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Mrs. AMELIA Il. BARR, it Is said,
makes between $4,000 and $4,000 a
year by her literary work.
HENRIETTA HEkcHFELD, the first wom-
an graduate of the Philadelphia Col
lege of Dental Surgery, is assistant
court dentist in Germany.
THERE are 1OS ladies now serving as
poor law guardians in England and
Scotland, and the number Of women
elected to this position increases every
year.
Miss WILL ALLEN DROMGOoLE, the
Tennessee author, for eight years held
the position of clerk of the senate OF
Tennessee, with credit to herself and
the state.
SOME philosopher advances the idea
that woman who does not marry and
make some good man happy is likely to
turn philanthropist and make some bad
man unhappy.
In the United States over 200, 900
women are maintaining themselves in
the professions of law, medicine, music,
art, science and literature, besides gov
ernment employ.
The women OF Illinois have taken
out, since 1854, 2S4 patents for inven-
tions and devices of one kind and an
other. The Illinois Worlds fair board
will exhibit copies of all these patents
that can be obtained.
Miss KATE SMITH, of Louisville, KY,
has lately received her diploma as a
professional embalmer, one Of the very
few in this country. Miss Smith is
young, highly educated, and is described
as remarkably pretty.
Mrs. ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP, the wri.
tsr Of books of travels, is the first wom-
an to deliver an address in the British
house of commons, having been SUM
moned there to tell what she had seen
of the Christians in Turkish Koordi-
stan.
In one of the leading dry goods stores
recently it was proposed to reduce the
wages of the women in order that those
of the married men might be raised.
But investigation showed that the sin
gle women were supporting more peo-
pie than the married men, and the pro
posed change did not take place.
Miss RUTH BLAKE has designed a
Bishop Brooks calendar. The tablets
of calendar information are set against
the arches Of Trinity church, which
fold in door-fashion upon a photograv-
ure Of the bishop and of Trinity, placed
over quotation from the bishops
writings. Upon the inside of the door
covers are tablets Of the movable feasts
Of the church.
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THE LARGEST IDOL.
1t Is Said to Stand Twenty Miles from
Yokohama.


Yokohama.
The worship of idols is, Of course, to
a great degree symbolic. That is, the
worshiper has in mind the spirit or
force which the wooden or stone image
is supposed to represent, The most
ignorant idolaters, however, worship
the image itself. Idols still figure in
the religion Of the Japanese, most Of
whom are Buddhists, and the largest
idol IN the world stands twenty miles
from Yokohama, near the village OF
Kamakura. 1t stands on terrace near
q temple, and the approach is 80 ar
ranged that the gigantic image is very
impressive. 1t was erected during the
reign Of Shomu, who was forty sixth in
the present line Of emperors, who died
in the year 748, A. ID. For more than
1900 years crowds of devotees have
gathered daily around this great idol,
which is still perfectly preserved. The
image from the base of the lotus flower
upon which the god sits to the top OF
his head is 63X feet, and above this
rises an aureole IA feet wide, above
which again rises for several feet the
famelilse glory which incloses or arches
in the whole figure. The face proper is
IS feet long, its width 0}1 feet. The
eyes are 3 feet Q inches long from cor
ner TO corner, the eyebrows 5115 feet. and
the ears 81 feet. The chest is 20 feet
in depth, and its middle fingeris exactly
s feet long. Around the sides, shoul-
ders and head of the god. in front of the
aureole, are 10 figures, each in q sitting
posture, and each 8 feet in height. Il.
The leaves of the immense lotus upon
which the god sits are each 10 feet long
and feet wide, there being Sc Of them
in the cluster. The right hand Of the
god is open and raised. The left rests
in his lap. The image weighs about 45O
tons, and is made of bronze Of gold,
tin, copper and mercury, 500 pounds OF
gold being used in the composition :
lIarper's Young People.
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HE DARTS TO THE RESCUE.

action of the lungs. Nearly an hour
has glided by, and still the beautiful
clay lies there inanimate as marble
image. A portentous hush, profound
as that of death itself, pervades the
room; the tensely-drawn nerves of
the voicelessly praying woman-the
widowed, perhaps childless, mother
begin to give way. All seems in vain.
Her darling, willful, loving boy is cer-
tainly dead and she-she is henceforth
alone. Is this, then, the end of four
teen long years of tender care? Blessed
be His name, no; for, see! there is
new look in the doctors watching
eyes. He bends still lower, lays his
ear close to the boys heart, places his
long, white fingers on the pulse, raises
his own transfgured face, and says
oh, so reverently!-the simple, life
giving words:
"He is saved!"
Then, as the long pent up waters of
an icebound fountain are released by
the springtime sun, the blessed tears
gush from the happy mothers eyes,
and with an inarticulate cry of thanks
giving she sinks to the floor, weak and
helpless as q newborn babe.
When she has regained some measure
of strength, her boy has passed through
the paroxysm Of pain incident to return
ing circulation of the blood and, as she
presses her lips lovingly to his, he whis-
pers those two touching words, to which
no true woman has ever yet since the
creation of the world turned deaf ear:
"Mother, forgive!- and the lowering
angel of peace, we may well believe,
scars heavenward with the glad tidings
that repentant and redeemed soul is
lent for awhile longer TO earth.
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FurnIshIur \ Cottnre.

The cottage may be commonplace
house in a country town, or it may be
a tiny affair of rustic prettiness; the
former is the more common type, and
it is equally common to find it fur
nshed in stereotyped city style. The
moquette or velvet carpets, the regula-
ton amount of sofas and easy chairs,
even the pictures are the same; the
young man and the maiden still bow at
the Angelus, while opposite them am
other young man and woman are act
ing the 'Old, Old Story" Why not
give the uninteresting house an indi-
viduality Of it's own by clothing it ap-
propriately and making much of any
advantages it may possess? 1t will cost
no more, and the result will be con-
slant source of qualification. -Ladiea'
Home Journal.
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LEND HELPING HANDS.
Two Woman's Clubs and the Noble Work
They Are Doing.

Two Woman's Clubs and the Noble Work
They Are Doing.
A new and worthy benefcence is
that of the Helping Hand Visitors club
which has it's headquarters at IS East
Fourteenth street. Its object is to
bring about introduction and commu-
nication between people having homes
in the country who would receive into
their households for short summer
vacation well recommended young
women from the city willing to spend
part of their time each day helping
with sewing or other domestic duties
in return for home during their vaca-
tion time, and the respectable young
women clerks and seamstresses, whose
means are too limited to allow of pay
ing regular rates for board, and who
would lik to avail themselves of such
opportunity for summer sojourn in the
country. 1t is greatly desired that phil
anthropical women of the smaller towns
and villages will take up the work and
communicate with the central socie-
ty in the nearest city, for the work is
not confined to New York alone. An
other summer vacation organization,
which has demonstrated it's raison
d'etre, is the Woman's Rest Tour asso-
citation of Boston. This society appeals
TO women of different type, and its
object is to enable women of moderate
means to travel intelligently with con-
genial companions and with the small
est possible expense. The yearly fee Of
one dollar entities the member to u
carefully prepared schedule of expenses
whose data are gathered from actual
experience, and include a list Of relia-
BILE lodgings abroad, and various advis-
ory publications and itineraries, with
costs, throughout the year. Women
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NeNcf pdusinR III lnelf eager race, not
even stopping to ask question, they
sprang into the ready skiff and shot
like an arrow from the shore.
Don't stop! Don't stop for mel" fall
tered ALI Hughes, US they swept along
side. "a few yards further out
straight in line with the other boat!
Oh, hurry! good men, hurry!"
One man is rowing, the other watch
ing, and now, ten yards beyond the
self-forgetful Hughes, he sees, while
pcering anxiously over the side, white
body lying motionless on the bottom
twelve feet below the surface.
"Back-water! steady her, George, he
cries to his mate, and down like plum
met he darts to the rescue. In two sec
onds he is up again. his hand twined
in the boys long hair. Another second
and both are in the boat.
Willie has been submerged one and a
half, possibly two, minutes. He may
yet be saved! No breath is wasted in
words, no fraction Of time in dallying.
The hardy fisherman who still holds
the oars, with one long, sweeping
stroke turns the bow shoreward; his
companion picks up the exhausted Alf
as the boat flies along, and the fifty in
tervening yards are passed over in q
flash.
Then the dry man lifts the drowned
youth out to the hot sand, takes off his
own upper garments and wraps him up,
while his friend goes for the anchored
skiff. Quickly returning, the two bear
the still form tenderly to the house
whence they themselves have lately
come, leaving the now reviving John
and Alfred to resume their clothing and
follow when strong enough.
While one of the rcscuers assists the
good people of the house in their efforts
at resuscitation, the other hurries off to
the village for doctor, and soon every
thing which skill can suggest is being
done for the unconscious sufferer.
Meantime a swift-footed messenger
had been sent TO Mrs. Johnson's, and
the distracted mother arrives TO find
her only son apparently beyond all hu-
man help. Not a sob, nor murmur, nor
complaint does she utter-nothing to
disturb the work in hand-but with
fearless eyes and pale cheeks lends her.
self to the doctors aid with an enforced
calmness sadly belied by her bursting
heart.
Minutes pass away-a quarter, half
hour has gone-and yet there is no sign
of returning life. John and ALI arrive,
and with unwonted solemnity seat
themselves in an outer room, awaiting
in awe-stricken silence the DIR cad ver-
dict which to both seems inevitable.
But the skilled physician, a man Of
large experience in such cases, works
steadily on, never despairing, yet dar-
ing to whisper to the self-repressing
mother only vaguest words of hope
The labor is hard and the perspiratfon
pours down the good mans face as he
tries, by alternately pressing and re-
leasing his patients chest and raising
and depressing his arms, to restore the
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desirous OF taking the same routes are
brought together and introduced, thus
providing congenial compagnons de
voyage for the lone woman whose chief
anxiety in this age of self-supporting
independence is not, how shall find
means to travel, but with whom shall l
make my journey? Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe is the president of the society,
and Louise Imogen Quincy is the secre-
tary,-N. Y. Sun,
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Forming squares.

It is remarkable that recent tactics
in the Soudan, when we formed squares
to resist the rusl1 of our fanaticai op-
ponents, are simply copy of those
which Napoleon was compelled to adopt
in that part of the world nearly CEN
tu,y ago. The Mamelukes, who wers
his most dangerous antagonists, were
better trained and better mounted
than any cavalry he had to bring
against them, and, moreover, greatly
outnumbered the French squadrons.
He was obliged, therefore, to rely en-
tirely on his artillery and infantry,
and these were formed into squares,
with the guns at the angles, just as
our troops were drawn up to stem the
rusbes at FL Teb and Tamai. At Ulun-
di our formation was the same and,
like us on that occasion, we read that
Napoleon placed his baggage and cav
airy in the center Of the square, and
when the foe was beaten, launched the
horsemen to the pursuit just as we loose
our squadrons on the Zulus.-SaturdRy
Review l.s.4 la4
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THE OREGON sNoweIRp.
He Lends Attractiveness to the Drsary
Winter Landscape.

Winter Landscape.
Most boy and girl readers no doubt
are acquainted with the slate-colored
Junco Of the east, which is commonly
known us "Snowbird." The Oregon
Junco (Junco Ayemalis. oar. Orcgonus) is
a sub-species and is found throughout
the Pacific coast region from California
to Sitka, not being confined to Oregon.
The dark plumage makes 1t conspicuous
when the ground is covered with snow,
and it is therefore more noticed at
such times. ....I
The sooty black head, fesh-colored
bill and white breast contrast in color.
Pinkish colorcd feathers are on the
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Nearly . Catastrophe.

II never had such terrible day."
said lady who lives in the suburbs.
"What was the matter?"
"Our new servant girl. She couldn't
find the clothes line. Never mind,
Bridget said l. let it go for to-day
'Indade Oi'll not said she. DIN fix it
in jiffy.' With that she got the step
ladder and left her. In few minutes
/ thought would see how she was get
ting along, and l arrived on the scene
lust in time to save her life"
"What was she doing?" -.s.l
"Getting ready to hang the clothes
on the trolley wire. e."--Washington Star.
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A had Break.

Kirby Stone-See that man acrosa
there? He is the only man ever knew
to break bank at gambling.
job Lott-Indeed!
Kirby Stone-Yes. He was president
Of the bank he broke.-Puck.
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Thin SOuD.

First Child-What's the matter with
Nellie Newcome?
Second Child-She's got the chicken.
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was first visited /

Louisiana was first visited by In
Sale, who discovered the mouth Of the
Mississippi (1G9D, and took possession
of the country in the name Of Louis,
king of France. Settlements were soon
afterwards formed. In 1712 Louis XIV.
named the region Louisiana in honor of
himself, and granted 1t to NJ Crozot
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First Child guess she can't have it
very bad. She lives in boarding house.
Good News.
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AEavLr
RepeEe,nn
: lnon5oH
[Copyright,f 1893, by
the Author.]

N Living gston
county, Mich,
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cety. A pretty and unique programme will
be carried out. The affair will be held In
the church parlors.
ie old folks of We Bates avenue will sing
ye songs of We olden times, in ye Bates
Avenue Methodist meetin house. Ie sing
singers will commence promptly on We hOnr
Soelock. on We night of Friday, April 2S,
MDCCClNIlI,
The musicale which was to be given at
Stryker semina y. ST. Anthony Park Friday
evening, las been postponed till Monday
evening April "a. The programme has been
arranged with great care.
The class of '06 at the ST. Paul high school
intend giving musicale and literary enter
tanment some time in the near future, which
will be u great success if carried out as they
intend II TO be.
The Alcayde Euehre club will give its last
party OF the season at Alcayde hall Friday
evening. April -. Dancing will be the order
of the evening. All members are requested
to be present
The supper which was to be given Thurs
day evening by the Ladies' Guild of st.
James church, corner of Lawson and De
Soto streets is postponed until Tuesday,
April25.
The Young Ladies' Missionary Society of
Central Park NJ. 4. church will give pink
tea for the benefit of their society in the par.
Tors of the church Monday evening April -.
The ladies OF Millions Dancing academy
Will give an invitation dancing party at Mil
ton'sAsSemDly hall on Friday neXtMusic will
be furnished by the Metropolitan orchestra.
The Musekoerein of st. Paul has issued in
vitationS for Il musicale and entertainment
TO be given May 1 at Standard hall, Eighth
and jackson streets
The Summit Skating club will give an in
vitatiOn,party at Millions Assembly hail next
Wednesday. Music will be furnished by the
Metropolitan orchestra.
The Calumet Dancing club gives the last of
Its successful series OF dances next Wednes-
day evening at Central hall
Miss Lizzie Cullen, of 3l3 Cherokee ave.
nue., will entertain the Entire Nous" club
during the week
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SOCIAL AFFAIRS.

small party rolled down upon Miss Edith
La CroiX at her hOm2, 81 Rice street. last
Friday evening Among those present were
Messrs. E. y. Schaum, {. 7. Mullin, WV. Lew
is G. f. KaSinaw. Ed La Croix, o. Smith. G.
Webster, harley Stillev, and the Misses Win
ME Eagen, Minnie Matthews, Kittie Hoist,
Lola Sehaum, Bridget Eagen, Lucy Lux. Celia
Greenwood, Rose and Mary Winters. The
young people were well entertained by Miss
Edith, and spent very pleasant evening.
Last Saturday evening Herman A. Blank
was surprised by his friends at 33l Martin
street. the occasion being his twentyfr
birthday. The evening was spent in playing
progressive euchre. Among those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Michel. Mrs Meier, Misses
Katie Meier. Maggie Nachugall, Louisa
Wek, Mary and Lizzie Bundle. Spring;
Messrs. Albert KOsanke, Henry KosanSe, NJ
Yost Fred Clark. Prizes were won by A. X.
Kosanke aud Miss Katie Meier.
Miss Martha Haase was pleasantly sur
prised by a number of her friends, Friday
evening at her home, 81 Pine street. The
evening was spent i'll games Among those
present were the Misses +. L. Haase. A. NJ.
Haase, Ida Lange. A. Haase, l.. Letteau, V. K.
Hawkins, o. Trick Media Stoff. aud Messrs.
w. 4. Shoch, Halthen, F. c. Hawkins. f. IL.
Hanek. o. Tango, p. Prick, (. y. HaaSe, +.
ART Jr.
pleasing entertainment was given at the
high school assembly hall last evening by the
third classmen of the high school 1t was
III the nature or q comedy DurleSque. The
principal parts being taken by Robert Hall,
Grace Robbins, Bessie Mahon, Sam Often
hOefer and Alice Craig.
The birthdays of P. V. Daly's two little
boys happen to fall on the same day, and the
happy event was celebrated this week at
their home on lglehart street by party.
which was attended by all the little masters
and misses in the neighborhoOd.
The Hazel club gave a very pretty hop at
Twin City hall last Thursday evening. An
elegant programme was rendered by the Met
ropoIitan orchestra. Their last hop of the
season will be given on May }.
on Saturday afternoon Miss Alice Alden.
of Holly avenue, entertained a number of
her friends at tea. the hours being from 4
to 8. during which time nearly every one who
was invited called.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. n. Clintsman and Mr.. and
Mrs. 7. P Rockwell of the Clinton, enter
tanned a few of their friends at cards last
evening
{ Miss Jessie Burns. of 334 East Congress
street, gave very pleasant party to about
thirty of her friends last Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs j. n. Thayer will entertain
number of their friends next Thursday even
ing at their home on East Winifred street.
II. ". Wack gave dinner party at the
Windsor on Monday evening for party of
Chicago friends, Covers were laid for six.
On Monday afternoon. at theWindsor hotel,
Harry W. Wack entertained party of East
ern friends at dinner.
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Mourning Millinery
In all its details.
KID GLOVES.

The Finest Cloves that are made
can be found in our stock All the
new styles and all the rQresf and
most fashionable coiorings, full
lines of sizes in three lengths of
fingers,
The Reynier is the glove con-
trohed and most highly recon-
mended by the LOUVRE. of Paris.
The Trefousse is the glove con-
troHed and most highly recon-
mended by the BON MARcHE, of
Paris.
These are probably the largest
and best dry goods houses in the
world. Certainly the best and most
influential in France. We are
agents for both of these beautiful
gloves, and control them in ST. Paul
as they control them in Paris.
We also have the PERRIN KID
CLOVES, and we regard PERRiES
PiQUE WALKING GLOVE, with stud
fastening, as one of the best and
most SerWcea6Ie in the market Try
them. You will never regret it.
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APRIL WEDDINGS.

pretty home wedding ceurred at the re-
sidence OF Mr.. and Mrs. o. Sayer, where their
cousin. Miss Johanna Clement, of ST. Paul.
was married to W. II. Etherley. of Galena
Ill, (ne day last week. At 80 the strains of
the Lunengrin wedding march heralded the
coming of the bridal party. which entered
the parlor. led by the bridesmaid, Miss w.
OSsman, and groomSman. 5. l.. Ossman,
cousins of the bride. The marriage was Gel
ebrated by Rev c. E. Haupt of the Church
of the Messiah. The bride and her maid were
gowned in cream-colored cashmere with
white and pink roses Mr.. and Mrs. Etherley
Will leave for their home In Galena Tuesday,
April %. The presents were numerous and
costly.
A very pleasant wedding ceremony took
place al ST. Josephs church last Tuesday. in
which Miss Maize Heffermau was Joined in
the holy bonds of matrimony to Joseph NJ.
Francois, key. Fathe. Raleigh officiating.
Misses Anna Hefferman and Wolfe Griffley
acted as bridesmaids and MeSsrs Frank Files
John German as groomsmen. After high
mass the newly welded couple and friends
repaired to the brides home on Aurora ave-
nue., where the balance of the day was spent
in partaking of refreshments and general
amusement. Mr.. and Mrs Francois will be
at home, 40 Blair street, after May /.
Miss Frances Newman, daughter of Seth
Newman, of Fargo, was married to Grant
Cunnigal Dial.of Chicago, at 1he Gethsemane
church, Fargo, Thursday evening. Miss New
man is well known in st. Paul.
Charles II. Seccombe and Miss George
Luley were married Wednesday evening at
the residence of the brides parents Mr.. and
Mrs. F. W. Luley, 567 Martin street. Imme-
diaie friends only were present.
A marriage of prominent society people,
which will occur next week. is that of Miss
Carolyn Field. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thaddeus Crane Field, of Western avenue.
They will be married April 27
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threatened for several days, and finally
came down on us like the wolf on the
fold" to the veXation OF pedestrians
and lovers of sunshine. Several things
are promised for next week. We shall
have some pretty strictly social al
fairs, as well as some that are
more in the form of mental or literary
pleasure. Among these is the lecture
OF Prof. LoiSette on Monday evening on
the cultivation of memory. Memory,all
Will concede, is a most useful possession,
and the lack of its possession on the
part of our friends is often serious in
convenience. So far as we are ourselves
concerned, sometimes we think" on
this subject, land then again we don't
know" However, il will be we'll to go
and hear what the professors plan is.
Then we are to have the only, the in
comparable Bill Nye, with his equally
incompatible comrade, A. p. Burbank,
who will try to amuse us on Thursday
evening at Ford's music hall. The
MikadO" is we'll under way, and will be
the next big entertainment in which our
young society people will work for
charity. There is little need to say more
about this function than simply to say
that Mrs. BarrOwS, Mrs. j. ID. Lawler,
Miss Katherine Gordon and Miss Fan
ming are the leading women, and Prof.
Emil Obenhotfer will be the musical
director, and Alfred Moore is to be stage
manager. The next full rehearsal for
both principals and chorus will be held
at the NuShka club house on Monday
evening.