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â- MPOV THE VERY LATE5T FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. latcrcstiag lUnu Aboat Our Own Coaatry, Qraat Brluin. th« United SUtes, uut AU PvU of Um Qlob*. Coadensc<l and AMortcd far Easy KemMag CANADA. There are 6W coavLcta in Kingston Penitentiary. The Cabinet has fixed Thursday, Nov. 26th. aj TUanlugiTing Day. ' Chatham haa been lowered in class by the Fire Underwriters' Association. A propoaal ia ma4e to turn the Me- ohanics' Institute at Ottawa into a free library. Tbconaa Brid^jer was sentenced to four jeaxs in Kingston at Berlin on Wed- nesday for embezziement and forgery. Prairie fires are raging in many parts uf Manitoba ami the light of them can be seen in Winnipeg. A pardoD has been granted to Mc- Ifahod, who L3 in Kingston Peniten- tiary on a conviction of murder. Hon. Dr. Borden in^>ected the var- ious oailitary institutions of Kingston and will prepare a report on them. Mr. Paulson, Provincial Governn^nt agent, left Winnipeg i(a Iceland to pro mote immigration from that coun- Flfty thousand dollars' worth of 5 per cent. Niagara Falls sewer deben- tnres were sold to the Imperial Bank. The City Couaici'l of London has adopted plans for the new sewerage system, which will cost about liUO.OUO. Mr. A. J. McColl. Q.C., of New West- minster, has been appointed Judge of the Supreme Court oC British Colum- bia. Joba Flynn was seriously scalded by the ezploGioa of a steam heater at Flynn Brae, canning factory, St. Catha- rines, cm Wedneeday. The contract has been let for the MDStructLon of tbe Manitoalin and North Shore raLway, to run from Little Current to a Junction with the Can- adian Pacific railway. The Canadian Gcivemment have giTen full assurance to ttk^ir friends in Lon- don of their intention to nx,iiw. strenu- oos efforts tu people the vacant lands of tile great Nortb-West. Tiw Executive Ooomiittee of the Ot- tawa Art Association suggests ttte erec- tion of a building; whicQ would serve â- a a temple of suience, art, literature and music at the capital. Judgment for 9^U0 and costs was re- covered by ex-Manager Nelles of the Hamilit<m Urimsby and Beamsville Elec- tric Railway in his suit against the sonopany for dama^vs for wrongful dis- missal. Capt. Dunn, of the Dotninion cruiser Petrel, on Wednesday seized 150 Ameri- can giU nets which had been sec in Lake Krie tweWe miles west and soutii of Cut Lights, "nie nets arc valued at •500. Police Officer '3roadbent. of Mont- real was fined 9^ and dismi:ised from the force for shooting a man liQ the arm. He said h« wanted tu frighten the man. knowing him to be a danger- ous character. Two Indian women were killed near the Blood reserTe, MacLeod. The same Indian who killed iliu Indian and at- tempted to kill A^nt McNeill is th« murderer, the victims being his moiber and sister. Mr. E. 0. Meredith, formerly L'ndep- Secretary of State, and Mr. Nuxon, pro- vincial prisoo inspector for Ontario, have lj«wn st'leited as comuiissiuuers by the Dominiuo Goveruuicnt to enquire into the workings of the Kingston Pen- itentiary. Ez-Ald. James W^ilson, one uf the ln-at tctiown citizens of Halifax, N. S.. died suddenly. He was one of the lust of the eighteen survivors of the steam- ship LouduD, which foundered in the B&y of Biscay in 1866, whan iW lives were lost. Sir. Robert Christie, InOTector of On- ario Insane Asyluxus. and Mr. Kivas Tully. arthi'ect au<l fuginoer, have paid X short visit to Buffalo and lnspei't.xi .'he internal fittings of the Buffalo State hospital for the insane. John Fabey, ex-detective, uf Mont- real, who was sentenced to fourteen .vears in the penitentiary for robbing the Grand Trunk station, has l)een pardoned, having served about eight It is intimated that in consequence of the judgment of the Supreme Court in thrt ILsheries case, which declares that tbft inland fisheries belong to the prov- iiKe.s, tJiere will be a sutitantial claim against the Dominion by the provinces (or cumpensatioo. . C. C. Condie, the night ageat of the Canadian Pacific rpiiway at l>ak Lake station, Selkirk county. Manitoba, diis- appeareil on Tuesday- night, with an ex- press package coutajming more than $3.- 000 Uominiud Expre&s Cwnpany's funds. Hei had come from Chicago to take the place of a striking operator. GREAT BRITAIN, vdy Scott, who is ch,irged by hex son-in-law, Earl Hussell, with criminal libel, has been committed (or trial. Tiie Executive Committee of the Na- tional I^iberal Federation has issued a statement expressing profound regret at Lord Rosebery's resigitation. The Lcmdou Times expresses the 1«- lief thit tie rival olaiuis of Sir Wil- liam Harcourt aud Mr. Asquitb for t.he Liberal leadership will compel the re- •aM of Mr. Gladatuue. Lord Charles Beresford has announc- ed his intention to contest the seat in the House of Conunons for the eastern l division of Bradfoid, made vacant bv the death of Mr. Reed. Martin Nolan and William Moran were each sentenced in London, Eng., I on Wednes»lay to sLx inotnhs' imprison- ment for attempting to obtain $2,500 from an American named William Statu- by means of a confidence trick. It is rumoured in London that the British Government hud no desire to have Tynan extradited, as has liberty jvAS part of the price paid for reveal- ing the dynamite p!ot. Ivory is likely lo be made the scapegoat of the whole affair. A letter written by Sir William Har- court to a jiersonal friend declares that the Ajmenlau tiue*tion is finally set- tled. This is supposed to mean that a working agreement has been reached between Russia, France and Great Brit- It is learned that the eoafsreace on Saturday between Lord Saliabufy, Mr> Joseph Chamlierlain, and Sir Juilan' Piuncefote on the Venezuelan qumtion was very satisfactory, and it is hoped that an agreement wiM be reached with the United States before the end of the month. UNITED STATES. Philadelphia will send a team of cricketers to Eng'land next season. A receiver has been appointed for the property of Rose Coglilan, the actress, at New> York. W. J. P.ambusch, a Junea, Wis., bank- er, has disappeared leaving liabilities estimated at i200,000. Mary Moore, wonh 950,000 has been convicted at Columbia, Tenn., of steal- ing SLX turkeys and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. Tie Watertown, N. Y., city steam roller fell through, the First Mill street bridge on Wedne«*day morning, killing Engineer Lutier Smith. The New York Evening Pont sug- gests that the United States Venezuel- an Commission may report thivt no trne boundary line ever did exist. Blichael Freeman has been adjndged insane at Suequehanna, Pa. A medical commisaian reports be has been in a stupor for years, and insensible to pain. Western Un-in Telegrapb Co. re- ports at New York for the year end- ing June 30th, show a net revenue of 922,612.736. an Increase of 9397,712 over the year before. The Republican Executive Committee in New York are confident tl»t McKin- ley and Hobart will be elected. They will receive 370 electoral votes, while Bryan will tmly receive 100. The Sherbourne, Minn., bank robbers, who murdered three persons, have been positively identified as J. H. and L. Kelliker, 18 and 23 vears old. Tbeir parents live at Rick tlapids, Iowa. Mark Meyerwitz, a Hebrew boy,aged seven, fell five stories, to a fl.-vg pave- ment in Essex Street, New Vo.-t. on Thursday and jumped up, when bis mother came, to tell her he wa« not dead. Not a bone was broken. Over 9110.000 was contributed in jewellery, securities and cash during !.x.sr Sunday's service in Carnegie H:ill. New York, in connection with the l.'Jth annual convention of the Christian Mis- siooary Alliance. One man gave 9SO.00O tn stock. GENERAL. Herr Bruckner, the celebrated Ana- trian music composer, is dead. General Sir H. H. Kitchener, with his staff, has arrived at Cairo from Don- gola. The Sultan has sent Emperor William a letter of thanks for the Kaiser's photo. It is stated that the Sultan has sign- ed an irade promising State reforms for the whole of TVirkey. The AustrlanWarliament favours the form.ation. by the powers, of an inter- national Court of Arbitration. A deepatch from Havana sajrs the sick and mounded among the Spanish soldiers on the Island of Cuba num- ber 4.200. Despatches received in Havana from Pinar del Rio say that the insurgents, under Antonio Mjiceo, have suffered a, severe defeat. Mail advices from Madagascar say th^t rebellion i« general thromghout t he icdand, and that some of the French j,pM-|<.r<i btive been killed in the open ron<ls. An official despatch from Manilla, ci; icil i>r the riiilippin*' Islands, an- nounces I hut the rehellion in the l.s- l.-ind of Mindanao, the second largest of the group is ended. Th^ Unired States Minister at Con- stantinople has I(vlged a claim for 9)0,000 against the Turkish Govern- ni<>nt on Vn-hnlf of the mother of Frank Lonz. (h^ hicycllst who was murdered by the Kurds. SCHOOL GARDENS IN RUSSIA. nawthe Vaanc Idea I* Tnasht <•> !*l><>«t In Ifce «'xi«r'< «'»nii»ry. A very interesting feature of pri- mary education in Russia \s the estab- lishment and rapid development of sm.ill farms, orchirds, and kitchen gar- dens in connection with m.iny primary acJiools, especially in the villages. The land for such mod* 1 gardens, or farms on a small .scale, was mostly ob- tained through free grants from the village communes and, occ;ujionally. from the neighlwring landlords; while the expenses are covered l>y very small money grants from the country and district Councils, (zem- irtvos). To take one province in south Russia, namely, V^katerinoslav, we see from the biennial report, just issued, that not only has almost every school .Tjid orchard and kitchen garden for the use of the schoolmaster, but that nearly one-half of the schools in the province. 227 out of 504, are already in possession of small model kitchen gardens, orchards, tree plantations, or farnw, at which gardening, sylvicul- ture, and sericulture are . regularly taught. The teaching is mostly given by the schoolm;isters, who themselves receive instructions in these branches at courses voluntarily attended in the summer or occasionally by some practical sfiecialist oC the neighborhood. The province of Ekaterinoslav being mostly treeless, special attention is given to tree plantations and. next, to silkworm culture. The aggregate area of the 227 school farms or gardens at- tains 283 acres, and they contained, in l?95. 111,000 fruit trees and 238,300 planted forest trees, nearly 14,000 of the former jind 42,000 of the latter hav- ing been distributed free among the pupils during the same year. The money grants for these 227 gardens were very .smallâ€" i.e., a little over three hundred pounds (£314) Besides over a ihouiiiind beehives arc kept, partly by ; he sehoolmo&ters and partly by the .'hiklien ; and some schools had vin(>- yards in connection with them. This movement has widely spread over dif- orent provinces of central Ruasiti. where the culture of cereals dominates • it the school farms ; while in Ca'uca- lia attention is especially given to h- silkworm culture and the culture I'' the vino. DO FISHES SUFFER PAIH ? titnmrrmtlj Tk«y da nM, -Humftt Tkcy Are la Maay Mtnptttt nnt Hcaaitlva. All flabee have nerves, and in .lome respects fishes are extremely sensitive. A fish that has barie<l itself in .und >r mud so comfdetely that only the tip of its tail fin je above ttw bottom will feel that upon the slightest touch and instantly dart oat of ita sandy bed. A fish is very sensitive to move- ments in the water surrounding it. A shadow falling upon the water will otartle a fish into flight. Bu* sensitive aa fishes are in .'some respects, it is probal>le that they do not suffer pain from injuries received. Fishes are extremely sensitive at the nose. A fish that had in pursuit of prey run it* nose against a rock might shake its head violently, perhaps in pain ; but fishes sustain serious injuries from actnal wounds without showing any indication of pain. In fact the in- dications tends to show that they do not suffer. A fish that has been hooked by an angler, but has escaped, perhaps carry- ing off a hook in ita mouth, may a few mmiues afterward bite again at another hook. Such instances are not infre- quent. In such cases the hook would probably be concealed b^ the bait and tjie fish would not be likely to see it, but the fact that it is ready to take the bait shows that it is continuing to feed, which it would scarcely do if it were suffering great pain. A shark from whose body ail the viscera had been removed has continued to feed. Sensitive as fishes are about the no.ie, many of them use the nose in pushing stones and gravel about in building a nest for the female to spawn in.- 'fhe salmon notoriously often wears its snout down to the bone in excavating a cavity for a nest, and often it wears off its tail to a mere stub in brush- ing out stones and gravel. Yet such fishes frequently recover from their injuries and return to the ocean. Timid and sensitive as fishes are in some respects, they fi^ht one another vigorously. In such tights they may receive injuries that might be describ- 1 as terrible. To these injuries they may pay so little attention that after le fight is over they go on with their feeding or with whatever occupation they had been enga^red in. Injuries which would throw a human t>ein^ into a state of helplessness do not interrupt the current of fish life. The fish may afterward die from its injuries, bat apparently it does not suffer piiin from them. The telegraph messengers in popobous French towns use bicycles for Lbe dis- tribution of their te^grams. GETTING EVEN WITH HIM. â- aw a I'aaas BasllKhmaa C«l M«aare With a Swiadlrr. It is always gratifying to one's sense of justice to see the t;ibles turned upon a would-be swindler. Mrs. J. G. Jebb tells the story of .a yoimg Englishman who was travelling in Mexico. One Don Manuel represented to him the immense value of a certain silver-mine, with whdch circumstances compelled him to p:u-t. But his friend should see and judge for himseif I ihu- two men were accordingly lowered a short distance (ntu the shaft and the Engli^uijn was bo pJea.sed with the jppearance of tht ore that he gave his check for half the purchase price. l.at- er, he felt moved to explore hio invest- ment farthe-, and going alone to the mine, hired an Indian in the vicinity to lower the cag;e. He speedily discov- «ire<l thiit the mine was lull of water! iutiing into imme<iiate acliun a p!an of revrisal, he sought Don .Manuel ami exprecised his desiire to visit the shaft ^g.un, to which tUe Mexican reluctant- ly y 'Wrd. !'hi' liidiiu wa.s again hired to lower the cage, Don .Manuel, at the Kugi:shm.>u s instance, giving the re- quisite instructions. The Englishman thi.'U politely motioned the older man to h3, seated. Il-irdly h.id he done so, when the In- dian, in obedience to a gc-itun- from hs Sf-'Cret patron, began turning the wind- lass. In vaiu ]><jn ManL^ i cuireuif i and threatened, till bis voice arose faint- ly_ from far below. Thi^n the cage was drawn up to with- uri ,; f.'w feet of the surface and the Englishman demanded of its drenched occupuit I ho surrender of the check. Evidently the young man meant busi- ness, iind without a word, Don IManuel yielded. " Now you can come out. I hojie you have not token a chill *" inquired the Englishman, courteously. amm mmmm. TEE RETIBEO BUB6LAA 0AJi6EBeOS SAIi«- OF CHIRAlfBN IN AMERICAN CITIES. MaeieUm •rsaalictf (a aardcv. Meal. %k- < Wka< â- a»9«B«d la MIb Sac %lgiu Saw* ,.-^. . IfljBcM eieilaav ,» " I'm fond of lobsters," said the r*- tired.buTglar, " bat I like 'em best cook- ed. Aad, Hywaking- of 'em cooked, cIm dart WttHMB. rrntect Crlailaal* sad | heat way to aat lotMCam is stewed. Yoa Caaiailt «(her « rlaiea-laa toaiaiaal- ; take good lively freah lobsters and boU H.\N1>SEWING. It is a curious and pretty reversion to the customs of our grajidmotJiers that a.s8ail8 the woman of to-day. Not only do we find knitting usurp- ing a place long occupied by lace and embroidery, but what generally goes under the name of jjKijn needlework is no^v taking its placp alongside the fint' arts. M.ichine ww'ing is no longer to be thought of iin connection with ling- erie. Indeed, it is quite impossible for the silk garme.nts so much affected by the smarter women of to-day. After so long a lapse of plain needle- work into desuetude, some extra stimul- us was necessary to bring wom- en back into the good oh! ways; and one of thosa clev- er women who foresee the signs of the times grasped the situation and start- ed classes in sewing, thus inaugurat- ing the fitshiun. The prices demanded for these lessons are on a level with those paid for music, dancing, paintintr or any other art, $1.50 for a naif hour's, private lesson being the least that is paid. Cl.as9e,s for teaching sewing as a fine art to the little daughters of the fash- ion.able set are also in vogue. HER DEAREST FRIEND, He â€" Doe* your friend. Miss Rival, en tertaln much 1 rale WUk Kadi •tfeer By M«a> Takea*. Quite as deadly aa the Italian Kafia, aad even more thorooghiy organized, are the secret Chineae societies, which have a firm footing among the celestials in the United States, and are generally known as "Highbinders." In CaJifumia, of course, these oath- bound, tyranicaliy ruled organizations are more bamerous and more far* leacliing in their work of assassination and general prianotibu o£ vice and eor-i ruptioir'than they are elsewhere, for the obvious reason that Chinamen aremor^ plentiful on the Pacific coast than else- where. Tet tiey have a firm foot-bold in all tile cities, notably in New York, as well as in Chicago, St. Louis, Pbiladalphia and Boston. HIGHBINDERS AND THE MAFIA. . Like the Italian social clabs fur the promotian of murder and perjury, the Chinese societies had their original be- ginning in politics. In China the pres- ent organizations from which ail the others are branches and ramifications, are known as the Triad Society. Thous- ands of worthieo who, from the time of the Tai Ping rebeUiim were members of this group of conspirators and ao- tive in efforts to depose the present Chinese dynasty, were o^jliged to fly for their lives when our late guest, Li Hong Chang, suppressed that formid^ able OttibreakJ The majority of' them came to Am- ericaâ€"to San Francisco â€" and organized thesnselves into branches of the home societies. The ui>jects, however, chang- ed with the changed surroundings. In- stead of conspiring to overthrow things politically, the Chinese societies simply beisame permanent Juntas for the ex- ploitations of debauchery, judicial cor- ruption and assassination. The proverbial ingenuity and bland "slickness" of the Chinaman were dis- played with redoubled effectiveness in these bands, where the most atrocious crimes were the game and where death was the reward oi failure. Their skill ui perjury and in bringing a crowd of witnesses to the reliet oi any uue of tlKir members caught in the toils of the law is masterly. They are adepts in the art of assassination, as well as in the conceaLmeul oi the wea{)ous wiih which their deadly, lightning-like blows are struck. The fact that one group uf ih'se wretches are known among themselves as "hatchet boys" is suf- ficiently suggestive of their method of work, bat still another favorite wea- pon with them is what apparently is a handsome, highly ornamental closed Ian, but which in reality is fit (ormid- able bar of iroo, one blow from which delivered with a firm, strong hand will crush in the hardest skuU. SECRET SIGNS AND roKENS. Equally ingenious are the code of secret sigcalu with which memlwrs ol the muruer societies silently cutniauni- caie with each other, even when seat- ed at .wide distances apart and in crowded rooms or restaurants. Thf manner in which they handle their cups, the way they place them or the teapots upon th.« table all have their siguificancs. Thus the meuiliers of the Yee Hiji^j or Chu Kiuig societies niay •-•e kno.vii by thj way they raise their L'ups to thsir lipSn while a certain twist of the quv'Uc is an infailit)le sign of a Yee Uing. I'he Ytfc Hing, l>y the way, \a the prmcipat' society in New York, as well as in Boston, Philadelphia and other Eastern cuies. In Sau Francisco ih ' L'hu Kuiig Loag is the chief society, having various offshoots and groups. .ach making a sp.'ciahy of some pai- ucular line of villainy. the member of one of these s<M'ieUes .uiupletcly becomes its slave. He must : luiiUy murder or blind or slash any one whom th*> society selects for Sis i.s vengeance, and disotiedience of bear- ing testimony, ochvvr than perjured tes- luuouy tu ihe iauuceuuc ot an accused meiutier. is as certain to bring deatJi, , .eti though tb«; marked man (ly tu ih«3 ends oi the eaxth, as it is with the .vlafia. Sometimes for mild offenses mem- bers are merely accused of some crime and "railroaded" to prison on iierjured testimoiij. and sometimes ihoy are merely hounded out o£ overy occupa- lion th<'y get. But in one way or an- othex the vengjance of the 'Cong is sure tu be; felt and is a constant object o{ terror buiJi to Chinamen who are members, as well as to those Whu are not. TUE WOMA,N SLAVK TRADE. One of ihe leading industries of the secret societies is the importation and sale of women slave.s, a trafic which te i:arrie<l on not only in Sail Frinoisiw. i'Ut doubtless in N«*w York, but so sec- retly as to i>e beyond police detection, although so far ."is that is concerncil the Chinese Highbinder knows ihe paniata's weakness tor cash and'"ChrisLina8 pres- juts" as woli as do any of the proprie- lors of shady i-esorts in Nsw Y'ork's I'enderloin district, These traders in women do not by any nietuis take the irouljlo and risk of importing their wares. In fact, tho stealing of Chinese women from one Chinaman and selling her to another is a leading feature of Highbinder com- mercial activity. But it is woe to the slave who luidertakes to escape, .\gaijist her the whole machinery of Highliiiid- I'rdom is brought to 'bear, the U.sual method being an accusation of theft or other crimia, supptvted by a dozen or more pt>rjured witnesses, the perse- cution keeping up uittil the slave vol- untarily goes back to- end her trouble,-, or until some one of tho several Christ- ian societies familiar with Chinese ways that are dark comes to her rescue. 'em, and then you pick 'em oat and cut 'em ap, not too fine, and warm 'ea over ; putting in a little warm w»- ter to make a stirt of gravy, and a littis bit of butter, and a little pepper, and some salt, tmieis you put in salt enouglt when you boiled 'em, and maybe juot a little tos^h of vinegax, though sonas folks don't like any vinegar in 'cm AC all. Then you serve 'em hot. I Ilk* to ((read a slice of bread and put that on my plate and ladle the lobster out op that. You may think there's bettejr ways of eating lobatem ; but when I have stewed lobsters for breakfast I lor- get I'm {Kxar. But wJmt I set out ts tall you aiwut was a live' lobster. " I dropped down one night.throock a window that I had opened, into • deep cellar. The window was narrovr. and faigb up. I guess it must havs bsaa six or seven feet frooi the cellar bot- tom to tljB lower edge of it. Of oouraa, a man can't walk up a stone wall likm that very well, and so tiefcre goinc upstairs 1 fixed a way of getting out easy, in case I sthculd want tu go la a hurry, as of course, might happen. I moved a couple of boxes up under ttas window, one on top of the other, mak- ing a sort of steps. When I reached down to pick up my bo^ again I didn't strike it at first, and as I was fealinv along for it something grabbed my hand, nipped it sharp and hard, and hung on. I Nvos startled, sure, bat I rtobaad in an instant that IT WAiJ A LOBSTER. Y»u know some folks when they aint going to cook the lobsiers till mornr ing. put 'em out on the grass ovav mi^fht, or may bo down on the oellav buuom wher: '.!:;:.v'n Kees cool and (â-  good condition, and I'd run against • lobster put down m tiis cellar. " When 1 stood up, the lubsieT waa still hanging on. 1 threw uut nay hniMl, natural enough, 1 suj[>puee, wita â- in'idea of throwing ibe lobsuir uff, but inffi^xi^ of that 1 banged him against the big zinc cylinder around the fur- nace, it sounded like bitlin' a l>ig iron drum with a club. That startled me, too, and when i stepped back to get away from the furnace 1 fell over in to the coal bin. There was a narrow '.pLnuig in the side uf the bin whers thuy'd took down one buurd at a tim« as the coai got low«<r there, until they'd got down TO just one Ixxud at the bot* torn, and I'd stumbled over that and fell backward on the coal. The lubsiav was stUl hanging on. 1 thought I mads noise enough clattering against tha board und tailing on the cuul, but thd minute 1 struck the cool I started • coal slide. From where the lioards had lieeu taken out the coal slutted up higk .igainst I be side of the cellar; my (aU^ lug on the foot of it started the whol* face of the slope moving. It made mora noise thin a load of coal dtuiiping oa the sidewalk. "Stepping uut of the coal bin, I knocknl down the coal shovel leaniof .tgainst it just outside, and the bigfur- ikive jxikcT. NiiiMt ; Humph ! .A.nd ali this lime the lobster was still hanging onâ€" you see, it takes me some little tinia to tell you about it all, but it look mighty little time fur it all t'j happen. " As the iHikef t)uugo<l down I heard folks ooniing down the stairs from tbs second floor to the floor above the cel- lar. Of course there was just one thin0 for me to do and ihiit was to get out. While the folks. was coming downfroia the second floor to the first, I wa« uuiking for the cellar window ; and the lolieter never let go till 1 ete{)ped vg on the Rxet box." Egypt's great queen, Oleop.atra, is a mass of rumWuiij dust in the UritisJi Sheâ€" No, but she botes more gucstt^imuscum- -a repulsive mummy, held tp- tban any other young Indy in our set. gether I y pitch and bandages. WOMEN WHO HUI,E GAYLOBD. Gaylord, Kan., is happy and prosperw 3U» under tLe wise rule of seven wonw BU, The character of these gifted municipal authorities may be inferred from tieir photographs, which repre- sent them as seven unusually intelli- gent and attractive women. The citi- zens ol Gaylord evidently selected, with fine aisoernaient,.tl>e most accomplish- ed members of i be community, for ther« is not a breath of discontent, and city affairs .•â-ºre being conducted with un- paralleled ability and di>spatch. Antoinette L. Haskell, the Mayor of the little city is by: no me.ans an ag- gressi^ tyjte of woman, but has a womanly piide in hor home and family. Her husband is a jirosiierous banker and she baa two sons. Mrs. Ha,skell has ;ilw;iys been interested in jiolitical and social questions, and her symiiatbies have throughout been with the Demo- cratic party. Miss Florem^e Headley is City Clerk, and only twenty- years old. The spare time thiit she h.is left after fulfilling her inunicipal duiie.s she devotes to editing the Gaylord Heral I. an<i iier- (orms this office thf more efficiently lie- cause she has in the last three years worked up from the position of appren- tice in ,a printing office. Another remarkable woman is Mrs. Mary L. Foote, the Police Judge-elect whose popularity is so great that al- t hough she was a candidate in opposi- tion to her huslwnd. she defeated him by s large majority. Usually, however, men do not comiiote with tlieir wivea in Gaylord, but are willing to remain in the background and ,suiij<>cl. them- selves to competent feminine guid.ince. Gavlord is at present the only city in the world where i>etticoat government is supremo, where municip,al elections have all the charms of social festivities, and where every administrative move- ment is made for the welfare of tJw lieople. The population of this modern Utopia should rapidly increase. \ ONCE W.VS EN0U(5H. It I shoutM die you would .icver get iiinother wife who woui'd look after you .as I have doine.' No, not if I coold hetp iit.