WOMAN 10 THE L i Prominent Part She Is Now. Taking in the Development of Oklahoma. HOW A GIRL GOT HER CLAIM. Miss Marinette Daisy's Leap from Cowcatcher of an Engine When She "Located." A person of persistent prominence in the development of Oklahoma is the woman homesteader. Since the first day of the opening of old Oklahoma to settlement In 1889, when Nannette Daisy jumped from a cowcatcher of an engine on the first train that brought thousands of homeseekers into the territory and staked off a claim in "the promised land," the woman home steader has been occupying a front seat in Oklahoma's inarch of progress. The instances are not few where women have staked off claims, superin tended the cultivation for years and finally won the prize a deed to a quarter section of land from Uncle Sam, says a Guthrie (Okla.) corre spondent of the Arkansas Gazette. Leaping from the engine. Miss Daisy climbed a small embankment, made when the road was constructed, and hastily disengaging herself from a white underskirt, she pinned it to a neighboring blackjack bush and called to the other passengers as the train Btarted ahead with renewed speed: "This is my homestead!" That tract of land, near Waterloo and lying along He Santa Fe's main line through this State, is still known as the Daisy farm. She made good on the claim, got a patent from the gov ernment and held the farm in her name until the time of her death in Chicago several years ago. She attain ed considerable prominence in Okla homa politics in the early days and was a personal friend of many men who have since become wealthy and well known in political and business circles. Afterward she married a sol dier, one of the men stationed at Fort Reno, and following bis retirement from the service they moved to Chi cago, where she died. It is estimated that more than 100 lone women held claims in Beaver County last winter, as a rule living in dugouts and waiting for the spring time in order to cultivate the land. It's a plucky thing to do, but it's a pluck that In practically every in stance brings success as well as health and freedom. After they have lived on their claims during the period specified by Uncle Sam they make application for final proof, the last thing necessary before obtaining deeds. J. S. Fischer, a Uni ted States land commissioner at Tex homa, says, as a rule, the women pick the choice tracts of land. In this con nection it is interesting to note that the United States commissioner at Tyrone, in Beaver County, is a woman Mrs. Susan Henley. Many women homesteaders appear before her to file on claims and make final proofs. The woman at the "head of a farm Is in almost every instance a special ist. In numerous cases they have been exceedingly successful In different lines of horticulture, agriculture and raising of live stock. SHOT AT INQUISITIVE TOURIST. Woman'a Story of Attempted Killing In Monqiio of Omnr In Jcruaalem. In a letter to a frlond in this city, the Orange (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Sun says Mrs. Herbert Turrell tells the story of the attempted assassination on March 9 of Mrs. Moore in the mosque of Omar at Jerusalem, of which she was an eye witness. Mrs. Turrel Bays she Is convinced that wom en have no business to enter sac;od places where the country holds that they should not be admitted. She says that the fanatic who fired the plutal thought he was doing his duty. "We stopped at the golden gate oppo site Solomon's court," writes Mrs. Ter rell, "to have sandals placed on our feot We of the second party wero as sembled just outside of the outr screen, when we heard a pistol shot, followed by four or Ave other shots in rapid succession. At first I thought it was a bomb; then I saw a flash and smoke. Wo rushed ot the right of the mosque in the opoaite direction from the firing. "Following the report women shriek ed and thore was a rushing dound as of people running. Our guide told us bt would see what the matter was. We crouched in the corner by a huge pil lar, not knowing how soon an attack would be made upon us. Our first thought was that there was an upris ing ot the Mohammedans. "The party which had preceded us was unquestionably Involved, as the shrieks of women plainly indicated. We were told that a crazy man had fired a plsto and that the women were frightened. We realized that there had been a tragedy, but were willing to accept any kind of explanation. "The guide said the man had been filing blank cartridges and had been arrested. He then proceeded to tell the history of the mosque and we pre tended to listen to what he said. We passed out of a door Into a court and her we were horrified to see blood snot and a sheik was mopping blood from the floor. "Our guide Insisted that It was a Quarrel among the moslems and that nothing serious had happened. Hi led A us across the court to the fountain of puriflcatl,on. Just a3 we were about to enter the temple we heard a call that made our blood run cold. "Our guide hastened to see what was wanted and several sheiks beckoned to us to leave at once. We had our san dals removed by men, who hastened toward us for this purpose. Our guide told us that he was wanted and that he must leave us. He tried to have us accept the services of a dragoman to conduct us from the mosque. "Members of our party protested and he remained with us. The attitude of the sheiks, as though prepared for an attack, was not alluring, and I felt that at any moment we would be shot at. Our guide finally took us to the Chris tian street, which led us to the Joppa gate. An empty carriage passed and several of our party took it and drove to the hotel. "We learned the details of the shoot ing later. It appeared that a woman member of the party that had preceded us in the mosque had been shot in the face. A priest in the mosque held the man, who was on the point of reloading his revolver and who was within twen ty-five yards of our party. The car riage used to convey the Injured wom an, Miss Moore, from the mosque was the one In which Mrs. Anna L. Tlche ner, of Newark, and Mrs. Lebkkeucher, of East Orange, drove to the mosque. TABULATING CENSUS BE TURNS, Mechanism of Machine Which Are Labor and Time Savera. The automatic machine is the most recent development in census tabulat ing machinery, and had it been per fected earlier much of the hand ma chines could have been dispensed with, though, in most cases where readings must be taken very frequently, the hand machines are almost, if not quite, as economical. Whether in the hand machine or in the automatic, the counters are oper ated by means of electrical contacts made through the punched holes, ac cording to E. Dana Durand In the American Review of Reviews. The machines are so wired that facts can be counted in combination with one another. Thus it is possible to count at the same time facts with regard to age and marital condition, so as to show, for Instance, on one counter the number of married persons from 21 to 25 years of age, on another those from 25 to 30, and on others the number of single persons of these two age periods. Each machine, in fact, is provided with a large number of count ers; as many as sixty counters will be used in certain "runs." Even thus, however, It would be quite impossible to count all the manifold combinations of Items at a single "run" of the card. Each card on the average must be passed through the tabulating ma chines five or six times. In other words, the work is equivalent to tabu latlng approximately 500,000 cards. Even the hand machines used at the present census are much more rapid than those of ten years ago. In 1900 the counters used consisted of dials, from each of which the results for each county or other unit of presenta tion had to be read by the eye and taken down on sheets of paper. The present machines are so arranged that the results on all the counters can be printed at the some time by merely pressing a button. This change abso lutely prevents errors, which frequent ly arose In the reading of the dials, and also greatly economizes clerical labor. IHE MIRACLE. She's but a little colleen gay, Scarce thicker than me thumb. But oh, the word she spoke the day! 'Tls blind I am, and dumb. Her small mouth had a pleadln twist As though 'twas wishful to be kissed; I thought It gave the true word whist. And hope lept in the heart ot me. But when I tried itoh, the Mow The little hand laid on me cheek! Twas but a feather's weight, I know, But sure, it left me faint and weak. And oh, the look that changed her eyes! - Twas like the change of Erin's skies From shine to storm the black sur prise And sorrow burst the heart o me. She stood there lashln me bold ways So weak the gentle tongue of her, Compared with some I've got 'twas praise- Then somethin', sudden, seemed to stir Within me breast The truth it lept Straight out, beJike as ift had slept; Then right into me arms she crept Sure, Joy's near . crazed the heart of me. Harper's Weekly. I The Pledge 1 of the Poor The Price of Fame. It was In the office of one of the bl theaters. A lot of actors were hang ing around, a couple of journalists and a secretary or two. A young woman dropped in for a hasty greet ing, and then paused a moment to speak to a very well-known actor whom she evidently met for the first time. The press agent's desk was open, and in a corner was a package of pictures of the celebrated actor. The latter looked them over, and as the young woman exclaimed that he should give her one he said, with an insinuating smile to the press agent: "Alas, they are not jnine. They be long to Mr. Dash!" "I can't give any away," said the latter. "Each one costs mi 20 cents." "Surely that is cheap!" the young lady suggested. The press agent ignored her and turned to the actor. "Cheap? Do you think anybody would pay that much for you?" And the young lady laughed anf went without her picture. A Qnotlim of Term. Mrs. Bronson My husband is plain spoken; he calls a spade a spade. Mrs. Woodson So does mine, but I must decline to repeat what he calls the lawn mower. It's a sign that a small boy has a good disposition It he doesn't resent being told he looks like his father. Nearly every man wants to lay off every time he seea a flag, or hears a hand The little old father seemed very dear to Margaret, who was watching him as he wrote his records rapidly In his small, cramped hand." It was all or nearly all, that he wrote. Long ago he had given up hope of the book which was to have been his life work, and buried it deep beneath a country physician's responsibilities. Margaret had always resented this. What right had these people to his life, who scarce ly accorded him a living? "Father," she said, suddenly, "what are you writing?" He held the page with his forefinger, as he met her cold gray eyes with, a pair startlingly like them. Then he smiled, and two wrinkles disappeared from his forehead, and two appeared about his mouth. "Just visits, dear, to pay and to he paid for," he answered. "There are many more of the first than of the last, aren't there?" "Why, surely." He smiled as he said it, but Mar garet did not smile. So It had always been, so it would always be four to pay and one to be paid for. And they needed many things. No one knew that better than Margaret. Much re sponsibility devolved on her. The lit tle half-Invalid mother must not know, the children could not, the father did not. But Margaret had a complete un derstanding of the lease of life accord ed boyish boots, of the wants, wishes and needs of growing girls. "She thought with hot Impatience of her father's coat how green it had looked in yesterday's blaze of sunlight! How. green it would look in the sun light of how many to-morrows! It was not right; it was not fair. She had a fierce impulse to hide him away from others and himself; to lighten his path with the success herjove and ambition craved. He spent himself freely on those who gave not again. He threw his love, his learning, his very life Into a battle which was not to the strong. Margaret laid down the scarcely touched sewing. The offer of assist ance trembled on her lips. But before she had time to speak, a knock sound ed. Margaret knew that knock hurried, anxious, impatient, that would not be denied. The old door had echoed to many scores of just such knocks. "O dear!" she said. Her father started as soon as she. Knocks like that, the call to arms of the physician, sounded through his deepest slumbers. He was transformed in the twinkling of an eye. The wearied old man was the alert physician, confident, eager eyed, the light of battle on his face. Margaret's heart thrilled as she looked at him. ' In a moment he was back. He turn ed to Margaret, half-laughing. "It's Mrs. Barr's baby the health iest little mite. Quite likely It is merely a pin sticking him, but I'll have to go and set her mind at rest." "But you're so tired. Why don't you let her wait till morning?" "Why, Margaret! By morning I should have two patients on my hands. You don't know these young mothers." "I know they haven't much consid eration." Now, Margaret, that isn't like you. How can we expect her to think of anything but her little sick child?" As he talked the physician had been throwing things In a little black bag. He shut it now with a sharp click. It's quite probable there's nothing much the matter with the baby. If not, I'll be back to-night. If I should be detained, though, I may have to take the train Instead of coming home." "I thought the convention was next week." "It is, but I'm leaving two days ahead of time. There's a case Parker wants to talk over with me." Margaret flushed with pride at the honor so simply stated. After all, there were some who appreciated him. "But what about the bills you were going to make out. father? You see, the girls' winter things have to come, and " " "Jack's shoes, and Robert's, and I know them all, my little troubled Mar tha, but I can't delay to-night" "Could I make them out? Even a day makes a difference." "Why, to be sure you could. It vould be a help to me" ie picked up the book, ana rapidly turned the pages, marking here and there with a cross.-'He passed the book to Margaret. "Get out these I have marked, like a good girl, Margaret, and you'll soon have in what you need.'" Then, with a hasty good-by, be was gone. In the morning be had not returned, and Margaret sat long with the little leather-covered book In her hand, idly turning the pages. The places marked with a cross were not many. She had counted and recounted the ones which were reasonably sure to pay. The sum total was pitifully inade quate. Even If every , one he had marked paid In full and at once, there was an alarming deficit. There was nothing she could do. But suddenly, as that thought came to her puzzled brain, another followed. There was something she could do something that would set things straight for the present and leave a little margin for the encroaching fu ture. In a moment the Impotent leather-covered book had assumed the proportions of the purse of Fortunatus. There were dozens and dozens of visits with no check after them. Her father had not intended to send them out, but If she did, and the reluctant bills were safely paid, who could be anything but glad about it? Once decided, she wrote rapidly In her large, firm hand, so different from her father's. The table was .soon Jit tered with bills. On those of longest standing she wrote, "Please remit." When the rural postman arrived, she had a load for him. And then she waited. The waiting was not long. That evening there came a timid, hesitating knock on the door where a peremptory summons so often sounded. Margaret threw It wide. For a moment she did not know the woman who stood before her, a shawl thrown over her head. But she knew the voice. "It's Mrs. Halloran, Miss Margaret, my dear. I've brung the money. Tell me, Is it sick the doctor Is?" "Why, no. Father is quite well, but " "Is it yer mother worser, thin?" "No," answered Margaret. "What made you think so?" "Won't ye tell me what's wrong, my dear?" persisted the woman. "Sure, THERE WAS AN ALABMINQ DEFICIT. maKinjs uo excuses, Margaret told her tale, hardly daring to meet her fath er's eyes. He did not speak for a moment. When he did, it was very tenderly, "My little girl!" Youth's Companion. INFANT MORTALITY. I knowed there was a somethin' whin it came, the bill marked 'Plase remit. My Dannie read it to me. Says I, 'He's in trouble, the little doctor.' Thin out I goes an' sells the cow. An' here's the money, Miss Margaret, thirty-five dollars. It leaves five owin', but Dannie'll soon raise that, an' I'll run up wid it. If 'twar thirty five hundred I'd not begrudge It fur what he's done for me." She undid the knots in an old ban danna handkerchief, and brought to light the pieces of shining gold. Her face, seamed and marked by care, her work-worn hands, appealed to Mar garet. She spoke Impulsively, putting the gold back in the old handkerchief. "Mrs. Halloran, I want you to take this money and buy your cow again. The need is not so pressing a way has come since that bill was sent that makes it unnecessary for us to take It." The relief was plain on the woman's face. She protested, but feebly, while her old hand hovered over the coin. It is not lightly that one relinquishes the means of livelihood. She patted Margaret's hand. "Ye're yer father's own daughter, my dear. I couldn't speak a finer word about ye. He's a good man the best I ever knowed; that merciful to the poor, ye wouldn't believe. He'd be doin' much better in a better neigh borhood. But the blessln' of the poor I think that goes for somethin'." Margaret razed her air-castles of unclean foundations to the ground. In the morning, after she bad made her mother comfortable and sent the chil dren to school, she took the old horse and cart and started out on her round of visits. And just as the angel once spared the houses marked, so Margaret dealt mercifully with the ones which were not She collected the disturbing little slips of paper, reading a lesson in many a poverty-stricken place. In some the money was ready, in some it was not, but no one had blamed the doctor. Margaret was glad of that. To each she gave the same excuse the bills had been sent by mistake. She did not feel the words an untruth. She sighed as she drove homeward. So far things had turned out well, but the hardest part was to come. It would be difficult to explain to her father, to feel hla disappointment In her. Yet inconsist ently, she longed for his return. She drove to the station to meet him. All the way home she pondered how to tell him, while they talked of trivial things. Just a question, "Any of my patients been up, Margaret?" And then It was out Blundering lr. stumblingly, sparing not herself. Greater Number of Birth a Well .a Death Among; Poor. An investigation just made by the New York milk committee with a view to getting definite information as to the effects of infant mortality on so cial and economic conditions has re sulted in some interesting disclosures. Three sections of the city were se lected for study, varying much In size, owing to different densities of popula tion, but each! containing about 7,500 persons. In the first, inhabited large ly by the rich, only thirty-seven chil dren were born In a year; in the sec ond, where the circumstances of the people were what is called comfort able, the births numbered 160, while in the third, where poverty prevailed, 434 babies-were born. But during two summer weeks, one of them the hottest of the year, not one of the thirty-seven babies or of the 160 died, while among the 434 there were sixteen deaths. The figures are not large enough to warrant any final conclusions as to percentages, but doubtless they are fairly charac teristic of the three classes. The im munity of the babies in the two more fortunate classes during this hot fort night only happened to be complete, and that peculiarity would not be like ly to be repeated. That the one group did as well as the other is explained by the inves tigators as due to equally efficient care in ' both, in the one case, however, largely the care of ' highly trained nurses, and in the second to that of mothers with leisure and intelligence. Among the very poor each of the much more numerous babies had a decidedly smaller chance of life, but many more than enough of them survived to out number the other groups. Probably at the attainment of adult age the difference1 will not be nearly as large, for the excess of mortality will re main where It began. New York Times. DANGERS OF PATENT LEATHER Shiny Shoe Are a Menace to Life and Limb la the City. It has become a matter of some doubt In the minds of many people whether patent leather shoes should be worn in the streets, the New York Evening Sun says. Is it safer or is it not? Should we endanger our lives in the distraction of traffic when, by wearing slightly less shiny shoes, we could give our attention to dodging automobiles and ducking street cars? No child should be allowed out alone in patent-leather shoes that is decided without a mo ment's doubt; but even people of ma turer years are not quite responsible for their own safety when wearing patent-leather shoes. , They cannot be, no matter what their strength of character. If one's shoes will shine, so one must watch them, and if one walks with one's eyes riveted on one's flashing feet, one of necessity bumps into something, and it is nothing less than cold luck If the something is a . lamp-post or a post man instead of a flying fire engine. And then one's progress is so slow. Absorbed, captivated, held spellbound by one's own boot tips, one is so very apt to arrive late at the place one was going to or forget completely one's des tination and sicking on to a park bench wave one's feet slowly about, bewitched by their sparkling high lights. ' Holland has most wisely and kindly opened up a wide thoroughfare for those persons -who prefer roller skates to other modes of conveyance, and as nothing more than a humane precau tion the city ought to set aside one street for those incorrigible venture some people who will wear 'patent leather boots in public. " . DOLLARLESS DOLLTVAR. Policeman' Concern for Senator s Welfare When He Wa a Lad. The son of a Methodist minister, Senator Dolliver entered early upon a political career; he had the old-fashioned way of using anecdotes to illus trate his points, which was then con sidered effective, though he may have changed his style with the times. He is one of the orators who frankly ad mit that they "like to talk," a taste he thinks he may- have inherited from his father and grandfather the latter a Massachusetts sea-faring man, whose cargo of cotton during the war of 1812 was confiscated by General Jackson; if he had his grandson's eloquence it is probable that he made some remarks that would have been worthy of pres ervation. When preaching on a large circuit in Virginia, and often riding 200 miles in a week, Mr. Dolliver's father met the lady who became hia wife, and that is the reason that the Senator halls from West Virginia, and was educated at the state university there. After his -graduation at the age of 17 the young man decided to migrate to Illinois, says the National Maga zine. He tells thus of this first west ern visit: "Standing In the railway station of Columbus, O., a policeman tapped me on the shoulder and with a warning glance said: "."You have Just been talking, my boy, with one of the most dangerous pickpockets in the United States. " 'One of the most dangerous pick pockets in the United States has Just been talking to a country boy who has not a red cent to his name,' was my reply." Some very capable men are not only dogmatic but bull-dogmatio. 1 1630 Playing with cards and dice was prohibited by law In Boston. 1639 First party of Ursullne nuns sailed from Dieppe for Canada. 1643 La Tour entered Boston harbor in a ship from St John's. 1689 The Assembly of Connecticut , was convened and the charter re sumed. 1701 Yale University founded. 1792 Capt Gray, of the American shli. "Columbia," of Boston, entered the Columbia River. 1813 The second Canadian steamboat, named the "Swiftsure," made her first passage from Montreal to Quebec. i.. Havre de Grace, Md., burned by the British blockading - squadron; ' . 1814 Restoration of the Bourbon dy nasty in France. 1824 Coahulla and Texas united In one State by decree of the -: Mexican Congress. . 1837 Panic in Europe caused the price of cotton to drop to 6 cents. 1846 Fort Brown, on the Rio Grande, attacked by the Mexicans. ' 1853 The Canada clergy reserves, af ter much discussion, abolished by the British Parliament . ; " 1856 Gov. Robinson of Kansas indict ed for high treason. 1861 Tennessee Legislature passed a secession ordinance, to be submit ted to a vote of the people.... Gen. McClellan, placed in command ot the Department of Ohio, compris ing the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. IS 33 Confederates victorious at Battle of Fredericksburg. 1872 Liberal Republicans in convent tion at Cincinnati nominated Hpr ace Greeley for the presidency. 1882 United States Congress passed the first Chinese Restriction bill, ....Edward Blake moved a resolu tion in the Dominion House of Commons demanding for Canada the Independent right to negotiate commercial treaties. 1884 French brig "Senorlne" wrecked oft Great Bank, Newfoundland, with loss of over sixty lives. . . . Indiana Asbury University becamo De Pauw University. lSSS--Gen. Mlddleton attacked and cap tured Batoche, on the Saskatche wan River. ' . - ' 1889 Dr. P. H. Cronin, Irish national ist agitator, murdered In Chicago. 1.890 Oyer seventy lives lost In the burning of the Longue Points lu natic asylum, near Montreal. 1891 Carnegie Music Hall in New York City opened. ' . 1893 Queen Victoria Inaugurated the Imperial Institute' of the Colonies and India. 1897 Centennial of the discovery of the Columbia Elver celebrated at Astoria, Ore . 1900 Disastrous forest fires In north ern Ontario. 1901 Large section of Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed by fire.... Domin ion Parliament passed the bill set ting aside May 24 as "Victoria Day.".,.. Death of Justice King of the Supreme Court of Canada. 1902 First Congress of the Cuban Re public met in Havana. 1908 Discovery of wholesale murders on the' Gunness farm, near La Porte, Ind. u " r - 1909 The Shah of Persia again granc ed a constitution.... The Finnish elections . favored a continued struggle against Russian control. (CJLLE6ES North Dakota teachers will make an effort to secure former President Roosevelt to address their next annual meeting. . The Michigan-Cornell indoor track meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., resulted in the following score on points: Michi gan, 64 1-3; Cornell; 17 2-3. It la rumored in Des Moines that the board of directors of Penn College, Os kaloosa, is planning to take over High land Park College and locate the Penn College at Des Moines. Baron Klkuchl, president of the Im perlor University of Kyoto, Japan, ad dressed a t"ieral convocation of the. students of the University of Wiscon sin recently on "The New Japan." Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, who has been one of the foremost agitators against the game of football as it has been played the last few years, Is warm in his approval of the suggested changes for th game on the part of the football rules committee. v- That 1.796 men are registered In tho gymnasium classes. Indoor and out door sports at the University of Wis consin this year is shown by the an nual report of the athletic director. In accordance with a decision by Judge Nile. In the Circuit Court at Baltimore, the Nashotah bouse, of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, an insti tution where young men ar trained for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, will come Into pos session of nearly $172,000 under the will of Miss Frances Donaldson ot Bal timore, whs filed a year and a half ajtfe