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TATE.

Mrs. Margaret Ann Tate, widow Of
the late John Tate, died at the home
OF her brother-in-law. Robert Stewart,
on last Friday, At the age Of 62 years.
She was a daughter Of the late A. r..
Bane, OF Darkesvllle. The funeral too k
place from the Stewart home on Sun :
day morning, the services being held
In the Methodist church at Darkc s.
vile and the interment was in the
graveyard At that place.
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All White.

POkER T. WASHINGTON, the talent
II ed head of the Tuskegee Institute,
told after a visit to the Metropolitan
Museum in New York, Metropolitan
Museum story
A Kentucky lady he said, visited
the museum with her maid, an old-fash-
Toned NANNY
Malinda had never seen an art gallery
before, and the nudes startled her in d
way that would have endeared her to the
heart of Mr.. Comstock. But when she
entered the hall of sculpture, then she
was more than startled.
Land" she said. Land sakes"
And with dubious shakes of the head
she passed before the white beauty of the
Venus de Medici, the Apollo Belvidere,
the Venus de Milo, and the other gracious
shapes of snowy, marble
Land sakes.'
Don't you like it, Malinda?' said her
mistress.
sm, said Malinda All likes it
Well enough. but Abs powerful glad dar
amt none o my color here -,
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brilliant. witty. she never was more
happy than when she had to provide for
and entertain hundreds of persons She
had a marvellous skill in handling people
A social diplomat speaking French and
German as fluently as she could English
she directed nearly all the functions that
marked the close of the war. There were
many Germans in the British army and
few of the French spoke English. so Mrs
KnoX's knowledge of languages served
her well at this time. Washington had
great respect for her intellect and iudg-
ment and deferred to her in everything
wherein question of etiquette form or
precedence was concerned. Society was
in a queer tumble. There was far more
distinction of rank then than now. The
old aristocracy was still strong, even If
democracy was triumphant. The Consti-
tuition might declare that all men were
born free and equal. but it was difficult
to bring them together on social equality
1t required infinite tact in the years 1871
and 1882 for Lucy Knox to marshal her
forces SO there would be no Earring But
she did it cleverly and well.
Following the formal declaration of
peace and the evacuation of New York
there was a multitude of state functions
to celebrate those events, and then she
and Gen. Knox went to Boston to live.
Mrs. Knox found Boston far different
from the Boston of her youth. She had
not been there since the days of Lexing-
and gone, too, were practically all the
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play of fireworks. Maybe Pain can do
better today, but never were such fire.
works seen before as were displayed at
Plucken1in that February night 131 years
ago. They were prepared by Col. Ste
vens. the engineering genius of the time
and founder of the famous Stevens family
of New Jersey. To show them properly
he had built a temple 100 feet long and
proportionately high. In the temple were
thirteen arches and within each arch
was An Illuminated painting.
The first represented the battle Of Lex
ington. The second British clemency, as
displayed by the burning of Charlestown.
Norfolk and other places. The third
broken arch, syInbolzing the rupture of
England and America. The fourth the
decay of the British empire. Fifth, the
rise of the new empire. with habors
teeming with commerce, cities rising amid
woods and the sun in its spendor shin
ing on the scene. Sixth. Louis XVI, en-
courager of justice-friend of America.
Seventh, the fathers in Congress. Eighth,
Benjamin Franklin. philosopher and dip
lomat. drawing lightning from the clouds.
Ninth. the battle of Saratoga. Tenth,
the convocation al Saratoga. Eleventh,
the sea fight off Ushant. Twelfth, Mont
gomery, Mercer and other fallen heroes
entering Elysium and being greeted by
Brutus, Cato and others, who had fought
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long ago an American breeder bought
Chineham Young Jack who is said to be
the greatest bulldog in the world, for
$3.50. In this case no doubt the dog
was good commercial investment for he
will be used for stud purposes, and his
sons and daughters will come back to
England at almost equally fabulous
prices. But there is only one Chineham
Young Jack. and really bulldogs are
cheap as dogs go these days. PekingeSe
spaniels-those funny little beasts that
resemble miniature edition of the more
familiar King Charles-are now all the
rage, and fashionable women think moth
ing of spending couple of thousand
dollars for specimen, while one with an
unexceptional pedigree will fetch $1,000
as easy as winking. In one case $500
was paid for prize Pekingese.
But the expense does not stop when
the dog is bought. The petted favorite
is installed in a special nursery with
maids and footmen to wait on him. and
if he is ill a skilled veterinary calls
and feels his pulse and takes his tenn
perature. just as in the case of an all
ing child. The latest development of
the dog craze is the establishment of ID
school where girls are trained to nurse
sick dogs just as thoroughly as they
are trained in hospitals to look after
sick people.
Canine nursing is held out by the
promoters of the school as a new voca-
ton for the superfluous young women
who have no babies to look after and
who don't take kindly to the infants
of their own species. SO precious are
the lives Of the fashionable pet dogs
of today that their owners are willing
to pay we'll for the services of trained
women experienced in all the ailments
jS
that has made possible the Canine
Nurses Institute, which is situated in
the London suburb of Brixton, and was
founded last year by Mrs. f. Lenty
Collins. who still presides over it, More
than forty nurses have already entered
their names. two of whom are daugh-
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preparation which is taken readily by
puppies from the day they are born.
People do not realize that dogs have
ailments just like human beings. Often
when dogs are supposed to have gone
mad the poor creatures are only suffer
ing from neuralgia and toothache. Other
ailments than diStemper to which dogs
are liable are eczema, lumbago rheuma-
tism, jaundice, enlarged eyeball, ear
canker etc
The canine invalid which is fortunate
enough to be the idol of a wealthy wom-
an is better looked after by far than
the sick baby of her poorer sister. For
it's comfort a hygienic hot-water bed
has been invented, which is germ and
baclli proof. Its diet is scientifically
studied, its food properly prepared and
it's appetite tempted by delcacies
Besides nursing the pupils of the in
sttute are taught the art of brushing
coat, shampooing and manicurng. Dur
ing the first year of the institutes exist
ence the capability and eficiencies of the
canine nurses have been well tested. one
of the senior nurses has been taken into
permanent employment to have charge OF
the diStemper ward of one of the leading
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queens of America for many years
thereafter.
A rare blending of the patrician and
the democrat was Lucy Knox. Her
father was a royalist, and as secretary
of the colony of Massachusetts had been
Mortified when he found his daughter
was in love with a common bookseller
of Boston town. Bad as it was for her
to love lowly bookseller, it was worse
when the bookseller was discovered to
be an arrant rebel, a defiant 'blasphemer
against the divine authority of the king
and an advocate of force against royal
order.
Fortune played strange antics with
people in those days. The rich man
who was secretary of the colony cast
his daughter off when she married the
poor bookseller. yet Thomas Fucker,
secretary of Massachusetts, is known
best today as the father of Lucy Knox,
wife of Mai. Gen. Henry Knox, chief of
artillery of the Continental army. and
first war minister of the United States
The poor bookseller of Boston developed
into one of the most influential men of
the new nation.
There are few pictures to be had now
of Lucy Knox. Stuart, who painted
most of the celebrities of the revolu-
tiOnary period. painted her portrait. and.
dissatisfied with the picture, destroyed
it. Only drawings remain to show her
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children. Any charity organizer will
tell how much easier it is to raise monev
TO feed and care for stray dogs or to
save them from cruel treatment than it
is to finance a society for the protection
of children.
But il may be said This is nothing
new" 1t is true that the dog has always
occupied a prominent place in England,
but in the old days the dog who figured
largely in English life was a different
kind of dog, and he had to Justify his eX-
lstence. The Englishman has always
loved the foxhound and the pointer, and
even the humble watchdog has been
highly thought of, but he was kept strict
ly in his place and earned his living. The
dog that is taking Such prominent place
today is the utterly useless pet of the
faded society woman or the equally use
less beast bred for some futile point by
the enthusiastic fancier.
The writer tried some weeks ago to get
an estimate of the amount of money in
vested in dogs in England, but found it
quite impossible. Editors of doggy
papers explained that no one could tell
the value of a dog until he was sold. A
dog may fetch 5000 today and year
later may not be worth as many cents.
Tickle fashion may swing from toy bull
upSE u pOl1eTdnldHS. ana III n Gay the
value of the toy bulldog disappears Ger
tain il is, however, that millions of dol
lars change hands every year in con-
nection with the various activities Incl
dent TO the worship of the dog.
One of the most important society
functions every winter in London is the
annual dog show. 1t is patronzed by
Queen Alexandra, who has done as much
any one else to fasten the cult of the
dog on society and that show alone
accounts for nearly a million dollars
in one way and another. If all the money
spent by unsuccessful breeders in trying
10 produce the super-dCg .oT show pur-
be much larger
Amazing prices are paid by fancierS
ard fashinabe women for dogs. Not
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compliment to Tarkinqton.

BOOTH HARRINGTON, the playwright
and novelist, is very fond of chill
oren' and has particularly fascinating
way with them 1t is d lucky child in
oeed whom Mr.. Harrington takes on his
Knee and regales with one of his dainty
fairy tales.
little Indianapolis girl, a Journalists
daughter, made Mr.. Tarkington's ac-
quaintance last year Her uncle, hereto
fore favorite, called at her house at
about this time. ard was treated rather
coolly by his pretty little niece
why, Madge," he said, don't you
like me any more?"
"Oh. yes said the little girl, 81 like
you; but, to tell you the truth. NJ. Booth
Harrington has spoilt me for other men,.
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A Wonder.

9 ENATOR DEPEW talked at a dinner
- in Washington about the delights of
sea voyaging.
But the seasick," said Senator DepeW
enjoy none of these delights. To the
seasick a sea voyage is almost unbe.r-
able.
An ambassador told me the other day
now seasick he was on the voyage that
brought him over here to assume his Of
hciaf duties. He described his illness
with such narrowing details that | sa d
to him, sympatheticaliy:
You poor fellow. It's a wonder to
me you didn't throw up your appoint
ment.' "
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tiers of ladies of title. and the organ
ization has obtained the good wishes of
Princess Christian.
Training of the most thorough char
acter is impaired daily by experienced
veterinary surgeons. At the end of the
training certificates of efficiency are
given, and the gold and silver medals
of the institute are competed for at eX-
aminations. Mrs. Collins. the principal,
is largely experienced in the breeding
of valuable pets. Her kennel at BriX
ton is chiefly occupied by Chow-chows
and Blenheims. At present it includes
Featherspot and Lady Dolly Barring
ton, spaniels formerly in the possession
of a famous fancier.
The percentage of deaths among pup
pies. Mrs. Collins asserts sadly, is enor-
nous, it being probably no exaggeration
to say that not more than one out of
every four born lives to become an adult
dog. The greater part of this mortality,
she adds. sternly, is avoidable.
WEAVING" she says, lis a most crit-
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One on PaIIaS.

MAYOR BCSSE of Chicago told at a
Iva lawyers dinner lawyers story
'Pallas Phelps" he said, was well
known character of the Chicago of the
forties. Pallas was nondescript sort of
lawyer. He got on somehow Occasion
ally he pleaded and won case. lSut he
never had all Office Pallas Phelps lack
of an office was one of the stanulng Jokes
of the Chicago bar.
There were no paved streets IN the
Chicago of those days, and one morning
after rainfall, when the roads were un-
usually filthy, Judge Butterfied AMI
Pallas Phelps met at a crossing.
- Good morning, Pallas,' said the judge,
as he tiptoed through the black mud.
You haven't swept your office this morn
ing"
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Fact Sometimes Forgotten.

EX-GOV. PENNYPACkER. In one or
IL his addresses on the divorce evil,
said at a dinner in Philadelphia:
The scolding wife, too, breaks up
many a home. Few things are harder
for man to bear than nagSing.'
Mr. Pennypacker stroked his beard and
smiled
Let the scolding wife remember" he
said. that while hot water cures many
complaints. no husband was ever one
whit the better for being kept in It coz
tinually.''
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WARD
Where for h

Finally the Battersea borough council
allowed them to erect it, in public square
IN that division of London. and then the
fun began. The Inscription which accom-
panied the statue was anything but COM
plmentary to the medical profession in
general, and the medical students at Lon
don University resented it. They swore
that they would pull down the brown dog
and they made half a dozen attempts in
force to do it, but the police We're warned
in time and the dog was saved. Then they
tried strategy. They offered a reward to
any one who would bring in the dog
whole or in pieces, and few months ago
one student was fined in police court
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marked the first anniversary of the
French alliance. and most of the troops
that Washington had under his immedi-
ate command took part in the festivities.
Pluckemfn is at the base of noun
tain, about six miles northwest of Somer-
. magnificent view of the country for
many miles around may be had. From
this rock many times in the campaigns
in Jersey Washington watched the move
ments of the enemy and of his own
troops.
Ii was 10 the Pluckemin country that
Washington led his little army after the
battle of Princeton. and it was there he
decided TO have the celebration over the
French alliance. No more beautiful spot
could have been selected With the hills
for background and the plain as a stage
nature furnished ample setting Early in
the day there was a parade of the army.
which was reviewed by Washington,
Greene. Knox, Steuben and all the princi-
pal officers of the Continental force. Then
in the afternoon there was great ban
quet. Thirteen guns were fired as the
signal for the opening of the feast. Scores
of beeves had been slaughtered to provide
abundantly for the feast, the neighbor-
hood as far to the west as EaSton, Pa,
and to the north as Morristown being
drawn upon for supplies.
Then, soon after dusk, there was dis
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on which are embroidered in scarlet the
letters c. y. l.
In conclusion there is case where a
dog, and a dead dog al that. has kept
for years. The dog vivisected. He
was referred to by the viviSector in
report read before a scientific society as
little brown dog That report was
made public and was seized on by the
observation-disclosures as first-rate propa-
ganda for their cause. They opened
public subscription for the erection of a
statue to him, and when the statue was
finished they applied TO various public
bodies for permission to set it up.
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A Senator's Criticism.

9 ENATOR PENROSE was talking on
- one of the Atlantic City piers about
the stormy "Elektra" of Richard Strauss.
Strauss is very original" said lis
tener, but. senator. do you think his
theory of music is sound?'
Yes, indeed-all sound" was the reply.
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for trying TO bride the policeman on
guard to look the other way. The dog had
to be guarded night and day, and finally
he became a nuisance. The .,attersea
borough council recently decided that he
must 60, not. they are careful to explain
because they think any less of dogs in
general and the brown dog in particular,
but because they really can't afford to
guard him any longer. The brown dog
cost the Notwithstanding about 5000.
1t has cost London about $4,000 to pro-
tect 1t.
Copyright in thc United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown All rights strictly reservedD
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MILLIONS of Dollars
Nl Spent Yearly in Eng
land in Connection With the
Cult of the Dog Little
Beasts Which Happen to Be
in Fashion Receive More
Care and Attention Than
Most Babies institute
Where Girls Are Seriously
Trained for the Profession of
Nursing Sick Puppies Es-
tablished in London-Has
Many Pupils-Statue to a
Dog Made Public Cues
ton.
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veterinary surgeons in London. a few
months ago another sailed for New York
to take charge of the valuable kennels
OF Mrs. Tyler Morse, and another sailed
a few weeks later with Miss Sturgess,
secretary of the New York Pomeranian
Club
The uniforms Of the young women are
blue with smart white caps and aprons
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cal period in a puppys life, owing to the
change of food and it is then that so
this is that the mother dogs milk is
highly concentrated food, rich in casein
and cream, and is, in fact, more than
three times as strong as cows milk,
water. even before the mkkman receives
it. The best food to give is a patent
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beauty. That she was one Of the hand
soonest women of her time is undisputed
She had grace, dignity and surpa ssing
charm. There were few better educated
women in America. That she had lot
of courage her life shows.
Soon after her marriage to Knox the
battle of Lexington was fought. Boston
practically was a prison, Gen. Gage re-
fusing to let the Inhabitants out for fear
they would join or lend aid to the pa
triot army. All the swords, guns and
pistols possessed by private parties were
ordered confiscated. 4 few weeks before
the battle Mrs. Knox quilted her huS-
bands sword into hSr cloak, and. max
ing her way out of the city, joined him.
From that time until the war was ended
her life was good deal in camp. From
Bunker Hill to Yorktown she was with
ner husband in nearly every campaign
of the main army. Apparently she fitted
as well in camp life as in the ballroom.
Through the bleak winter at Valley
Forge she sewed to make garments for
the half clad and half frozen men of the
army. She was not the only one. Many
of the American officers had just as pa
triotic wives. and they worked with her
When the army was without shoes they
wove rough foot coverings out of straw
and reeds for the men to wear. There
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u uis ., lJI'-
NE of the signifi-
cant signs of the
times in En- gland is
the extent to which
all classes of socie-
~ are becoming dog
wcrshipers. 1t is
no eXaSgeration to
say that To many
people in t h i S
country today the
dog is of much
more consequence
is certain that So
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was no work, no hardship, no peril from
which these women shrank. They served
as nurses to the wounded and the i'll. and
they shared no better in the matter of
food and little better in the matter of
clothing than the soldiers that hardest
winter in the struggle for liberty.
But Valley Forge and Monmouth and
all the stages of the contest up to York
town were no more trying to Lucy Knox
than were the duties that developed upon
her beginning with the surrender. Dur
ing the siege of Yorktown she and Mrs.
Washington were together at Mount
Vernon. Often in after years she used to
describe the agitation they felt at this
time, the alternate hope and fear which
possessed them at the sight of a mes
senger from the front. They knew that
upon Yorktown depended the fate of the
nation. If relief came to CORVALLIS the
struggle might be prolonged until the
coloniSts were exhausted. Already the
country was almost PROSTATE:
At last came the word that the British
had surrendered, and with it a summons
to the two women to join their husbands
and prepare for the festivities that the
ushered in.
This meant little 10 Martha Washing
ton. She did not dance and she had no
bent for matters social To Lucy Knox
it was different. She loved society. Bright,
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tyrants. Thirteenth, peace and her train
of blessings.
: The banquet was great and the fire.
works were greater. and to crown the
day, there was a splendid ball. which
was opened by Gen. Washington and
Lucy Knox
To the women. of America the review
of the army was nothing. the banquet
was mere incident, and the wonderful
display of fireworks, while interesting
was only of passing interest. To them
the most important feature of the whole
great celebration was the selection by
Gen. Washington of his partner in the
opening minuet. for the ball at Pluck
emin practically was the first official
social function of the republic. and the
partner of the commander-in-chief would
be looked upon as the first social arbitef
of the republic.
There probably was lot of heart
burning over that minuet al Pluckemin
that winter night But Washington
chose well. He had rare judgment in
many things, and in none better than
in this, for the women who danced with
him that night remained the social
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. was not all sor-
row, privation
and struggle in
the revolution.
Occasionally, as
at Piuckenin, in
Somerset county,
n. j., in Febru-
airy, 11I9, there
was a celebration
that would be
Creditable even ia
these days. 1t
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special Correspondence of The Star.
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than the baby. and il is certain that So
ciety women spend a great deal more
money or de- than thew do on poor
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royalist families she had known in former
DAYS. The whole social aspect of the old
town WAS changed. and hardly for the
better.