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THE OMATTA SUNDAY BKR AFlUL 19, 1009. World Congress of ETV YORK. April l.-On June 15, next, when nonrly 1.000 dele gate will be gather'tig In Chi cago to ehoo a candidate fir provident of the United States, a very different body will as N semble on the other aide of the ocean a congress of women delegates from ' fhe ' whole world who will meet to demand the right to rhoom those who ahull con duct their government. At this emven tlon of the International Woman Suffrage alliance In Amsterdam will he the repre sentatives of national narcrlntlnns In more than twenty countries comprising- prac tically all that hare reaehed any consld crable degree of civilization. Fourteen of these are thoroughly or ganized and doing effective work those in the United States, Canada. Great Brlta'n, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark. Ice land, Norway. Sweden, Fln'and. Russia, Italy, Hungary and Australia! The so cieties In France, Switzerland, Belgium and South Africa ore of more recent origin, but are vigorous and enthusiastic. There will be delegates present also from Bulgaria, Rumania and Bohemia, where the women are pressing their claims along with the men for universal suffrage. New Zealand, whose women have the complete franchise on the same terms as men, will sehd representatives. The women of Australia, who also are fully enfran chised, have transformed their suffrage society Into the Women Political asso ciation. In which some of the former lead ing antt-surfraglsts are now bright and shining lights. They have, however, been affiliated with .the International AIllRnce from the beginning, always send delegates to the conventions and In every practi cable way help the women of other coun tries to get the suffrage. The situation Is the same In Finland, where the women now vote on exactly the same terms as men. While the International Alliance was holding Its convention In Copenhagen two years ago the prime minister of Nor way telegraphed the Norwegian dclcgstes that the woman suffrage bill was about to be made a government measure. This year these delegates will come In all the flush of victory, enfranchised citizens. They will not, however, be quite on the high political level of ttipse from New Zealand, Australia and Finland, for their new privilege carries with It a small property qualification. This Is so slight. Indeed, that even domestic servants can meet it, but their National Suffrage as sociation maintains unbroken ranks whi'.e this exists and sounds the slogan, "No taxes on women that are not Imposed on men." As the women can now vote for the members of Parliament,, it Is safe to say that those officials will abolish the tax qualification or step down from their high places. It will be a bitter dose for the Swedish delegates to hear the Norwegian women voters tell about their victory, for the enmity between the women of those two countries Is deeper even than between the men. The women of Sweden say that at the ' next convention they, too, will coma as enfranchised citizen and that their triumph has been delayed only be cause the last Parliament made so large an extension of the franchise to men. The Amsterdam meeting will lack the plcturesqueness that doubtless would be Imparted by the British suffragettes. They are not eligible as delegates, alas! be cause they are not "regular." They them selves will admit the cnarge regularity Is the last virtue they would claim. It la not their Irregular methods that bar them out, but the fact that only na tional associations can arfiliate with the International body, and these militant re cruits have declined to unite with the Growing: Cotton From American Seed Along Source of the (Copyright. 1908, by Frank O.' Carpenter.) cotton hr, grown from our eed. Is u- In rupees, or in string of cowry shells, by distributing seeds. It ha also put in the coast in the vicinity of Zanzibar, and ba mad Into silk a fin a any punt ami-aua, uganaa.-tBpecuu uor- . A I respondent. of The Bee.)-A na- M tlon ' four million blacks who ... -- coiton- A territory which bas om . l !,0vWn t0,th6 Wrld Ml. ,tHr? , abam"la '1Z?a Carolina and Georgia T , . . , , who.! ZIZ b.-. L , T u who IT. La J 11mUll0n- V! b Ttw T..L c"on than any This. 1 .k Wn'. t. w noTfo , r?!' . Ton Lnd or .h. . V iCHa na i.e fh.n 1 a . , 1W .Jr LT1 ,UL ltoem.7n brtn mlhty storms into our financial sky. CotlosTt- t-.h. . . , -. 1. 1! T",rinMM Br t" Z. Tt mK 'm T I Ing In thl. part of th. world. Th. flrst seed was sent out by th British Cotton Growing association, and It was dlstrib- uted to th. native chiefs throughout the country. That waa ln WW, and ther ar now thousands of little plantation. all over Uganda. In most place, th field ara less than an acr in size; and in many they consist of only little patche connected with th banana growing about th houses. Nevertheless th cotton Is v rywher. and every wher it grow welL Thai Im so with almost no cultivation, I hav. walked through field, wher. tba plant were higher than my head and hav pulled th lint from fat boll urrounded V. . . M . , 1 amount or eea first used wa about 1.000 pounds. Th. product last year from this' waa almost z.ooo.ooo pounds; and the output of the current I . , P " " l "e'a COt ton. This all come, from cultivated patch, ht out by the natives and worked by them almost without Instruc- tlon form those who ar. engineering the cotton movement her. I have sen hun- dreds of bag. brought huo Kampal on tho heads of the natives who walk many mile, to take their lint to th market. Th. amount coming ln now la something like two tons per day, and ther ar iu winmuuMi nure wnicn ar pck.ta full of coton ready for ginning. Coitoa aa Lake Victoria. Th cotton movement Is being engineer- d by th. Uganda Company. Limited. This Is an association of Kogllsh capital- int. who hav been more or less Interested in the Christian mission work going on In Uganda, They represent a great deal of money, and have active and up-to-date men In their employ out here. They hav a British manager and assistants and are putting up a big ginning plant, with the best of modern ginning - machinery, Twenty-tour gin ar already running, and ths ar operated by two steam 'en- glnes, on of which is a . hundred horse- power. Th gin ai made by Piatt Brother c Co.. of tngiand, and were Installed by Mr. J. Buckley, a mpresontailv of that company, who baa been ovr our cotton tat, and claims to know all ' about Americaa cotton. Ii tells tn that th staid, respectable, v mlddle-sged National society of Great Britain: but perr.an they will send a delegate If some of their mom tiers should he enjoying a midsummer va cation from Jail. She would meot a hearty welcome from tne regulars of many countries who feet like doing what the British suffragettes actually have done. Some measure of progress toward woman suffrage will be reported by the delegates of every nation except the United States. Here alone the movement does not appar ently move, but those who have made a study of It for many years and best under stand the situation believe that an under current Is now developing which In the not distant future will sweep over the country like a tidal wave. Still one cannot make a report on an undercurrent which will very deeply Im Picfs an International convention or re flect great glory on ie's native land, and the delcgatrs from this country would tako a back seit and keep still If thoy were per mitted to do so. Far from this, however, they are always willingly and gladly put In the leadership at these international meet ings. Women of Just as much natural alrtl Ity are present from other countries, but few or none with so' wide experience In or ganization and public work. The Ameri cans also have the advantage of belr.g per fectly neutral on the many points of dif ference that exist among foreign countries and therefore enjoy the confidence and friendship .of all. Thla International Suffrage alliance, like the International Council of Women, had Its beginning in the United States. It was the dream of Mrs. Stanton and Miss An. thony, when .thrre were but two woman suffrage associations In all the world, those of their own country and Great Brit ain. ' In lfi:, soon after Mia. Chapman Catt succeeded Miss Anthony as president of the national association, a meeting war called In Washington and attended by dole gates rrom six countries. An International suffrago committee was formed, with Misr Anthony as chairman and Mrs. Chapman Catt as secretary. ' When the women of all nations were gathered at Berlin in 1904' for the Inter national council the suffrage alliance wav organized by delegates from national so cieties in eight countries. Thus, at the age of 84, Miss Anthoiy saw her dream real ized and was unanimously and enthusi astically made honorary president of the new association. The first biennial convention was held In Copenhagen in 1908 with national associa tions of thirteen countries represented by delegates; at the Amsterdam meeting it la expected that twenty-two will have official representatives. Thus In six years Is seen an Increase of national organizations from Six to twenty-two, almost fourfold. In disputable proof of what Is rapidly becom ing a world movement for woman suffrage. There Is scarcely a country having a repre sentative form of government where womep are not demcndlng a voice In It. . The place of holding the conventions Is determined by conditions. The alliance was Invited to Copenhagen by the Danish as sociation because the women of- Denmark wore not keeping pace with those of other Scandinavian counttles, the Norwegian and Swedish at that time having every fran chise but the parliamentary and the wldowa and spinsters of Iceland possessing the same, with the additional right of ellgl-' btllly to many offices, while Danish women had no suffrage or eligibility. The convention was a marked success, the press was very favorable, the queen Cava a long audience to the president of perlor to the same cotton grown In Amer- lea. and that It is as good a any upland cotton that we produce. The present out- pui or me gins I only bout four ton per day, but thl will be increased. Thi unn.n ha. .i . ,r.ii P""- mad J"11" Shaw & Sons, Manchester, and it propow. to install other machlBwry. At- pre,ent ,t dlffl. It to land heavy freight herr Until tn Uganda railway was completed every- hln brought la by black porter. A. aU w carr,ed upon th hea1 no iec we'Khlng more than .Ixty or wventy W1' coud b crrled o the long jour- M ot 800 "P from the .eacoa.t 10 hyduc preM on6 UnJ" whlch welh two and one-half tons, and It almost brok. dow the boat by wh,ch ft w carr)od y torla- Th r.t landing place on that lak I several mile, fgrom Kampala, and th w" tract,on nln- iTn ,ama c h recen cha(,d , ,ocatlon Falls; at ta head of Na ,.on M w, th N11 flows QUt of Lak vlelorla Th41 falu ar auch that t w, f " ta blg tl(jctrlc e and ,t intention to bulld lnrJn aa and factor.es ther, wblch wU, b th N , ,ourca Modera CottoaGIa la Africa. While I was ln Omdurman, In the Anglo- Egyptian Soudan, which lies on the Nile fif.epn hnArA n. - . ..k 1 half-n.k.d urr wnm .tHn rtor on th ground taking th seeds out of th cotton with littl gin run by hand. The gn were like pint hum vrl n can TVi lint 4 tnrougft roll, pot bl around .1..- t.rm.i,.i. ... - . .K, B.IU - Ul .11 , V as slowly as In th United States before E" Whitney lnv.ntd hi. gin. Th gin- mg establishment here has as up-to-dat machinery a. any in our southern states, ,t , a bu,idlng of sun-dried brick cover- Uig pp, one-eighth of an acre. It ia 6t two .to,!.., aud t. , on tQ ,eCond floor. .0 arranged that th. cotton can be wheeled in arjd th. lint dropped jowa below Rlant a4ar th -.-,. Taomm a warehouse. These ar now five ln num- bur Thev ara vn t v riv. i -,. thlrty wldai and hav, on han " J.0od,ooo pound of seed cotton ready for glnuina. . All this hll rom in allhln th pa,t tew montb, and coUoa ow arr,vim by th bundr.d. of bag. vry (jay, , All Broaght la aa th. HmI, While at th factory I saw score ot native trottilng along with great bag. of cotton on their bead., ar-d wherever I go I pas. men bringing In cotton. Th. Stuff I .till tn th. Md. It 1 put up in banana bark and bound over and over with ba- nana fiber, so that It cannot fall out dur- lug th carrying. Each bale weigh about seventy pouads, and thl Is a good load for a native. Th. men who bring It ia ar usually dressed in bark cloth, but aom of them wear American!, or Amaii- .an cotton sheeting, which ia popular her la Uganda, Wbn th cotton arrive at th. ware- house U to weighed, and th tnan to paid W omen the alliance, asking for an outline of 'the movement, and the municipality etenl-d sn official reception In the town hall, sev eral of the alnVrmen In their addresses rte clnrtn themselvr heartily In favor of thu enfranchisement of' women. The next year the Parliament gave women the right to vote for the Important Plate Rr.ard of TuMIc Charities, made hem elUlhle to serve on It, and two were elected. This year a bill giving women municipal vfufrrrfre on the same terms ns men has been made a government ttvaure ti"d passed the under houre of Parliament.. Tha government hns a safe majority in" thi lower hoi;se and the success of the hill Is so well assured that nil pnlltlral'rartles nre registering ' women for the rpnrcaclilns elections. It Is not surprising therefore that th women of the Netherlands, when thly w a tampaljrn approaching, should extend cordial Invitation to the women of ell Tin. tfons to come with the Influence of the! presence and words In that fraternal spirit "" -es in Hi granting of political r-v .v.' .'V . ' i. . L . - - . 1 9urffAoe AssociATto of rut liberty to women anywhere a great stej forward toward Its possession by women everywhere. There has long been a favor able minority for woman suffrage In th Dutch Parliament, but the ministry has been hostile, and, according to the law, it' holds the privilege of making all change In electoral right. In 1901 the liberal element cam Into power and It first act was to create a commission for revising th constitution and broadening the suffrage for men, only seven-twelfth of whorrt now hav a vote. The National Woman Suffrage associa tion, a strong organisation whioh ha been In existence about thirteen years, at one memorialised this commission to include women In the franchise clause of Its pro posed constitution. Six out of Its seven member not only favored this as far as they had power, but also recommended that women should be made eligible for all offloes, including the Parliamentary. This report was ac cepted by the cabinet and presented to the Parliament, which alone has the au thority to submit a constitution to the voters . about 2 cents a pound. This amount of I cent constitute hi reward for planting and harvesting the crop. In addition to bringing It for mile on his head to th factory. I am told the pay la con- .1 .n .v.. .1 . who work for wages as low as a dollor a month, and that there will have to be a ralM , tn, prlcei or but tUe mor, wll, be planted. It la also whispered that the chief, are getting a rake-off from the. Uganda Company. Limited, and that for th!g reall0n thcy are enforclng the natlve, to sow cotton. Bo far th people have but little Idea of Intensive cultivation of any kU,d. and the cotton grown 1. the result ot natur6 ratlicr tnan work. Just outside these warehouses I took a .nap shot at a score or so of native, whQ ha, Juat coUm Each had a lot of cowry ahell. In hi hand., and they Were chatting and planning buy with their money at th 1Ilnd "o"5 ot Kpala. Co"" Pti: Grewlag. I am told that a. soon as the prlc. 1. Increased the number of natives planting cotton will rapidly grow. The amount old ,"st wa. five or six times that of tho btor- n1 twelv time. a. much was raised In 1& a In 1904. All the cotton so far grown Is from Amer- lean seed, the wild cotton having a coarse fiber with many large seeds ,n each boll. Egyptian cotton la now be- ln trle1 but far ha" not proved to be aa suitable to this cllmat and soil a the American upland. The govern- toent itself Is aiding ln th movement I A 1 ' 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . , 1 11 S ' i ' ' ' i '- ' ' '' '". ) ..v.f - ' . . ' v .,- ' -v ; , , ;vM.K: . r .'''..''' , '. , " ' ; . : ' : . ..'' : - ;:;'. : - ' 'v; I "I"- ; ' . i(C;" I.,..-" " , k I ....' '.',''''" ' ... ' ? . . , - , ),. 1 - 1 , " . 1 - 1 UTIni, n mmam ILK. in June "Will Demand the Right to Vote f-. 4 h C&UOCM. iv- i . ? ri i l mvc A.VO rot ror c hand gin In different part of the coun- try, and baling presses for publio use. While at this factory I went through the mud house which have been ereceted for th men and more especially for the ui.j .... .w .u. v...i nes. They are rude one-.tory affair and not compare In comfort with the home, of 0Uf fiaory peop f the ,Quth- Just outside of th ginning establishment a .core of native, were making brick., The. clay looked to me a thogh it cam from tn. ,lln, of tho wUU, ut It lay in pile on th ground and men and women, dressed in bark cloth, .quitted about It pounding tho clod Into dust wlth cluba. ln a pool near by another gang of native, wa. mixing the dust and water together making the mud out of wfjlch brlck ar mouldei Th, men w.r naked .almost to the walet, and they tramped up and down ln th mud to knead it for th. brick. - - i Africa .. a Tolio- OU.e.t. Th. experiments going on as to cotton here ar. representative as to others now being tried In th. variou. part, of Africa. I have already written of the cotton pos- sibllitie. of th. Sudan. They ar enor- mous, and the cotton now being raised about Khartum Is equal In quality to the best of that produced on the delta of th Nile. In British East Africa th author- ltles are attempting to raise cotton, and several successful plantations have been set out ln South Africa. I understand that the Germans are doing considerable In the same line, cot only between here and Lake Tanganyika, but also along CABTttSTSa. Xct A UCJIAXDA COTTON f 1 T -- 1 A. strong sentiment for enfranchising romen soon developed in all political parties. In the last week In December, however, the ministry resigned because of a defeat on th army estimates bill. The government Is now only temporary ai4 it looks nn If the International alli ance convention. Instead of taking place during a campaign for woman suffrage, . is was expected, may find Itsulf In the aildxt of elections for a new rnrllainent. Whatever the conditions may be, the. In fluence of this great meeting will be to create a public sentiment for giving the vote to women, and the National asso-t-latlon with its membership of many thousands Is making active preparation for the week's sessions. The president, Dr. Alctta II. Jacobs, although she hasi scarcely yet reached middle life, was the pioneer woman physician of the Nether lands and In a woman of much ability. Her husband, Dr. Qarretson, was a mem ber of the Parliament for a number of 'ear until ' eath a short time ago, , ': -mm ' - ;.':.-s..;,-v'. . 3vrrA9 r associ. tioh or rwc v rvw 4 l A n o 4t a.id their handsome home ha long been a center of hospitality in which many American hav shared. The convention will be held In the beauti ful, concert hall of Amsterdam, the local committee paying $1800 for its use. Tlid mornings will be devoted to business and the evenings to publio meetings, with ad dresses by roted women" from all parts of th globe, The afternoon Will be given up to social pleasure. The form 'of official recognition by the municipality has not yet been fully decided upon, but the mayor has declared his In tention of giving a reception and tea. The congress' will close with a big farewell dinner, at which the guests will be enter tained by national dances and songs given In th native costumes. Will Queen Wilhelmlna receive the con gress or Its representatives? That Is a burning question. She has shown very little Interest In the advancement of women long any lines, and such delegate as she has received have felt chilled by her In difference. The suffrage movement in the Nethor- that they ar already producing in ioe neighborhood of a thousand bale of lint per year. They have raised as much as flva hundred bales in a year on wimr littl plantations In Togaland, on th siin.. .nA the have sown oot- ton in th. Camerln and ia Southwot Africa. The lulllni are tempting th .arne in Eritrea, the little strip of territory which they own along th Red Sea. Bo far their success ha. been small. . Ai to th. Frch. they bay. dona prao- tlcally nothing in cotton In Africa a yet. Th Belgian, ar making evperlment. throughout th.. Congo Valley, wher they hav plantation, managed by American. from Tex... They are using American seed, and th. cotton grown, is of excellent uaJlty, Th. British hav an organization known aa th British Cotton Growing assocla- tlon. which Is backing many of th. ex- perlment. in th English colonic That organization has a capital of $1,000,000. " ,u plantatlon. hora and there ar. now produclnB something like half a mil- on doiiar.' worth of cotton a year. Some of ,u beBt work u helne done ,n Wegt Afrl an pec)aIly ln Nigeria. There ar( a,so K,nnlrjg e8tablishmenta in Lagos, h, tak8 care of tne cotton rown near lhft x U1,derstand that ther ar thlrt or forty thousand acre there in a fairly od ,tate of cultivation. FUtats Which I'rodice 811k. It seems like a fairy story when I say that there are plants out' here ln Africa which produc flbar which may possibly im& lands stands for more than the enfran chisement of women: It Is the demand for a democratic form of government In which all citizens, men and women, shall have a voice, and Is highly offensive to the aris tocracy. Undoubtedly the young queen will t strongly urged not to recognize thla great middle class movement, but she may have advisers wise enough or her own good sense may be sufficient to cause her to see that its recognition might be a stroko of diplomacy. Tosslbly the queen mother, Emma, may give the movement her approval. She Is raid to be far broader In her views and to take much more Interest In popular move ments than her daughter, but then her re sponsibility Is by ho means so great. There Is no anil-suffrage association of women In Holland to give variety and adil an element of guyety to the situation, but to save It from being entirely onesided there Is a Society of Remonstrants. They are not so benighted as actually td oppose the enfranchisement of women, but they want It deferred a little. Wherever the suffragists hold a publio meeting tlicy follow with another at which they declare that they love their country too much to allow a great unorganised and Irresponsi ble body to express itself at the ballot box and beg that the franchise bo withheld from women until they theso superior beings can help to educate them for their Important duty. It Is superfluous to say that everywhere thoy strike an answer ing chord In the hearts of male listeners, who are quite willing to put off giving the vote to women for a whole generation, or two or three if nocessnry, until they can be brought up to tho lofty standard of masculine citizenship. The suffragists say that the ballot Itself Is tho most potent of educators and that the total vote of men and women will strike a higher average than that of men alone even with the experience and su periority bf the latter. At last accounts the women remonstrants were Inquiring anxiously if there was any room left In the band wagon. . . The United State will have the prestige Prattle of the Youngsters Teacher If a hundred men work a hun dred days at a dollar a. day, what do they get? Small Fred Get mad and go on a strike, I guess. Mamma Why, children, what ar you quarreling about? Little ElmerHelen coaxed me to play Adam and Eve with her, then she at all the applo but the oore. . "I dont know what 1 going to become of you when you grow up, Harold," said a father to his 6-year-old hopeful. "You ara never satisfied with anything." "O, I know," replied the little fellow. "I'm going to be a reformer, like Unci George." At the entrance of one of the large apart ment house In Boston are two llfeslse lion carved In stone. A little daughter of one of tho ocoup&nt of th house played around the entrance a day or two after th family moved In, and, -running to her mother, cried: "Mamma, there are two live Hons at the door..". Her mother said: "No, dear, they ar not alive, and you know they ara not." "But. mamma, they case. My informant Is Mr. R. T. Paske- Smith, the assistant-collector at Kam- -. off in the Interior of Uganda. Ha ay that the found there a plant which ho think, might be used for .Ilk manufacture, Ba'd he: , , ' "X many Of these plant, growing wild. They reach a height of liv or six teet. and bear a f rult . .haped like th "01 "' but much 'larger. I should say that the average fruit I. a. big around man', fist. These bolls hav 1 a silky ber three or our inche. long. It look, on,ewhat Ilk. cotton but it to far mot o. fleecy, and glossy. The fiber 1. wrapped around . the seeds. During my ty there I gathered a lot of the wild .ed. and pfck.d off th. lint. I then we1 them in about half an acre of well Prepared ground. They grew rapidly without further cultivation and whei they matured I collected a littl bag of the silk seed in th. lint and sent it on to th authorities at Entebbe. Shortly fte' that I took sick with a fever and it was some months before I recovered. I then tried to find what became of my "llk fib1'' Dut the "thoritle. at Entbba could not Inform me. I spok. of the plant to Archdeacon Walker, the head of th English Church Mission Society of Uganda. He said' he knew it well and agreed with me that It might b val- UiiMo. I cleaned oro of the fiber and stuffed a sofa pillow. It was a soft as down." , "What 1 tho name of this fiber. Mr. Pasks-Smith?" I asked. "I do not know what It 1 called ho- tanically, or that It is mentioned ln any botany. The natives call It mfuinbo." More Abont Bark Cloth. And this leads me to writ again about th wonderful bark cloth which I pro- duced by almost evtry native family and which until recently formed about th only clothing worn by the mllllon-od people of the kingdom of Uganda. It 1 used in other countries as well and th native of German Kant Africa ralsa much of It. There ar. several varieties of tree hai which produce It, the favor- It being a fig tre which grow to a belght of from thirty to fifty feet, and from which bark strips can be taken which average six feet in width and bb feet in length. . Th flbr of thl bark ara Interwoven like cloth. It Is won derfully strong and when pounded and treated by th native 1 almost aa soft a. velvet. It is sewn into durablo cloth- Ing. Bom. of this cloth waa .hipped to Niw Tork about a year ago. but so far no record a. to Us final disposition has bean reived. Th. amount v nt was tlOO .beets, a aimilar shipment being made at th. asms time to London. The bsrk would mak. a very fin. pap.r If It were ground, but whether It can b used a a weaving material for cloth remains to be seen. At present th only demand for It Is among th i-atlvea. t Fercsta at Cgsals. I hav Just had a talk with Dr. Christy, an Englishman, who baa a large concea- ion of woodland running along th Nil just below whar that great river flow ut of Las Victoria. Tha tract en- of being represented by the Amsterdam meeting by the president and secretary of the International Alliance. Mrs. Chapman Catt and Mrs. Avery. Among those who will go as delegates are the Rev. Anna Howard, Shaw, president of the National Suffrage . association; Its legal advisor, Judge Catharine Waugh MeCulloch, lauly elected Justice of the peace at Rvnnston. 111.; Mrs. Oliver W. Ftewart of Chlcnrro. president of the Illinois association; Mi.s Janet E. Richards of Washington, the well known lecturer, and a num'oor of other noted women. The two years that' liava elapsed slrue the meeting of the alliance In Copenhagen have been most significant In the (.Mins of political rights for women. In the sntn mr of 1", after It closed, the czar slRiied the constitution which fully enfram hlsrd the women of Finland. In 1907 the parliamentary suffrago wns conferred on tho women of Norway, who already possessed every v other kind. Sweden, where women had a limited mu nicipal suffrage, greatly enlargoi this and declared them rllgiblv to municipal offices. Denmark, gave the concessions already quoted. Oreat Britain made women HIitIW ns town and county councillors and nay :, and seven cities elected women to tl:clr council, while the raFC of a hill tl 'm them fyll suffrage was prevented i nlv ry Its being talked to death. Thus far In 1!V1S the bill for parliamentary bu.'.V.iko has passed Its second reading In the House of Commons by a vote of 271 to 07. The Parliament of Iceland hs reduced the property qusllflcation for W?rinn, made them ellglhle to town councils, and the capital, Reykjavik, bus elected f-ur women to Its eounrll of fifteen members. A majority of tlin women of Icc'tind have petitioned for the full frauclslre end the Parliament lias promised It in the :. -ar future. , Before the International Ruffrase Alli ance opens Its BPFsiops in Anit-isi lnm t'- -re Is a strong probability that other gains will be reported. IDA HUSTFD HARPER. are," she Insisted. The mother, thinking a little solitude and time for reflection would clear the child's mind, led her to a room and said: "You go In tnere and ask God's pardon for telling a falsehood." After tho lapse of some minutes the mother went to the door nd called: "Dorothy, have you asked God' pardon?" "Yes, mamma, I told Him. and Ho said it wiis nil right. Ho thought they were alive Himself nt first." "Oh, yes. Tommy." said the toaoher, "If you have a dog you are tho 'owner of a quadruped.' " "No, I ain't," Insisted Tommy. "Don't contradict me. I explained t,t you yesterday that any animal with four leg was ar-" "Ye'm; but Rover lost one o' hls'n flghtln' ' a trolley car." "When I grow up." said Tommy, "I ain't goln to bother about washln' my face Var." , "Aw, g'on,." exclaimed Jimmy, "how kin yer help It?" "Am goln' ter grow whisker all over It." "Aw., tfat'll b worse. Den yer'll havo ter oomb d knot outer yer faoe." River Nile by braoc about 160 quara miles, and It U - "uu ioi ma umoer could be thrown into the river and floated down to Khartum were It not for certain falls of - 'u ana uoiiaoKora. A It Is, th chief market will probably b British East Africa and the other coun- trie reached by way of th Uganda rall- Wa ld Dr. Christy: "Our forest, ara magnificent. W. hav. mahogany trees 160 foet high, and some of them, four or five feet in diameter, They ar perfectly straight, running up to a great distance without a branch. Wo hav a species of wood that resembles teak, and w have much hardwood, soma of which will almost resist th. blow of an ax. We expect to do a great deal with that wood, because it resists the attack. of th whit ants, and we can therefor,, wll it for railroad ties. W. have now order lor UO,W0 tl. and w hav thre dlfferant varieties of ac-proof wood from Which we can .upply them." U.bb.r 1 U..nda. How about your rubbur po.albilitles, Dr. Christ T X asked, W hav rubber vine and rubber trees, nd .omoof th latter are 100 feet high, with a larg. girth. They run from that sis down to sprouts. W h.v about 1,000,000 rubber trees ln our concession, They range ln diameter from three inches thre or four feet. Th most of them r ready for tapping and we shall -ex- Plolt that part of our oonceasion first. W shall work carefully, uoiaylug Hit timber export until we have our rubber industry thoroughly established, as w fear that the cutting down of the other tree may break the rubber trees. "Our plan now la to cut out the unUar- brush and map the forest, so that kucIi part of It can be easily cared for. We already hav too men at work, and shall hav double that number within a tew weeks. We expect to build vllluxes on iht estate and to train our own workmen. We hav already brought expert lulinr-r gatli- err from Ceylon to show the natlvus how to tap the rubber trees Without Injuring them, if thuy aio properly liuiiulud tin. will continue to yield rubber year after y' tot thulr full life of about forty year, or tfuin l b"t flv ' " Uiat ,xl)ecl 10 et n lncomo 'or "ilrty-f lv year, out of each young trw. In a short tlma our property u '""Z' '"m VMin' vAt senn At'rv vear. ' '' . ,, FRANK G. CARPENTER. Hsklsg It Clear. A college professor, tn company with his ana Watal Shn 1"IV 4 n BP th ajotlf ( St. " " umr)r' "t".dJrH' ha1 n '7JlTy th. professor, think- a eonv.r.ation In a way that WkPV to the farmer, r- . b" ther abnormal pr. cljjUon ot 1,U' ""n' seemed somewhat embur- . th professor', son. who used a different vercatmlar. though h wa a stu- nt in th college to which his father wa attached, attempted to atralght.n out th matter. Drawing th farmer to on side, h said In a superior way: Th governor means that w'v been having a hall Of a lot of rala." Harper .WatxJyt,