Show prominent woman suffrage leaders recently called at the white house for the purpose of inviting the president to address the philadelphia suffragists while in that city to make another address after waiting for some time to see him they learned that he had slipped away for a golf game but that be had left behind him a note expressing regret that he would be unable to accept the invitation tradition has it that when benjanim franklin was a lad he began to study philosophy and soon began applying technical names to common objects one evening when he mentioned to his father that he had swallowed some mollusks the old man was much alarmed and suddenly seizing him called loudly for help mrs franklin came with warm water and the hired man rushed in with the garden pump they forced half a gallon down benjamins throat then held him by the heels over the edge of if the porch and shook him while the old man said iffe if we dont get them things out of benny he will be wizened ened sure when thy were out and B Yi jamin explained that the articles eaten were oysters he received a whipping for frightening his parents he then formed forme d a resolution to e ver afterwards convey his thoughts in the simplest language possible thus it was to the good drenching and whipping he got in hs youth that helped to make benjamin franklin such an interesting writer samuel smiles says that character is properly pr opery and is the noblest of possessions it is an estate in the general goodwill good will and respect of men and they who iii invest vest in it though they may not become rich in this worlds goods will and fiad t irk ei reward in esteem andye put aaion fairly fairl y and honorably r aba y F i w won and it is i s right that in life eife good qualities should tell that industry virtue and goodness should rank the highest and that the really best men should be foremost when luther died he left behind him as he sei forth in his will no ready money no treasure of coin 01 0 an any di he was wa so poor at one martof his life that he was under the necessity of earning his bread by turning gardening and clock making yet at the very time when he be was thus working with his hands bands he was the character of his country and was ovas morally stronger and vastly more honored and followed than all the princes of germany A mothers song A few years ago a company oi of indians were captured on the western frontier among them were a number of 0 stolen children who had been with the savages for years year word was sent throughout the regi region abo inviting all who had lost children to come and see if among the little captives they could recognize their own A long way off was wag a woman who had been robbed of her darlings a boy bay and a girl with mingled hope and fear she came with throbbing heart she approached the roup group they were strange estrange to her she came nearer and with wilh eyes filled with mother love peered into their fa a cesone after another but there was nothing in any that she could claim nor was there anything in her to light up their cold fac faces s with the dull pain adin of despair at her heart she was turning away when she paused chocked backed the tears and in soft cleab notes began a simple song sone she used to sing her little ones of jesus and not a line was com corn pleated before a boy and girl sprang from the group exclaiming mammal mammal mamma and she folded her lost ones to lo her bosom so lives a mothers early influence in the hearts of her children b f w f S ft the whole alphabet la Is in this one sentence of 48 letters john P brady gave me a black walnut box of quite a small size two chicago policewoman policewomen police women who have made an investigation report that one woman in every 20 iu in that city is a cigarette smoker among the jewish polish and Ital italian larr women the proportion is much smaller bang only about two per cent mrs katherine hicks grew tired of her husbands laziness and in order to obtain a divorce agreed to pay par him in monthly installments according to papers filed by her lawyer in a suit started in ahe the new york supreme court some ti rifaie e ago mrs FA F A britten wife of 0 U 3 representative britten of chicago went for a tide in an army hydro aeroplane at san diego calif a ew weeks ago being carried to a height of 1000 feet she was delighted with the exper experienc lenca a and declared she would just love to fly all day mrs william rickard of cleveland ohio complained to the court that her husband had branded their wo two year old son on the leg with a red hot half dollar explain explaining i ning that he be did it so the child get lost the judge sentenced rickard richard to three months in the workhouse for his brutal act mrs mary jackson widow of stonewall jackson the Cin confederate federate general died in her year at charlotte N ca C a lev few weeks ago she was a daughter of rev R H morrison Mon lson the founder of davidson college her marriage manage to gen jackson occurred in 1857 after the death of her husband in 1863 dihe he wrote volume of me diio rs f of h his I 1 i c career a r h r t t f ff when mrs sophle sophie levy a wealthy new york widow got to san francisco ago to attend the exposition she decided she would hive have a doctor remove from her face the freckles which had bad annoyed her from childhood A hypodermic injection of 0 narcotic drugs brought on an attack ol of heart disease which resulted in lier her death mrs paul breaune of Li fourche parish la who Is years has more than 1000 descendants including children grandchildren grand children great grandchildren and great geat grandchildren her youngest child is in his and another of her children is living at the age ae of 90 she was married manic d when only 13 she is active and ia able to get about her home without assistance dr L 0 howard of the U S department part ment meni of agriculture believes that the absence of birds among trees frees sprayed with arsenical solutions is due to the fact that there are xe not enough insects to supply them with food rather than to the supposed fatal effects of the poison on the birds directly nearly two thousand years ago the art of weaving must have been iu in an advanced state the earliest chroniclers tell us that wrought silk was brought from persia to greece as early as three hundred and twenty five years yean before christ and was known in tiberius time when a law was wa passed in ia the senate prohibiting the use of plate of massy gold and also forbidding men to debase themselves b by y wearing silk fit only for women silk was at first reckoned equal to gold in valve a aad d was exchanged weight for foi weight mi silk k mantles were worn wom in england by some nob lemens wives at a ball given at kenilworth castle in a 1286 A storm accompanied by hailstones the size ol of baseballs and larger swept o iet missouri a few days ago killing one person injuring jurine in crops to the extent ol of thousands of dollars and causing other serious damage 4 number of towns in the state report thit that water flooded the streets to a depth of several feet A new legal prec prea cadent has been set by bv button burton smith brother of U S senator hoke smith who when a client alter after acting on his advice ablee had been fined or 24 hours in jail for contempt of court at atlanta ga recently pleaded with the judge adge to be allowed to go eo to jail for hall the time in his clients client stead the judge refused to sentence him on the ground that he had committed no offense the pennsylvania railroad will soon equip sill all of its cars with electric pneumatic brakes advantages althe innovation are that the braking po awer Q stant slant conall on all the cars and within a few seconds after the brakes are applied the whole braking power will be exerted throughout the train the old style brakes we are no longer adequate because of the increased weight of modem coaches of steel cons construction traction when theli parents died nearly a hilf half a century ago mrs I 1 W and mrs E S raup sister were separated and after 10 years lost all trice trace of each other recently mrs husband learned at a sale near his home at bloomsburg pa that mrs raup was as living only 12 miles from the home and the sisters were soon afterward brought together for the first time in 39 years for some unknown reason ligh has such an effect on the transmission of wireless messages that until a few days ago when hen by means of improved apparatus the first cist day message was received radio communication between the canal zone and the wireless station st at Ai arlington lington va has been difficult and unsatisfactory heretofore all wireless messages to and from the conal zone 2000 miles from arlington fing ton hive have been sent at night the successful use of the radio system in the day time is expected to save the government a material sum li lal cable tolls A recent session of the village council of 0 freeport III which was ye pe p e sided over by mrs A R canfield the new woman mayor was opened with prayer by a minister thea mayor has announced that this practice will be T continued while she Is s in office the council rejected most of her ber appointments but in TO accordance with her wishes refused to renew the licenses of pool rooms and shooting galleries |