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FLAMES IN FORESTS. SWEEPING FIRES THAT LEAVE WILD WASTES EEHIND. Extraordinary Pecuniary Losses In flicted by tlie Enfettered Element that Rolls Onward in a Mad Torrent of Rapacious Billows and Belies Mun. which occurred In 1894—one glimpse of which, at Phillips, has already l»een had. The unfortunate place was Hinckley. Minn., and the calamity oc curred on Sept. 1 of that year. Owing to the Lug-protracteJ drought, as is pointed out in the report of the State commission for the relief of the forest fire sufferers, the tires had prevailed in different localities for several weeks, but on that day the wind became a tor nado, and a small fire then burning spread with frightful rapidity, and wa.- carried on the wings of the torna«l< over a district covering nearly 4< h > square miles. A furnace blast swept over the fated district, and left, behind It complete devastation. Every build ing in Hinckley was destroyed. So sud den wits the onset of the flames that the people could only run from their houses and seek a place of refuge, without even an effort to save their household effects. Four hundred and eighteen persons, about one-sixth of the population of the district, are known to have perished by a most frightful death in the flames. firmness. Too rough a brush must not be used, especially upon stmJoth-faeed cloths, for It Is liable to roughen the surface. If after this brushing the A forest denuded by fire presents a mud marks are still visible, sponge the Woeful sight. The trees are not entirely spots with alcohol or methylated spir consumed. The burned trunks of all its. and the material will be left clean larger ones stand straight and tall, and unmarked. In taking off a damp dead, but not destroyed; Sometimes skirt be careful to hang It out as flat as forest fires rage over such vast areas CHOOSING A HUSBAND. possible over a chair, as If thrown down , that their smoke is visible from any GIRL thinking seriously of her carelessly In that condition It will con point in a State. Dr. J. T. Rothrock. Commissioner of Forestry for Pennsyl future does not lay any great tract inelegant creases. _____ vania, shows that the potential loss of stress on good temper. A sol Beauty in Bunine»». dierly form, a pair of tine yes, a noble A retail merchant of Chicago, talking profile any of these might easily out weigh good temper. Yet Mr. Smiles to an Inter Ocean reporter recently, assures us that “After the first year told in a bright and witty way why, in married people rarely think of eaeh oth his opinion, beauty is not only tiot de er's features, whether they be classical sirable In women who have to work TAMED A WAR-HORSE. ly beautiful or otherwise; but they for a living, but Is a positive drawback never fall to be cognizant of each oth In many cases to their securing and re Feat of Alexander the Great in the er’s temper.” As to a husband’s for taining employment, and although It Is D ,ya of Ilia Boyhood. hardly probable that the average wom tune, It Is not so Important as the qual One of the stories told by Alexander ities which lead to fortune—ambition, an would not prefer beauty to anything the Great is that of how, when a boy else, the merchant makes out a strong determination. Industry, thrift; and of 12, he tamed the war-horse Bucepha position such a man may attain for case. Here Is what be says: lus. The following Is the account giv t “It’s no joke, and there’s no Sentl- j himself. In education a man should be en by I’lutareh in his life of Alexander: meat about it. It ’ s Just a cold-drawn I at least his wife’s equal. Undoubtedly “Philonicus of Thessaly had offered there Is some subtle affinity between matter of business. I don’t care how to sell Philip his horse Bucephalus for | competent a strlklnglv-liandsome wom opposites. Yet there must be likeness thirteen talents. So they all went down as well as unllkeness. The latter will an may be, or how discreet and quiet Into the plain to try the animal. He lend piquancy which Is pleasant, but and Industrious she is—all the same proved, however, to be balky and ut l| she ’ s bound to demoralize the force. the former will give peace which Is terly useless. He would let no one A BURNED FOREST. She makes the women Jealous and the essential. At first love Itself will be mount him, and none of the attendants all-sufficing, but a little later the Indi men absent-minded, and it tells on their the commonwealth from each fire or of Philip could make him hear to him. vidual characteristics reassert them work. each series of fires that devastate the but he violently resisted them all. “Years ago a big Chicago confection- j timber-producing areas in Pennsyl Philip, in his disgust, ordered the horse selves. and then in the absence of com ery shop became famous all over the | vania Is $30,000,000. The fires occur led away as being utterly wild and un prehension and sympathy In one’s pet tastes and theories a barrier springs up, country for Its beautiful salesladies. chiefly from two causes. Railroad com trained. Whereat, Alexander, who slight, unconfessed, perhaps, but still The result of the experiment Is tints | panies burn their old ties along the was present, said: ‘That is too good right of way, without taking any pre a horse for those men to spoil that way. impassable, and In one sense at least described: “The place lost all of Its women cus caution to prevent the tire spreading to simply because they haven’t the skill man and wife are not “one,” but dis tinctly “two.”—Woman’s Home Com tomers. and the trajle of the men the woods, and the small farmers In or the grit to handle him right.’ At proved worthless. A young chappie clearing wood-lots for farming pur panion. would drop in, buy a stick of gum for a I poses burn the brush and fallen timber, Ruth Ashmore. cent, and talk for three hours at a without earing w hether the fire spreads Mrs. Isabel Mallon, best known by stretch. At last the proprietor -dis or not. her pen names of “Bab" and “Ruth charged the whole force and engaged a The Illustrations are significant as Ashmore,” who died recently at her lot of the homeliest women In Illinois. showing the desert condition which a home In New York, was born In Balti And so It goes. Pretty women—very fire, or series of fires, produces. In more and came of the old Sloan fam pretty women are at a great disad many parts of the United States one ily of Hartford County, Maryland. Iler vantage In business. It’s next to Im may see such tracts, over which fires paternal ancestors dwelt for five gen possible for one to get a Job. The home have swept almost every year, destroy erations In Baltimore, where she lived ly girls have the call.” ing the young forest growth and ren until her marriage to William Mallon dering the soli, after each succeeding In New York, when she was but It) A Wine Woman, years of age. After her husband’s Then* Is one wise lit tie woman whode- clnres she always keeps her company manners for h r husband, together with her prettiest gowns. “If I must be cross and horrid and have to do my hair up In kids to make It curl, I intend to reserve those revelations for persons whom I do not care so much about pleasing. Of course In time lie will find out I have not an angelic disposition and also that my fluffy hair was not bestowed upon me by nature, but I do not Intend to enlighten him until I am obliged to.” Now, Isn’t this sort of deceit prefer able to the out and out bluntness that ! makes a woman feel privileged because she really owns a man to show him at j once that his bargain Is not such a won- I del- as lie supp Sell? Hille all the faults you can. They will creep out soon 1 STREET IN PHILLIPS BEF ( »RE AN I> AFTER THE I IRE. enough. Wear a sunshiny countenance, even though you are worried to death. I conflagration more anil more barren. first Philip paid no attention to him, The world Is much kinder to the smil Tlie deterioration in tlie picturesque bnt as lie kept insisting on being heard death, Mrs. Mallon was employed by a ing woman than to the careworn one. ness of tlie country, or the loss in mon and seemed greatly disturbed about pattern publishing house In New York ey to tlie person or persons who may the matter, his father said to him: to write fashion articles, ami for over Not Atwnys Worn m’s Fault. own these districts for lumlH-ring pur 'What do you mean by criticising your three years kept tit this line of work, Dr. Shrndy’s assertion that the curse poses, may more easily lie imagined when she left It to begin writing her of American men Is straining nfter lux than told. What could be more dreary “Bab" letters. The Idea of these let ury for woman's sake, and that their than tlie country shown in the two ters was her is» a. and no one has suc lives are shortened thereby, does not photographs? cessfully Imitated her. Besides her meet with the approval of the bright Tlie year 1S94 will long lie remember "Bab” letters she wrote, under the club women of the city, who bring an ed In Wisconsin and Minnesota for the name of Ruth Ashmore, a moral eti abundance of evidence to the contrary. terrible calamities which occurred in quette guide for a ladles' magazine. The Ignorance In which most men keep July and August of that year. Intense th.-Ir wives regarding the state of the heat ami little rain had made the for The < nmprnsntion« of Motherhood, Let us be content with motherhood as family finances and the unequal divis ests almost like a kiln. All through the nu all-absorbing ami all-suttielent voca ion of the mail's Income, whore no al summer fire had been feared and look tion. Exceptional women there doubt lowance Is made to the wives after pay ed for. and by the end of July It was less are, sml always will be. whose vo ing the family bills has found terse ex said that not less than $5,ooo worth of cation Is not that of their sex; and yet pression from the lips of a practical pine had been destroyed. The tire ex I am sorry for them, and I think It one woman who says: “You can't expect tended over a stretch of nearly fifty of the most beautiful compensations of women to take Interest In the matter of miles wide, and all that experience life that the entire s lf-surrender of the saving and economising unless they gained by woodsmen and lumbermen 111 dealing with forest fires availed mother Is rewarded by such utiexam-I have the run of the pocketbook too." nothing against tlie sweeping flames, ■ pled freedom and fitness of self expres which were driven like an overwhelm Flilen noil Trains Horses. - •Ion. There are few men who have a ing flood by a strong wind, leaving One of the riders who attracted most thoroughly congenial occupation, or one death and destruction in their path. In Into which they can pour without re attention at the New York horse show was Miss Elsie Jones, of Brookville. the photographs presented herewith, j serve their highest and beat selves. in., taxiing op Bt cF.rnAt.rs. Canada, who Is which show a Wisconsin town named The wife supremo In the house has n Phillips ls-fore and after the fire, one elders. as if you were wiser than they, noted as being the degree of personal liberty unknown to only lady In Can may sis* how completely the forest fire or knew- so much more alsuit handling the husband, held In the merciless grip ada who ever per fiend does his work. Phillips was burn a horse than they do?’ 'Will, this of competition and commercial laws, ed July 27. and tlie loss of life would horse, anyway. I would handle better sonally superln- lfrr feeling for art should ennoble her have I hm - ii seven- had not the Inhabit- than any one else, if they would give teuded the train dally life; her Intelligent patriotism to me a chance.' ’In ease you don’t suc ing of a horse for inspire her sons to action. Her Ideals. ceed,' rejoined his father, ’what penal racing. Miss Jones SnT'en li - a- ii‘. '' ■ may en ty are you willing to pay for your fresh Is a magnificent rich the soli In which she labors, and ness?' '1'11 pay, by Jove, the price of horse-woman, a flower Into abundant capabilities In her the horse!’ Laughter greeted this an member of the children. Woman’s Home Companion. swer, but after some bantering with Montreal Hunt his father about the money arrange Krt a Gno<l I. x imp’e. Club, and knows ments. he went straight to tlie horse, Som* out* has «a <1 ihat our children Mt»» ION! S. more of a horse's took him by the bridle, and turned him dt**lrt* to iM'gln where we leave off. (Kilnts than most men. around toward the sun. This he did Consequently. If they can procure the Miss Jones' splendid riding Is so on the theory that the horse's fright elegances of life In no other way, they widely know that she was asked to was due to seeing his own shadow- will secure them on the credit system. ride one of the horses exhibited at the dance up and down on the ground lie For It Is a fact that the poor pay far horse show by a New York man. She fore him. lie then ran along by his higher for the accommodations they re Is a slight, fined.Hiking girl, with a side awhile, patting and coaxing him. ceive than do the rich for theirs. The pretty figure and well cut features. until, aft.-s’ awhile, seeing lie was full usual outcome of this kind of house Her admirable management of her of tire and spirit and impatient to go. keeping Is that the delHor f.Uls behind horse attracted much attention at the 1 he quietly threw off his coat, and In his paym nts. Is annoyed by duns. I horse show. swinging himself up. sat securely borrows a trifle from a friend to ward I astride the horse. Then he guided him About Women. off the evil day and at last abandons alsmt for a while with the reins, with hope, losing furniture and all that has > Clara Barton. ITesIdent of the Red out striking him or Jerking at the bit. Croes, Is writing a Imok giving a full been paid as Interest and principal. When now he saw that the horse was history of that society and Its work In Cure of the kirt. getting over his nervousness, and was the recent war, answering charges Muddy weather Is always a ,ort> trial j eager to gallop ahead, he let him go. made against It and Its officers. to a woman wearing a nice skirt, driving him on with a sterner voice but she can do something to preserve | Miss Frances K. Mason Is President and with kicks of his foot. In the group of the National Bank In Limerick. Me. It from permanent ruin. In the first i of onlookers alnnit Philip, there pre BURNED FOHKST AFTER TWFXTY TEARS. It was foundisl by her father. J. M. place, when returned from a muddy I vailed. from the first, the silence of in Ma»on, and It» Interests have lu-et! aMy street, site or her maid should hang the j ants escaped by taking trains to places tensely anxious concern. But when skirt before a fire, but not too dose, so promoted under her leadership. the boy turned the horse and came gal of safety. In October, 1871, cue of the most ter loping up to them with pride and Joy that the mud may dry quickly. When j Mrs. Herbert Duniaresq and Mrs. dry, the mud s|»ots should l»e loosened Arthur W. Foster, of Boston, hare rible tires tn America on record broke In his face, they alt burst out into a by rubbing with the edge of a penny. | presented the Fw Hospital for Wo- , out at Peshtigo. Wls., and more than cheer. His father, they say; shed tears and the dust should then be gently men with a new ward, a< a memorial 700 persons were burned to death. But for very Joy. and. as he dismounted, Orobably the saddest fire was that kissed him on the bead, and said: ‘My brutbed off with a brush of moderate ! to their father, the Ute E. D. Jordan. A son, seek thee a kingdom suited to thy powers; Macedonia is Joo straight for the.-.’ ” Bucephalus became from this time the property and the Inseparable com panion of Alexander, lie accompanied him on his campaigns "sharing many tolls and dangers with him,” and was generally the horse ridden by him In battle. No one else was ever allowed to mount him. as Arrian says, “because he deemed all other riders unworthy.” Ie is reported to have been a maguiil- •ent black charger of extraordinary size, and to have been marked with a white spot on the forehead. WOMAN IN MAN’S POSITION. Mrs. Glesaner Moore Brady a Circuit Clerk in Missouri. The first woman to hold the mascu line position of Circuit Clerk of Vernon County. Missouri, was recently appoint ed by Governor Stephens. She is Mrs. Glessner Moore Brady, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Moore, o’n-l niece of Thomas D. McKay, who Was CAPTURED CAT DEAD. Famnna Feline Rescued from theSpan- ish Battleship Cristobal Colon. The famous Spanish cat, Cristobal Colon, captured from the Spanish bat tleship on July 3, died at the United MBS. O. M. BIIADY. for several years general passenger agent of the Burlington road at San Francisco, and is now representing American railroads and steamship lines at Yokohama, Japan. Mrs. Brady was born in Nevada, Mo., about twenty- five years ago. She was educated in the school of her native city and at Mary Institute, St. Louis. In 1895 she married Henry C. Brady, who was then j Circuit Clerk of Vernon County, and entered his office as deputy clerk. The husband and wife were jiopular in their office, and last summer, after Mr. Brady’s health had failed, he was again nominated for the position and elected. Shortly after he died. The following SKNOR CBISTOBAL COLON. j day the local bar of Nevada adopted States government station at Benton resolutions urging the appointment of Harbor, Mich. This cat was in the Mrs. Brady to the office just made va cat show in Chicago and was awarded cant by the death of her husband. Gov ernor Stephens, familiar with the facts in the case, issued a commission to Mrs. Brady, and she was sworn iu by Judge D. P. Stratton, of the Vernon Circuit Court, as Circuit Clerk of Ver- j non County. THE CLAY PIPE. j No Evolution in Form During Many Centuries of Its Use. Other things may evolute, but the pipe that the Irishman loves best is the j same to-day that his forefathers used centuries ago. For real, genuine con solation and comfort the average hard working son of Erin prefers to do his smoking in the ordinary clay pipe of commerce. He usually breaks off the stem, just by way of not having to a special medal. Señor Cristobal Colon was a mascot on the Spanish man-of- war of that name. Early Writers on Smoking. The fact has been discovered that Shakspeare never mentions smoking or makes the slightest allusion to the habit. This Is the more curious, as most of his contemporaries. Ben Jon son, Decker and others discuss the then new fashion at length, and the humor ist and satirist of the time lost no op portunity of deriding and making a game of the votaries of the weed. The tobacco merchant was an import ant p rsonage in the time of James I. The Elizabethan pipes were so small that when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them “fairy pipes.” King James himself was one of the most virulent opponents of the habit, and in his ludicrous "Counterblasts” calls it a vile and stinking custom, "borrowed from tlie beastly, slavish Indians— poor, wild, barbarous men—brought over from America, and not Introduced by any worthy or virtuous or great per sonage.” He argues that tobaco is not dry and hot; that its smoke is humid, like all other smoke, and is therefore bad for the brain, which is naturally wet and cold. lie denies that smoking purges tlie head or stomach, and declares that many have smoked themselves to death.—Medical liecord. Women in Paris. “I like the way the French take their amusements,” writes Miss Lilian Bell in a letter from Paris. "At the theater they laugh and applaud the wit of the hero and hiss the villain. They shout their approval of a duel and weep aloud over the death of the aged mother. When they drive in the Bois they smile ami have an air of enjoy ment quite at variance with the bored expression of English and Americans who have enough money to own car riages. We drove in Hyde Park in London the day before we came to Paris, and nearly wept with sympathy for the unspoken grief In the faces of the unfortunate rich who were at such pains to enjoy themselves. I never saw such handsome men as I saw In Loudon. I never see such beautiful women as I see in Paris. French men are Insignificant as a rule, and English women are beefy and dross like rag bags.’’—Philadelphia Inquirer. THE CLAY rtTE. draw the soothing smoke too far. While it is generally agreed that Raleigh in troduced the tobacco habit into Eng land and Ireland from America there are writers, who, after research, claim that long before Columbus sailed on liis voyages smoking was common in Ireland, the material used, however, being certain dried aromatic leaves. Dr. Eugene S. Talbot, of Chicago, In a book he is publishing gives pictures of pipes used in Ireland In the ante-Co- lumbia era. A glimpse at these older- day pipes and at the favorite “dudheen” of the Irishman of to-day will show that time has wrought but little change iu the passing centuries. Readers of Rubbish. If the works of high-class writers are upon the shelves of those who make a practice of reading rubbish, those works remain unlooked at, while the low novel is sought with keeu anxiety, and time Is occupied in its perusal al ways at the expense of the Intellect, and often to the neglect of duties of vast importance. People pay visits to libraries, procure books, and spend hours dally in reading, and often speak of it with apparent pride, but. as a rule, they only read wliat may be called pastimes. Such readers are consequent ly never In any way improved by their reading, though well up in the details of Imagined murders and acts of im morality. which authors have put be fore them to amuse and gratify their shallow minds. Demoralizing literature does not find its patrons in any one class of society; on the contrary, such is read by the lady In the drawing-room as well as the domestic servant in the kitchen; by the man of good position down to the office boy. who has often been Induced to become a thief or a forger In conse quence of examples set before him In works of fiction.—Westminster Review. Was Afloat with Napoleon. Only Chance on Record. Two men living in St. Helena who “I never saw anything more remark were born respectively in 1798 and 1802 are not the only persons now living able,” said the young man who claims who have seen Napoleon the Great. to have spent a great deal of time Thomas De Moleyns, who was for many abroad, “than a little scene I witnessed years county court Judge of Kilkenny, . in Spain. A passenger on one of the who was called to the Irish bar in 1831. cars became obstrejierous and behaved and appointed a Queen's counsel In with the utmost disregard of propriety, 1855. served In his early boyhood in the but the conductor didn’t pay the slight royal navy. Mr. De Moleyns was a est attention to him.” “I don’t see anything very wonder midshipman on board the Bellerophon when Napoleon on July 15. 1815. after ful in that.” "It’s the only case on record where a “the hundred days." placed himself under the flag cf his country and was Spaniard overlooked a good chance to put something off.**—Washington Star. received on board the Bellerophon. “Maud says she is madly in lore with Judge—You say the defendant turn her new wheel.” “Huhl Another case ed and whistled to the dog. What fol- where man Is displaced by machinery.” ■ lowed? Intelligent Witness—The dog, —Indianapolis JournaL | —Cleveland Plain Dealer.