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COMFORTS HOLDS FIRE 48 HOURS WITH SOFT LACE CURTAINS
.00. worth $2,00. 9oC , worth $ 50.
PORTIERES BED LOUNGES
$2.90) worth $6.50. $ U.yo , worth $12.50
PICTURES And the Official Test. SINGLE LOUNGES
$1.45 . . $3.90 , worth $ . .
, worth $3.50. P. & I , . KA1IN & BROS. ! $7.50.
GENTX.KMKN : This li to certify that 1 have imtlo n
aorta * of tests with your "EitiUo Oiik HoatttiR Stovos. In do-
FOLDING BEDS toimlne , riltST , how lonff the < ttovo would hold Ilro ; SECOND , ST EL TCANGE9
how the several parts of thu stovu would act U ulor : i high red
$14.50 , worth $25.00 boat.I . flroil the stoves roneatodly until they wore rod lint rill 4.OU. worth $45.00
over , 1 hented thorn to thp highest pnsslblo loiniioriituta nna
cooled them oft as rapidly HI insilblo. Under thoio most
TABLES severe tests the oxpnnslon and contraction did not affect tha CENTER TABLES
EXTENSION
plu 1 os In the least particular.
Tim stoves stood on Iho third floor of our flvo-story Ware
house , with about fifty foot of duo length , IncI wlliiRstovoplpn , 7OC
$5.65 , worth $12.50 elvlnp excellent drauaht. , worth $2.50.
I churned otio of tliorn with ono anil onn-hnlf small buck-
otfulsof coal slack on Tito day evening , Juno 30th , 1801 , at
SIDEBOARDS 6 o'clock. When the lire was inaxlim Intga sheet * of llsimo PARLOR SUM'S
the screw lealstors In the ash-pit wore closeil , the uoltor-holo
rrplstor In the food-door was closed , and the cheCK rotflstur
$1185. . worth $20.00 uf In the the plpo tost. collar was opened uiul nil remained BO to tliuuiid $17.50 , worth $40. CO
Until the followlnc Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clocW the
body of Ilio slovo continued to bo so warm that a. hand coitld CHAMBER SUITS
LAMPS not comfort ably be laid upon It. Aftortli it time It begun to
cool oil. The live coals from the orlgln.il courses of slack
95C abovu referred to were visible until 10 o'clock and 15 min 11./0
, worth $2 50 utes of the evening of that day. . / , worth $20.00
It will therefore bo soon that thla steve nc'ually he'd flto
continuously for Bfty-throo hours iincl fifteen minutes. Tlili
INGRAIN CARPETS is an oxlraorcllnary record , and one of which you can well bo ROCKERS
proud. Itcspectfullv submitted , .
CONRAD UtfUNE. Sup't.
24C , worth 500. OG , worth $2,00.
The 1804 Improvements on KRt.ito CUlis Inorcaso nrokocplnp
and economy of fuel 26 per cunt , above the reatiltft Indicated.
HEATING STOVES WINDOW SHADES
S0LE 0QSNTS FCH
$4.90 , worth 58.50 E3JS233S8 luC , worth 500.
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BRUSSELS CARPETS PILLOWS OIL HEATERS BASE BURNERS BLANKETS MATTRESSES *
47c , worth 90o. 3Bc , worth 75o. $4,85 worth $8.50. $11.95 worth $2100. 98c , worth $2 25 .65 , worth $3.50.
EASY TERMS ,
J10.00worth of goods , EASY TERSIS.
? 1.00 week , $4.00 $ per month. J10.00 worth of goods ,
$25.00 worth of goods , $1.00 week or $1.00 per mouth.
51.DO ivcelc , or JG.OO per month $25.00 worth of goods
{ 50.00 worth of Roods $1.CO week or $6.00 per month.
$2.00 week , or $3.00 per month $30,00 worth of goods
$75.00 worth of goods $2.00 week or , . $ S.OO per month.
J2.BO week or $10.00 per month J75.00 worth of goods
$100 worth of goods , $2.50 week or $10,00 per month.
$3.00 week or$12.00 per month FORMERLY PEOPLE'S MAMMOTH IJSTSTALLMESS'T HOUSE. iflOO worth of goods
$200 worth of goods , . $3.00 week or $12.00 per month , .
J4.00 week or $15.00 per month Send 10 cents to cover postage on Dig ' 94 catalogue Write for Baby Carriage and Stove Catalogues , mailed free. Open Monday and Saturday Evenings. $200 worth $4,00 of week goods or $ lfi.OO per month.
NO EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
The Government ffoa Suppressed Pico
Libraries , Schools an 1 Heading Oirolos.
DARK SUPERSTITION AND IGNORANCE
Ocorco Kc-nmtii Ucscrlbca tlio Illiteracy of
the lCiulr ) Jlclilml ,111 Other Nations
MotiiiuU at the 1'lfloonth Century
An Army of Kvliloiice.
Among the causes that may be assigned
/or the unsatisfactory economic condition
$ t the Russian peasant farmer the first
blace must be given , I think , to over regu
lation , restraint and Interference on the
pare of the government. Next to that In
folnt of Importance I should place the lack
f > f popular education. The Russian peasant
farmers , as a class , are the most Illiterate
people in Europe. The reports ot the Rus-
ilan ministry ot war show that In the ten
icar period from 1874 to 1884 , 77 per cent of
the young men drafted Into the army at the
ago of 20 wefa unable either to
tcad or write. In tha province
Of Kharkof the proportion of II-
Itcrato recruits reached 85 per cent. In
Ih the province of Kiev SC per cent , and In the
, province of Kazan 87 per cent. But these
- figures do not give an adequate idea ot the
Illiteracy of the population ns a whole , for
( ho reason that they do not Include women ,
They relate only to the flower of young
Russian manhood , and therefore show the
literary status of the class whoso educa
tional facilities have been best. The grc.it
muss of the population stands on a much lower
level. From statistics compiled by the
zemstvos , or provincial assemblies of twenty
provinces In European Russia , between 1880
flnd 18SO , It appears that 91 per cent of teh
jvholo population were Illiterate , and that the
proportion of Illiterate women reached 93
tier cent. In other words there were only
finely men In a thousand , and only twenty
women la a thousand who could either reader
orwrite. . In eight provinces out of the
twenly the Illiterate men numbered 950 per
thousand , and In twelve provinces the num-
icr of Illiterate women exceeded 950 per
housand , In one-fifth of the villages In
ho province of Tnmbof there was not a
Inclo peasant who could read or write , of
tlthe'r cx , and In the district of Dmltrof ,
Srovlnco of Orel , there were- only twenty-
Jiroe women WJIO s'oulcl read and wrlto In a
> 6pulaHoh of &oa20. , ' " k ,4t
STATISTICS IN THE CASD.
It Russia bo compared with other
European countries upon the basis ot llllj-
( racy , as shown In the returns i ol the r-
trultlng officers , It will be seen that , In point
of education , she occupies the very last
place In the list. The figures , as given by
Frof. Ynnzhul , are as follows :
Illiterate recruits
ountrien. r r cfnt.
iaxony . j . , . az
fonvny , . , , . , . . . 03
lAVarla . . . . . . O.i
wedcn . . , . , 0.4
Wissln. . . . . . . , , . . , , . . , 0(1 (
Inland . , . , , . . . I. &
rf . . , . , . . , , 9.5
LU > trl& . . . . . . . , . , - . , . . ! . . . > . . . 23.fi
Unly . 1 . 41.
lu M .r.- . , . T8.3
11 wo lake for International comparison the
number of children attending school in pro
portion. to population , Russia makes an even
Vario uhowtng than In thq reports of the rt-
orultlnd officers. The proportion of scholars
to population In the United State * la 22.C per
cent. In western Europe U ranges from ,
T.I per cent for Italy to 21.2 per cent for
Bavaria. In Japan It Is 7.6 per otnt , and 3
even In. Bulgaria , where the people have
Seen subject for centuries to the domlna <
Uon o ( ih Turli. It li 6.C per cent. It :
Husils. It barely reaches S.I per cent.
The Illiteracy ot the Russian pcarants li
Dot attributable to any lack or Incllnutloi
or disposition on their part to learn. Oi
the contrary they avail themselves with thi
eagerness of all th educational facll
Ites that arc afforded them , and the Russian
newspapers are constantly filled with com
plaints of inadequate accommodation in the
existing schools for all the children that prs-
sent themselves. The Zhitomir correspondent
of the Kiev newspaper , the Word , for ex
ample , reports that th-e schools ot that town
are not large enough to hold one quarter of
the children that would llko to enter them.
In 1890 , 2,600 children were turned away
from ths doqrs of the Moscow schools , and
more than 1,000 from the Odessa schtols ,
because there was no room for them.
In Kazan , at the beginning-of the present edu
cational year , there were G.S47 applications for
admission to the public shchools , of which
1,390 were denied for want of room. In St.
Petersburg there were 2,180 applications
for 360 vacant places In the higher schools ,
while In Cronstadt there were school ac
commodations for only 700 out of the more
than G,00 children of school age. If this
state of things prevails in the cities of the
empire , what can be expected In the coun
try ? In the province of Kostroma there Is
only one school to every 120 square miles of
area. In the province of Kursk there are
1,140 schools for 8,797 peasant villages , or
ono school , on an overage , for every eight
settlements , whllo In the province of Vlatka
there Is only ono school for every thirty-
eight settlements. It Is estimated by the
best authorities that , taking the Russian
empire ns a whole , educational facilities' are
accessible to only one-fortieth part of the
children ot school age.
WIIKRE THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS.
The responsibility for this state of things
rests mainly upon the central government.
The well known Russian reactionist. Prince
Meshcherski said recently In the Orazhda-
nln : "It Is Incomparably more Important
that the peasants should be subject to the
Arm and prudent guardianship of the
authorities than that they should be educa
ted ; " and this is the- view that seems to be
taken by the government. No serious at
tempt Is being made , and no serious attempt
ever has been made by the czar or min
istry of public Instruction to provide the
great mass of the Russian people with
educational facilities , even In their most
elementary form. The best measure of a
government's desire to do a certain thing
Is the- amount of money that It Is willing to
spend In doing It. and Judged by this stand
ard , the desire of the Russian government
to educate Us people Is so weak as to be
hardly worth taking Into account. In 1884
the central government drew from Us people
in the form of direct and Indirect taxes
about (403,000,000 ( , It returned to them In
the shape of facilities for elementary In
struction a little less than (2,000,000 (3,902- (
575 rubles ) , or one two-hundredths part of
the annual budget. If this sum Und beep
distributed among the people upon a , per
capita basis | t would Ijftve given to cjch
peVefin fof educational purposes tbYee ar $
ssven-lenthB kopeks , 6r about one and four-
fiftfj cepts. In 1591 , ten years later , tie
central fcovernmeiU had Increased its e -
pelldlUiirj ? for primary1s'chools to J2SC6OflO , ,
(4,73.000 ( rubles ) , but Inasmuch as the
population had Increased In the meantime
by 111,000,000 , this larger sum , If distribute.
among the people , would have given to
each person , for educational purposes , an
oven smaller allowance than that provided
fof In the budgel ot 1884 ,
In 1J84 the total expenditures of the cen
tral government fqr ell objects amounted
tO 13.37 per capita of the population , ot
which onf-halt of 1 per cent went for the
support ot primary schools. In 1891 the
total expenditures were J4.B7 per capita , ot
which only forty-four-hundrcdths of 1
per cent were devoted to primary schools.
to other words the central government de
voted to elementary Instruction In 1SS4 60
cents out of every $100 expended , wlille It
was willing to assign for that purpose In
1S94 only \ \ cents out ot every JlOO ex
pended ,
STRIKING EXAMPLES.
In May , 18S § , a well known official named
C , In the Russian town P ( the press
censor would not allow the newspaper from
which 1 quote this case to give full names
either of persons or places ) , resolved to open ,
at hl own expense , a free primary school
for poor * children. He provided or collected
the necctsary funds , engaged a competent
man with a teacher's certificate to take
s charge of the school , and then wrote to the
n district director of publlo Instruction for per
il mission. Month after month passed without
e a reply , and in Auguit the petition for leave
I- to op a the school was renewed , A letter
from the director was then received asking
what would be the grade of the proposed
school , what would be taught In It , how
many teachers would be employed , and how
many children would attend. Replies to all
these questions were promptly forwarded ,
and , In September , after some further cor
respondence , the district director wrote to
the patron of the proposed school that per
mission ton lt establishment would be
granted If the local authorities of the town
had no objection. Upon this the school was
opened , but on the 2Sth of September
another communication was received from
the director saying that on account of the
opposition of the local authorities the school
must be closed. On the 8th of October the
local authorities notified Mr. C - , and
wrote the director that they had no ob-
'ectlon whatever to the school , but It was
) f no avail. On the 2Gth of October , six
months after the beginning of thu negoti
ations , a peremptory order was received
from the director to close the school. The
school was closed , and the public spirited
official , Mr. C - , who had planned and
organized It , was warned by his own superior
'hat the establishment of free public schools
was not ono.of his duties and was not , more
over , "consistent with the dignity of a
chlnovnllc. "
From files of Russian newspapers for the
past ten years- cases of this kind or cases
differing from this only In unimportant de
tails might be quoted by the hundred , but
I have space , of course , only for a few
typical Illustrations.
In the winter of 18SG the town council of
Yenneselk proposed to have , for the bene
fit of the common people , n course of free
popular lectures , or readings , and the well
known Siberian millionaire Siblrlkof. who
has done so much to promote enlighten
ment In Russia , bought and gave to the
council an expensive stercoptlcon and 200
slides , in order that the proposed readings
might be Illustrated. Tlje project , however ,
waa disapproved by the government , permis
sion to glvo the readings was denied , and
the atereoptlcon and slides were stored away
somewhere as useless.
In 1882 a number of prominent gentlemen
In the city of Kiev , Including the former as
sistant curator of the educational district
and one of the professors In the local uni
versity , asked permission to establish In
Kiev , without expense to the government , a
number of popular schools to bear the name
of the famous little Russian poet
Sliovcheako. Permission was denied. About
the earhe tlmo an Inspector of public schools
In the Kiev district forwarded to the mln
Istry of public Instruction a petition from
the peasants of Klrllofka the homq of
Shevchenko during a largo part of hla life
tkjng permission to open a VUffe ( school
n Oft dead foet'e honor , and (6 give U his
Permission wae denied , and the
pect < 5r who forwarded the petition wis at
on o removed frofli his place.
In August , 1893 , a little group of Intelll-
Befit people In' the town , of Orel pimped an
oVorjne's entertainment In the form of pub-
U ? loading's from the works of the dl -
ynculihed novelist Ivan iTurgcnlef. They
proposed tacall this entertainment a
"TurgerilX Evening. " to make a suitable
Oharije for admission , and to devote { he tfro-
ce'edf to the establishment of a frae public
leading room which should bear Turgenlef's
name. The project met with difficulties from
the very first. The curator of the educa
tional district , to whom the program of the
entertainment was eubmltted , disapproved of
the selections made from Turgenlcf's works.
and would not allow them to bo read , and
the minister of public Instruction forbade
the use of Turgenlef's name , and refused
to authorize ' the proposed readings.
'HATE FO'R LITERATURE AND AUTHORS.
The hatred of the Russian government for
literature and authors , as shown In Iti pro
hibition of a "Shevchenko Bchool , " and Its
refusal to permit a "Turgenlef Evening" era
a "TurEenlef Reading Room. " fa a hatred
of long standing , and U furnishes a curious
and significant proof of the fact ( hat , In
the official mind , anything like enlighten
ment or free thought la a menace to the
security of the state. On the 28th of May ,
18SO the elghty-Hrat anniversary of the
birth of the great Russian post. Pushkin
the town council of Saratof asked the minis
ter of public Instruction for permission to
call one of Iho Saratof schools the "Pushkin
school" and to put up a Imst of the eminent
author In the principal school room. Per
mission , of course , was refused. In 1887 the
council made another similar request , ub-
stltutlng the name of Turgenlef for that of
Pushkin , but with no better succass. Finally ,
In 1B9I , on the fiftieth anniversary ot the
distinguished Russian poet Lermontof , ths
council made a last attempt to honor litera
ture and dignify popular Instruction by
asking permission to found a school which
should be known as the "Lermontof school" ;
but a third time it met with a rebuff.
After citing from an official report of the
Saratof town council the facts above set
forth the St. Petersburg Journal Russkaya
Zhlzn remarks significantly that no official
objection was made when a certain street
n Rostof-on-the-Don , which Is filled with
louses of Ill-fame , was called "Turgenlef
trcet , " and no official encouragement has
, ver been given to the efforts that have been
made to get the name changed.
In the cases above set forth the objection
of the go\eminent to the opening of the
schools and the reading room was based
primarily , perhaps , on the names that the
"ounders proposed to give them , but efforts
o establish schools without attaching ob-
ectlonable names to them had been no more
successful. In December , 1893 , a number of
public spirited citizens In the Russian
provincial town of Chernlgof undertook to
establish In that place a secular Sunday
chool for poor working girls. The necessary
neonsere obtained , competent teachers
of unquestioned "political trustworthiness"
were engaged , and application was made to
the ministry of public instruction for per-
nlsslon to open the-school. No attention
was paid to the petition. In 1893 , and the
earlier part of 1891 , repeated attempts were
made to open a secular Sunday school In the
town of Orel , but with even les ? success ,
nasmuch as the persons successively In
terested In the matter fell under suspicion
or "political untrustworthlness" as soon as
'hoy showed a disposition to promote the pub
ic welfare at their own expense , and were
frightened , one after another , Into an aban
donment of their projecj.
In November , 1893. ' Mr. M , D. D ,
a prominent citizen of Izhevsk ,
province of Vlatka , petitioned the
government for leave to open In that place
a free public library , for which the necessary
means had already been contributed. In
February , 1894 , his petition was formally
denied upon tlio ground that Izhevsk was a
vlllagc. ! and there was no provision of law
to authorize the. establishment of public
libraries except In towns. The reason as
signed by the government for Its action
was obviously a mere pretext. Inasmuch ns
Izhevsk , although nominally a village , had
a population of 40,000 , and was Just as mucji
In need of a library as If It had been
officially called n city.
RUSSIA AT THE ROOT OP THC LIST.
} t wo compare the ppr capita allowance for
hjmentary Instruction In Russia with the
ler capita allowance for the same object In
jther countries , we. shall find that Russia not
inly stands at the. foot ot the Hat , but that
she Is disgracefully behind even such coun
tries as Spain , Italy and Japan , See , for ex
ample , the following table which I have taken
from an excellent' scries of articles entitled
"A Tateful Question , " recently published In
the St. Petersburg , newspaper. Russkaya
Zhlzn :
Annual
expenditure
ptr capita for
clemtntary
Countries. Instruction ,
United States. fl.CS
England. Scotland , PrUBsIn , Saxony
and Bn'ltierland. . . 98 to 171
Ireland , ISavarla and tlio Netherlamli .75 to .V )
Hungary , Sweden , Norway and France .32 to ,65
Italy .K
, ,21
uis'n. ' ( from the central government ) ,018
Hussia ( from all nourffs Including the
central eov < rti ; ] > gtl. . , ' .VJiT. . . rf. ,09 !
A government which has an annual revenue
of more than IfOO.OOO.OQO and which ap
propriates annual- ) } th.e elementary Jji-
slfflctlon.of . Us people lesq hin 2 cents per
capita certainly cannot regard pftpylar edu
cations as a matter of tfluch Importance
Uut the attitude of the Russian goVcrn-
incrit toward education In general , and edu
cation of the masses In particular , seems tn
be an attitude not so much of Indifference
as of suspicion , apprehension and hostility
It appears to be afraid that If It promotes
elementary Instruction among the peasants
and creatro & large reading and thinking
elms It will increase the feeling of popula
discontent , add greatly to the difficulty o
maintaining an effective censorship , rendc
the people more Impatient of the "wls > and
prudent guardlanihlp" which ! "mo necec
lary" for them and open a far -wider and
more dangerous field of actlv ty to the ievolu
tionists and liberals who tire striving to
overcome ths paralyzing Influence ot bureau
cratic authority , and encourage the peasants
to make a determined stand for their In
dividual and Eoclal rights , If not for their
political freedom. Only upon this ( supposi
tion Is it possible to explain the unusual
and extraordinary restrictions which It
throws about private enterprise In the field
ot popular education , and the apparent re
luctance with which It permits the estab
lishment of primary schools and village
libraries by the representatives of the people
In tlio cantonal tnd provincial assemblies.
POPULAR EDUCATION DISCOURAGED.
One would suppose that If a government
recognized the Importance of popular educa
tion , but felt financially unable Itself to do
all that should be done for Its promotion , It
would gladly uclcome and encourage
the establishment .if schools , the
foundling of village libraries and
the Giving of popular lectures or readings
by private Individuals at their own expense ,
but such is not at all the cste In Russia.
The central government. Instead of .Inviting
and encouraging the co-oparatlon ot private
ndlvlduals and local societies In the work
of popular enlightenment , virtually repulses
ind discourages all such offers of assistance
and surrounds the opening of o school or the
establishment of a village library with such
a network of bureaucratic red tape In the form
of official restrictions and conditions that
private individuals and local societies often
abandon their educational projects In despair.
As one well known and public spirited Rus
sian recently said aft r having hsd such an ex
perience , "It Is easier to get permission to
open twenty rum shops than one school. "
A MAN OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Whatever view may be taken ot the cases
above set forth , It cannot , I think , bo con
tended that they Indicate a very ardent de-
slro on the part of the Russian government
that its people should be educated , either
at Its. own expense or the expense of others.
Meanwhile the Russian peasant Is. In most
respects , a man of the fifteenth century.
Ho Is a believer In sorcery and witchcraft ;
ho murders In cold blood wretched old
women whom he regards as embodiments
of cholera and plague ; he stones or kills
physicians who try to save him the fatal
consequences of his own sanitary neglect ;
ho buys pieces of the Savior's cradle and
bottled Egyptian darkness from wan
dering pilgrim peddlers who pretend
to have traveled In the Holy land ,
and he has no more conception
of the achievements of modern science , even
In the field of material progress , than If ho
wore an Inhabitant of Matabeleland or the
Soudan. He Is not stupid he Is not a
morn senseless clod. He is , on the con
trary , a man of warm feelings , vivid Imag
ination and great Innate Intellectual ca
pacity ; but so far as education and knowl
edge of the world are cdbcerncd , It may be
doubted whether he is any more advanced
than his ancestors were in the "good old
days" of Ivan the Terrible. It Is unreason
able to suppose that. In the storm and stress
of the fierce struggle for existence which Is
now going on throughout the world ,
such a man can possibly hold his own
against the sharp. Intelligent competition ot
the trained , enlightened , energetic and self-
reliant worker of western Europe or the
United States. If hU economic condition Is
"unsatisfactory" to his official "guardians , "
It Is simply because he Is Ignorant and op
pressed. Ho Is like o handicapped runner
In a free-for-all race who starts behind the
last of his competitors , and who must run
as best he can with a yoke around his neck
and a bandage over his eyes.
9EORGE KENNAN.
Galdeck , Nova Scot la.
*
A waiter In a Chicago restaurant has btqn
arrested for abductlnff an heiress. He re
grets now that he < left his tray to go to the
deu e.
News of th11 engagement of Mme. Lillian
Nordlca to Zollan Dome , the young German
teror , who Bang with her In Uayreutli , ls
announced from London. Very little is
known of Dome in this country.
Lady Margaret Grosvenor , who ha become
engaged to the young prince ct Teck
( brother ot the duchess of York ) , U a daugh
ter of ( be duke of Westminster , wligsc Income -
como Is said to exccid $3,000 a day.
Paisley So Jones Is engaged to the Inlr-
et ! Well , I never thought he cared so much
for dollars AQd ccntu ! Balslcy You don't
crow Jones. It's n wonder ho didn't aslc
ler for a couple of hundred on account.
Henry Slry , 17 years old , and Kate Kalleo ,
14 years old , were married by a Justice In
Eli abethport , N. J. , on Tuesday , with ( lie
blessing ot their respective parents , respect
able and thriving residents ot Elizabeth ,
N. J.
J.Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bell of Now York
celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday.
Mr. Hell In 78 years old and a citizen it
great prominence and popularity. His son ,
the late Isaac Hell , Jr. , will bo remembered
as formerly United States minister to Hol-
and.
and.A
A young lady from Buffalo , N. Y. , who was
attending a funeral In Shaion , Pa. , a few
days ago , rode In the same carriage with an
editor of the latter city and accepted his
proposal of marriage , -Ahlch was performed
when they rode back from the funeral. It
tak.-s an expert to blue-pencil n courtship.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle are going to
have a wedding in their house this fall.
Miss Mattle Thompson , daughter of Colonel
Phil Thompson of Kentucky , Is the handsome
bride-elect , and Mr. William Davis , born In
Washington and now of Now York and St.
Louis , Is the happy innn. Miss Thompson
Is a great favorite In the Carlisle homo circle
and has been frequently Its guest.
How many weeks off Is the marriage of
Associate Justice White ot the supreme
court Is the problem which his Washington
friends not let Into the secret are Just now
discussing. Mrs. Linden Kent , the bride-
to-be , and Miss Susie White , his sister , have
been spending the summer quietly at ono of
the Virginia springs , from which resort Jus
tice White returned to town the other day
for the ostensible purpose of selecting his
future homeIn this city.
Th ? last titled European to whom the
name of MEH | Gould has been linked by the
gossips ns being a desirable parti Is the
yttng Count < Ie Talleyrand Perlgord. George
and Howard Gould have denied , however ,
this "news" by cable , ami well they might ,
for this particular scion of a truffled house Is
sotr.ewlmt weak-minded and not at nil .111
eligible mutch for any one. The Talleyrand-
Perigords have been In n lot of nasty finan
cial scandals recently and n French filrl
would pause before she would make tilth a
match.
A Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer revives the story that Mlns
Catherine IJrcxel , a daughter of the Phila
delphia branch of the wealthy Drcxel
family , Is about to retlrU from the Catholic
sisterhood which she founded , Coupled with
the story Is a rumor that she will wed the
hutband of the deceased Sister Elizabeth.
A similar story was current a short tlmo
ago and was pronounced without a shadow
of truth by the Philadelphia Ledger , which
Is good authority on Drexel family matters.
Prince IspnberK-Dcrnsteln , that second
cousin of The Austrian emperor , Francis
Joseph , who flourished for some weeks In
Chicago , and afterwards made a long stay
In New York , tad to go home without ac
complishing the objects of his visit the
capture of an American heiress. He wan
sent over here by a Vienna matrimonial
bureau , which expended ; 200,000 on him ,
with the expectation of large returns wlcn
the marrlago came off. His name was
coupled with that of a daughter of George
M. Pullman ,
The Sketch gives a picture of a curious
wedding ceremony which has been celebrated
at Christ church , under the auspices of the
New Zealand Dress Reform association. The
bride. Miss Kate Walker , and the bridegroom ,
Mr. J. R. Wilkinson , had already Joined
hands by publishing n pamphlet on "Dress
Reform and What It Implies. " The enter
prising bride , like ( jtrephon in "Patience. "
was divided Into two parts , aa It were , the
upper Dart of her dress consisting of the
conventional bride's veil , and the lower sink
ing Into a modified pair of breeches. Her
costume was of stone-muo bengallne , with
ve > t and revors of white illk , embroidered
with gold , She worea beautiful wreath of
Jasmine Instead of ths time-honored orange
blossom , and , although glove * were discarded ,
a veil was worn not. however , over the face ,
L..C thrown tack , and falling in long , graceful
folds over the shoulders. The bridesmaid
wor a suit of cream silk , with a lace collar.
The lady In whose house the wedding took
place wore a brown cashmere suit , trimmed
with handsome braid. The nulls were nearly
all of the same design , neatly-fitting knlck *
er long coat , with rtvcru , and a long vest ,
the root being edged with cord to match the
material. Most of the gentlemen were In
knlckcr costume.
A
VllATTlM Ol' 'fill !
Lottie I wouldn't bo a brunette llko you !
Dottle ( who has an elder sUtor ) Pooh ! I
wouldn't bo a. blonde llko you , 'cause you
couldn't be a brunette , but I can bo a blonds
any tlmo I want tel , ,
Mamma What did you say totfrs. . Drown
when she helped you to a second piece of plel
Willie Why , that she didn't cut her plo In
half as big pieces as grandma.
Mamma What was the sermon about this
morning , Wllll ? Willie Well. I guess It
was tellln' about cash boys. Mamma What
did the minister say about them ? Willie
Nothln' , hut his text was : "All the dav-
of my appointed tme | will I wait , till my
change come . "
Uncle George Are you learning much at 'M
nchool ? Little Nephew- Yes , Indecdy. I'm
learnln' to Bit still , an' not talk , an' not
make any noise , an * fill up an * sit down , an'
march , on' lots of tilings.
"Papa. " caid Jnck. us he gazed at his 10
cents one week's nllowancc "do you know
what I would do If I was an awful rich
king ? " "No , Jack. What ? " "I'd Increase /I
my allowance to a quarter a wek. "
Fond P.uentGoodncsB , how you look ,
child. You arc soaked. Frnnkle Please.
prf , I M\ \ Into the canal. "WhdtT * wth |
your new trousers on ? " "I didn't have
time , pa , to take Vm off. " , t
Fond Mother Yes , sir ; I have n llttl
fellow who Is only 10 , and yet he writes
beautiful poetry- Old Editor Well , there's
some hope for them when you catch 'em
young , you can whip It out of 'em easier
then. Proud Father ( to friend ) This Is my
youngest boy. Frank , this Is Mr , Jackaom
Frank ( brlfihlly ) la that the man who
mamma said yesterday had more money than
brains ?
Uncle Joo- Well , ' Rob , what have you
learned at school today ; anything newf
RoU Yep ; how to fix crooked pins in a
cl'Olr so they'll stay.
Sunday School Teacher You wont to go to
heaven , don't you , Flossie ? Little Girl
( from the tenth floor flat ot the Upporton
apartment house ) Are there are there anjr
Janitors there ?
Mother Why do you pack up your toys
so carefully , Ethel ? Ethel To keep them
for my children , mamma. Mother And
sui'poso ' you never hav * children ? Ethel-
Then they'll do for my grandchildren ,
Enoch Pratt , a venerable dissipation.'M
morc , signalizes his SQth year by spending
$1,300,000 on n public library for the city ,
Mrs , Stanford has paid oft the last of the
debts of thb Stanford estate , As teen Aft
distribution of the estate la ordered ( ho will
begin operations In a nw field. Then , under
her personal supervision , the erection ot
nearly $500,000 worth of new buildings arid
the early extension of the university to thr
times Its present magnitude will be begun.
The gift of Dr. Simeon I ) . B U of Kansas
City , Kan , , of land In the Kansas metropolis
valued at 5100,000 to the State university
ot Lawrence , enables that worthy institution
to at once found a medical school and enter
moro fully Into university work ,
Henry Wade Rogers , who hqg hi en presi
dent of the Northwestern university at
Evanston , III. , was dean of the Michigan
university law school for eight years , and
studied his profession In the office of Judge
Thomas M , Cooley.
Mlsn Lllllo J. Martin , -vice-principal of a
girls' high school In San Francisco , hat
resigned her place to enter Gcntlngon imlvep.
stty aa a student. Only three or four women.
have heretofore been Admitted to Mils German
university's privileges. Miss Martin Is a
graduate of Vossar collets , and relinquishes
a salary of f.2,000 a ytar to continue her
studies In Germany which will be In the lln
of experimental psychology ,
Dr , Oeorgo W. Pltr , who has been chosen to
fill the new post of medical Inspector la
Harvard university , IB a young man , a gradu *
nto of the Harvard Mtdlcal school , and In-
etructnr In physiology and hygl no In In *
Lawrence Scientific school , It will be hit
duty to Inquire Into every case of lllnets
among the atudenU , and to sea that all such
cases hav proper medical attelitlu.i II *
will look after the sanitary condition if th
university buildings ; and U will be h'fc duty
to glvo a friendly warning to young me *
who may Indulge In vice or dissipation.