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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1897)
1 . r r1 0 f i v. .rs SOLDIERS' STORIES. ENTERTAINING REMINICENCES OF THE WAR. Graphic Account of Stirring Hcenea j Witnessed on the Battlefield and la 1 Camp-Veteraneof the Rebellion He cite Experiences of Thrilling Nature, A War Woman of Note. "I suppose Colorado will raise a regi ment of women now that the Legisla ture has opened the door for them to become soldiers," said one of those men who think there Is only one place for woman. It would be Interesting to know bow many women served as soldiers on both sides In the civil war. There were many of them, enough for several com panies, without doubt, and some of them distinguished themselves, wou promotions, though I believe only one received a governor's commission. Let ine tell you about her. An Iowa gentleman, F. W. Burrtng ton, has sent me something about Ma jor Belle Reynolds, of whom and her service much lias been written that I do not remember to have seen In print. It is that the gallant major was a school teacher, the very first one in Cass County, Iowa. Her father. K. W. Macomber, was an early settler In that county,' going there In 1855. The fall of that year the future woman sol dier of high rank taught In a house lo cated on ground upon and around which the city of Atlanta has been built. Her father had ancestors In the war of the. revolution, and her mother, who enme from Connecticut, was a rel ative of the late ex-Governor, ex-mem ber of Grant's cabinet and ex-Mlnister j to Itussla, Marshall Jewell. The bright, j handsome, Independent young lady was a great favorite in the new county and I her work aa a teacher highly apre clated. One of her brothers, J. K. Ma comber, Is a prominent lawyer of Pes Moines, whose wife Is a writer and lecturer of note, and has taken a lead ing purt In advocating the rights and dutlt!8 of women. From 18T5 until I860 pretty and vi vacious Belle Macomber did not have to hunt for schools; her fame was abroad and school officials did the hunting. She never hud to take up with a etil! achoo!, where the building whs a barn and the salary fit only to starve on; she had her pick of the best, received the highest wages paid any teacher In the county, and was always one of the first in the new section's four hundred. Among the young men who regarded the popular teacher with a Jealous eye was William 8. Rey nolds, ami In I860, the year In which the old ship of state ran upon rocks and might have gone down If a modest Illi nois man hadn't been called to the cap taincy. Belle Macomber lecame Mrs. Reynolds, and soon afterward they made Illinois their home, where they were living when the w-ar came. Mr. Reynolds did not wait long after Lin coln's second call for soldiers, a call which quickly followed the first one, . Ix-fore finding himself the choice of a company of young stalwarts for first lieutenant. When the new soldier Informed his young wife that he had enlisted, ex pecting to see her break down and then brace up and declare that he should not go, he was surprised to see her fnce wreathed In smiles, Joy prornpted, glad smiles. "What do you think of It. Belle?" asked Soldier Reynolds. "Think of It what do I think of your going to the war? Why! Lam de lighted. It Is what you ought to do." "Then you will not object to my go ing?" "Not I. Ifls of all things that which I have most wanted you to do since Mr. Lincoln's first cull." "lHn't you think you will miss me nnd wish I hadn't gone?" "Not for one moment." It was getting serious. The lieuten ant wanted to serve his country, but he didn't quite like to see his bride so con foundedly happy at the thought of his going to war for three years; going, may be and quite likely, never to re turn. He would have preferred a few tears and an assortment of chldlngs for proposing to leave the woman he had recently married, to the gladness she manifested. Seeing that her hus band was In deep water, was distress ed over the turn of affairs, she threw her arms about his neck and proceeded to give him a new shock. "I will tell yon why I shall not miss you and shall not want you to come homo. I am going to the war with you. Now, don't protest." "But think of It! Think of the long marches, sleeping on the ground, of dangers In battle. It will pot do." "Yes, It will do. I am in perfect health, ns strong as you and as pa triotic" When the Seventeenth Illinois went South Mrs. Belle Reynolds was with It, taking the fare of n soldier. At the battle of Khlloh she was under fire un til complied to leave. While on her, way to the rear she saw u Held hos pital. The white faces of the sufferers and the groans of (hose not so badly In lured Impelled her to stop. She re mained all day and all night, helping to care for and cheer the unfortunates of , tattle. "That angel of mercy," as the ' soldiers called her, spent much of her time In the hospitals, nursing the sick, .reading to them and writing their let 's. She work of this Iowa teacher of a Itofore mine to the knowledge of , tior Pick Yates Yntes of blessed mnfv Fwt h a utit lliP a fVlfll. malnr. Hha was nrnvlded Pre"lrT. Her uniform was nary ( the couott shoulder traps tbe same H till IwvVgotd lenrea and til. Offl. ' atry willtrfl ff feat respect for her. i iVniaroin passea otubt .tfenw UMtr fctta la I If tbe Ear the air and gare deem for Major Bella Reynolds. liarper'a and Frank Leslie contained pictures of her riding at tbe head of the regiment. Everybody In the army, East and West, was talking alut the woman major. Her war rec ord was In all respects creditable. Hoon after peace came the major studied medicine, and for nearly thirty years she has been a successful physi cian and surgeon. She was for some years a resident of Chicago; where she had a large practice, often being called In consultation to distant cities. Six years ago she located In Milwaukee. While there I had several conversa tions with her on her war experience. At a reception given by Pr. and Mrs. O. W. Carlson, Major Belle Reynolds was the center of .attraction with the twenty or thirty veterans among the guests. It was while at Milwaukee that ber health failed somewhat. She went to California on that account, and Is now practicing at Santa Bar bara. J. A. Watrous, In Chicago Times Herald. How Sheila Fall in Battle. Very few of the war historians, says an old army man, give a fair Idea of bow bullets, shells and cannon balls come at a fellow In battle. Sometimes, he continues, twenty big cannon balls would be fired at a company and not a man would be injured, when suddenly a ball- fired at a higher elevation would cut off a large branch of a tree which would fall with a crash and a half dozen men would be carried off disa bled. A half day would pass with hurtling shells flying over the Hue, when suddenly one would strike In a group of men, explode, and a dozen flue soldiers would be disabled. Sometimes at close range every shot would tell, shells from rltled cannon crashing Into the massed troops like destructive thunderbolts, but more fre quently shot and shell fell short of the Hue or went over It, the men changing position as the guuuers got their range. At first there was a lelluf prevalent that a rifled cannon could not be llred without killing somebody, but later the boys affected to believe that the "whis tlers" scared more men to death than they killed outright. At all events they became so Indiffer ent to artillery firing that when oppor tunity offered they would, as they lay In line, go to sleep. At Cave City, Old Hannibal, the largest man in the com pany, was taking a nap while the Con federate artillerymen were experiment lug on our line. The firing was wild for a time, but suddenly six bulla were planted In rapid succession a few yards in front, throwing dirt over the men and causing a general scramble. Old Hannibal slept through it all, but the next broadside showed, as one of the boys put It, that the durn(l fools were trying to hurt somebody, and most par ticularly Old Hannibal, and a half playful attempt was made to wake him or drag him out of range. The rough horse play was resented by the rudely awakened sound sleeper, and, half awake, he ran back to the danger line, Just as the Confederate battery began to deliver another series of shots. They struck to the right and left of the dazed, bewildered man, but he stood stark still, ducking hLs head and putting up his arms, as would a boy under a storm of snowballs. When the storm was over he turned to his frightened comrades with the remark: "They never touched me," and walked nonchalantly away, although his face was paler than It had been for six months. After that Old Hannibal was a little superstitious. He lelleved that the whistlers, as the boys called the cap shells, pursued him or that in some way he was a special mark. If he was lying in the mud a shell would burrow Into the ground near hlin and not ex plode. If he thereupon left his place In line and went behind a tree a shell would strike that and scare all the men lu the vicinity. On one occasion tip Confederates bombarded our camp for three days and did no damage. The next morning a cannon ball knocked a tin cup full of coffee out of Old Hanni bal's hand, just as he was raiding the cup to drink. He explained to the boys that he didn't care anything for the cup, but didn't like to lose the coffee. They volunteered to make him a barrel of coffee if he would move out of camp, an Intimation that they regarded Old Hannibal In the light of a hoodoo. . Grant's Toilet In Camp. General Horace IVrter, lu his "Cam paigning with Grant," In the Century, ways: In the night of the 14th Lee liegan to move troops to hla right. Grant now directed Hancock's corps to lx; withdrawn and massed behind the center of our line, so that It could be moved promptly In either direction. When the General got back to camp that evening his clothes were a rnasn of mud from head to foot, his uniform be ing scarcely recognizable. He sat until Ix'dtlme without making any change In his dress; he never seemed particularly Incommoded by the travel-stained con dition of hi outer garments, but was scrupulously careful, even In the most active campaigns, about the cleanliness of his linen and bis terson. The only chance for a tath was In having a bar rel sawed In two and using the half of It as a sort of sltz-lmth. During mot of this campaign the General, like the staff officers, naed tbla method of bath ing, or, ns our English friends would say, "tubbing." Afterward he supplied himself with a portable rubber Imtb tub. While campaign life Is not a good school for the cultivation of squeamlsh ncM, and while the General wan al ways ready to rough It In camp, yet be was particularly modeat In performing his toilet, and hi tent fronts were al ways Hed close, and the moat perfect privacy waa aecured, when he waa washing, or changing hla clotbea. While thus engaged even hla servant waa not allowed to enter hla quart era. Tbe 11 rat Rrttlafa tranalatloa of to Bible waa In tbe Irk toogtM. Brick Country Roads. Davenport Peinocrat: The impres sion grows that vitrified brick Is tbe only thing that will make such a road as this country needs in the rural re gions. Such brick does not wear, and with a well drained and well built foundation and that need not Ikj a costly one either It will not settle out of shape. The brick read that is made right will be In place in a century. The macadam, gravel or other road Is mere ly a question of time, and not of long time either. The brick road costs more at first, but Inside of a few years th other roads more than make up the difference. The best Is the cheapest in the end. Building Good Hoads. It has been said, and the assertion has not been contradicted, that the av erage counlry road in Illinois is a dis grace to any community that boasts of an enlightened civilization. The Engineering News, which has taken more than ordinary Interest In thi "good roads" agitation, contains a pa per on country road legislation, by Prof. Van Ornum, of the Department of Civil Engineering, Washington Uni versity, St. Louis. The members of the Illinois Legislature would do well to read It. Prof. Van Ornum gives the following requirements of a country road law: A State highway com mis sion made up of experts In road con struction; a classification of roads in type and cost in accordance with their Importance as lines of travel; a distri bution of the expense of construction between the State, county and the In dividuals benefited; stringent laws con trolling the construction, maintenance and uHe of such roads and highways. From i'rof. Van Ornum's paper It Is evident that adequate road laws, adapt ed to present conditions and equitably apportioning the cost of such construc tion, are yet wanting in a majority of the States. Laws proposing to regu late or promote the building of good country roads are abundant enough, but they generally are out of date or so crude In form as to fail utterly In ap plication. Chicago Record. Local Honds for Road Making. Probably never before was the sub Joet-of good count ry roads more thor oughly discussed than in the .recent past. Not alone Is hand-to-hand work being done by granges and other farm ers' organizations, but county, State and even national officials are working toward Improvement In this great ques tion. The United States Department of Agriculture is making Investigation through Its officers of road inquiry, un der the direction of Roy Stone. The latest bulletin on this subject Is from an address delivered some time ago by Judge Thayer, of Clinton, Iowa, who succinctly remarks that the Uni ted States annually contributes to the mud fiend $250,000,000. which Is a total loss. He favors borrowing money on long time 1m)ui1 at low rate of Interest, using the taxes to pay the Interest and prin cipal. "I am In favor," he said, "of al lowing the people of a township the right to vote upon the question of bor rowing money, not to exceed a certain per cent, per year, to use In road build ing. I would have road Improvement a township matter, bused on local op tion. If the people of one township want to build a certain number of miles of good road, I would not permit the people of another township or the State Legislature to prevent It. If a majority of the people of a township want good, permanent roads, at a cost within certain prescribed limits, I would not put it In the power of the minority to prevent It. I would build good roads with the taxes now paid. I would cover tiie State with a network of durable, permanent roads, which can bo used every day In the week on which to haul a full load, and I would do this without Increasing the present road taxation one mill." When We Criticise Our Friends. "There are two kinds of mistakes; mistakes of moment and trivial mis takes," writes Edward W, link. In the Ladies' Home Journal. "Undoubtedly the best service which one friend can render another Is to save him from a mistake liable to be serious In Its re sults. In such an act lies true friend ship. But In these days of criticism, when we are apt to criticise everything and everybody, we ure all to apt to cor rect mistakes which are absolutely trivial and not worth correcting. And yet In calling attention to them we of ten hurt the feelings of our best friends. Not one of us, even the most good untuned, likes to have Its mis takes pointed out. We may appear not to mind corrections, and accept them with a smile. But It is human na ture to smart under correction, al though some of ns may be clever enough t conceal the smart. Hence, the fewer mistakes we call attention to In others the better. Two-thirds of the mistakes we make arc trivial. Their correction Is unimportant. Why, then, notice them? Yet some people do, and do so constantly. A person speaks of having done a certain thing on Thurs day, when In reality It was done on Wednesday. If no Important point Is Involved why call attention to the mis take? What good doea It do to have the exact day set right? It la a matter of no Importance, so why Insist upon correcting the trivial error? Staunch friendships hare often been pricked by thla needle of melesa correction. It la great art this art of learning to al low other to be mistaken when the I'llciake Is uidmortaiit. Few learn It, but tliim who do are among the mowit comfortable friends one can have." Transferring 1'iclurea. Prints or lithographs may be trans ferred to glass by a very simple pro cess. The glass is cleaned with alco- hoi and a ioliher, then coated with fine dammar varnish, laid on very evenly. It is then put away in a place where there is no dust, where it Is to remain until it is so sticky that when touched with the finger, the glass, if a small plate, may be lifted by the ad hesion. The picture to be transferred must be soaked in rainwater until it la completely saturated, then placed be tween sheets of blotting-paper, and gently pressed. This removes all su perfluous water. Now put the pictures face down, upon the sticky side of the glass. The utmost care is necessary In placing It, as once It touches it cannot be moved without danger of tearing out pieces of the print. When it is adjust ed, begin at one corner and press the picture closely upon the adhesive sur face, watching it continually to see that no air-bubbles appear between the pic ture and the varnished surface. When this Is finished, put the picture away again, let it remain until quite dry, then lay a wet towel over the back of the picture until the paper Is thorough 'y soaked. Now begin at one corner, and with the fingers, frequently dipped in water so that they will remain wet, rub off the white paper. Continue this until i.11 the white portion is removed. This will leave only tbe color of the picture upon the glass. At the finish give the back a rather heavy coat of transparent varnish. Let It dry thor oughly, and add a very thin second coat. When this is perfectly dry, frame the picture with a very thin glass over the varnished side. Hang in the window ns a transparency. A few attempts may be necessary before expert handling is acquired, but per severance will bring success, and with care and a little Ingenuity very many beautiful pictures may be prepared at the most trifling expense. Japanese Gardening. - The Japanese have the art of dwarf ing trees to mere shrubs, and of culti vating plants In a similar way. The people take great delight In their min iature gardens, which require a spe cial gardener to keep them down to desired limits. The author of "On Short Leave to Japan'' writes: "A Japanese garden Is generally about ten yards square, and In this small space is found a park and demesne, with lake, summer-house, temples, trees, all complete, and all In keeping with the dimensions available. The lake is four feet long, and full of small goldfish. On the border stands a pine-tree, ex actly eighteen Inches high and fifty years old; beneath Its shade Is a tem ple carved out of one piece of stone, the size of a brick. On a' lofty craj of some two and a half feet stands a flue apple-tree, perfect In form and sh.ipe, fifteen years old and twelve Inches high. We bought three of these mini ature trees later a maple, a pine, and a bamboo clump each about fifteen years old and eighteen inehc-s to two feet high, growing In shallow dishes. We were told of a complete garden contained in a shallow two-dozen wine case. Everything was complete, down to the fish In the lake, a sheet of wa ter only a few Inches square, and the foot-bridges over the water-courses. Tea-houses there were, and numerous tre of various kinds, each about six Inches high. Old as the hills these, but full of vitality, and yet never grow'ug bigger." A Botanical Freak. One of the curiosities of nature Is known as a plant atol. There are but two or three of the.se known to scien tists. This atol Is made up of a circle of growing plants. They are found floating on the top of ihhhIs or lakes. They form a hoop-shaped figure and are closely matted together at the roots, which make a sort of cup or basin, to which more or less vegetable matter falls or floats. There Is a sufficient n mount of nutriment In tills to keep the plant growing. As It. increases, the roots become longer and larger, anil in time the plant may anchor Itisflf In the soil at the lioltom of the pond. These, rings, after many years of accumula tion and growth, make what appear to be small Islands. It Is the opinion of certain scientists that Islands may have been formed lu this manner. The roots catch ail floating vegetable or animal mutter. Leaves collect and form mold, and after a while birds may drop plant or five seeds on the little pod that flouts on the top of the water. These take root and further assist In the growth of the lit tle Island. It may take centuries for the plant, to come to any size, but with nature a thousand years are but as yea terday. vjuitc InipoHtlile. When they met again she tried to bo very cold and distant. "Move up for- , ward, there!" shouted the conductor. It t was easy to be very cold lu a cable car, but as for being distant, especially at certain hours of the day, that was an- j other story. Truth. Jnhnny'n V. planatian. ' Mother How is that you get so many ! bad marks at evhool? Little Johnny Well, the teacher has got to mark somebody or eke folks will think she la not attending to her busl-ness.-Tlt-Blta. A Bond of Pympathr. "lr," said the mendicant, "I hare spent many days on the road." "Poor fellow," murmured the man ap proached. "Here's 1. I've traveled on those Southern railroads myself." Phil adelphia North American. Ten hours' work won't hirrt a nmat but tha ten hours' work that follow to uiuy case la wliat drUx. GOD IN THE INAUGURALS. Refetfnce to a Supreme Being; by All tbe Presidente Have One. God has been invoked in every Presi dential Inaugural address save one. In some instances the invocation has been made in the beginning of the address, and in nearly all divine guidance has been invoked in the last words. President McKinley hastened to In voke "the guidance of Almighty God." I In fact, the first paragraph of bis in augural is sufficiently reverential to satisfy the most exacting. Tbe inau gural closes with a petition to the "Lord Most High," an appellation which no former President used on a similar occasion. Washington's first inaugural, in its opening, was full of mention of the "Almighty Being," "Great Author" and "Smiles of Heaven." "Providence" was invoked in the last paragraph. In his second inaugural there was no ref erence to God. John Adams acknowledged an "Over ruling Providence" in the beginning of his Inaugural, and In the close of the address, references were made to the "Being gupre.meOver All," "Patron of Order," "Fountain or Justice" and "Protector of Virtuous Liberty." Thomas Jefferson called upon "That Infinite Power" in the last section of bis Inaugural, and supplicated "That Being" in his second address. The sec ond address also contained the word "Creator," referring to God, and there was part of a paragraph touching on Christian religion. James Madison acknowledged the "Almighty Being" in the last paragraph of his first inaugural, and the "Smiles of Heaven" In the first paragraph of his Becond. James Monroe, in the beginning of bis Inaugural, acknowledged that the "Almighty had been graciously pleas ed," etc., and in the close of his second Inaugural he spoke of the "Supreme Author" and "Almighty God." John Qulncy Adams referred to be ing In the "presence of heaven" in the opening of his inaugural, and in the close lie quoted the text, "If the Lord keepeth not the city the watchman waketh in vain." Andrew Jackson In his first address invoked "That Power" and in closing asked "His divine care and benedic tion." In his second inaugural he made a "most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being." Martin Van Buren, in the first of his inaugural, "hoped for the sustaining support of an ever-watchful and benef icent power," and in closing he "look ed to that Divine Being." William Henry Harrison's inaugural was the most volumnious'yet deliver ed. It was made up of more than 8,000 words. The "Beneficent Creator" was mentioned once, and "That Good Be ing." John Tyler, who' succeeded Harrison a few weeks later, printed his Inaugur al in the newspapers. He "looked to an all-wise and all-powerful being who made me," and "trusted in the ever watchful and ever-ruling Providence." James K. Polk invoked the "Almighty Ruler of the Universe," and supplicat ed the "Divine Being." Zachary Taylor, in the last words of his inaugural, invoked "Divine Provi dence." Millard Fillmore, who succeeded him a little later, spoke In a brief address of "Him who holds us in His hands." Franklin I'ierce put his "dependence upon God," and asked the blessings of "Divine Providence." James Buchanan asked for the aid of "the God of our forefathers" twice in the same inaugural. Abraham Lincoln acknowledged a "firm reliance1 on him" in his first in augural. This is the only reference to a supreme being in that address. But nearly one-half of his second In augural Is a sermon. Andrew Johnson mentioned God once in his short Inaugural, but not by way of Invocation. Grant mentioned "Providence" and "Almighty God" once in his first, and the "Great Maker" in his second In augural, but not in supplication. Mr. Hayes asked the "guidance of the divine hand." Garfield mentioned "Almighty God" once In his inaugural. They are the last words. Arthur, in succeeding President Gar field, asked in his brief address for "aid and divine guidance." Cleveland, In his first inaugural, ac knowledged the "power and goodness of Almighty God." Benjamin Harrison "reverentially" Invoked "Almighty God for strength." There was no Invocation In the clos ing, but the word God Is used once In the address after acknowledgment Cleveland, In his second Inaugural, Invoked a "Divine Ruler." New York Sun. Gorgeous Spectacle in a Desert. The northern part of the great Col orado desert presents one of the most marvelous spi-ctacles In the world. It Is literally paved with pebbles, In many places so exquisitely laid as to defy successful Imitation by the most skilled worker In mosaic flooring. These pebbles are porphyry, agates, cnrnellan, quartz, crystals, garnets, chrysolite and other beautiful mate rials. Most of thein are perfect spheres and the reflection from them of the sun's rays Is gorgeous beyond descrip tion. Ench convex surface gives back a ray of light and tbe ground seems paved with gems. A Hopeful Circumstance, "I think," said young Mrs. Torklna, "that we will like the new servant bet ter than we did the other." "For what reason?" Inquired her bus-b-nd. "She carriea a smaller basket to and from her home." Washington Star. It Is not difficult to make old people happy; show them some one twenty years older than themselves who la still In good health. LIGHTING AMERICAN CITIES. Costa More to Keep the Streets Lighted than Supposed. The cost of street lighting In New York City for the year 187 will be In excess of $1,250,000. The specific ap propriation for this item Is f 1,222,821. to which are to be added sundrie, which will probably bring it up to the total named. Philadelphia spends even more than does the city of New York in a year for lighting its streets and alleyways, the total expense being $420,000 for gas- and $647,000 this year for electricity. These items collective ly do not foot up to so much as New York pays, but while New York geta Its supply of gas from seven different companies and its electricity for light ing from ten different companies, Phil adelphia owns Its own gas plant, and eince 1855 has had entire control of It. To the money actually disbursed for gas, therefore, must be added in the case of Philadelphia a reasonable In terest upon the original investment and some account must be made of the public property used for the works. Chicago expends in a year $425,000 for gas lamps which illumine with In distinctness soute--t -tes- .eAeeete, ; Vat major portions of which are unpaved . roads separated from the buildings which front them by wooden sidewalks resting in the mud. Boston is an Amer ican city, which, in proportion to Its population and area, makes generous provision for public illumination. Bos ton spends in a year $290,000 for gas and $270,000 for electric lighting, a to tal of $500,000, the extent of which may be best understood by comparison with the expenditures for the like purpose in Baltimore, a city of the same pop ulation, practically, and of about the same area. Baltimore spends in a year $220,000 for gas and $140,000 for elec tric current. Cincinnati spends in a year $200,000 for gas and $75,000 for electric lighting. The area of Cincin nati is about the same as that of Bos ton, and about one-half of the present area of New York, Wakefield and the Bronx Valley villages included. It is a fact, not known to some of the most zealous and ardent of the good govern ment club reformers, that the annexed villages on the Bronx are lighted with neither gas nor electricity, but with naphtha lamps. These lamps are not expensive; neither is the naphtha used in them, but the distance between lamps is such that the traveling ex penses or mileage of those intrusted with the task of communicating flame to the wicks is a considerable item of expense. San Francisco expends In a year $300,000 for public illumination, both gas and electricity, and St. Louis a like amount. In Pittsburg the ad vantages of natural gas have been util ized of late years, and the expense for public Illumination is $250,000. In Brooklyn it is $520,000-$160,000 for gas and $360,000 for electric current. New York Sun. Producing Rain. A simple experiment in producing rain may be made by the use of a cylin der of glass, about four inches in di ameter and eight inches high. This Is to be half filled with 92 per cent, alco hol. A china saucer is placed over the cylinder, which is then put into a hot water bath and heated quite hot, but not to the boiling point for alcohol. Then the cylinder, still covered, is care fully and quickly placed upon a table in a cool portion of the room. Very soon vapor will be discovered on the under side of the saucer, clouds will form and from them little drops fall upon the alcohol. This miniature shower may last for an hour or more. The top part of the cylinder clears di rectly so that the condensation is seen midway between the alcohol and the saucer. It is a curious and interesting sight, the water below the clouds and the dear atmosphere above. If im mediately after removing the cylinder from the hot-water bath a cold saucer replaces the hot one, storm currents are discernible. Often the currents will as cend upon one side of the cylinder and descend upon the other. Conducted up on a somewhat larger scale, this ex periment would lie of great Interest to classes of students. It is not an ex pensive one, and Is very easily man aged even by amateurs. She Was Cremated. Mrs. Masingbred, who recently died in England, wad a woman whom all American club women that went abroad were especially desirous of meeting. As founder and president of the well known Pioneer Club of London her fame had chiefly crossed the water, though at home she was distinguished for much other progressive work. She was a iwnverful leader, from her wealth and zeal, lu the temperance cause, nnd on coming Into an extensive heritage alKuit 10 years ago, she turned all the public hoiuses of ber estate Into coffee taverns and social clubs. She was an n-)l.l-vivictionlst, an ardent worker for women's suffrage, and withal a charming and companionable woman. Her remains were cremated, an odd oc currence at the service held over tbe ashes being the prayer of Canon Wll liorforce, imploring God to tell the de eenjtod how much she was loved and missd hero below. Political Leader's Fine. Bight Hon. Sir William George Vena blert Vernon Harcourt, M. P., Liberal leader In the House of Common, haa been, lined 10 shillings ami costs In a London mIIco court for allowing hla chimney to catch Are through not hav ing been cleaned. Proposal Deferred. "I suppose you suspect what I for," he said, as he prepared to ask bar father for her hand. "Oh, yea," replied the father; "yon want to borrow money, but 1 havent a cent" And the young man deferred hla propoaal PTilladaa pbta North American. I if