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CHAPTER II.
The eventful Friday at length ar
rived, and with it the unwelcome
Younges. They came by the late train,
which enabled them to reach King's
Abbott just one hour before the dinner
hell rang, and so gave them sufficient
time to dress. Sir George met them
warmly, feeling some old, lmlf-forgot
ten sensations cropping up within his
heart as he grasped between ills own
hands the hard, brown one of his ci
devant school friend. The old man
he now met, however, was widely dif
ferent from the fair-haired boy and
light active youth he could just barely
remember both at Eton and Oxford.
Indeed, Mr. Younge, oddly enough, did
strangely resemble the fanciful picture
drawn of him by Miss Trevanion. be
ing fat. “pursy,” jolly, and altogether
decidedly after the style of the farm
ing gentry.
But, however right almut him, Miss
Trevanion's prognostications with re
gard to the others were entirely wrong.
Mrs. Younge, far from being fat, red
and cookish, was remarkably slight,
fragile, and very lady-like in appear
ance. Her daughter, Miss Rachel, re
sembled her mother strongly, though
lacking her gentle expression and the
quiet air of self-possession that sat so
pleasantly on her.
But in her description of Denzil Miss
Trevanion had been very much at
fault indeed. Any one more unlike a
“boor” could not be well imagined.
Denzil Younge was a very handsome
young man. Tall, fair and distin
guished looking, witli just the faintest
resemblance to his mother, he might
have taken his place with honor in
any society in Christendom. He wore
neither beard nor whiskers, simply a
heavy, golden mustache, which cov
ered, but scarcely concealed, the almost
feminine sweetness of his mouth
Miss Trevanion, having made up her
mind that there would be plenty of
time just before dinner to get through
the introductions, stayed in her own
room until exactly five minutes to
seven o’clock, the usual hour for din
ing at King’s Abbott, when she swept
downstairs and into the drawing room
in her beautiful, graceful fashion, clad
In pure white from head to foot, with
the exception of a single scarlet rose,
fresh from the conservatory, in the
middle of her golden hair. And cer
tainly Mildred looked as exquisite a
creature that evening, as she walked
up the long drawing room to where
her father was standing, as any one
could wish to see.
"This is my eldest daughter—unmar
ried,” said Sir George, evidently with
great pride, taking the girl’s hand and
presenting her to his guest, who had
been gazing at her with open, honest
admiration ever since her entrance.
"Is it indeed?” the old man an
swered; and then he met her with both
hands extended, and, looking kindly
at her, declared out loud, for the bene
fit of the assembled company, "She is
the bonniest las6 I have seen for many
a day.”
At this Mabel laughed out loud, mer
rily, without even an attempt at the
concealment of her amusement, to
I^ady Caroline’s intense horror and old
Younge’s intense delight. He turned
to Mabel instantly.
“You like to hoar your sister ad
mired?” he said.
And Mabel answered:
"Yes, always, w'hen the admiration
is sincere—as in your case—because I,
too, think she is the bonniest lass in
all the world.”
"Right, right!” cried old Younge,
approvingly; and these two became
friends on the spot, the girl chatter
ing to him pleasantly the greater part
of the evening afterward, although the
old man's eyes followed Mildred’s rath
er haughty movements with more
earnest attention than he bestowed
upon those of her more light-hearted
sister.
Miss Trevanion, when Mr. lounge
had called her a “bonny lass,” merely
flushed a little and flashed a quick
glance toward her mother which said
plainly, “There, did I not tel! you so
—Yorkshire farmer, pure and simple,
and all that?” and moved on to be
introduced to the other members of
the unwelcome family. She could not
forget, even for a moment, how in
trusive their visit was, and how un
pleasant in every sense of the word.
She was only three or four years Ma
bel’s senior, uut In mind and feeling
she might, so to speak, have been her
mother. When she remembered how
Eddie always required money, and
how difficult they found It to send
Charles regularly his allowance and
still to keep up the old respectable ap
pearance in the county, she almost
hated the newcomers for the expenses
their coming would entail.
Miss Trevanion raised her head half
an inch higher, and went through her
inclinations to the others with a mix
ture of grace and extreme hauteur that
made her appear even more than com
monly lovely, and caused Denzil
Younge to lose his place in the lan
guid conversation he had been holding
with Eddie Trevanion. She had not
so much ns deigned to raise her eyes
when bowing to him, so he had been
fully at liberty to make free use of his
own, and he decided, without hesita
tion, that nothing in the wide earth
could be more exquisite than this girl
who he could not fail to see treated
them all with open coolness. -
He took her In to dinner presently,
but not until soup ha4 been removed
did Miss Trevanion think it worth her
while to look up and discover what
style of man sat beside her. Glancing
then suddenly and superciliously at
him. she found that lie was the very
handsomest fellow she had ever seen
—well-bred looking, too, unit, in ap
pearance at least, just such a one as
she had been accustomed to go down to
dinner with even in the very best
houses.
He was staring across the tnbl° now
to where Mabel sat, laughing and con
versing merrily with old Younge, and
seemed slightly amused with the girl's
gayety. Was he going to fall in love
with Mab? Very likely, she thought,
it would be just the very tiling for an
aspiring cotton man to do- to go and
lose his heart ambitiously to their
beautiful “queen."
Then Denzll turned to her and said:
“You were not in town this season,
Miss Trevanion?"
“No; mamma did not care to go,"
she answered, reddening a little at th*
pious fib.
‘"I do not think you missed much,”
Denzil went on, pleasantly; "it was the
slowest tiling imaginable; and the op
eras were very poor. You are fond of
music, of course? I need hardly ask
you that."
“I like good music, when I hear it,”
Miss Trevanion said; ' but I would
rather be deaf to all sweet sounds than
to have to listen to the usual run of
so-called singers—private singers, I
mean.”
“One does now and then hear a good
private singer, though,” Denzil re
turned. "There were several in town
last year.”
“Lady Constance Dingwall was
greatly spoken of,” Mildred said; ”1
have heard her sing several times.”
"So have I, and admire her voice im
mensely; her pet song this season was
Sullivan’s ’Looking Back,’ and it suited
her wonderfully. Lots of fellows
raved about her, and old Douglas of
the Blues was said to have proposed
to her on the strength of it. She re
fused him, however. Odd man, Doug
las; you know him, of course—every
body does. He is slightly crazy, I
fancy. By the bye, you have not told
mo what you think of Lady Constance's
singing.”
“I would quite as soon listen to a
barrel-organ, I think,” Miss Trevan
ion answered, ungraciously; “there i3
just as much expression in one as in
the other. She has good notes, I grant
you, but she does not know in the
very least how to use them.”
“Poor Lady Constance,” he said;
“well, I am not a judgp of music, 1
confess, but for my part I would go
any distance to hear her sing. Her
brother has managed about that ap
pointment—I suppose you know?”
"Has he? I am glad of that. No,
I have not heard. But what a disa
greeable man he is! What a comfort
it must be to his friends—or relatives,
rather—to get him out of the coun
try!”
"Is not that a little severe?” asked
Denzil. “Poor James has an unfortu
nate way of not getting on with peo
ple, but I put that down more to the
wretchedness or his early training than
to his natural disposition, which I be
lieve to be good, though warped and
injured by his peculiar position when a
boy. It was lucky for Lady Constance
that the countess adopted her. May I
give you some of these?”
"No, thank you,” Mildred answered,
and then fell to wondering by what
right this cotton merchant’s son called
Lord James Dingwall by his Christian
name—“James.” She again recollect
ed that "this sort of person” generally
boasted outrageously about any intim
acy with the aristocracy. Miss Tre
vanion’s "hearings” upon this subject
had been numerous and profound.
"I think Lord James a very unpleas
ant man,” she said, feeling curious to
learn how much more Denzil Younge
had to say about him.
"Most ladies do," her companion an
swered, coolly; “but then I do not con
sider ladies always the best judges.
They form their ideas from the out
ward man generally, which in many
cases prevents fairness. Unless the
person on trial be a lover or a relative,
they seldom do him the justice to look
within. You think Dingwall very ob
noxious because he has red hair and
rough manners, and yet I have known
him to do acts of kindness which most
men would have shrunk from perform
ing. In the same way you would con
sider a fellow down near us the great
est boor you ever met in your life. I
dare say, because ho has nothing to
recommend him but his innate good
ness of heart.”
“I dare say,” responded Miss Tre
vanion.
"But would you not be civil to a
man whom you knew to be beyond
expression estimable, if only for the
sake of his goodness, no matter how
rough a diamond he might be?” asked
Denzil Younge, feeling somPwhat eager
in his argument, and turning slightly,
so as more to face his adversary.
“Surely you would; any woman—most
women would. I fancy. One could not
fail to appreciate the man I speak of.”
"I might appreciate him at a dis
tance,” Miss Trevanion returned, ob
stinately, “but I would not be civil to
him; and I should think him a boor
: just the same, whether he were a
black sheep or a white.”
"Oh!" exclaimed Denzil, and stared
curiously at her beautiful, now rather
bored face.
Was she really as worthless a* she I
declared herself to be'.’ Could those |
handsome, cold blue eyes and faultless
features never soften into tam'prness
ami womanly feeliug?
He quite forgot how earnestly he was
gazing until Miss Trevanion raised her
eyes, and meeting his steady shire,
blushed warmly—angrily. He recol
lected himself then, and the admiration
his look must have conveyed, and col
ored almost as deeply as she had.
"I beg your pardon,” ho said, quiet
ly: "do not think me rude, but I am
strangely forgetful at times, and was
just then wondering whether you real
ly meant all you said."
"Do not wonder any longer then,'1
she retorted, still resenting the expres
sion of his eyes, ‘Vis I did perfectly
mean what 1 said. I detest with all
my heart boors and ill-bred people,
and parvenus, and want of birth gen
erally •'
And then Lady Caroline made the
usual mysterious sign, and they all
rose to leave the room, and Miss Tre
vanion became conscious that she had
made a cruelly rude speech.
She felt rather guilty and disinclined
for conversation when she had reached
the drawing room; so she sat down
and tried to find excuses for her con
duct in the remembrance of that last
unwarrantable glance he had be
stowed upon her. A man should be
taught manners if he did not possess
them; and the idea of his turning de
liberately to stare at her—Mildred
Trevanion—publicly, was more than
any woman could endure. So she ar
gued, endeavoring to persuade her con
science—but unsuccessfully—that her
uncourteous remark had been justly
provoked, and then Mabel came over
and sat down beside her.
“I liked your man at dinner very
much,” she said; “at least what I
could see of him.”
"He seemed to like you very much,
at all events,” Mildred returned; "he
watched your retreating figure just
now as though he had never before
seen a pretty girl or a white-worked
grenadine.”
‘Tie is awfully handsome,” went on
Mabel, who always indulged in the
strongest terms of speech.
"He is good-looking.”
"More than that; he is as rich a3
Croesus, I am told.”
"What a good thing for the young
woman who gets him,” Miss Trevanion
remarked, and smiled down a yawn
very happily indeed.
“Look here, Mildred; you may just
as well begin by being civil to him,”
counseled Mabel, wisely, “because, as
he is going to inhabit the same house
as yourself for the next six weeks or
so, it will be better for you to put
up with him quietly. You were look
ing all through dinner as though you
were bored to death—and, after all,
what good can that do?”
“I rather think you will have the
doing of tho civility,” observed Miss
Trevanion, “as he is evidently greatly
struck by your numerous charms.”
“I shouldn’t mind it in the least, if
he can talk plenty of nonsense, and
look as he looked at dinner,” Mabel
returned. "There is always something
so interesting about a superlatively
rich man, don’t you think?”
“Not when the rich man owns to
cotton.”
“Why not? Cotton is a nice clean
thing. I should fancy; and money is
money, however procured. I am a thor
oughly unbiased person, thank heaven,
and a w'arm admirer of honest indus
try.”
“You had better marry Mr. Younge,
then, and you will be able to admire
the fruits of it from this day until
your death,” Mildred said.
“Not at all a bad idea,” returned
“the queen;” "thanks for the sugges
tion. I shall certainly think about it
If I like him sufficiently well on a
nearer acquaintance, and if he is good
enough to ask me, I will positively go
and help him to squander that cotton
money.”
(To be continued.)
J*iotur«*§qne Old CftHtle.
Tourists who wish to see the castlf
which Victor Cherbuliez, the famous
French academician, has pictured in
one of the most popular novels, “Paule
Mere,” onght to visit Fossard. An elec
tric train runs from Geneva to Chene.
Thence it is only a few minutes’ walk
through a shady lane to the Chateau
des Terreaux, situated on the border of
the little river which separates Switzer
land from France. The old building is
highly picturesque. Nothing has been
changed since the celebrated author
wrote the description. At sunset the
mountain is a mass of changing color,
and visitors are subject to a spell
which will prevent them from ever for
getting the little hamlet of Fossard and
its castle.—Philip Jamin in Chicago
Record.
Kastcr In the New Century.
In the century just begun there will
be 5,217 Sundays. In that which we
have hardly yet learned to speak of
as last Easter Sunday has occurred
once on its earliest possible date —
March 22. 1818—but this will not re
cur till the twenty-third century. The
ejLrliest Easter in the new century will
be March 23, 1913. Easter Sunday will
fall once cm its latest day—April 25,
in 1943. This also occurred once in
May, but. on three occasions in the past
century it occurred in June, and in
the new century this will happen four
times.
flow Niagara In I{4<-A<f I ng.
The falls of Niagara cat back the
cliff at the rate of bout one foot a
year. In this way a deep cleft has
been cut right back from Queenstown
for a distance of seven miles to the
place where the falls now' are. At this
rate it has taken inore than 35,000
years for the seven-mile channel to
be made.
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The republicans of Lincoln have ev
ery reason for congratulating . them
selves and the city over the result of
the primary election. The nominees
were selected by the direct vote of the
rank and file of the members of the
party, and an absolutely unassailable
ticket has been put in the field in eon
sequence. In the old days when men
were allowed to name delegations
from their own wards with the under
standing that they might trade them
in any way they wished, the party was
humiliated by some of the nominations
made by almost every convention.
The Lincoln system has shown itself
to tie the cleanest and best means yet
devised for selecting the nominees of
a political party, u lias revolutionized
the municipal government of this city
in less than five years, it has driven
out hossism and installed the individ
ual citizen and taxpayer in his rightful
position as dictator of the management
of the party. The Lincoln system is
now firmly entrenched in the city, for
it would be a bold ward politician to
even suggest a return to the conven
tion plan. If the members of the coun
ty central committee wish to assist in
the growth of the* party they may do
so by providing for the extension of
the Lincoln system to the entire coun
ty.
Senator Miller of Buffalo having
been delegated by his committee to
visit the reform srhools at Kearney
and Geneva, submitted a volumnious
report. In his report on the Kearney
school he says:
1 ihe school consists of seven sub
stantial brick buildings, very much
out of repair, situated on a high bluff
overlooking the great Platte valley.
The view is one of the grandest in the
state. A change in the administration
has recently been made, Hon. J. N.
Campbell retiring from the superinten
dency and Prof. J. T. Mallalleu as
sumes the duties: the latter speaks
well of the efficient work of ills prede
cessor. The present superintendent
comes fn thoroughly equipped for ef
ficient work, having served in this ca
pacity with credit, for eight years, and
has lately visited similar institutions
in other states for the purpose o£ stu
dying their methods.
“There are at present 129 inmates,
divided into four families, with one
teacher and one matron for each fam
ily.
“The hoys are called up at 6:15 in
the morning, prepared for breakfast
which is served in a large hall of the
mechanic building at 7:00. Five hours
each day are devoted to study in
school, and five hours to work in the
various industrial departments. Dur
ing the summer months the hoys have
from 6:30 p. m. to 8 p. m. for recrea
tion; while during the winter months
they have play rooms in the buildings.
“We consider ttiis sclioi of vast im
portance to the state; designed as it
is to greatly reduce the criminal class,
taking the boys who are so unfortun
ate as to without proper home train
ing and instill within them habits of
industry, self-reliance and noble as
pirations."
Representative Hanks offerer! the
following resolution In the house last
wreek:
"Whereas, u has pleased Him who
is infinite in wisdom and controls all
things in His divine power, to remove
one who was a member of the Twen
ty-seventh session of the Nebraska
legislature, the Hon. David Brown, of
Otoe county, by death, therefore be it
"Resolved. That it is ..ie sense of the
joint bodies of the legislature to mourn
the loss of one who nas served his peo
ple so many times in public office wHii
honor to himself and credit to the
great state of Nebraska; be it further
"Resolved, That we honor the mem
ory of the Hon. David Brown. We. his
neighbors, and all persons acquainted
with him. honored and respected him
during life. He was a good citizen, a
correct man, and a loving and faith
ful husband and father. He represent
ed in himself the best citizenship of
the state, and in his death we have
sustained a great loss, and the state is
deprived of a good ciazen; be it fur
ther
"Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread upon the journals of both
bodies of the legislature, and a copy
be forwarded to his widow and son,
to whom we offer <• ir sincere sym
pathy in their hour of grief. And also
one be sent to the loca. newspapers
of Nebraska City.”
The following companies have filed
articles of corporation with Secretary
of State Marsh; Uinta Petroleum
company of Omaha and Uinta county,
Wyoming, with a capital of $10,000;
Paxton Mitchell company of Omaha,
with a capital of $00,000; Puritan Ci
gar company of Grand Island with a
capital of $.-),000; Seward Dry Goods
and Millinery company of Seward with
a capital of $15,000.
The legislature must cut the garment
Recording to the cloth. Nebraska is
prosperous and ricu, but her assessed
valuation is quite low and the consti
tution limits the state levy to five
mills alid there you are. Let not the
appropriations overrun the probable
revenue for the coming biennium. That
is one of the bounden duties of a legis
lative body to perform. Overlaps
should be left entirely to the sapient
municipal governments. They do not
become a sovereign state.
The new battleship “Nebraska” will
be constructed, according to the decis
ion just made by the secretary of the
navy, by Moran Bros, of Seattle. The
bid of this firm was above the limit set
by the government, but the people of
Seattle were so anxious to establish
the ship building industry in their city
that they raised a fund of $100,000 to
enable the firm to take the contract at
the government price without losing
money. The new ship will be an ob
ject of interest to .all citizens of Ne
braska who visit the chief city of
Washington during the period of its
to instruction.
I
The manner in which the late fusion
administration filched from tho tax
payers and gathered in the loaves and
fishes is gradually coming to light.
The latest discovery is in tho state
auditing department where it has been
found that at least one man had his
name carried on the pay roll at $1,200
per year as county treasury examiner,
but devoted much if not all of his
time to tho examination of insurance
companies, thus not only drawing dou
ble pay, but neglecting to do what he
W'as paid for doing.
The law requires that county treas
uries shall he examined at least every
two years and the state auditor is em
powered to appoint two individuals to
perform that duty.
Investigation reveals the fact that
this part of the public service during
Auditor Cornell's last term was sadly
neglected, mauv of the county treas
uries in the state not having been ex
amined in the last three years and the
system having degenerated into a com
plete farce.
The secret of this neglect lies In the
fact that the examiners are paid a
salary of $1,200 per year whether they
work or not, and as no fees are allowed
and as fees of from $T> to $10 per day
and expenses are allowed insurance
examiners the recreant officials found
it more profitable to neglect their spe
cific duties and forage upon insurance
companies.
There is documentary evidence in
the auditing department that J. A.
Simpson, who was a county treasury
examiner under Auditor Cornell, drew
his salary regularly as such, yet neg
lected that part of his duties and de
voted much of liis time to Insurance
examination, for whien he received
fees of from $."> to $10 per day and ex
penses. Those who claim to know
whereof they speak are inclined to the
opinion that all of tais money did not
go into Simpson’s exchequer, and that
it is a mathematical problem soluble
through the process of division or sub
traction with Auditor Cornell as a
component factor.
'i he state normal school at Porn,
•aside from being a harbor of refuge
f fusion politicians has, under fu
sion control, become an expensive lux
ury to the tax payers. Ever since tho
fusionlsts acquired control, the mer
cury in the expense thermometer has
be' ii rapidly rising, as attested by the
following figures showing the appio
prations for the respective periods:
1893-1896 .$42,400
1895-1897 . 48,296
1897-1899 . 49,842
1899-1901 .55,437
1901-1903 appropriation asked.. 60,140
1901-1903 for Improvements_ 75,000
It will be seen by the foregoing tab
ulation that the expense of maintain
ing the school has increased each bien
nium until now $50,280 is demanded
for salaries alone or more than it ever
required under republican rule to de
fray all expenses, salaries included.
Of the $48,296 appropriated in 1895,
$5,000 was for new improvements,
which would bring the current ex
penses at that time down to $13,290.
From 1895 to 1897 there was an in
ircnse in current expenses alone of
more than $13,000 and the proposed
increase in current expenses at this
time over two years ago. when more
than $50,000 was appropriated for that
purpose, is $10,000. Tho increase is
accounted for in various ways, but in
each instance the hand of extravagance
is visible. One instance was brought
to light during the campaign last fall
when an investigation developed the
fact that a fusion newspaper plant
was occupying spacious quarters in one
cf the state buildings and was having
its rent, light and heat provided for
al the expense of the state, and, in ad
dition, was mulcting the state on job
printing and supplies which for some
unaccountable reason it was allowed
to supply the institution at its own fig
ures. —
Some sophomores of the state uni
versity succeeded in fastening a sign
to the braces of the roof at soldiers’
memorial hall Wednesday. Janitor
Uhl first observed the sign when he re
turned from nis uinner at 1 o’clock. It
is a large red banner with the figures
’03 in white. It is not known how it
was placed there, as it is suspended
fifty feet from the floor and ther„ ap
pears no way of climbing to this point.
Some of the freshmen are now won
dering how they can remove the ban
ner.
Tlie problem of the burned' peniten
tiary is still in abeyance. A local
architect has been engaged to examine
the remaining walls and report to the
state board of public lands anu build
ings on their condition and estimated
cost of rebuilding, pursuant to the di
rections in the resolution adopted by
the house. The report is not expected
for several days.
Acting Governor Savage has issued a
requisition for Fred Brailey, who is
wanted in Boyd county on the charge
of criminal assault. The complaining
witness is May Allgor. Brailey is un
der arrest in Marshall county, Minne
sota. The state agent who will bring
him back to answer the charge is Her
man ocamer.
Nebraska’s reception by the occu
pants of the reviewing stand on Penn
sylvania avenue was recompense for
the trouble it took to get there. It is
an earnest of the feeling entertained
toward this state by the leaders of the
nation's affairs.
Well informed citizens of Lincoln
predict that the proposition to vote
bonds for a city lighting plant will
carry. It is feared by the friends of
this scheme that if the bonds carry
they will be tied up by injunction and
that this will delay the work seriously,
if it does not defeat the object of those
who have interested themselves in
cheaper municipal lighting.
The death of Representative Brown
increases the difficulty of securing an
election with republican votes. The
full number of members of the legbie
lature at the beginning was 133.
A CASE OF LAW.
Ilaiato Dcrinlon lilfi'i Ktmnrii to nark-'
lug I>og*» Owner.
I .aw la a complicated thing, and some
of its decisions seryn not to be founded'
In equity. ^Probably most readers will
pass that criticism upon the casa re
corded below. Basutoland, being bro
ken and mountainous, was until re
cently the resort of lions, leopards and
other wild animals. Now, however, the
hillsides which were once the resort
of these savage creatures are the pas
ture-grounds of tens of thousands of
cattle. Nearly all dangerous animals
have been driven away from Basuto
land, but not long ago a leopard ap
peared on the outskirts of a village.
The animal soon became badly fright
ened as the villagers, and sought safe
ty in flight. The next morning the in
habitants turned out for a hunt. One
of the hunters wap climbing a steep
rock when he suddenly found himself
face to face with the leopard, whose
retreat was cut off by the rock Itself.
Neither the animal nor the man could
escape the encounter. The dilemma
was an awkward one, for the climber
wai unarmed. Recognizing his dauger,
he put forth his hands and In despera
tion caught hold of the leopard on each
side of its jaws, holding it at arm’s
length and calling for help. The
leopard clawed and tore his captor,
but the man held on till help arrived
and the beast was speared. Now came
a question of law. By Basuto law the
skin belonged to the chief who must
reward one of three claimants—either
the man who speared the leopard, or
the man who held it so that it was
poesible to spear it, or the man who,
being warned by the barking of his
dog, first discovered the animal In the
village. The Basuto Solomon decided
the case as folows: The man who
speared it could not have done so but
for the man who held It, and the man
who held It could not have known of
its existence if the dog had not first
warned the village; therefore the cred
it for the killing belonged to the dog,
whose owner was entitled to the re
ward.
WHERE AMERICA LEADS.
Our CollcgfMt Are Morn Ainllablo for
Women than E us la ini'*.
A writer in the London Daily Mail
states that popular sentiment in Ameri
ca has done its greatest work in giv
ing the poor girl a desire to go to col
lege and in giving her a college where
she can go. The girl who wants to go
on £50 a year can do it. Unless she
lives in a secluded village or a very
small town she can go on half that
sum. There are few towns of any size
without a college of some kind, pri
vately endowed and publicly maintain
ed. Next to this almost universality of
opportunity, the American college girl
values most the social trust given her
in it all and the knowledge of men
which she receives. The typical Am
erican girl studied side by side with
her brother In the lower grades; she
went to college naturally with him.
It never occurred to her that she could
not. It never occurred to him that she
should not. Every American girl Is
trusted socially and the typical Ameri
can college girl—the co-educational
girl—receives this trust to the great
est degree. She thinks the English
college girl as capable, even more so,
of having this same social trust. “Does
not England need now the American
type of the college woman?” asks the
American. "And. in making higher
education so popular that most girls,
whether rich or poor, would want it,
and so cheap that most girls could get
it; in raising the intellectual standard
of English womanhood in general, as
would he done by the former; in giv
ing discipline of mind to hundreds who
need It in the fight for bread, as would
he done by the latter—in these is there
not a mission as great and as vital as
woman's education need have?”
Army Surgeon, Win a Woman.
"Murray Hall's” case has brought
to mind the case of “Dr. James Barry,”
once inspector general of hospitals in
the British army and a “C. B.” This
Individual presented the appearance of
a slightly built, dark-complexioned
man, beardless and with abrupt man
ners. The doctor had a marked impa
tience with anything like contradic
tion, and his temper led to several
duels, in which he came off best. The
courage of the person was beyond
question, hut the voice was thin and
feminine in tone. When “James Bar
ry” died “he” left explicit directions
that he should he buried "all standing”
as he was when death came. These
directions were disregarded, and it
was learned that the medical schools
had duly qualified and the British gov
ernment had decorated and pensioned
a distinguished medical officer who
was a woman.—New York Press.
mistering Dead Ilodles.
The fear of being buried alive has
always been strong in Germany, and
many precautions are usually taken to
ascertain that death has occurred be
fore resorting to burial. Germans are.
consequently, much interested in the
experiments being made by Parisian
doctors to determine the absence of
life. It is said the raising of a blister
on the cuticle of a corpse by means of
a candle speedily shows the presence or
absence of the vital spark. In living
bodies the blister is full of serum; in
dead bodies it contains only steam.—
Emil Henzel in Chicago Record.
Anti-Vice Crusade In Japan.
Through missionary influences in
Japan new police regulations now'
make it possible for inmates of houses
of legalized vice, hitherto hopeless
iLaves, to leave at their option. Chris
tian reformers have freed at least 40
lucb unfortunates Airing the past two'
months. ‘ *
