WORE THE "CHANTECLER VEIL."
peelnfor nn n London "Tdbe"
Trnln Were r. nth railed.
Have you seen the "Chantecler"
ice? It mnl;rs Its owner look like a
tattooed Maoil chloftainess.
The "Chantecler" fare made Its first
public, appenrnni Tuesday, the Ixmdon
Express nays. I', was seen In a train
oa the underground railway.
The wearer of the "Chantecler" face
was a middle-aged woman. As she
anlered at the end of the carrlaga
something strange In the appearance
of her face attracted the attention of
those near the door.
A thrill ran through the carriage,
and in a few moments forty pairs of
eyes were staring, as if fascinated, at
her apparently tattooed features.
Those who weie near soon solved
the mystery of her astonishing aspect.
She wore a gauzy veil, on which were
embossed chariteolers, with crowing
heads, flapping wings and flowing tails.
There was one large chantecler in
the middle of ea:h cheek, a small one
upon the end of her noae, one a little
larger on the chin, another on the
forehead, and on the temples were de
tached bunches of cock's feathers.
Kvery "Chantecler" hat in the car
riage there were several with great
bunches of sweeping feathers which
challenged the title became utterly
insignificant in contrast with the dom
inating "chanlecler" face.
At first the wearer smiled as she
noticed the attention which her tat
tooed appearance commanded. But
under the steady gaze of many eyei
V ,. j -i
ci vuuiac uutu away hiiu at iiusi u
made a dash for the door.
Then a wonderful thing happened.
The sky was overclouded and rain
had been falling. But as the owner
of the "chanterler" face stepped on the
platform the clouds parted and the
sun shone! "
j US EXERCISE IN MNEMONICS j
"What did I do with that memoran
dum?" said a distinguished-looking
man, spenking half to himself but with
his eyes on the clerk, who stood wait
ing for his order in a large city gro
cery. "What I've done with that mem
orandum this time I really cannot Im
agine. But you just wait a minute."
He began searching his pockets.
Prom each of them came scraps of
paper, big and little, old letters with
pencil notes on them, envelopes simi
larly decorated, two or three small
note books, a theater program, and a
number of pieces evidently torn from
the margin of a newspaper and cov
ered with writing. He examined the
scraps one after another and restored
each bunch to its separate pocket. The
clerk waited, and a customer farther
along the counter eyed the display
with curiosity.
"Gone," said the gentleman, with an
air cf finality. "I'll have to trust to
memory."
The clerk nodded.
"Six eggs?" he said, with an Inter
rogative Inflection.
"Right" said the gentleman.
The clerk wrote It down. "A pound
of butter?" he continued.
"A pound of butter," agreed the gen
tleman. "Bread?"
"Three loaves."
"Coffee?"
The gentleman hesitated. "No," he
Bald, with decision. "Coffee enough
on hand to last the rest of the week."
He smiled contentedly, watched the
clerk write a name and address at the
top of the order, and then went out
of the shop whistling.
"How did you know what he want
ed?" asked the other customer of the
clerk.
"He lives just around the corner In
an apartment and he and his wife
get their own breakfasts. Always the
same things never any change but
he always has to have It written
down."
"Do you Know who he Is?"
"His name is Bertini, I think. He's
a kind of professor. I believe he has
a kind of memory system he teaches
to people who can't remember things."
The other customer smiled, but the
clerk was quite serious. He had no
tense of humor. Youth's Companion.
The LoktIc of the Cnae.
The arithmetic of the little girl In
tht3 story was faultless. She knew
that two time3 zero equals zero, and
she acted on the knowledge. But
mathematics la not business, and the
milliner was probably justified In de
clining to accept Mary's logical con
clusion. The incident la taken from
the Delineator.
"I want a hatpin," said little Mary,
as she gazed at the cushion full of
sparkling ornaments on the milliner's
show-case, "Low much is it?"
"Oh, nothing," returned the kind-
hearted Mrs. Hriggs, who remembered
that Mary's mother was one of her reg
ular customers.
Ill abo lu .i tVw.n " anld Mnrv.
The Ylcloua (irele.
When Donald came in from school
his face showed unmistakable signs of
tears, and at the first symptoms of ma
ternal affection they staited to flow
again.
"Now, Donald boy, tell mother all
about It. What's the matter?"
"Ze teacher she scolded me."
"Well, we'll try and forget that,
won't we? Never mind."
"But. mur.zer, zat's jes' what she
scolded n.e 'bent. She s:ld I n.iver did
mind!"
A HriMitler.
"I am go!n,,- to invest in an incuba
tor and a brooder and go into the
chicken buslne.--. this spring."
"Picked out your brooder yet?"
"No, why?"
"I have one I would Tike to have
you consider takliiR off my hands."
"What port of a one is it?"
"It is about fifty ye-.ir3 old, and Is
always brooding over the fact that my
wife turned down a millionaire to
marry me." Houston Post.
What has become (f the old fash-
'loned woman who paid of the dog be
longing around the' luua: "He's a
nice dog out cf dcors"?
It Is said by anatomists that people
haar better with their mouth oyea.
flBiEwHTt(ilAW
PTTK
lo auvs
SPEAKER WHO HAS BEEIT SHORN OF HIS POWER.
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El
VEItYONK asks why France is the worst exporter of white
slaves, while in Paris the unfortunate ones are fairly well pro
tected fi'om exploitation, writes a Paris correspondent of the
Chicago Record-Herald. Alexander Coote, secretary of the In
ternational Bureau for the Repression of the Trade, is telling
the French that American public opinion does them full jus
tice; It was the French government, on Senator Berenger's
proposal, that convoked the first official conference in l'J02, resulting In the
international agreement on which America Is basing her efforts. Also, it
was the French national committee that organized the magnificent congress
that has given results over the entire world. "Yet," says Mr. Coote, in the
Paris Matin, "there Is truth In the public opinion of America that France
exports more unfortunate women than any other country."
Tarls papers quote from the American congressional report, and from
American magazines and daily press. The Frenoh are astonished and dis
tressed at their bad record. Why, they wiped out the cafe-concerf slaving
of 1902; and only in 1908 a law went Into effect tearing out of the hands
of the managers of "maisons closes" (boarding houses) their last hold on
the girls Inveigled into them. The new law caused hilarity at the expense
of the disreputable houses. No matter how much money a misled girl may
owe the establishment, she can requisition the first policeman to make them
let her trunks go freely out. As Impounding their hats, shoes and street
wraps for pretended debt was almost the last resort of constraint, the relief
was greut. The policeman must respond with diligence and kindness. If
the escaping girl requests It they must take her to the commissary called
the "Father of the Ward" with a view to her return home or protection
and patronage. Or, If she demands it, the policeman must let her call a cab
and go her way. Liberty to go her way holds all the effectiveness of the
law.
What aatonisihes Parisians Is the tale of actual violence and physical
constraint, when It comes out, rarely. They know that to make an inmate,
the girl's good will must first be won. Even passive resignation Is not suffi
cient for one capital act, great with destiny, to ilodgo which is to risk har
boring a girl without a card. This deliberate act, without whhh no girl can
be safely kept a week as boarder, willing or unwilling, Is her Independent
visit to the prefecture of police, to make her sad choice and demand a card.
A fatherly party rends the applicant to a solemn lecture, bids her meditate
and return In a week. She is told what the card is a Klavery of Its own.
The card is, nevertheless, a tower of defense for the innocent against con
straint. Whenever the Imdon officers of the International bureau Intercept a car
go of white slaves from France, they find either cynical old hands perfectly
aware of their destination or else Innocent girls counting on a situation.
Mr. Coote complains bitterly of certain French Intelligence offices. Recently
four girls, well brought tip and respectable, were thus sent to Ixmdon. Each
understood that a situation awaited her. Yet no sooner had they arrived
"than their money was taken from them on the pretext of changing It; and
Mr. Coote's agents got hold of them Just In time. He seems to bo persuaded
that violence would have been possible in London. "Surely the French, in
telligence office Bhould have been prosecuted," he writes, "but nothing was
done. However well the French law may be administered at home, It seeni3
to be relaxed when exportation Is in question."
Hels right. One of the reasons Is that the detective brigades In the
great French cities have been fully occupied with their specialty. They are
only too glad when old hands willingly Beek foreign shores. And those who
are not old hands have not come under their observation. Intelligence office
frauds have not been In the line of these brigades, because the recruiting was
not being done for Paris. At the time of the first conference, in 1902, France
suffered from a special form of cafe-concert slavery peculiarly insidious, in
that it had a public amusement blind for Its customers and could lure Inno
cent girls with the promise to put them on the stage. They Imagined that
they were going Into honest vaudeville entertainments. The first step wa3
to put them In debt for "costumes and stage training." The Beeond step
was to ship them to the low "cafes concerts" that sprang up like poisonous
mushrooms all over France, even in comparatively small towns. And the
third step was ruin on the spot by drink and bad example, because they
must sit and "consume" with the audience between turns.
Once they got started, the special brigade wiped out the cafe-concert
slave trade promptly. It was a trade of the middle aged, posing as theatri
cal managers and agents. It had been able to grow up because It was not
in Paris.
Present international white slavery is similar new work for the special
brigades. Its chief lure Is the employment agency. Its chief blind for the
police Is at present fhe old stand-by of ridding Paris of female undesirables.
But the special brigades have had their eyes opened, and as the operators
are but mature rescals of both sexes ripe for Jail, a single conviction will be
sufficient for each. And France will cease to hold the exporting record of
the white slave trade.
TEACUP POLITICS.
X nit of Life at WanhlnRton In
Which Women Are l'romlnenl.
From Ash Wednesday until the
summer time scattering, the teaiot
and the samovar, with the punch bowl
as a helpful ally, become potent aids
in the forwarding of political careers
at Washington. How efficacious these
simple elements In the official game
of, good fellowship prove to be is past
conjecturing, but old-time hostesses
well up in the sport of politics as
played across the afternoon tea table
are the last to decry the tea-drinking
habits as practiced In Washington.
The wag who said that "politics is
the voice of Washington women"
would have found much in the talk
of those who surround the tea tables
to support his views. Many of the
prettiest and apparently least serious
young women in officialdom actually
have "views" on subjects political,
which show that the young head3 be
neath the elaborate coiffures are bet
ter stored with knowledge than even
their most ardent admirers would
have dared to hope, in the game of
politics as played by fair women, the
tea table is an all-Important adjunct.
Those who make the rounds of
Washington drawing rooms assert
that everything from a nomination to
the corrallng of a goodly block of
votes may be accomplished at a
Washington "afternoon tea." For the
orderly and effectual dissipation of in
cipient ructions "back home" nothing
Is equal to the simple expedient cf
asking the wife of a visiting constitu
ent to assist at one of these weekly
functions. Feminine insurgency- is
not equal to holding out against the
lures offered by the tactful hostess,
and many a cup of tea sipped in the
drawing room, of an accomplished
woman of the world has marked the
turning point in a career.
SHOP GIRL BRIDE OF
PHILANDER C. KNOX, JR.
n '11 ray
The bride of the son of Secretary .of
State Knox wa.n MUs Miy lioler, a
shop girl of Providence, It. I. 11-t
husband was first suspended from
school for hiu elopement ".r.d then was
told by his father to l3o' out for him
self. He has 100 a month fro::i aa 'a
heritance and has accepted a jo'j as i'i
uto salesman to piece out his ineom .?.
To lie lulled 1 arlj.
"On the morrow .cull
Call me early, mother dv-ur!"
Bald the maid unto her parent
As she brushed uway u Uur.
"Are you goinif shopping, (laughter?
Are you golntf out to dine?
Or why should I ctll you eurly.
Call you early, ilaujliUT mine?"
"Let me whisper to you, mother.
Let me whisper In yojr eir;
Tl to-night I marry Karl?
Mr. Early, mother di,"
Yonher Statesman.
WONDERFUL PRODUCTIONS OF THE MODERN STAGE.
.1 JS'JE
MM.
THE FINAL SCENE IN THE "CH ANTECLER."
Chantecler, the king of the farmyard, is convinced
that his role in life is to make the sun rise with his
crowing. One day, while Chantecler Is happy in his
supremacy over all the other birds, the eternal feminine
appears In the form of a hen pheasant chased by a sport
ing dog. Ciiantecler's heart is won by this beautiful
stranger. The second act opens In the depth of night, with
a group of conspirators in the form of owls, who, equally
convinced that Chantecler's song Is the cause of the
break of day, determine to kill the author of the hated
daylight, and arrange that a fighting cock shall slay
Chantecler. Suddenly the "Cocorico" of Chantecler is
heard; the valley, seen through the opening in the for
est, becomes rosy with the light of the rising sun; the
night birds are dispersed and Chantecler and the hen
pheasant appear on the scene. In the next act the
guinea fowl is "at home" in the kitchen garden. Chan
tecler fights with the game cock, and Is almost killed,
but, by an accident, is in the end victorious. At that
moment the shadow of a sparrow hawk Is thrown over
the whole gathering and they rush to the protecting
wings of their wounded chief, who crows defiance at
the threatened danger. In the fourth act, "The Night
of the Nightingale," Chantecler has wandered Into the
forest with his charmer, La Faisane. She Is jealous of
the cock's love of his work, and by a subterfuge, which
keeps him asleep till after the sun has risen, shows
him how Idle Is his belief that It Is only through his
agency that the day Is born. Chantecler, however, de
termines to go back to the farm and pursue bis dally
task with the same firmness of purpose as before. The
golden pheasant Is left behind, only to fall Into a poach
er's trap, and to be brought, chastened in spirit, to the
farmyard in subjection to Chantecler. The final scene
in the play, which Is pronounced the most beautiful, Is
here pictured.
VANITY'S COST IN LIPE.
Mule Wllnee of the 1'oTerly of
.New York Toller.
Appeal to heart and conscience alike
must have been powerfully made to
tha many women and fewer men who
were beguiled by social curiosity or
led by philanthropic Interest to exam
ine the collection of g:niuonts and sof
photographs mado by the Consumers'
League and exhibited last week at
the NormU College In New York, says
the Churchman of that, city. The pho
togiapHs showed tenement rocni3 on
the eist side with :ne:i, women and
1'ttle children working on tho garments
that bun? ilase by with placards fasti-,
tied to them telling the fe v pennlcj
in he ir and a garment that these
AUTHORS' HANDWRITING.
Byron's handwr.tlug was a mer?
sT;vvl.
Iinr-'fellcw' handwriting was a bol 1,
frr.ait i.'.u-Vhaii l.
Ch:ir:ctte Bronte's hrniwr t v.'i 'tp
pea red to have been trac.J with a
ikcV.-.
Bryio'.' whs og';resivo and i:is'n
to tlu! oy. !-ut had n) pret ' tl h "-acti-r
tli a ; au.l Keats' wua tai.c't' 'o
eb-r!:d! fcr C.a- :::t.it dimty ut aud : i
ipeeu.
same toilers had received. A large
part of the exhibit was the work of
the child victims of the sweatshop sys
tem. And It was by no means clothing
of the cheaper grades that was most
conspicuous, but articles mado to meet
the wishes of the well to do and even
the fastidious, such as are sold In the
clty'B most elaborately furnished
stores. For dainty feather stitching
on a baby's drei a child herself
hardly more than a baby Is paid per-hap-)
4 cents. Twelve bunches of arti
ficial roses are made for a penny. If
the worker Is speedy she can earn
CO cents a day. Artificial violets are
cheaper. A mother and four children,
of ages from 12 to .", earn together
GO cents a day. Their work may be
A Hail ort.
"I wonder why tlio Ue Hitches al
lov.Td their daughter to marry that
hi (!eii-iU)wu foreign count."
"You know, they are just crazy after
b.iigiliijt, and tho count was ullghtly
da::i.i:;td and very much reduced."
Pjlrliuore American.
Uext-rU-il.
The only jjlrl I ever prized
lv -".e u.,. onp diiy.
:il'.e 1-ft nit? for a nrUhior
Wl:-j o.l'.-red her mtr p.iy.
Life.
seen at the exhibit. It Is beautiful;
but the system that produces it at this
cost of young life Is an abomination.
Hand-sewed men's neckties, intended
to be sold at from 60 cents to f 1 each,
pay the maker 55 cents a dozen. The
ultra-respectable black collar for elder
ly women, retailing for 50 cents, costs
the vender for making leas than U
cents apiece. Is It nothing to those
who buy such things that childlife Is
stitched Into their seams? The Con
sumers' League exists to help these In
articulate workers to help themselves.
It can succeed only by enlisting the
co-operation of buyers, for whose pro
tection It has provided a label of in
vestigation and approval stating that
the garment that bears It is "made
under clean and healthful conditions."
WITH THE SAGES.
Love can live upon itself alone, but
friendship must feed on worthiness.
Therefore, the way to secure a friend
Is to be one. C. F. Goss.
The young are apt to think that rt-st
means a cessation from all effort, but
I have found tho most perfect rest In
changing effort. Gladstone.
You cannot, In any given case, by
any sudden and single effort, will to
be true, if ths habit of your Ufa has
been Insincerity. F. W. Robertson.
JOSEPH G. CANNON.
For nearly a generation Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, the stormy petrel
of Congress whose wings were clipped by the Insurgents, has been a unlqua
figure In public life. ,"The last of the frontier type of statesmen, of which
Lincoln was first" when a celebrity said that of "Uncle Joe'! some six
years ago ho was applauded for holding tho mirror up to life, fpr plctures
quenesa and plainness have been so developed and nourished by the seer
of Danville that without them he would be like President Tatt without the
expansive smile, like Theodore Roosevelt without the teeth and eye-glasses,
like "Buffalo Bill" without the long hair and slouch hat.
, Biographlcally speaking, Speaker Cannon comes of Quaker parentag
and was born in North Carolina in 183G. Ho spent bis boyhood in Indiana,
and later moved to Illinois, where he has lived ever since, his home being
In Danville. With tho exception of one term, when he was kept at home by
his constituents, he has Ueon in Congress since 1872, or nearly 'four de
cades. Over a quarter of a century ago he was appointed by Speaker Car
lisle a member of the committee on rules the self same committee over
which the stirring battle has Just been fought in Washington. For many
years he was chairman of the committee on appropriations, and was known
as "watchdog of the treasury."
Once upon a time, about eight years ngo, Mr. Cannon dictated an auto
biography to a Washington correspondent. It was short, succinct and char
acteristic. It ran: "Mr. Cannon was born of God-fearing and man-loving
purents. He made himself, and he did a darn poor job of it."
In appearance Mr. Cannon la a rather slim man, about five feet and a
halt in height. Itoiftlte bis 74 years he Is as straight as an arrow. His
rugged face Is ornamented with a grizzled beard, his upper lip being shaved.
He is quick and alert in his movements, his eyes have a youthful sparkle.
In conversation he is almost na vehement as when making a speech.
In Washington years and years ago he became noted for his keenness
in debate. Ho la a master of satire, of razor-like edge. In the thirty-six
years he has been at Washington Mr. Cannon has helped write many an Im
portant law. In the Forty-third Congress as member of the committee on
postolllces and post roads he introduced a bill changing tho postal rates
on second class matter, and aided In putting through the amendments pro
hibiting the distribution of lottery tickets and obscene literature through
the malls. At the beginning of the war wih Spain Mr. Cannon as chairman
of the committee on appropriations cautioned delay, but when it became evi
dent that the war would come he put in the bill appropriating $50,000,000
for national defense. ,
At Danville Speaker Cannon has what is regarded as one of tho best
equipped private libraries In the State, and when at home he spends hours
browsing on literature. He Is ranked as a millionaire, having made his
fortune In the street railroad and banking business and in investments in
agricultural lands. In oratory Speaker Cannon Is galvanic. As he brings
forth a new point he comes dancing forth on his tip-toes, swinging his arms
like the sails of a Dutch windmill, upper-cutting and parrying and swing
ing and sidestepping. There is a saying in Illinois that he would not be
able to make a speech In a twenty-foot ring. His speeches are well inter
larded with biblical quotations, nn occasional bit of near-profanity and al
ways with parables and stories to back up each point.
Yorktown's surrender, every school child has learned, made the efforts
of Britain to subdue the colonies hopeless. Pennad In by tho land forces
of Washington and Lafayette on the one side and by 'the French fleet on the
other, Cornwallls had no alternative but to surrender. The French have al
ways claimed credit for the victory at Yorktown, but American historians
give to Washington the credit or the plan by w hich the British forces were
penned into the end of a peninsula by superior forces, and he commanded
the allied forces before Yorktown. A marble monument which marks the
scene of this great event was unvelle'd Oct. 19, 1S85, having bet?n erected by
the United States.
Cornwallls had been driven back to the coast in his efforts to conquer
Virginia by Lafayette. The young Frenchman won respect from the general
who had boasted "that boy cannot escape me." Washington, from his posi
tion on the Hudson river, saw the possibility of hemming in Cornwallls be
tween the great French naval fleet under Count de Grasse, when that com
mander sent a message from the We-at Indies that he was headed for Chesa
peako bay, and had a sufficient land force. Cornwallls had deep water on
three sides of him and a narrow neck of land in front; his expectation in
retreating to Yorktown- was to obtain aid from the British navy.
Leaving the Hudson Aug. 19, Washington's army of 2,000 continentals
and 4,000 Frenchmen reached the scene, of action near Yorktown Sept. 18.
The French fleet had arrived in Chesapeake bay Aug. 31, and Sept. S It de
feated the British fleet sent from New York under Graves. Thus Cornwallls
was cut off from aid by water, and Iafayette drew across the peninsula
leading back to Virginia a strong force. He was shut la his "mouse trap,"
as the exultant Americans put It.
Cornwallls' army, which numbered 7,247 men at the surrender, was
nearly equal to Lafayette's 8,000 men "and belter In quality," nays Flske,
"for Lafayette's contained 3,000 militia." But the British general hesitated
to try forcing his way out by land, and ho had no knowledge of Washington's
movements. The arrival of tho army under Washington Sept. 8. made an
American force of 14,000 men before Yorktown, and with the French fleet
barring aid or escapo by tho be-a, It becams only a question of time when
the British would surrender. Oe-t. 17, after some fighting that proved fruit
lews for the British cause, Cornwallls hoisted the white Hag, and the formal
surrender occurred two days later.
Tha l'lllnncy of John.
Mrs. Mott What Is a sympathetic
strike, John?
Mott A sympathetic strike, my
dear, is being touched for a quarter
by a beggar with a bard luck story.
Boston Transcript.
An Ovrrrnlrd Harm.
In almost anything wa do
Bumo dangers lurk.
But one thing kills but very few,
That's overwork.
Dtrolt Free Pre
SPLINTERS.
Early callers Alarm clocks.
You have got to dig deep if you want
to live high.
When two women talk It Is usually
a sucret session.
It doesn't take much of a sprinter to
run tor public office.
Bessie Gladys says that she hasn't
au enemy In the world. Jessie She
probably never learned to play brldg
I wuliit.