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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28
A GRAND FAIR.

Last Monday evening the members of
the Epworth League Of Cumberland
Street Methodist Church met at the
residence OF Mrs. Walter ]. Simmons.
on Bank street. to arrange for an elab-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28
LITERARY CLUBS MEET.

There was q charming gathering OF
the members Of the three literary clubs
Of Norfolk and Portsmouth Thursday
morning ut tho home Of Mrs. Philip E.
Yentman. on York street
Tho subject for discussion was the
Transvaal question. and the excellent
manner in which the different papers
were handled spoke well for the intel
lectuality of Norfolk and Portsmouth
literary women.
Six papers were read, all bearing up
on this great topic of the day. They
were:
/. "a Glance at South Africa"
2 "Thc Jameson Raid; It's Causes
and Effects"
3. Cecil Rhodes; His influence on the
Transvaal"
4. "Thc Lyrical Boer."
5. "The British and Boer Soldiers"
6. Logical Results from Victory of
South British or Bocr'
The papers were highly entertaining,
and the interesting discussions that fol-
lowed each one made the meeting a
most enjoyable one.
Mrs. Yeatman received her guests
with charming hospitality.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28
AN oPERETTA AT ST. MARY,s.

The operctta called "The Heiress,"
which will be given by the young ladies
Of ST. NIary's Academy February 22d
for the benefit of st. Mary's Orphan
Asylum, promises to be an exceptional
~ interesting affair.
Great interest is being taken by the
pupils In practicing for the entertain-
mcnt. and it is hoped that 1t will be a
great financial success, as the object
for which 1t is given is a worthy one.
The motive OF having the entertain
ment is to raise funds TO pay off the
interest Of the debt on the building,
which will he due on the LIST of April.
The entertainment will be given in the
large hall of St Mary's Orphan Asy-
lum. corner OF Chapel and Mariner
streets, and the charge for the tickets
will be fifty cents. The story of the
operetta is attractive:
"A Southern gentleman sends his
daughter Rose. to n Boston school to
be educated. The principal of the
school. Miss Flowerdew, decidedly
enobbish lady. at the opening of the
play, is spending the summer HOLIDAYS
with Rose Mt Dobbs Farm. Roses
father has entrusted his money and
letters to n dishonest agent living in
the Hub" who decamps with the
money. leaving the young woman mi
nus funds and at a loss to know why
she has been forsalen by her father
Miss Flowerdew treats her as she
thinks INDECENT young women should
be treated, without consideration. The
father not understanding his daugh-
ter's silence. sends his old servant. Ma
thilda under the assumed name OF Miss
Belmont. to find out the disposition of
his daughter. If she is amiable she
Is to he brOuCht homo. n NOT c1,o q,
to remain with Miss Flowerdew. All
turns out well. Matilda discovers
noble character in Rose, Miss Flower
dew's snobbishness is exposed, and
good Miss Robb's and her maid, Mollie
receive due appreciation.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28

No unmarried Russian girl is admit
ted to any of the Universities of her
country, so some of the young women
go through the civil ceremony of mar
rage with student whom, perhaps
she has never seen before, or may never
speak to again. At the end of the
University career she may dissolve the
marriage. If she wishes, and marry
some one else.
In addition to her many other ac-
complshments, Mrs. Jefferson is 2. fne
Greek scholar.
Smolensk is unique town in South
ern Russia. where women hold the reins
of governments. The Mayor and CITY
council are of the gentler sex, and ow
ms to the absence of the male sex, who
are OIL at work nine months out of the
year. the cultivation of the fields and
all else falls upon the women. They
seem to work on n cooperative plan.
for although each family has its own
nome, everything else is done in com
mon. Out Of the week thirty-six hours
is given by each individual There is
an incentive to marriage, as no claim
Is made by the colony upon n married
wcman's time.
1900 Npih S5iIulitIl EptttI mas
adopted the style of wearing n red rose
In her hair. She is very fond of green.
and some of her most beautiful gowns
are of this color Emeralds are among
her favoritc Jewels.
Mrs. Potter is now enthusiastic over
IN organization being formed OF Eng
lish- spcaking women, the object of
which is 10 do everything possible to
prevent war.
SAM DAVIS.
Tell me his name, and you are free"
The General said while from the tree
The grim rope dangled threat ningly.
The birds ceased singing-happy birds,
That sang of home and mother words,
The sunshine kissed his cheek-dear
sun,
1t loves a life that's just begun.
The very breezes held their breath
To watch the fight 'twixt life and
death,
And Q, how calm and sweet and free
Smiled back the hills of Tennessee!
Smiled bTck-t the hills as IT 70 say:
20 save your life for us to-day"
Tell me his name and you are free,
The General said. land I shall see
You safe within the rebel line:
d love to save such life as thine"
"a tear cleaned down the ranks of blue
CThe bayonets were tipped with dew:
Across the rugged cheek of war
Gods angel rolled teary star
The boy looked up-twas this they
heard:
And would you have, me break my
word?"
y tear stood in the Generals eye:
My boy. I hate to see you die
Give me the traitors name, and fy."
Young Davis smiled as calm and free
AS He who walked on Galilee:
Had I n thousand lives to live,
Had q thousand lives to give,
ia give them-nay, I'd gladly die
Before I'd live one life q liel"
He turned, for not n soldier stirred:
Your duty, men; gave my word"
The hills smiled back n farewell smile
The breeze sobbed DER his hair awhile
The birds broke out in said retain.
The sunbeams kissed his cheek again;
They shook his name among the stars.
o stars. that now his brothers are.
o sun, his sire in life and light,
Go tell the listening worlds affair
OF him who died for truth and right.
For martyr of all martyrs he
Who dies to save an enemy.
JOHN TRoTWOOD MOORE.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28

80. Adjournment.
400. CD Woman's Meeting-Address-
ed by Mrs. Stevens.
(2) Devotional EXercises-Rcv.
Graham Lambeth
Evening Observation-Disclosures by Rev.
and Mrs. Howard NJ. Noges.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28

In addition to her many other &C
compishments, Mrs. Jefferson is a fine
Greek scholar.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28

This furnishings furnishings
every thing stock This immense reduction
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
RAT-kILLiNG ROOSTER.
Gameccck that Makes Deadly War
Upon Rodents.

Gameccck that Makes Deadly War
Upon Rodents.
William Gray, Il farmer living near
here, has a game cock that makes war
upon rats. Rats had for a long time
been destroying eggs and even killing
fowls In Gray's hennery. The other
day the farmer bought a game cock for
stock purposes. On the second day
after his purchases Mr.. Gray saw the
rooster with a rat In its bill. 1t had
nabbed the rat by the back of the neck
in sue a way that it vas powerless for
either offense or defense.
After reaching the yard the rooster
swung the rat forcibly against the
frozen ground until it was stunned, and
then tossed it into the abr. AS it came
down the rooster gave it a vicious dig
with its spurs that started the blood.
Before the rat could recover itself 1t
was tossed into the air again and again
the spurs did bloody work. Soon the
rat was dead.
The rooster has since killed at least a
dozen rats. Mr.. Gray's son, who has
kept watch to see how 1t Is done, says
that the rooster watches by a hole and
nabs the rats by the neck as they come
out. 1t seems to delight in killing
them, and after it has disposed Of one
struts about and crows Justify as If to
call attention to itself as the only rat
killing rooster in Southern New York.
Middletown On. " special New York
World
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
A Living Curiosity.

No-wa-she Jack Pots, an old Indian,
who resides with his four. squaws on
Snake Greek, in the Greek Nation, Is
n of the greatest living curiosities in
this country. He is said to be 109
years old, but, judging from the differ
ent events which he claims happened
within a lifetime, he must be even old
er. The most remarkable feature about
No-wa-she is that he has already lost
two sets of teeth and now has grown a
third set complete. His hair is Jet black,
with no signs of turning gray; his step
Is firm and bearing erect; he has buried
twenty-five wives and is now living
with four. He was originally a Della
ware, but was captured by the Apaches
when young and held for a number Of
years; he was adopted by the Musco-
gees when a middle-age6 man and has
been regarded as the oldest man In the
tribe for the past thirty years. Nova
she Is treated with the greatest rever-
ence by the members of the tribe, who
regard him as a superior being, and the
crafty old fellow doesn't hesitate to
take advantage of their superstitions
by accepting all their favors they feel
disposed to bestow upon him.-Cushing
Coli Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15

Every kind of glass at a sufficiently
high temperature must eventually
show complete solubility in water. I'm
der the pressure glass dissolves In wa
ter heated to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sea water more than 600 feet beneath
the surface will remain liquid at that
temperature, and If it penetrates the
earth's crust where the temperature is
equally high it will, apart from the
pressure, liquefy the silicates or CLASSY
rocks. Prof. Barus concludes that at a
depth of aboutfi five miles s~ilicates In O N.
tact with water are virtually fluid, and
that the level of aqueous fusion in the
earth is five times nearer the surface
than is that of igneous fusion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
Swiftest Vessel Afoat.

The highest speed ever attained by a
steamer has just been recorded by the
Viper, a torpedo boat destroyer of 3SC
tons, built to the order of the British
Admiralty. This swift torpedo boat de.
stroyer is the invention of Charles A,
Parsons. who had already presaged his
great triumph by the then unique per.
formance Of the Turbinia some years
ago. The trial was made over the meas.
ured mile off the mouth of the TYNE.
In her first Il the Viper covered the
measured mile at the rate of 3 .5S5
knots; in the next run her speed was
only 35.503 knots. Her highest rat
was BIB knots, or 43 miles an hour.
a speed at which only express trains
travel.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15

Bismarck, and the monarch either
learned the speech by heart or read It
from a manuscript. Re knew that he
possessed no gift Of language and had
no confidence in his ability to improvise
in public. William IL, soon after he
came to the throne, gave orders that a
stenographer should always be present
during his speeches, whether at home
or on travel. This duty is fulfilled in
Germany by one of the official stenogra-
pliers of the reichstag, who took down
the speeches of the Emperor and Prince
Henry at Kiel. The Emperor himself
supervised the shorthand writer's tran
script before it was transmitted to
VOLTS telegram ~bureau-the German
Reuter-. The speeches Of the Emperor,
sent owe the official wire, are therefore
ipsissima verba. A different shorthand
writer accompanies the Emperor
abroad, where the speeches are, for the
most part, delivered in a foreign Ian
guage, and could not, therefore, be
noted down by a German stenogra-
pher.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15

ed to remain there and to play the title
role.
How can | eve thank you enough?'
she said to DR.. Harrowden, when, after
many days of suffering from the Counts
stlletto wound, he came, at her re.
quest, to see her. ut was a miracle
that you should have saved me as you
ana. A moment longer, and it would
nave been too late. How did you guess
that his acting was reality?"
The thanks are due really 10 your.
SELF" he said gently. "Your kindness
In singing to that poor little child was
the cause of your preservation. | went
to see her that evening and found her
Just awakened from a strange dream
OF you, which had left the impression
on her mind that you were In danger.
The beautiful lady with the angel
voice. she called you. She would not
be comforted until ! promised to go up
to the castle and assure myself that no
harm threatened you. Her persistence
gave me a touch of anxiety, and II
came to me with a sort of tuition, as
watched the Count, that he was mad.
| felt sure he meant mischief. 1t seems
as If the child had second sight;
but these condolences do occur some.
times.'
And STILL" said Eva, at Is to you l
w my life. You risked yours for
mine. Oh! tell me how to thank you"
Il dare ask nothing" he said, 'since
| dare not ask too much"
And they were both silent.
But in their silence a hope and a
promise lay. And there are some who
say that the most beautiful singer of
the day will exercise the prerogative
that her pre-eminence gives to her, and
Will make a romantic MANUFACTURING
Pictorial Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
PORTO Rloo's FAIR MAIpENs.
Love-Makins La Somewhat Difficult,
norru ~ Co. L..

Love-MakinR Is Somewhat Difficult
Down at San Juan.
Augusta Ortiz, Of San Juan, Porto
Hico. said to a Baltimore Sun re-
porter: San Juan is a pretty own
with lots of colors and a gay people.
ihey dress nearly like you. here, except
concerning the trousers. The men wear
a coat and vest, collar and shirt. like
Americans; but the trousers are half
spanish and half French, very wide to
the knee and very tight below.
The girls have a hard time. not near
~ as nice as the Baltimore girls, and
the young men have lots of trouble in
making loye. The girls wear gowns
like those here, but arrange their hair
with a swoop that takes it back off the
forehead to a knot In the back, and
sometimes it hangs all the way down
without a knot. 1t is very pretty, but
still they have a hard time. Why, a
young girl there cannot go out alone
IKE one can here, but she must take
some older friend or some relative as
a cnaperon. At home, when a young
man calls to see his girl, if he is much
In love It makes him very mad to find
either a father or a mother or older sis
ter sitting in the same room, and they
VIII sit there until he goes. Really. the
only chance a fellow has to talk to the
girls without some one hearing all he
says is at the dances, which are given
every week at the different clubs, and
even then he has to talk to her quickly
while he Is dancing, for when they stop
she has to go back to her mother, or sis
ter, or aunt, or somebody. The young
men, however, make the best of the
dances. When you want to marry a
girl you have to ask her parents first
Of all, because you get no chance to ask
the GIRL. This is a very bad custom.
Both men and m in San Juan and
all over the island wear clothes of
much more color than Americans, and
you rarely see a dark suit of clothes on
a man. The girls are gay, with all the
colors of the rainbow, and with more
or a chance to see them without chape-
'ons life there would be very pleasant"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
All in Due Time

1t was Mark Twain, II / remember
rightly, who pointed out the ingrati-
tude and inconsistency of the human
race In ~neglecting during all these
years to put up a memorial to Adam,
to whom under ProvidenceJ the whole
a c practically owe its existence,
while erecting monuments to so many
worthless of later date, whose services
to posterity are comparatively inslg-
nificant. We are getting on in that
direction, however. King Alfred is to
have a commemoration, and q take ii
for granted a statue. Hengist and
Horsa will no doubt have their turn
next. There is hope for Adam vet.
Everything comes to him who waits
Truth.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
HOity.TOity.

Selden in his Table Talk" writes.
"In Queen Elizabeth's time gravity
and state were kept up. In King James
time things were pretty well. But in
King Charles time there has been moth
ing but ~Frenchmore and the cushion
dance, omnium gatherum, t~olly-polly,
hoite-cometoite."
This phrase in modern French is haut
CONNIE toit.
The late DR.. Brewer, In his "Diction-
airy Of Phrase and Fable" says:
"The most probable derivation
know Is this: What we call 'hoity-toity,'
hoity being connected with holt Ito Leap
up), our high hight and toity being
't'other holt |. e., first one side hoits,
then the other side."-Notes and Quer-
feS.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
THE w OF Low

As far as are the heavens from the earth
Is your own world from mine;
The world which you ndorn by right Of
birth,
By right Of beauty, womanhood and
worth,
In which you talents shine;
Wherein you nobly won what you've &C
Quired,
And now. as ne'er before,
Are loved by young and old, sought for,
admired.
Welcomed at every door.
And yet you tell me hat you did not
The love that fills my heart
The love for you | ever strive to show
From my W puny world 50 far below
From yours so far apart;
That were it not for this you could moi
be
To others what you are;
That you are so from what you are to
me.
From my true love and care.
Such is the power of love, that like the
ray
Of summers golden sun
lllumines our two worlds through all the
days.
And though our ives may follow parted
ways.
Still keeps our hearts as one.
one heart in duty, sacrifice and love,
One heart In truth and right,
iii in the happiness that lies above
Our two worlds shall unite.
Boston Transcript.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15

known that it carried about with 1t an
%appendage of nearly 500 pounds in
tusks!
Elephants of this size are becoming
raler every day. The merciless war Of
determination carried on for years
against the elephant by ivory hunters
has been only too successful. Where
once immense herds were to be seen, a
man now may travel for hundreds of
miles in the vain search for those forest
monsters. They tend to retire further
and further from the coast in quest of
solitudes as yet uninvaded by man.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
A1nDls+sT%~
&Natma1La-
"WH1hY1~

A French surgeon at Smyrna, wish
Ing to procure a stork, and finding great
difficulty In doing so, on o of the
extreme veneration in which these
birds are held by the Turks, stole all the
eggs out Of a nest and replaced them
with those of a hen. In course of time
the young chickens made their appear
ance, much to the establishment of the
Old stork couple. Soon after the male
stork went away and was not seen for
two or three days, when he returned
with an immense crowd of his compan-
Ions, who all assembled in the place and
formed a circle, taking no notice of the
numerous spectators which so unsusual
an occurrence had collected. Mrs. Stork
was then enticed forward into the
midst of the circle. and after some CON
sultation the whole flock fell upon her
II tore her to pieces; after which they
Immediately dispersed and the nest was
abandoned.
A pair of martens, having built in a
corner of a window, one of which, from
a remarkable white feather In one of It's
"AH5Ss was hhoNh De TIC same llfu
which had built there the year before,
had no sooner finished their nest than
a strange swallow conceived the plan of
taking possession of the property and
once or twice ac> Aally succeeded In
driving the owners out. For a week
there was constant battling. AT length
the two rightful owners were observed
to be very busily engaged In lessening
the entrance into the nest, which, in n
short time, was 81 reduced that it was
With difficulty that they could force
themselves into it singly. When they
had accomplished their object, one or
other of them always remained within,
with its bill sticking out, ready to re-
ceivo n sadden attack. The enemy
perss'eraf f1 . week, but at leng..
finding ~ Projects hopeless, left the
pair to enjoy the fruits of their fore
thought.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
Ceylon's Sacred oxen.

One of the curiosities among the do
mesticated animals of Ceylon is a breed
of cattle known to the zoologist as the
sacred running oxen" They are the
dwarfs of the whole OK family, the
largest species never exceeding thirty
inches in height. In Ceylon they are
used for quick journeys across country
with light loads, and 1t is said that four
of them can pull the driver Of a two
wheeled cart and a two-hundred-pound
load sixty or seventy miles a day. They
keep up a constant swinging trot or
run. and have been known, it Is claim
ed. to travel one hundred miles in a
lay and night without food or water
Tit-Bits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
GIANT ELEPHANTS TuSK.

Brought Out of Interior of G erman East
Africa, and Weighs PAL Pounds.
A gigantic elephants tusk has been
brought from the interior of German
cast Africa. A native was the FORUM
ate hunter who bagged the trophy, and
t Is said that the fellow tusk was only
q trihe smaller. The big tusk weighs
241 pounds.
The two tusks were brought by way
Of Bagamoyo to Zanzibar, where an
American acquired them at a fancy
price. Some idea can be formed of the
gigantic size of the elephant when it is
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
AMERICAN SOIL IN coREA.
Why h Legation Buildings In seoui
Belong to Uncle Sam.

Why the Legation Buildings In Soon,
Belong to Uncle Sam.
Just outside the new palace of the
Corean king, adjoining the royal In
closure and right In the center of the
foreign settlement of Seoul, stands the
American legation, comprising a num-
Der of picturesque one-story structures,
surrounded by three acres of garden.
This property is one Of three owned by
the United States occupied as legations
In foreign countries, the others being in
Japan and Siam. The latter was a gift
of the king, while hat In Toxic was
purchased a year ago. The acquisition
OF the Corean property came about
through the peculiarities of the land
system of the Hermit Kingdom, which
confronted Gen. Foote, the first Amert
can minister, fourteen years ago. He
found that the law did not allow any.
II to possess more houses than one
could occupy, that landlords were who'd
ly unknown, and, therefore, no houses
were for rent.
There was nothing left for him to do
but to purchase a residence for himself,
and there being little demand far real
estate he got the old-fashioned native
dwelling or group Of houses, to 1ether
with three acres of land, for little more
than he expected to pay annually for
rent. His purchase was, however, un-
inhabitable for any but Coreans, and
he was compelled to spend a good deal
OF money in improvements, an example
which has been followed by his success
sors, until the walls of several of the
houses, which were once plast n, are
now brick; the paper windows are
hnally glazed, and the United States
compound enjoys the distinction of be-
Ing the most artistic, substantial and
comfortable of all the foreign legations
in Seoul, with gardens thai are one Of
the sights of the town.
The minister's residence covers a
large area, being all on one floor, and is
built around a central court. In su. v
mel it Is a desirable home, but in viii
ter many stoves and tons of coal are
required to make 1t comfortab BILE. The
ONCE building is hundreds of years Oi0.
but 1t has been practically made over,
preserving the characteristic architec-
ture. Its interior and that of the resi-
II are considered unsurpassed,
from an artistic point of view, In all
Corea.-New York Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-15
England's Oldest Actress.

England's oldest living actress is
Mary Anne Kelley, who is now in her
ninety-third year. When she was 80.
Queen Victoria invited her to visit
Buckingham palace, and on being asked
afterward If she felt at the
first encounter, she replied: "Nery-
GUS? Certainly not. Her majesty re-
ceived me like the great lady she is, and
put me at my ease at once."-Kansas
City Journal.