, April 15. Serious , disturb ances attended the congress of Cath olic clubs held here today. The cler icals Indulged in a series of manifes tations In favor of the religious con gregations, which led to street con flicts with socialists. A number of ar rests were made. Tonight the social ist workmen organized a counter demonstration, and 3000 of them pa raded In a body through the town, singing revolutionary airs and shout ing "Down with the priests." She Wants No Reform. Pektn, April 15. The Dowager Em press has issued an edict repealing the comprehenlsve stamp taxation scheme, which Yuan Shi Kal, Gover nor of the Province of Chi Li, was about to inaugurate throughout thiB province. The edict assigns the pov erty of the people as the reason for the repeal of the scheme, but it is be lieved Yuan Shi Kal's enemies pro cured it for the purpose of crippling bus proposed reforms. RAIIS CHECK FARM WORK. Winter Wheat Looks Well-Frost Nips rrult In California. Washington, April 16. The Weather bureau issued the following weekly summary of crop conditions: In the districts east of the Rocky Mountains during the week ending April 13, the temperature has been highly favorable for growing vegeta tlon, but farm work was verv eeneral ly retarded by rains in the Lake re gion, central valleys and Atlantic coast districts, while complaints of lack of moisture are received from portions ot me central and West Gulf states In the Central and Northern Rocky Mountain districts and on the North ern Faciflc coast the season is very backward, and Washineton and Oregon have suffered from cold, wet weatner. m California the conditions have been generally favorable, with the exception or some damage by frosts The condition of winter wheat is generally excellent, and It has made splendid progress since the first of the month. In the Unner Ohio Vallev. however, the freeze of the 4th and 5th caused some injury. On the whole the conditions of the crop in the winter wheat belt east of the Rockies la more promising than for years. In Califor nia the outlook Is also promising, but in uregon and Washington the condl tlons of the crop are less favorable, especially In the last named state, where about one-third of the acreage win De resown. Spring wheat seeding is nearly com pleted in Iowa- and Nebraska, and is progressing well In South Dakota; none has yet been sown in North Da kota and in Northern Minnesota, but in Southern Minnesota some has been sown on rolling lands. By the close of March, which was a very .mild month, all fruits were unusually far advanced. The reports now indicate that many varieties of fruit have suffered severe ly for the month, particulary the peach. In California, while some damage has been done by frost, the outlook Is favorable; on the North Pacific Coast the season is so backward that fruit has not been exposed to injury. TWO KILLED BY TORNADO. Storm Sweeps Over Remote Part of Ala bama With Deadly Effect. Birmingham, Ala.. April 16. A spe cial to the Age-Herald from Evergreen, Ala., says: News has Jii3t reached here by tele- phoie confirming rumors of heavy loss of life and property in the neighbor hood of Peterman and Burnt Corn. wrought by the tornado which passed near there yesterday. Ten persons are known to have been killed, numerous barns and residences and outhouses were swept away, entailing a loss which will rep.ch high In the thousands. On account of the bad condition of the wires communication is difficult. H. P. Salter and his mother and child were riding along a road and were opposite a clump of trees when the storm overtook them. A heavy tree that was uprooted by the wind fell across the wagon, crushing all of the occupants to death. Several residenc es were demolished, the timber falling on the occupants, killing or injuring nil within the buildings. It will probably be several days be fore a correct list of the casualties can be obtained, as there is neither telegraph nor railroad connection. The heavy rains have rendered the roads almost impassable. Peterman is in Monroe county, and Is not within 25 miles of a railroad or telegraph sta tion. All the news so far received has come over the telephone lines which are several miles from the path of the storm. i WIND S UCKED CREEK DRY. Freak of Tornado That Visited Illinois- Score of People Injured. Springfield, 111., April 15. One death, a fatal Injury and a score or more of injuries resulted from a tor nado that swept Logan, Dewett and Piatt Counties this afternoon. The fa tality occurred on the Halsadarser settlement, a farming community three miles from Atwood. Piatt Coun ty. The home of Clifford Halsadarser was demolished, and after the storm Halsadarser's Infant son was found dead 300 feet from where the house titood. His wife was hurled across the street and fatally Injured. Mrs. J. B. Martin's home was de stroyed and several guests were pain fully injured. Deer Creek, in Logan County. where the storm first struck, was swept dry of water. Reports from this district state that three houses were destroyed and a number of peo ple more or less Injured. Supervisor Schanaeur's handsome residence was destroyed. The family of sever?' children and a number of visitors, IS In all, sought safety in the cellar, and the house was torn from over them. The homes of Samuol V. Baldwin end Gus Knecht wei, destvoyed. Mrs. Baldwin and two farm hands took refuge In a smokehouse In which they were hurled several hundred feet and painfully Injured. Asks Germany to Fxplaln. Washington, April 16. The State Department has asked the German Government for a statement of the facts connected with the deportation from the Island of Ruk to the island of Ponate, another of the Caroline group, a number of native students of the American Mislonary establishment there. The matter was brought to the attention ot the State Department for mally by Rev. Dr. Judson Smith, sec retary of the American Board of Mis sions. Flooding Burning Mine. Sydney, N. S. W., April 15. Through a sluice cut through a dam opening into the old workings, water is now pouring into the burning col liery No. 1 of the Dominion Coal Com pany, at the rate of nearly 3.500.000 gallons an hour. The mine Is flooded up to the seventh level, and there are four more levels to be flooded be fore the fire is reached. This will require an estimated 450,000,000 gal lons of water. Cornell has twenty-six fraternities. A woman's brain declines in weight after the age of thirty. Niagara Is worth $1,000,000,000 as a source of electric power. The poor classes abroad make ex tensive use of pnper quilts. Polo is probably the oldest of ath letic sports. ' It has been traced to 000 B. C. . The army of 60,000 men costs the people less thnn $1 per capita per an Men over forty are employed In Liv erpool, England, to do errand boys' work. One hundred and forty -five cardinals have died since Leo XIII became Pope. A new hotel In New Tork City has a capacity for 1,200 guests and em ploys 1,800 servants. The highest mountain In the moon Is at least 85,000 feet, that Is1, 6,000 feet higher than Mt Everest. Successful experiments have been made for obtaining alcohol and sugar f(om pine and birch sawdust An English writer has recently de scribed a battleship as the last word mechanical genius, naval construction and cash payment can say In aggres siveness. The South African colonies and Isl ands owned by Germany have no local legislature or even crown councils. Each is ruled by an autocrat appointed by the Emperor. A Canadian inventor claims to have invented a system of telephoning be tween stations, utilizing the railroad tracks Instead of a line of wire for the transmission of messages. The report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1002 shows a total of 49,- 490 applications for patents, Including designs, and that 27,776 patents, in cluding designs, were Issued. Star, reglstra-general of vital statis tics for Scotland, declared his opinion that bachelor life was more destructive to males than the most unwholesome- trade or the most unsanitary sur roundings. D. Milburn, son of the well-knowu Buffalo lawyer In whose house Presi dent McKinley died, is a member of the Oxford boat crew this year. His almost equally athletic brother has missed the "eight" Mrs. Annie Rosenberg of Laramie, Wyo., is the only woman undertaker In the Rocky Mountain region. She holds a certificate of competency from the Colorado Board of Health, having first engaged in business in that State. The Automotor Journal, London, de scribes a new traction engine called the "pedrall," which literally walks upstairs with the stride and sure-foot-pdness of an elephant, and hnuls loads far In excess of those the wheeled trac tion engine can move. The famed crystal palace of London has been purchased by Imre Klralfy and will become the center of the cluss of amusements made popular by the Klralfy brothers. Several others prom inent In the theatrical world are asso ciated with the purchaser. Dr. L. Forbes Wlnslow, founder of the British hospital for mental disor ders, and one of the greatest living authorities on lunacy, is CO. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Wlnslow, first Governor of New Plymouth, who left England in the Mayflower In 1020. Bernard Shaw, a learned Londoner, Insists that "copper" Is a proper des ignation for policeman and much pref orable to the term "bobby," now in common use in the world's metropolis. Copper, he says,, is an excellent Snxon word, describing a man who pursues and captures. Secretary Cortelyou la one of the few remaining men in public life who affect the pompadour style of brushing the hnlr. Fifteen or eighteen years ago It seemed as If all mankind had the pompadour craze. When "Pompa dour Jim" came on the stage every sport thnt wns a sport wore his bris tles rampant. M. Witte, the Russian minister of finance, is an ardent temperance work er. He Is a teetotaler and Induced the Czar to decorate the men and women who are the most active in temper ance work. He makes no secret of his preference for teetotalers In the vari ous offices of the department he con trols. There are Bixty-three committees In the House of Representatives at Wash ington, and only one of them was en tirely exempt from the effects of Inst fall's election. That Is the committee on expenditures In the Treasury De partment, of which "Bob" Cousins of Iowa Is chairman. Every other com mittee lost from one to Ave members through defeat In convention or at the polls. Judge Shlras, who has just retired as a Justice of the Supreme Court, gains $2,500 a year by the passage of the bill Increasing the salaries of the members of thnt tribunal. He wished to retire some months ago, but the deAth of Justice Gray delayed the ac ceptance of his resignation. Meantime the increase of salary became effective and he will receive $12,500 a year dur ing the remainder of his life. OVERTURNING THE INK. Thing that I flnrs to Make a Belf-Poa eased Man Foolish. "The vicissitudes of life are hard to bear, and I have had my share of them," said a treasury official to some friends one day last week. "I have also had many really startling experi ences, though I managed to pull through them, and In doing so at all times preserved a cool head and a steady hand. But there Is one thing, apart and above all else, one with which I can compare no catastrophe as nerve-racking in Its results, at the same time rendering a man so utterly helpless and foolish, as the upsetting of an inkstand. My experience has taught me that It is true of man In generaL Having done desk work all my life, and nearly always surrounded by fellow clerks. I cannot recall one instance where a man has retained his equilibrium in this simple but trying situation. "He may have commanded a ship or fought nobly in battles, and such trifles as burglars are only to be laugh ed at but this same man. with a rec ord for unparalleled bravery will, at the overturning of a bottle of Ink, spring to his feet in a wild style, make a desperate, though ridiculous, grasp for the stand, and knock It across the desk on some important papers that need not have come in contact with the Ink, even though a quart had been spilled. But the man Is managing the accident; conseauentlv. he ela more papers and succeeds only In bath ing tnem in the black puddle. Then he swears In every known tongue, and either In a fit of temper or through fresh awkwardness that every one around thought he had exhausted innr ago, will dash the stand upon the floor, wnere it or its own free will, drains Itself only on the bright snots In th carpet Then.vas something he has not thought of before, and can't under stand why he hasn't tllA man crro Via for his real linen handkerchief, taken rrom his hip pocket with Inky hands, and the white vest and starched ahirt come In for their share of the decora tions, as well as the trousers, which he has been assured can never be worn again. Finally, when he has succeed ed In smearing everything in sight, making the small auantitv of ink spread out into unheard of lengths, he gets nis Drcath and slowly his senses, then gradually wonders whv ho did any of the silly things he did do, and sees so plainly how the whole thing mignt nave been saved hv tho nnu.v use of a blotter or an inexpensive tow-1 el. The next time he remembers none ! of the simpler methods, but makea a tool or himself Just as he did the firat time, and the tenth time with all the times In between. But he consoles him self with the thought, rather the fact, that all men make fools of themselves under the same circumstances. Nobody knows why, but they do, which Is rea son enough that they always will." Washington Post. TOOK TEACHER LITERALLY. Tho Boy Wrote of f omrthlns "Within Himself." During her vacation one of the teach ers in a west side grammar school was thinking over her English work and decided that there bad been too much reproduction required. She felt that she must plan to develop originality in her urchins. So on MuUay last her schedule required "Original composi tion topics suggested by the hol.d.iy season." At the beginning of the period she explained matters carefully. ."Now. boys," she taid, "I know you have nil had a' merry time and I am pure there will be mnny things for you to te'I iik about in the form of a letter or a story. Just be yourselves. Don't wil e about anything you huve heard or read. 1 want eiich one of you to write of some thing that Is within himsilf remem ber, within himself." The results were satlfactory In the main. Indeed, several very natural and boyish accounts of an afternoon's w ety in the park, a visit to a chum's Christmas tree, or a tussle In the fnjw on the riverside were the outc.iue of the plan. She found one effort, in the form of a leter, Just a trifle too lit eral, says the New Tork Times. It read: "Denr Teacher: There is not much within me to-day, but ther was more on New Years. I had within me afur diner some soup turky with ' oistft dreslng, cranberry sors, potatos and gravy sparowgiass on tost nuts laiscns plumpVdlng candy and Ma let me have a sip of her coffy Just cause it wns New Years. No more now fiom "FREDDIE." Not Safe for Angels. The woman with the enameled ten cup sipped and told this story. She snld the Incident happened in Brook lyn. "A little boy stood at the window watching the snow falling upon the pavement and blowing together Into dusty patches. " 'Aunt,' he said, 'do the angels, send the snow?" " 'Yes, dear,' said aunt, without look ing up from her book. "There was silence for awhile. From out the house across the way a white capped maid came with a broom and swept the sidewalk and the steps. She was the maid of Mrs. S., a very fas tidious, fussy old lady, who has n strong dislike for both children and dirt. Indeed, she seemed to regard the words as synonymous. Only that day she had sent little Jack and his chums away from her side of the street. "Jack watched the maid for a while,' continued the narrator, according to the New York Times, "then he startled his aunt with this statement: "Well. I'd pity the angels if Mrs. S. catches them putting snow on her steps r " The law making it a crime to employ children under 14 should have been made to work both ways. It should be a crime for boys over 14 to be loafing the streets during school hours. iMIMMHHIIIIHHW OLD i FAVORITES j H- M I t t nil! I I t Tho Wear In. -t k. n. O, Paddy dear, and did you hear the news mat s going round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow On Iriah trrnnnA Saint Putrick's day no more we'll keep. mi i-uioro can t De seen. For there's a cruel law against the wear ing of the green. I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me bv the h Ann And ho said, "How's Door old Ireland' and how Antkm aVia manAVI Shea the most distressful country that ever yet was seen, They are hanging men and women for me wearing ot the green. Then since the color we must wear is England's cruel red, Sura Ireland's sons will ne'er forget the iiwu inai tney nave shed. You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod, But 'twill take root and flourish there, tho' underfoot 'tis trod. When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow, And when the leaves in summer time ! meir verdure dare not show, Then I will change the color that I wear ' In my caubeen, But till that day, please God, I'll stick t wearing of the green. But if at last our color should be torn. from Ireland's heart, Her sons with shame and sorrow from their dear old isle will part; I've heard a whisper of a country that lies beyond the sea, Where rich and poor stand equal in the I light of freedom's day. O, Erin! must we leave you driven by a tyrant's hand? Must we ask a mother's blessing from a I strange and distant land? Where the cruel cross of England shall nevermore h up on And where, please God, we'll live and die Btill wearing of the green. The Old Armchair. I love it, I love it! and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old una chair? I've trensured it long as a sainted prize. i uweweu u wuu my tears, I've em balmed it with my sighs; 'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart; Not a tie will break, not a link will start;. Would know the spell? A mother sat there! And a sacred thing is that old arm chair In childhood's hour I lingered near The hallowed seat with listening ear; And gentle words that mother would give To fit me to die, and teach me to live; She told me that shame would never betide With truth for my creed, and God for my guide; She taught me to Hrp my earliest prayer As I knelt beside that old arm chair. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eye grew dim, and her locks were gray ; And I almost worshiped her when she smiled, And turned from her Bible to bless her child. Years rolled on, but the last one sped, My Idol was shattered, my earth star fled! I learnt how much the henrt can bear, When I saw her die in her old arm chair. 'Tis past, 'tis past! but I gnze on It now With quivering breath aud throbbing; brow; 'Twas there she nursed me, 'twas ther she died, And memory flows with lava tide. Say it is folly, and deem me weak. Whilst scalding drops start down my cheeks; But I love it, I love it, and cannot tear My soul from a mother's old arm chair. Eliza Cook. Triumphant in One Field. That a girl cannot throw a stone, drive a nail or spin a top as success fully as a boy is pardoned, by a writer in the Washington Post, because si can accomplish one marvelous feat which, he declares, no man or boy can ever equal. There Is one thing no man could ever accomplish, even if he were a noted contortionist and that is but toning a waist that has the buttons sewed on the back! A man doesn't live who could but ton a shirt up the back without going mad. I have watched my wife, and every time she accomplishes this feat of buttoning her waist In the back the feeling comes over me that, after all, compared with women,-men are a lot if iuipntient and worthless beings. Why, I can't button it standing behind her with both hands free. I tried one evening, when we were In a hurry. I won't say that there were "a million buttons, each about as big as a pin-' head, but there were a good many of them. "Look here," said I, "let me 'fasten .hat dress," and 1 began. In five min utes I had buttoned three buttons, and. ;ny wife remarked that I was not mak ing much progress, and In two minutes, ihe had fastened every one of them. A woman's arms must be put in very free In their sockets to permit of uer reaching back that way, and slip ling those tiny buttons into the but onholes without ever getting red in ;he face or trying to kick the cat or iolng anything like that Women may not be deft In a few- little things that there's no occasion for them to be deft In, but for patience tnd self-control men cannot compete with them. Women la Dublin University. Women, It la reported, are about to be admitted to graduate at Dublin Uni versity. After a man passes fifty, nothing in the show line la very good.