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bang. She came, saw and conquered. Came
TO be not only listened to, but received So
cially. Came to be lunched by Mrs Stuy-
vesant Fish, TO be petted by Mrs. Whitney,
to be approved by Mrs. Astor and to be
chummy with Sallie Hargous. The choicest
cuttings from the smart set met twice a
week to writhe, wriggle, bend and sway; to
relax aud decompose. These pupils form
spiral curves and make cOrkscrews of them
selves aud at the end of each lecture fall
at the feet of their instructor. For not only
does Mrs. Russell teach these young ladies
how to bow, smile, walk and sit down but
how to fall gracefully and lie limp and
1.-THE mass Of tangled lace and drapery upon
the floor.
There was some demurrng at first.
who is this woman" asked Mrs. Wet
more. What is she coming TO teach us
for? Why should she tell us how to walk?"
But after the swells found That Mrs. Russell
had lectured the crowned heads of Europe
or the English nobility, which is all the
same, and after Mrs. AStor had approached
her at the end OF one of her lectures and
said, "My dear Mrs Russell, you have
opened a new world to me, everything was
smooth sailing for this audacious little
woman who dareS tell members of the four
hundred how to behave.
Mrs. Russell presses her pupils Into serv-
ice at her classes. She calls up q married
beauty to strike all effective pose or a
famous belle to illustrate the difference be-
tween good and bad position. Fancy or
dering Vanderbilt to come to the front or
an Aston to stand up in meetingl Further
more on one occasion, hen Mrs. Russell
was Illustrating the various telling ways a
woman may look at a man, she suddenly
declared she could do so much better if she
had man to look at, and called up Mr..
Frank w. Andrews who was attending the
lecture, and asked him to be a target for the
killing glances she had in store. Mr.. An
drews assisted the lady to the best of his
ability. and enjoyed his first lesson in Del
sarte quite as much as his friends.
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were present. So the lady posed and bowed
and tainted for their benefit and received
storm of applause. The result is that next
season men are to be admitted to Mrs.
RusselPs classes.
Mrs. Russell does not hesitate to attack
slang, boiSterousness, bluntncss and hauieur
In most uncompromiSing fashion. She is
not one bit awed or overwhelmed by the eX-
allied character of her audience. She is
lady born and bred is accustomed to the
best London circles of society and can hold
her own anywhere with perfect ease. She
enjoys teaching these lovely and refined wo-
men and says that she finds their intelii-
gence far over the average mark. They ac-
qure physical execution faster than other
women, owing, she thinks, TO the fact that
the greater part of their summer lives is
passed in outdoor exercise, driving, horse
back riding and sea bathing. "lt is tie
quiet middle class women who NOPE in The
house all day, who are most difficult to
teach the principles of grace and beauty"
says Henrietta. :" find. too, that money
does not make leader OF society 1t may
be necessary, but personal charm and in
tellect are necessary also. Mrs. Russell
learn faster than the Younger ones. For
Illustration, she is teaching the bow of cere-
mony which shall express many things
well-bred reserve, cordiality without effu-
siveness, manner and repose. She puts the
ladies' through this exercise and says that
the bows Of Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Astor
are most expressive. Mrs. Whtney'S DO W
from carriage is a dream, and Mrs. Asto r,
with her stately courtesy. expresses 70 /
umes with little movement.
CUpyTighk. PEGGy PEynEN,-,e
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churches, colleges, palatal residences and
modest vine-em lowered cottages, wealth
Of flowers aud shrubbery where, thirty-nine
years ago, there was but a plain. dotted
here and there with wide-spreading live
oaks, the green sward profusely decked
with natural flowers, veritab'e wild. Here,
as the Old farmer said going through the
grounds of a friend in R0xbury, one of the
most beautiful of any of BOst0n'S suburban
towns, This is what | like; this is nature
with her hair combed."
PERFECT FILE.
Having business with the Pacific Press
Company, the writer was shown through
one of the most extensive and perfect pub
fishing establishments he ever visited-ex-
celled only by that of Harper Bros. in New
the Pacific, weekly newspaper established
in 1851 by John w. Douglass, a
Congregational clergyman and Chap
lain Of the Assembly of 1850, the
Legislature which sat at San Jose, conf
monty called the Legislature of Thou
sand Drinks. the only perfect file being in
the library of the Theological Seminary,
the writer took the Telegram h-ayenue cars
to Academy Hill, when, inQuiring at the
seminary for Rev. DIR. Joseph A. Benton,
the only one of the professors with whom
he was acquainted. he was informed that
this pioneer clergyman had gone TO London
IN May 10 attend Congregational conclave
in the worlds metropolis and was expected
to return during tho month of August.
Calling upon Rev. DR.. Mooar at his resi-
dence, that gentleman courteously opened
the library, which seemed to be well
stocked with s0mo thousand theological and
standard works of every class. Having
finished his examination, your correspond
ent, looking about him, observed another
spacious building, the HOPKINS Academy,
adjacent, ana an immense blick structure
in the rear OF these in the course of coal-
pletion, which is an educational Institution
of the Catholic Church. Oakland is truly
city of colleges, surprising even the
City OF Elms," which plumes itself upon
the antiquity Of "Old Yale"
THE DAILIEs.
Returning, the writer dropped into the
Office of the Enquirer, which is in a
spacious brick building, and although not
topped off with a huge clock tower, was of
sufficiently imposing dimensions. The three
Oakland dailieS-the Enquirer, Tribune and
TimeS-all have healthy look and are
seemingly in flourishng condition.
Returning on the 11-o'clOck ferry, the
boat was crowded with Eastern and local
paSSengers-a conglomeration or cosmopoli-
tan crowd, embracing many nations. While
Mclean " people composed the majority,
there was large representation of the high
and low caste natives of the " Fiowery
Kingdom" An Italian string band-harp,
violin and guitar-whied away the tedium
OF the voyage across the bay with most
excellent music"
Your correspondent reached home in time
for his MONDAY lunch, satisfied with his
Journey of day." but marveling at the
changes wrought in thrty-nine years. He
retired early, and his dreams were of Wash
ingtOn lrving's best and most widely known
OF ali the numerous characters depicted by
his fascinating pen. RIP VAN WISKLE.
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Let US take peep in at the teacher and
her class this morning. Before Mrs. Whit
ney's door stand the smarteSt turnouts in
Newport. In the ballroom there is the soft
frou-frou of silken skirts and the ripple of
silvery laughter and the murmur of we'll
mOdulated voices. The great ballroom is
separated from the drawing room by high
glass partition, before which stand three
enormous vases filled with palms which
tower to the ceiling. On the three remain
ing sides of the room broad windows open
into balconies, dubbed ''the modeSty seats"
where the shy people sit, and which are
filled with gay cushions, easy chairs and
gorgeous draperies. The ceiling is decorated
in robin's-egg blue and gold, the floor and
raised platforms are covered with oriental
rugs, and in Semi-circle sit the fairest and
most famous of New York's fashionabies.
First, the stately, gracious hostess. Mrs.
Whitney decOrates her cottage with differ
ent flowers for each lecture. One day it is
with wilderness of pink roses, then she
wears pink gown in harmony. To-day
the house is crowded with purple sweet
peas, and Mrs. Whitney wears a simply
made lilac cotton frock, in which she looks
as attractive as in one of her elaborate COS
tunes.
Mrs. .Stuyvesant Fish, aristocratic. grande
dame, is in palest lavender. with boa Of
lilac water feathers about her throat. Mrs.
Astor-well, what do you fancy the great
aud only Mrs. Aston" wears2 The sim
biSob OioO pdlicu Win Icu, d llltlt
straw bonnet trimmed with daisies a white,
embroidered veil, and diamonds as big as
almonds. Mrs. Kernochan is stately In
black brocade and diamond buttons, and
Mrs. Justice Gray is also in black. Mrs.
Frederick Vanderbilt is stunning in pink
crepe, ornamented with big white crescents.
There is a wonderful girde of black Jets
with bretelles and trimmings to match, and
tiny black lace bonnet crowns hef dark
hair. Ward MeAllister's niece is in pink
crepon. and Miss Leary, who gives the
black silk, with knots of white ribbon in
her bonnet,
Perhaps the most attractive women in the
room are beautiful Mrs. De Forrest and her
sister, the famous Sallie Hargous. who is to
be married on the 10Th of September, and
additional atmosphere of interest. Mrs. De
Forrest, who is typical Spanish beauty, is
IN bronze green chiffon over silk There is
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bolero jacket of jet and bonnet of black
lace with geld and jet spangles. Pretty
Sallie is in pale green crepe trimmed with
dark green velvet and white lace. Her
bonnet is mere wreath of white flowers
and her tiny shoes are Of patent leather and
dars-green sne'e.
With the beautiful faces and gay cos
tunes the scene is like nothing so much as
lovely flower garden. The hum of con-
verSatinn ceases az Mrs. Russell comes IN
Florence Sears of Buffalo, who is doing
for the four hundred of that city what Mrs.
Russell is for Newport.
She is not big woman, though she has
the gift of making herself look taller than
she really is She is well rounded, but in
some mysterious fashion will make you
swear she is slender. She is as 1.-THE as
serpent, and as capable CT vibrations as a
violin sting. Her eyes and mouth are her
beauty. The eyes are blue gray, with long.
tions in swiftly changing glances Her
flexible, curylng lips, parting over glisten-
ing teeth, are quite as suggestive. She is
not handsome woman, but fascinating
and magnetic, Her gown? All. well, that
is a riddle One is conscious of some soft.
crepe fabric of golden tan hue, falling in the
most graceful lines and statuesque folds,
and claSped and caught here and there with
bizarre ornaments of carved ivory. The
hair is cut in pre-Raphaelite fashion and
luiiuS ONtI the low brow. anu
over it is set a tiny Venetian car Of bronze
and copper embroidery. 1t is a curious
medieval figure this. set among all these
modern frills, founces and fripperies. And
II is more curious sight to watch these
women, bound in steel and whalebone,
corruted to the last notch, try to initiate the
free, perfectly easy and subtitle movements
OF their teacher. whose every Joint is I'M
fettered. There's no use--society will have
to take off its c0rsets before it can lie as
graceful as Russell
Mrs. Russell puts her class through first,
the relaxing motions, consisting of shaking
fingers, rolling the head and hips, then the
opposition of movement to get balance and
polse, then the succession of movements.
during which the arms make one motion
while the hips are doing quite another.
Then to finish the exercises every blessed
swell save Mrs. AStOr falls on her face.
And now the men are getting the Delsarte
fever. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish gave a luncheon
this week and Mrs. Russell was called upon
to do some OF her work for the men who
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GREATER Love
HATH NO MAN."
One Friend Offers Himself a Sacrifice
for Another.
Under Sentence of Death He Refuses to Con.
TESS Until Convinced That His Friends
Had Discovered the Truth.

Vicarious atonement belongs to divine
nature and is divine attribute. In its con-
neetion with humanity we have had no
record except through legend. With the
divine history OF vicariOus sacrifice every
one born in a Christian land is familiar.
Through legend and story we have the char
acters of Damon and Pythias. and that re-
markabe character of Charles Dickens
Imagination in his "Tale of Two Cities"
Sydney Carton. Improbable as these le-
gendary characters are. the following true
history taken from the Chicago Inter Ocean
of July Goth, abundantly proves that such
thing is not impossible, ana that the great
love that David bore to Jonathan, spoken of
in the first chapter of ii Samuel. Thy love
to me was wonderful. passing the love of
women" has found its realization in this
prosaic century. The facts given are as fol-
lows:
There is now confined in the United States
Jail at Wichita young man named Edwin
BeldeD, who mas for months stood within
the shadow of the hangman's rope, knowing
that he could prove his entire innocence and
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Mrs. W. G. Whitney is her hacker She be-
came interested in Mrs. Russell and her
theories last winter in New York, opened
her drawing-room and had In a dozen TO
hear these new doctrines of grace. The
class grew. People began to ask, nay. beg.
for invitations. Then Mrs. Whitney con-
ceived the idea of having a supplementary
session of Delsarte at Newport to accommo-
date those who were unable to hear Mrs.
Russell in town.
Well, Henrietta came over with her ex-
traordnary gowns, her curious draperies,
her quaint ornaments and her marvellous
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AMERICAN WORKINGMEN.
They Can Produce More Work in a Give
limo Than English Workmen.

They Can Produce Moro Work In a Given
limo Than English Workmen.
Every one agreed that the American skilled
artisan puts forth more physical effort and
produces more work in a given time than
the English workman, or the workman of
any other manufacturing community This
fact struck me and many experienced direc-
tors OF works most forcibly. Before con-
GLIDING ouf tour | had the opportunity of
verifying and strengthening this first i'm
preston. After watching the American
workmen at Pittsburg and elsewhere | ar
rived at the same conclusion as to their
efficiency. Their productive power is
greater than that of the English workers in
the same time, and their working hours are
longer and their remuneration greater. [
met one of my old workmen at Mr.
Carnegie's works in Pittsburg and he in
dorSed my opinion, speaking from his own
practical experience.
II am quite n different man here" he
said, from what l was in the old country.
L don't know why 1t is so; whether it is
that l live in stimulating atmosphere or
whether 1t is the example set me; but |
know have got the go in ME here. | can
do more work; [ feel that have it in me |:
but also feel and know that it wont last.
l shall be done in ten years"
No, it wont last The extreme physical
effort puts forth results in greater produc-
ton, but 1t saps the vital energies and cuts
high pressure does not pay in the end. at
wont last; and the remark applies with
equal force to the employers as well as 10
the workers. Competition between manu-
facturers is keener than In this country.
They work their business at high pressure.
There is terrible struggle between them
for possession of the markets They nut
forth their utmost energies, and when they
succeed their reward is great; but all can
not be the leaders in industry. This fierce
competition reacts ON the men, We were
surprised to find in democratic country
like America that the workmen had so little
power and were to such a large extent the
docile instruments of energetic EMPLOYERS.
The bosses" as the foremen and mana
gers Of factories are called, drive the men
to an extent that employers would never
dream of attempting in this country. There
are trades unions, but they do not seem able
to protect the men in this respect. The
bosses" have the faculty of driving" the
men and getting the maximum amount of
work out Of them, and the men do not seem
to have the inclination or power to resist
the pressure. American manufacturers Thus
get the greatest possible service out of their
plant-Sir James kitson in the Contempt
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borrowed Winchester rifle from MY uncle,
Charles Hawiey, and started cut in tie hepe
OF meeting some small game. walked over
TO drants place, and together we discussed
the trade We were about to make Grant
told me that If would go with him he
would SHOW me the boundary line between
MS claim and the one owned by Foster
While we were walking along this
boundary Live Foster came up, and in
few minutes the two men were quarreing.
endeavored to stop them, but was unable
TO DO so. as they were both hOt-headed and
the quarrel was an old one. Finally Fos-
ter began TO abuse Grant and the lat
ter Jumped to his feet and declared
that he would whip his opponent. Quick
as a thought Foster snatched the Winches-
ter from my hands. and in another moment
shot mad been fired and Grant lay dead at
our feet.
Il was Mortified at the tragedy, but at
once resolved to protect Foster. Together
we buried the body and disposed of the evil
Fences OF the crime. In all this the Haw-
leys knew nothing of the terrible affair.
few days later Foster and went to
Guthrie. and he assed himself off there as
Irant ana issued 10 me the relinquishm ent.
l perJured myself when | swore in court
lhat forged the signature. but it was done
TO shield my friend. l would have died will
iingly to shield him. but as the truth is now
known l make this statement
had nothing against Grant and would
not die If he could be restored to life. AS
God IS my judge, however, l have not his
blood on my hands. Foster, too, was very
sorry after the deed was done"
The confession was fully corroborated by
a numb Der of af1idavits from people living in
the neighborho0d where the crime was COM
United. AS soon as suspicion rested on
Foster many things were remembered which
60 to prove his guilt. 1t was established
that he had perSOnated Grant at Guthrie,
and to make things binding Foster disap-
peared as soon as he learned that he was
suspected. With one of his neighbors he
left partial confession of the crime
Armed with affidavts Attorney Meme
chan hurried to Cape May, where he held
consultation with the President. A commu-
tation was at once granted and the au-
thorities were ordered to retain Belden at
Wichita pending further Investigation.
That free and full pardon will soon be
issued to Belden there can be no doubt. His
only crime seems to have been perjury, and
for that he has sufficiently suffered.
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The Most Humane Bullet.

There is quite difference of opinion
about the humanity of the new style of
bullets for military purposes, which are
claimed by the German surgeons to be the
most humane missiles yet employed in war.
The new projectile, which is made to be
fired from rifle of small caliber, is long, so
that its weight of section" as it is termed
by soldiers, is large. while its actual weight
may be smaller than that of bullets of the
old shape. By combining great weight of
section with small diameter, great velocity
is given to the projectile, as well as such
penetrating force that it will easily 60
through two or three men at the distance of
a mile.
NJ. Delahaye. who Is calling into question
the mercifulness of the new bullet, regards
the process of being drilled through by a
bullet shaped like lead pencil not much
more humane than that of being shattered
by au old-fashioned slug; but the Ger
mans say that the new projectile will not
remain in the wound, but will make a
straight perforation through the body,
greatly simplifying the surgical treatment.
There is no doubt that the camp undertaken
will in future have more TO do after q
battle, and the surgeon less than under the
old regime, but as soldier breads long suit
tering from wound as much as death, the
balance of Humanity" may, after all, be
ON the right side. As lead bullets of the
modern shape would be likely to bend, they
are cased with steel or nickel tubes, which
gives them the properly of penetrating the
hardest bone without deviating from their
course.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
hout twica much powar i, ranuirad IN
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ANTIQUES AND FORGERIEN.
Good Gems Are Rare, but limitations Are
Plentiful.

Good gems of the period of Phidias are
rare. There is an excellent one of lady
reading. in the British Museum. The Ro-
mans took to making regular collections of
gems, dactyliotheta. Julius Caesar and
Marcellus dedicated such collections in tenn
pies, which also served the purpose OF mu-
seums. Portraits first appeared on gems
about the time OF Alexander the Great
Courtiers wore the Emperor's profile; phil
osophers, those o. their favorite master.
Heads of Socrates and of EpicuruS are COM
mon. There are two or three gems with
portraits of Lucretius; from that in the
Vatican the portrait in Munro's Lucretius
was copied we believe. 1t is curious that
no portrait of a poet so much more popular
than Lucretius as Virgil occurs on gem.
Perhaps poets were less in favor for seals
than philosophers; and Lucretius is pre-
served as philosopher, not as poet. The
copying OF statues on gems is comparatively
late.
Roman gems, at their best, are "Greek
either in design or workmanship, If not in
both" Roman gems often show portraits
or represent the national deties. Augustus
such as are found in EtruScan tombs. The
gold of Roman rings is often thin and hol-
low, whether the rings contained poison OF
not, like the
Canarum vindeI ct tamil sauguluis utor
AnnuiUS
Of Hannibal. Soon after the early empire
the gem settlers art decayed. Christian
gems are usually very poor affairs. Canoes
are less interesting and more tricky than
gems cut ntagio. Mcdusa's head is COM
mon subject. The example On an onyx in
DR.. John Evans collection was dredged
from the TIber. 1t is of an extraordinary,
melancholy and mysterious beauty.
The few very large canoes in museums
churches and chapels by emperors and
somehow, and are as beautiful as their long
history is picturesque. At Chartres cameo
of Jupiter. eagle and all, presented by King
Charles V, was very naturally reyered as
an effigy of ST. John. The subject of in
scriptions on gems is extremely difficult
The inscriptions may be the first owners
name or the artists name, but the ndustri-
Gus skepticism of Germany rejects most of
the artists signatures. They were, of
course, easily forged, and a signed gem,
above all others, needs an authentic pedi-
gree. For example, there is one for which
an old Duke of DevOnshre paid 1000
guineas of Baron Stosch, HanoYerian spy
and thief, who once swallowed a gem,
which nothing but an emetic made him dis
gorge. We like not Stosch'S security. The
lodges Of gem forgers are many. Mr.. Mid
dletOn exposes them: but no one can teach
us to detect them. There is no infallible
test, except, perhaps, the quality of the art,
and even that test does not apply to sigma
lures. Bsnvennto Cellini and others of his
age revived the art, which again reappeared
in the last cen tury.-The Saturday Review
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PRINCESS Won HATZFELDT.

The Prince Who Won Fair American
Wife With n Royal Fortune.
The marriage of Clara Pierce Huntington,
adopted daughter of Coils p. Huntington,
to Prince Francis Won Hatzfeldt was an
event which aroused intense interest in the
United States. The Prince had the bluest
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Her Life Was Forever Blasted.

At a fashionable gathering on Michigan
avenue last week young lady stood in the
shadow behind the curtains where the din
ing-r00m led into the conservatory. She
h card two gentlemen discussing her as they
passed her going toward the drawing ro ON.
That Miss c. is all SOUL" she heard
one OF them say. just at the moment the
orchestra broke out riotously, drowning the
others reply. Later in the evening she
managed to corner the gentleman who made
the remark. and, after leading him sort
of tropical wild-goose chase, finally asked
him:
MIR h, how do you spell soul?'
"S-o-l-e," answered Mr.. H, unthink-
ingly.
And thus into gentle woman's life crept
the cold, gray, November fog, overarched
by dull laden skies, and without one CLEAN
of sunshine. Chicago Inter Ocean.