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Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20
Feminine Personals.

MISS Anna M. Sackett Of Washington.
WIS., has revoked a legacy of IS, 900 to Car.
ron cohege In that place because the trus.
tees persist In permitting the students ia
and changed the legacy. '
In telling OF the origin of "Alice IN Won.
derland" Mrs. Hargraves, born Alic, siddeli
says she was the original Alice. her elder
sister. Mrs. Skene, "Prima" and Edith tins
Youngest, was ''Tertia." The story was told
on river excursions to Nuneham and God
stow near Oxford.
- a nomination for prosecuting attorney
OF ogenaw county Michigan, of Mrs. Merrie
l. ABBOTT was purely a joke, but since She
was elected she declares, while evervboTv
else Is trying to recover from their surprise
mat she will administer the office. She a.
young, good,iookins and bright. Attorney
General Fred A. Maynard says that she will
no. be permitted to take the oath until the
supreme court gives permission.
American girls, according to Dean Smith
OF Barnard college, are growing taller VIII
startling rapidly. Bryn Mawr has kent sto.
ss,iee Tor twenty years and the figures in.
OF two or three inches. The average beiaht
OF the girl Of 'S5 was five feet three inches
and OF '8S Ave feet four inches. n "a no,s
hve feet six Inches. The students at Vassor
are reported to be taller than In any pre.
vious year. Wv
Aho'ner VI our rlch American women IL
!epor'eG as engaged to an Englishman of
utie. The list goes on increasing. and ths
wonder never seems to cease. MANY per.
sons hnd 1t difficult to understand. saws
Harper's Bazaar. the preference of woman
for exalted stations, but they forget alto.
gether the horizon which a title opens to
her. There are. In most cahes. the rrest AZ.
tate to preside over, the houses To ru,e-
houses which are often centuries old, and
therefore rich In those traditions and ola
custem ms which no new country can know
Then there Is the political life to which
tllles entitle q man, and with that life there
Is the coming In contact with many nina.
with the possibility OF being herself a nows.
among them. To the woman of highly an.
dowed mind nothing can take the place .,
companionship with a great statesman, and
ind a strange dearth In their lives whsn |.
new administration forces husband or fsths,
out Of office. A~'uot
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emperor's list Of employees, including $50
women servants, who are engaged in look
ing after the twenty-five royal palaces ana
castles that belong to the crown Their
more than s12 a month and the men serv-
ants from SIS to $25 a month.
NO servant Is ever dismissed from any
OF Queen Vtctoria's royal palaces. To this
Is attributed the freedom of gossip about
her maJesty''s household arrangements.
when a marriage occurs the couple is usu-
ally provided with a small post. carrying
with 1t a residence. Most of the royal
lodges are occupied by couples who have
served her majesty for many years.
The servants and officials employed at
the White House, no matter in what ca
pacity, wear. no distinctive mark and the
attendance Is spoken Of as "slouchy." So
cial gatherings, on this account, are thought
to lack dignity. No mistress Of the White
House, however, seems to think it wise to
disturb the existing order Of things.
The court of Pope Leo XIII comprises
LOGO persons. There are twenty Wallets,
100 p~relates, 10 privy chamberlains, six
chamberlains, 300 extra honorary chamber
lains, 100 supernumerary chamberlains,
thirty officers of the noble guard, sixty
guardsmen, fourteen officers of the Swiss
guard and police guard, seven honorary
chaplains, twenty private secretaries, ten
stewards and masters OF the horse and sixty
doorkeepers.
The rarest maid servant Of all Is the cook
employed by Mrs. James Blaine Of Washing
ton. She Is a model cook, versed In French,
Italian and English modes Of cookery: she
is also a very grand lady, dressing in tailor
made, silk-lined costumes of expensive ma
terial. Wherever she goes-following the
family-also go two love birds In a gilt.
ribbon adorned cage; two kittens, which
are never without their bows of gay ribbon
about their necks and their crocheted
worsted dolls to play with-new ones being
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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 90. 1898.

its study and is considered one OF the best
authorities outside Of Egypt and other lands
OF the occult:
I'VE do not claim phalangology as a
branch OF palmistry," this authority ex-
planned, but as a separate and distinct
science. and very much more accurate than
any other for reading n persons natural
characteristics. The fines OF the palm
change, as every student Of palmistry will
admit; some deepen. while others disappear
altogether. Such is not the case in phal-
angology. From the earliest infancy up to
old age the lines remain the same. They
are easily recognized by any one who viii
take the trouble to look at the impressions
under an ordinary magnifying glass. The
lines Of each persons finger tips are as dis
tlnct and as distinctive as the features on
their face.
"Can I give any general rules as guides
for reading these lines? Well, that is hard
to do, and general rules are ordinarily very
unsatisfactory, for the reason that, as I have
remarked, no two people have the same
finger markings. But l think l can safely
say that curved lines on the fingers are in
dicative Of amiability and a desire to please;
straight lines show Indifference to the feel
ings and opinions of others and a deter
mination TO have their own way; crooked
lines, well, l should advise you to be very
chary about trusting a person whose i'm
pressions showed up crooked under the mag
nifying glass. Such people as a rure have
the characteristics of a fox and I have known
them to closely resemble snakes
II have examined the finger impressions
Of more than 100 confessed murderers and
have found, with but one exception, a we'll
defined cross on the middle finger Of the
right hand. Sometimes that ~tell-tale mark
appears in the middle Of the finger and at
others farther to the left or right.
How about the one exception? Well, I
cannot explain that. / was told he had con-
fessed the crime, and I try always to avoid
being 'fanatical as to any of my ideas, SO |
try to believe 1t Is because l have not mas
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frequently required. A bicycle is also one
Of this lady's belongings.
Frills of Fashion.


A Mauser bullet Of gold tipped with a
iamon is one Of the novelties in hatpins.
Navy hat bands, sewed together with the
gilt lettering prettily arranged. make pretty
sofa pillows. .,s
Reddish purple velvets are the f~avorites
in millinery and in velvet blossoms. The
coloring is exquisite.
Gun metal has taken a firm hold on fash
ionable society. A chatelaine with all the
trinkets of the metal is very popular.
A novelty in silver is a pitcher of silver.
gilt, with a lining Of dull green glass. The
side of the pitcher Is broken. allowing the
glass to show.
Heavy satins in violet, nasturtium yellow,
burnt orange and a superb shade of Italian
red are used for Innings on fur pelerines,
coats, jackets and muffs.
Never before were so many cold weather
jackets, blouses and coats made with open
cutaway fronts, showing waistcoats, plas-
irons, etc, Of airy summer-like textiles.
An artistic piece Of work is a lace pin,
made of mother f-pearl, carved to repre-
sent a grotto, an angel protecting the en-
trance. The whole is surrounded with dia-
monds and emeralds.
Bright colored velvet is a conspicuous
feature OF millinery this season and to this
are added all sorts Of unique designs in orna-
ments Of gold, steel and rhinestones. COM
bined with pearls and various colored jew
els.
Three-cornered felt hats are very much
the fashion, especially with tailor gowns.
The brims are covered with velvet in a
contrasting color or pipings of satin and a
rosette with a quill IL the only trimming
necessary.
Handerchiefs embroidered with a color
seem to be coming into favor. or rather
fashion, again. Some have tiny scallops
embroidered with color, but the p~rettiest
fancy is a small knot OF viclets in their
natural color. embroidered in one corner.
The colonial tea set. which takes every
china loving woman's heart by storm. has a
picked out very delicately with color. Cups
to match are lightly futed, slightly farlng
and Of true e~gg-shell thinness.
One Of the very fashionable models for an
elegant tailor costume Is OF the nnest, light
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tered all the details OF the science, and not
that the law has forced a confession from
an innocent man.
Did I ever see that mark Of Cain on q
baby's impression? Yes, burt about such
marks l never speak. Neither do I tell
when / see an early death In an impress
sion or any great calamity. for 1 am Of the
opinion that as the lines on the finger
tips are Interchangeable, 50 also are the events
they. indicate. FtG.e z sr
Can l tell when a woman will marry or
when she will die an old maid? Now, that
Is hard to say, for there are lines which sig
nifty success. and nonsuccess, happiness and
unhappiness, and as both married and un-
married women share these alike, it is gen.
orally impossible to tell to what particular
event or series Of events they relate. Nor
can I always tell when l have the impress
sions OF great persons before me unless
there has been some one or more very
marked events in their lives.
D. l consider the science hard to learn?
Not as much so as palmistry. 1t takes
study. deep study. but there are not many
rules, and the lines are very character
iStic,"
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20
SHE DRIVES a MAIL COACH.
Western Girl Who Prefers THAI Call
fnn IN Taachlu1 SChOOl

Western Girl Who Prefers That Call
Ing to Teaching School,.
Three times a week a buckboard comes
into Andrews, Ore. carrying a United States
mail pouch and driven by a young woman.
Her name Is Rose Sturgeon and she makes
the thirty-fve-mile trip between Andrews
and Denlo and back on alternate days. She
is one Of the few women who servo Uncle
Sam by carrying his mail over lonely roads
in the west. The road she travels daily
leads down through a big, barren valley In
southeastern Oregon from the village OF
DEMO to Andrews, where the stage con-
meets with the road running from Burns
south to McDermitt, New. 1t Is very lonely
and unfrequented and one may ride along
1t for hours and see not a human being.
There are borax mines In the region and q
few lone ranches and mining camps lying
back from the road.
Miss Sturgeon is barely 20 years old. .
wholesome and healthy looking girl and .
fair type of the best feminine product OF the
western mountains. She Is tanned, as Kip
ling has put 1t with the tan Of the girl who
doesn't care" but the brown face which
looks out from her sailor hat or her fur cap
is good and pleasant to see. Asked how she
happened to take UP SO unusual an occupa-
ton, she replied:
'"Why, l needed to do something 10 earn
money, and a friend of my fathers asked
me In fun one day how I would like to
carry the mail to Andrews. I considered 1t
a Joke at FIRST, but after ward ] got to think
ing about it and I concluded I'd rather do
that than teach school, which I had been
planning to do. I've always been used TO
horses and to driving and I'm not tin,id
about being alone, and 20 ] asked him to get
the lob for me II he could, and he did, and
I've been driving the mail stage now for
almost a year.
II don't mind It's being a little bit lonely.
You see, / was born in this country and
I've always been used to the mountains and
the big, barren plains and the wide valleys
and to not seeing many people, and so !
suppose I don't mind driving along alone
as a girl might who had lived In a big
town or q city. Sometimes I have a passen-
ger on the stage, or maybe two or three,
and / have had as many as half a dozen,
but NEST OF the time I 80 alone.
II am fond OF horses and my team Is
company for me and ! like being outdoors
so we'll that / don't think I'd ever feel lonely
as long as I could see all outdoors and the
sky up above, Afraid! Why, no! What
ever should I be afraid OF? Nobody could
possibly want to hold me up because there's
never money enough In that mail bag to
warrant any road agent In taking the risk.
~ don't carry a revolver or anything Of
the sort. / did at first because my mother
wanted me to. But the thing was always
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20
CHARACTER IN FINGER TIPS.
An Ancient Science Revived by Stu
dents of Today.

An Ancient Science Revived by Stu
dents of Today.
P~halangology is q new science. at least its
devotees claim that it is new to this coun-
try, though they say 1t has been known
and followed In Egypt and other countries
for many centuries. Its age, where 1t had
it's origin or who brought 1t over to this
country may be a mooted question. but to
readers Of P~udd'nhead Wilson it is like
meeting an old friend in a new dress. For
it was by p~halang"logy. or marks OF the fin.
ger tips, that P%udd'nhead was enabled to
win his first case in court and to save from
the gallows one at least of those extraor-
1inary twins
Pudd'nhead's method. rs every one will
remember, was to take the Impressions on
narrow strips of glass which he first rubbed
through his hair for the purpose Of obtain
ing a thin coat Of natural oil. Strips OF
glass are still used. but instead Of the oil
from the hair they are covered by a delicate
film o! light smoke. which. it is claimed, re-
ceives INT holds the impressions Of the most
delicate lines.
As for the claims of the science itself.
perhaps 1t Is best to give them In the words
Of a woman h has devoted much time to
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WELL-BRED INDIAN MAIDENs.

Two Cherokee Girls Who Would he
Mt Home In Society.
The average mans impression Of an In
dian woman is that she Is unkempt. Of coarse
appearance, entirely lacking In all that par
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In the way. There wasn't any place to put
1t and l didn't want to buckle 1t around me
because IL looked 500 sort OF mannish,
you know, and 1t would slide out of the
scat. and so after a few times l quit carry
ing il.
"I've had to face some pretty bad weather
sometimes when 1t would have been pleas
anter to stay at home. Last winter there
were bad storms Of snow and wind and
sleet. but I wrapped up warm and drove
fast and it wasn't so very bad. In fact |
rather liked the storms. It's pretty good
fun to come rafting along through the rain
or snow as fast as your horses can travel.
1t makes you feel alive clear through. More
so than the hot and dusty days last summer
did. But 1t wasn't any hotter on the road
between DEMO and Andrews than 1t was
anywhere else and not nearly as uncom-
Portable as it would have been inside a
schoolhouse.
II think I've got a pretty nice job. I like
1t better than anything else / could possibly
do and l mean to hold on to 1t as. long as
Uncle Sam will let me-"
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members. Some people call these whites
"squaw" men, but just the same they are
among the best citizens of the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20
Gossip About Great Folk.


Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt discharges a
servant at a moments notice, but in add
tion to her wages presents her with $40.
Forty servants is the average number en-
ployed by the Astors, Vanderbilts AMI ether
multi -millionaires, with an average pay roll
Of 81 1000 a month.
Becky Jones, the Hammersley servant
who went to Jail with her Get and parrot
rather than betray family secrets, Is now
In England living a life OF ease on the
bounty Of the duchess Of Marlborough.
The Rockefeller servants are on duty GER
tain hours, with certain hours for them
selves, and they remain indefinitely, none
ever leaving Of his own accord. Very many
marry, and their children, too. remain as
part of the family below stairs.
Mrs. oliver p. II. Belmont prefers men
servants Of herculean proportions. Her
new footman Is about seven feet high and
otherwise in proportion. He Is thoroughly
English-was discovered in England, in fact.
He is also thoroughly trained and powders
his hair.
There are $500 people upon the German
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20

Green is the dominant tone in the dinner
toilet Displayed, though the dress itself is a
pearl grey satin cloth. Green spangles edg'
the Bourbon fiounces Of the skirt, follow the
rocco patterns OF embroidery on the hips
and at the foot and glitter on the bodice.
These are NE new pearl shell spangles
colored to give out delightful op,lescent sea
green tones. and velvet to exactly match the
s~paneles fills the top of the bodice and en-
circles the waist. MARY DEAN.
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The hong gowns aforementioned need not
be regarded a. In the least obliterating on
the charms of we'll modelled eNtremities.
Pretty shoes and slippers In fact have never
been 20 strangely conspicuous as this sea-
son, when trailing front breadths must be
held high when the wearer takes the least
exercise. It is TO be observed that cloth
topped shoes are having q return Of feminine
patronage and that cofored patent leather
vamps are absolutely the only kind for dres.
occasions. Black varnisA is Of course al
ways q standard. but In the pretty vagaries
OF fashion . dark invisible green patent
leather IL much used. as well as a deep rich
RED. Some dainty carriage shoes have black
cloth tops. red patent heather vamps and
small close-set buttons Of Jet. Only q very
irreproachable foot can look well In such
dressing. 1t 10 true. but the novelty Of the
thing 10 delightful, Just as the slippers that
show their high heels and toes covered with
q skin Of gun metal into which tiny dia-
monds are sunk have their place In the
toilets of dancing bellies.
Brilliant stuas for h . Room.
Black nets and chinons powdered with
dots Of colored silk and velvet are among
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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-08-06
FIFTY BUSHELS PER ACRE.
First Crop Threshed Yields Fifty
Bushe1s,p per Acre.
Wheat Turning out Even Better
than was Anticipated.

The first threshing OF the so crop
of wheat was done yesterday, and
an average yield of over fifty bush
els resulted where an estimate of
thirty-five had been considered lib
eral.
The crop was grown by J. r.
Ruply. near this city, and con-
sisted of 80 acres of Red Russian
wheat. There was good stand of
straw, but Mr.. Ruply says that
last year an equally good growth
of straw gave but twenty bushels
of grain, and that he considered a
Weld of 35 bushels would be fair
for this season with the, improved
conditions, and he was much sur
prised to find G75 well filed sacks
the product, the average being a
little over fifty bushels The grain
is clean, plump and handsome, and
proves that all that has been said
of the crop prospect in this vicinity
will be realized. The yield will
meet the hopes of all, and the grade
will be the best.
A number Of threshing outfits
are ready to Commence pounding
out the golden brain Monday, and
another week will see all the
threshers at work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-08-06
THE BATTLEsHIP OREGON

Has made more kinds OF record for
the United States navyin it's Is, 900 miles
trim than was ever dreamed Of Judging
from the demand for it, that little 80
page, vest pocket size, army and navy
book Just published by the Northern Pa
cifc is making a great record too. The
requests for it reach the Northern Pa
cifc passenger department at St. Paul in
large numbers from every part OF the
United States. This is tribute to wide
advertising as well as to the enterprise
of the company and the value of the
book, Mr.. Chaa. F. Fee, the general
passenger agent, at st. Paul, MINI, wilI
send the book upon receipt of ten cents.