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ESKit'Si.. (Consolidated Pel., 1899.
CORVAIiLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1903.
VOL. IV. NO. 12.
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CHAPTER XL (Continued.)
The morning after Mr. Hastings' visit,
a letter came to Mr. Clayton, announcing
that one of his bailiffs was supposed to
have robbed him to a considerable ex
tent. The man himself had no idea that
he was suspected. Francis Clayton was
beside himself; he vowed vengeance
against the delinquent he would convict
him he would get him transported his
wife and children, should be reduced to
shame and beggary!
"I find I shall have to go back to Eng
land," he told his wife. "I shall leave
you here, and return for you in a week
or ten days."
"Oh, do take me with you, Francis,"
said the little hypocrite, pretending to
look disappointed.
"Pshaw! I tell you it is not conven
ient." "But what am I to do if you go? I
cannot go to all these balls and dinners
we are engaged to, alone."
"Nonsense. Madame de St. Geran will
chaperon you if you still want a chap
eron," added the agreeable husband, with
a sneer. "She knows every friend and
acquaintance we have in Paris."
Madame de St. Geran was an old friend
and flame of Francis Clayton's, and she
had for some reason tolerated what she
called "her English bear." Francis Clay
ton, assuming the privileges of an old
friend, paid her a most unfashionably
early visit, and she received him in a
demi-toilet of elegant simplicity in her
own boudoir, and was most graciously
pleased to accede to his request. .
"Tell madame, your wife," she said, in
parting, "that at nine o'clock this evening
I shall have the honor to call for her to
take her to the opera and afterward to
the ball given by the Duchess de Beau
cour." And Francis Clayton bent over her
hand ' and kissed it in a manner that
might have edified and astonished ma
danie, his wife. Then he returned to the
hotel, delivered the message to Fee, bade
her good-by, and kissing her coldly, jump
ed into his braugham, which was in at
tendance to convey him to the station.
Madame de St. Geran called for Mrs.
Clayton at the appointed time, and they
spent two hours very pleasantly at the
opera, during which . several - gentlemen
of their acquaintance dropped in to see
them, and paid their court to either lady,
as taste or diplomacy suggested. - Once
or twice the Frenchwoman looked curi
ously at her lovely companion, who for
once was as bright and sparkling as iu
the olden days.
"How is it possible," she thought, "for
a man to be indifferent to a creature so
divine!"
They had seen enough of the opera, anil
their carriage being called, they drove
off to the ball. In the first room Mrs.
Clayton met with Mr. Hastings. She
took his arm, and they joined the dancers
'My husband is away," she whispered.
'and I shall dance to-night to my heart's
content. If he were here he would not
let me."
The dance was over, and they were
wandering together through the magni
ficent conservatories that led from the
ballroom. Suddenly Mr, Hastings felt
his companion's hand tremble violently
on his arm. and he looked down quickly
into her face. It was crimson with
blushes. The words, "Are you ill?" were
on his lips, but at that moment he caught
sight of Col. d'Aguilar advancing, and
was discreetly silent. A quick glance,
an undecided bow, passed between them,
and they both moved on. .When Mrs.
Clayton returned to find Madame de St.
Geran, Col. d'Aguilar formed one of the
knot o men who stood talking with her.
They were obliged to speak then; and
against her better judgment, against her
. own resolve, she went- back to the ball
room on his arm. They were perfectly
discreet, their conversation was simply
such that the merest acquaintances might
have held; the danger was in the fasci
nation the presence of each had for the
other. She did not dance with him any
more than she did with Mr. Hastings: but
when she went home she reproached her
self bitterly for the time she had spent in
his society, while she never gave a sin
gle thought to Errol Hastings.
- It was three weeks before Mr. Clayton
returned to Paris for his wife, and dur
ing that time she met Col. d'Aguilar al
most every day.
Fee wanted to do her duty wanted
with all her might. If Francis Claytqn
had been a little kind and forbearing to
her, she would never have suffered a
thought even to be false to him. But he
was cruel, tyrannical and suspicious and
and well! she almost hated him. Now
and then she would make a great effort,
and strive to be good and patient and
keep from quarreling with him, but he
was so bearish and ill-tempered that her
design always failed. She was making
fresh resolves as she sat looking pensive
ly into the fire, on this particular morn
ing, but all of a sudden her thoughts wer
most unexpectedly put to flight by the
abrupt entrance of her husband.
"Francis!" she exclaimed, rising and
kissing him. "
"Yes. I suppose you did not expect
me. What a wretched fire! I am almost
f--:en,vand the room is as cold as death.
King the bell and order me some lunch."
A terrible fear seized on Fee. If he
was angry and jealous about Mr. Hast
ings, what would he say when he knew
that during his absence she had been
constantly in the society of Col. d'Agui
lar? She had never fully realized her
imprudence until this moment. What
could she do? If she told him, he was
certain to be very violent; if she conceal
ed it, and he became aware of it, the
consequences might be terrible. "It is
better to get it off my mind at once," she
determined. ' . .
"Mr. Hastings was here this morning,
dear. He came to wish me good-by."
"In anticipation of my return, I sup
pose." ( 1
"Keally, Francis, I have scarcely com-
ion patience with you. What a poor
;pntojou mTntave of; yourself Jn he j
NLY A FARMER'S
DAUGHTER.
MRS. FORRESTER.
so suspicious! Mr. Hastings is going to
England on business, and Col. d'Aguilar
is going with him."
"D'Aguilar!" cried Francis Clayton,
starting, "has he been here?"
"Yes."
"And you have met him J"
"Yes."
"And spoken to him?"
"Yes."
"And danced with him?"
"I plead guilty to that also," answered
Fee, trying to speak gayly. She was ac
customed to violent outbursts from her
husband, but the passionate violence he
gave way to on this occasion surpassed
anything she had ever witnessed.
He said such terrible things to her,
that, trembling, frightened, as she was,
her indignation was greater. She walked
straight up to him.
"How dare you use such words to me!"
she cried. "How dare you utter your
base-minded suspicions before me! I
would not lower myself so much in Iny
own eyes as to attempt to justify my
conduct. You are a .poor, miserable
tyrant, with whom it is impossible for
a woman to live and retain her self-respect.
I Will not stop under the same
roof with you another hour. From this
moment I leave you," and she swept to
ward the door. But he was there before
her, and stood with his back against it,
to prevent her egress.
"I forbid you to leave this house!"
"Henceforward you have no authority
over my actions," his wife replied, coldly.
"I leave Paris to-night."
"Then you go without servants or
clothes."
"Be it so! I care not how, but go 1
will." ,
He saw that she was resolved, and he
was afraid of her. He tried to justify
himself to make np the quarrel; she
would not hear, a word. Then he apolo
gized, humbly," abjectly; and at last she
consented to receive his amende. Their
misery was sealed from that hour. How
could a man with a mind like Clayton's
ever pardon a woman who had so hu
miliated him?
. The .Champions were perhaps, not the
most united family in the world. Mr.
Champion was - proverbially indifferent to
his wife; Sir Howard and his grand
children had perpetual altercations; and.
latterly, Mrs. Champion and her daugh
ter seemed far less attached to each oth
er than formerly. Flora Champion was
unhappy and discontented. Her aim in
life was to make a brilliant marriage, and
she failed. - . n
Scenes between her and Sir Howard
were of frequent occurrence. ' She qua.
reled constantly with her brother, and the
last and crowning part of her mortifica
tion was that he had fallen desperately
in love with Winifred Eyre. When Mr.
Eyre died, Sir Howard had gone to the
Farm and offered to take Winifred to the
Manor. But she refused not bitterly.
not angrily, but firmly. "Thank you,
she said, "I am sure you mean kindly.
You despised and slighted my dear, dear
father when he' was alive, and I will not
accept anything at your hands now." And
Sir Howard, instead of being displeased
and offended, was rather gratified by an
independence of spirit which he consider
ed due to the blue blood she inherited
from the Champions.
Meantime Winifred very gratefully ac
cepted another offer that was made to
her. The moment kind Lady Grace heard
of her young friend's trouble she came to
her and wanted to take her away to En
don Vale at once. But no persuasion
could induce Winifred to leave the Farm
until after the funeral, and even then she
clung to her old. friend, Madame de Mon
tolieu, and could not bear the thought
of leaving her. But Lady Grce was
bent on having the girl, whom she had
come to care for very dearly. So she
finally persuaded Madame de Montoiieu
to give up her cottage and go with Wini
fred to Endon Vale.
To return to Flora Champion. The
retribution which her conduct toward Mr.
Vane deserved had overtaken her. He
was Lord Lancing now; his father had
been dead six months, and he was as
indifferent ' to her as she had formerly
been to him.- And, worse than all, their
positions were reversed, and she was in
love with him, to her own bitterness and
mortification. She tried first to win him
back, and when that failed, she strove,
with all her strength of will, to master
her unrequitted attachment. Lord Lan
cing never slighted her he was far too
generous minded for that; he paid her the
same attention in public that he had al
ways done. But he never, as long as he
lived, uttered another word of love to her.
He was kind and tender to her, for the
sake of olden times, but a. brave, gener
ous heart like his could never again love
a woman who had been capable of cold
ness and cruelty.
"I will marry!" Flora vowed to her
self, "and marry well. I shall never love
any one but Evelyn, and he does not care
for me now. If a man as old as my grand
father asks me to be his wife, and he has
rank and wealth, I will take him. Surely
I have still beauty enough to buy love!"
and Flora Champion looked proudly into
the long mirror before which she was
standing.
CHAPTER XII.
Winifred was no longer unhappy. She
had not forgotten the old tie that had
been snapped so, rudely, but others had
wound themselves round her. She had
two mothers now her dear old madame
and kind Lady Grace; each seemed to vie
with the other in tenderness and care for
her. '
It was. a bright, treacherous morning
in early April, and she had just come in
from her round of visits to the conserva
tory and hothouses, laden with choice
flowers. She laid them carefully on the
long table by the window, and proceeded
to make selections. - She ' was bending
over a cut crystal vase, her hands filled
with delicate ferns, when the door was
thrown , onen and a servant announced
"Mr. Hastings." He was in the room Be
fore she had time to turn. A quick thrill
of pleasure danced through her veins.
then she drew herself up into naugniy
coldness memory and pride had come to
her aid. Mr. Hastings was certainly
neither bashful nor nervous, but on find
ing himself thus alone with the girl whom
he had loved, he felt a very pardonable
awkwardness. He chose to face it brave-
Iv. thouzh. He went quickly toward her,
uttering her name in a low voice. She
drew back a step or two, and looked at
him with proud coldness. He 'stopped
suddenly, looked at her, and turned away
deeply mortified.
"I will tell Lady Grace," Winifred said,
quietly, and would have left the room,
but Mr. Hastings confronted her.
"Do not go yet," he Exclaimed, "listen
to me for a moment first. Will you never
forgive- me? will you not let me atone
to you?"
"I will never forgive yon." she cried,
welliaz into her
lfdDa"'U.v - -
eyes, and she swept past him and left
the room.
Mr. Hastings stamped with futile anger
on the ground.
"How could J be such a fool?" he mut
torerf hetween his teeth. "I have lost all
hope of this girl, whom I would rather
have for my wife than the proudest prin
cess in Europe.'
His reflections were all cut short by
,Tt..inro nt T,!ifiv Grace, bhe was
LUC cuiiuuv-v v- r t
triad to see him; asked him why
he had not been over before, and a thou
sand questions about his travels. They
had been talking some twenty minutes
when the door opened, "and to his sur
prise Miss Eyre entered, with an air of
perfect unconcern. Lady Grace, evident
lv not knowing they had seen each other
that day. introduced them. They bowed
coldly. "
"Though I think yon have met before?
her ladyship remarked, interrogatively.
"Mr. Hastinsrs called once at the Farm
to see my father about something. We
AA not meet as equals." and she gave
him a defiant flash of her proud eyes.
Her ladvshiD pressed Mr. Hastings to
dine and stay the night at Endon Vale,
but he pleaded an engagement at home;
She insisted, however, on his taking lunch
before departing, and to that he consent
ed. During lunch his hostess discussed
her projects for the coming season.
"I am about to appear in a new role,"
she said, with a kind glance at Winifred;
"that of chaperon. I am going to bring
out my adopted daughter, and I trust
she wiil not disappoint my expectations."
"Miss Eyre will, I doubt not. more than
realize the fondest anticipations," said
Mr. Hastings.
"Sir Clavton has taken a house in
Raton Square for the season," she con
tinued: "we propose to commence occu
pying it in a fortnight. I hope we shall
see you constantly, Mr. Hastings."
"I shall be very glad," assented Errol.
"I propose to be in town a good deal,
and have taken a set of rooms in -Piccadilly."
Sir Clayton's voice made itself beard
at this juncture, almost for the first time.
"Are you going back to the Court this
afternoon. Hastings?"
Errol answered in the affirmative.
"Then Miss Eyre and I will bear you
compaay part of the way. . We have or
dered the horses for three o'clock."
Winifred bit her lip with vexation; and
Mr. Hastings saw it. and would have ex
cused himself had it been possible.
The horses came round; he offered to
mount her.
"No. thank you," she said, coldly; "1
like to be put up ,by some one whose skill
I have tested."
She seemed to delight in wounding him.
She kept persistently on the other side
of Sir Clayton, and scarcely spoke. Pres
ently they came to a gate, from whicn
the two top railings had been broken.
"Come. Winifred," said Sir Clayton,
"there is a capital piece of practice for
you." The groom had gone up to un
fasten it. "Don't open it. Mason!" shout
ed the baronet. "Miss Eyre is going to
leap it."
And Winifred immediately put hex
horse at it. and was over in a moment
"Does she sit well?" Sir Clayton asked,
triumphantly, turning to his companion.
"Harold Erskme taught her to ride."
Errol's reply was less enthusiastic than
it would have been if the last sentence
had .been unspoken. But, nevertheless,
he admired the graceful figure before
him very ardently and genuinely. When
they parted, Sir Clayton pressed him to
dine there the following week. Before
he answered, he looked at Winifred,
whose gaze was fixed blankly in the dis
tance. "I will make her love me!" he vowed,
impatiently, and he accepted the invita
tion. . -(To
be continued.) ;
. The Wandering Shade.
As I wandered down the street I no
ticed that the said street was paved
with divers and many bowlders which
doubtless were the remains of some
ancient fortification. They were rough
and full of seams and ridges and val
leys, and I marveled greatly how the
people of this otherwise m progressive
modern city stood for it.
Just then a passing vehicle caught
my fancy.
"Gadzooks and -by dern!" thought I,
"but methinks' I will have a ride; for
not since the days when we rode in
sedan chairs and upon joggly war
horses have I ridden save on the wings
of a thin mist.
So I climbed upon the wagon and
smiled a ghostly smile of rare content
ment. . "By castor and jing!" quoth I, "but
this is the real thing!"
Just then, however, we struck another
of the bowldered places, and, alas! my
spectral spine was driven into my an
cient and honorable skull so that I was
forced to fade away swiftly and reoj
ganize.
For, by my halidom! nothing of the
da.vs of yore was ever so soul-destrov-1
ing as the things I snag upon in this!
modern city. San Francisco ' Bulletin.
Raise Pay of Employes.
The New Zealand government is rais
ing the wages of Its railway employes
to the extent of $100,000.
The average savings bank deposit in
this country is more than $400; in all
Fnroa r.tr; .K.,t cmn
NO "RACE SUICIDE" IN CHICAGO.
Chicago Record-Herald.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Forbidding the employment of fe
males in certain establishments more
than ten hours a day is held, in State
vs. Buchanan (Wash.), 59 L. R. A. 342,
not to . deprive them, unconstitutionally 1
of life, liberty or property.
Ovens, engine boilers and shafting
placed by a tenant in a leased building
for carrying on the bakery business
with the intention of removing them.
are held, in Baker vs. McClurg (111.),
59, L. R. A. 131, to be removable as
trade fixtures.
Confining the right to act as agent
for foreign insurance companies to
residents of the State is held. In Cook
vs. Howland (Vt.), 59 L. R. A. 338, not
to be an unconstitutional impairment
of the privileges and immunities of
citizens of other States.
A building erected on stone posts set
in the ground on another's land, under
a parol agreement that it shall remain
the property of the builder, is held, in
Peaks vs. Hutchinson (Me.), 59 L. R.
A. 279, not to pass by a conveyance
of the land to a bone fide purchaser.
A contract by a father releasing a
railway company from all liability for
injuries to a minor son while in the
company's employ is held. In New vs.
Southern R. Co. (Ga,), 59 L. R. A. 115,
to be valid and binding to the extent
of exempting the employer from lia
bility or negligent acts of itself and
servants which are not criminal.
The marriage of parties to a parol
contract to convey property in con
sideration of marriage is held, in Hunt
vs. Hunt (N. Y.), '59 L. R. A. 306, not
to take the contract out of the provi
sions of a statute making void every
agreement made upon consideration of
marriage, except mutual promises to
marry, unless they are in writing, so
ihat the conveyance can be enforced
in equity.
Adverse possession of a part of a
strip of land dedicated as a city street,
and accepted by the authorities as
such, is held, in 'Worrell vs. Augusta
Railway & Electric Co. (Ga,), 59 L. R.
ipi, to give no title by prescription,
although such possession is under a
deed from the dedicator subsequent to
the deed to the municipality, and the
part so occupied has never been open
ed and used by the city as a street, v.'
A statute forbidding the printing of
the name of a candidate for office in
more than one column and in case of
nomination of the same person by
more than one party, forcing him to
choose on which ticket his name shall
be printed and directing that on fail
ure to make such notice it shall be
printed on the ticket first filed, is held,
in Murphy vs. Curry (CaL), 59 L. R. A.
9T, to be an unconstitutional interfer
ence with the rights of political par
ties and candidates.
HAS HISTORICAL CURIOS.
Bare Collection of Baltimore Man to
Be Sold at Auction. .
The rare collection of antiques and
clotures eathered by the late Dr. Wil-
Ham H. Crim, of Baltimore, will be
sold public auction. Dr. Crim spent
a lifetime in making the collection, the
value of -which is estimated at con
siderably over $100,000, according to
the Baltimore Herald.
The collection is v notable in many
ways and contains many .pieces of his
toric value to Marylanders. Dr. Crim
gathered more than 100 chairs, includ
ing many specimens of the daw and
ball foot varietvJClnirsajej:3re-Pbi.
jects with the collectors of antique
furniture, and those gathered by Dr.
Crim make a collection that is one of
the finest in the country.
When m Dr. Crim started out as
young man he began to collect furni
ture. Among the most interesting
pieces is a bed built for and used by
Gen. Lafayette when he came to Bal
timore in 1825. The bed has four
h!gh posts, with a canopy, and is made
of mahogany. Another bed, handsome
ly carved, was built from designs
drawn by Thomas Jefferson. A mahog
any secretary secured by Dr. Crim
was presented to President Monroe
by the minister from France.
- Another rare piece, or rather pieces.
of French origin is a set consisting of
a sofa, two arm. chairs and two sjde
chairs once owned by the Princess
Mathilde, daughter of Jerome Bona
parte, king of Westphalia. it was
Jerome Bohaparte who "came to Balti
more, fell In love with the beautiful
Betsy Patterson, a Baltimore belle, and
married her, only to desert her at the
command of his brother, the great
Napoleon. -
A dining table used in the white
house by President Lincoln, a chair
owned by Luther Martin, one of Mary
land's great lawyers, and another by
Chancellor Bland, the first chancellor
of Maryland, are also embraced in the
collection. Two chairs, a settee and
a table that once occupied a place in
the library of Chief Justice Roger
Brooke Taney, and eight chairs that
belonged to the family of Francis
Scott Key, the author of "The Star
Spangled Banner," will come under the
hammer. Among the smaller pieces
is a wine glass used at the wedding
breakfast of George Washington and
Martha Custis and a knife box that
belonged to Charles Carroll, of Car-
rollton.
The pictures. Included in the collec
tun embrace a life-size portrait of
Washington by Gilbert Stuart and
works of Rembrandt, Beale, Sandrat,
Peynne and Benjamin West. Besides,
there are numbers of copper plates,
steel engravings, mezzotints, etchings,
colored prints and miniatures.
Dr. Crim had a large collection of
rare autographs, including the signa
tures of George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson. What in itself
would be a fair-sized colection of
clocks, bronzes and Sheffield plate is
Included and -will also be exhibited.
Dr. Crim had a large collection of
arms, showing the style of weapons
used at different times in the history
or American wariare. tie secured
flintlocks, pikes and specimens of the
pistols used generations ago. He had
an old rifle and a pike used by some
of John Brown's men while defending
themselves after their raid. The col
lection includes the original bowie
knife, which" was given away by its
maker, after whom it was called. An
inscription on the sheath of the knife
tells to whom it was given and when.
Nation Adding to Navy.
The United States is rapidly adding
to its navy. In three years it will
probably have the largest number of
ships able to engage in active war
fare of any country in the world. Battle-ships,
cruisers and monitors are
now In course of construction and will
be launched as soon as completed.
The next to take to the sea is the
Pennsylvania, which will be launched
from Cramp's shipyard next season
and christened by Miss Quay, daughter
of the Pennsylvania leader, who will
break a bottle upon the bow and name
the ship with appropriate ceremony.
The starting of a ship of war upon
its Journey is such an Important cere
mony, and one attended with so many
honors, that the greatest rivalry exists
for the honor of breaking the bottle.
Wires are pulled, plans are laid a year
In advance, and often feelings are en
gendered that are quite the reverse of
friendly or patriotic.
, The selection of Miss Quay has given
universal . satisfaction In. Philadelphia
and Washington, as she is a young
woman, pretty and accomplished, and
already identified in public affairs.
Life is short, yet most men outlive
Women and Great Wealth.
In the light of certain recent matri
monial experiences of an international
character it Is pertinent to ask what
may seem at first blush to be an im
pertinent question, namely, Should
women'have money? Is it well to 'em
barrass one of the sex with a great
fortune like that, for Instance, pos
sessed by Miss Alice Thaw, of Pitts
burg, now basking in the reflected
glory of an English or Irish title?
We are. accustomed to frown - upon
things English, and one of those which
we find it easy to contemn is the law
of primogeniture that harsh law
which gives the bulk of the estate to
the "eldest son and permits the others
to hustle for a living. But is there not,
after all, a lot of common sense and
business shrewdness behind the law?
Your Englishman is not a sentimental
creature, but when It comes to hard,
rock-ribbed common sense it is diffi
cult to find his superior.
The Englishman has found by long
experience that the way to keep a for
tune in the family .is to fasten it down
and hedge it in: where fortune hunt
ers, titled or otherwise, may not lay
hand upon It by prevailing upon1
weak woman that he is worth the buy
ing. And, alas! experience has shown
that some women are weak where a
crest or a family tree or a chance to
be dubbed "My Lady," "Your High
ness," or some of the other titles which
are so much thought of across the
water, and by the few on this side
also, Is offered.
There is another kind of woman to
whom it seems wrong to intrust a vast
fortune. We mean the stingy kind, of
whom there are, unhappily, many. For
such a woman can out-Herod Herod,
or out-Shylock Shylock, when It comes
to a greedy graf p upon the dross that
we call riches. Her safe deposit vaults
are seldom opened, and then only to
put money and securities in, not to
take them out. From a stingy woman
we would beg ten thousand times for
succor.
Should women have money? They
are good stewards to a certain degree.
But for their wn safe, and for that
of the public whom they affect, we
think the question is one to be serious
ly asked, Do great wealth and wom
anhood 'travel well in double harness ?
Washington Times.
Fastest Typewriter Operator.
Miss Mary E. Pretty proved herself
the most expert typewritist in the world
a few days ago when she wrote 20,400
words in six hours
and read her own
copy from closely
written m a n u
scripts. Her work
did not average one
error to the page.
The young wo
man who has si
suddenly gathered
fame unto herself
Is just 21 and went
from Philadelphia
to fill a position in
!the Patent Office
at Washington. She
"was appointed un
der Civil Service,
having taken the
examination last October. Her sue
cess is as much of a surprise to herself
as to anybody else, for she never
dreamed there was. anything remark
able about her way of operating a
typewriter. She does not claim to use
any special' system unless it be one
of her own, which she would not know
how to teach to any one else.1 Before
going to Washington she worked for
commercial house in Philadelphia
that paid her $12.50 a week. She is
now paid on a basis of $720 a year,
but has every reason to expect rapid
promotions until she reaches $1.4C0, the
highest salary paid to a female stenog
rapher.
Those who have watched her work
say tnat tne secret or ner success is
steady nervtw and a power of concen
tration, which is better than any sys
tem ever invented.
A Champion Athlete.
Miss Grace Craig, captain of the St.
Louis basket ball club, is the leader of
a team of girls who are the champions
in the St. Louis
basket ball field.
Miss Grace is an
athletic girl of the
true type. She is j
lithe and graceful,.
with rosy cheeks,
strong arms, and)
splendid health.
She broke the
world's record in
throwing the bas
ket ball, at O'Fal-
lon. 111. MISS GRACE CBAIO.
Miss Craig does not hold the record,
as Miss' Lucille Withneli, also a mem
ber of the St. Louis 'team, outthrew
her captain, establishing a record that
surpasses the former record held at
Vassar College by almost three feet.
Miss Craig and several ' other ath
letic-inclined girls have trained the as
sistance, of Martin Delaney to assist
them in getting up a regulation field
day for girls to be held next year.
Cnltivate the Musical Taate.
Mothers, do all you can to cultivate
musical taste in your children; let
them have as much pretty, melodious
and animated music as possible. And
make them understand that they must
listen to it In silence. They are not
allowed to talk when others are speak
ing, neither should they be allowed to
when any one is playing or singing.
There is nothing to prevent children
from taking up music as naturally as
reading and writing. The notes and
the alphabet should be learned at the
same time as, I am glad to say, they
have been for several years in some
of our public schools. At . 5 and 6
most children learn to sing easily, and
little songs and exercises should be
mingled with the lessons of the pri
mary reading and spelling book. Some
knowledge of music should form a
part of every chid's education. At the
same time, it is very evident that it is
useless to compel children to take a
long course of musical study when
they have no special aptitude for it.
I have had girls confide to me that'
they dreaded the coming of the music
teacher and would never do any prac
ticing on the piano unless .compelled
to, and yet the mothers of these girls
persisted in wasting money and, what!
is still more precious, time In abso
lutely forcing their daughters to con
tinue the study.
Such unwilling scholars can never
become musicians in the mildest sense
of the word and they should be let,
after learning the general principles
of music, to give it up. Exchange.
In northern India it is still considered
not genteel for a woman,, even wheo
veiled from head to foot, to walk on
a railway platform to get in to the
cars. She has to be carried in a closed
palanquin right up to the window of
her compartment.
If the votes of the readers of the
Berliner Tageblatt may be accepted as
a criterion the five greatest women of
our time are, in order here given:
Berta von Suttner, Carmen Sylva,
Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanors Duser Ma
rie von Eber-Eechenbaeh.
. Some time ago the Russian govern
ment employed a number of women as
officials on the Ural railway. The ex
periment proved successful and at a
recent conference at St. Petersburg it
was resolved to engage women for
other railways also
Italian justice disregards sex, it
seems. A teacher .in a boys' school at
Florence, Signora . Bartelli, has won
her case against the city, which she
sued because she was given less sal
ary than men teachers doing the same
work. She was also awarded arrears
of salary due for eleven years.
The women of Alaska are taking an
interest in the Lewis and Clark Ex
position and have offered to send a
fine collection of native curios. There
la a museum at Sitka which contains a
wonderful collection of ancient bas
kets, wood carvings, totemlc emblems,
copper and silver objects, etc., and the'
governor of Alaska has another fine
collection, including some magnificent
furs, which' he has consented to lend.
- Paris Women Doctor.
For many years the medical men of
Paris violently opposed the granting
of licenses to practice to women. They
held that the profession of medicine
was not suited to women and that wom
en were not suited for the profession.
But after a long and determined strug
gle the women won the day. While
twenty years ago only seven women
had taken their medical degree, the
3,600 physicians now established in
Paris include fifty-seven women.
, Every year the faculties of medi
cine of Paris and Montpelier grant de
grees to many feminine candidates,
but French women are in the minor
ity, most" of the doctresses who ,pass .
in that country being Russians and
Roumanians. No woman physician
has yet been rewarded with the cross '
of. the Legion of Honor, but one mid
wife. Mme. Gross, holds this high and
coveted order, which has been con
ferred upon her for gallant conduct :
in the Franco-Prussian war.
Ellen Terrj'i Toe.
Years ago, when Miss Ellen Terry
was a little girl about 10 years old, she
played Puck In "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" and had to make her appear
ance through the stage floor on a trap
door. The trap-door was shut too soon
and one of the child's feet was caught.
She screamed with pain, and Mrs.
Charles Kean whispered to her: "Be a
brave girl, Nellie; finish your part and
you shall play Arthur in 'King John.' "
The trap-door by this time was opened,
but the child's, toe was broken. She,
however, pluckily pulled herself to
gether and finished her speech.
Cross of a Qneen.
A contemporary gives the history of
a certain cross that the Queen of Eng-'
land wears suspended from a diamond
and pearl necklace given to her by her
father, King Christian, just before her
marriage. This is one of-her favorite
ornaments and is a replica of a cross ,
found on opening ia tomb of a former '
Queen of Denmark, Dagmar by name.'
who was noted for her beauty. The
original is greatly prized by King
Chrlstion, It being one of the' earliest -
specimens known