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doesn't ride or hunt. In fact, she has
none Of the fun of the outdoor life that
is open to women who live in an exec
utive mansion and have to keep up Off
cial dignity. That is why she has taken
to walking. Rain or shine, no matter
what is on for the evening, Mrs. Cleve-
land is ready for her constitutional
about 1890.
Under ordinary circumstances any
woman in Washington would be de-
lighted to be honored with an invita-
ton to keep Mrs. Cleveland company
for couple Of hours during the fore
noon. Most of them did try it Tor a
while. After couple of experiences
all but the strongest have been content
to make a plea of sickness.
Mrs. Cleveland's preference is always
for black skirt. This winter she has
usually worn one of the wide-gored
black skirts of heavy cheviot. Over
this she has a short jacket, single
breasted, with the buttons concealed
under the flap of the coat. The sleeves
of the coat are not abnormally inl-
mense. A superb chinchilla cape of the
new winter fashion, very full and rip
ply, covers her shoulders. It's high COL
lar is turned up only i'll the most bit
ing weather. 1t is an immense cape,
and must have been made to order to
suit Mrs. Cleveland's shoulders. On
her head is little black toQue of vel
vet and astrakhan, with couple of
wings at the side and front. There is
nothing striking or especially fashiona-
BILE about the outfit. 1t is quiet and
comfortable, and designed for ease also.
The daily stretch is not less than five
miles. If there is time and compan-
ion who is equal to it it is six OF seven
miles. This is one of the reasons every.
body has been saying how well the
Presidents wife looked, says the New
York World. When she comes up the
walk to the White House her eyes are
clear and bright. Her cheeks are
flushed with the exercise, and it is to be
hoped that the real purpose Of the train
ing is being accomplished Two of the
women who have held out best and
have been her most frequent compan-
ions are Mrs. Minot, the daughter of
Secretary of State Olney, and Miss Har-
mon, daughter of the new Attorney
General of the Cabinet.
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Insignia of High Rank.

In feudal days the sword was the
insignia of rank. Worn as a part of a
gentleman's ordinary dress, it was the
outward and visible sign of superiority
over the masses. Early in the eigh-
teenth century it began to be laid
aside, partly because it was cumbrous
and partly because it led to mischief
not only in the chivalric form of eX-
temporized duels between equals, but
In cold blooded murders of interiors by
gentlemen" The noisy, drunken and
bloodthirsty young ruffians of rank
who at the beginning of the eighteenth
century banded themselves together
under the title of Mohocks increased
the popular disgust against sword
wearing. When Beau Nash, in the de-
cade between 1870 and 174O organized
the fashionable society of England at
Bath, he discouraged the wearing of
swords as contrary to the repose and
security of the water drinking, dancing
and gambling world. From that time
the fashion was doomed. Yet it lin
gered on, not only in England, but in
America. until the close of the eigh-
teenth century. The French revolution
put an end to it in France at the same
period. Yet traces Of the old fashion
survive even to this day in the irrel-
evant and useless buttons which still
figure at the backs of gent!emen's coats,
originally placed there to support the
sword belt, and in the ungainly outline
Of the modern dress coat, which is the
outcome of the habit OF turning back
the skirt of the full dress coat of the
last century SO as to conceal the great
err part of the sword.-New York Her
ald
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If we could trace out the needless
suffering inflicted by men upon each
other, we should find large majority
of it to be quite unintentional, involun-
tary, and even unknown to those who
caused it. No plea in excuse is more
frequent than that there has been no
such purpose. Men forget that EVIL is
wrought by want of thought as we'll as
by want of heart That they meant
no harm to their neighbors or friends
or the public is well; but their response
bility did not end there. They should
have been very sure that their acts
were as free from harm as their inten-
TONS
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against British domination in this part
of Africa. He is an able jurist, a good
statesman and a strong man. The
country over which he will rule is an
Independent Dutch republic in South
Africa. On the south of it is Cape
Colony, on the west Griqualand, the
Transvaal ON the north and Natal on
the east. Its area is 4S,326 square
miles. The total population numbers
2O7, SOB, Of whom nearly $4,000 are
whites. The government consists of
a president and council appointed by
the volksraad. The country is divided
into nineteen districts, with ''land-
rost" to each appointed by the presi-
dent and confirmed by the volksraad.
The volksraad is a legislative body
elected by the adult white burghers,
half of the body vaca ting seats every
two years.
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His Mistake.

The New York Recorder gives a
story of a young lawyer who evidently
did not consider the well-known learn
ing of the judge sufficient reason for
emitting evidence of his own attain
mentS.
The Judge was compelled to listen
to 4 case that had been appealed from
one of the police courts. The young
pra ctitioner who appeared for the appel
liant was long and tedious; he brought
in all of the elementary textbooks, and
quoted the fundamental propositions of
the law.
At last the judge thought it was
time to make an effort to close the argu-
ulent.
Can we rot assume" he said pomp-
ously, that the court knows little
about law itsclfy'
That's the very mistake / made in
the other court answered the young
orator, "and / don't want to let it de-
feat me twice"
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&|[lQ(r&!g q17:z;
- Gan, ~.
SZ19ayI}i g;<2'l66lgS'}((ll:ss
They Find Mr.. Quay.


"The way in which Mr.. Quay does
the little-in fact, most trivial-things
indicates the shrewdness and unique
ness of his personality remarked a
Senate employe the other day.
''For instance, any man that comes
to Washington to sec Mr.. Quay, and
whom Mr.. Quay wants to see-and
there are hundreds of them-will go di-
rectly to his room, that Of the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, and never ask question of
any kind. Not so with the friends of
other Senators, for. while they may
have been told how to reach their diff
ferent rooms, they have, as rule. to
make inquiry for their location. | was
amused the other day, when the call
ers for Mr.. Quay were unusually large,
to see how they went directly to his
room, Notwithstanding the circuitous
route necessary to get to it. When
asked one of them how he knew where
to find the room he showed me a card.
It told the story. 1t contained very
minute directions as to how to reach
the Senator, and just what to do
Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

A learned Italian archaeologist, Prof
Sergi, advances the interesting state
ment that the Italians were defeated in
AbysSinia by men of their own race.
He contends that the most of the popu-
lation Of Spain, Italy, and Greece are
Hamites, and came originally from
Ethiopia, Somali Island, and South
Arabia. After entering Egypt, accord
ing to the professor, the Hamites spread
east as far as Syria and west to the
CanarieS. The Iherians, Lycurians, Pc
lasgians, and Etruscans, branches of
the main stem, overran Southern Rus
STA, Switzerland, France, and Great
Britain In the later stone age, how
ever. they were exterminated in Swift
Zerlan nd, in France were driven south
of the Loire, and south and west in
Britain by the Celts. If the Profess
sor's theory be true, it would appear
that the Hamites of Abyssinia are much
stronger and more formidable than the
Hamites of Italy.
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the piece and coined money with it.
Edition after edition was sold and the
song swept over the world.
Women at the Helm.

Among the curiosities Of the Russian
dominions is a group of communes in
the government of Smolensk, surround
ing the convent of Besjukow, where not
only do women vote, but where they
practically do all the voting and office
holding.
AS the returns from agriculture are
very meager in the district, and there
are large towns not far away, the male
inhabitants of the BesJukow neighbor-
hood emigrate to these towns early in
spring to find work, leaving few but
women and children at home, and not
coming home to attend to the little mat
ter of voting
Inasmuch as the women have to 90
all the farm work as we'll as the house
work in this singular community. it
does not seem strange that they rather
insist upon holding the offices, and not
assigning them to such old men as may
be about. furthermore, it is said that
they have for period of several years
managed all the public affairs of the
Besjukow district so well that the men
are quite content to abandon the tedi-
GUS work of government to them.
Sometimes, when the ''head woman
of the joint communes is presiding over
a public assembly of women to pass
upon important financial and other con-
Germs, certain of the men have been
known to come home for the purpose
of merely looking on and admiring the
method of procedure or else of hearth
~ felicitating themselves upon being
rid of so bothersome duty.
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SONG OF TEARS.
Composer Who Gave 1t to the World
Is Now Dying in Poverty.

composer VINO Gave III TO the w ORD
Is Now Dying in Poverty.
Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the COM
poser of kathleen Mavourneen," is
dying in Baltimore in poverty. The old
mans mind is gone and he raves about
the coronation of William w., the Gu
pidity Of music publishers, his old tri-
umphs and troubles. Hundreds of thou
sands of people who have been moved
to tears by the recital of his famous
song will be amazed to learn that it's
composer is alive. For it is an old song
and is involuntarily referred back to
classic before it had become old and will
remain living power in the realm of
feeling until human nature is essential
ly changed. The poem itself was not
written by Mr.. Crouch. 1t was first
published in an English magazine. Here
it was that Crouch saw it. That was in
1887, when the musician was but 10
years Of age. These are the verses:
Kathleen Mavourneen! The gray dawn
is breaking,
The horn Of the hunter is heard on the
hill;
The lark from her light wing the bright
dew is shaking
Kathleen Mavourneen! What! Slum-
bering still?
Oh, hast thou forgotten how soon we must
sever?
Oh hast thou forgotten this day we
must part
It may be for years and it may be forever
Oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of
my heart?
Kathleen Mavourneen! Awake from thy
slumbers!
The blue mountains glow in the suns
golden light;
All! Where is the spell that once hung
on my numbers?
Arise in thy beauty, thou star Of my
night!
Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears
are falling,
To think that from Erin and thee I
must part;
It may be for years and it may be forever,
Then why art thou silent, thou voice of
my heart?
Crouch wrote out his melody and Of
fered it to a firm of music sellers, who
paid him in hand just f5. They took
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Don Cameron,s Weakness.

]. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania.
who is just retiring from the Senate,
was carefully trained in the art Of poll
tics by his father, Lincoln's famous
Secretary of War. In the days when
Cameron ruled Pennsylvania with alb
solute power one of it's faithful bench
men was calling upon Simon Cameron,
and in the course of the conversation
he remarked:
Senator, why is it that Don has
never made much of a success of poll
tics? He seems to have talent, and
he has all the advantages of your pres
tige and influence"
We'll, Don is a likely fellow" re-
piled the old man. don will get on all
right. You must remember l started
in life with big advantage over
Don''
what was that?" asked the visitor
Poverty"
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1t took the girls of Equinunk, Pa, a

1t took the girls of Equinunk, Pa, a
whole week to raise $500 for their
new church by chopping wood, but
the girls of Susquehanna purpose show
ing their Napoleonic financial abilities
by raising an equal amount in a single
night by means Of ''hugging bee"
The schedule Of prices ranges from
5 cents for old maids to So for widows.
Some of the more conservative mem
bers of the church are objecting to
the plan, but the girls say the kick
comes from that portion of the con-
gregation that could not be kissed at
any price, and declare they will have
the hugging bee or leave the church.
1t is suggested that the factions com.
promise by making it leap year bee,
so that those of the girls who are OPP
posed to the hugging may have the
privilege of Withholding their endear-
mentS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23
BRITISH MINISTER AT CAIRO.
Lord Cromer Who Holds that Post LIS
the Ruler of All Egypt,

Lord Cromer Who Holds that Post LIS
the Ruler of All Egypt.
Lord Cromer, the British minister at
Cairo, who is the real ruler of Egypt,
is a man of the greatest ability in his
profession. He has quick decision and
immovable determination. Even since
his appointment in 1888 he has been the
cause of no end of anxiety to the
French, and for this, if no other rea-
son, it is to be expected that he would
enjoy, as he does, the absolute conf.
dence of his government LORD Gro
mer was formerly European commits
sioner Of the public debt in Egypt He
was selected as one of the controllers
general representing England and
France when the Khedive Ismail was
deposed by the firman of the sultan in
1879. 1t was about the close Of 1880
that Tewfik Pasha became the ruler of
Egypt. Abbas soon found out, how
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est and lowest bar rooms in the VIZ
One of these bar rooms, that at the
tom of the mine, is new thing.
other is, a. necessary attachment
highly respectable institution, an OF
vatory. on Mont Blanc.
I One.bar r0om. is $50 below the surl
Of the earth, in the Chantler minel
Louis County, Minnesota. The CHI
Ter is one of the numerous mines inl
Vermillion range, a hard iron ore
and is about ninety miles from Dull
The miners who work there are
landefs ana Hungarians, and extre1I
fond Of alcohol. They all carry kni@
with blades four inches long, WI
they draw frequently.
FT01f1d tine to time miners were
rested for committing murderous|
-mults. In: The mines, and sent to Du
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Glad to Get Back.

Judge James III. Mulligan, United
States consul to Samoa, who returned
to his home in Lexington, Ky, re-
Gently, was given a banquet. At the
banquet he made an address, the most
remarkable part of which was the fol-
lowing:
when l was away off OH that little
speck Of land in the Pacific ocean and
looked across the vast stretches of sea
to the storms that were agitating this
country, could see no Democrats and
no Republicans. 1t was America. The
English, the Germans and all the 9TH
ers are against America, no matter
what the diplomats may say. [ feel
that / have learned more in the last
two years than l have learned before.
| have borne my part in the battles OF
politics, have spoken bitter words, but
when / stood under that mighty crag
on that far-away speck in the ocean
and helped to lay him to rest whom
had learned to love, and who believe
had learned to love me-Robert Louis
Stevenson-I felt that if I ever got
back home, l would not speak in an
unkind word to a fellow
but would do all coJ1ls to bind up any
wounds that may have caused"
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for trial, They were in an adVa1
stat" Of int6xication. The maha]
of the mines noticed that men VINO Y
down perfectly sober came up Y
drunk. This could not be due III
influence Of coal dust, but 1t was
time before the true cause was a'SI
cred.
The other bar is very dl1erenI
fair. 1t is in connection Wiui
French observatory, at the top Oh
Blanc, which is 1871 feet high
you can get the best of Frenen cos
and champagne. Everything Is ~
ing contrast to the raw alcohoi y
mine.
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IN HER CouNTRY's BEHA,
Wife OF the Spanish Minister w.
ing Hard for Spain,s

'
ing Hard for Spain's Cane
One of the best diplomats that 81
has in this country is Nine. Dnnni
LONE, wife of the Spanish ministcj
Washington. She is a tall and boo
full woman and speaks English 90
emily as she does her native toni
1t is said she has tried to get the wj
of the statesmen to promise to use]
influence of their husbands in thu
terest of Spain, and that she has i
herself furnished documents to II;
who wished them. There is no al
but that she takes the deepest intaI
in the plans of her husband, feoI
that the success of his diplomatic /
sion depends on his efforts to stem
tide Of Cuba's popularity. She is
ing all that her womanly attract
ness can to make more easy her
bands difficult pathway. Nor /
she confine her efforts to her own
She has approached Senators in a (
cate, womanly way, and it is said
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

If Cuba should win its independence
Spain will have nc reason to regard
the event rs q deep humiliation. En-
gland had to take the same medicine
oyer hundred years ago. and the
colonies she lost have uonc so wei
that she is not half sorry
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Judge Steyn's election is considered
Boer victory, as his candidacy. was
indorsed and promoted by President
Kruger, of the TransvaaL DR.. Jane
son and his raid into the South At
rican republic had the sympathy of
the uitlanders. or noncitizens, of the
Orange Free State. Steyn stood for
the conservative or Boer interests, and
his election shows the tide is flowing
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Some fellow with plenty of time has
figured out the fact that there are 1877
100000 telephone calls in this country
every year. If he will investigate this
subject further perhaps he may be able
to discover about 7GO.000,000 Of them
are made when line is busy"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Russia and France are not as sure
MS they were that England is out in
the cold in European politics. En-
gland has willingly exchanged her
splendid isolation for an understanding
with the Dreibund, converting it into
q Big -Four worth talking about.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

made of some of them champion,
SPANS cause.
The family of Minister de LONE
very happy one, there being two pr
boys of about 8 and 10, who are tai
daily by their mother.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Ii Chung Of the Chinese legation at
Washington was initiated into the Ma
sonic fraternity After subduing the
great American goat the Acknowledged
Celestials may be encouraged to try
another 90 with the JapS.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Ben Franklin has been appointed
Governor of Arizona. We always nave
felt confident that sooner or later that
man Franklin would be heard from,
notwithsta nding the penchant for fly
inc kites, after the paper went to press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

All that a man has to do in q place
where he is a stranger is to bride his
tongue and his temper, cultivate good
feeling and kind affections, and meet
every advance of his neighbOr with
courtesy. cordiality and cheerfulness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

England's decision to spend 500, G0C,.
900 in building new war-ships this year
would be more formidable if the fact
were not known that the ships already
completed are decidedly short of sail
ors. A landsman transferred at short
notice to a modern battle-ship is about
as effective as a Spanish infantryman
on a Cuban mule.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Rev. E. S. Decker, of the First Meth
odist Church of Newark, N. j., has
been permitted to withdraw from the
ministry. A special dispatch adds that
'he has kissed several pretty girls in
his congregation of late and is thought
to be insane" Bosh! That is an evil
dence of sanity. Wait till he begins to
kill the homely ones before trying him
for insanity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

The habit of intellectual suspense is
q most wholesome and valuable one,
especially where the spirit and actions
of another are concerned; and nothing
tends more effectually to prevent I'M
Just and cruel criticism.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

There is often in one kind word. one
look of sympathizing affection, or one
small act of disinterested love, more OF
real nobleness of spirit than in actions
which have rung in the ears and found
nm echo in the hearts Of admiring thou
sands
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

The Boston Advertiser. which carries
Mt it's editorial masthead the proud
statement that it is "a paper for the
best classes exclusively" prints q two
column account of dog fight. But
perhaps this is what the best classes III
Boston want
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The vastness Of the Oceans

The. surface of the sea is es'.n
at 10000, 900 square miles; tak snr
whole surface Of the globe at lo.')
COO. ana sits greatest depth sup N
to be gasaito that of the hlgheel n
tain, or four miles. The pacln. nd u
covers $4,000, 600 square miles, .n
lantic %, 100000, the Medl'ei'
/ 100000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

The people Of this country desire
peace with all nations, of course. and
therefore they are in favor of the
construction of more battle-ships and
torpedo boats. as such things are Won
derfully effective in the prevention OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Taste. If it means anything but a
paltry connoisseurship. must mean
general susceptibility to truth and no
bleneSs. 4 sense to discern and heart
to love and reverence all beauty, order.
goodness, wheresoever or in whatever
forrls and accomplishments they are
to oa seer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

r. Simon Sam has been elected presl-
dent of Hayti to succeed Gen. Hippol-
yte. 1t will be relief to have Hay
tan executive whose name can be
pronounced correctly at the first effort.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

The duke of Velagua has been wax
ing exceeding saucy toward the Uni
ted States of late. This probably comes
from Tom Palmer's 'Veragua relief
fund" which, when last heard from,
stood at $1.6S. 1t isn't wise 20 make
these foreign paupers independently
wealthy all 1T once.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

Scientists say the time is coming
when we shall be able to talk with
the planets. The necessity for more
talk is not urgent, but any improve
ment in the quality will be thankfully
received
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-23

On. In Kansas judge has ruled that
N man calls on a girl several times
and escorts her to entertainments occa-
sionaliy he is legally engaged TO marry
her" That judge evidently is susccpti-
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"After that" remarked the young
slim who had been telling an inane
ghost story, my mind was blank"
THAT accounts for it," commended a
sharp young woman, and there was
an interregnum OF profound silence
Truth.