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WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. l:! K l-.OE, Publisher. ENTERPRISE OREGOiV. Uaj'Hne music is to 1-e banished !-fun- the next wiiriil's fair. St. Louis will have to iuvcut something nw. Bonnets are now made to match gowns, but. strange to say. 110 one thinks of trying to make them uiatcb purses. Jim?. Sarah Oraud claims that the way to approach man and subdue him is by the dinner route. Well. this is cer tainly a better plan than lecturing at uiiii every ui-'hL The iJlasgow exhibition fame out with a protit of J4' '.. while the Pan-Auieruau lost three millions. The canny Scot takes his pleasure with an eye to money making still. Statistics sliow that one person out of each seventy in the l uited States is ensa?el in wurkiug for the rail roads. Ami although statistics du not hov It. there are more than seventy trying to work the railroads. No human society tan hud fault with an automobile banquet held even on the 1 oldest nigh:. There are Uo horses to be left outside to shiver and shake while their owners warm themselves wiUiiu and without with the best known heat producing commodities. It is a disturbing bit of knowledge the fact that six meu can remain in a submerged boat nfteen hours, with no other air to breath than that in the boat, and suffer no ill effects from the experience There will be no ven tilation whatever in sleeping cars af ter this. What the anarchists desire Is the privilege of remaining under a civil ized government with full license to assault its rulers and its institutions. Illogical as such a demand is. that is what they insist on aud what they strenuously contend for. Hut the American people have tolerated that condition of things as long as they are going to. The disciples of Most and Ciolduun have assassinated one presi dent too many. Let a people once be reduced to the condition where they can see no future for themselves or their children be yond the mental drudgery which bare ly serves to procure them the neces saries of life and they will be ready to engage in any desperate venture which gives the faintest promise of breaking the yoke. An educated man with a future before Uim under a government guaranteeing him all the rights and privileges of a free man is hard to sedu.e into conspiracies and rebellion. Jan Kubelik. the boy violinist, who learned to play on wires drawn over a cigar box, aud is in America on a jloti.mm tour, has shown great interest in American boys. "I should like to tell them." he said, "how to succeed. They must learn to wish. Until they know how to wish and wish till their whole soul is oue wish, they can uever be what thoy should be. A wish that hurts and buns that is the wish that conies true! Aud the whole world and poverty aud uo friends aud 11! health cannot stop it. If they wish they will work. Wishing and working will make the world right over for them. They boy who wouid like to succeed iie cannot suc ceed: but the boy who wishes to succeed till he cannot eat or sleep ur do anything but work for wishing he has success! "That is why you are getting flu.'.om from Ameri ca." oue said. "That is why. also. I cau play a: all." he supplemented. Kubelik is a little mote generous with his advice than he is reported to be with his money, but for all that, not even all his money couid do the good to American youth that his freely given advii-e may accomplish if it is acted ou as it may be. Because there is a lesson in the story, take your boy ou your knee and tell him ubout Eruest Armineo. who killed a schoolmate. Joe Creeitnan by name. It happened in Newport. Ky.. and has saddened the lives of two families and fastened to the future of a lad some thing that he can never forget. Tell the boy that the foundation of the crime was found iu a taunt, in a species of bullying that makes rare sport of weakness. Edward failed in school, and little Joe threw the failure at him. It hurt cruelly. The boy was ashamed because of his lack of success. He was humiliated because of his temporary dowufall. and the cruel words aroused all bis passion. Talk to your boy about auger. Tell him that the lad who does not learn to master himself can uever master others. The greater the provoca tion the more ueed for self-control. Tell him that the successful employers of others are nearly always men who have learned the philosopy of self-restraint. Tell him that force is the weakest of all weaiKins. for It seldom convinces. In the old days great battles were started by the same means that led io the New port tragedy. A knight in armor would ride out In front of bis troops aud hurl an insult at the enemy. H would call them dogs, thieves, cowards, infidels. Kroiu the opiosiiig force another knight would ride out. and they would fight till oue or both were dead. Then there would be more taunts, more fights, and the soil would be drenched with human blood. It was all very fool ish. It made war a matter of personal bravado. It sacrificed lives and proved .nothing, aud after centuries of this kind cf slaughier the system w an Aban doned. It is easy to tilit when tile i .'-'.l is I oiling and hatred spreads a - mist Ix fiire the eyes. It is a thousand l times mure manly to avoid a mutest ( by any possibility it i-.m tte avoided. The other day two young men. once friends in tiie German army, fought over a small differem-e of opinion. They were angry, and each feared th" . word "coward" more than he did bul let. So I.ieut. Hildebrand shot Lieut. Blaskowitz to de-.ith. ami i.s now in a ceil, where he will stay for two year. He is sorry. There is an awful remorse i that is eating at his heart. He'd give 1 his l!fe to put the soul back Into the body of his dead friend. Tell your boy that. Tell him to think twii-e before i he strikes a blow: to guard his tongue ; always. Tell hitu that It often "e i quires courage of the highest type to ! keep out of a tight, and only the brute courage, common to animals, to go into : one. The boy or man who is big enough 1 and brave enough to hold himself in check when his whoie teing cries out i for n buttle will never le deemed a i coward by those whose opinions are ; worth having. Every day things happen that furnish sufficient excuse for individual, uiunlei pill, or even national r-.ioicing. It is not so often that anything happens to len eli: tiie whole world aud to make' it proper for the two hemispheres to con gratulate each otiier. .lust such a bap-l-ehihg. however, is this of the trans mission of the tirst wireiess signals a Toss the Atlantic In this achievement all mankind may take satisfaction. It is a triumph for everybody, of course it is Marconi in particular who is to l? complimented, and the public will not le sorry that it is he. Marconi has con ducted his researches aud experiments in the most admirable way. His dis closures to the public have come after, and uot before, the fact. They have leen accounts of what he has done, not of what he intends to do. If Marconi bad plans for communicating with the Pleiades the public would know noth ing alout it t'll the tirst message from that constellation had been received and translated. So when he says that he. In Newfoundland, has received sig- ' nals through the air from England, he can be lielieved. No doubt Marconi, ' like other men. is not made unhappy by public recognition of his services. But he relies for that recognition on his achievements, not on his aspirations. For such a man the public has a deep . resiect and a cordial admiration. Only , one exception can le taken to the uni- , versal shout of approval that will doubtless greet the young scientist, i There is some danger that in glorifying j him the public may forget the men i whose steady, patient toil made his dazzling success possible. In the 7i0's 1 James Lindsay sent a wireless tele- i gram across a narrow sheet of water, j and since that time scores of men have j contributed the small results of their ! personal investigations to the great general problem. These results, inform- i ed by the genius of Marconi, have given tiie woriu the nrst transatlantic wire less signaling. It is a case of a great many men laboring aud one greater and more fortunate man entering into the fruits of their laliors. To say this is not to deprecate Marconi's abilities. It is only to call attention to the fact that coming at the end of a long line of in vestigators he has so summed up in himself all previous studies and con clusions that Marconi and wireless tel egraphy are as imperishably linked to gether as Iarwiu and evolution, though in neither case does the linking tell the whole story. There were evolutionists before I)arwin and wireless telegraph ers before Marconi. The outcome of Marconi's successful exierinient re mains to be seen. There was a long space of time U'tween the first exieri nients in passing an electric current through a copper wire aud the first suc cessful telegraph line. It may be a long time before the transmission of mes sages across the Atlantic otherwise than by cable will be an economic suc cess. Mr. Smith Now Hum a Heard. "1 do uot like to see a man wear a bear." said Mrs. Smith to her friend. Miss Brown, "but 1 have the greatest dittieulry iu getting my husband to shave often enough to give him a pre sentable appearance. He conies home with a three days' growth on his face, looking horr'ble. aud when I remon strate he says the barber shops were all full, or that he was pressed for time, or makes some other ridiculous excuse for his untidiness. It is a great worry to me." I hn.t .1... . ...i., . 1 , "n""- i genius ran in womauly channels, espe- er Charlie, said Miss Brown, "but ciui,y in that of nursing. Everv woman, since that lady barber shop opened : .he said. has. sooner or later, some oth near his office he gets shaved at least er human life dependent .,,. b -i-m nice every day, ;lean as a new ami piu." always looks as ' Mr. Smith now wears a full beard snd Mrs. Smith is learning to trim hair. Heat in Australia. Australia is the hottest country ou record. I have ridden for miles as tride of the eipiator. but I have never louuu neat io compare with tins lint in the country iu the drv times there appears to be little more than a sheet of brown paer between vuu and the lower regions, aud the ie,m!e f:ie. ! tlously say that thev have to fei their hens on cracked Ice to keen ,ham i from laying boiled eggs. San Francis co Call. l's Hope Ho. Mrs. Wetlder has remarried her first husband after having been divorced and then buried two others." "Y ell. the nrst shall be last know." Philadelphia Bulletin. you Wc have some sympathy for people who are mean, and don't know it. but ft Ttl 1 L" ...3 ,c ... . ---V. .... up meanness, and takes pride ia II O no scientific achievement of re cent years has such general atten tion been given as was induced by the announcement that communication had been established and messages sent by wireiess telegraphy between points in England and Newfoundland. The dis tance between the two points. St. Johns anil 1'ornwa!!. is ".'-0 miies. but signals ! s.tit from Cornwall were repeatedly re ceived at Sr. Johns. so persons interested cl.iini. and the initial step in what even tually may prove to be the greatest tri uiiiji.n of latter day science has thus been (iiigiielmo Marconi, who has pcr 1 the system of telegraphing with wires over widely-separated dis s. is the one to whom the success of iiievenient is due. His idea is an- f-ci o'lt tan the cieut. but tiie utilization of the generally a epted principle has remained for the Marconi laboratory to develop. The ap paratus for the nios; part appears simp.e an i the mechanism is known io every be ginner m electrical science. The vital LADY WITH THE LAMP. Florence Niht insule.the Sweet -Faced Heroine ot' the Crimea. In St. Thomas Hospital. London, there stands the statue of a woman which is always proudly pointed out to the visitor. She wears the dress of a nurse, and carries in her hand a nurse's night lamp. The figure is tall and slender, not to say fragile; the face Is delicate and refined, with a look of reserve upon it a "veiled and silent woman" she has Iteen called. The living face, however, would kindle with a strange luminousness iu conversation, and the dark and steady eyes glow with what a keen observer has describ ed as a "star-like brightness." It is of the original of this statue that Long fellow has written: The wounded from the battle plain In dreary hospitals of pain. The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. I.o! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp 1 see I'ass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow as in a dream of bliss The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls! From the tragedy of the Crimean war this figure emerges with a nimbus of glory, one. is that of the great Hus siau engineer, Todleben. with jHiwer ful brow and face of iron sternness: j the other i this slender, modest Eng lish lady with downcast ,.yes and pen sive brow. It is Florence Nightingale, whose womanly hand added so gra cious an element to the memory of those sad days. And of the two. who will doubt that the "angel of the hitspi- lal" has won the more enduring fame? Even after so many years have pass- ed it is difficult for us to read without being overtime by a tiood of mingled wrath and pity the story uf the thou- sands of brave men ivim died mint- tended iu the lospitals at Scutari, or perished miserably of cold and starva tion iu the trenches about Sebastopo!. while medicines and medical appli ances lay wasted on the beach at Varna, and food in abundance was rot ting iu the holds of vessels in Balaclava harbor. There were Io.ixhi sok in the hospitals. The death rate was as high as o- ier cent: four out of every five patients who underwent amputation died of hospital gangrene amidst filth that would have disgraced a tribe of savages. Such was the story that stirred every woman's heart in the three kingdoms as with a trumpet note, aud Miss Florence Nightingale was usheu io urgamze a nursing service in the great hospital at Scutari. Florence Nightingale was the daugh- ter of a wealthy English household, but born in Florence. Italy, from which city she derived her name. That she j was a woman of fine intellect, clear j judgment, and heroic will, cannot be i doubted. lean Stanley indeed has I called her "a woman of commanding genius." Most certainly she proved herself iu the Crimea to powers of administration. have great But all her as a nurse; and nursing she insisted was au art. oue of the finest of all arts. Florence Nightingale has always practiced what she preached. Born to the ease and luxury of a rich woman's life, she yet turned aside, and sjnt ten .o"1" iiooihe nursing as an art. first ......1..:.... : . . at the great Moravian hospital at Kai- serworth. next with the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, in Paris. Then she ur-"lu' 8 '"""" r sick governesses '" ,-omloD- Tl"'n t"a,ue 'be opportunity "f ber life ,lle 11 10 tl,e ast- K" u -' soe flr Scu On Oct. ''' wnu a ual,u or -'"".v-eight nurses, ""mu lvu were "iuan cathoiic Sis tors of Mercy and fourteen members of an Anglican sisterhood. She had a keen .ii'iio. ui ,iaraue ami startea with her j rived at Estapha at C o clock the fol i gallant band without public notice of ; lowinc- morning mnkinir th trln i any kind. arriving at Scutari on Nov m. the very day of a great battle. What a colossal task lay before these gentle heroines! The hospital had .:' patients, and the wards were rank with fever and cholera and the odor of undressed wounds. To this army of the sick and dying were added UOU tbC wounded from I-j 4 sfTriHlhte . M irL-s j urcrtvcR. o a y-ir- V J part of the apparatus is known as the co herer a little glass tube stopped with silver plugs and half filled with nickel and silver filiugs. which is Marconi's product. iug!ielmo Marroni, the inventor, be gan experiment in wireless telegraphy six years ago when he was 21 years old. His first work was done in Itly and from there he went to England in July, IV.'j. Three years later bis work at tracted wiiiespread attention when he sent a message thirty-two miles without wires across the English channel. Then messages were sent in this country by his system and communication between ships j kerwan. bringing the number up to o.ihsj. In this vast den of pain and foul ness moved the delicate form of the 1 "lady with the lamp." Instantly a new intelligence, instinct with pity, fertile with womanly invention, swept through the hospital Iirt became a crime, and fresh air and cleau linen and sweet, pure food Itecame the order of the day. It was a strange passion of half-worshiping loyalty that this woman arous ed in every one about her; she estab lished n sort of quiet despotism before which all. even the highest officials, bowed their heads. She tolled unceasingly all day. and when nil the medical officers had re tired for the night and silence and darkness had settled down over the miles of prostrate sick she was always seen alone with a little lamp in her Kl.oHtNCE NIGHTINGALE. baud making her solitary rounds. It j was this picture that Longfellow had uiiiul: , As if a door in heaven should be opened, j aai' then closed suddenly. I 1 he vision came and went. The light shone aud was snent. (in England's annals through the long h -reafter of her speech and song That light its rays shall cast From portais of the past. A l.nly with a lamp shall stand in the great history of the laud. A noble type of good. Heroi womanhood. Florence Nightingale remained in the Crimea till the last Iiritish soldier bad left its shores, then stole back to England as iiiiet!y us she had left it. Y ithil) ten years the Bed Cross Soci ety was organized, whose emblem now gleams on every battlefield: it owes its beginning to her. I WAS ATTACKED BY KURDS. John V. Kookwalier of Ohio Tells of I an A,,venture in Turkey, I 'So tue brigands 'Uo bold Miss Stoue. the mis want four time iotiary. in boudage. . her weight in gold for her ransom?" remarked John W. Bookwalter. of Ohio, at the Holland House, in New York, recently. "It is fortunate." he added, "that 1 8"e U1" 001 fa" a,onS the Kurds. iue-T Kl" aml rob every time. I had one experience with them, aud I did not realize the great peril I had been in until the danger was pasL "I have been a globe-trotter for years, but only on one occasion was mm I In danger. My escape was most for- ! Tuat distinguished lawver. Lord El tunate. I had lieen about Mount Ara- in- was tlie 1,,rJ chancellor of England rat while abroad recently, and the ne- ' a.nd U!1(' to kcp a cumbrous piece of cessity unexpectedly arose for niv ! tu ,lational machinery known . k reaching Estapha at the earliest pos- lt,,Lltr moiueau .. r i . i . - "Estapha is a railway station be tween Baku, on the Caspian sea. and Batutu. on the Black sea. Tiflis is about midway between those places. "I engaged a guide and provided for a relay of horses at every tenth mile of the 2V0 miles we bad to travel Our journey was over the great highway, through scenery the like of which I never saw before or since. We started at 10 o'clock In the morning and ar- luwiug uioruiug. twenty hours. "We had reached the summit of the Delijan pass about 2 o'clock In the morning. Orloff, the guide, was sleep ing soundly by my side while 1 ad mired the scenery by the light of the full moon. Suddenly the ymstchlck (the Rns- gian driven Jumped up and savagely IFjO 05? g)P 7 I it 1 I at sea. divided by many miles of water, was made possible. Mr. Marconi is positive that soon be will be able to show to the world that his iuvention is wholly practicable. In his recent attempts to telegraph across the Atlantic, the most favorable condi tions were not in evidence, as it was nec essary to use .1 kite iu the experiments, when a haliooti would have been better. High winds made use of a balloon im practicable, however. Uutiniately. a mast JiMi feet high will be erected, with special machinery connected with it, and by means of this perfect communication will be established. Marconi claims. Stability plied the whip to bis horses. I could not understand the cause, uud as the driver did not speak Euglisu I aroused Orloff and said: " "What Is the matter?' "We were in the Kurd country. Or loff grabbed his pistol, and. glancing from the vehicle, turned as pale as a sheet. 'Keep quiet and coed!" he ex claimed. 'The Kurds are after us. and If they got Into this carriage we are as good as dead.' "The driver was still standlug and lashing bis horses, while the Kurds, four in number, were ruuning at top speed, aud they are very fleet of foot. They do not carry- firearms as a rule, but are armed with a kinchau. a two edged dirk, almost as Inug as a sword. "Several times one or another of the Kurds had a hand on the side of the carriage, intending to vault into It. but Orlrff drove liim off each time. Meanwhile the driver gave his horses uo rest, and after going about two miles we wiuded the Kurds, who re tired. "Then Orloff told me of our danger. It was the custom of the Kurds, he said, to waylay travelers of whose coming they had received au Intima tion, dispatch them with their dirks, rob the bodies and disappear. The Kurds do not look for a ransom. All they want is loot, and to secure II they first kill those possessing It. "Orloff, the guide, was once captured In Bulgaria, by brigands, who maimed him, and. finding he could pay no ran som, released him. "The week before we were at tacked," said Mr. Bookwalter. accord ing to the New York Times, "a party of Kurds waylaid a party of six Armenian merchants, killing all of them and fleeing to the mountains with their stores." FORGET WHERE THEY LIVE. Odd Instances of ForKetfnlneiM that Occusionully Come to Notice. It wus a diplomat, according to III but. in bis book ou "Iiisea.se of Mem ory." who. when about to m ike ei-it i ould not tell the servant his name, j Tut heaven's sake." he said to a friend who accompanied him. "tell the servant who I am." Worse still was the case ot one of I r. Abertietiiy's patients. lie knew his friends perfectly, but could not name them, one day. when out walking in the street, be met a friend ! 1 "e was most anxious to com- munimte something concerning aiioth : er friend. But unfortunately he could j not remember the other friend's name. I ninl :it last, frantic with his itietTectual attempts io make his friend understand I wl"' U:ls H"1 person meant, he seized : mm i.y u,o arm and dragged him through several streets t0 the residence of the other, and there pointed to his itho second friend'si name on the door. j A complicated instance of m....,.,i i ' clibse is that of a gentleman living in Edinburgh. He was once found earlv in the morning seekiti" in ,i f... i.e. residence. He appealed to a housemaid . cleanmg a doorstep. "Lassie, can vou tell me which is Johnnie s house" he asked. "Eh. mon." replied the girl i "but ruis'ie lohnnie yerself." rhat s not what I want to know." was ithe angty retort i wo or t l- ...... K'l U I uere JO"ine s house is j preat " His house in Queen snuare iiiiii'iir n .-. . ., . canght fire and to save ti.o , robbers he buried it in his garden Z unfortunately forgot the LTnl The ,story is told in many forn ofThe man who went home ,o dress for a party but unhppiIv wound up hb ! ob bef0 ting off his ciotheT This set up a sequence of autonntTc actions which ended in his coinJ Z , instead of going ,o his p rty -1wb ter Post-Express. Cbes- PRECAUTioFAATrsSTTLAGUE. Thoof Rome in 1056 Were MontB. Kt, but Availed It is curious to note that ,L. . hardly an order .ssu ed & J V hTl government relative to the plague ,S bas broken out In Naples that was no t II. In iu, when Rome was ia -i lied by the pest, to say Uhfng Tf the penalties which he Inflicted. - of the instruments receiving niessam i essential, and this cannot be had with kite or balloon. A mast will olv u problem and make possible rommuaiti tion. it is thought, over any distance. The Anglo-American Telegraph Com. pany. which by a charter from the pt. ernnient has exclusive rights and pri?. ileges in the matter of telegraphic com munication on territory under control ot the government, threatened to begin pr. ceediugs against Marconi unless iutima tion was given that he would not pn ceed further with his present worL and remove the appliances he had erected for the purpose of telegraphic couiniunici tion. The attitude of the telegraph com pany is taken as proof that Marconi', attempt to telegraph across the Atlantic without wire or cable has beeu'suecew fill aud its stand is taken. Marconi's tup. porters assert, to prevent the completion of a system which ultimately would In set! the present company's profits Breath, as the new system could be operate.! much cheaper and the cost of message would be largely decreased. Then, the moment news came that Naples was infected the energetic pon tiff suspended nil communication wltii the kingdom of the two Sicilies on paiii of death. Only letters were allowed to pass after such rigid disinfection tha: little of them was left. All person belonging to the papal states wli" found themselves Iu suspected district were forbidden, also ou puin of deatlt. to return, while death was likewise the punishment for those who. cumins Into a city, did not present themselTP at a certain office. Also hotel or Inn keepers, heads of convents, etc., wbj received any one not having the papal guarantee and who did not declare the names of their guests, ran the risk f five years' imprisonment. All this be fore there was one case in the papal states. Keailing the precautions then taken is like picking up a modern newspa per, says the Ball Mall (lazette. Lira rettes strictly guarded, isolatiou ami disinfection, navigation of the Tllier torbuldeti and the churches closed, hut all to no apparent purpose. At one time during that terrible year there was nit one house In Trastevere (a thickly nnu ulated district of Koinei in which the plague did not enter, so that it w: cut off from the rest of the city by a high, thick wall. After twelve months the tide turned and the Eternal City was tree, after losing H.r(o of hfr inhabitants, while at Naples the death were -Pmi.inhi in ,lt ;,. ko.mmi. Wonderful ( ae in Montana. A new and wonderful natural cave. believed to be one of the largest miowii. nas been discovered in Die cauou of the Jefferson, mi the line nf the Northern Pacific railway, about fifty miles east of Butte. Moutiina. An exploration party from Butte spent """" ays in tue cave, going over an area of t niles and to a depth ui nearly i.iiihi feet. "''t-'c ""iver with a cataract nf about Kmi feet was explored for a dis tance of several miles without (lis "-.'.eioig ns source or outlet. A lew articles of stone and copper utensil and some bones, believed to be hu noil nones, were also found ill one of the .urge apartments f the cave, 'rii ..on ,.,-ie oiner evidences that at 'iie time iu a prehistoric period the cum- was inhabited, i . j . i . ii is neiieved that up eanllillilke ose uie entrance p, the cave mid killed its inhabitants. The formation or stalactite aud other natural decor ..i."i.s iiiiougnout the cave arc most beautiful. Not What He Meant lit All. muteness, it is true, must have lis ngiii in a kind heart and a desire t please; but tact aud thongbtfulness ami IUick wit are also essential to good nia n tiers. j v ' A very stout hostess who was outer- urge coinnanv one eveiiini; V i - """ " IO P''I "f .vouiic men stand . ,.r ,- ... ... -i... uci cuair nnu smilingly asked: "May 1 trouble one of you young gen tlemen for a glass of waier from the imcuer in the table?" -eeral Of the Vlllim? men horrie.l t coiuiny with the request. One. who w particularly active, succeeded iu react ing the table first. As he handed the glass of water to he hostess she complimented him on bis quickness. "Oh. that's nothing," he said. "1 am used to it. I Kt into many a circus and menagerie when i was a boy by carry ing water fur the elephant" It was only when he saw the expre s on on the lady's face, and noticed the silence, that the young man realized what he had said. A Boston Roy Edified. it was at one of the summer schools that nourish up New England way er ery year, and tue wllite.01llred ,ndy bad just finished her address. Among to crowd surrouuding her. swayed by i congratulatory spirit, was a little boy a Boston boy. Presently, when he bad opportunity, he shook hands and "I was very muclL-piensed with your remarks. I have bee$ waiting for vean to bear you speak on this topic. It w oue of the best addresses on the sub ject I ever heard." The boy was 9 years old. the subiect the address ,'Motherhood."-LUr Pers Magazine.