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When - the young poet wrought so unaware un-aware From the purest Parian, washed by Grecian seas, - And stained to amber softness by the breeze Of Attic shores, his Urn, antiquely fair And brimmed it at the sacred fountain, where The draught he drew were sweet as Castaly's Had he foreseen what souls would there i appease Their purer thirsts, he had not known despair! About It long processions move and wind. Held by its grace a chalice choicely fit For Truth's and Beauty's perfect Interfuse, Inter-fuse, Whose effluence the exhaling years shall find Un wasted; for the poet's name is writ (Firmer than marble) in Olympian dews! Margaret J. Preston. Adieu to the Puff. The bandeau style of wearing the hair Is coming in again, and a parting or at least a separation of the hair in the center of the front threatens to usurp the place of the pompadour pml. The potent reason some w-men give for deserting the pompadour is tha men do not like it. "They like sleek, shining Madonna bands, as fiat as their own pates," says or woman. "No, they don't," says another. "They like bangs, curly and ringletty." But the average man smiles benignly, and when the happy medium between the puff and the bandeau appears he gazes in deep admiration. Mra. Kendal Ken-dal wears her hair In the way most men like it; so do Jane Hading and Maude Adams and sweet Annie Russell. Rus-sell. All of these actresses have unusually un-usually fine hair, heavy, long and thick, and they also have good foreheads;- but the parting, with ripple3 on either side and a big. soft knot In the back, cannot be called a trying style, as none of these actresses, with the exception of Mme. Jane Hading, Had-ing, is noted for her beauty. The chignon, when worn now, is placed on the top of the head in the form of soft loops or fluffy curls. The nape of the neck is left uncovered. Combs are used more than ever, and the broad shell ones are particularly pretty. A new and becoming way of dressing the hair is to have two bandeaux ban-deaux descending rather low upon the forehead, with the hair turned up in wavy curls at the sides. The coiffure coif-fure is round at the back. On the top of the head the hair is rolled with two waved marteaux separated from the front hair by a band of velvet or satin, on which are fixed two gardenia gar-denia blossoms. When the hair is worn low two tortoise tor-toise shell pins, with diamond-incrust-ed heads inserted on either side, serve the double purpose of security and of adornment. Novelties In Stationery. Generally speaking, novelties in stationery sta-tionery are not in good form. They come and go, while aristocratic women continue to use either white or a most delicately tinted gray-blue paper, which bears their address stamped from an engraved die in gray or silver, gold, blue or red, the preference now being for gray. Recently, however, a Wedgewood design de-sign in stationery has been introduced, which, unlike most novelties, is so dainty it has met with considerable favor from ladies who usually "steer clear" of anything so distinctive in letter paper. The paper itself is a Wedgewood blue, bordered narrowly with white, envelopes matching. Of course it will have but a short vogue, and those who use but little stationery and do not care to use something decidedly de-cidedly passe as soon as the novelty of it has passed, and cannot afford to throw away fashion's left-overs, will do well to continue to buy a plain (of course unruled) linen paper, rough or smooth as they prefer. European Hints. Elegant afternoon toilet, by Roberts. Rob-erts. The tan cloth of this simple costume cos-tume is decorated with straps and stltchings. The collar and revere are covered with turquoise blue silk and white lace, put on in squares. Fancy Belts. Some extremely smart leather belt3, which threaten the immediate retirement retire-ment of last season's assortment, have made their appearance. They are not particularly novel in the materials of which they are made, nor are the buckles especially unusual. The novelty novel-ty is In the pretty little woven leather edge. The belt, of kid, patent leather or plain grain leather, is made quite narrow, and a very narrow Btrip of the same leather is knotted in a sort of crochet stitch all along each edge. This finish makes a variety in the leather belts, in black, white or brown, not spoiling the severe tailor finish of the costume, but adding to it a new touch of character. For use with ribbon belts there is a new style of belt pin with jewels to match the cuff links and studs. These are clasp pins, strong enough to hold skirt and waist together. Mirror for a Piano Back. One of the hardest things In a room to arrange artistically la the piano, now that fashion has decreed that It shall he dragged away from the wall. .Many aa otherwise perfect apartment A CARRIAQB TOILET. A delightful carriage gown, and, indeed, in-deed, one that would do honor to any occasion, is portrayed in the accompanying accom-panying illustration. It is developed in black silk net over a lining of white taffeta. The costume consists of a double skirt with close-fitting hips and a fullness full-ness around the foot that falls in regular reg-ular folds. The top skirt i trimmed with bands of black insertion arranged in Dewey ruffle effect and the lower skirt is treated in the same way with the difference that the bands are set on plain. has been spoiled by the inartistic ar rangement of the piano back. A great aid in overcoming this is a mirror, made the exact width of the piano, and placed flat against its back. On each side narrow curtains may be placed, and the mirror used either as a reflector re-flector or with painting on tne frame and glass. Palms may be prettily arranged ar-ranged at the foot, to be repeated in the glass surface, or a tiny seat placed there, with cushions of quaint shape and material. With the mirror as a starting point one may have endless varieties of decoration. dec-oration. Brass Buttons for Money. While the regiments from all over the country were gathering at Chick-amauga Chick-amauga the brass buttons of the soldiers' sol-diers' uniforms were in great demand. Every one was trying to buy them or coax them from the soldiers, but it was a little girl who ' struck upon a plan of getting together a collection that represented every regiment in camp. She used to sell lemonade to the soldiers, sol-diers, and then when they offered to pay her she would insist in a charming way for buttons In place of money. She was a very pretty little girl, and there were a great many soldiers who had to pin their uniforms together on account ac-count of this clever little lady. Handsome Dots on Neckties. Some girls who like to do things for themselves and to have a style of their own, to say nothing of economy, are working French knots upon their neckwear of different kinds. Long scarf ends of white have the knots in black silk so many straight rows or rows in points and on wash scarfs there are colored knots on those that are colored and .either white or colored col-ored on those of white. Tiny loops of black silk worked around the ends of a white silk bow are most effective. Imitation Japanese Work. To imitate Japanese inlaid work get an ordinary cigar box, or any other box with a smooth wooden surface. Fasten on in pleasing and graceful forms variously shaped and colored leaves which have been subjected to a heavy pressure until perfectly flat, and smooth the whole. After the surface has been so varnished and polished as to present a face as hard and smooth as glass, it will appear as if the whole were one unbroken surface, which is the highest perfection of art in Japanese Japa-nese work. Tame Butterflies for Pets. Women have had all kinds of pete from time immemorial, but perhaps the strangest of all fancies in this direction di-rection is the latest news which comes to us from Paris, that two ladies have succeeded in taming dozens of butterflies. butter-flies. These little Insects eat from their mistresses' hands, alight on them and show no fear of any kind. They are certainly pretty pets, and well become the airy, fluttering sweetness of the typical woman's nature. Smart Bodices. Some of the most styllshTof the fancy waists of the season are of all black or all white silk, or of white taffeta or faille barred, dotted or striped in black satin. There Is an Immense range of garni tares . appropriate tor The bodice has a full front upon which tne lace trimming is repeated in simple thoagh bewitching fashion. Small puffs, apparently gathered upon a band of insertion, top the sleeves, and the stock and belt are made of pistachio green satin ribbon. A pistachio green leghorn hat trimmed with black and white ribbon and green silk roses forms an important import-ant part of the toilet. The brim is fin.-, lshed with a border of fine immaculate immacu-late white straw. these waists, but there are few trimmings trim-mings more effective or becoming than black velvet ribbon of narrow or medium me-dium widths, with a scarf of rich white lace at the throat. To Make a Dog Happy. If you want to make friends with a dog you will find that there is nothing noth-ing that this animal likes better than to have some one rub his ears. If you will take a dog's ears and curl them up in your hands and squeeze them gently you will "make a canine friend very soon. If the dog wears a collar you can add greatly to his comfort by scratching that part of his neck where the collar rests. Dress Pockets. The pocket hides in the hem of the gown these days. It is the only place where the slightest bulge is countenanced; counte-nanced; everywhere else the tailor and dressmaker insist upon absolute smoothness; nothing must interfere with the symmetry of the line so candidly can-didly displayed by the eel-skin frock of the hour. Too Many Cooks. Mrs. O'Hara Oi hear Mrs. Kelly left her husband because he nivir had an appetite. Mrs. O'Mara Thot's no raison! Mrs. O'Hara It is whin your husband hus-band is a polaceman, Mrs. O'Mara. Unreliable. "Wonderful imagination that writer has," remarked one young man. "Think so?" "I should say so! I never saw such inventive resources. Absolutely unlimited. un-limited. Time, sp-ce and science have no terrors fo ,m. He can reconcile all his points so as to make anything seem probable." "I don't see where you got that strange impression of him." "Why, from hi3 books." "His books! Oh, you ought to have seen his inventive resources and what happened to them one day when he was trying to tell his wife how he happened to forget a couple of spools of pink silk thread." Boy with a Business Head. If the lad does not make a successful business man all the signs are wrong. He was asked to take charge of some white mice for the summer and to name his own price for doing It. After mature deliberation he made his proposition as follows: "For 15 cents .a week I will take charge of those mice and care for them and be responsible for their safe keeping. keep-ing. If I am relieved of the responsibility responsi-bility in the matter and will not be called upon to replace any that are lost or hurt I will undertake to look after them for 10 cents a week, and I will take equally good care of them." The Wings of Spring. "Oh," sighed the poetic lady, "had I the wings of a bird!" "Don't!" protested her husband. Dont wish for the wings of a bird. If you had them some other woman would probably be wearing them on her bat before the season is over." A Some people can best make their presence felt by their absence.' A ton of sea water Is supposed to contain about 14 grains of gold. THE ARMY Organization of Oux Fighting Forces in and Out of Action. Previous to the outbreak of the Spanish war the permanent military establishment of the United States was comprised in ten regiments of cavalry, five regiments of artillery and twenty-five twenty-five regiments of infantry, with their necessary adjuncts of the staff bureaus, altogether aggregating 2,164 officers and 25,000 enlisted men. By law its enlisted en-listed strength was limited to 25,000 men, not including some hundreds of general service clerks, hospital attendants, attend-ants, etc. So that with slight fluctuations fluctua-tions in the official personnel and these subsidiary corps, the aggregate strength of the army had ranged for a number of years around 28,000. In 1898 in the forty regiments of the line there were 23,310 enlisted men, or an average aver-age of 610 in the cavalry regiments, 810 in the artillery regiments and 521 in the infantry regiments. On April 22, 1898, Congress passed an act to provide for temporarily increasing in-creasing the military establishments of the country In time of war. Three days later an act declaring war against Spain was passed, reciting that war had existed from April 21, 1898, and directing di-recting and empowering the President to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States in the prosecution prosecu-tion of the war, and to call out the militia of the several states to the extent ex-tent necessary "to carry this act into effect," and the following day a bill was passed "for the better organization organiza-tion of the line of the army of the United States," which authorized an increase of the regular army in time of war to about 62,000 officers and men, but provided that when the war was over the permanent establishment should be reduced to a peace basis, and that "nothing contained in this act shall be construed as authorizing a permanent increase of the commissioned commis-sioned or enlisted forces of the regular army" beyond what it was before war was declared. When peace with Spain was restored tke administration was in something of a dilemma. Although the war was SOUTH AFRICAN HORSES. Their Endurance Is Remarkable Sorry Nags to Look At. One of the first things that strike the wanderer in the great expanses of the southern hemisphere is the strength and endurance of the horses, says South Africa. He notes that, though to look at they are the sorriest sorri-est scrags he ever set eyes on, yet they appear to be possessed of a power of getting over the ground that is little short of miraculous, and so astonishing astonish-ing in its persistence as to seem automatic. auto-matic. A striking instance came under un-der my notice only a few days after landing in Cape Town, in 1863. I was sitting one Saturday afternoon on the stoop of Park's hotel, which occupied the corner of Adderley and Strand streets, when a dust-covered horseman stopped and dismounted. His horse was taken to the stables, and in the course of conversation in the bar I learned that he was a member of the legislative assembly for an up-country district. There was no railway communication com-munication with the interior in those days, and he had ridden in from his home, at Colesberg, in less than six days, having started the previous Monday. Mon-day. Now, Colesberg is more than 500 miles from Cape Town, and the country coun-try Is very rough going, much of it being heavy and other parts very mountainous. No English-bred horse, fed according to English methods, could have accomplished such a ride as this, more especially when we consider con-sider the temperature of the Cape Colony. Col-ony. I went to look at the animal on which the journey had been performed and found it to be a little roan schim-mel, schim-mel, barely fourteen hands, and apparently ap-parently as fresh as paint. Another very remarkable ride that came under my notice was performed by a Boer who lived a few miles from Greytown, in Natal. His wife was taken ill, and a particular medicine, not to be obtained ob-tained in Greytown, was imperative. So in the early hours of the night he started for Maritzburg, fifty-five miles distant, through an extremely hilly country, and was back on his farm in sixteen hours. The remarkable thing in this instance was that the Boer weighed over seventeen stone. In my own experience many instances of the wonderful staying powers of Airican horses have occurred. To mention on?: In 1866 I had been appointed honorable honora-ble secretary for the first athletic sports held in the Umboti country of Natal. They were to be held in Greytown Grey-town on boxing day, which fell on a Monday. All preparations, entries, etc., were concluded early in December, when I received an urgent request to go to the Transvaal to look after a friend who was lying very ill in his wagon with no attendants but a couple of raw Kaffirs. I rode as hard as 1 could, and found him among the kep-Jes kep-Jes of the Drakenberg, between Lyden-berg Lyden-berg and Wakkersthoom.very bad with fever, which he had contracted somewhere some-where in the low country to the northwest. north-west. I tended him for some days, until un-til he was clearly out of danger, and then suddenly remembered that I had to be in Greytown on Monday morning. morn-ing. I was then sitting on the wagon box, drinking my morning coffee, at 6 a. m. Saturday morning. Grewtown was 220 miles away, but I was at my post there at 10 a. m. and in addition took a second prize, both in the run-Bins run-Bins and Jumping competitions. Gossip Is a cartridge fired from the gun of idle curiosity, AS IT STANDS TODAY; over it knew that large bodies of troops would be required to preserve Order in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, yet the law compelled a reduction of the army. Subsequently the outbreak of the Filipinos added to the gTavity of the situation. The plan adopted was to muster out the volunteers volun-teers gradually, and depend in future solely upon the regular army, which the military authorities proposed to Congress to have permanently increased in-creased to 100,000' men. To this there was strong opposition, but what was known as the Hull reorganization re-organization bill was passed by the house in the last days of January. Although it was called the Hull reorganization reor-ganization bill it carried no changes of moment in the organization of the army. It simply provided for its permanent per-manent increase to 98,763 officers and enlisted men, for an increase of three major generals and six brigadiers, five regiments of infantry and two of cavalry, cav-alry, and for "a corps of artillery," dropping the regimental organization In that arm. It also provided for a GENERAL OFFICERS OF OUR REGULAR AND VOLUNTEER ARMY. large increase in line and staff officers. offi-cers. When the Hull bill reached the senate sen-ate it was strongly antagonized by the opposition on the old ground of dislike dis-like and fear of a large standing army. A compromise measure was forced upon up-on the administration in spite of threats of calling an extra session. A bill known as the Cockrell-Gorman substitute was adopted, and was subsequently sub-sequently passed by the house and approved ap-proved by the President. Neither was this a reorganization bill. It provides for the muster out of the volunteer army, in accordance with the original act of 1898, and permit tha President to retain in service the present regular army at a strength not exceeding 65,000 men, and, in addition, to raise a new force of 35,000 volunteers, volun-teers, to be recruited from the country at large or In the new colonies, as preferred pre-ferred by the military authorities. It authorizes the President to appoint or DUNKHORST A MAMMOTH. Record of the Boxer Who Will Fight at Athens. Since the days when Joe McAuliffe came out of the west to win fame in the prize ring there never was a boxer of note who possessed the same generous gen-erous proportions claimed by Ed Dunkhorst, who meets Joe Butler at Athens tomorrow evening. Dunkhorst Dunk-horst is six feet high, and weighs, in condition, 225 pounds. He has been nicknamed the "Mastodon," and it is Well earned. But Dunkhorst is different differ-ent from most of the big fellows in that he is fast as a feather-weight. Those who witnessed his terrific fight with Peter Maher at the Arena need no further verification of that statement. state-ment. Fast as Maher was, Dunkhorst Was equally so, and, although Maher won, he did not get off scot free by any means. While a comparatively newcomer in the ring, Dunkhorst's dozen battles have already demonstrated demon-strated the possibilities of his huge frame, when thoroughly seasoned. One peculiarity of Dunkhorst's is that he seems to be immune from the blows soporific, which so many boxers succumb suc-cumb to. Up to the present time he has never been knocked out, and it looks as though he never will be. Although Al-though he was in no condition for a contest when he met Maher at the Arena, and the Irish champion landed again and again on his jaw the pum-meling pum-meling he received did not seem to affect af-fect "Dunk." He took it all good na-turedly, na-turedly, and Maher, who always believed be-lieved his good right hand was invincible, invin-cible, was dumfounded. Dunkhorst has declared that had he been in shape he would have beaten Maher that night, and many good judges agree with him. When Gus Ruhlin was at his best and Dunkhorst only a novice It took the former twenty-two rounds to win from the Syracuse man at the Greater New York Athletic club. The experience he gained there did Dunkhorst good, for he went right up to Toronto and beat Charley Strong so badly that the referee stopped the bout in the fourth round. Frank Childs, the colored giant, met "Dunk" at Detroit for eight rounds, and the Cadillac Athletic club witnessed the fastest fighting ever seen in that section. sec-tion. Origin of the Word News. It is popular to say that the word "news" is derived from the initial letters let-ters of the four points of the compass, arranged in a device in the form of a cross, and placed at the top of some of the earliest news sheets to indicate that their contents were derived from all quarters, but it is easy to show that this Is purely fanciful. The earliest English newspaper dates from 1662, yet we find the word "news" exactly in its modern sense in Shakespeare, who died fifty years earlier namely, In 1616. Thus we have in "Macbeth," "How now? What news?" In "Winter's "Win-ter's Tale," "But let time's news be brought" In "King John," "Even at that news he dies." This list, which might be much prolonged, effectually disposes of the popular theory. Where tbe Bird Was. Amateur sportsman "What did I bring down, Pat?" Pat "Yer dog, sur; blew his head all off." Amateur sportsman "Where's the bird?" Pat "Picklirg at the dog, sur. Harlem Life. retain in the service, including the regular reg-ular army major generals, one major general for every 12,000 enlisted men, and, including the regular brigadiers, one brigadier for every 4,000 enlisted men. No additional regular army staff officers are provided for, but there is provision for volunteer staff officers if needed. In short, what is by misnomer called the "reorganization of the army" is merely an act to continue for two years longer the establishment raised for the Spanish war, namely, until July 1, 1901. As before, the regular army is to consist of three major generals and six brigadiers for the field and eleven staff brigadiers, at the head of the adjutant ad-jutant general's, the inspector general's, gen-eral's, the judge advocate general's, the quartermaster general's, the surgeon sur-geon genera!';, the commissary general's, gen-eral's, the i taster general's and ordnance dep.. . aients, the corps of engineers en-gineers and signal corps respectively. The same number of cavalry, artillery artil-lery and infantry regiments are continued. con-tinued. In other words, the regular army provided for in the Cockrell-Gorman Cockrell-Gorman compromise is exactly the regular reg-ular army of the Spanish war, which will continue until July 1, 1901, when it will be superseded by the condition described in the opening paragraph of this article, unless, meanwhile, Congress Con-gress takes hold of the matter and actually ac-tually reorganizes the entire concern. The staff department is the only branch of the service really needing reorganization. re-organization. The army as it is and as It will remain re-main until 1901 is set out in the following fol-lowing tabular statement, copied from the Army Register for 1899: Ten cavalry regiments 12,170 Seven artillery regiments 16,541 Twenty-five infantry reglments..32,225 Unattached 239 Indian scouts, recruiting parties, etc 174 Quartermaster's department 105 Subsistence department 90 Engineer bureau 757 Ordnance bureau 605 Signal corps 200 Total enlisted strength 63,106 These figures give an average of enlisted en-listed strength to the several regiments of the different arms as follows: Cavalry, Cav-alry, 1,217; artillery, 2,363; Infantry, 1,289. FOUND JEWELS IN OLD CLOCK. Police Had Been Searching for Them for Three Weeks. Mrs. Gustave N. Ballin of 40 West Seventy-sixth street, New York, recently re-cently recovered $1,000 worth of jewelry, jew-elry, for which the police of two boroughs bor-oughs have been searching for three weeks. The jewelry was missed on a Sunday morning, and the West Sixty-eighth Sixty-eighth street police were notified to catch the thief. Mrs. Ballin went to a theater on Friday evening, leaving the jewelry, which consisted of earrings, ear-rings, lockets, pins and other small articles, ar-ticles, on her dressing table. She paid apparently no attention to the valuables valu-ables until the Sunday morning following, fol-lowing, when she opened a secret locker to examine the jewels. The locker was empty and no trace of the jewelry could be found. Two girls had left the employ of Mrs. Ballin the day before, and the police at once tried to find the young women. Advertisements Advertise-ments inserted in the newspapers by the police were answered by both girls, who were located in Brooklyn, and one of them was placed under arrest five days later. She was, however, at once discharged, as there was no evidence connecting her with the disappearance of the jewelry. The jewels were given up as lost until this morning, when Mrs. Ballin, who was preparing to move to the country, took from its place on the mantel in her boudoir an old and valuable French clock. As she moved it the little door in the back of the clock opened and a chamois bag rolled out. In the bag were Mrs. Bal-lin's Bal-lin's jewels. Not one of them was missing. ANIMALS Have Steadily Decreased In Size Since Prehistoric Times. Most of the gigantic animals of geological ge-ological eras belonged to species which have completely vanished, and of those which have living representatives It i3 difficult to say whether they have undergone a true change of size or whether the modern examples are merely survivals of smaller contempo- rarv variptiA Thp larppr onimlo ! have a tendency to disappear first in a partial failure of food supply. Gigantic Gi-gantic armadilloes closely resembling those of the present day were formerly for-merly abundant in South America. The remains of huge sloths are found in Cuba and North America. Sharks attaining a length of more than 100 feet are found in comparatively recent fossil deposits. Another fish which represents a larger prehistoric species is the American bony pike, which is one of the few survivals of the enormous enor-mous ganoids of the secondary strata. The tiny nautilus of the present day had kindred 10 or 12 feet long in early times. Another small shell fish, the pteropod, whose delicately complex structure Is packed in an inch of shell, is found in fossil remains to have reached the respectable length of a couple of feet. A Stickler for Bank. The San Francisco News Letter notes that at a fashionable wedding, a colonel of volunteers acted very efficiently ef-ficiently as a self-appointed master of ceremonies. A doctor who noticed the other's seal remarked: "You are major ma-jor domo, I see." The wife of the officious offi-cious officer, jealous in reference to the apparent derogation of her husband's military rank, interposed the correction: correc-tion: "Colonel domo, If you plsaae," Ii UNLIKE TO OTHEES CHURCH HAS A NUMBER OP UNIQUE DETAILS. The Pastor Has New Ideas A Paper Hi Issued and the Type Set by Sunday School Pupils A Boys' Secret Society In tne Fold. (Chicago Letter.) The Puritan Congregational church at 817 Grand avenue, with its numerous numer-ous unique adjuncts, is a novelty In Chicago. Up to the fall of 1895 the church, which occupies an auditorium over two storerooms, was conducted j only as a mission. At that time the present organization was effected and placed in charge of the Rev. C. E. Burton, Bur-ton, who had just graduated from Carleton college at . Northfield, Minn. This young man, who had worked his way through a seven-year collegiate course by sawing wood and doing odd jobs, was filled with energy and possessed pos-sessed novel ideas as to the best modes of furthering the interests of the church. After three years and a half of active work Mr. Burton finds himself him-self pastor of an institution with 150 members and a Sunday school of 300 pupils, holding fifteen meetings each week. Plans are already being made for a new and better edifice having many novel and attractive features, designed for pleasure and instruction. Mr. Burton explained some of the lifil; PURITAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. main features of the church, which are these: First, a monthly eight-page newspaper news-paper is published The Puritan of which Mr. Burton is editor. Its type is all set in its own office under the church by volunteers among the children chil-dren of the Sunday school, who take turns working upon it after school hours. The children thus enjoy what is to them real fun and learn the art of typesetting as well as proper punctuating, punct-uating, capitalizing and the like. Second, Sec-ond, there is a boys' secret societj called the "Knights of King Arthur," which meets once each week. Official preferment in that exclusive lodge of "pages," "esquires" and "knights" is won 13T excellence in the varioue branches of the church and Sunday school work. Third, there is a gymnasium, gym-nasium, which until recently has been under the instruction of Mr. Burton himself. It is much appreciated. Students Stu-dents from the Chicago Theological seminary are now instructing the children chil-dren in that department. Fourth, there are classes which meet one evening each week to receive instruction on the mandolin, guitar, violin and zither. Each student contributes 10 cents for each leson to partly pay for the Instruction. In-struction. An elocution class Is conducted con-ducted in the same way as the music class. In addition to the features already al-ready mentioned there are a Ladies' Aid Society, a "Y. P. S. C. E." and "Junior" society, besides regular Sunday Sun-day and week day services, choir rehearsals re-hearsals and the like. A fine public reading room is among the contemplate contem-plate new advantages. E. T. Harris, the superintendent of the Sunday school, is an enthusiast ally of Mr. Burton. Mr. Burton is a quiet-spoken young man of attractive appearance whose superabundant fund of energy and originality in church work does not fully manifest itself until he gets warmed up to the subject which is so dear to his heart. CAPTIVATED A KING. Miss Leonora Jackson, an American girl, a protege of George Vanderbilt, has had the rare honor of being complimented com-plimented by King Oscar of Sweden for her violin playing. It was at Paris, at one of the Figaro's famous "five o'clocks," that Miss Jackson played before his majesty the king of Sweden and other noted guests. The whole Swedish people are a nation oi violin music lovers and critics. King Oscar is regarded as an especially exacting ex-acting critic. Yet he took pains after Miss Jackson's performance to be presented pre-sented to her and say: "I congratulate you on your excellent excel-lent playing, and I thank you for the pleasure you have afforded us." Miss Jackson is a Chicago girl whose musical talent has been developed by Joachim, one of tbe best masters of Europe. At Berlin she also won the Mendels- IsCONORA JACKSON. sohn state prize, which is considered a national honor in Germany. Proof Positive. "What was your father whipping you for last night?" asked one small boy of another. "Oh," replied the other, "we had an argument about my Sunday school lesson, and he was proving to me that the whale actually did swallow Jonah. Troy Times. On the Bridal Tour. "Do you mind if I go out into thf smoking compartment of the car foi a few minutes ?"4 he asked. "You'd better cot go just now," sn replied, suggestively. "We're corn!ni to a tunnel in a 'few minute."--Chicago Post j |