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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

Very musical, composer of music and
a skilled player on the violoncello, Miss
Harraden was the life of the ranch. She
is an ardent suffragist. Although Ships
That Pass in the Night" brought her
fame. 1t added but little to her fortune,
as she sold the book outright for a trihing
sum. The story was rejected by Mr..
Blackwood of Blackwoods Magazine. in
which her first published story, THE UNI
brella Member" appeared. He said that
the story was too sad to suit the public
taste. Octave Thanet's first published
story, Communist and Capitalist" was
published in LippincJtts and brought the
writer exactly fortytwo dollars, her
check for literary work.
One of Mary f. wilkins recrea tons is
letter writing, although her penmanship
she herself pronounces shocking" Once
upon time she made the odd discovery
that in writing to her friends she dis
tinctively initiated the writing of the per-
son she was Addressing queer circum-
stance which suggests strange possibili-
Ties. 1t is pleasant to know that Miss
Wilkins was successful from the start.
There was no long, heartrending struggles
on bread-and-water diet for her. Her
first publication was a poem; her first
"grown-up" story 1.-TWO Old Lovers"
II you ask Mrs. Margaret Sangster her
pet recrea ton or Observation-Disclosures mus
ic reading, the opera, etc.-she replies:
WRITING essays" Her first work was
a collection of religious essays and poems
and was published without a thought of
pecuniary gain but simply as a means of
enabling her to make few holiday pres
ents.
Mrs. E. D. Il. N. Southwort,n used to
declare that her chief claim to distinction
was having been born in house in which
Washington had lived. and in the very
room which had been his. Her first story.
"Retrbuton" published in 1870 in the
National Era is said to have been the
first novel published serially in this coun-
try. In public libraries he. novels are
rebound oftener than any other works of
fiction.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs chief
aversion before her marriage to Mr.. Riggs
was being addressed as Mrs Wiggins-thc
IS tackled to her name being most OBJ
noXious 20 her. Imagine her feels there
fore, when the postmaster at her home
in Bronxville announced to her with an
easy elision that both prefixed and sufixed
the 49, We'll, I've been reading some
of your books Mrs Swiggins."
Madame Blancs-"The Bentzon"-the
French writer, pet annoyance is coming
across an English transa ton of one of
her own stories. They are so badly done
that she has never had the courage 10
read many. Her first published story.
divorce was novel which attracted
immedia te attention. OF divorce she wrote
feelingly, for married at 16, she was di-
vorced ut 10.
Mathilde Blind, the English poetess,
quantity tells her friends that she is sick
unto death Of the very name of Marie
Bashkirtseff-whose DIARY" she trans
lated-for the reason that for a long time
she heard nothing else wherever she went:
at the dinner table, at the theater, I'm the
drawing room, she was stormed. in the
conversational sense, on the subject Of the
book she had introduced to the English
public.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

Famous Celtic Regiment Now Serv-
ing in Africa-SOme of Their Gal
liant Deeds.
From the London Mail.

liant Deeds.
From the London Mail.
4. Irishmen. it is well to note. are rendering
to the empire in the present war excep-
tionally large and distinguished services.
For the purposes of this article, one may
lay aside the fact that the great Field
Marshal, who is now on his way to the
Cape is of the Irish race and that his ia
nous chief of staff, Lord Kitchener, is
not wholly free from Irish association,
since his youth was passed amid the wilds
of Kerry.
But this, at least is directly and con-
spicuously in evidence; that circumstances
have somehow conspired to place in Irish
hands a remarkably large share of the de-
Tense of the virile and hard-pressed col
ony of Natal. The colony is proving itself
a precious jewel in the British crown, and
Irishmen are guarding it with all that
magnificent self-sacrifce and valor which
are proud traditions of the race. Sir
George White is a native of County An
trim, his family residing in the neighbour
hood of Ballymena. and the Orangemen of
that district rise to enthusiasm whenever
Sir George makes a gallant Sortie from
Iladysmith. while Irishmen in London
were glad to entertain him when he was
last here Coming to the fighting masses,
ii is notable that Ireland has furnished ten
regiments to the war. Seven of them are
fighting in Natal-Gen. Gatacre has two,
and Gen. French has one. The list is as
follows
Fifth Royal Irish Lancers, in Lady
smith.
Sixth Inniskilling Dragons, in Cape Col
ony with Gen. French.
First Royal Inniskiling Fusiliers, in Ma
tai with Gen. Butler.
First Royal Dublin Fusiliers, with Gen.
Butler.
Second Royal Dublin Fusiiers, in Lady
smith.
First Royal Irish Fusiliers, the remnants
in Ladysmith.
Second Royal IRISH Fusiliers with Gen.
Butler.
FIRST Connaught Rangers, with Gen.
Butler.
second Royal Irish Rifles, in Cape Col
ony with Gen. Gatacre.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
MACAULEY'S GREAT NIECE.
SHE IS BEATRICE POTTER WEBB, 4
SEVERE STUDENT.

Investigates and Analyses Social
Conditions and Is One of the Most
Interesting Women of To-day.
Mrs. webb Says the Universities
and the Women Are the Most Hope
full Factors in American Life-Sbe
Criticises Congress and Hopes This
Country VIII Send Representatives
to study Political Science Under
Her Teachings in the New London
University.
New York. Jan. 26-If the small house
on the Westminster embankment where
Beatrice Potter Webb lives in London
where the home of biologist it could
hardly present a more rigldly scientific
appearance. Huxley jostles Darwin on the
book shelves, Herbert Spencer's last few
contributions to Synthetic Philosophy
stand out sharply among the faded covers
of his early works, and except for slight
confusion of manuscript on the writing
room table, a net work of freshly linked
pens, a few pages scattered on the floor,
everything throughout the house is clas-
sihed. numbered. registered and given its
pldce among COuHllSSS uOtuIueilS VI It.
search concerning the social condition of
the laboring classes of England
This" said Mrs. Webb, fitting with the
nervous activity which characterizes her,
from parlor to study, this is our work
shop, my husbands and mine. There are
some of the data" she continues, pulling
out one drawer after another of neatly
copied statistics, for the History and
Analysis of Local Government which is
to be our next book 1t will be four years
before the history appears, and eight be-
fore we can complete the analysis. We
study necessarily and keep a private sec
rotary always occupied.
English women, much more than Amer
leans, are the colleagues of their hus-
bands" she continued. Il was surprised
to see in the United States how little as
a general rule the women know of their
husbands affairs. English women, how
ever clever they may be, always regard
themselves as their husbands Junior part
ner or subordinate colleague. l even
shocked American politicians by telling
them that the wife of a member of Parlia-
ment, or of a county councilman or gov
eminent representative of any kind helps
to run her husband elections. The wo-
men mere take their place in all political
work.
She Is Colby Scientific.
Mrs. Webb Is herself a member of the
Executive Committee of the Political As
ISOLATION of London. She started her in
vestigatons fifteen years ago as a young
girl. One of nine daughters, she begged
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

positions free from political intrigue, and
they should also be obliged 10 pass COM
petitive and not merely a qualifying ex-
animation. Ii is not enough that they
should all do well, they should
do better than their rivals TO
be received. IL is owing 10 the
civil examinations being competitive in
England that the class of civil Of
ficials is largely restricted to men who
have had superior advantages of educa-
ton, intellectual and moral. English peo-
pie love administration, they are delight
ed when they have anything to manage.
so it is not to their credit that many of
them with salaries of only $500 year
devote all their spare moments to govern
ment, with no interested motive no re-
numerals Of any kind. When told this
10 Tammany ruler he hfted mis- eyebrows
sceptically American politicians apply in
dividualism TO public life, and say. why
not get something out of this for our
selves In England the economic motive
has no part in public affairs. The Ameri-
cans take their economic motive too Sc
riously, they think too much of money as
the only gain in life. The worst of Amer
leans are the newspapers and the polite
ians the most hopeful part are the wo-
men and the universities"
1t is difficult to define Beatrice Webb
as a woman, other than through her work.
She married in 1899 a man who had risen
from the working class to a position
which was the complement of her own in
tho lives and labors of the poor. Thus
while he broadened her field of mental
activity he made few changes in the do
nestle duties Of the girl who had for
years spent nine months out of the twelve
studying social science, and the other
three making practical investigation. Mrs.
Webb has no children. She has adopted
in her dress simplicity with perfect wo-
manliness. Her face, whose delicate fea-
lures and clear. brown eyes are beautiful,
has the expression of cheerfulness and
animation resulting to all who know their
work and who do 1t well. She has an
agreeable voice, a vocabulary which de-
notes a well trained and thoughtful mind,
smile which reveals kindness and hui
NOR. Bessie IG. Van Worst.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

for more than half the losses; they had 81
officers and men killed and 535 wounded
or missing. The Dublins had 40 killed and
27S wounded or missing; Of the Connaughts
"a were killed and 1870 wounded or miss
ing; the First Inniski.lings had Is killed
and SO wounded or missing
But the splendid records of these three
regiments tells of more glorious sacrifices.
For instance, a Waterloo the Innisklllings
suffered the heaviest losses of all. They
saved the center of Wellington's line on
that historic day, and every officer of the
regiment and two-thirds of the men lay
dead or wounded on the field of battle.
Sir George White, it may be noted, was
a subaltern in that regiment when more
than forty years ago it paraded in the
Punjab before the young officer who Is
now Lord Roberts.
OF the Connaught Rangers it need only
be said that in it's century's existence it
has served the empire in every part OF
the world-Europe, Asia, Africa and Amer
lea. In the Peninsular war alone It's
losses exceeded 800, of whom close upon
400 were killed. At the smashing Boer
defeat at Elnads Laagte II was an Irish
cavalry regiment. the Fifth Lancers,
which charged through the flying enemy
in the darkness and cut them up-ths
only time that our cavalry has got into
their midst. The dashing style in which
the Second Dublins and the First Royal
Irish F'usiliers stornied the Boer strong
hold on Talana hill the Dublins being
first into the intrenchments, supplies one
of the thrilling episodes of the campaign;
as Yule's night march out of Dundee,
led by the Dublins through the dense
darkness, furnishes one of the weirdest,
and as the subsequent misfortune of the
gallant Faugh-a- Banaghs at .NichOlson's
Mex constitutes one of the saddest.
One must know the traditions of these
Faugh-a- Ballaghs-how the regiment, for
instance, as may be read in the history
of the Peninsular war, covered Itself
with glory under Lord Cough, and was
in recognition styled the Prince of Wales
Own Irish Fusiliers''--to understand the
fierce sorrow which swept their ranks
when they found il necessary to surrender
TO the Beers.
As for the Second Battalion of the Dub
Inns, the "Old Toughs,' it ranks among
the most renowned which wears the
Queens uniform. Its records go back
three centuries; it boasts one of the great
est marches on record; its history runs
like a thread through abe history OF the
conquest of India fer 200 years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
GOSSIP OF LITERARY WOMEN.
Ladies' Who WELD Pens and Build
Wire Fences.

New York, Jan. 26-Miss Alice French
Octave Thanet-confesses to taking keen
pleasure in carpentry Il love the very
planning and saving and measuring and
squaring. To be sure, my carpentry is
mostly done by the light of nature, and
there is nothing fine about it, except the
tools, but with assistance l have made
two picket fences, one heavy and three
light wire fences and nine or ten gates, all
of which can shut" Another lady who
Yields a saw and plane with as much
skill as her pen is Beatrice Harraden.
While living on a ranch in California, for
her health's sake she became quite expert
as carpenter helping upon occasions to
build fence, or fences. She sat out, with
her own hands, a small orchard and at
tended to the grating and pruning. 1t
was also her proud boast that she could
harness a horse as well as any cowboy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
TOASTING THE QUEEN.
One Regiment in the British Army IL
Never Expected to Toast Her Ma


jesfy.
There is only one regiment among all
those who swear fealty TO Queen Nlcto-
ria, which does not toast Her Majesty at
mess. This is the Seventh Fusileers, anu
the regiment is extremely proud of us
distinction in this respect, that it is never
expected to toast the Queen.
1t seems that upon one OCCASION IN inc
long ago, some King of England was an
ing with the officers of the regiment, ana
said after dinner, that the royalty OF inc
Seventh was sufficiently well assured VIM
out their drinking the SovereiSn's health
1t is curious fact-the origin of when
is not known-that the queens health,
on ship board is drank by the officete
sitting, instead of standing, as is custom
airy elsewhere Every night, in every snip
which carries the flag of the British EN-
pire Her Majesty is toasted by the ON
GERS.
OF all Her Majesty's regiments the
Welsh Fusileers have the most curious
army toast. 1t forms part of the ceremony
of the grand dinner given annually on 81
Davids day. After the dinner the drum
major, accompanied by the goat, the mas
cot of the Fusileers. bedecked with ro-
settles of red and blue ribbon, marches
around The table, carrying a plate OF
leeks. Every officer or guest, who mas
never eaten one before is obliged to do So
standing on his chair, with one loot on
the table. while the drummers beat roll
behind his chair. He is then considered
true Welshman. All the toasts are cou-
pled with the name of 81. David. 1t is IN
much this way that the toast with "Iiign-
land honors" is drank. Each guest stahns
with one foot on his chair, one on the
table and the pipers a-piping parade the
room.
Toasting Sir Francis Drake is an inter-
esting ceremony. The town of Plymouth
England. consumes 100000 gallons Of wa
Ter per day, and its first regular supply
was given to the town during Sir Francis
brakes nayoralty Annually the town
indulges in the quaint ceremony or toast
ing his memory, which is done in TINS
wav. The pious memory of Sir francs
is drank in water at the head weir. bct
then the company drinks in wine, 10 the
sentiment May the descendants OF nm
who brought US water never want ioI
wine" , a.,
AS to the word itself-toast. rms Is
its origin. which dates back to medlae-
val times, when the loving cup was
feature of every banquet The cup Woulu
he filed to the brim with wine or meau.
IN the center of which floated a piece OF
toasted bread. After putting his lips
10 the cup, the host would pass It on 70
tho guest of honor; after going the
rounds. the cup finally came back TO tne
host who drained what remained am
swallowed the toast in honor OF al t"o
friends assembled at table.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
First Royal Munster FusIliers, with Gen.

First Royal Munster FusIliers, with Gen.
Gatacre.
Here are 5000 men at least-regiments
which are almost entirely Irish The Nun
sters come chiefly from Kerry, Cork and
Limerick, the Dublns from the home
counties, and the Royal Irish Fusiliers
from the northeast OF Ulster while the
Connaughts hail largely from the West.
They found no trouble In swelling their
ranks. The Conneughts went away 917
strong the First Dub1us numbered 1904,
and the Inniskilling Fusllier Battalion
reached 102S.
They have suffered greatly. being in the
forefront of most of the Natal fighting.
At the battle on the Tugela the four Irish
battalions which were engaged account
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

One of the first letters of sympathy re-
ceived by Gen. Roberts after the death of
his son in South Africa was from the ex-
Empress Eugene, recalling how the Gem
eral had given her a sprig of flowers from
the spot where the Prince Imperial fell
in the Zulu war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

When. however, Lydia Mayer takes the
platform and says a few words on ethical
culture or plays tune on the piano the
silence is profound. She is looked upon
as the genius of the mission.
Lydia is studying law and probably the
world may hear more of her when she
gets beyond her teens. Meanwhile, hel
present tile Is Mayoress of Brownville.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

Former Secretary of War Alger has
written to the Mayor of Detroit, Offering
all the help in his power for the bringing
home of the bodies of Michigan soldiers
who died in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

John d. Rockefeller is u believer in the
business capacity of women, and says
that Miss Harris. fiis private secretary.
is one OF tine most valuable employees IN
his service, both for sagacity and good
judgment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

THE old play times We're over at the
palace, but l was very. very happy to be
at home again. IL wns in The winter
time and my cousin Tom and I went 10
skate in the park. We skated with our
hands crossed, and there were so rnany
tnlngs to tel and TO hear we did not pay
much attention to the other skaters
Il had had no skating and Cousin Tom
was chatting me and saying that I bad
become a foreigner and forgotten how 10
skate when some man skated up behind
us.
I can beat him l said to Tom. .ana
away we went, and such racei And
about ten minutes he caught us and we
were not so jubilant when we discovered
we mad been racing the Queens equarrv
whom she mad sent to ask us TO come and
speak to her She, too, was on the ice
ana seeing me, wished to ask me TO oourt
ano renew our friendship. ! should have
VI course been presented anyway. but l
was very glad indeed to find her The Same
Htie queen / had known so well
we easily explained cur attempted es-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
She Is CoIdIy Scientific.

Mrs. Webb is herself a member of the
Executive Committee of the Political As
sociation of London. She started her in
vestigations fifteen years ago as young
girl One of nine daughters, she begged
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
nTFnRIAL AUDIaNcE Hall. PICKING, FROM a CHINESE PAINTING

erned by a mandarin with the title
Of 'swuin-Fa, or viceroy. This Off
cial is a despot in his district, and
possesses the sole right Of approach
ing the throne on any matter connect
ed with his province. The life and
death of those under him are in his
hands, and he is commander-in-chief
of the local troops. AS a sort of set
off to these immense powers his tens
ure of office is very insecure, and he
is liable to be removed on the most
trivial pretext, such as the outbreak
of q riot or rebellion in his province.
Suspension, moreover, is usually fol-
lowed by his death at the hands Of
the executioner.
Under the mandarins is a horde Of
minor officials, such as local superin-
tendents of taxes, provincial judges of
the criminal court and educational x
aminers. Each of the provinces is
split up into several large divisions,
which are in their turn divided and
subdivided almost to ininlty. Each
little department has its little Off
Gals, and even the smallest among
them must pay a tribute to his supe.
rior.
The common people have no rights
whatever, They are permitted to work
so that they can pay taxes. In order
to keep their places the local officials
rob the day Iaborers and bride the
district authorities. The district au.
thorities rob the merchants and
bride the provincial officials. The
latter extoft money from the land
owners and hand over a part Of the
spoils to the mandarins. And that
dignitary EFFORTS contributions from
everybody in sight and sends a fair
percentage to Picking to propitiate
the imperial authority there.
In many sections of China highway
robbery is co~untenanced by the au-
thorities. The police are given a tip
not to catch members of certain
gangs Of highwaymen, and an officer
who neglects to take such a hint
finds himself without q job. High-
waymen not so protected are treated
with incredible cruelty-surely a
pointed lesson that it is unwise to n
gage in robbery without dividing the
spells with the so-caned guardians OF
the peace"
Nothing but a political earthquake
can correct the abuses so family out-
lined here; and certainly no who
has the true interests of the Chinese
at heart would argue against the in
PRODUCTION Of reforms. Should the
present occupation of Picking by the
troops Of Europe and America lead to
a reorganization Of affairs in China,
the Boxer massacres, terrible as they
were. would prove a blessing to civ
nization, not too dearly bought with
the blood Of scores Of noble men and
women. G. w. WEIPPIERT.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
RELICS OF R EPocHs.
Fine Exhibit In the University o
Pennsylvania Department Of
Archaeology.

During the summer months nurner-
Gus expeditions have enriched the
priceless collections in the University
Of Pennsylvania department Of arch
aeoiogy. The museums were reopened
to the public the other day, with many
of the recently acquired additions on
exhibition. Among the most interest
ing relics are the tablets and sarco-
phagi unearthed by the Babylonian
expedition and the peculiar religious
paraphernalia of the Kwakiutl Indians
brought back by the party that
searched with DR.. Stewart Culin.
The queer masks and regalia used in
the remarkable cannibal dance Of the
northwest Indian tribes are represent
ed in the 1000 specimens secured by DIR.
Culin, says the Philadelphia Record.
These are of wood, Enthusiastically carved
and painted; some shaped like gigantic
birds bills and others representing
bears and distorted human faces. The
expedition which has gathered the re-
markable collection journeyed from
Fort Laramie, Ark, 10000 miles
through the western states to Van.
COuNeIs D. ~ ana SOuSnG the FaluaDle
relics among a cor of different tribes.
A great many of them are on exhibit
ton, and the work of arranging the en-
tire collection is being pushed.
In the BabyIonian section much has
been done toward putting the relics in
permanent shape. Tablets and bricks
that retain a history of their prehis-
toric molders and shed new light on
mythology have been comprehensively
arranged and placarded. An excep-
tionally interesting feature of the ex-
hibit is a Jewish sarcophagus, n of
the most valuable of the recent expedi-
tion's finds. Many casts of Egyptian
inscriptions and famous carvings have
been added to the collection.
Prof. Maxwell ommerviIle has placed
his collection of strange gems and ann
ulets from the Sahara desert on exhi-
bition, and is compiling in book form
the strange superstitions attached to
the charms. The Indian section pos
sesses a new treasure in a fan Of eagle
feathers, once the property of a west
ern chief. which Mrs. Joseph rexeI has
presented to the museums.