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Show cam I Glory of ItaLlian Cities T5he X t Y women In Italy were famous for learning, and to Inspire the ambition of the sex the states offered prices for such accomplishments, but, through upon historical the influence of the church and politifacts, like that of cal leaders, learning among women Hamlet. Many of began to decline, and we hear noththem, it has been ing more of scholarship among that found, were taken sex until Maria Caetanna Agnesi apfrom a volume of peared at Bologna. She was one of tales written by the most extraordinary women of all an Italian monk.. hlEtojry. .Her father was professor of Romeo and Juliet, mathematics Jnthfe University of Bofor example, actually lived and died logna. where, she : was, born In 1718. in the manner described, because a ,rhcn nine .cars old she wrote a book feud between their families would notf in Latin on' the. Responsibilities of aiid. advocating the jjenr.lt thaai to marry. "The Comedy AvomaBhqtjd, Etron--'- ' is based upon incidents, of ! "hither, vducation 1 'of! women; when actual or: :rrence, while Shylock was 13 e'ue wrote and Teadn'.nn languages, a notor.i iis money lender, whose j and ..whbn .18 they callhd' her the 1ou;:m in Venire is still pointed out to.. walking pnlyhit, beotfusef there was t.iuists. It Hands in the old mar- -' no language that she did not know. ket p.nce, near tl.e Ilia to, where there She u'cd to appear before tho learned is a tribune from which waj proclaimof Italy nd read papers on ed the edicts and the eubjofta. She. wanted to beof the government, and opposite is the come anun, 'hut the Entreaties of her oldest church in Venice, which is said father pefluaded her to renounce her to have been built as early as the inclinations, and she retired from soyear 520. ciety and gave herself up to study The ghetto, or oil Jewish quarter, 1b until her learning was something near by, where a colony of exiles from marve'ous. Her memory was so reSpain hare heed living ever since tentive that she could quote pages of ' their expulsion from that country by figures and could give the 'data. of any the inquisition. The streets are the historical event offhand. narrowirt. the buildings are the highThe. French ambassador, M. Camille est, and the tenements are the most l'arrcre, speaking at a reception ' of crowded of all Venice, and at on the French colony at Rome, took octime all persons of Jewish birth were casion to allude in the most friendly compelled to live within certain limits terms to the relations between Franca and wear a certain dress. They were and Italy. He complimented Italy on never persecuted, but have been al- the astonishing material progress lowed to worship in their own way made by that country during the last and transact any line of business. The year, declared that there waB no longsame quarter is still orcupied by Jew-iser any Mediterranean problem between the' two countries, and added families, although the descendants of the contemporaries of Shylock that' all other vital questions had now own and occupy some of the richlikewise been settled on a lasting and est and most beautiful palaces upon satisfactory basis. the Great Canal. The city of Florence, now containThe story of Shylock and the pound ing some. of the most beautiful buildof flesh is found in the book of tales ings in Italy; notably the noble church referred to, and Portia la a pen por- of Fanta Marla della Croce, with the trait of I.ucretia Cornaro, the first statue of the poet Dante adjoining, woman lawyer in the world, who re- was originally a small trading village, c. ceived a degree of doctor of laws from belonging to the Etruscan city of whence merchandise was sent the University of Padua, where she waa educated, and afterward lectured down the Arno to Fisa, then a seaon law. Her biography has been pub- port. When coloriized by the soldiers lished. Her family waa famous, and of Sulla, it gradually' attained the .digproduced three cardinals, who are nity of a city, with the rank and priv' burled at the church of San Salvador. ileges of a munlcipium, and haa unwere qwwas a native of Venice and a rela- dergone all the vicissitudes that'ml'ddle tive of Katrina Cornaro, the Venetian the fate of Italian cities of the belle, who married King James of ages. It is rightly called the Thoueh the greatest Cyprus somewfiere about 1470, and Pars of Italv. when, by his death. In 1489, abe InherItalian poet died at Ravenna, the city ited the throne, she annexed her king- of Florence has the finest statue of dom to the Venetian republic. Dante that has been erected to his In the same century fifty or sixty memory. (Special Letter.) LL Shakespeare's are more tales or less founded m-iclit- i e ht Fie-sol- to-d- ay TWO MADELINES - By JOHN GASTON (Copyright. 1902, by Daily Stor If ho loved! us wny did he leave ua? asked the child, with that logic which exists only in the unwarped minds of children of all ages. Even harder to answer than that unanswerable question were the sincere blue eyes raised with questioning look to her own; And Alice Newcomb, as If seeking an answer to give the trusting child, whose head nestled so lovingly on her bosom, looked out of the window to the sunshine and the birds and all the pretty growing things and sought in vain, for an answer. Why had he: left them? The question that bad never left her mind by night or day for five years; the harquestion assing, stinging, burning which it seemed to her was branded into her very soul. Her last thought each night, h$r first at dawn, haunting her dreams by night and her work by day, never, forgotten, always unanswerable: Why had lie left them ? The village, had known no happier Rs home, had never contained within ' boundaries a prettier or cosier nest than the cottage where now sat' the lonely woman with the winsome child in her lap. i The sunshine peeped through the honeysuckle and into the roomwherethese two sat, just as John Newcomb had known it would when with his own hand he had planned and built the little home, full of hopes and purposes for the future. Their married life had been of unusual and perfect content. 1 .overs for many years, they had waited Until Johns prospects as a partner In the firm of Newcomb & Miller, carpenters and builders, gave them assurance of financial safety and then they, bad married and settled In the prettiest of cottages almost before Alice could believe It true. Three happy years had they spent In their home, during which an added Joy had come to them the little golden-haire- d girl whom they bad named Madeline. She was a beautiful and an Ideal child, born of the love of a perfect and a happy home and her coming had filled to the brim the cup of happiness which life held to the lips of John and Alice Newcomb. John Newcomb was a manly man; as the men said, who worked for and with him, he waa every inch a man, And with every Inch of his many inches, for he was more than six feet tall, did he love his girl, Alice, and his baby, Madeline. To all that was rough and burly and bftrty in him, did the dainty little girl appeal, with the unconscious strength of childhood. The first word and the first step and the first tooth were events never to be in John Newcombs, life, so tightly about his heart did the little Madeline weave the meshes of love, giant meshes woven by baby hands. The partnership prospered, the cottage was almost entirely paid for, and JohnB reputation for the practical part of his work, as well as the theoretical, for he had been known as an excellent draughtsman, grew apace, and was the source of some modest pride to John and of much wifely pride to Alice. The of John at night was the joyful part of the day to all of them, and aa the little one grew to more of the pretty ways and words, of babyhood and childhood, more and more did John look forward to the restful evening time at home. One night, it waa soon after Madeline had reached her third year, and had had a beefday party, something hap pened that had never happened before. John did not come home. Never before had such a thing oc- . . for-gott- ei bome-comlr- .g ADMIRAL BROWN'S NICKNAME. Short of Spud" amd IIo Roao to tho Ocraalon. Admiral George Brown, re- la Ship Was liner bound for San Francisco hove in sight, half hull down in the dis- tance, plowing eastward. Signals to heave to immediately blossomed from Rear tho foretruck of the frigate, but the tired, carried a nickname during the liner was in a hurry and did not atop. last twenty years of his naval career Bigger signal pennants flew from the that stuck to him closer than that of frigate, but still the .liner, sped onalmost any other officer In the serward contemptuously. The' next movice. He was known to every officer ment a solid shot went richocheting and man, from Rear Admirals own of the passenger boat,, and ahead along to berth-dec- k cooks, as Spud" Brown. in answer to this summons the vessol This is how he earned his sobriquet: hove to, while her waited In Years ago, when he was only a amazement for the skipperto draw frigate up commander, he was a skipper in one and send a boat alongside. of the old wooden frigates which were Instead of announcing a declaration carrying the flag across the Pacific for of war Captain Brown's emissaries, service on the China station. The old who came alongside in a cutter, took vessel got In the doldrums, and to Captaiu Ilrown'a compliments .to tha make matters worse, her machinery master of the liner, and with an indidn't work very well, and at the end quiry would the merchant captain be of several weeks the messes forward kind enough to part with a supply of and aft found themselves almost In spuds for cash to relieve the sufferthe middle of the ocean with little ings of a lot of hungry more to eat than the regulation salt men. The remarks of the merchant horse, hardtack, "beef and bully, captain are not on record, but the and otker articles of spuds were produced, and Admiral diet All hands had a mighty hanker- Brown will be known aa Spud ing after spuds, by which nama tho Brown until he dies. Irish potato !a affectionately cherished by mariners Superstitious New Yorker carry g Soon afterward a big mall round veal bone for good lack. man-o'-wa- scurvy-produci- ng trans-Pacif- lc rs I'uli r. : t i aud perfect day that hud been granted her. Five years uf torment had she lived through, and yet, John had not come. The lute for her child and his hud held her to life and sanity; the work of her hands, witL some aid from her friends, had kept the little ful home. The fall of a heavy stone archway In the building where he had lingered alone that night, going over the work of his men, a crash of stone and brick upon a man when none were by to see and tell of it. hours of lying 'unconscious iu the darkness In the chill October night, had blotted from this man's mind all memory of the past. When in the early dawn' ec asciommess returned his mind was as totally without' memory as that of the newborn' babe. The home that he hipl built, those dearest to him, the center of all hjs thoughts and hopv-- , t fie. struggles and the ambitions of the past, were air as .though they had uot been. In the chill gray morning he arose as one whp dreams, walked aimlessly through the deserted' streets and- when a lumbering freight train drew beavll.into the little station!' without .idea of time or place or season he climbed aboard and was borne westward. - ' About the fire lu a miner's cabin In the far west sat four men. They were dad in rough clothes and were lounging about in the easiest attitudes that occurred to them, finding comfort in their pipes of toliacco after the hard . to her rest Poor Alice. It was the last peace As she run Inward keeping dose after worm ii Mi ; ped out porch under the to h t: "Madeline. com- liuui-ysuekl- the walk in front, her playfellow, e on to the broad and called It's supper time. in a flash the Mjilc'.iiie Madeline! curtain of ilarknesa lifted from the man's brain and the life that he had forgotten all came back to him. The magic word, the name of hisVwd little girl, spoken by another mother to another Madeline was the key that started again the wonderful wheels of memory. The joy of feeling, remembering, of living was his again. The woman on the porch waa almost f lightened wln-- she saw the strange, rough man take her little girl ln'his arms and kiss her passionately. And the ehitd was frightened, too, at the expression on the man's face so fierce, so passionate, as he compelled his recreant memory to bring back to him that which It had hidden all these years. He turned and left the child, who rah. to her mother, nut a little shaken by her strange friend's actions. Four daya later the darkness- was titrat'd tolight and the mourning to Joy And "Mb own Madelines had been answered. Aud a week later from the' Madeline in the east to the Madeline In the west there came a box containing the most beautiful of French dolls, and with It was a note which explained how sho of the west had found a father for she of the east - WATER FOR THE HOLY CITY. Now Suppliml by k System of MiNlorn Deulgna, The Holy Laud has its railways, electric lights and American windmills, and now Jerusalem is about to get a Supply of good drinking water. In ancient times the city of David was well supplied. The remains of equeducts and reservoirs show this. But since the Turk's day the people of Jerusalem have been dependent on the scanty and often polluted acn cumulations of rain water in the cistern beneath their feet. Even thia supply has recently failed, says acorrespondcntof the London Times, owing to want of rain. Distress and sickness became so general that the Turkish governor has at length been Induced to sanction tbe purchase of Iron pipe to bring water from Ain at Salah, or the "sealed fountain, Solomon's pools, about nine miles south of Jerusalem. A pipe alx Inches in diameter will bring 8,000 "skina of water a day Tor distribution at "fountains'' supplied with faucets. Solomon, in his famous "Song.7 speaks of this secret spring, now turned to use. ' "My beloved, he saysas quoted like by the Timed correspondent,.-ia spring shut up, a fountain healed. It Is a subterranean spring, which1 has, from the time of Solomon, flowed through the arched tunpel built by him to the distributing chamber or reservoir npar the northwest, corner of the highest of Solomon's pools. Half a century ago the location of this hidden" spring which was still, as in Solomon's time, flowing into the reservoir mentioned, was unknown. The tunnel is roofed by stones leaning against each other like an inverted V, the primitive form of the arch, which Is also seen in tbe roof of the queen's chamber of the groat pyramid. The entrance to this tunnel from the spring is one of the oldest structures In existence. The piping is to lie laid along the old aqueduct which formerly, from the time of Solomon, brought this same water to the temple area. There are eleven or twelve ancient fountains here and there in the city, long unused, but nuw to be utilized, and from which the water may he drawn free to all, several taps being attached to each fountain. Baltimore Sun. rock-hew- s deep-down work of the day. One of these men,, somewhat differing in appearance from the rest, sat a little apart His face; was fine and there were lines of suffering. But the unusual thing about the face was the expression in the eyes; they were kind and sad eyes, but unless he spoke directly to another, an expression, not of being hunted, but of hunting, dominated them. As if they wen; always seeking and never finding This was John Newcomb. His companions called him odd and talked of him among themselves, always ending by saying that there was something wrong no doubt about that. That man had a past. And yet the great goodness of the man forbade their thinking any evil of him. No man in or half as camp was so enduring of hardship or trouble as was John. It was the month of October and the mountains wore their purple and golden haze, preparatory snowy winter garb. Soon the little cabin would be snowed in and communication with the town shut off. In anticipation of this time two of the men took a journey to town about this season of each year and purchased the necessary supplies for the coming cold weather. John was almost always one of these, for his knowledge of household economy was of value in making the purchases. Several days were occupied usually in this journey and this little period of change and activity was welcomed by these men of the mountains and the woods. One evening while his "pard was absorbed in a game of cards, where the bagB of gold dust lay thick upon the table, John wandered away through the streets of civilization.. The sun was just resting on the horizon before it bade good-nigto the pretty little mountain' town. And up and down the street, lined with grucefuj trees and cogy homes, were to be seen tha children in their happy play. 'And. the hour was full of peaceful foreboding' that the twilight' brings to the tired son of man. . But of these things about him John seemed to have little knowledge or care, until one of the homes he passed by seemed for a moment to attract him. It waa a low cottage d standing la the midst of a lawn, and over its windows climbed and bloomed the honeysuckle. The sight of It stirred something In the breast or brain of this man, aa if a dream forgotten had almost come back to him. He looked again at the house and from the rear of It chaelng joyfully in pursuit of a playful spaniel, kind-heart- ed ht He rose as one who dreams. ' cprred. He was superintending tAe work of A handsome school building In a neighboring city. It was a contract the firm had been proud to get, and he had gone down to supervise the work In person, coming home each night As the hours went by Alice first became alarmed, but her perfect faith In John and her confidence that nothing but the missing of his train could have delayed him, soon quieted her fears, and like the Innocent baby, she soon went child, very fall golden-haire- d Jrruiilrui It . , a to look upon. flower-decke- History of Irish Poplin. Lady Carew, who died the other day, waa a benefactress of Ireland in this way: She was the first person to wear In Paris an Irish poplin dress. It waa in primrose yellow with a design in gold thread, and so much admired that the foremost ladles at the court of thd Tuilleries asked her where she bought the poplin, and, upon learning the address, wrote for patterns. Marie Antoinette ordered one in lavender, enriched with a gold pattern; the Princess Marie one in blue and silver, and Princess Clementine one In pink and silver. Irish poplin was first manufactured .in Dublin by Popeline, a It became the Huguenot, refugee. was and greatly worn on occarage sions of ' high' .ceremony, as rain did not spoil it Poplin became a favorite dress for the public promenades at .fashionable hours. All its French imitations, tbe wool being less carefully treated, cockle and lose luster when exposed to the least shower. Balzac dresses some of his grand ladles in poplin. The Princess Clementine wore a plaid poplin gown the day the late Queen Victoria first landed at Treport to visit Louis Philippe and Marie Amelia at Eu. Irish poplin la still much worn by the children of the wealthy, and is thought to go well with Irish guipure. London Neve. Thoroughbred dogs are less intelligent than mongrels. . |
