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fact would not be of so much IMPORTANCE
in itself. were ii not for the other that the
fervor of the gentler sex in the direction
of association for social purposes has grad
ually resulted in a certain change in the
club idea of the male part Of the population.
The theory that women are unclubable IS a
very old one. The history of women clubs
has not been such as to make us change
our opinion on that point. Inc club was
originally invented as a male institution
into which the man could flee away and be
at rest when home activities prove too
strong for him. The first inventors of the
club demanded from their fellow-members
a special crane of mind for the clubhouse.
They asked from each other no condolences
on home affairs; no knowledge of who a
mans wife had been; how many children
he had, or whether he believed in female
suffrage or not. The practical maxim was,
VINO enters here leaves domesticity at the
door" All were temporary bachelors when
they passed the porter at the entrance. Men
might know each other for years in a club
without every darkenlng each others pri-
vate doors. In fact men did not join clubs
to increase their social acquaintances They
did so to escape at times from social life
itself, for social life involves the presence
of women. But now how has all his
changed Some of the best of our clubs be-
gan by having ladies days" Then they
added an annex devoted entirely to the
other sex. In this way the club has become
a means toward an end and quite different
from what 1t was formerly. The feminine
notion that a club is an instrument for in
creasing the number of young friends has
affected the organization all along the line.
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to eventually become the greatest COM
mercial power. For this purpose it has
quilt railroads through Siberia, with ter
mini in China. 1t covets the of
the East, which has been monopoIized by
Great Britain, and it has sought. since the
days of Peter the Great, Constantinople as
the outlet of that vast trade, and the site
of the greatest commercial city in the
world. Russia has one-sixth of the land
area of the world. and it is now opening
to gradual settlement the vast area known
as Siberia. 1t is said that the development
of the United States west of the Alleghe-
MES affords the nearest indication of the
possibilities of Russia.
Not many years ago Russia was iso-
lated. Now, whether Russia is liked or
disliked by the other powers, it has them
on its side. To-day Russia practically con-
trolls Turkey. 1t has markets to offer Ger
many and Austria, made by the develop
ment of Siberia, and it has France for an
offensive or defensive ally, because it will
not permit Germany to interfere with
France. So during the past decade the I'M
matched diplomacy of Russia has isolated
Great Britain. To obtain this advantage
Russia has built up the greatest military
establishment in the world. Those who do
not look beyond the fact assume thar this
has been done because Russia desires war.
Such is not the case; it has been created
to impress the rest of Europe with the fact
that it is better to be friendly with that
government. If war is necessary to carry
out the plans of Russia it will not hesitate
about it. With it's vast armies and it's ac-
emulation of gold for war purposes Rus
STA, while preferring peace, is ready for
war.
Such is the position of Russia to-day.
Whether we like it or not, Russia is the
real arbiter of affairs of Europe. AS a gov
eminent machine it has no ethics; but it
is intensely devoted to aggrandizement, and
it is now wise enough to see that it must
be accomplished in part by the gradual
lettering of the condition of it's masses.
Whatever it does in regard to the Graeco-
Turkish muddle will be solely with a view
of promoting the interests of Russia.
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SCIENTIFIC.

Aluminium, in plates a quarter OF an inch
thick, has proven a very durable roofing
material in Berlin.
A case of periodical hiccough, lasting
several months. in a man of forty-two, has
been traced by a Norwegian physician to a
tumor at the base of the tongue.
A late mysterious explosion in a colliery
in South Wales appears quite certainly to
have resulted from a spark caused by a
heavy fall of the gritty sandstone roof.
A remarkable adulteration of saffron has
been discovered by a German microscopic,
who has found barium sulphate within the
cells, and concludes thai the drug was first
soaked in a solution of a barium salt and
then in a suiphate solution. Barlum sui
phate was thus precipitated within the sub
stlnce of the drug, as well as on the sur
face, rendering detection difficult.
The geological fault of the Jordan-Arabah
valley has a length of 270 miles or more
from the Gulf Of Akabah to the base of
Hermon, and is undoubtedly much longer.
Another great line of fracture is now re-
ported from southern Afghanistan, where
Capt. a. II. Mcmahon has traced a re
markable trench for 100 miles in a north
northeast and south-southwest direction,
finding it to be clearly a fault line.
OF 17 meteors observed in England dur
ing the last ten years Mr.. w. f. Denning
finds the greatest height to have been 126
miles: average height at first appearance,
1876 miles. and at disappearance. 45.3; av-
erage length of path, 62.1 miles. and yeloc-
ity per second, 269 miles. OF one hundred
meteors whose paths are given by Prof.
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PAPER OF THE OXFORD BIBLE.
Only Three Persons Who Know the
Secret of Its Making.
Chambers's journal.

CnamDerS s journal.
The paper making Of Oxford Bibles is a
specially important and interesting part OF
the work. At Wolvercote, a mile or two
out of Oxford, the university has a large
mill Cor the supply of it's own requirements.
here is made of old ships sails, the material
of which, after battling with storms in all
quarters of the world, comes here for the
purpose of being made into paper, printed
in almost every language under heaven and
bound up into volumes to be again scat
tered far and wide into all the uttermoSt
ends of the earth.
This Wolvercote paper has much to do
with the great reputation that Oxford has
acquired in the production of Bibles and
other devotional books. Twenty years ago
valuable invention in paper making, and
ever since their India paper has been
the envy and puzzle of manufacturers all
over the Kingdom There are said to be
only three persons living who know the
secret of it's make, and, though the process
has never been legally protected, and all
the world is free to initiate the extremely
thin but thoroughly opaque and wonderful
ly strong and durable paper Of the best
Oxford Bibles If they only knew how, all
the world has hitherto quite failed to do so.
1t is thin as tissue, but perfectly paque
and SO strong that a strip OF 1T, three
tanning a quarter of a hundredweight. over
100 works and editions are now printed on
this paper. This special advantage has very
largely helped Oxford to retain the leading
position which it originally gained by, be-
ing nearly the first, if not quite the nrst,
printer of books in the Kingdom ana Dy
the prestige of its name.
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later followed her most famous story. John
Ward, Preacher which Immediately came
into wide popularity in England as we'll
as in America. In 1880 she produced Sid
ney;" in 1892, 9Th Story of a Child" in
1923, Mr.. Tommy Dore." and in November
of last year. Philip and His Wife which
completes her photography up to date.
Miss Marie Corelli has been celebrating
the twelfth anniversary of her debut as a
novelist, and it appears that the royalties
of her initial volume, her celebrated "Ro-
a of Two Worlds" would be ample fer
her support. even if she had no other
sources Of income. And yet, as in so many
historic cases, the publishers readers, who
seem to be called readers on the lucus a non
principle, rejected the story as romantic
rubbish. Perhaps it was, and is, but the
public has paid so many dollars for IL and
the other progeny of its authors prolific
pen that Marie Corelli is, in point of in
come. far and away the richest woman
writer of the time. She is physically much
the style of woman the lamented Ouch
ess'' was, small and blonde-a singular fact,
considering her Italian blood. which APP
pears to show itself chiefly in her imagin-
alton rather than in her physique. Miss
Corelli is one of the numerous literary peo-
pie of K~ensington, in London. Success has
merely stimulated her pen and possessed
her of a truly Marion Crawford-ike rage
for writing.
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HORN-BLOWING.

Tho other day the women of Denver who
comnose the Equal Suffrage Association
and the Civic Federation got together and
formally agreed that they were possessed
of ali the virtues; that since they hau De
gun to vote their influence, of course Tor
good. on public legislation and publc man.
ners had been great; that several reforms
had been inspired by them, and that the
effect of equal suffrage was already OF BEN
eft 70 the State and would undoubtedly be
of greater advantage in the future when
the feminine influence got a firmer hold
Very likely this is all true, but it would
have sounded much better and have been
much more convincing had it been left Tor
somebody else than the women TO say.
Even should it occur to no one else to say,
the women would lose nothing. for If their
influence is what they assert it will speak
for itself. The fact that they issued their
formal pronunciamento in order to offset
false reports as to the workings of equal
suffrage does not excuse their Boosting, for
the reports, if they are false, will die of
their own weight.
The truth is. the public has grown a 1T
tie weary of the feminine assumption of
superior virtue. All the world is willing to
acknowledge, and has always acknowl-
edged. that 1t is by woman's aid that hui
mainly tips the scale toward good, but
when women themselves come to insist
upon their own transcendent merits the
world is inclined to be resentful-possibly
a little skeptical. The women are not to be
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. A. e. Keet, who has been the editor
of the Forum since August, 1895, has re-
signed the editorship of that periodical.
Mark Twain's new book. in the style of
"Innocents Abroad tells of his trip around
the world. through Australia, India, South
Africa, etc. In n recent letter he says of
it: Il wouldn't trade it for any book / nave
ever written, and l am not an easy person
to please"
The great historian Gibbon may not ap-
pear even in a memorial tablet at his Alma
Mater, Magdalen College, oxford. The rea-
son is that Gibbon left on the record the
following statement. Life stagnates there
in a round of college business, Tory politics,
personal stories and private scandal"
Mrs. Barr, the novelist. in speaking of the
recent multiplication Of cheap magazines,
said: Increasing the number of magazines
has not been of any advantage to the au-
thor. In fact, it has been a DISADVANTAGE
and the old-established magazines like the
Century and Harper's are not paying au-
thors as much as they used to pay, and the
cheaper magazines steal a considerable por-
ton of their contents. These cheap publica-
popular. The only thing TO them
is their price"
A recently sold copy of a first edition of
Keats's poems, 1917, had the autograph ITO
w. Wordsworth, with the authors sincere
reverence" But Wordsworth had not even
cut the leaves. OF course, he may nave
bought a copy for himself before. but it is
not likely. says a writer in the Springfield
Republican. He was not fond of books, and
his little library largely consisted Of auto
graph copies. But. at least. he did not
commit the indignity of cutting his Keats
with a buttery knife, such as he OCCASION
ally used on his friends books, or it would
rot have fetched $3.50 the other day.
Mrs. Margaret Deland was born in West
ern Pennsylvania, but since her marriage to
Mr.. Lorin F. Deland she has lived in Boston
and has acquired the local cast of thought
and expression so completely that her sto-
ries convey the impression of her being a
native New Highlander. Her home at the
Hub is in Mount Vernon street, and is
filed with art treasures and rare books.
Her summer residence is at Kennebunk-
port, on the coast Of Maine. Mrs. Deland's
enviable fame as a writer has been
achieved in the last ten years. Her first
book was a volume of poems, The Old
Garden" published in 1856. Two years
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mond. on the ground that it was a waste
member of the staff paid his own expenses
on that occasion, criticism should be turned
to some other point. Nor is the point we'll
taken that such a staff has no place in a
Grand Army procession. In several Ma
tional Encampments the Governors of the
States where they were held have headed
the escort, accompanied by their staff
officers. When the Governor himself is a
veteran there seems a special propriety in
his heading such a state procession of vet
Grams with his staff.
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haps, since it is a fault of the times. 1t is
the age of the advertiser. and the fashion
of blowing ones own trumpet extends far
outside the legitimate crying of mercantile
wares. individuals indulge in it, public in
situations and organizations are not free
from it. and a class of newspapers are of
fensively addicted to it. The individual
braggart is very Objectionable. His boast
fulness may have a basis Of fact, but that
circumstance does not make his self-praise
agreeable TO his hearers, and, as a rule, he
is not given credit for truthfulness. In fact,
he is commonly regarded as a liar, and
usually is so. What is true of individuals
is true of organizations and of newspapers.
1t is quite as poor taste and equally offens-
i've for a newspaper to boast of its own
success, its influence, it's circulation and its
general merits as it is for the individual to
tell how great he is, and it may be re-
marked that the newspaper lies quite as
often as the individual does. 1t is a bad
habit to fall into; it is neither indicative of
enterprise nor energy. Those qualities will
manifest themselves in other and better
ways. Women like those in Colorado, who
have arrived at the position of political
equality which they long have desired,
should permit their works to tell the story
of their abilities and virtues.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Dependency is ingratitude; hope is Gods
worship.-H. w. Beecher.
1t is not by the gray of the hair that
one knows the age of the heart.-Bulwer.
Some families have good homemade
bread and bad homemade manners.-Ram's
Horn.
The man who provokes a hearty laugh
is a public Observation-Disclosures North
American.
When it comes to gossip it takes a woman
to put two and two together and make
five.-Puck.
One difficulty about Selling an opportunity
is the trouble experienced in penetrating its
disguise.-Puck
Who does the best his circumstance al
low, does well, acts nobly; angels could do
40 more.-Young.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and
the charities of life are more than all cere-
monies.-Talmud.
When a girl shifts like she was going to
cry. if it is in a novel, it is said that she
had tears in her voice.-The Bachelor.
A woman is satisfactory TO her husband in
proportion to how much that is not true he
can mike he believe.-Atchiscn Globe.
1t matters little whether a man be mathe-
maticalIy. or philologically, or artistically
cultivated, so he is but cultivated.-Goethe.
Cultivate forbearance till your heart
Yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short
memory as to all Observation-Disclosures
The only time we are seized with an ire
sistible desire TO give up the end seat in
the open car is when 1t rains.-Philadelphia
Times.
1t is a noticeable fact at a hotel that the
greatest GROWERS at the table are those who
live the poorest at home. = Philadelphia
Times.
Pastor (preaching)-And five were foolish
and had no oil in their lamps. Bicyclist
(waking up)-Were they run In Insurance
Economist.
ANY woman who has a spark of self
respect about her would a thousand times
rather be called homely than plain.-Boston
Transcript.
A man on a tandem, with his wife or
sweetheart on the front seat. always has
something pleasant to look forward To.
bicycle Rider.
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A Modern Hero.

Washington Post.
You may talk all you like about the end
of the century young man being not halI
so brave as his grandfather was out l
saw a young man do something Iast
Thursday evening which required vastly
more heroism than half the acts for when
men are wearing medals voted by Con-
gress. 1t was on the pavement before one
of the West-end hotels. Two young men
came out together. Both were wen gfoonnsd
with tina ineffable air of well being tne
atmosphere of wealth gives a LAD. one or
them was carefully supporting the ,other.
who was Enthusiastically into3lcatel fde
came lurching out and at the door refused
to go any farther. His companion patiently
expostulated. A young woman, on the arm
of an elderly man. came round the corner.
The sober young man saw her and dropped
his companions arm, His face flushed. He
hesitated. Then he renewed his hole on his
Keeling friend. The young woman came
nearer. and as the young mans hand went
Ia. his hat she turned her head away and
sailed on into the hotel. The sober young
man and the intoxicated young man
walked down the street, Keeling together.
/ don't know who they were. One of them
was stupidity drunk, but the other was a
hero.
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The Matrimonial Question.
London Spectator.

LOnQOn opSCIdlof.
No doubt a certain amount of '
festivities are primarily arranged to give
Young people the chance of seeing each
other, but TO call this a female slave mar
ket is mere midsummer madness. The
truth about the whole question is, we be-
lieve. something of this kind. A certain
number of women marry solely for love.
A certain and, perhaps, larger number
marry for reasons in which love and the
desire to have a home of their and
money of their own are mixed up. Another
small section marry purely from reasons or
ambition, usually of a pecuniary kind-that
is, with the idea of becoming great person.
ages through marriage. AS q rule, how
ever, these mercenary marriages are made
not by a designing mother who wishes to
sell her daughter, but by a designing, or
rather ambitious, girl. who deliberately
wishes TO climb ehe worlds ladder by mar
rage. The girls who deliberately try to
better their position by marriage are, how
ever. by no means necessarily despicable
people. A few are. Those, for example,
who deliberately marry rich men of known
bad character, very old men, or men or
feeble intellect, or men they dislike. The
majority, however, are very like the ambi-
tious men who deliberately prefer getting
on by marriage to marrying for other con-
siderations, and so choose a rich Wife. The
oretically, these must be rather unpleasant
and repulsive people. as a matter of fact.
however, they are often nothing OF the
kind. and end by making very good hus-
bands. So is It with thousands of the girls
who are said TO sell themselves for money.
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The open season for black bass in Min
nesota began yesterday. AS many persons
go there during the season from this sec
ton of the country it is of interest to
learn that the fishing is likely to be good.
BASS are plentiful" says the Minneapolis
Tribune, and some of the Minnesota lakes
are literally alive with the speckeled beau
ties. Owing to the high water the growth
Of the vegetable plant upon which the bass
feed has been scanty, and they are COM
PEELED to feed in shallow water. Feed is
consequently scarce, and the fish are vora-
ciously hungry and will snap a spoon be-
fore it touches the water"
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A statue will be unveiled in Minneapolis
tomorrow of Ole Bull, and a feature of
the occasion will be the rendering on the
violin by a son of the great violinist of a
celebrated composition by his father. AL
though Ole Bull was born and educated
abroad he was very American in his feel
ings and married q WISCONSIN lady, who
now resides in Cambridge, Mass, where
her home is center of art and literary
culture. Ole Bull gave a concert in this
city in 1856, playing before a large gu
dience in the old Masonic Hall, and no
greater violinist has been heard here since.
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Recruits in the German army are almost
invariably able to read and write, owing,
of course, to the compulsory-education law
in force there. ! In Russia, on the other
hand, seven out Of ter. Of the native SOL
diers cannot read. AS soldiers, men to
shoot and be shot at, probably the litter
ates answer all requirements, but as citi-
zens they leave much to be desired. If there
is anything in the theory hat civilization
is advancing, then Russia's power will not
extend while it's common people remain in
their condition of barbarous ignorance.
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The action of the -encampment of the
Grand Army in regard to school histories
is right. because the history we now nave
is not a fair one and the publishers nave
not done that which they agreed to do. The
Confederate charge at Gettysburg was no
more gallant than the charge UP the side
of Lookout mountain, yet the former is
the subject Of high praise, while scarcely
mention is made of the latter. In that
bloody affair at Gettysburg there was no
more gallant figure than Hancock, who di-
rected the movements of regiments as they
hurried up while he was believed to be
MORALLY wounded and kept his place until
the Confederates fled from the field. He
did not permit himself to be carried from
the field until he had written a dispatch to
General Meade urging him to take the Of
fensive, yet this oldierly character has no
place in M~ontgomery's book, while men
less gallant are praised. There is no evil
dence in any official report or in any relia-
BILE account of the battle of Pittsburg Land
ing to the effect that General Albert Sidney
Johnston sent his surgeon to attend the
Union wounded while he bled to death.
This praise of Confederate valor and silence
on the same subject regarding Union SOL
diers is calculated to give the impression
that all the soldierly qualities were dis
played by those who fought against the
Union. 1t has been charged that these men
who demand what it has pleased some to
stigmatize as a Grand Army history, are
yet hostile to the Confederate soldiers and
desire to keep alive the contentious of the
war period. This is false. At the Rich
mond encampment, when COMMANDMENT
chief Clarkson told of the hearty recep-
ton with which he had been honored by
ex-Confederate soldiers in the South and
of their o~utspoken declarations of love for
the Union and the flag, his statements
called forth the loudest applause of the
meeting. All these men want in history is
fair treatment, and in time they will
have it, even if the Indiana Board Of Ed
ucation has permitted itself to be over
reached by the publishers of the Mont
gomery book.
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The Washington monument unveiled in
Philadelphia yesterday is said to be the
most important group of sculpture ever
raised in America. 1t had its origin in a
small sum raised by the Pennsylvania So
piety of the Cincinnati more than eighty
five years ago. and the fund has been so
carefully handled that it finally reached
the vast proportions of $3.50, 0O0. This is a
monument to those who managed the fund
as well as to Washington.