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hibited in America, and has more offers
and orders for portraits than she will ever
accept, and who works at her art as If she
had the inspiration of necessity behind her.
1T would be a little difficult to reckon
just how Miss Hewett would decide to earn
her bread II the opportunity arose. She is
a practicable road builder, capable horse
trainer. a proficient orchestra leader, and
a past mistress in the art of stenography
and typewriting. She once wrote story
and sent il under an assumed name to one
OF the first magazines in the country, and
1t was not only accepted and paid for at
once. but the editor wrote asking for more
manuscript. Evidently there is no fear of
Miss Hewett's starving like the poor grass
hoppers in AesOp's fables. al.
when Mrs. William Sloan's bank ac-
count runs very low she will be able to
earn SIS week in any hospital as train
ed nurse, with diploma, and Mrs. Mich
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BISHOP PoTTER's VIEWS.
He Considers Wifehood md Home
Woman's Dixinest Calling

New York, Jan. 'Wifehood, mother
hood, sisterhood, the ministry of sympathy
and love, these are woman's sphere" said
Bishop Potter in answer 10 a question con-
corning his convictions with regard TO wo-
mans highest calling.
THE details of the problem as It affects
the various duties OF life" he went on.
embrace every possible subject, and alone
would fill volumes, but the heart of the
matter can be given in a word, the main
spring can be felt at touch.
II am glad that great multitude of
callings, formerly exercised only by men,
are now open to women Indeed, it would
| in these days be a solemn lmpertinence to
bid women teach and sew only, when there
are fifty teachers and nifty seamstresses for
every vacancy in these professions. The
| modern conditions OF life demand that she
shall follow other callings, and she can do
| so with dignity and nobility. if she forget
not that her sphere is ever the ministry of
sympathy and love.
In this time of mechanical genius, a
mechanic might be contrived whereby in
| the sick room the regular services of the
night nurse would be fulfilled by a manni-
kin, dressed TO look like woman, con-
| structed and wound up to act as a nurse
| and destined to perform each duty with
| faultless accuracy. The cure could not be
perfected for the essentials would be lack
| ing; the ministration of womanly love and
| tenderness. This, whatever profession she
may follow, is womans divinest calling.
THE position of woman today through
| out the civilized world is the result of a
reaction from the Oriental conception of
| her as q chattel or a toy. With the be-
| ginning Of the Christian era. the first step
was taken toward the emancipation of
| women. Christ and his Apostles recog-
| nized their gifts and emancipated them.
The Deaconess Phoebe OF Cenchrea was a
| type. All women have gifts which may be
| useful, and should be exercised outside of
| the home. Here enters a danger: AS
| Christian civilization has widened, and as
IT has been touched by Anglo Saxon ideas
which involve the essential equality of all
human beings before God, woman has step
ped out OF her old and narrower sphere
The peril is lest she should forsake II too
largely, for her sphere is wifehood, moth
erhood, sisterhood, the ministry of sympa-
| thy and love.
ITO some women these ministries IN
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to extend her decorating to include illus
trations.
Born with sentiment for color and
possessed of a deft and skilful hand, Mrs.
Way made a complete success of her
work from the very start, and really the
public seem to have been waiting for OK
actly this sort of thing. for like Miss Car
dew's. no sooner was her work placed on
exhibition than it found a ready market.
Mrs. Way is particularly happy in color
ing costumes. No matter how many way
ing tints she chooses, background, figures
and accessories all blend into a delicious
harmony. Her execution is practically
faultless, the color always being kept
sharply within the line. Since placing
her books on exhibition Mrs. Way has re-
ceived some specimens of Miss Cardew's
work, and it is very interesting to see
them side by side as they are curiously
alike in color and execution.
A sharp line of distinction should be
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SHE SELLS WOOD PLUGS.
How One Woman Makes Money Re-
pairing Railroad Ties.

The recent agitation in the West as to
gushing women from the business world
seems rather farcicaI in view OF the posi-
lions that women by sheer force of their
intelligent efforts are making for them
selves all along the line. A fine example of
what one woman's ingenuity and business
acumen has accomplished came to my ears
only the other day.
Upon the death, some years ago. OF
Mrs Clara Morley's father-one of the
many manufacturers Of Grand Rapids his
affairs were found to be in such state
that the concern had TO go into the hands
of a receiver. Mrs. Morley, who up to
this time had had no connection with the
business. entered the factory with the de
termination of mastering every detail from
glued stock to double entry. II was not
long before she had the business in her
own hands, and but little longer before
she began winning the respect of every
business man in her especial line the
country over
Almost from the start she left little OF
the management to assistants, but made
a point OF personally seeing the business
men with whom she had dealings. During
one of her many trips she CHANGED to see
lying by the roadside pile of worn out
railroad ties. Her natural interest in
wood prompted her to go over and exam
inc them. She found that they were per
fectiy sound and whole except round those
portions where spikes had been driven.
This set her to thinking. She interviewed
sCme railroad companies, and found that
they were obliged To constantly renew
these ties for no other reason than that
they became worn round the spikes and
were thus loosened. They were then re-
garded as useless and burned. Mrs. Nor
ley had a wagon load of these discarded
ties sent to her factory, and proceeded to
have some hard wood plugs made of size
to be driven into these holes. By then
driving spike through the plug she found
that the tie held exactly as well as when
new.
She called the attention of a railroad
company to the fact. and persuaded them
to make trial use of the repaired ties
The results We're entirely satisfactory and
the road. quick to see what a tremendous
saving this would be, began ordering plugs
in large quantities. Other roads followed
their example. and Mrs Morley is now
manufacturing hard wood plugs by the
millions. and is utterly unable to keep up
with her orders II goes without saying
that the business pays her fine divi-
dend.
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drawn between work that is decorative,
such as initials, borders, etc, and that
which is illustrative. Purely decorative
work demands only brilliant colors and
sharp contrasts, while tints the most deli
cate, quiet contrasts or careful shading
and persective are required in embelish-
ing pictures. One must bear in mind, too,
that only a certain class of illustration
lends itself to this kind of treatment. the
line drawing of Aiming Bell, Hugh
Thompson and G. Fell being admirable
for the purpose The work is done by
laying on a wash of water color with a
small brush, and requires for its success
a genius for color and firm, steady, sure
hand.
To those welded to the black and white.
this new departure may seem little
strange; but Ruskin taught years ago that
We ought to love color. and to think moth
ing quite beautiful or perfect without it.
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brac collectors echo the assertion. What
with their fortunes and their determine
ton to own what is best. our millionaires
SO far outbid all ambitious European buy
ers at the sales that by and by very fes of
the really good antiques will be left on the
other side. In eXemplfication of this was
recent interesting duel played between
Lord Rosebery and Mr.. Berwind of New
York, over desk of richest inlay once
used by Napoleon. Lord Rosebery is Il
rich man, but the American capped every
bid till the earl could not follow his rival
and reluctantly let the desk go. The 9TH
er collectors felt, as Lord ROsebery as
serted, that the Americans are grasping
everything. Benjamin Gable, the wealthy
eX-Congressman, who is preparing to
build in Washington copy of a Partisan
hotel of the Louis XIV period. has for its
interior adornment purchased a perfect
example of the Louis Quinz decoration in
Venice. Though he buys this great We
netian palace, he proposes only to use q
half of 1t All the inside walls will be
carefully sliced out, brought over and ap-
piled TO the Washington house. Mr. Ca
BILE is not experimenting: old Dutch and
English houses, Flemish ceilings, and Eng
fish stairways are brought over whole or
in part every year.
~ pIDpOst 10 Ner lOSDanQ mat she
would like to import a palace is no I'M
usual whim of an eccentric rich woman.
Mrs. Forbes Leith, whose husband owns
some of the greatest Western steel manu-
features, procured the walls. stairway
and floor for the hall in her splendid
house on Park Avenue. in New York,
from the home of a Dutch nobleman. Our
wealthy ambassador to Italy. General
Draper, has purchased a magnificent room
in the famous Borghesi palace in Rome.
His purchase includes not only the tapes
tries and furniture in it, but the floor.
ceiling, wall, doors, window easements,
chandelier, and fireplace. J, J. Van Alien,
in his Eiizabethan house in Newport has
| imported room after room for the lovely
mansion. as he was able to find what he
wanted in EliZabethan houses abroad and
| could arrange TO purchase. So far as the
| interior shell of the house goes it is as
! genuine and as old as CharlecOte Park it.
self This is all perfectly done, because
there are men in Europe who understand
10 a nicely the art of dismantling ancient
buildings packing all the parts and set
| ting them up again, while as TO the price,
our millionaires are able to attend 10 that.
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A FLAT FAILURE.
Greedy Jnnitors Bid Fair to Fright
en- Tenants Away.

en- Tenants Away.
New York, Jan. 2S.-The bullying Partisan
concierge is here in New York or a Great
ure so like the pitiless doorkeeper of the
French apartment house, that already the
unlucky fiat dweller is ground under his
tyrannous heel. 1t is not the resident in
buildings where flats rent for a moderate
sum, and the location is questionable,
who knows and suffers under this new des-
pot, but the inhabi;ant of the palatiaI
apartment building and apartment hotel.
Now the price of fine apartments is higher
in New York than other city in the world.
On Fifth Avenue it is difficult for family
to rent a floor under less than 81 900 a
month. This signifies an area about as
large as a farm house attic divided up
into breathless little rooms with daylight
in the front and rear room only.
1t is sad to relate that the New York
landlord has taken leaf out of his for
eign brothers rules. When you reEt
fine fiat on Fifth Avenue you must expect
to keep your head in a hornets nest or
your hand ever in your pocket II may be
very gratifying to your pride to live in
place where a splendidly appareled six
footer stands on the sidewalk to open your
carriage door, another pushes the gilt and
revolving stile TO admit you to the public
hall, and a third sweeps you into the ele-
vator Just as if you were staying at the
Waldorf-Astoria. Your friends compIi-
ment you on placing yourself so comforta-
bly,, but you wear hollow smile. because
nearly everything except the naked rooms
you live in are extras and every one Of
those minions. with the. bearing and man
ners of eX-noblemen, are vampires with
their teeth in your purse.
In a Partisan apartment house you have
to do with one concierge and his ruthless
wife. In the New York apartment house
you must fight a half dozen who can lit
orally force you to break your leass and
move if you refuse to yield to their de-
mands. Their demand is money, at regu-
lar and frequent intervals, from every
member of your family If you deny their
claims you will find your ring at the ele-
vator bell is not heard, your letters are
delayed in coming up, you open your
doors yourself, visitors are gratutously
misinformed as to your whereabouts at
the entrance of the building, your wood
and coal arrive tardily when most needed,
your requests for repairs have TO be re-
peated again and again, you are coyertly
scorned and your private servants are
openly annoyed and insulted. II is quite
futile TO complain, because no b5tterment
comes by way of change of hall or ele-
vator men. They must all have money,
and so successful are they in enforcing
their demands that to one fiat dweler on
Fifth Avenue the elevator boy confessed
he rarely accumulated less than 80 a
month in tips. He admitted that the door
boy and street boy, the janitor who
cleans the public halls. the janitor who
distributes coal and wood, the boy who
runs the freight and servants elevator
and the house porter and the superinten-
dent, each and all Jared nearly as we'll.
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able TO count at least few hand decorated
volumes among your carefully chosen
treasures. This happens TO be case where
the supply created the demand, and is also
another example of that curious phenOme
non OF things being in the air" since two
women. one In England and another in
America, entirely unknown to each other.
began about the same time to seriously
take up the occupation of coloring illus
trated books by hand
Something more than year ago Miss
Gloria Cardew, n. young art student in
London discovered quite by accident that
she possessed a remarkable talent for
creating schemes OF color for illustrations.
She Immediately set about collecting a
series of books that most readily lent
themselves to this kind of treatment, and
gave herself up to the work The finished
pictures proved 10 be so harmonious and
restrained and at the same time so bril-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-29
MISS HARRADEN's HERO.
She Pictured Him Not Wisely, But
Too Well.

In both Miss Harraden's previous Cali
fornia stories, the Remittance Man" and
'Hilda STAFFORD" the characters were so
faithfully portrayed from actual life that
the persons concerned instantly recognized
themselves and were as easily recognized
by others.
In the former short story the scene was
laid al place called Witch Creek, an Eng
lish colony about 80 miles back from San
Diego, and of which the hero. il such he
may be called. was certain young ranch
er, John Lane by name, who wrathiuiiy
declared that of whatever viliainies Miss
Harraden might have supposed him guilty
she had published the worst when she
prompted the Remittance Man. in spite,
to shoot a neighbors dog. Indeed. so in
dignant was he that for n time he seri-
ously contemplated bringing an action for
libel against the famous author of Ships"
With ''Hilda STAFFORD the scene was
laid in the immediate neighborhood of the
friends ranch where Miss Harraden spends
her winters-a desolate, arid spot in ;he
midst of a really beautiful country, with
in 16 miles of San Diego This was per-
haps the reason why the local scenery and
general life on a California ranch were
painted in such gloomy cOlors.
Among the characters in this story the
old ranch woman who was portrayed as
spying out her workmen through tele-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-29
HOW TO PREVENT EARACHE.
Most tiothers Bring II ON by Over
.,r.

cleaning.
Few ailments are more common among
children than earache, and mothers, though
unconscious of the fact, are themselves
the cause OF much suffering from this
painful malady in their children. In her
anxiety to have the childs ears clean
mother will sometimes endeavor 10 re-
move every particle of earwaX from the
inner portion of the ear. and 10 accom-
plish this TO her own satisfaction will
sometimes even use a hairpiu, covered with
the towel. or the towel itself twisted TO
point.
The treatment is not only altogether too
harsh, but it is unnecessary and harmful
to remove all the wax. The membrane lin
ing the canal of the ear contains great
number of little glands which secrete
this waxy substance, and the purpose of
this is TO prevent the entrance of insects
and keep the inner ear clean. The layers
of wax dry in scales. which rapidly tall
away, and remove with them any particle
of dust or other foreign matter which may
have found entrance to the ear.
Be contented when you have made the
child's ears clean outside andthorOughly
dry, and leave nature to attend to her af-
fairs in her own way. In a case of ear
ache, nothing more irritating than a few
drops of olive oil, warmed To tempera-
ture of blood heat should ever be placed
in the ear. Nine-tenths of the earache of
childhood, and large proportion of the
deafness OF old age is due to adenoid
growths in the throat which may be re-
moved when one is young by a very slight
operation.
Not little danger is occasioned from
children snutiing up accidentally. or 9TH
erwise, articles into the nose, where they
get lodged and refuse to move one way
or the other. The great danger is of the
article remaining there so long before it
is removed as to cause swelling and in
flammatlon. The following will be found
Il very simple method of removing the ar
ticle: Place a thin cloth over the childs
mouth, and with your fingers close the
nostril not containing the article. Next
put your mouth to the childs and give
two or three strong puffs. and in nine
cases out OF ten the substance will fly out.
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their more sacred form are denied by mod
ern conditions, and there is tendency
which ought to be frankly owned TO dis
esteem domestic cares and duties. II is
on that side that we need watchfulness.
! hope that women will never forget that
the divinest calling for her is the life and
ministry of the home. In the sanctity of
the home rests the building of character,
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NOW WE IMPORT PALACES.
Buy Foreign CASTLES to
Set Up mt Home.

New York, Jan. 2S.-The importation of
foreign antiques for our rich Americans
increases every year. The custom house
officials will tell you so, and the bric-a-
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the safety of the state, the triumph of
righteousness. May women prize and ex-
ercise their highest calIing,'
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HAND-DEcoRATED BOOKS.

Avenue That Leads to Wealth for
Many Women.
If you really and truly wish to be re-
garded bibliophile in these later days,
it is not enough to merely possess hand
made and handbound books; you must be
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-19

the county. The returns that have been
held out are from the mountain counties
of the eleventh district, which is strong
ly Republican, and from which come
stories of all sorts of intimidation prac
ticed upon the election commissioners to
make them certify results not borne out
by the returns. That there has been
some intimidation there is no doubt.
How much or how much fraud has enter
cd into the more than sixteen thousand
plurality reported for Taylor from that
district. u contest can alone determine.
Il spent some time in Henderson and
two or three days in Louisville, and l
found that the best informed men hon
estly believe that Goebel has received a
uIurality of the vote cast in the election,
and that the claim Of victory ON the
part of the Republicans and their allies
is stop thief cry to hide their own
rascality. Men in whose opinion ] have
every confidene and who / believe would
give me their honest opinion. have told
me that Goebel has undoubtedly won
and that it is the Republican crowd
which is doing the stealing. Now,
there would be no object in those men
saving that to me. unless they believed
it to be true, aNd ! have no doubt they
do believe it.
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TRUE ESTIMATE OF BRYAN.

No man has grown so on the American
people in four years as Mr.. w. ]. Bryan.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, stalwart
Republican, recently gave utterance to
this true estimate of the Nebraskan:
1.-THE people of the East, who do not
know Mr.. Bryan, are apt to underrate
the entire integrity of motive which ami
mates him, and which is the great ele-
ment in his strength. No matter how
we may differ with hint is idle not TO
recognize this fact. | believe that there
is no sacrifice that Mr.. Bryan would
not make to further what he believed
to be the welfare of this country. This
sentiment being prevalent in my own
section. / can account for the intensely
loyal following which Mr.. Bryan en-
joys"
This is the estimate that history will
place on Mr.. Bryan, and it is gratifying
to see that all his opponents, except
those extremely partisan or too narrow,
see and recognize his integrity, his pa
triotism. unselfishness and his states
manShip.
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Mans Heritage.
A Peculiar Blessing Handed Down
From Heaven TO the Children
of Men.

In the beginning before God created
mankind. He prepared for his coming.
Natures storehouse was abundantly
filled with all mans needs-in sickness
and in health-for God knew to what
his fall would lead, and accordingly pre-
pared, in mercy, the herbs, roots and
banks. after several kinds and endowed
Man with wisdom to find therein boon
for all the ills to which the human flesh
might fall heir, through transgression.
In after years a man went forth TO
search and God rewarded his efforts by
revealing to him the ingredients TO pre-
pare the formula of what today stands
pre-eminently at the head Of all other
remedies in its class; hereditary blood
diseascS-scrOfula, eczema, etc, vanishes
before the sweep of its mastery curative
properties; indigestion, chills, fever, ma
larial poison, rheumatism, govt, and
similar diseases likewise perish and re-
turn no more to the system when this
great remedy is used. Then too it never
fails to cure cancer in its worst form.
You will agree with us when we tell
You to what we refer, for like the writer
the map of the civilized world is dotted
here and there with grateful humanity
who are ever ready to sing its praise and
attest to its merits: we speak of Nature 5
gift to humanity-M Joe Persons
Remedy. Hank! the refrain. Amen
Amen!l $100 per bottle at all drug
gists or write Mrs. Joe Person, Kittrell,
n. c.. for information regarding the
Remedy
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NOT CERTAIN DEFEAT.

Bryan is undoubtedly the choice OF
the overwhelming majority of the De-
mocratic party and can get more votes
than any other candidate it could name.
Charlotte Observer.
This is everywhere recognized to be
true. The Observer says later on thar
the nomination Of Bryan on the Chicago
platform involves "a certain and crush
ing defeat. Putting the two opin-
ions together, the conclusion is inevita-
Bile that the Democratic party will "be
damned If ii does, and will be damned
if it don't" There are very many
Democrats, and many scared Republic
cans, however. who do not so see the re-
suit, and the Democrats will 90 into the
campaign hopeful, determined and az
gressive.