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Show IN BOYAL ATTIEE. QUEER IDEAS OF DRESS AMONQ QUEENS. . a Qaeea TletorU of England the First to Ctcu the Coat a ma Kaform rarer The Empreii of Russia tipends More on liar Wardrobe Than the Other. Some years ago Queen Victoria caught the dress reform fever and joined an association. Although the queeu never astonished her court by appearing in a reformed dress, she thought the idea of some not too radical radi-cal reforms in dress a capital one at least for the other women. Through the queen's influence the princess of Wales and her daughters became interested, inter-ested, and for a brief season Princess Victoria and the duchess of Fife appeared ap-peared upon occasions in garbs that were at least semi-reformed. It cannot can-not be said, however, that they ever became violently enthusiastic upon the subject. During the last fifteen years the princess of Wales has scarcely varied the fashion of her costumes at all. Through the ages of big, puffed sleeves she clung to small ones. For the make of her gowns, the style known as Princess has always been adhered to, and no one has ever seen a picture hat on her head. She wears only those' tignty little bonnets which bear her name. Tailor-made frocks and jackets she dotes on, although before be-fore going Into mourning for her mother she had blossomed out into very stunning toilets. She does not favor the fashion of high shoulder knots, and her ball dresses are made with the old-fashioned court bodice, the shoulder strap drooping on to the arm. The Princess Beatrice's attire is apt to be of the simplest description upon ordinary occasions. One traveler trav-eler on the continent who had a peep at Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice Bea-trice wrote home: "Nothing could be plainer than their gowns." The German Ger-man empress has well defined ideas about dress, and once organized a dress reform order. The empress, however, is too fond of fine dressing to carry reforms re-forms very far. Twelve dressmakers are kept constantly "employed in the empress' tailoring department, as it is called, under the superintendence of a lady of the court. The staff is increased in-creased to forty at certain seasons when court festivities are going on or the empress is preparing for a journey. 31ue and white are, by the way, the favorite colors. The empress buys yearly 100 evening and state dresses, twice as many carriage and visiting costumes, and about 150 deml-toilettes and house dresses 450 frocks all told! The sewing machine is an unknown quantity in the empress' tailor shop. From $25 to $50 a yard is paid for the silks and satins of which her dresses are made. The empress of Russia spends more on her wardrobe than any other lady in Europe. Until and for a short time after her marriage, she dressed with almost severe simplicity, but the ladies of the Russian court took no pains to conceal their disapproval of the empress indifference to splendor of attire, and the result is that her majesty maj-esty is gorgeous now. Queen Mar-gherita Mar-gherita has a passion for dainty handkerchiefs, hand-kerchiefs, and the costliest lace handkerchief hand-kerchief in the world belongs to her. It is valued at $30,000, a not exorbitant sum when one considers that three artists art-ists worked at it for twenty years. It Is so flimsy that it can be folded up and placed in a gold sheath about the size of a lima bean. The favorite dress of Queen Olga of Greece is of blue and white striped or checked domestic silk, these being the national colors, and besides the makers of silk in her realm have not learned to dye It any other colors. The cast-off demi-toilettes of royalty and carriage and house dresses are the perquisites of the head woman of the bedchamber, who, after making a selection for her own use, sells them. They are not allowed to be resold as they are received, but in all cases they must be remodeled so as to obliterate their special features. Actresses are said to be among the principal purchasers. pur-chasers. The woman who has more gowns than any other of this or any other age 2,000, it is said, with 500 women to care for them is the wife of LI Hung Chang. DEAD TREE OR DEAD WIRE. Moat Amulaf Result of an Elaborate Iarea tiga t Ion. Not long ago a prominent citizen of New York went raging into the electric elec-tric light company's office and declared declar-ed that one of their wires had killed a pet tree on his premises. "That tree," said he, "has been standing there for twenty years, and we regarded it as one of the family. My children played under it when they were babies, and It Is associated with some of the pleas-antest pleas-antest memories of my life. When it began to die we all mourned, and we could not Imagine what ailed it until yesterday, when I noticed that a wire was lying right across a branch. My poor tree has been electrocuted, and I feel as if murder had been done in my house." Considerably moved the agent ag-ent of the company went to view the scene of the tragedy, and found the tree still alive, but feeble. When he came to trace the wire he discovered one end nailed to the roof of an old barn and the other twisted around a discarded pole. It had been cut off at least two years and forgotten. But the occasion demanded something, so he made the following report: "Tree alive, wire dead. Wire evidently killed kill-ed by tree. Bill inclosed." New Orleans Or-leans Times-Democrat. Blushes In the Cboir. From the Weekly Telegraph: A young lady In a chapel choir near Pon-typool Pon-typool passed on a note last Sunday to her lover, who was seated In the front row. The choir sat Immediately behind be-hind the pulpit. The note was given to the conductor, who handed it to his neighbor, who, thinking it was something some-thing for the preacher, touched the reverend gentleman on the arm and handed him the bit of paper. The minister min-ister hurriedly opened the note, stared at It In amazement, then grew confused, turned the paper to look at the address, folded It up carefully and handed it to the young man for whom it was intended, in-tended, and then struggled for some minutes to regain hold of the threads of the interrupted discourse. Meanwhile, Mean-while, two scarlet faces In the choir told a tale which set the congregation wondering. Either Side Up. One of the most amusing novelties In the shape of entertainment at after-Boon after-Boon parties at present Is the Impressionist Impres-sionist artist, who executes a clever ketch in oils, generally of mountain oenery, very "Impressionist- in atyle. He then asks his audience whether tier would prefer a "genre picture, and turns the canvas upside down, wfeea it Is discovered that the landscape land-scape U a lady riding a bicycle. i TRAMP TRAVEL. How the Professional Vagabond Oeta A boat from Place to Place. At the request of the general manager man-ager of a large railroad company, Mr. Josiah Flynt, the tramp expert, spent two months recently in Investigating the company's efforts to put a stop to stealing rides. He found that of all the roads in America this one had the worst reputation among the "hoboes." The "railroad fever" is hard to cure, but it Is one that it behooves the companies com-panies to treat heroically. Writing in the "Century," Mr. Flynt says: Can the tramp be driven off the railroads? It WJ9 to satisfy my own curiosity in regard to this question, and to find out how successful my employer, the general gen-eral manager, had been in his attempt to answer it in the affirmative, that I undertook the investigation which I have described. Previous to his efforts to keep tramps off railroads, it had been thought, as he has stated, that it was c-teaper to put up with them, nuisance though they were, than to pay the bills which a crusade against them would occasion. It has at la3t been demonstrated, however, that tramps can be refused free transportation transporta-tion by one of our greatest railroads, wit a saving of expense to the company com-pany and with great benefit to the community, and the time has come when the public is justified in demanding demand-ing that all railroads take a like stand in regard to this evil. If all the railroads rail-roads would agree upon concerted action ac-tion against the tramps, in a few years the following very satisfactory results would be achieved: First, very few tramps, if any, would beat .their way on trains; second, an appreciable number num-ber of them would give up tramping entirely, because their present privileges privi-leges are to many the main attractions attrac-tions of the life; third, a few would try to become professional criminals again, partly out of revenge and partly because be-cause tramping on the turnpikes would be too disagreeable; and, fourth, a large number would take to the highways, high-ways, where some might be made to do farm work, and where au would, at least, be in touch with farm life. The reader may take exception to the third possibility, and think that great harm would come of an increase in the professional criminal class, but, as I have said, tramps really are discouraged discour-aged criminals, and a return to the old life, of which they made a failure, would only land them in the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. It is probably impossible ever entirely to eliminate the vagrant element ele-ment in a nation's life, and no such hope is held out in connection with the reform advocated in this article, but this much is certain: Had all the railroads rail-roads been as close to tramps, during dur-ing my first excursions into Hoboland, as one of them has recently become, one man, at least, would not have attempted at-tempted any free riding, and would not have found so many tramps to study. IN THE "GOOD OLD DAYS." Gentlemen Had Peculiar Ideas of En- tertalnlna; One Another. A physician, Dr. Speed of St. John's was the champion all-round tippler and was specially retained to drink with Cornelius Van Troinp when he honored Oxford with a visit, keeping himself in form by a continuous round of the brandy shops and taverns in company with the butler of Christ church and Rawlins, the plumber, says the Gentleman's Magazine. The iillus-trious iillus-trious admiral, we are told, "was much gazetj at by the boy, who, perchance, wondered to find him whom they found so famous in the Gazets to be at last but a drunken, greasy Dutchman." He proved a difficult guest to entertain according to his likings. He declined the usual doctor's degree as being en tirely out of his element, and when Dr. Fell invited him to dinner, "he desired he might have salt meat, he never using to eat any other, which put Mr. Dean much to it to find that which would please his pallet." The only thing he took kindly to was the choice assortment of liquids that Oxford Ox-ford provided, to the superior strength of which he was forced to veil his flag. "We got a greater victory over Van Tromp here," wrote Prideaux, "than all your sea captains in London, confessing con-fessing that he was more drunk here than anywhere else since he came in England, which I think very little to the honor of our university. Dr. Speed was the chief man who encountered encoun-tered him, who, mustering about five or six more as able as himself at wine and brandy, got the Dutchman to the Crown tavern and there so plied him with both that at 12 o'clock at night they were fain to carry him to his lodging." Hammocks. Hammocks this year are both varied and numerous in design, and also, which is pleasant news, very reasonable reason-able in price. Those of colored twine are perhaps more pleasant and comfortable com-fortable for lying in than the rougher hemp, and jus't as strong. They are wider, less given to tipping and depositing depos-iting their burden on the grass or veranda ver-anda floor, and better balanced than formerly. As there Is nothing so conducive to perfect comfort on a hot summer's day than a pleasantly hung hammock, no one should go to the country without with-out one. In the shops they are showing show-ing tiny ones for babies, and many doctors advocate letting the little ones sleep in a properly hung hammock during the warm nights, on the theory that they are more healthful than overheated over-heated cribs, with hair mattress and feather pillows. "Tents are displayed of all kinds and descriptions. To those In possession of a large lawn or golf links tents placed here and there are oases in a sunbaked sun-baked stretch. Many swinging chairs are fashioned somewhat like tents.and are considered quite a boon for grandfather grand-father or grandmother. Freed His Client by a Trick. A Philadelphia attorney is telling a good story on himself. He had been retained to defend a counterfeiter, and advised him to plead guilty. His client did so, and as there was In the mind of the court a fixed idea that if the urisoner pleads auiltv he does so ne- cause he has no attorney the Judge ' asked him why he made that plea. "Because my lawyer told me to. "Did he give any reason for it?" "Yes. He told me I would have no show before this judge." The court flared up and ordered a plea of not guilty to be entered, en-tered, and the counterfeiter was acquitted. ac-quitted. Why They Don't. -I will admit, she said, "that a woman seldom weighs her words." "No," he replied. "Even scales have their limitations." "Nonsense," she retorted. "Women don't use big wordi." "True," he answered, "bu. they would have to be weighed in suclr large quantities, A YQUNG OLD WOMAN. SHE KNEW GENS. WASHINGTON WASHING-TON AND LAFAYETTE. Mrs. S rata Doroo Terry. 108 Tears Old, of Philadelphia. Tells How She Once Cooked HU Iluner Saw Lafajette, Too. The youngest old woman in America Ameri-ca is Mrs. Sarah Doron Terry, who one hundred years ago, was a demure little Quaker lass. Today she is one hundred and eight years old and Philadelphia's Phila-delphia's oldest inhabitant. Despite her great age her faculties, with the exception of being a trifle deaf, are perfect. When Mrs. Terry reached her one hundred and eighth milestone she joined the Quaker City Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. Her father fa-ther was Stacey Doron, of New Jersey, who served under Gen. Washington for seven years and distinguished himself him-self in the battle of Monmouth. Her husband served In the war of 1812, because be-cause of which she gets a pension. Until Un-til ten years ago she supported herself by sewing fine buttonholes on silk and other gowns of fine fabric. She wears no eyeglasses or spectacles. Her present pres-ent weight is but twenty pound3 less than It has ever been. Mrs. Terry's vitality and intelligence are the marvel of scientist and layman alike. Her recollections of the days of Washington Washing-ton and Lafayette are complete. She can recall events which occurred ninety nine-ty years ago as though they were of recent date. She is bright, quick and witty, and her reminiscences of European Euro-pean court life and early colonial days are full of interest. Mrs. Terry admires ad-mires Queen Victoria as a monarch and mother almost as much as she did not admire her as a child. It was sixty-eight years ago when Mrs. Terry first saw the queen. "I saw her in London at the Kensington Ken-sington Gardens when she was twelve. She wasn't attractive. She was little and too chubby, but she looked real neat and not a bit proud like," she says. Seated in the home of her granddaughter, grand-daughter, at No. 545 North Sixteenth street, Philadelphia, she talked of Washington and Lafayette to a reporter. re-porter. "Gen. Washington loved Philadelphia Philadel-phia and used to live here. One day SARAH DORON TERRY. a messenger came to my mother, telling tell-ing her that the general wanted her to cook his dinner, so I went with her and helped to cook him a nice meal. They did not always have good meals then. My father was once hungry and met Washington. He asked him for something to eat. The general put his hand in his pocket and gave my father fa-ther a biscuit, which he was probably saving for himself. "Gen. Washington was a bonny man, and the American people loved him. Every time he would walk down Chestnut street men would take off their hats and the girls and ladies courtesy. He would bow in a stately manner, and the people would say: 'Ah, what a fine man! What a brave general!' "And then came peace with England Eng-land and the freedom of the colonies. Every wagon, cart or carriage which drove into town had a big sign on it, and every sign said 'Peace.' The city was illuminated and the people cheered, and the pretty girls let the young men kiss them on their return from the war. "I was in Philadelphia when Gen. Lafayette came to the city in 1821. He was a handsome young man, with nice rosy cheeks and black curly hair, and every one seemed to love him. The whole town Was beautifully illuminated. illuminat-ed. The general paraded up and down the streets, escorted by young men who had fought with Gen. Washington. When the general reached the arch he got oft his horse and stood near a stand and saluted all the rest of the soldiers as they came by. In the parade were all the school children of Philadelphia, and each one carried a roll of parchment tied with a red, white and blue ribbon, with 'Gratitude' written on it. As the children came by they laid these rolls at Gen. Lafayette's La-fayette's feet. He was nearly smothered smoth-ered by them. He would take up arm-fuls arm-fuls and press them to his breast, while tears rolled down his cheeks. Those were happy times, and Lafayette was as good as he was great. When T went to Europe I saw his splendid house and estate. It was about seven- teen miles from Paris. A hen I was a girl there was an Indian camp on the grounds now occupied oc-cupied by the big city halL On Sundays Sun-days my father used to take me up to their camp and he would take to them. That is nearly one hundred years ago." Mrs. Terry did not marry until she had reached the age of sixty, when she chose her dead sister's husband for a partner. He lived but a few years after his second marriage. When asked if she thought marriage a failure she said: "I had very little time to think about It when 1 was young, but my advice to all young people is to marry. Do not kbe in too great a hurry. Pick out a partner who is good and then lose no time- I had lots of chances when I was young, but waited until I was satisfied sat-isfied I would be happy. Although I vu lxty years old when I married Mr. Terry we lived very happily. If you cannot find some one whom you can trust and love you had better remain re-main single. It is much better to be G'ngle than have a bad husband or wife. There are plenty of men and women to r.ick anl choose from, and, the only way to secure happiness is to bear with each other both pain and pleasure and sorrow and joy. OYSTER AND SPONGE FISHING. Revolution of the Industry Brought About by Submarine Host., The submarine boat will revolutionize revolution-ize the oyster industry, says Llppin-cott's. Llppin-cott's. When In Chesapeake bay, cruising, the old Argonaut frequently settled down on oyster beds and, with the permission of the owners, procured all the oysters desired by reaching down through the sea door. The new Argonaut can employ this method of gathering oysters, rising to the surface sur-face when the diving room is full, or send out divers, who can place the oysters collected in baskets or receptacles, recepta-cles, which those on the surface can haul up. "When bays or rivers are frozen over and oystermen cannot ply their trade the Argonauts can go under un-der the ice. Fishing can also be carried on easily on the bottom with nets, for the fish have no fear of the object they evidently consider a whale, and swim from every direction toward the glare of the electric lights shining through the ports. Sponge fishing will engage the attention of the first successful submarine voyagers. . Good sponges are becoming dearer, for the supply In-shallow In-shallow water is running short. The divers cannot go deeper than twenty-five twenty-five feet, and the best sponges are found in deep water. To this deep water the Argonaut will go, and, gathering gath-ering the finest sponges, put them on the market at a price no greater than that paid for the common varieties. She will also try pearl fishing, now conducted at an enormous expense of life, for by a strange freak of nature pearl oysters are generally found in localities where bad weather prevails and hurricanes and typhoons are frequent. fre-quent. These the Argonaut, under the water, need not fear, and her divers, instead of gathering up the oysters by the single handful, can gather them by the bushel. WONDERFUL CAREER. Col. M. J. O'Brien, who has been elected to succeed the late Henry B. Plant, has been in the employ of the great Southern Express company for many years. He began as a driver of one of the wagons of the Adams Express Ex-press company, and worked his way up in that service until the Southern company com-pany hired him. Then his real career in business began. Thirty years ago Mr. O'Brien became the private secretary secre-tary of the president of the Southern COL. O'BRIEN. Express company, -and now he is himself him-self the president of that great concern. con-cern. When Mr. Plant died Mr. O'Brien was taking a rest in Europe, but he at once returned to Georgia, and his election as president followed immediately. Col. O'Brien served in the Confederate army during the war, and was attached to the fleet of Commodore Com-modore Poindexter until it was destroyed de-stroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. When the colonel was the superintendent of the Southern company it is said he traveled not less than an average of 30,000 miles the year. What Liquid Air Will Do. Think a kettle of liquid air on a cake of ice tne Ice is so much hotter than the liquid air that it sets the kettle ket-tle a-boiling. Spill a dipperful of it on your best silk dress. You see it saturated. sat-urated. Look again not a mark of moisture. Dip a handkerchief in It; soak it thoroughly. Draw it out dry as can be. Throw a quari on tke floor. Hear It fall, see it spread in a second no sign. Put your finger in It feels like velvet Put an egg in it you'il need a big hammer to break it Mercury Mer-cury becomes as metal drives nails. Iron and steel become as brittle as glass. Potatoes become like ivory balls. Lead stiff and elastic like steel. Rubber ball fragile as an egg shell, MET IN PA1UDISE. I saw Brother Joseph, Brother Bene-dictus Bene-dictus and the young monk Anselmo gathered about my bedside with sad, tear-stained faces. Suddenly a light of more than noonday brightness flooded the little C2ll. I closed my eyes to shut out its brilliancy. "He Is gone," said Brother Benedlc-tus, Benedlc-tus, whose fingers clasped my wrist He listened with ear close pressed against my breast "No, nc" he said, "the heart still beats faintly." The monastery bell began to peal forth the hour of nine; its mellow tones reverberated from crag to crag and ended in little musical tinkles far down the gorge, but ere its last echo had died away my soul had passed out from the mortal body into the vast unseen. un-seen. Free from pain, with a feeling of lightness and buoyancy in every part of my being, I rested in air, an exact counterpart of the body lying on the bed, which even then the good brothers were preparing for burial; the limbs were straightened; the long, slender hands, clasping a crucifix, were folded over the breast I hovered over this bouse of clay which had once been mine, and gazed at it as a gorgeous winged butterfly might look upon the chrysalis from which it had just been freed. Whither am I to go, thought I. Are souls freed from me mortal body doomed to remain forever near It, seeing, see-ing, knowing all, yet themselves unseen? un-seen? I gazed upward, and lo! from unknown un-known heights, with a fluttering of Bnowy wings, a dove descended. Nearer and nearer still it came. I reached forth to touch the gentle creature, ana as my hand re ted upon it we began tlowly to rise. Out from the narrow cell we passed, onward, upward, above the tree-tops, higher and higher, till the river, far below, seemed a slender silver ribbon as it shimmered in the moonlight. The highest spur on the mountain dwindled to a tiny speck beneath be-neath us, and then above, below, in every direction, nothing but space. At length we came to a beautiful green island, dotted over with gardens of poppies, where lotos blossoms gently swayed along the margins of its rlv-i, and the whispering winds murmured their lullabies. Over this island, in letters of never-fading flowers, floated the name, "Dreamland." But my gentle guide paused not to rest on this beautiful island; on and on we soared, till we came to a daz- LED HER FROM THE THRONG, zling wnne city. With walls of polished pol-ished marble, cut in thousands of fanciful fan-ciful shapes, with slender spires and graceful minarets rising on high, this city hung suspended in the air. We approached its walls. Noiselessly, Noiseless-ly, on golden hinges, its great gates Bwung open, and a voice bade me enter. I entered the portal; a flight of marble steps rose before me. ac my feet rested upon the first of these my gu.ae flew from me and alighted on the landing land-ing above, where it sat resting and preening Its wings. As I looked, behold a change. Slowly the dove faded from before my eyes, and in its place the form of a lovely woman stood. She turned toward me with outstretched out-stretched hands. "Thou hast kept me waiting so long, so long, beloved," she said. "Angela!" I cried, hastening towaru her. "Do I at last behold thee? I, too, have grown weary with the waiting. wait-ing. The day. I kissed thy cold lips for the last time, and turned away from the mound of earth that covered thee, my heart did break. In vain tried I to take up the old thread of life so rudely broken. My old pursuits became be-came hateful unto me. No maid, however how-ever fair, could fill thy place; in dreams I saw thee still. Among the holy brotherhood, In comforting the dying and ministering unto the living, at last found I peace. But the way has been long and wearisome." "Yes, dearly beloved," answered Angela, An-gela, "but all that is now ended, and because of thy purity of soul and thy good deeds wrought thou art come direct to the city of the blessed. Look about thee; surely mortal mind could never conceive of such beauties. All this is thine to enjoy forever." Reluctantly withdrawing my gaze from my long-lost ' Angela's face, I looked about me. Glistening white palaces of the same pure marble as the tity's wall rose here and there. "Those," said Angela, whose gaze followed my own, "are our dwelling places, if we wish; but we love better to live beneath the trees. See, are they not grand?" Giant forest trees reared their great trunks on high; fruit trees, laden with ripe fruit, others yet In blossom, were on every hand. "We do not pluck the fruit," said Angela. "We sustain not life as mortals mor-tals do. The trees bear because they are perfect only In their fruiting, and nothing but perfection is found here." Under the arching branches cool avenues ave-nues stretched away in dreamy vistas; fountains of perfumed water scattered fragrance on the air; music from stringed instruments floated on every breeze Flowers blossomed along the pathways; lilies of the valley shoo their tiny bells and mingled their sweetness with the odorous violet "All Is beauty, all is peace," I murmured. mur-mured. "See you not those who dwell here?" asked Angela. Suddenly the place seemed peopled with smiling, harDy beings Old friends whose earth-life had long since ended came toward me with greetings. Kings, warriors priens and poets of all times mingled in the passing throng. Queens and women of humble birth walked side by side, all smiling, haPPy' . . A feeling of perfect peace stole over me. Taking Angela's hand in mine. I . . . n frnm the throng. And iea ner scuj " ty, thou hast never forgotten thine earth-love, earth-love, eweet one?" I. asked. "Nar dearest," answered she. Such lovf as mine and thine lives down through the forever of eternity Oft have I been with thee whetthoi knewest It not When danger threat-ned threat-ned thee, Angela's band did ward it off, and ofttimes guide thy footsteps over rough and stormy pathways." "I seem to have seen thee many times in dreams, my sweet one," whispered whis-pered I. "Truly," said Angela, "between the earth and the City of the Blessed lies a country they call Dreamland, whither we of the city may go at will; out thou, hampered by thine earthly body, couldst travel thither only when the body was in that state which they caa sleep. Inactive, thy senses deadened to all things earthly, while In the state so like unto death, thine inner being, which now hath come to dwell In regions re-gions of light forever, mightest steal away for a brief while to Dreamland, there to commune with other spirits, some like thyself, subject to a summons sum-mons from the waking body, anu taose who dwell in the soul existence only." Thus, listening and marveling as the wondrous beauties of the new life are revealed to me, I wander with my darling dar-ling through Paradise. SELDOM MARRY AGAIN. Widows of Chlcag-o Policemen Remain Single and Draw Pensions. Chicago Times-Herald: Only one per cent of the widows of the Chicago policemen who are left with a pension pen-sion ever marry again. Of 200 women wom-en who have received pensions during the past 22 years only two took a second trip on the matrimonial sea, and both of them married policemen. At present there are 150 women on the pension list whose husbands either died or were killed in the service. This list will soon be increased on account of an act passed by the last legislature, which provides a pension for a policeman's police-man's widow, no matter whether he was in active service or not, so long as she remains unmarried. Heretofore the law has been that If a retired policeman, po-liceman, drawing a pension, should die, his pension died with him. All his widow received from the police department depart-ment was $2,000 life insurance from the Benevolent association. But the pension law recently enacted makes her eligible for her husband's pension, the smallest sum being $500 a year. The amount of a widow's pension depends de-pends upon the rank her husband held In the department. A patrolman's widow receives $500 a year, one half his salary; a sergeant's widow $600 a year, a lieutenant's widow $750 a year, and so on. Mrs. Welter, widow of Colonel Welter, who a few years ago was drillmaster of the department, with the rank of inspector, draws the largest pension of any woman on the list. She receives $1,500 a year. This is perhaps the largest pension received by any woman in Illinois. Next to Mrs. Welter comes the widow of Inspector In-spector Michael J. Schaack, whose annual an-nual pension is $1,400. The oldest pen-sionsr pen-sionsr on the list is Mrs. Nellie T. Mackey, who has been a widow for nearly 20 years. Policemen's widows, it is said, have many opportunities to marry again, because in most cases they are left in fairly good circumstances circum-stances and are sought by bachelors or widowers who have an eye to money matters when casting about for a mate. But from the examination of the pension pen-sion records one is forced to believe that a policeman's widow thinks $500 a year better than a husband. MEAN MAN'S RUSE. How He Used a Big Firecracker to Get a Meat In a Car. New York Sun: A Third avenue elevated el-evated train bound uptown was crowded crowd-ed yesterday afternoon when- a man boarded it at Fourteenth street. He staggered into one of the cars and looked for a seat, but not one was vacant. va-cant. Mumbling to himself, the mat reached into his hip pocket, brought out a firecracker at least ten inches long, and carressed it lovingly. The passengers looked interested, but nobody no-body did anything. Presently the man took out a match and made some unsuccessful un-successful attempts to strike it. Men and women in the neighborhood began to look uneasy, and those standing near moved up the car. The match flashed at last and the man, still mumbling, mum-bling, lighted the fuse and placed the cracker on the floor. There was a sizzle siz-zle as the powder burned toward the inside of the red cylinder, and a stampede stam-pede began at once. As the spark reached the end of the cracker everybody every-body held his breath. A moment later there was a little puff of smoke and a slight pop, like that of a pu....y blower. Then the man put the cracker in his pocket and settled himself back comfortably com-fortably in the seat he had acquired. When the train reached Twenty-third street he was asleep, and there had been a redistribution of seats. Mrs. McKlnley'a Miniature. A gentleman of the Virginia Hot Springs was in the city the other day on a trip combining business and pleasure. He related a little incident connected with President and Mrs. Mo-Klnely's Mo-Klnely's visit to the springs recently. When the distinguished party were taking the train on the return to Washington Wash-ington he, with many others of the village, went to the station to bid them a public good-by, and by their presence to assure them of their appreciation of the stay at the resort After the party had entered the train he happened to look underneath the presidential car, and near the wheels lay something glittering. He reached down and picked up the object, and discovered that it was a miniature picture of a little child set in a heavy gold oval frame. He handed it to one of the trainmen and requested him to hunt the owner aboard the car. The trainman train-man did so and found the owner in the person of Mrs. McKinley. She had not noticed Its loss, and was very grateful for its recovery. Washington Post Scare-Head. Rarely does a "green hand" give the long-suffering editor such an oppor tunity as that below, noted in the Catholic Standard and Times: "Here's a story of a thief," said the enthusl-? astic young and new reporter, who secured a room at a local hotel and robbed other guests of their money. What sort of head shall I put on it?" "Oh," said the editor, "suppose you make It 'Scoundrelly Roomer Gains Currency.' " Cruel. An exchange pictures a erAall boy with a hoe in his hand, saying Insinuatingly Insinu-atingly to his father: "Say, the fish are biting like everything down to the creek." "Well, sonny," says the father, reassuringly, "you jest keep on hoeing potatoes and I guess they won't bite you." Not the One That W Out. "Is the cashier out?" he asked as he looked around. "No," replied the president, as he glanced up from an examination of the books, "the cashier j is not out; it's the bank that's out" WOMEN LEGISLATORS. COLORADO HAS THREE OF THEM AND THEY'RE GOOD. they Form a Very Strong: Trio Better Informed or More Conclentious Members Mem-bers Could Kot Be Found In the Legislate of Any State. (Special Letter.) Three women are members of the Colorado legislature. Their official actions ac-tions have demonstrated that women can fill offices of trust and responsi bility with credit to themselves and benefit to the people they represent. Dr. Mary T. Earry, who has served the past year as a member of the house from Pueblo county, is conscientious in everything she undertakes, and not easily dissuaded from what she considers con-siders right. This conscientious devotion devo-tion to duty and right, in connection with her logical mind and good judgment, judg-ment, makes her a most valuable m ruber ru-ber of the legislature. In 18S7 she graduated in medicine from the Northwestern North-western university of Chicago. Af;er one year in the preparatory school sh? attended in the hospital for one year as house physician, after which she practiced medicine for two years . in DR. MARY T. BARRY. La Crosse. Since 1894 she has been In active practice in Pueblo, where she served as county physician during dur-ing the years 1896-97. She is a member mem-ber of the Medical society there, and is also examiner for the Penn Mutual Insurance In-surance company, and considers the absence occasioned by her attendance in the legislature as a sacrifice of no small moment She is not specially interested in politics, but rather regards re-gards her present position as a sacred trust which she will as sacredly care for and guard. She did not seek the office. It was only through the earnest entreaties of her friends that she consented con-sented to let her name stand. Her life Is a very active one, and while she has always approved of club work and various va-rious organized movements in which Colorado women are engaged, her time has .always been too occupied to permit per-mit her to enter into it. Mrs. Harriet G. R. Wright, one of the two women representatives to the Twelfth General Assembly from Arapahoe Ara-pahoe county, located in Colorado 27 years ago, and has lived in Denver 17 years. Her family consists of a husband hus-band and three grown sons. Mrs. Wright is a recognized social and political po-litical leader, and enjoys the confidence confi-dence and friendship of very many people. Her husband, Mr. Henry Wright, was one of the pioneers of the state, having gone to Colorado 38 years ago.- Mrs. Wright is a descendant on both sides from early colonial settlers of America. Two ancestors in her mother's family, John and Jacob VReeve, came over in the Mayflower. Her father was a .pioneer in Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, as she has been in Colorado. He was a Presbyterian clergyman, was an abolitionist, and alsoone of the founders found-ers and directors of Beloit college, the first college for men in Wisconsin, and he also founded and was one of the first directors of the Rockford Female college at Rockford, ,111. Later he founded the Wisconsin Female college, col-lege, the first college for women in Wisconsin, and was its president for many years. Mrs. Wright's interests, therefore, were all along educational lines in her girlhood, and she has never changed in that respect. After her graduation from Rockford college she taught in that city, and afterward among the freedmen of the south. Later she taught in Columbus, Wis., and while there joined her first club, of which the ReV. Myron Reed was president pres-ident Mr. Reed preached for several years in a church in Columbus, which was founded by her father. Mrs. Wright has one sister, who is superintendent super-intendent of the schools in Drummond county, Wisconsin, and another who is superintendent of the schools in Portland Port-land City, Wis. Mrs. Wright ha3 a keen, logical mind, which grasps a point with marvelous quickness; a thorough knowledge of parliamentary law, and a wide sympathy for and experience ex-perience in reform movements. She has done much to spread those theories of public ownership of public utilities which are now held by a large portion of the people of Colorado. Few women understand questions of public policy MRS. HARRIET G. R. WRIGHT, so well as Mrs. Wright. She is cultivated, cul-tivated, able and fearless, and the women voters are fortunate in finding some one who will so ably represent them. Her special interests have been in the line of educational and labor legislation. She believes that there should be a child labor law. In social and club work she holds several important im-portant offices. She Is described by those who know her as one of the most level-headed and eourageous women in the state. She is not so engrossed in public work as to nave bo tnought for those things considered peculiarly feminine. fem-inine. She loves housekeeping, fancy work, babies and children; is always delighted to get a new recipe for a dainty dessert; takes great pleasure In a. new hat or gown, and is always well dressed. Mrs. Frances F. Lee, the other woman wom-an representative from Arapahoe county, coun-ty, is the wife of Mr. W. Lee of No. 1315 South Eighth street, Denver. Mrs. Lee Is the mother of five children, of ages ranging from 3 to 11, and has always al-ways had them in personal charge, and even now, while in attendance at the state house, helping to frame laws -o Improve the present labor fid municipal munic-ipal conditions, Is never tco preoccupied preoccu-pied to look after the interests of her family. She is popular In her precinct, pre-cinct, socially and politically, and, when elected, received two-thirds of all the votes cast. She has always felt the warmest interest in club work, but ' has been prevented from actively engaging en-gaging in it, owing to home duties. Mrs. Lee has a well-selected library and through all the labor of personally caring for her home and children, she manages to keep informed concerning all the leading questions of the day. She is amply qualif-ed to act in the responsible re-sponsible position she now occupies. She has introduced five bills. She is a strong advocate cf pure air and proper ventilation in school rooms, and considers con-siders that much improvement can be made on the present system, to which she attributes the death of many children. chil-dren. In conversation with Mrs. Lee one cannot help being impressed with her almost remarkable methods or reasoning along the lines of sociological, sociologi-cal, financial and municipal questions, and the great concern she expresses for bettering all conditions that have to do with the raising of the standard of morals and intelligence. She is very optimistic, having all confidence in the future and higher possibilities of mankind generally. It is not likely that a stronger or better bet-ter informed and more conscientious trio could be found in any legislature than the three women members of the Colorado legislature. ELNORA M. BABCOCK. ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS. V Some Interesting; Facts About Fxperl- s nients m Their le. The electric headlight for locomotives locomo-tives has come well out of the ordeal through which it passed while the opposition op-position to the innovation in certain conservative quarters was active, and, especially since it has been made to carry its own little dynamo, and thu3 supply itself with current, is extending its good repute among railroad men, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It has been stated, however, that with all its merits, it has the very serious ob- ' j jection of affecting the visability of the signal lights on the front of the locomotive lo-comotive which carries it. This question ques-tion has been put to the test by a railroad rail-road which has a special interest in its settlement from the fact of its having equipped twenty of its locomotives with the latest form of this headlight The observing party stationed itself at the side of the track, and the locomotive loco-motive bearing a powerful electric light, backed away about two miles, and then started up at high speed. The speed ranged in fact through the different dif-ferent tests, from sixty to ninety-five miles an hour. The signal lights of white, red and green were tried in their usual position (twenty inches back), and then affixed to brackets extending ex-tending out sideways twenty inches from the smokebox. From the somewhat some-what imperfect records of the tests which have been published it was shown that the lights came out much plainer when put on the pilot beam instead in-stead of having them farther away from the headlight. Another great improvement im-provement was developed by attaching to the headlight an extension hood in the shape of a tube stretching out horizontally hor-izontally in front . In using this tube in sizes ranging from four inches to fourteen inches, in different experiments, experi-ments, some most satisfactory results were attained, the color of the signal light being easily distinguished up to a distance of 650 feet. This when they were merely placed in front of the smokebox, instead of at their usual position twenty inches back. But with the sixteen-inch headlight hood, extending ex-tending four inches, green lights, ever with an unusually bright illumination of the headlight, were visible about 1,200 feet away. This further vindication vindica-tion of the locomotive projector is said to have appreciably quickened the orders or-ders for It to supply houses, and to have greatly increased the confidence of railorad men generally in the electric elec-tric light. Spontaneous Combustion Among Paper. Not a great while ago librarians and book lovers In general were discussing the deterioration in the quality of paper pa-per of late years. It is curious to learn from her Majesty's Waste Paper Office that one result of the change of materials materi-als has been a decided increase in lia-blity lia-blity to fire wherever paper waste is accumulated in any great quantity. It is the rarest thing to find paper made of rags nowadays. It is made from wood and other vegetable materials which, chemically, are not very different dif-ferent from the component materials of hayrick. If paper waste is stacked in large masses, and especially if It happens to be a little damp, heating takes place just as with a prematurely stacked hayrick, and spontaneous combustion com-bustion may at any time break out in flame, as it has often been known to do in the farm yard. Of late years the greatest care and vigilance have been necessary to gurd against this. The Elusive Umbrella. When an umbrella Is down It cannot be understood. Philadelphia Bulletin. No one has yet called for the umbrella umbrel-la at the Dixon Candy company's store. Dixon Telegraph. "Do you believe it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house?" "I have had worse luck opening jack pots." Indianapolis Journal. r , "There is one thing that always puzzled puz-zled me," said Tompkins. "Everybody seems to have an umbrella, but who in the dickens buys 'em in the first place?" Ohio State Journal. Grimes The parson said today that cast your bread upon the waters and it will return after many days. What do you think of that? Burns I think that's the difference between bread and umbrellas. When they go they go for good. Boston Transcript. A Lncky Deprivation. A schoolmaster In a village school had been in the habit of purchasing pork from the parents of one of his pupils on the occasion of the killing of the pig. One day a small boy marched up to the master's desk and inquired "if he would like a bit of pork, as they were going to kill a pig." The schoolmaster replied in the affirmative. Several days having elapsed, and hearing nothing of the pork, the master called the boy to him and Inquired the reason he had not brought it "Oh, please, sir," the boy replied, "the pig got better." Costly Clo h Made of Leaf. The pma cloth of the Philippines is made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf. The cloth 13 very expensive. Politeness is a kind of anesthetic which envelopes the asperities of our character, so that other people be not wounded by them. We should never be without it, even when we contend with, the rude. Joubert. |