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41 ausif nm «* SttMfM. #*• tela gMUVbipir' ^SWpjpilK- to %">;•> i «mMpSV^W WPP JP*P«W ago. hody 10 |M ever >**11' 1 itv GLADYS DEACON. - # i - H w l y , s a d - f a c e d daughter Is unaffect- fdly glad that she Is happily bo- uothed. vX"^- i . • J i iV*^- - 3r r. Tiant* for Citie** *]feie disposition of sewftge, including titt drainage from all the sources of poUutton, In large and small cities has lmoome one of the most importont bealth problems of the age. The most pcssning part of the problem relates to the deposits of matter in which the joratt Of disease may lurk or be in activoform.. V WliOre&UVi is a chance for a great drainage system like that of the Chi­ cago sanitary channel the problem is easily solved. The highly diluted sew- «ge is disinfected by the action of the water flow wtth which in mingles and It becomes harmless after a short time of friction with confluent waves •f the current. This fact in science has been proved by the effects of the onfrent in the sanitary channel on the •mirage from Chicago. But no satisfactory solution hai ben •ffered for a method of disinfecting «ae sewage of large and small titles not oonnected with the currents of considerable running streams. Hie i--itton has become very serious in tho populous towns of the lacustrine r^nns at the west and at the ttmie lakeside towns bare a local tatton of thousands. Many have mar resort hotels, where a greater temporary and uncertain population than that of the town are accommo­ dated. At these places the sewage Is m into the adjoining lakes. In time the latai will become mere cesspools, breeding ted odors and malarial dls- + > . .A** \rt. % a ^ &oarc* of ttoltu* ffptawn Knight, * young marine en- L a local English packet, to have dissevered a method of air instead of ooal as a of motive power. A London dispatch states that the admiralty has already taken up the invention for in­ vestigation, and this fact is accepted :«s proof of its probable genuineness. (Th» remark is volunteered in the dis- that if yotmg Knight's expecta- u» realized the introduct'-m o£ the new aooree of power will entirely revolutionise naval and ship construc tto* generally. J « « t h e k t t c h e n - n know* definition. aim dee- of physical and chemleal m in ft quiet way h*t&* *a& *ho witt bpaak into Wk Wttha chdfttystory It fhat UNitator" of CsL,« IS tlM flrst man, to t h e jpOf#sr to move the toruah and tlMSs " the isfeoni of the or manalmost to a point <%. Below we show hie • * very simple affair, comprbdtov n ro- m$T wheel set inside a casing and provided with a series of ground its periphery, toothed wheel e: _ disk secured to the back of tbobrush. The water supply comes from a hose attached to the end of the hgft&O, or the T>ipe may be directly connected to a tube in line with the retiring buckets. The gearing reduces the speed of the brush in comparison to that of the motor, and thus consider­ able pressure can be applied to the machine without interfering with its efficiency. It can readily be appreciated that there are other usee besides clean­ ing the floors to which this machine can be applied, chief of which Is the cleaning of windows and woodwork which is out of normal reach. The escaping water from the motor may be allowed to flow through the bristles or return through a pipe paralleling the feed pipe to a convenient point of discharge. . •>. BccoM */ Lady JUc. Smother American woman has w come a member of the British nobility, but not through the usual process. She did not exchange a fortune for a title. Some years ago Mrs. De Wolf Taylour of New York married Austin Lee, a young English diplomat of promise. He has just secured the order x of knighthood from the queen and his wife becomes Lady Lee. She is one of the most beautiful and brilliant women of the English-speaking col­ ony at Paris, where her husband is second secretary of the British lega­ tion. Formerly she was the close ; i / v . V * & / ' Mere BocAssss W«u Mom. . In a little old log hut situated some tferao miles from Mercereburg, Frank- #* oounty, Pa,, James Bochanan, pres- 4d«at of tho United States from 1867 4ft 1MU tot saw the light of day on •tho ltd of April, 1790. This humble domicile was situated In the midst of « wttd and romantic mountain gorge sifcMt with its beautiful scenery may $ -- f . • *-iU'teTHPLA0P! OF BUCHANAN. Mkve served to imbue In his mind m Ifmsnts of lofty aspirations. Several years ago, however, the hut •was moved from its original site, and MV stands near the 'edge of Mentors- 4wng. Its occupants at tho present are a colored family. ,fAJL*Kt**t Arctic JZjcplorer. - SNf. Kann of Vienna, the latest arc- V,. Os aaqfiorer, la also the youngest He is only » yeam of age, but two years •go tan ass fully took his degree in philosophy, physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna, gaining .aiso the emperor's much-coveted trar- scholarship. His first journey was to America, where he succeeded in "obtaining a tutorship in Cornell uni- INKsity, which, however, he relin- <utshed to join the arctic expedition of '®fi> Stein and Mr. Warmbath. ' K-* e" " &-/J, Tutt+rt in th* Cabinet. ' l(r. Honbury, the new msHinr of IA» Bcftlsb csMnet. is thotsUest num. that «ody, half of whom are over high Lord Baiftmr of Burleigh A ldose second to Mr. Hanimry. The is tho heaviest am In tho • MIm Margaret Hajriey, eldest daugh- ; far of tho Ooaaeetmt senator, is an S SmfyriwMivrtas m?°WS SboHiy, in #s punme her an probability, go LADY LEE. friend and confidante of the eountess de Castelbune and helped the latter through the intricacies that beset her when she went to France a& |y|di Mktf ontered Fnrls society. 1 " -- ? JLonm Martyr m <Skfri*. It Is nmnstng to read of the mar* tyrdom of a lone Boston woman to her theater hat, Which she persisted in wearing at the play in defiance of a city ordinance and against the now universal custom of her sisters in all civilized cities. This particular wom­ an--the wife of a musical critic at that --left the theater on one occasion rath­ er than remove her headgear, and on another night accepted a transfer to the manager's box to avoid a scene. What can possess the mind of a woman who at once defies law, rejects fashion and disregards the rights of people who pay to see the play and not to get a rear view of her millinery? Boston ought to send her to a kindergarten in altruism--and courtesy. occurrences In natural food Miss Bmma Slckels, |he National Domestic says Am# esme true, that s*e Wfel establish a norusa) cooking school. Then to-be directors: Staii, secretary of the Farm- ilonal congress; Prof. G. Barn- superintendent of the Chicago Training school, and Mrs. Wheeler. "Chemistry of foods our corner stone," said Miss _ *s she nooded hw gray head Itaitarlied: "I've had such a beau- dinner. Your present cooklcg to , , rousr. I shall transform your |3tihen and you will learn how supe­ rior nutritive value is to palatability." In the school that is to be founded there will be text books written by Mifs Sickels and lectures on methods «f ffcod analysis with the illustrations of the awful results of wrong combina­ tions. Diplomas- will be issued to stu­ dents who "master the principles governing dietary standards." After this dSurse a young woman is Qualified for marriage and a laboratory of her or she may answer advertise- UMmts for cooks versed in the compo­ sition of milk and mil^ products, eggs and meats, fish, cereals, breads, leg­ umes, roots add tubers, fresh vege­ tables and fruits. She wilt know all Shout chemical action, why fried onions and ice cream bring about nau­ sea, why cream puffs and lobster aH not "proper" breakfast food and why mince pies and cheese sandwiches should not be eaten before, retiring. It Is a charming art; aren't you perfectly fascinated with it?" asked Miss Sick­ els. Then she went back to the din­ ing room and picked up a fork. Sjbie put the fork into a piece of pie. That pie looked like "what mother used to make." Miss Sickels has aot #eJec4«4 her site.--Chicago News. CAPITAL EVOLVES. «m Foinilv m BtnnSm, Cakept Tow*. .When Washington last beheld the city which bears his name, shortly be­ fore his death in 1799, it was a strag­ gling settlement in the woods, almost wholly devoid of streets, with thirty or forty residences--most of these small and uncomfortable--and an un­ finished capltol and president's house. Indeed Washington long remained s f sparsely built, unsightly city and s comfortless place of residence. Pot more than a generation its growth in population was lees than (60 a year, a rate of increase that would now put to shame almost any village in th« land; and so late as 1840 de Bacourt, the French minister, could write that Washington was "neither a city, not a village, nor the country," but "a building yard placed in a desolate spot wherein living is unbearable." The opening Of the civil war found It a dirty, straggling, unkempt town. The water supply came from pumps and springs; there were neither street cart nor paved streets; no fire department police force worthy of the naiiie, and a sewer in the city. Bsrthsn bluffs lined the river bank; stables and wooden fences surrounded the White House; the present departments not half finished and the parks and commons were given up to weeds. But all this was changed by the struggle fOrthe union, which doubled the popu­ lation of Washington and bnfoght la freedom and northern enterprise, but more important still, by a thousaid moving and glorious associations, en­ deared the capital to the people of the whole country. Then came its remak­ ing by Shepherd and his asaoe'atea. Mow it is a truly imperial city, and the judgment of Washington and the gen­ ius of L'Enfant have been vindicated. --The World's Work. Gbotng Vtfay to Ci<Otlixafion. Transcontinental railroads ended the days of the buffaloes. Great swarms of hunters were carried out by the rail­ roads across the prairies and plains and vast numbers of the buffaloes were killed out of sheer wantonness. Next to the Indisn himself the buffalo was th» most picturesque and distinctive feature of the American landscape in the wilder regions from the earliest days down to a comparatively recent time, but both--the Indian by seclu- atoa in reservations and the buffalo by death--have been overwhelmed by the wave of civilisation. <•; . :yv;--" • . " B# Ahwrf/sr T1W municipal council at Hafeann has awarded to Mr. Michael J. Dady 9SC4,- 000 as a repayment of the expense en­ tailed by him in projecting and de­ veloping plans for a sewage system for that city. The award was based on Dndy's estimate of the cost of the sewers, with six per cent for five years, and the committee on public bidding estimate that it will cost 110,000,000 to construct the sewers. Governor-Gen­ eral Wood says the government will not sanction Dady's award, as it is ex­ cessive. 6 Matter an Vntirtng Worltfr. The late Max Mnller preeerved his •dness for hard work to thread of his Ufe. His "Six Systems of Indian illoeophy," a book of <00 pages, ap­ peared in tiie year before bis death, fa conversation with a frisnd reiat- «* to Hindu philosophy he comment- od admtrtngly on tho wandsrital sea­ man which .bad soablsd Schopsahaner to recognise tho imansnao shflosoDhio nftpnrtinee of the "Opanli rough bo had only a wretched latlon of ft A MEW SYSTEM. for Onr Cable. Now that the election is over mid the country has settled down once more to prosperous industry dissociated from nightmares, it is altogether like* ly, remarks the Electrical World and JSngineer, that the Pacific cable will be pushed in Congress. We trust that its friend* will be numerous and energetie. The details published as to the ieteei soundings are such as to afford great encouragement as to overcoming the physical difficulties of the task, while the political state of affairs and the rapid development of trade with the fhr east promise an abundant traffic for the new system. By the time the new cable is ready it will And an American network awaiting connection both in the Hawaiian Islands and in the Philippines. We count upon seeing this cable made in America--a gutta percha cable--and on the use of American ships and men to lay it; but SMontime the prayer may be devoutly breathed for better luck than has at­ tended previous American submarine efforts, the sad details of which we wlH not here recapitulate. Let us in this work go to school humbly to our Brit­ ish friends, who have girdled the globs with cable, and then, having learned: the lesson, we shall be ready to teach them in turn--some time in the next century. ' Oar UdMtrfaU Coumt. The United States is, industriously, a great wprld power, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. We are selling our manu­ factured products in every country in the world. Wo are sending farm im­ plements, wagons, furniture, sewing machines, pumps, bicycles and typo* writers to every country of Europe; locomotives, railway material, house­ hold utensils, clocks, and watches to Siberia; cotton goods, hardware, can­ ned goods, sewing machines and scien­ tific apparatus to China; farm Imple­ ments, mining machinery, rails, cycles and furniture to Africa, Australia sad South America. The scheme of bridging the Bosphor- tls has been revived at Constantinople and it Is announced that a magnificent structure will span the river ere the lapse of another year and will! bear the name of the sultan of Turkey, Abddl Hamld. It is to be constructed by the Bosphorus Railway company, which designs a junction between the railways of Europe and the Asiatic railway of Bagdad, Naturally narrowest dividing line of sea has been chosen for the point of connection. A military bridge, erected by a Corinth­ ian long before the Chlratian era, once spanned these 600 yards of water at the same spot and over it marched King Darius and his 800,000 Persian braves. Lord Byron, impatient of bridges as of many things-, swam tho flood and as a result was addressed in s Leander. new bridge is to be erected on lasting lines. Masalve granite "pillars are to be built and these will support the steel cables on which the bridge de­ pends. They will provide accommo­ dation for artillery and ornaments will not be wanting in the shape of minuets and cupolas, decorated with tiles and arabesques. The cost of the bridge Is estimated at about 13,000,- 1 , % 4"* J . H -- .y. , j- * , -t- i1« '• v' ^ M ' r • \ A * * * ' "* * v •#,l k 11 *ri'v * ic: ** '•riliNi of it* over half «M» • tidal wave» virile Christian employed itself quarrels over faatiiy tory. While and again attacked the ̂ Christendom at era Christendom vision too narrow to events. Across the |Bbi and ova* the mountains of* wave rolled am. natll ft. beyond the Pylwhees Franee. Across the od» at the other out th* priceless treasures tion, leaving of Macedonia and! Greece only fragule| and surged up to the' very j enna. Did Christian arii^l back? Not at all. We are Sieving that Carl Martet save^J tian Europe In Aqaitaine, asf i later, John Sobieski repeated «l vation under tfie walls of Vienna. TlM salvation of Europe was not duo to these heroes, great as were but to the fact that, with success, Mohammedanism ha# political unity, rt was not " " danism, but the Caliphate tit that Charles the Hammer the plains of southern France* era Europe was lost to the Mc then, but two centuries they severed their allegiance to dad. It was not Mohami the king of FoiSiiid turned .,ui, Vienna, but tlte Turkish elsiii^ had never recognised either or religious headship other own sultan. Mohamm sdanisnt^l political force, had become and Ineffective. Now the world is precipitated into great religious war--for WW'i| nothing else out of the Chiii tion. We know enough now to-1 stand that the horrors bsiij there are but manifestation! liberal movement to expel from eastern Asia? Can tho< world meet this movement thing like political uaiiyt tt not, if the British goteiuiusai ' jedous of Russift.'if Fra»os.:|i"" herself watching German schemes, if Germany Is to first and Christianity Russia Is to be Russian all the time, it were m e N l y s a v e s u c h l i v e s a s w o * then leave China to the In^anapollo Free Press.: i: ̂ A BENEFACTOR. PLAN OF THE PROPOSED BRIDGE TO SPAN THE BOSPHOROU*. It's all up with some mea whoa they f* down U the world. Campaigning. Late reports from South Africa show the recent raids on the British lines in an ever more favorable light. Tho British had all the advantages of in­ terior lines, of established bases of supplies, and of at least partially forti­ fied camps. Their lines, in general, extend from the Orange river north­ ward along the railway 400 miles to Pretoria: east from Pretoria through the Transvaal 250 miles to Komati! poort. on the Portuguese border; southeast from .Johannesburg along the railway through the pass at Laing's Nek to Ladysmith, a distance of near­ ly 200 miles; then west from Lady- smith through the Drakensburg passes to Bethlehem. Military men looking at the situation.a month ago would have said that it would be worse than madness for a force of 10,000 or 15.000 men to attempt to 'break these lines. But it is clear now that the Boer commanders organized a campaign to disturb the British, not at one point, but at several. They attacked the British position thirty or forty miles west of Pretoria In such force aa to bring on one of the most spirited bat­ tles of the war. Chine-re ttPomen Abu heel. The bicycle woman has invaded Chi­ na, the last place on earth where one would expect to find her. Aside from the national prejudice that exists among the Mongol people to women taking part in occupations at pastimes that men ordinarily reserve for them- FIRST GIRL IN CHINA TO RIDE A BICYCLE. selves, the sise of the Chinese women's feet would be thought "a bar against their indulgence in wheeling. Never­ theless there is actually one woman among the celestials who may often be seen with her brothers careering along the fine roads of Shanghai. There are not more than two or three Chinese girls who ride, though the sons of the wealthy Chinese merchants and many other Chinese youths may often be seen riding in the streets of the treaty ports, the only places in China where riding is possible. On the whole, the Chinese have taken kindly to the "bike" and many are expert trick rid­ ers. The lady referred to is a Miss Klt^Sen of Shanghai and was the first girl In China to cycle. She evidently enjoys the sport. "m a JUw lyra* '** «•! Art. - It is not nBffassarfr to death of Sir Arthur Mlivan lttll to the world, tor tho ;|cno*ive career had closed lillf! olrsady given to the world tho that he had to give. But thbrbsŝ ' • wry, very good, and he iwortd his debtor. The son dt j bandmaster and of a mother half Irish and half Italian, himself was London-born and cated in an English choir, thsii that for centuries hss pr that is best and truest in tho. art of England. He was agtjf musician, an English the Celtic strain in him ga*i| vidual Impulse of his own tip llsh art What save Sullhraft l place in the musical time was nothing lew tion for English-speaking jwotMO;'| new form of musical art. operetta, as Gilbert and he It was really an inventiMm own, so different ws» ft $i purpose from the coaventla«ai opera whose form it i bert, no doubt, is due tha i tion of the form, Wttk thOjj commentary on coat but it was Sullivsji tfeigi^ with the melodic b«s»^r' summate charm of fimirtfi that opened a new world of and made us all happier aud i cause these two mtk lived and Philadelphia Gen. Wood He*entt Insult. Governor-General Wood servered the official connection of the Havana Bar association with the government in consequence of the action of the as­ sociation in electing to the board of governors five deposed judges who had been removed for dishonesty. Hither­ to the association has sustained semi­ official relations with the government. It has 300 members, 65 of whom were present at the election. ArKfznsa*' JVetv Co-mtol. Y V* ' * ; •** , -ii.it'A • /v<h'S mem, The corner stems of the nsw Arkan­ sas state capltol was laid at Little Rock last week and the assemblage present was the largest and most no­ table ever,seen In the state, over 40,- 000 persons being present Governor Daniel W. Jones delivered the address on the occasion, detailing the prelim- InaryScork accomplished by the cap­ ltol sosunlsslen. Nearly 150,000 has thus far been expended and the of the structure will reach nearly $1,- 000,000. The present capltol has Stood since 1836 and has long been In­ adequate for the needs of the stats. Its unsanitary condition has coat the lives of many of those compelled to occupy it and the demand for a nsw boMtogtotsjm itsj^aoshas long bssn The Tteo Wattrteay*. The commission appointed to inves­ tigate the question of a deep water­ way from the great lakes to the At­ lantic reports that the cost of construc­ tion of a twenty-one-foot channel from Lake Erie to New York city *1* Lake Ontario, the Mohawk Valley and the Hudson, will be $206,000,000. Hie estimated cost of the Nicaragua canal ?tf*is $200,000,000. Assuming that the en­ gineers have been reasonably accurate in their estimates, there will be no practical difference in the cost of these two great works. One of them will unite two oceans and shorten by thou­ sands of miles the distance by water between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. It will be open at all seasons- of the year. The other, which will not be available during the winter months, will add to tho facili­ ties which the chief products of the West enjoy for reaching the ssahoard. ,i-Jf f Kipling's "Absent-Minded Beggar** has realized in various ways tho enor­ mous total of $485,000, all of whlofc fcas been turned over to the *»Fi>fflss soldiers fighting in South Atrip. 1*e Vwr wt Wlrtnlt. Investigations recently saadt by medical committee in Edinburgh shout ! that the poor of that city are well fed as those in the large tow»» Of l. Great Britain or America. Th# mitteo regrets that the old dlSt**; ridge and milk of tl has been given up tar tea It also points out that white britf 4jjp an energy producer is better 1 brown, and that much remalaod Sl^ ^ done to instruct the poorer dtaiiaa the population as to how tlMi& should be properly cooked. It tioaed that this dietary in SoSttUlf pooarhouses is of a very inferior WiMtr and not at all adequate. This ment has brought a hornet's denials about the doctor's ears poorhouae managers and ofltcialt' the local government boards, sj(jpt|ri those are to be believed, it wouM pear that all but the tramp have not at all a bad time of it gBlWK is concerned, when they aro| in these institutions.--ML In Chicago Record. v Ctrl*' London bachelor girls have th«jj j en hope held out to them that court* of a couple of years or will no longer have to hunt al siSitable quarters where they easr^ the comfort of a home and the. of a club combined, for it "is a hotel will be erected for thnft7* Amortesn capital, and will ho ' ed in about two years' tel. is to be situated in a OSakml eallty, within easy distsaco of tho 1 electric railway, theaters, etc* women workers will bo'a^|ji|y food and the ordinary pleasant surroundings, the food and the life for quite a Men of tho i _ convictions often are tho sasaUsit daauwlastkwr a* nam's I