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dreamy people with shivery nerves and an artistic tenperamcnt--so much the better
 The great advantage is that when the studies have been completed and tho veterinarian is ready for the struggle there is an excellent prospect before her of we'll paid work to do Gan any one say as much in regard to music, paint ing or literature?
 There is no large farm or cattle range or ranch where there is not frequent need of the skill of the veterinarian. There are hundreds of settlements to- day where their sole dependence ill 8 veterinary way is some Indian or half breed. Philadelphia Press.
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Ellzabeth novnton uerbert.

Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert has resigned the presidency of the Evans ton (Ills.) Woman's club. which she founded eight years ago and of which she has ever since been the head. She now wishes to devote herself to literary work. The club has presented foun- tain, to be placed in front of Chicago commons, bearing the inscription, "In honor of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, from the Evanston Woman's s club. " Mrs. Harbert is succeeded by Mrs T. P. Stanwood, graduate of Vassar and a member of the Evanston school board Woman s Tribune.
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She wasn.t Eligible.

Lady Ernestine Brudene1l Bruce, a widely known yaehtswoman. applied tho other day to the London board of trade for yacht masters certificate She had prepared to undergo all the req uisite examinations She pointed out that she merely wanted authorization to command her own yacht and did not desire to serve OH board other ships, but the board replied that it would not per init woman to be examined for mas ter's certificate on the ground that the word muster $ implies that only men are eligible
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oago medical college, was appointed to tho position by Mayor Ideson ( May his tribe increase" say tho advanced wo- men, no doubt) to take the place of a man doctor who was suspended from duty pending an investigation
 She is the first woman to fill such all office in her state. She was born in Neo- nah, Wis. and for few years was a teacher. She gave up this profession to servo as hospital nurse, and then later studied medicine, taking her. degree with high honors. Boston Globe.
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Woman and the Nation.

AS the country develops and tho liv ing questions of how it's vast areas shal be possessed by industrious, happy peo ple press for settlement women bring to the solution the discipline of tho homo, the school and tho philanthro pies where tho vital questions of pro duetion, distribution and consumption have been studied according to scien. tifio theory and illustrated by practical application.
 It is impossible that women shall havo carried all these interests i'll theil hearts, and ill their activities, and not be well equipped for their application in the broad domain of national economics.
 Some of us are deeply concerned in these vital problems of American life. We find ourselves in the midst of con ditions which, until recently, were wholly European. Mixed populations in crowded cities and colonies of for eigners distributed through the country give rise to apprehension i'll tho minds of intelligent women. It is not possible, neither would it be right, to attempt the wholesale exclusion of these foreign CTS They are the children of the Heav- enly Father whom we call -four Fa- ther. Some are of tho noblest fiber they have brought now luster to the stars and brightness to the stripes of the dear old tlag-but masses of others are windfalls of monarehial governments, the garbage of oriental civilizations and deserters from imperialism and mili- tarismSs American women, the daugh- ters ofsSevolutionary heroes, the daugh- ters, tine wives, the sisters of later generation of heroes, know that all the interests they hold dear arc to degree affected by tho political action of these men.
 Thoughtful women know that the nation is Il grand whole; that if one member suffers the whole suffers; that if ono is blessed all arc blessed. Women have no separate interests. If man is elevated and tho general tone of society is purified, woman receives her share of advantages.
 The country has made immense strides in material development during the last quarter of century. Huge commercial enterprises have arisen like giants in armor and have strode from ocean to ocean, leaving tracks of steel and hand prints of light.
 The triumphs of mind over matter stamp this period illustrious among the centuries. Within this success there hides danger The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive to touch. Tho cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. Has not tho extreme cultivation of the commercial faculties permitted others as essential to national life to be blight ed by disuse?
 During this evolution woman's rela- tions to tho industrial, the educational and tho philanthropic world and her pressure toward the political world has been saver of life unto life. Gommu. nity life and natioaal life need heart. Women havo much heart Out of the heart are tho issues of life.-Mrs. J. Ellen Foster in North American Re. view
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and in many branches of the work are preferred to men. They are treated fair- ly and cordially ill all things. there is d disposition on tho part of men to rec ognize ability and accord hearty sup port to high class powers.
 Tho women clerks arc generally con tent with their life Many of them have seen better days and circumstances and have children or parents dependent upon them for support. They are usually the most charming ladies to meet Their salaries allow them to live comfortably, and they all dress well. In many of the buildings the offices are spacious and are fitted up with all tho modern conyen- fences. Some are quite sumptuous in size and furnishings, while others are smaller and plainer in their appoint ments, and in some of these, through long accumulations, the furniture is crowded But wherever assigned to sit the crisp muslin froeks and the bright ribbons of tho women give an air of freshness and beauty to the surround ings, like that of roses ill q garden of shrubs Nowhere arc so many white dresses worn by women as in this Cap ital City-eyen to tho sheepest of mus lins and organdies-in the streets and in offices. However one may regard the custom one must admit that tho dainty costumes light up the dingy official spaces with a wonderful brilIiance. For the most part there are not many clerks placed in ono room-often no more than two or three persons-and tall, green screens are very generally used to shut out the gaze of curious passersby in the corridors. The ages of the women range from 20 to 50 years, and even more than that. One ungallant chief of di- vision remarked that he found the aver age very high in his rooms. Though they arc as rule very happy in their situations, some are restless and would hail with joy change of surroundings. There is charming spirit of camara- derie and loyalty to each other among the members of the little coteries, who have known one another through long years, that is truly beautiful J
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Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.

On the reverse Gall being in raised let ters, is Pax Vobiscum " There is nothing else on the memorial. Nothing moro is needed. In her biography, which am to have ready for the pub fisher in tho spring, all tho details of that beautiful and noble lifo will be given, and many of the letters written to her from the Brownings, George Eliot, tho Trollopes, Landor and many other of the most famous and interest," ing people of the age. Her life was q more remarkable one ill all it's inelu- siveness than has, perhaps, been real i2ed even by those who most loved and appreciated her exquisite genius and lofty character.
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Fair Government Clerks.

.Of the 10000 clerks employed by the government in Washington more than 5000 of them are women. writes Mary Nimmo Balentine ill an article on Women In the Government Depart ments" ill Tho Woman s Home Com panion. ''Their salaries range from 5000 to Sl.S00 a year The women clerks are under the protection of the civil service rules, and they have all been appointed under the regulations of the civil service commission Tho sys- tenn gives a greatly improved service
 Women arc said to pass better examina- tiofls as rule than men; they are moro apt, quicker to comprehend and bright CT in the performance of their duties.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
AN OSHKOSH WOMAN APPOINTED
 AS CITY PHYslclaN.

Woman and tho Nation-Fair Government Clerks -- Bifurcated Garments on the Bicycle e-- One More outlet-Thc Grave of Kate Field.
 Oshkosh, Wis, may have funny rame and it's remoteness may furnish She conventional joke maker with q butt for his mirth. but this same Osh- kosh leads the van of civilization. At least in the eyes of the progressive wo. man this appears so.
 Oshkosh, bo it known of all men, has a woman as it's city physician.
 Only few days ago Bertha V. Thomp- son, bright young graduate of Chi
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Tho Haverhill Mass Literary union is the name of the federation of flavor hill clubs, and there are now more than 400 members in the union There are 32 clubs ill Haverhill, and the federation is considering the formation of large department club modelled after the Middlesex club and tho Cantabrigia.
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Child widows arc the chief pupils in the kindergarten kind of school which has been established at Puma by Pun dita Ramabai, the Hindoo woman who, after occupying the chair of Sanskrit in Cheltenham college, England, travelled and lectured in Great Britain and this country, raising the money with which she is carrying on her present work
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A Darmstadt paper appeals to all Hessian women to contribute toward monument to be erected to the late Grand Duchess of Hesse, tho Princess Alice, who was the fayorite daughter of the queen of England and favorite with the English people
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The rainy day skirt is not to be praised without stint Some of it's warmest devotees admit that it leaves the ankles cold.
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THERE SAT THE OLD BARoNEr.

mas own precious preciouses out In the rain all night?" she asked the "a. diant Flossie of three years, perched on her shoulders, while fve-year-old Charlie clung to her dress.
 "No, Nell" I groaned, ruefully. q signed no contract. Sir Hugh trusted the unwritten word of an American gentleman. He rented the cottage to me at one-third of its value under cer- tain conditions implied and under stood"
 "Then pay what is right and be mas ter of your own house." she hotly flashed.
 "Oh, child, you do not understand. Sir Hugh has certain scruples-"
 Besides" she interrupted, with whitening scorn, "lunatics cannot even make verbal contracts"
 "Lunatics!"
 "Why, surely. You do not dare to in- sinuate that any sane man would make laws to suppress my beautiful babies as though they were little drainshops or smallpoxes"
 Half-laughing, half-crying, she swept from the room with her treasures.
 Sleep was impossible that night, not only on account of my troubles, but because mother" was fussing in her daughters bedroom.
 When she did come in I saw trouble written on her face.
 "What is it now?" asked, petulantly.
 Don't get into a furry, dear" in that exasperatingly soothing tone wom- en use to husbands and infants. Put"
 "But what?"
 "Little Charlie is not very well--in fact, I sadly fear he's got the measles"
 She saw my abject misery.
 ''Pshaw. there's nothing to be alarmed about-he's a healthy child and will get over it in a couple of weeks"
 "Womar," I yelled, do you know that it is utterly and absolutely irn- possible to keep those children here 4s hours?'
 At this juncture Nell, looking very
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bodied iLfant in all tha: blessed parish. Fact, I assure you.'
 "Oh, Jack. how can you fest at our misfortune?"
 Jest. indeed. I'm just as serious as Mumbo Jumbo. You see the hamlet of Meleomb Regis, lovely spot 70 miles away in Essex, belongs in toto to Sir Hugh McGregor, an old baronct. rich as Croesus. and mad as a March hare who has such a persistent hatred of children that he will not allow one on ms estate, and inserts in his leases that if one of his tenants knowingly and willfully harbors a child, he shall for feit his holding; and as the rents are preposterously low. the baronet's law has been religiously observed"
 What a wretch-I mean what a public benefactor!" Mother gusbed.
 And that's the place for you to steer to-" Jack declared. "You can run up to London twice a week to crib your stuff from the old national curiosity shop, and grind it out down there as retired as if you were enjoying the sc ciusion of penitentiary. Then, again. l know there's furnished cottage vacant there, for Benton of the Graphic. who broke down last spring, has just given one up, which the baronet keeps for. literary fellers, who are off their feed"
 Tt sounds too good to be true" I unused.
 And" Jack added, in burst of magnanimity. "if you'll please just tile your head in a hurry, I'll take you down there. and show you the place myself"
 No, thank you." declined, fervent- ly, Sir Hugh's nerves shall never be shocked by such cyclone as you, Jack. I'll go at once, and Tn have no detrimentals."
 l went to Melcomb Regis. I inter- viewed the baronet, and all Jacks as- sertions were verified to the letter. The place was lovely-literally a childless Eden. For nine years the rule of in- fant banishment had flourished.
 The baronet was gaunt, old fellow of 70. with puffed cheeks, and white. bristling beard-rather ogreish in as- pcct, but decidedly highbred-while my Lady McGregor was a sweet-faced. meek gentlewoman, with bisque skin and fieecy white hair, who had no individuality, but in gentle birdlike notes played echo to her husbands sentiments.
 As for the cottage, it was a dream thatched relic of the last century,
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adopts for the bewilderpent of its sub

jects.
 "E,llen Wills.
 Skorediteh Station.
 tO
 George Harland
 Melcomb Regis. Safe voyage Just reached London. Com ing down with the two children. New Years day surprise party. Isn't 1t glori- ous? NEIL. :" Nell, inconsequent Nell, always get ting me into petty troubles, was my dear daughter, married to young en- gineer in Chicago, named David Wills, but now sojourning in Paris, attending to big business contracts. l knew he had written for his wife and little ones to join him, and l saw at a glance how the light-hearted girl, having to stop over in London on her way to the French metropolis, had planned the lit- tie visit to us.
 What is to be done? gasped. Tt is too late to stop her, for she is already on her way"
 Then mothers" fury burst forth. l have been her huband for more than 30 years and 1 never suspected that such a volcano could rage beneath that placid surface. She vowed that all the baronets of England, backed by every peer of the realm. with all the old tab bies and cranky noodles in Melcomb Regis, should not keep her darling and her darling's darlings from the shelter of her roof
 'So you forget my agreement with Sir Hugh?" I thundered.
 That for your agreement!"-a snap of the fingers "Nell's coming R-r-r-uth!" And she ran to tell the glad tidings to our Abigail and hustle her into the throes of preparation.
 Suddenly my despair was illumined by bright thought.
 The train stops at junction three miles away for 40 minutes. That gives me clear hour of reprieve. can walk there in time. hire ''fy" and smuggle them into the house without a soul being the wiser. She shall return to London tomorrow, and, of course, must give up the cottage.
 The plan worked admirably. The fly man hesitated to carry contraband into Melcomb Regis, but a half-sovereign modified his scruples and fortunate downpour of rain kept the gaping vil- lagers from their usual points of obser- vation.
 But Nell! The impulsive girl was furious at the whole transaction.
 "Did co horrid ganpa make a con- tract with wicked man to keep man.
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sweet in her dressing-robe. came in,s the room.
 "He has gone to sleep all right" she said. cheerily, land the fever has left him. don't think it is measles merely a little mild rash. after all. which few days rest will cure. so go to by-by and forget us all"
 But Sir Hugh McGregor?'
 "0h, I'll settle him. Mother and I have arranged all that. He is gentle man, if he is a maniac. and he won't want to evict us at a moments notice, as they do the poor Irish peasants. IT. tell him that our coming was accidental, and that while we stay we will have q board nailed on the garden gate marked: |:
 BEWARE! CHILDREN HEREl and that when we leave the house shall be disinfected at my expense. i'll fix it all right with the baronet."
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with diamond-paned bow windows, and curious gables-the rent mere bagatelle. So of course jumped at Sir Iugh's offer of it.
 Peace. Oh, the delicious repose of that enchanted spot. after the uproar of London town. My pen flew over the paper, and mothers face was wreathed in chronic smiles.
 Beyond the village folk, who were resident gentry-just one or two old maids and a couple of retired army officers and their wives.
 Child hate had begun with them as a whim, but had ended as a creed. They held periodical discussions and en- couraged each other in these Nal thusian sentiments, at which some times mothers indignation threat ened to burst its bounds or end in fit of apoplexy. lived in perpetual dread of some indiscretion on her part, which might turn us again back to the cruel streets of London, but the weeks flew by and the feared catastrophe came not.
 Nevertheless one day the blow fell fell more heavily because it came from the least expected quarter.
 It was the last day of the dying year that day of the awful catastrophe. The roses were all dead and gone, the singing birds were silent, but the laurel, the ivy and the holly tinted the landscape with color, and the sparrows and some other hardy birds twittered merrily on the leafess boughs of the big elms-
 New Years eve.
 Yes. we were going to celebrate all by ourselves in true New England style, and on the morrow we purposed to show the baronet and his tenantry how to keep New Years day.
 But all our plans were frustrated by n .asualty as disastrous as it was un- looked for-the arrival of a little vel low telegram, folded in that prepos- terous form the British government
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 this advertisement in the London Times, I, George Harland, literaran of the goodly city of Boston, Mass, was tenant of the afore- said ''drawing-room floor" with my wife-to whom I shall allude in this veracious narrative as mother and her trusty waiting woman, Ruth Martin.
 It was near the British museum, and had come 5000 miles to collate ma terial from the archives of that ancient and very useful institution.
 Mother" had come to take care of me, and Ruth had come to take care of mother" and I in the end had to take care of both of them.
 The lodgings were all right, but there was one awful insurmountable drawback
 The children,
 The whole neighborhood swarmed with them. Pretty little well-dressed boys and girls, I confess, but to me utter and abominable nuisances. They out-babeled Babel, and in addition to
 
 of their rubberless-tired tricycles on the stone pavement nearly frcnzied me, for, in spite of the lateness of the sea son, the weather was quite sultry a. times, and we could not always close the windows. so l, who thought that I lcNcd children, longed for the power of a Herod and the immunity to ex ercise it.
 We had been there nearly a month when Ossa was piled on Pelion and Peiion on Olympus, and-n door was let to a family of nine
 Mothers tongue, generally so glib in consolation, ceased to murmur soft piatitudes and pluvial signs were in her eyes half the day long. Now, my Wife had found distant connection in the shape of gay, rollcking young fellow named Jack Wilders-or rather he had found her-and the two had be- come exceedingly great cronies, not withstanding the disparity of their ages.
 Il sent for Jack" she briefly an- nounced. Something has got to be done"
 So Master Jack duly put in an ap- pearance.
 Why, vow, you two are as blue as moonstones," he declared, as he tossed ms hat on sofa and coolly seated him. seif on mothers work table. Are you plnlng for the pumpkin pies and cream sodas of your native land?"
 Then mother. with a touch of pa thos' which would have pierced any thlng less obtusc than Jacks sensi- uVencss, told how was distracted with the racket of the children. how was growing so rritaDle-which was not trne-that she expected me to become a nervous wreck and fit candidate for a retreat"
 oh, Jack, Jack" she walled, "what must We do?'
 And Jack oracularly answered. as though he had been pondcring for hours over the question:
 Puli up sticks and go to Melcomb Rcgisi"
 w hat and where is Mclcomb Regis?" Ensped.
 Well" .Iacl; continued. pcnsively. uaneedlng nlr thirst for typographical information. "I think that is i,rst the piaee Tor you. There isn't an able
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@ He fingers beside me here. His feeble pulse beats faint and slow, And mystic shadows come and go Across his face, while. hushed and still With awe watch Time work his will
 With deadly skill
 Toll. toll toll! How the mournful sounds ring out, Like the vail of a dying hope That despair has put to rout! Good-by, old friend, you bear away many happy. gladsome day. And many hopes and many fears, With many bitter. burning tears.
 old Year! old Year!
 Toll, toll. toll! And the night creeps on apace! While the candle fiickers low In her haggard. ghastly face. I count his heart-beats one by one. And weep to think his race Is run. But hark! the clock strikes loud and clear. The last sad knell of time l hear
 Good-by. old Year. But hark! once again! In the distance A tremulous rhythm of sound Floats in from afar on the keen, frosty air. And peals from the church bells around A welcome as glad and as joyous As ever young monarch has known With fair, happy face and bright yogth-
 ful grace,
 The New Year comes 10 his throne. He is crowned with bright hopes for the fu-
 ture,
 And graeiousness sits on his brow He holds in his hand the bright scepter of
 faith,
 And smiles wreathe his youthful lips now His courters, in loud adulation, His praises and fiatteries sing With one breath they whisper: The king
 he Is dead!" With the next, cry: Long live the kingr'
 Mary Morrison, in Housekeeper
The Forrest City times., 1897-01-01

Dealer-A diary for '97? Perhaps this new style will suit you.
 Cugtomer-Rather small, isn't it? Why, it stops with January 15!
 Dealer-Yes, it is very coI1pact-does away with the unnecessary bulk of paper that you find in the old-fasnioned diaries.-Truth.
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,OR RENT-a spaci- ous drawing-room floor, handsomely furnished. near the B r It i s h museum Quiet genteel neigh borhood. Inverted servant for visitors. 800 Russell Square, E ~ B
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AMPLE.

BERNARD BIGSRY.