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pioneers of the saddle method Of rid
ing. however, will doubtless soon live this
down, more especially f the bold Ones take
the trouble to convince people that they are
really good horsewomen, and also the pre-
caution to dress in simple, weil-ttting,
black habits.
You would not dream Of riding bicycle
"side-saddle," because that position does
not give you half the control over the ma
chine that you otherwise have: and the
gument applies In modified degree to
horsemanship. Indeed. the only powerful
argument in favor Of the accepted method
and We allow that even today it is a
strong one, and counts for much-is con-
ventiOnalism. On the other hand, rid ng
cross-saddle means freedom. safety. and
comfort for both rider and horse. On a
sidesaddle a woman Is wholly dependent
on the saddle grth, besides being out OF
balance and unable to sit the animal firmly;
while If the animal jumps or stumbles she
runs much greater risks than man OF
being pitched over the animals head.
Wearing a divided skirt-and when wo-
man is unmounted this habit in no way diff
fers from an ordinary bicycle suit-she Is
assured of freedom of motion. She can
mount and dismount with ease. There 1s
no wrinkled-up skirt upon which she must
sit. She is properly poised, and both rider
and horse are more comfortable in conse-
quence.
The habit. as we have already said. should
be Of good material neat and wel-fittng.
1t should be made much after the pattern
Of the divided skirt worn by wheewomer.
The waist should follow the fashion in rid
ing habits.
The skirt should just escape the ground
when the wearer is standing. and be gath
cred to the band at the waist. SO that there
is slight fulness.
When mounted, the skirts should reach to
the feet Of the wearer, and If made OF
heavy material they will not fly, even in a
strong wind, provided q woman sits her
horse properly. Finally. the usual mans
saddle. with small stirrups, should be used.
Evening star., 1900-12-15
RIDING CROSS SADDLE.
Many HOrnewOmen in England Now
Use the Divided Skirt.


From the London Express.
For centuries past 1T has been the Gus
tom among women in most European coun-
tries to ride side saddle, and when, as has
from time to time been the case, some more
courageous member of the fair sex has
dared to ride as men do, she has had to
run the gauntlet Of being looked at askance
by the more conventional Of her sex.
During the past few years, however, sew
eral skilled horsewomen have boldly re-
nounced convention in favor Of the safer
method of riding, and during the autumn
hunts many English ladies rode to hounds
cross saddle
1t may be that the cycle has, in some de-
gree brought this about, for 1t accustomed
ladies to wearing the divided skirt
The difference between the new and the
old method of riding is scarcely noticeable
provided the costume be Well-cut. for at
first sight 1t appears though the fair
equeStr.enne We're riding sidesaddle on
both sides. Thus that 1t is quite
possible for a woman to ride In the safest
and most sensible manner, while cutting a
graceful figure. 1t goes without saying,
moreover, that it Is far better. for the horse
has q prOperly-balanced burden, while the
rider has far more control of the animal
CuriouSiy enough, the objection to this
sort of riding does not come from the men
but from the women. who signaliZe their
dissent N the usual way by staring, smil-
ing and audbly commenting.
little persistence on the part Of the
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beginning. Course and End OF Time. BY Joseph
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LOVE OF COMRADES; Il Romance. By Frank
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THE GREAT BOER WAR. By A. Conan Doyle.
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on it, and the driver was mounted on q
high spring seat. proud of his turnout as
ever was a city coachman behind pair of
high steppers. The old man had a small
Texas pony, with its launches branded AMI
small mule, evidently a relic Of the days
when mules pulled the street cars His
harness was made of gunny sacks, clothes
lines and trace chains and when he came
into the store he asked to see some harness
The storekeeper showed him some at 81 80
a set. but the old colored man said it did
not suit him. In succession the storekeeper
got out his 50 harness, that at $3.50, So
$3.50 SO and $3.50. but 1t did not appear
fine enough for the old colored man. Finally
the merchant got out some harness all gilt
with brass balls, at s21.5O per set When
the old colored man saw this harness his
eyes lighted, and he was in such a hurry to
buy two sets Of 1t that he could scarcely
wait for the merchant to take off the price
marks. He paid his money and dragged his
new and gaudy harness out to the porch in
front Of the store, where his team was
hitched He lost time in divesting the
pony and the mule of the dila apida ed bar
ness they wore and in getting the new har-
ness on them
Boss he declared, Use been promisin'
10 cents l was gwine to dress 'em up, an
has done II now,' and the old man drove off
with his dressed-up ponies, and apparently
they were as proud Of the dressing aS was
the owner. All through the country dis
tricts OF the south 1O-cent cotton mas made
possible similar stories of prosperity"
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THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS. Ey Miss Jal
Illustrated hy 4. Fl. Robinson. New
p. Duttun and Co.

This classic story deserves many r.
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with which it is occasionally put for h, in
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that the type is very fine. and it is TO be
feared that young eyes are ap: TO be
strained by The continuous p"rus1l which
the charm of the nara tive commands
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Hero of the Forecastle. BY Cyrus
Townsend Brady, author Of "Paul
JOnes,' "The Grip Of Honor" etc. A
new volume In the Young Heroes of
Our Navy Series. Illuatrated by
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Ntcaraguan Customs.


Among the many odd customs of Mica
ragua, those relating to the dead are the
weirdest to the stranger. Some of these
have been handed down by tradition from
the Indians, others were brought over by
the conquerors-and the two are so blended
that 1T is difficult to tell which predomi
mates. AS soon the medico pronounces
ones illness fatal, word is sent to the viii
lage padre, who prepares to administer the
last SacramentS of the church to the dying
person. Placing the consecrated wafer in
the custodia-a vessel of solid gold or si.-
ver often resplendent with rare jewels-a
procession Is formed and marches through
the street. A small boy, ringing bell.
rushes ahead to announce the approach of
the sacred presence. and after him follows
a hand of music, often single violin, play
ing a drge. If 1t be possible to secure any
soldiers, they surround the padre. who,
dressed in brilliant vestments. is generally
carried In a chair. over which four men
hold purple canopy. AS the little cor
tege moves down the silent streets every
one bares his head and kneels, making the
sign of the cross until the last soldier has
passed. Woe to the sacrilegtous stranger
who fails to show this mark of respect and
many have been the instances where for
elgners were pulled from their horses and
even stoned for neglecting to follow this
time -honored custom.
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TEN CENT COTTON DID Yr.
Enabled an Old Dnrkey to Keep Hi
Promise to His Ponies.

F.nNb1ed III OIU DNFk6y 10 NCep H1S
Promise to His Ponies.
From the St Louis Globe Democrat.
r. T. Gibbs. for many years travelling
salesman, Is in the city, just having finished
trip through the central south for his
house. He says everywhere in the south
the people are prosperous. and that 10-cen.
cotton has stimulated every line Of bust
ness. and that everybody Is telling stories
Of prosperity.
1.-The best prosperity story heard on my
trip said Mr.. Gibbs yesterday, was the
story Of the old darkey 1 heard at little
interior town in Louisiana. 1 had just fir
ised selling bill of goods when the old COZ
ored man drove up to the door Of the store.
He was riding in brand-new wagon,
newly painted and with all it's decorations
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Che Conservative.
bettered in all it's material conditions.

bettered in all it's material conditions.
We do not say that it is always agree
able to man to know his limitations.
The cessation of life is by virtue of law
that none can repeal, but that knowl
edge of law has not made pleasant the
certainty of death. The knowledge of
social law, while bringing within the
vision, apparent to the senses, less
terrifying prospect, may also be disagree
able to those who feebly despise limita
tions. But their fight against the law
is as vain as would be denial of the
day by one who closes his eyes at the
meridian and says, "It is night"
In all the wide fellowship of learning
every citizen of the Republic of Letters
will erieve to know that university
which has promised as much as Stanford,
and has so far redeemed it's promise so
grandly, has suddenly been averted
from its purpose, and appears ready to
close its eyes to the daylight of science
and say, ut is night"
The Conservative, 1900-11-29
WAR AND THE MOB SPIRIT.

No one who has introduced change
in the constitution of a state, Machia-
velli tells us, need expect to stop it at
his will or regulate it according to his
pleasure. Those philanthropists who
have lately been recommending war as
means of grace are now in way to
be convinced of the truth of this aphor-
ism. Their code of morality recognizes
war as proper means of promoting hu-
manity and propagating virtue. The ulti-
mate end being the progress and happi-
ness Of the human race, the slaughter
of number of individuals, the outrage
of their most sacred feelings. the de-
struction of their most cherished posses
sions, although intrinsically deplorable
measures, become sanctified by their
high purpose. In the same way the
prosperity of our own country is an end
sufficient to justify any war in which
she engages, and the passions of hatred
and envy and revenge and greed and
cruelty and lust, which arouse and
which are aroused by war, lose the re-
prehensible character which is attributed
to them in time of peace.
Many recent occurrences should con-
vince the world of what it might have
been long ago convinced, that it is i'm
possible to maintain different standards
of righteousness for nations and for in
dividuals. If our moralists are deter
mined to justify bloodshed by national
forces, and revenge for insults to national
authorities apd emblems, they cannot
make the populace comprehend that re-
venge is an evil passion and that blood
shed is sinful. 1t takes an accomplished
casuist to feel righteously revengeful
when he thinks of the blowing up of the
Maine, or the killing of an American by
Chinese mob, while he maintains an
attitude of Christian patience concern
ing his own private wrongs. Such re-
tinements are quite beyond the grasp of
common people. When they are taught
that it is right to kill a number of Span.
ish peasants, forced to bear arms by con.
The Conservative, 1900-11-29


extend it. They say that it applies to
private as well as public morals, and in
this country the negro race is now bear
ing the brunt of the application. White
men in the southern states heard with
joy the declaration of northern clergy
men that dark people were inferior
beings, and incapable of self government,
and these declarations are everywhere
bearing fruit.
Colorado 6sarbarity.
The burning of negro boy at the
stake in Colorado, not by mob but by
an orderly assemblage Of citizens the
horrible barbarities inflicted on the
Chinese by the troops of the "civilized"
powers; the excesses of the London
populace on the return of the soldiers
from South Africa; these are illustra-
tions of the natural effect of stirring up
the spirit of war. 1t is absurd to sup
pose that soldiers in battle maintain the
calm attitude of the sheriff who hangs
convict or of the judge who sentences
him to execution. We have before us
an Iowa paper (the Decorah Public
Opinion, of November 14), containing
letter written by young soldier in the
Philippines to his mother. He describes
an action in which he took part, and
says that he and his companions killed
100 negroes. "We never left one alive
If one was wounded we would run our
bayonets through him. There was
nothing but dead negroes all around us"
After the battle this brave fellow and
his comrades burnt the neighboring
town, looted the presidents house.
dropped a few tears over the grave of
one of their company, and received high
praise from their commander for their
behavior. There is nothing in this story
but the ordinary incident of warfare
nothing in the moral attitude of the
writer of it that is not necessitated by
war; nothing, we must add, in the effect
on the heart and conscience of the
mother who read it, which is not the
natural result of war.
No doubt those benevolent people who
encouraged their rulers to involve the
country in war in the interests of hu.
manity, are now condemning the tor
ture of the negro malefactor in Colorado.
The men who inflicted this torture will
not be affected by such 1eproofs. They
will retort, if they think it worth their
while, that their proceedings were as de.
liberate as those of the American Con.
gress when it declared war against
Spain. They will say to the argument
that the law should have taken it's course
and justice be done without violence,
that congress would not wait for arbi-
tration with Spain, and was commended
for its rain gal tO dalav NV manv of tho
The Conservative, 1900-11-29
to be in the same condition as chemistry
at the period of LayOisier

y
at the period of Lavoisier.
Professor Ross is among the foremost
of the world investigators in sociology,
and possesses in high degree the scien-
tific spirit which is as ready to discard
the useless as to search for the useful
among the great and Interchangeable facts
which it is the obligation of the scien.
tific man to discover and declare. To
outlaw such man from university as
punishment for his occasional state
ment of conclusions reached within his
field of investigation is to inflict the
greatest possible harm upon the institu-
tion itself.
Human knowledge was long restrained
by this policy. No wise man blames the
Egyptian Monk, Cosmas Indicopleustes.
because fourteen hundred years ago his
theory of the universe was incorrect.
His elaborate system, which declared
the world to be parallelogram, fiat,
surrounded by four seas, and on their
outer edge wall inclosing the whole
structure, with the armament cemented
to it's top, was the best that man knew
then of cosmography. But wise men do
blame the latter Christian world for it's
inhospitality to the wider and truer
knowledge of Bruno and Galileo, and
the Mahometan world for it's persecution
of Averroes for the same offense of orr
ginal investigation.
When it is known that science in a
university is under bonds to prejudice
or dogmatism, the usefulness of that
university is at an end and it's further
existence is without reason.
Every issue that arises in the indus.
trial and economic life of people is
properly the subject of scientific analy.
sis. 1t is known beyond dispute that
this is not a chance world, neither in it's
physical structure and considered as a
mass Of matter, nor in tine movements
of that humanity which is the highest
expression of creative force. When the
Illuminating orb of science rose, never
to set, dogmatism vanished like the
night. Any such attempt as this to re
call the shadows and bring night to re-
place the endless day of scientific
knowledge is of necessity abortive. No
authority can bring back the immovable
world, nor back of that the flat world,
with it's braZen armament. Nor can
dogmatism and reaction recall the con-
ception of human society as a lawless
body, moving erratically and subject to
varying moods and fallible will that
can, regardless of the fixed scheme of
nature, dictate premise and conclusion
The place of the sociologist in the
worlds system of culture requires that
he investigate the laws inherent in the
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-14
Married By Wire.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 13-A mar
iage service by telegraph, with the
,ride and groom 200 miles apart, was
:arried out between Kansas City and
Nulhall, Okla, yesterday. The groom
vas Andrew M. Candell, of Washing
on, ID. c., an mologist attached to
he department Of agriculture of the
United States government and the
ride was Miss Penelope Cundiff
laughter of prosperous farmer Of
PERKINS, Okla.
Mr.. Candell and Miss Cundiff be-
anne engaged about six months ago
md the wedding was set for May. Last
week, however Mr.. Candell was called
o Harrisville, Mo-, by the death of his
mother. His duties made it necessary
o start back to Washington today.
He asked Miss Cundiff to come to Kan
'as City, so that the wedding could
AXE place at the home of his sister
Miss Cundlff was unable to reach
Kansas City in time and arrangements
we're made with telegraph company
o have the marriage ceremony con-
lucted by wire, A direct line between
Kansas City and Muhall was placed
1t the disposal of the couple. Mr..
Candell secured Rev. Albert H. Linder,
pastor of the NJ. E. church, and accom-
panied by two friends, went to the tel
graph office. At Mulhall, Miss Cum
liff was accompanied to the telegraph
)ftice by her parents and sisters. The
questions and responses were wired
Jack and forth and repeated at each
snd to the couple by the telegraph op-
orators. the ceremony requiring
twenty-five minutes time.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-14
The Politician.

Washington, April 13.-President
Mckinley signed the Porto Rico bill
which twithstandlng the Democratic
bluster and brag the House passed by
a vote OF 161 TO 1853, with great deal
OF pleasure. not only because he be-
lleves that it makes the best possible
provision under existing circumstances
for Porto Rico, but because he enjoyed
the chagrin of the Democrats who,
while pretending to believe that the
measure was fraught with such dread
full consequences for the Republicans,
resorted to such extraordinary efforts
to prevent its becoming a law. Repre-
sentatives Grosvenor, of Ohio,an Dali
zell OF Pennsylvania, severely arraign-
ed the Democrats fer their hypocrisy
in pretending to fear that the Repub-
lioans were about TO do themselves
great injury. in speeches made just be-
fore the House passed the Porto Rico
bill, in passing that legislation. OF
course, everybody knows that If the
Democrats had really believed that the
bill would injure the Republican
party they would have been only too
glad to have seen ii passed.
Senator Burrows told President Me
Kinley that the criticism of the Porto
Rico bill would lose the Republican
party no votes in Michigan, where the
party Is in good condition to win an
old fashioned victory. The same sort
of assurances have been given to the
President by prominent Republicans
rom other States in which the Dem
,cratic and assistant Democrats press
lave represented that there was the
,reatcst amount Of Republican critl-
lsm OF the measure. Its working as