Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1893, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE FRENCH FOURTH. How the Parisians Celebrate the National Fete. SOME GAY STREET SCENES. The Official Calls in the Morning — The Parades on the Boulevards—Fun on Every Hand—Free Music Furnished by the City— ‘Many Al Fresco Balls. a Cerrespondence of The Evening Star. Panis, June 16, 1893. VERY YEAR THE national fete of France is the 14th July. It is good month and a good date—the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Early in the morning every one exercises bis ingenuity to ornament his windows with Ven- etian lanterns and little flags. When the salvoe ‘Partillery announce the morning and the bells ‘ere ringing im all the church towers of all ‘when the marines of every warship on | ‘the seacoast fire the great guns, they are also | fae Rempublicam. In city, town and the tram sound the day in the Squeresjand the suniight of July in France | Sines ‘upon population enthusiastic, eager ‘end excited. Each hour has its new ceremony / ‘ef diversion, from the firss boom of the cannon sunrise to the last bang of the bass drum long | midnight. Each shows, from first to last, solidly settied the republic is in the hearts ON THE BOULEVARD. At midday the official receptious commence, from the highest government functionaries to | the lowest. M. Carnot receives the presidents | of the two chambers, the ministers, senators, | ties, and admirals—called the vegetables” —and at the same hour every humble under prefect in the provinces receives and the “big bats” (prom!- nent citizens) of his little town. Every pri- ‘vate citizen tulates every other. Every ie washed and combed, every soldier and waxed, every lady powdered and ‘and every beker's‘apprentice, loafer, aet boy and domestic servant has a piece of in bis pocket. ‘attempts to see half the spectacles, he activery |e nes ‘im none, tosleep later on the morning on the night of the 13th of jon of mili musical and choral societies. It fotcl de Ville (City Hall) and marches sections, east and west. More remarka- than the ‘procession is the crowd. The is more than half the pleasure of the the night. For the true crowd is the great joy of his titution known as the cafe exists more than for the refreshments The dance halls, the great romenades, the drives, the parks, ‘the stree Bil take the charm from and have their reason ‘THE RUSH ON THE STREETS. On thenight of the 13th of July they gather by thousands and thousands, ostensibly to see the processions passing down the streets; but the have scarcely more than halfway them with the singing societies chanting Mothers of Alsace” and ‘Following the ‘Musique Militaire,” before there is a breaking upandsrush in’ all directions, particularly northward, toward the Great Boulevard. For the two nights of the 13th and the 14th patriotic speeches Efe the cafes, littie cbairs round. their marble- the sidewalk. For general ad- the street to stand in wherever crowd. Price there ls none, except the of being pushed and pul In your reserved seat at some cafe's sidewalk table. when you are lucky enough to find one, you sit and watch the show. = Upthe street comes an acrobat, wearing over his pink tights a light overcoat. He looks quickly to ascer- tain brother artist is holding the at- tention of the people Sat the tables. If the coast is clear he doffs fgjbis cost, spreads out his carpet, makes his ‘speech and begins his act. When he has fin- ished he takes up a col- lection “for the expense %s of costume and acces- sories.” The crowd which bas made a semi- ¢ircle around him give him something, but t most of his pay comes from the cafe's patrons, ——— seated and in full view of his do- ‘Then there will follow this fellow, in a quick succession, a couple of clowns in what is sup- Posed to bea very entertaining dialogue, or ‘Women singing to guitars, or a sword swallower who really swallows. ora marionette theater, IN THE care. with a mouth elasti enongh to streteb j fra isa lull fora timeand «blind man si up, with the ery of “Don’t forget the father of Atte bard. After this will come two -looking young men in faded scarlet dress reste and white silk hats, to sing a song of birds and flowers and cooing doves and swelling sails and happy lovers in their boats upon the sea. There may be ssinger who has a facial resemblance to the great Napoleon. At the end of each verse of a song of those brave old days he will strike a traditional attitude, witn his flattened hat astride his head and his crooked arm thrust into his vest. He is always received with great applause, Then there will comes clown with an immense Japanese imitation snake attached to his toe by a string, a girl con- tortionist, a man who can sing the Russian na- tional hymn (very popular now, though no one knows if he sings it correctly or not), a crowd of burlesque Spanish estudiantina and a troupe of little Jtalian children with an accordion and Doubtless these vaga- bond volunteer amuse- ments would on every night throughout the year upon the Boule- vard, should theauthor- ities permit it. But this m French independence Aday and a few other b3creat feast days and uJ the nights immediately Preceding them are the only times of privilege for all these amateur ‘and broken-down pro- fessional performers. Even begging is openl: permitted, in the case of able-bodied men ani ‘women, as well as to mutilated cripples. Every ‘one has his purse open, to give each poor d a chance to enjoy the morrow’s holiday. This is not ali. Even on the night of the 18th there goes on in Paris a monster ball, one of the most curious balls that can be seen in ‘ehanting in city, town and country Domine | the whole world. It isa ball composed of 300 Little balls, with all the dancing in the open air and in the open streets. ‘The city provides the band stands end musicians, and they are sta- tioned at such street corners as are prominent enough, have room enongh and space enough for dancing. The dancers are any one who pleases. Their quality depends upon the quar- ter of the city; naturally they are never the highest class of le nor even the middle class, but neither are they the lowest. The couples step out into the middle of the street. They play a quadrille. In one set there will bea humpbacked young man, won- derfully graceful in spite of his impediment; = perfectly dressed young girl, with the airs and graces of a millinér’s apprentice, very chic and retty; fine fellow, with curled mustache and right pantaloons, and a fat old mother, with a red face and great activity. A cab or ‘bus comes thundering into their very midst and the dancers melt as if by magic into the crowd of spectators on the curb. For the most part this public dancing is inno- cent if atrifie lively. Buteven if a girl has icarned | some chabut steps and shows them off before the admiring young men and the supercilious and not a little envious more retiring women, it is considered that no great harm is done. As for the length of time the dancing may endure ail is over long before the midnight, for every one must be up bright and early for the morn- ing of the 14th, the real day of the fete. On the morning of the ifth there has been of late years a rather peculiar and significant patriotic function. This is the parade of the various Alsace-Lorraine societies, marching up | the Boulevard and down to the Place de la Con- corde to deposit wreaths at the foot of the FREE MUSIC. Strasburg statue. Wreaths and bouquets are also generousiy piled up around the statue of Gambetta and the bronze equestrian figure of Joan of Are, which shows that the sympathies of Parisians are divided. As tothe great military review, which isalways held by the president on the Longchamps race course, it needs the patriotism and personal in- terest of French people to endure fora long time its crowding and inconvenience and long- drawn-out waiting. On the stands for invited guests (tickets obtained through a friend of some deputy or senator) there is never room enough; and on every eminence and height that you may seek out you find that an impatient crowd is there already disputing every inch among themselves. ‘On your way out through the Bois you en- counter companies and groups of soldiers marching: further along detachments wait patiently in broken ranks for the word to move on totheir assigned places in the mighty columns, If you skirt the crowds of spectators and get a clear glimpse across the distant field-like tent of the great park, you see a gathering of officers around a general, perhaps, or a com- pany that is wheeling into place. Bugles blow, drums roll, the crowd surges, the dust rises, there isa glint of bayonets, mass of red, with horses prancing and com- panies marching, marching. marciing. ‘Then there ix « lull in Paris until 8 o'clock at night Only the small boys and girls are busy at their games, of which there is noend. In convenient open places thronghout the city special apparatus for these games is prepared. ‘here are wheelbarrow races, sack races, slow races and ordinary races. There is the gnme of the smoke-binckened frying pan. It is sus- pended by a string and a piece of money is glued to its grime, to be detached by the teeth of such children as are not afraid to get their noses dirty. Then there is a basin of flour on atable in the open street. In it a piece of money is dropped, and the game is to take it out with your teeth. Thereare games in which hanging bottles are to be struck by blindfolded boys and girls. Each bottle, according to the amount of water in it, gives forth a different musical note when sounded; each bottle is num- bered, and the idea is to remember, when blindfolded, about where the highist num- bered bottle hangs and to hit it. PARADING. In the evening the trees of the avenue of the Champs-Elysees are hung with dark pink Vene- tian Innterns and yellow Chinese paper balloons. The Place de la Concorde is festooned over its immense «pace with gas jetsin milk-white globes, all done at great expense. A dance crow gathers here, which surges slowly back again to the Boulevard or to the fireworks at the Troca- dero and the Champ de Mars. Omnibuses and cabs are forbidden the streets after 8 o'clock in the evening. The omnibuses really obey the in- junction, but many a stray cab and private car- Tiage ix caught in the crowds before the Cafe de In Paix and the Taverne Pousset, and 1s forced torun « gauntlet of jibing remarks, teasings and personal handling, all for the sake of good fellowship and high spirits. Indeed, this hold- ing up of the cabs becomes, in certain sections, the most amusing diversion of the night. By 10 o'clock the street dancing is at its height again, much more attended, loud and amusing than the night preceding. The motto is “All may dance, but no one is to be forced to dance.” Last year only one young Indy is reported to have come to grief—not for refus- ing to dance. but for having danced too much. It was at the Halles, where the market women were having their own ball. Here Mome- Comete, a danseuse of the Moulin Rouge, began her celebrated chahut eccentricities, “It's shameful to show off like that in public!” cried the dames de la Halles. A policeman was summoned and he condueted the Indy, accom- panied by a great number of spectators, to the station house. “If you'd only seen her!” cried the market women to the commissaire of police. “What!” answered Mome-Comete in indigna- tion, “I only showed my red, white and blue garters. [ was dancing gratis in public at the request of many of my friends, just to cele- brate the Ith of July, and if bad been at the Moulin Rouge I should have had fifteen for every dance.” ‘On the Boulevard the sellers of confetti do a the bottom of « clarct bottle. Then there brisk enough trade, though the throwing of these showers of minutely chopped paper is not exactly a spontaneous Parisian distraction. ‘The Parisians are too nervous and resentful in their itions to bear it without bickering. Most tosay “Thank you" when the many-colored shower descends upon their heads and shoulders, but more than one gallant youth is sure to have his hat crushed by the parasol of some ill-tempered beauty. 4 TWo IX THE MORNING. Tt is thus that the night passes away and into the morning. At1o’clock in the morning the street dancing has finished. At 2 o'clock in the morning most of the late suppers at the restau- rants are over. At3 o'clock most of the beer drinkers of the Boulevard and other great streets have quenched their thirsts and solitary groups of men are straggling on their home- ward way. e In recent years all the great fetes of Paris have passed off quietly, and the strenger sees only mirth and high spirits. In the faee of this it seems a strange thing and it is signifi- cant of an underlying uneasiness that the Temps should make its boast last year “that those who visited the celebration in the differ- ent quarters could verify once more that the people of Paris are good at bottom.” But if this were more true there would be less occa- sion to say it, Sreaiixe Hera, ages ‘Written for The Evening Star. Her Fate. She wore a bud in her bonny hair. “I'm going,” she said, “my fate to seek.” Her cheek was pink and her brow was fair, And her soft eyes danced with the girlish freak— For, “I’m going,” she said, “my fate te seek.” ‘The air was clear, with a soft, pure glow; ‘The woods were budding to tender green. ‘The blood-root lifted its bells of snow, And the fern-frond’s web and the willow’s screen ‘Were bright with the light that shot between. And the maid in search of her fate, that day, (Her eyes lit up with a gleam of fun,) To the milistream hollow took her way, ‘Where the great wheel creaked as its task begun, Guided by Tom, the miller’s son. ‘She crossed the stream to the other side. She thought, “How long shall I have to wait?” ‘The clouds were white as the veil of a bride. ‘Ske turned toward home when the day was late, And she met the miller’s son at the gate. She shyly smiled in a sweet surprise. The daily task of the mill was done, And a tender glory lighted her eyes When the twilight’s shadowy reign begun— ‘She had found her fate in the miller’s son. Harrig WuirNer. 9318 Arsenal street, St. Louts. SHE VISITED THIBET. An English Girl’s Journey to the Bounds of the Mysterious City. From the Seattle Post Intellixencer. Vaxcovver, June 14.—Miss Taylor of Lon- don, England, the only woman who ever pene- trated the interior of Thibet, was an arrival on the steamer Empress of Japan. She is small in stature. Her hands and wrists are small, her features fine. and her manner gentle and pleas- ant. In spite of this fact Miss Taylor bas traveled where a man could not have goneand lived. She was connected indirectly with a China mission, but having sufficient means of her own, traveled about as fancy dictated. The trade of Thibet is held by China, and China is jealousof having any one of any other nation enter the country, because they know well that if “foreign devils” ever get into the land of the Thibetens the Chinese trade monopoly is gone. The Chinese have guards all around the terri- tory, and far in the interior their spies are to be met. Miss Taylor started out first with four ser- vants, and among them was a Mongolian Mohammedan, who coveted her belongings, and thought it would be a meritorious thing to kill her anvway. This man gave her a lot of trouble, and his treachery at the end nearly cost her her life and prevented her entry into Lassa, the sacred city of the interior of Thibet, of which so many strange stories are told. Mise Tazlor'e party wore twice stopped by bandits, Once they took nearly all her things away, but after discovering that her party were not mem- bers of the faction for which they had been mistaken, some of her goods were restored to her. After many vicissitudes she reached the Lassaldistrict and got to within a few miles of Lassa city. Here she found that her treacher- ous servant had gone ahead and told the head men that if they allowed her to enter the city their lives would be forfeited to the Chinese government; so the authorities, when she came up, told her they were sorry, and would will- ingly let her enter the city, but they dared not. She was thus forced toturn back within sight of her goal. The Thibetans are a nomadic people, but have one or two permanent towns, Lassa, the capital, being the largest. ‘The people are gov- erned principally by the lamas or native prieste, They practice polyandry to a great extent, many women having as many as three or four husbands, who in many cases are brothers. The country is all very much above the sea level, some 11,000 feet in the vallovs, and she suffered greatly from shortness of breath. The ‘Thibetans are herders. and many of them are splendid horsemen. They use a number of horses, and the ox in this country corresponds to the yak in Thibet. The yak is larger than the ox, and has a peculiar grunt like « pig. ‘Thibet is wet in summmor and cold ia winter. Miss Taylor has a Thibetan man servant with her, whom she says has been faithful. When she finally reached the border exit was refused this servant, but she said in the Thibetan lan- guage, which she understands perfectly: ‘He goes or Ido not. You may kill me if you wish, ‘but my man must go. See you this?” and she drew from her breast a small silken union jack that she had carried through all her vici tudes. “Stain this flag with my blood and the great mother whose sign this fiag ie will avenge my death.” Strange to say, this ob- tained her not only exit, but a safe escort, ‘The Perfect Female Form. From the Ladies’ Home Journal. Nothing is more truly artistic than the sim- ply outlined oval of the perfect female form. It is but slightly depressed at the waist, the hips areas wide as the shoulders, there is not an angle from top to toe. It is as different from the outline of the fashionable ‘well set up” woman, with her squared shoulders and angular hips, asa horse is fromacamel. We call the high-belted empire dresses artistic, because this preserves the oval better than the long waisted shapes. The nude figure has no belt line. When the weight rests equally npon the feet and the body isheld upright the smallest measurement of the waist is about where the modern’ belt is placed. But let the body bend to one side and the point of intersection of the hip and side muscles will be over an inch above the former belt line. This is why field laborers, even to the jerest young girl, are short-waisted. For hygienic reasons the belt should never be placed below this point, and by thus shortening the straight under-arm seam by an inch the beauty of the uncorseted waist is materially aided. ———_+o-— Always Welcome. From the Boston Globe. So courteous are Manxmen, that in the Isle of Man, no matter at what hour of the day or night a stranger arrives, he is said to be “just in time” for something or another. There is a story that carly one morning a dance wasn progress on one of the piers, when a shipwrecked sailor, who had been drift- ing about on a spar and had fortunately “landed” on the girders below, crawled up the steps. A committeeman came forward—emiled, bowed and said: “Pleased to see you, sir. Can I find yous FRANKLIN MADE ONE. An Electric Light Which the Phil- osopher Used a Century Ago NOW EXISTING IN ENGLAND. A Rare and Important Relic Offered to This Government — The Apparatus With ‘Which the Sage Philadel; Anticipated Edison by s Hundred Years. coe HE DEPARTMENT Stato has just re- ceived from Mr. B.F. Stevens of the United States dispatch agency at London an account of an historical electric apparatus, once used by Franklin, which he has recently unearthed in that city. Among other things Mr. Ste- vens says he has found that Franklin during his last sojourn in England made an electric lamp, and that he could produce from it with his primitive appliances sufficient electric light to read by. This antedates the achievement of Edison by more than a hundred years. The lamp is in a good state of preservation, and has recently been tested by its owner, a gentleman residing near London, who finds that it works # satisfactorily now as when Franklin himself experimented with it. It is a curiosity of grent value and importance in illustrating the history of electric lighting. There are several other pieces of apparatus, formerly the property of Franklin, in the col- lection with the old lamp, including a large and powerful electric machine. A detailed descrip- tion and list of the rare oid relics is contained in Mr. Sevens’ recent letter to the Depart- ment of State, which announces also that he has the permission of the owner to offer them to our government, properly packed and de- livered on board the steamer at Liverpool or Southampton for $3,000. The official list of the relics is as follows: One large electrical glass cvlinder, w.’°. collars and handle; silk cover and leather rubbe: supporting cylinder of strong wooden pillars. base for supporting frame, a portion of which has been renewed; two glass pillars for support- ing prime and negative conductors (the pillar for the negative being fractured), prime and negative conductors, covered with foil: a few Leyden jars, a “luminous cylinder,” with in- side ball at one end and metallic point at the other; Franklin's interesting experiment for producing electrical light, an old electrometer, ‘one or two vacuum globes and some miscella neous items. ‘TRE ELECTRIC LIGHT. The old electric lamp, which for the student of electrical inventions at least is the most in- teresting feature of the collection, is by no means the arc light or the incandescent lamp ‘of modern times. Its principle, however, 18 that of the arc light without carbon points, this device—which was invented by Sir Hum- phrey Davy in 1813—Srst demonstrating the racticability of electric lighting. The total Pengtt of the cylinder, within which the ligh is produced, is about twelve inches and its diameter three inches. Each end is provided with attachments for connecting it with the positive aud negative poles of the machine which, it should be remembered, was the only means of generating electricity with which men were then familiar. The electric light in this rude but ingenious device was produced by the leaping of the i tercepted current from the ball to the metallic point inside the tube, which was mentioned in ‘the list above. The ends of the tube are partly closed, undoubtedly for the same reason that the globes of the arc light are partially closed at present, and the light given off is steady and brilliant. THE GENFRATING MACHINE, ‘The machine with which Franklin generated his electricity for this novel experiment is turned by a crank, grindstone like, and was the most powerful and complete in construction of any electrical machine of that day. This crank turns a ponderous glass cylinder, which is rubbed by brushes with silk covers. These brushes convey the electricity collected from the cylinder to the prime and Degative con- ductors, supported on large gins pillars, where it can be used for purposes of experiment. ‘The-machine is stanchly built and is capable of producing an electric spark twelve or fifteen inehes long. While simple in its construction it could not be much improved upon by our wisest electricians. It is especially adapted for th need experiments of various kinds which Franklin was engaged with at that period of his life. ‘The history of these old relics has been ons of strange vicissitudes. They have always been in the ion of gentlemen interested in the study of electricity, and were it not for this fact might not be in their present good state of preservation. The present owner is Dr. B. W. Richardson, a man who lives in the vicinity of London. ‘THE HISTORY OF THE APPARATUR, His account of the history of the apparatus, as given to Mr. Stevens is as follows: “The machine hus been in my possesion over forty yeara. It was presented to me by the late Rev. Dr. Pinckney of Sheen, near London, as one that was used by the celebrated Benjamin Franklin for bis researches and demonstrations while he resided in England. It was reported as made for him by Geor; Adams about the year 1772-3. Adams wasn well-known maker of machines and added to thé early machines many improvements. This machine corresponds entirely to the plates il- lustrative of his workmanship and there is no reason to doubt on this point. “The account given to me by the donor was that from his early dave he was deeply inter- ested in the study of electricity in ite practical form, that he heerd of this machine as being for sale at an institution called the London @ machine employed by the distinguished Benjamin Franklin, and tbat he became a purchaser of it, He learned to work it, and being engaged in teaching, made great use of it for a considerable series of ars. JeNAt the time he gave the instrument to me Dr. Pinckney was over eighty years of age. He had for several years past coased to use the machine and had stowed it away with a chem- ist and druggist in his neighborhood at Sheen, near London, Unfortunately the chemist placed it in a store room underground, the wooden base on which the pillars w P- became so destroyed that it would not old together in one piece, but broke, like touch- wood, causing the destruction of the lettering detailing the history of the machine and the date of the construction of it. It was neces- sary, undor these circumstances, to make a new Jatform for the base, and this is the only part fhat required replacement. The cylinder, the supports, the columns, the rubber, the handle and every other part is intact, just as it came nto my possession. There was someapparatus, including a “lumi- nous conductor” and other parts, all of which are in good preservation. The machine up to the present time admits of being brought into play. In giving a lecture at South Kensington to the working classes a few years ago I made use of it successfully for several experiments, but I have only brought it into working action exceptionally for fear of breaking #0 curious a relic. ‘The machine, only, is now at the South Ken- sington Museum, having been loaned to that institution several years ago by Doctor Richard- son. This museum is the center of a system of educational museums that extend all over En- land. The rest of the apparatus is in Doctor Richardson's possession. WHEN FRANKLIN USED IT, The apparatus must have been used by Frank- lin during his last residence in England in the few years previous to his departure for America on ‘account of the episode of the Hutchinson letters, famous in colonial history. At that time he was acting as agent at the English court for the colonies of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Georgia and Pennsyl; These were his most bril- linnt days as an electrician, and in this field, perhaps, he was most favorably known outside of the colonies. Then it was that everywhere abroad his steps were followed by » genteel mob, curious to catch a glimpse of the wise Philadelphian who could kill turkeys with electricity and a few years before had set the whole junto of Penn i rubbing giass cylinders ‘The association of these relics make them all the dearer to both Englishmen and Americans, for it was at his time that it was Franklin's custom to hold at this modest home in London those electrical matinees to which friends and strangers flocked eagerly to behold the strange tricks he could do. ‘These were the attraction of the day, which even great men like the cele- : Priestly patronized. On these for- to-be-remembered occasions all this ap- paratus must have been frequently used. Permission to allow the apparatus to leave England has been granted very reluctantly. Mr. Stevens says in his report to the Depart- a of State: iawcielee’ been much unwill- ingness to withdraw the portions of the appara- tus which are now in the South Ker nm Museum, and by combining them with the other portions to restore the collection to ite original completeness as received by Dr. Rich- ardson. and to offer the entire lot forsale. It has only been on the assurance that our gov- ernment was the intending purchaser that I have been able to obtain the necessary authority to sell this entire invaluable historical ap- paratus.” ‘The matter of purchasing the collection bas been referred to Dr. G. Brown Goode, in charge of the National Museum, but it is’ not likely thet the museum will have funds, available By is purpose. It is more likely that an ap) to Congress will be necessary. The government already Printing press which Franklin used in 1783, when he first visited England. When he re- turned to that country in 1768 he hunted up the old press, made a speech to the printers using it and drank their healths in a gallon of porter. It came into the possession of the government in 1841, after passing through the hands of sev- eral owners. It is eminently fitting that this collection— which would properly emphasize his dis- tinguished labors in the field of electricity— should be placed in the museum with the print- ing press, where it would be accessible to the public. Similar collections have been made of the personal effects of Washington, Jefferson and other famous personages in the early his- tory of the republic. Enxzst G. WaLKER. pare ora ‘Women's Gifts to Colleges. From the Philadelphia Press. Those who mspect the statistical charts and the bound volume of historical and educational monograms contributed by the women of Massa. chusetts to the Chicago fair will gain a new id of what women have done for the cau: ossesses the old of higher education. The facts contained will be a revelation to most people, who have only an inadequate idea of what women have accom- plished in this way. One of the most ex- traordinary showings is tho table containing a list of sums of money given to Maseachusoits colleges by women. It is as follows: Harvard Universit; Institute of Tech: ‘Williams College. Boston Collewe, lesley Coilaite. rombined seifts of Mi. a Here is n total of $2,328,078.18, a munificent sum, and larger by many ‘thousands than the total gifts made to ail the colleges in some of the oldest states. Harvard University received more than half of this amount, and yet that institution has only recently admitted young women to its courses, and evon now does not ve them the same advantages as young men. 'o President Eliot's request that women con- tribute $500,000 to endow the woman's annex of Harvard University it might be pertinent to ‘ask why it would not be right to use for this purpose a part of the 1,200,000. given by women in past years to the funds of the uni- versity. ‘The scholarships, the botanic garden, the divinity school, the library and the depart: ments that have been enriched by this bounty ‘of women show how well they can discriminate in their gifts, This does not include all, however, that women have done for education in Massachu- ibraries have received gifts amounting to 681,198, and public and indus- trial schools have ‘been given $122,000. An- other way in which education has been aided by women is by gifts to the free kindergartens, which have received $344,579. Even this does not cover all the money women have given to aid others in getting wn education, many being too modest to allow the amount of their gifts to be known, but it is enough to show how strong an interest women have taken in coileges and education. This interest is not of recent origin, either. Asearly ay 1664 Bridget Wynds gave Harvard College £4, and in 17183 Mme. Hutch- inson gave the same institution £10. These sums look small beside the recent bequests to Harvard of $220,000 by Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg, and $169,925 by Mra. Ellen Gurney. Bat it 15 the spirit and ability and not the size of the donation that measures the value of the gift. It ina long call from the earliest of these ex- pressions of woman's interest in edu the present time, when colleges are opening their doors to female students and placing them ‘on the same level with male students, All have not done this, but some have, and others will be compelled to follow. The results of college traning for women have more than justitied the efforts made, and xwept away most of the preluutice that once existed against the higher Intellectual training of women. The New York Sun not long ago gave the following illustra- tion of what a college-bred woman can do, It said: “One college woman in New York, wife of a busy physician, does all her busband’s read: ing to him, both of current literature and medical publicatio With the trained in- telligence peculiar to the thoroughly educated woman, sho grasps the salient points of the articles and in a few words gives them to him at dinner or in the afternoon drive.” With such proof of how acollege-bred woman can enter into an intelligent partnership with her husband, and the proof given in the ex- hibit at Chicago of the liberality of women toward colleges, there will be a general agree- ment that the day bax passed when the demand for equal facilitiex for the higher education of women can be brushed aside as unworthy of notice. ——_+e2_____ The Happy Nezro of Georgia. From the Atlanta Constitution. In the south there is no longer a race prob- lem. The negro has settled down contentedly in « sphere that suits him, and no complaint is heard. As we write the negro teachers are holding a convention here, reading papers on “Discipline in Primary Schools,” “Phonetics” and “Industrial Education,” and delivering ad- dresses on “The Georgia Negro as an Author,” “The Georgia Negro in Journali Georgin Negro asa Poet.” The Negro Press Association is also in session, and the members have indorsed the course of Governor Northen, the Constitution and other leading Southern newspapers toward their race, and have passed ® resolution favoring the use of the word “negro” instead of any other term to describe their people. ——___+0+____ Unseemly Gayety in Philadelphia. From the Phtiadelphta Recor. “Flirting is Prohibited,” reads a curious sign which has just been erected at the entrance of Northwood cemetery, Haines street, German- town. The sign hasa mission, for, curiously enough, the city of the dead is used as a picnic ground. The young people especially make it camping ground and have no doubt acted with too much freedom, which caused the post- ing of the warning. But flirting still continues and no one seems to check the young people. ggg nee Oblivion. 00, 59 | agreement, “OUR BOYS.’ How They Celebrated the Nation's Birthday in an Original Manner. A FOURTH OF JULY STORY. A Dearth of Fands Causes the “Our Boys” to Bring Forward Ideas and Hustle for Effects—A True Story About a Club of En- terprising Youths. N TRE LITTLE RAIL- road town of Columbia money came rather slow to a majority of the boys, and how to cele- brate the Fourth of July in an appropriate way was indeed a question of considerable magni- tude. Most of the boys’ fathers were railroad i, men, and railroad sala- ries are proverbially small. With plenty of money the boys could have celebrated in ® way that would have awakened the sleepy little town so effectually that the older inhabitants might have imagined that hostilities between the north and south had broken out anew. ‘To obtain the necessary articles with which to celebrate was the all-important question before the boys’ club, called the “Our Boys,” two weeks before ‘the time designated as the “Glorious Fourth.” One of the boys, Born Gilman, suggested chipping inand buying a lot of skyrockets and red fire, but as his father was an engineer and made big money, the proposition was nothing remarkable. The words “red fire” saggested an iden to another of the club, Jim Sinde, and on his plan of celebration there was'a unanimous It was to the effect that an effort be inaugurated at once looking to the collection of as much red fire as possible in the two weeks yet remaining before the Fourth of July, and on the night of that day letting it off ina bunch. To the members of the “Our Boys” there was no necessity to formulate plans or advance ideas as to how this red fire was to be obtained. ‘They were sons of railroaders, and know red fire by heart, Every flagman on a train leaving east or west torpedoes, ela couple of sticks of this ma- terial, which are used on foggy or stormy nights to warn the train following of their near ap- proach to the train uhead. These «ticks burn five minutes, and. of course, contain a large quantity of the red powder. | All the railroad men leaving from Columbia on the eastern or western trips were known, and very few of the through men, running from ene end of the division to the other, were not known. The “Our Boys” Club originally was a ball club, but had been in existence for several seasons as a social organization, minus a club house and the luxuries of such. Jim Slade, being a member of a state militia company as drummer bor, knew something about organizing for effective work, and he it was that proposed and appointed committees to corrall every train that paseed through the town. Boys born and raised in a railroad town soon become expert car jumpers, and it must indeed boa fast train that they cannot successfully mount. A rendezvous was selected back of the railroad round house, in the cellat of a deserted house, in which was to be stored all the mate- rial secured, The boys worked like beavers and as only boys can work when a Fourth of July cele- bration is in the prospective, and at the end of the first week twenty-seven sticks had been se- cured and some seventy-five railroad torpedoes. ‘The latter article is also an important part of a railroader’s outfit, and, crossing the vision of one of the collectors, several were secured, and thereafter they were added as a sort of auxiliary. As the day drew near the boys renewed their efforts and the red fire and torpedoes came in in such large quantities that one or two of the more timid boys suggested a halt. But, like the trained bloodhound, they «melt the sport from afar and decided to give the little town a celebration that should go down in its history asa red-lettor day of the most vivid hue. Tondd zest to the collection the railroad offic'als began to notice the great inroads on their supply of combustibles and the train men had to rack their brain for new stories as to their rapid disappearance. ‘On account of the vigilance of the railroad officials the boys’ base of operations were trans- ferred from the yards of the road to the out- skirts of the town Trains going east were easy to monnt, but those going west called for val- untecrs who were expert train jumpers, and the narrow escapes made wherein the lows of a limb, or even a life, hung in the balance, were numerous enongh to appall any boy but the son of a railroader. Charley Van Lew and Johnny Hook were both thrown half under a fast-moving freight in one day, but their coolness and strength pulled them through with badly tornclothes. Coupled with these mishaps were numerous brushes with the railroad detectives in the way of chases over cars and out over the hills into the country. The boys were known to the detec- tives, and while they did not care toarrest them it was their duty to keep them off the cars and protect the company’s property. At nightfall several of the boys, in company with their father, would run across these officers, but a knowing wink would set matters right before any harm had been done. On the Ist day of July a balt was made in the foraging and the work of extracting the red’ powder from the sophomore siguals was begun. A flour barrel was used as a receptacle and at, the end of two days’ work it was three-quarters filled. The torpedoes had mounted up in number until nearly 200 of them were piled up in a store box in an off corner of the room. Then, as a final endeavor, three of the boys in whom were traits that go toward making up & diplomat calied on the chief train dispatcher at that point and in the most persuasive tones begged for a contribution toward helping out their celebration. With keen discernment the dispatcher saw into the whole scheme and promised to help them if they would let him know the full par- ticulars of their plans. No more fun-loving man lived than “Em.” Stevenson, the dis Patcher, and the boys, knowing this, told him al Ms. His contribution was an eye opene: to the boys, and, after opening the signals, the barrel was filled to the brim with the precious red fire. At last the great day arrived, and tho parents of the boys belonging to the club were as- tonished at the use to which the money given for firecrackers and other explosives was put. Instead of buying firecrackers and torpedoes they made the mouths of many of the out- water as they passed among them munching peaches or apricots, or contentedly chewing away on some delicious sweetmea! And then the novelty of the situation struck some of the younger boys and rarcastic re- marks were flung at them as to their patrio' ism. But the members of the “Our Boys” said nothing, looked wise and waited for the cover ot nightfall. At 8 o'clock everybody in the little town was on the streets promennding and viewing the few roman candles and skyrockets set off by the more aristocr \d wealthy citizens. By that time the barroi ot red fire had been transferred to a field just back of the town and a iong fuse connected therewith. Each boy | appropriated as many torpedoes as he could curry without exciting suspicion and took up positions assigned to them by the chief con- spirator. The town was to be given a surprise and the Fourth of July a celebration that would open the eyes of the oldest resident. ‘The schem® worked to a charm. At 9 o'clock exactly the through express was due and from the telegraph operator it was learned that it was on time. The town was lo- ated alongside the track and a grade of con- siderable length ran through the center of the former and was the cause of most of the trains reaching a high rate of speed. ‘The express was always a heavy one and on the schedule was not called upon to stop at Co- lumbin, The boys knew this, and on the in- stant that a freight preceding the express had pulled out of the way they set to work. Only five minutes intervened, but they were experts at putting down torpedoes,and in three minutes’ time every torpedo collected had been placed on ihe two parallel rails, Then the sharp whistle of the exprees was beard in the dis- tance, and on it came with a rush and a roar. ‘The boys scattered and with bated breath awaited developments, They came the next instant. With reports like the explosion of musketry, and if anything louder, the torpedoes went off in quick succession and the promenaders first halted in amazement and then took to their heels in affright. They thought the noise would cease, but instead it seemed to increase. Two hundred torpedoes stretch out over a consider- abie distance and they were laid for the length of two squares, joan, be adequately studied—such as the great People came running down the streets from the back highways inquiring the cause, and it appeared as if the town was on its feet, or, fig- uratively speaking, on its head. And the engineer and passengers on the train, what of them? To the boys they indeed fur: nished a surprise that was unlooked for. engineer, with hair on end, was all be could to bring his train toa standceat but it was impossible to do so before the Inst torpedo had exploded; the passengers fright- ened aimost into a frenzy, were climbing back over the seat, out onto the platform and gesticulating wildly from the windows. At Inst the train halted and all gathered around and, as the train dispatcher simply mo- tioned the engineer to go ahead, a great laugh went up and the ngers were enlightened to the fact that this was the glorious Fourth, and they, too, joined in the hilarity. ‘As the train disappeared around the western corner of the street paralleled to the railroad and the people of the town gathered im groups to discuss the strange occurrence, the conspira- tors disappeared from the scene and glided toward one of the engine houses of the local fire department. They knew what was coming next. All of a sudden a great shout went up from every part of the town and all eyes were | turned toward the western section of the town. | It appeared as if the town was to be destroyed by fire and that a mighty conflagration was under way. | The sky was blood red and a mighty cloud of | smoke was ascending on high. ‘The boys had | done their work well, scattering the red powder | over a large area and leaving the most daring boy of the crowd to et the mass off. Soon the fire bells were tolling and the excit- ing jingling of the fire apparatus denoted a race was on between the different companies who were desirous of securing places of vantage from which to fight the supposed conflagration. In this race it is needless to say the members of the “Our Boys” were indulging to their hearts contents. They all swore allegiance to one company, to Vigilant, and were bead and front of the rush with the hose reel of that company. At the end of the street the cause of the light Was discovered, and again the tongues of the citizens were set wagging, and the younger generation of young mien voted the day's cele- bration a great success. Even the solitary paper of the town, while taking the conspira- tors to task the following day for the fright they had given the townspeople, could not_but com- miend the plan for its originality and startling effectiveness, Among the boys of the town the storr leaked out, and soon the detaiis of the celebration were known to all. To say that the “Our Boys” Club took a boom but faintly expresses it, Every boy in town put forward his name From the New Review. I have closely watched all the great epi- demics in Europe since 1866, which have been very numerous, and I can assert, with proofs in hand, that wherever the epidemic has oc- curred on a large scale, and in a place where it gpidemic of Naples and the great epidemics of Genoa, Marseilles, Toulon and Spain—I have never failed to ascertain that the distribution of specifically poisoned water was the one cause of every epidemic. Moreover, with the | cessation of the cause the epidemic ceases. I do not propose to go into details, which I shall subsequenily summarize ina book I have re- lnctantly undertaken. For these there will be here no space, inasmuch as the facts and figures are as voluminous and massive as they are convincing. But to quote in summary unly an example or two, at Naples, shortly before cholera broke out, correspondent of the Times wrote home in a little paragraph, which appeared at the bot- tom of the column, saying that all were feeling very uncomfortable at the approach of cholera, | and everybody was beginning to be alarmed; not without cause, for beautiful Naples, as every one who has been there knows. is built | on a porons tufa, sodden with filth of crowded and successive generations, Its soil is riddled th cesspools and surface wells, and from the latter the chief water supply of th obtained. This correspondent said $ is pouring carbolic acid into the cesspools, strangely and disagreeably enough, ali ou: drinking water is tasting of carbolic aci Cholera came like a destroying angel, and left ples a city of mourning. ‘The scenes of horror, of fright and of savage barbarity induced by fright will never be for- gotten. The visit of the King of Italy and the dignitaries of the church, the strict processions of monks and images, the attacks upon the doctors and nurses, who were assassinated as cholera spreaders in virtue of their free use of | disinfectants, are historical; they form a picture | which it is difficult to realize as belonging to | | | our times and to a civilized country of Europe. Their horrors have, however, been reproduced d surpassed in Russia in ‘1892. Naples has now at an enormous cost secured a pure water supply for the greater part of the city by bring- ing into use again the old sources, and partly, I believe, the grand old aqueducts constracted by the Romans. Later cholera showed itself on the Italian and Freneb frontiers, Cordons of police and soldiers at Ventimiglia vainly sought to keep off the cholera from the neighboring cities by bayonet and baton. Presently we had the news of a severe outburst of cholera in Genoa. A resident physician, an old friend of mine, whose acquainiance Thad | made when I organized and dispatched, wi his aid and that of Dr. Wolfe, a convoy of med- ical succor to the army of Garibaldi on his famous expedition from Sicily, telegraphed to me from Genoa: “Your water theory of cholera at fault, Genoa has a fine supply of pure water from a high mountain source. holera has broken out in districts so eup- plied, and we have already 100 cases a day. What is to be done?” I replied by telegraph: “Cannot be at fault: must be water; cannot be anything else. Examine every foot of vour water pipes, and trace to the supply pipes’ source.” Soon I received the comforting in- telligence that in tracing the water supply to its mountain source a group of Italians bad been discovered, refugees from the frontier—ia spite of the futile quarantine and cordos cholera-stricken, camping on one of the open channels through which the water flowed into the pipes, and ‘soiling the water by washing their linen in it and otherwise contaminating it with specific poison—a small replica of India, Mecca and the Hurdwar. Immediately the waier supply was cut off, the refugees were se- cured, cleansed and isolated, immediately also the epidemic dropped, and very quickly it be- came extinct. The history of the great epidemic of Mar- seilles was investiguted by M. Marey on the lines Inid down by Snow, Farr, Simon and myself, and his report to the French Academy tells a similar story. It muy be noted as a special instance of the practical worthlessness of the academicall; teresting meteorological observations and storm observations in relation to cholera (unless we use the study of the water supply to unlock the mystery) that violent | storms, which are often supposed to have a beneficial influence in clearing the air, washing out the sewersand so forth, produced here a distinct aggravation of the epidemic by washing the pollution out of the ground into the rivers and swelling in other ways tbe bulk of poison conveyed into the streams from which the people were drinking. Hamburg epidemic affordsa fresh illus tration of the water caltsation of cholera epi- demica, The Elbe, and the Elbe alone, was the cause of that epidemic. I have before mea series of volumes describing the water ar- Tangements of that city. And I have had the whole matter of the water works and the water | supply investigated on the spot. They are inde- scribably bad and madequate. The Elbe itself and its tributaries at entrance are extensively continually and filthily polluted; its water distributed, imperfectly filtered, or not filtered at all, to the inhabitants of the city. Some of the works are seventy years old, aud some ~di tricts are supplied with unfiltered water. Ham- burg has suffered from nine epidemics of Asiatic cholera. It has been w port from which Asiatic cholera has more thaa once been im- ported into this country and to other European ports, for it lies half way between the Russian Ports, which are the usual outlets of cholera when it travels from its home in Asia across Russia, or up the Volga, and reaches the Baltic | towns. see Another Narrow Escape. From the Milwaukee Sentinel “Iam sure I do not look like a hayseed,”’ said | acommercial traveler to me yesterday, “and | | yet I practically blew out the gas at my hotel last night, “You see,” he continued, “there are both gas and clectric light fixtures in the rooms aud they are close together. Well, I started to turn | out the electric lizht and made a mistake and turned the thumb piece of the gas bnrner. | opening it, of ccurse. As the electric ight | did not go out at once Isaw my mistake and corrected it by turning whe electric light button, | laughing at myself the while. When I got ap | | in the morning I discovered that in my amuse- | ment over my error I had forgotten to turn the gas thumb piece back azain, and it bad actually open all night. Think of that, ‘What! and you were not— ‘Ob, I wasn't asphyxiated. You see the hotel | does not use gas, and there was nothing but | fiz f2 the pipe But it was close call, wasn't | A SOUTH AFRICAN TRAGEDY. How an American Preferred to Pay the Pen- aity for Kissing = Missionary’s Wife. From the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘You will find more tragedy than romance in Africa. Sometimes, far from the haunts of civ- ilized men, lines of life drawn from other lands cross and recross, and the old story of human Passions is told anew. Sometimes there are dramatic incidents that in a country of mails, telegrapls and newspapers would be eagerly Picked up aud recounted in all their details, but in Africa they are never fully told and are soon forgotten, This is euch story. It is true, and it did not happen so long ago that the real names can be used: The coast of southeast Africa is one of the ‘Most dangerous in the world. Currents, con- stantly varying both in direction and in- tensi carry ‘the navigator far out of his course and often land him u) reef sand bar. Tho fact that the Tobert Muller, | from London for Bombay, should have been wrecked near the Bay of Port Natal was, there- fore, not strange. But wiant was unusual was the great loss of life that attended the wreck. Only one man ont of all thove on board man- aged to reach the shore in safety. This man, Charies Lee. an American by birth, but a citizen of the world by choice, belonged to that constantiy increasing ciass who prefer to spend their lives wandering from clime to olime, picking upan often precarions livelihood, but seeing life in nearly every phase. Lee had made e lucky strike in London and was on his way india, had taken passage in the Robert Miller, hoping that the long sea vorage would drive from his body some lingering seeds of fever picked up in South America. Flang by the waves on the coast of Natal, with his money safe ina waterproof belt. he changed his plans with the readiness characier- istic of his class, and resolved upon w trading trip into the interior. Parchasing a wagon and span of oxen, and hiring two native waistante, he “trekked” north into Zuluiand. In bis wagon he carried numerous articles for trade with the natives. Among them, carefully con- cealed under the wagon seat, he carried ten kegs of powder, concealed because the laws for- bid the sale of powder to natives, At the end of three months Lee considered that his trip had -been a «uecessful one and decided to return home, following another route to Natal. One morning he “outspanned” at a small village where there was ® mission- ary station. The missionary himself was away, but his wife came down to the trader's wagon, expecting to find many articles needed asan applicant for membership, but “exciu-| to replenish her houschold tiveness was desired.” and the tone of the club | what she wished, all the time looking at her Temained at its first great height for several | ina puzzled manner. At last he exclaimed: years thereafter. “By George, I know you now! How under heaven did you get here, Mollie?” Water Causation of Cholera, < said the woman,deadly pale, but draw- ing herself up proudiy, “what do you mean by this insult?” “Oh, stuff, Mollie; you can't fool me, As soon as Ieaw youl knew I had seen you be- fore. Dut it seemed so queer that Mollie Fiauders—Moll of San Francisco—should have turned up here, of all places in the world. Pretty as ever, Moll, {see. Give usa kiss for old times’ sake.” Grasping ber euddenly in bis arms he kissed her again and again. Finally she tore herself loore and fled, white with emotion. Was she Mollie Flanders or was shenot? Lee was sure of it, but mistakes of identification do sometimes happen, At any rate she acted as if innocent. Sitting down, the woman wrote a letter to her husband, telling him how she bad been in- sulted and demanding reparation. This letter she sent by a yative to the neigh! . where her husband was visiting. < sea That night the trader took advantage of the moonlizht to pursae his journey, and, as fato | would have it, he and the letter reached the Village and the missionary at the same time. The missionary was a man of sudden and violent temper. He loved his wife dearly, and the news of an insult to her broke down ail the barriers he bad built up by constant training. Urged by him the chief of the village sent men to seize the trader, Surprised without bis arms Lee was made a captive, after @ desperate struggle, and was carried before the chief and the mixsionary. The former was anxious not to goany further. The Zulu war was Just over, and the natives bardly liked to injure a waite man #0 soon after the sharp lesson they had received. Still, urged by the missionary, the chief finally ordered that Lee receive one bun- dred Insber om his bare back. The trader heard his sentence calmly. He made no defense to the charges, and berged no merey. He merely asked thathe be : wen an hour to put his affairs in order, in view of the possibility of a fatal result from #o tremendous ‘@ beating. After « little hesitauon the mission | ary agreed to this. The wagon was scarched, and all weapons were removed. Then Lee was hoisted upon the seat and his bands were freed, but his legs were still kept bound. The mis- sionary warned him that any attempt to free them would result in the immediate execution of the sentence. ‘Once upon the box Lee took out his writing materials and wrote two letters, which he sealed and threw upon the ground. Then he reached down below the reat and quietly drew the plugs from the powder kegs. The powder fowed out into a block heap, with which cach keg connected. Lee then lighted his pipe and quietly leaned | back to await the expiration of the hour. When it was nearly up he bent down and began to unfasten the bonds upon bis legs, Instantly two natives «prang at him, but be raised hie head and looked at them with so deadiy « gleam in his eyes that they hesitated. Another mo- ment and his feet would be free. The missionary, secing his prey about to escape, rushed upon him, followed by the whole assemblage of natives. Lee waited until they were nearly upon him and then emptied the glowing contents of his pipe upon the arn of b the missionary A ery orror from mi was Jost in a burst of fame anda roar like thunder, then a volume of heavy white smoke rolled and spread about the scene like a thick fog. When it bad cleared away trader and missionary had both gone to curry their dis- putes toa higher tribunal Only two black- ened masses, hardly human in form, remained to show that they had ever lived. Of the na- tives fifteen lay dead or dying upon the field. ‘To this day, if the traveler in that region is annoyed bs too curious and iutrusive natives, he has but to throw a bandful of powder into the fire to secure absolute solitude. The Inst resource of the desperate white man has nob been forgotten. A MAN'S VIEW OF IT. He is Sure of the Superiority of the Sex of Which He is a Member. Prom the Chicaro News-Record. The longer I live the more firmly convinced Tam that men have the advantage of women in everything in life, and we shall never be their equals in the struggle till we can bave many more of their privileges than custom is willing to grant us now. For instance, if man wants a new spring suit he simply goes to see his tailor—the same tailor be bas patronized for years. The tailor shows him one line of cloth. The happy man gives a quick but com- prehensive look at the goods, selects that which suits his taste from the group of materials that suits bis pocket, and the deed is done. He relies on his tailor’s judgment as to whether the cont shall be sack, cutaway or frock, and #0 walks off. It never occurs toa man to get semples of the goods and then run around to every other tailor shop in town to,see if be can't get a bare gain or « little bit cheaper material that would “look just as well.” It never occurs toa man to “talk it over” with every male friend. to discuss the new cut in trousers and whetber such color would be becoming to him He relies on his tailor to furnish not only a reason- ably good sisle to bis suit, but also one that is suited to his customer's individuality. Imagine @ man getting ona street car and meeting two men friends and producing alot of samples, saying: ““Oh, Charley, I want to show you some samples I got of my new coat, ‘ow, don’t you think I'm too ark to wear that color? But it's so cheap,” &c., while Charley and Francis gave their opinions and inspected the samples. Wouldn't it be fanny? Then Charley should say (to make the scene complete): “Yes, but that's old. Why, they wore goods like that all last vear, John Jerome had some trousers just like that. —— Not Quite Within the Royal Circle. From the Chicazo Daily Tribune. Mrs. Chugwater (in high glee)—“I saw the infanta when she went by in ber carriage, Jo siah, and she bowed to me.” Mr. Chugwater—~H’mvh! Where were you?” “I happened to be standing right in the crowd at the corner. Everybody was cheering. yu as I saw hor I bowed and she smiled ously as could be and bowed in return.” ‘Samantha, listen! One beautiful night years ago I went out to take a look at the starry heavens, Afar in the glittering ult shone a wonderously radiant and beantifal ar of the first magnitude, whose transecmdent loveliness wrougnt upon me to such an extent that I wimked at it. And that ster. Samsaths, winked at me in return!”