The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

her attention is directed to the arrange
ment and perfection of the mon
ument to be ereted to the men,
DRY of General Logan. Together
with General Alger all the details are en-
trusted in her hands; and in the perfection
OF the work she will exert all the force of
which she is capable and from which may
be expected gratifying results.
Lady Henry Somerset. of Eastnor castle,
near Malvern hills, in England, arrived in
New York by the steamer Teutonic few
days ago. This great lady-a very great
lady indeed-has a mission somewhat diff
ferent from that upon which members of
the nobility generally come when visiting
America, that is, she comes to represent
the temperance cause and to work in it's
promotion. Eastnor castle is one of the
grand old baronial castles of England 1t
Is filled with rarest collections of curios,
of arms, armor and tapestries. OF the
latter some OF them come down from the
famous "Bess of Hardwick" once
the jailer of Mary Queen of Scots,
and not a kind jaller either. as she
was exceeding jealous of the captive queen
This lady of Hardwick was the grand
mother of the hapless Arabeila Stuart,
next to Mary's son James, heir to the
throne of England after Elizabeth To
place her granddaughter on that throne
was longing in the heart of "Bess of
Harkwick," and for its contamination she
did what she could to injure Mary; to-
wards outwitting Elizabeth, and rendering
the life of her own husband so unhappy
(he was her fourthD that at this time
he used to refer to her as MY ID OF a
wife -
She was famous woman-a famous
builder, and those tapestries, representing
The Seasons" are priceless antiques,
now relics OF her in Eastnor castle Be
sides this estate, of which she is owner
Lady Somerset has inherited estates in
Surry, Worcestershire, Herefordshire,
Worcestershire and in Reigate. She is in
the bloom of her womanhood and beauti-
full Her reason for deGicatlng her effort
To the temperance cause is, that upon
entering into the possession OF her estates
she desired To improve the condition of
her dependents, and she found herself
poaeriess 90 10 that until she had subdued
Gre druluu 81 lntemperance among them
hFr effort in that direction. Lady
80 j. the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
b. Colgate, of Glenwood. She is
81, -.Iicnt Of the British Womau's TEMPER
auee Association, and vice president of
the Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, organized by Miss Frances f.
Willard She has come to the United
States 10 attend the national convention
which assemblies in Boston, November 9.
where she will address the temperance
forces gathered there, and present the
petition of 100000 women from England
and Ireland, and that of many thousands
more from Ceylon, Burmah, Japan,
Sweden and the Sandwich Islands, who
are asking for protection against the evils
of intoxicants.
r1 mia \
of Indiana, is mentioned as chief of the
department of live stock at the Worlds
fair of 1893. Her qualifications for the
position are, that she is recognized as the
best informed authority on the subject of
stock; that she is successful stock
breeder in her own state, where she has
valuable herds of fancy cattle of her own
raising, and her management of her own
stock farms show her knowledge of the
subject and her ability to reduce it to
practice.
Bonnets are small in size but extremely
high in price this fall. Twenty, thirty and
forty for bonnet, and that mere mite,
does seem extravagant; yet, women are
buying them. One woman, the Empress
Josephine, once bought more than thirty
bonnets in one month, and was pre- pairing
to purchase more when her husband burst
into her room and had the millner whom
he found there exhibiting cloves of bon
nets" to tempt his wife to extravaganza
arrested and sent to the prison of La
Force. One day of imperial wrath salts
fed, in this instance, the august Napo-
leon, after which he was coaxed by Jose
phine to hberate Mile. Despeaux from
prison.
Miss Harriet Blaine, daughter of the
nf fata hoe
ton for reception of funds to aid Mrs.
Maybrick in gaining her freedom from the
English prison in which she is confined.
Gail Hamilton sent to Miss Blaine last
week sum of money intrusted to her for
aid to Mrs. Maybrick. Many other dona-
tions have also been forwarded, and the
fund in Miss Blaine's hands is growing
rapidly.
Mrs. Ida Bacon, a court stenographer
of Cincinnati, has been appointed master
and referee in the case of George ID. King
and others against the Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company of Cincinnati, and she was
directed by Judge Rufus b. Smith, of the
superior court, to take testimony and re-
port her findings in the case, while an
other woman court stenographer of the
same city, Miss Laura V. Jones, was APP
pointed by the superior court referee in
holders to the extension of the Mount Au-
burn cable railroad.
Miss Lizzie E. D. Thayer, the train dis
patcher of the New London Northern
railroad, is to be found each day at her
office IN New London, Conn. For two
years she has filled this exceedingly re-
sponsible position on the line, giving en-
tire satisfaction to it's directors and man
ayers. Previous to her installment as
official train dispatcher of the New Lon
don Northern railroad she had served for
nearly year as assistant train dispatcher,
and was for years before an expert teleg-
rapher. She is said to be the only woman
in the world holding like position.
Miss Ida Hewitt is regularly commits
stoned locomotive engineer, who runs her
train regularly. She is but little over 20
years of age. Her father is one of the
owners of the short line connecting the
Baltimore & Ohio at Cairo, West Virginia
(the road on which she runs). She is a
pretty girl and an expert in the unique
profession she has chosen.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE.
It's lonesome-sorto' lonesome-It's a Sundy-
day day to me,
1t pears like more n any day / nearly ever see
Ilt, with the Stars and stripes above-a tiutter-