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MALTY OF TREASON

WAi Johannesburg Reform Leaders Condemned to Death.

-ONE OF THEM AN AMERICAN.

jTolin Hays Hammond Is Included in the

I»t, but a Great Effort Is Being Made to

Have His Sentence Commuted—Presi-

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PRETORIA, Apnl 29.—Five of the lead-

fb:' .«rs of the National Reform committee, PI" "who pleaded guilty of high treason, ineluding John Hays Hammond, the

American mining engineer, were con•condemned to death at yesterday foreI. noon's sitting of the court.

Colonel Francis Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, ex-premier of the Cape Colony Lionel Philips, George Farrar and Charles Leonard, are the four leadcrs, who, with Hammond, were sentenced to death.

Phillips, Rhodes and Farrar pleaded

t" guilty of high treason on ErirLay last and Hammond, who was ill an! )t in «ourt 011 that day, made a similar plea t" Monday. This course, it was thought-. would have the effect to mitigate the severity of their sentence, but it turns out that it did not.

Hammond was a member of Dr. Jameson's command, which made a raid on the Boers some time ago. The raiders wers defeated with heavy loss. Many prisoners were taken, among them Hammond, who is an American citizen. The object of the attack was to overthrow the Transvaal repnblic.

The correspondent of the Associated Press had an interview with President Kruger last night in regard

The belief iB expressed here that Hammond, before returning to. Pretoria, had .some understanding on the subject of ••the sentence to be pronounced, and the proceedings that would follow the sen--tence. It is believed he will not be put •2D death.

A petition was drawn top yesterday Afternoon and telegraphed to President JEroger. It is as follows and was signed -•-a* a number of senators and congressacuta:'

JPresident Kreugor, Transvaal Government, South Africa: JSlR—The undersigned members of the tmiitr and house of representatives of the United States of America respectfully -v .represent that John Hays Hammond is a .citizen of the United States, and a man of high character, connected with the best families of this country, and an engineer of ability. We regret exceedingly his unfortunate connection with the troubles in your country, for which all our people entertain feelings of kindness and respect. 3n view of the unapproachable character of Mr. Hammond in his own country and the high standing of his friends and relatives, we earnestly ask for him your most iindly consideration. If your excellency would extend to him a pardon for his ,-offenses against your government, we would esteem it a special compliment to -ais as well as to the people of the United .States. Hoping that you will relieve Mr.

Hammond from the penalty of his associations, we. are your most obedient servLt. .ants.

Hammond's case was referred to in 'the cabinet meeting yesterday, and al•i though the state department authorized -fflo statement concerning his case further than making public the cablegram from Vice Consul Knight predicting a A5, commutation of sentence, it can not be If doubted that the government will do all ^'5 within its power to secure an amelioration of Hammond's sentence, inasmuch as he i« regarded as rather the victim of circumstances than as a deliberate con.spirator against the Boer government, ir it is believed, however, that even before the machinery of the department a)' ran be set in motion, Hammond's sen- $»' tence wilJ have been commuted.

It is felt at the state department that it has been criticized rather unjustly in Sjs-'V ^congress and elsewhere upon its eonduct of Hammond's case. The complaint that it has worked through Brit--M-J ish officials to secure fair treatment for the American prisoner, it is said, is ,^/made in ignorance of the requirements

Vs,-of international law. The United States no diplomatic representative wliatever in the Transvaal nor can it have «-eo long as the foreign relations of that country are confided by treaty to Great

Britain, and it would be a manifest vioillation of propriety and interinitional law for the United States to ignore

Great Britain in this matter and particularly so in view of the alacrity with which the British government has reeponded to our request for the protec-

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of Americans in the Transvaal.

ENGLAND TAKES ACTION.

l'mident Kruger Asked to Commute the Death Sentences.

I LONDON, April 29.—The secretary of state lor the colonies, Mr. Joseph .-^"Chamberlain, announced in the house *at commons yesterday that the five ^-leaders of the reform committee of JojJJJiannesburg, who are John Hays Hamt^^nond, Francis Rhodes, George Farrar 1 i'

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ntion. The president said that, he was earnestly -weighing in his mind the day's developments. His honor trusted that Joha?jnesburg would calmly await the decision of the government. The •written statement, he said could not be submitted to the executive until Thursday., wlien the matter -would be ^promptly dealt with.

-CAUSES-SURPRISE AT WASHINGTON.

'The California Senators Did Not Expect Sucli a Sentence

WASHINGTON, April 29. Senators Perkins and White were very much surprised when they readithe cable announcing that John Hays Hammond, a -.citizen af their state (California), had $een sentenced to death. Jt was their impression that when the plea of guilty was made that an understanding had -ibeen reached which would not mean th« death penalty. Senator Perkins ex.pressed the belief that the law required finch a sentence, but that the government will commute it.

The California senators -will probably -aek through the state department that -demency be shown Hammond, although Senator White says that dn the face of plea of guilty of high treason, he is jnot sui« that this government could yiitlfft a pery strong representation.

Lionel Phillips and Charles Leonard, have been condemned to death.) Mr. Chamberlain added that upon hearing the news he had cabled to the government of Cape Colony, Sir Hercules Robinson, to communicate the following to President Kruger: "The government has just learned that the sentence of death lias been passed upon the five leaders of the reform committee. They can feel no doubt that your honor will commute the sentence and have assured parliament of their conviction that this is your honor's intention."

Mr. W. J. Galloway, Conservative, asked whether the law under which the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee were tried does not provide for the cofiscation of their property, in the event of conviction, and not tor imposing the death penalty. Mr. Chamberlain said he was unable to answer the question.

Trouble Expected.

NEW YORK, —April 29.—A dispatch to The World from Cape Town says: When Hammond left Cape Town for Pretoria on Saturday he was assured his presence was required only as a formality. He was quite ill, suffering from heart weakt.^ss, but accompanied by his physician, he went.

The lour condemned men are again in the jail. Mr. Hammond's wife is here. Her condition has been pitiable ever since she heard of her husband's sentence.

There is great excitemelit here, and unless the sentences are speedily commuted trouble is expected.

Sentence Commuted.

WASHINGTON', April 29.—Mr. C. H. Knight. United States vice consul at Capo Town, South Africa, has cabled Secretary Gluey that the sentence of John Hays Hammond, the American engineer condemned to death for participation in the Jameson raid, is understood to have been commuted.

YELLOW FEVER IN CUBA.

It Will Aid the Insurgents in Xlieir Fight For Independence.

WASHINGTON, April 29.—Reports to the United States marine hospital service from its agents in Cuba indicate that the annual yellow fever scourge, which is relied upon to aid the war of independence, promises to be exceptionally malignant this year among the unaeclimated Spanish soldiers.

Dr. Caminero, the United States sanitary inspector, announces four deaths at Santiago de Cuba for the week ended April 11.

In Santa Clara several native Cubans have died from it, and the cases of two negroes who took the fever and died have aroused the attention of all the physicians, as it has hitherto been maintained that the colored race in Cuba enjoyed a complete immunity from this disease.

Smallpox continues to increase, and there are 25 cases confined in the smallpox hospital.

WYANOKE SUNK.

An Old Dominion line Steamer Fouled the Cruiser Columbia.

FORT MONROE, Va., April 29.—The Old Dominion line steamer Wyanoke, while leaving her dock at Newport News, fouled the cruiser Columbia, which was lying out in the stream taking on coal, and sunk under her forefoot. The crew and passengers were all saved and taken ashore.

The Columbia sustained some damage above the water line, and will repair at Norfolk.

The Wyanoke was built at Wilmington, Del., in 1870. She was a sidewheeler of 1,060 tons register. She was the oldest of the Old Dominion steamship fleet.

The steamer Old Dominion will fbe put in commission in place of the Wyanoke and will sail next Saterday from this port in place of the sunken vessel.

OVERPOWERED BY THE HEAT.

Chria Newton, Near Eckerty, lladly Burned by Forest Fires.

ECKERTY, Ind., April 29. Chris Newton, one of the wealthiest farmers in Johnson township, and one of the best known in the couuty, left his team by the roadside, while he assisted in fighting fire, which was devastating the fencing and woods.

He entered the woods, and in the rush of work he was not missed for several hours. He was then found insensible, where he had fallen from exhaustion. He was lying in the burning leaves his face, hands and arms were badly scorched and his clothing was almost burned off his body. His recovery is doubtful. Mr. Newton is a man of family.

William Paul Executed.

COLUMBUS, O., April 29.—William Paul was executed at 'the Ohio penitentiary at 12:10 1-2 this morning. His neck was broken apd life was pronounced extinct in just 11 1-2 minutes. Paul was indifferent to his fate to the last. He declared his innocence on the scaffold although there is no doubt as to his guilt. He shot- and killed his father-in-law. Joseph Yockey in Brown county, near Ripley, July 5, 1894.

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Vet Settled.

CLEVELAND, April 29.—A settlement was made Monday between M. T. Silver & Company and their striking cloak makers who had struck for more pay. The cloak makers' union yesterday presented a written contract for the firm to sign and was met with a refusal. The union then declared the strike on again and the threat is made that all of the 5,000 cloak makers of the city will be called out.

lioth Shot to Kill.

RICHMOND, Ind., April 29.—William McKinney and James Oakey, both charged with shooting with intent to kill, and each being the object of the other's aim, were bound over to the circuit court yesterday under bonds of $1,000 each.

Hottentot Rebels Defeated.

BERLIN, April 29.—A German force defeated a large body of Hottentot rebels in Damaraland on April 5, killing 46 of them. The German loss was eight killed.

Death of a German Historian.

BERLIN, April 29.—Heinrich Gothard DU Treitschke, the historian is dead. H'J was born in 1834. .j

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CRISIS APPROACHING

The Matabeles Have Surrounded Buluwayo.

ALL COMMUNICATION CUT OFF.

Each Day They Are Drawing Nearer to

the Beleaguered City Acuteness of

Their Tactics Astounding the British.

Total Number of Ilostilcs Not Less Than

30,000 Keport of an Attack.

CAPE TOWN, April 29.—The latest news from Buluwayo brings word that F. C. Selour and Mr. Dawson are engaged in building forts designed to protect the road running southward to Mangwo and Mafeking. This is made necessary by the constant encroachment of the Matabeles on the positions to the southward of the town. The occasional attacks which have been made upon their lines, while they have resulted in a wholesale slaughter of the natives, have apparently made no impression on their spirit. They have not been dislodged from their positions, and it is felt to be pretty certain that if they were to secure positions commanding the Mangwe road it would be almost impossible to dislodge them. Their requirements in the making of entrenchments and breastworks would stand them in good stead in cutting off communication between Buluwayo and the south.

The Matabeles to the west of the town have been heavily reinforced from the southwest—a region which has been regarded as friendly to the whites.

It has been learned in Buluwayo that the native god, Mlimo, has promised the Matabeles (through what medium is not known) that all the horses in Buluwayo will be killed tonight. A Matabele spy has been caught attempting to enter the laager. It is supposed that his intention was to hamstring the horses in accordance with Mlimo's promise.

The dispatches which filtered through from Buluwayo increased the feeling of anxiety here regarding the fate of the besieged town. According to the latest advices the circle of fierce warriors behind the mound fortifications had again been drawn closer to Buluwayo, and at the same time extended. The Matabeles, when this news was sent from the endangered town, had been further reinforced and another large body of men was leaving the Matoppo hills, expecting to effect a junction with the other bodies of hostile natives and completely surround the place from all sides, while keeping south of the fortified pass, which is the key to the situation in that direction.

In addition another strong force of hostiles has gone in the direction of the route being followed by the relief corps, about 600 men and nine machine guns advancing from Mafeking. Consequently it is believed that there is severe work cut out for this force, the advance guard of which it was hoped would reach Mangwa about May 7.

The tactics Of the Matabeles are really admirable. When the uprising commenced, only a few hundred hostiles were reported to be in the field, and. it was announced that the native police would soon reduce them to subjection. But the police deserted with arms and the ammunition they could lay hands on, the impis gathered with wonderful rapidity in the Matoppo hills, which are evidently their rallying point and base of operations, and then the investment of Buluwayo commenced.

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impi moved northward, and "circled about Buluwayo, seemingly directed by a skillful strategist, and tookup positions, in a half circle, about 12 miles from the town. -Steadily, slowly but surely, the number of native regiments has been augmented, the half circle of hostiles has increased until it is almost a complete circle, and, instead of being 12 miles from Buluwayo, only about three miles now seperate the natives from their prospective pray. At each camping ground the earthworks were abandoned, but a fresh line of them was promptly erected at the next position occupied. Thus, the advance or contraction of the Matabele army can now be traced by a series of lines of rude entrenchments and breastworks, most effective works under the circumstances.

The band of a few hundred insurgent natives in the Matoppo hills, reported in arms only about a month ago, has increased until fully 20,000 men are operating against Buluwayo alone, and some 30,000 hostiles are under arms and their number is increasing daily. Every day the circle draws closer around Buluwayo, and eveiy hour adds to the confidence and number of the Matabeles, who seem to have supreme contempt for the British, a feeling that has not been lessened by the ineffectiveness of the three sorties made by the little garrison of Buluwayo.

The enemy is kept plentifully supplied with cattle and, it is believed, with ammunition. These supplies are sent out from the Matoppo hills, the Matoppo headquarters, and it is said that over 50,000 head of cattle have been gathered in by the hostiles from different directions. The hills themselves, it is added, are being fortified by the insurgents' force holding them so that, should Buluwayo be relieved and the British be able to resume the offensive, the natives will have a stronghold to fall back upon and there make a strong stand against the Clirartered company's forces.

If this report is correct, and there seems no reason to doubt it, the British will not see the end of the Matabelo war for many months to come and much blood may be shed on both sides before order is liiuilly restored.

A British Victory.

LONDON, April 29.—The Mashonaland (South Africa) agency here has received the following dispatch from Buluwayo: "Big engagement yesterday morning. Three impis surrounded us. Defeated and routed them with great loss."

Assaulted and Robbed

WARSAW, Ind*, April 20.—Mrs. Mabel Noble, living three miles east of this city, was aroused at daylight by the noise of some one at a rear window. Her son not being at home, she went to the room alone, whereupon she was seized by a masked burglar and nearly choked to death, besides which she was struck a severe blow over the head. Whilo she lay insensible^ the burglar ransacked the house, securing $90 cash, a gold watch and other valuables. iSil&ll

FINANCIAL DEBATE.

The Naval Appropriation Bill Becomes an Interesting Subject in the Senate.

WASHINGTON. April 29.—The senate was plunged into an exciting debate yesterday, after several weeks of serene and formal procedure on appropriation bills. The naval appropriation bill was under consideration, and the item of four battleships, to cost an aggregate of $15,000,000, served as a text for a speech by Mr. Gorman, pointing out that the revenues of the government are less than the expenses.

Mr. Gorman's statement brought on an animated controversy in which Mr. Sherman, Mr. Hale, M& Chandler joined issue with the Maryland senator as to the responsibility for the failure of tariff legislation in the present congress. Mr. Gorman's speech and the frequent heated party colloquies it developed attracted great interest, crowds filling the galleries for the first time since the Cuban debate, and many members of the house coming over to listen to the proceedings. The battleship item was not completed when the senate adjourned.

In the House.

WASHINGTON, April 29.—The house yesterday passed the Pic-kler general pension bill by a vote of 187 to 54. The Republicans and Populists voted solidly in favor of the measure, and the Democrats, with six exceptions, solidly against it. The section to which the bulk of the opposition was directed provides that persons otherwise entitled to pensions shall not be disqualified on account of prior service in the Confederate army, provided they joined the Union forces 90 days before Lee's surrender. The bankruptcy bill was taken up under a special order providing for a vote Saturday at 4 p. m.

AN EARLY MORNING BLAZE.

Fire Involving Loss of Life and 8250,000 Worth of Property.

PARIS, Tex., April 29.—A disastrous fire, involving loss of life and $250,000 worth of property, broke out in the third-story building of J. K. By waters on South Main street at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. In a short time the flames spread to the warehouse of M. F. Allen & Company, the Clements building and Hotel Peterson. The fire raged until 7 o'clock, wThen the firemen succeeded in getting it under control.

John Sauismau, a tie inspector from Wister, I. T., who was occupying a room in the Bywaters building, was suffocated and burned to death. There is a suspicion that he was murdered and the building set on fire to conceal the crime. Officers are investigating.

Later, while the firemen were playing on the flames, a wall fell, crushing S. H. Ramsey and Louis Rootche, the former fatally and the latter seriously.

The Hotel Peterson was the largest in North Texas, outside of Dallas and Fort Worth, and was valued at $60,000 insurance, $20,000.

Real Estate Man Missing.

ST. LOUIS, April 29.—Charles Kuhn, who has been doing a real estate business at 521 Pine street, has been missing for 10 days past, and several creditors seem to think that he has absconded, as attachment suits have been issued against him for about $20,000. Attorney Carl Otto, for the plaintiff in the attachment suits, says that Kuhn's shortage will amount to over $100,000.

St. Louis Tragedy.

ST. LOUIS, April 29.—The body of Dora Wagner was found yesterday in bed in her room. The body presented evidences that the woman had been choked to death, and Ju Junk, a Chinese gambler, with whom the woman lived, is suspected of having committed the deed, and has been arrested.

The Plkgae in Hong-Kong.

LONDON, April 29.—Sir William Robinson, governor of Hong-Kong, telegraphs that there have been 75 new cases of bubonic plague and 75 deaths from that disease in Hong-Kong for the week ending Tuesday.

Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, April 29.—The treasury yesterday lost $163,600 in gold coin and $5,100 in bars, which leaves the true amount of the gold reserve $125,549,502.

Indications.

Generally fair weather during the day, but with increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers Wednesday evening or night fresh and brisk easterly to southerly winds.

Base Ball.

AT RITTSBUKU— RHE Pittsburg 0 01 1 0000 x— 2 4 1 Cleveland 0 0000000 0— 0 4 1

Batteries—Hawley and Merritt Cuppy and O'Connor. Umpire—Weidman.

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TH MARKETS.

Review of th- :iiii and Livestock Markets or April

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Cattle—Prime, 35 good butchers, ^3 SU@4 10 biui *, stags and cows, $1 75(313 70 rough lat, $3 iW}3 70 fresh cows and springers, llogs—Prime light, *3 U0 heavy, $3 (50(S3 70 common to lair, 50(ty3 '-5. Sheep liixtra, $3 S5@4 00 good, $3 30®3 5V common, $3 0U@3 20 spring^ lambs, $3 75(3 4 30 veal calves, $1 5U(Cj)-l 75.

Cincinnati.

Wheat—72@73c. Corn—31K@34c. Cattle—Selected butchers, f3 65@3 fc5 fair to medium, $3 10(®3 CO common, $2 50(g) 00. Hogs—Selected and prime butchers, |3 60@3 55 packing, $3 35(33 45 common to rough, $3 10@3 35. Sheep—$2 "5($3 *75. Lambs—#3 50(84 65.

Chicago.

Hogs—Selected butchers, 13 25@3 50 mixed, $3 40@3 55. Cattle Poor to choice steers, 13 15@4 20 others, 93 60® 4 00 cows and bulls, $1 75@3 65. Sheep— 12 25@3 65 lambs, C3 50@4 75.

Xcw York.

Cattle—f3 00@4 70. Sheep—13 25@4 60 a $ 4 7 5 0 0

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FREAKISH STREAMS.

REMARKAB--E CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME LARGE RIVERS.

The Mississippi No Longer Holds First

Place In North America—A River of Writing Fluid—Wonderful Channel of

"China's Sorrow."

It is a recognized fact in science that very few great rivers have been thoroughly explored by going up stream. For nearly 2,000 years travelers and explorers endeavored to discover the sources of the Nile by ascending that wonderful river. But by the time they had reached the difficult part of the stream their supplies and energy were exhausted, and they could go no farther. It is only by seeking the sources of rivers by overland routes that explorers meet with success. It was in this manner that Henry M. Stanley traced the route of the Kongo in Africa. In this way of procedure Frederick Schwatka was enabled to float down to Yukon and Speke found the secret of the river Nile.

One of the most curious rivers that has come to the knowledge of men «is the Webbe Sliebeyli, of eastern Africa, a deep and rapid stream, abounding in strange fish and ferocious crocodiles. Although it flows for hundreds of miles through fertile lands the immense volume of water never reaches the sea. A short distance north of the equator the river is lost in a desert region a few miles from the Indian ocean.

Some of the more recent explorers of Alaska and British America claim that the Mississippi can no longer be regarded as the largest river on the North American continent. This distinction is claimed for the great Yukon river. According to Ivan Petroff, who spent over two years in Alaska, collecting materials for the last census, the Yukon empties into Norton sound about onethird more water than the Mississippi pours into the gulf of Mexico. The Yukon basin comprises the larger part of northern Alaska, and GOO miles from its mouth the river is a mile in width. Many centuries before it was discovered by white men it very likely served as the water highway into the interior, for tribes that we believe to have crossed from Asia to the American continent. The Yukon river is over 2,000 miles in length.

Travelers report that in Algeria there exists a small stream which the chemistry of nature has turned into ink. It is formed by the union of two rivulets, one of which is very strongly impregnated with iron, while the other, meandering through a peat marsh, imbibes large quantities of gallic acid. Letters have been written with the natural compound of iron and gallic acid which forms this small, yet wonderful, stream

The Rio de Vinagre, in Colombia, is a stream the waters of which, by admixture with 'Sulphuric acid, become so sour that the river has been appropriately named the Rio de Vinagre, or Vinegar river.

The Orange or Garieh river, in southern Africa, rises in the mountains which separate Natal from the Orange River Free State. The length of this stream is 1,000 miles. Its banks abound in various valuable woods, and around it are found rich copper ores. In this stream are many varieties of fish, which are found until the river passes through a rocky region containing copper, below which the water is said to be poisonous, almost instantly killing the fish that venture near it. "China's Sorrow," a curious name for a river, is the title bestowed upon the great Hoang Ho, which rises in the mountains of Tibet and follows a wonderfully circuitous channel for 2,500 miles to the Yellow sea. The waywardness of this mighty volume of water makes the river a constant source of anxiety and danger to the 170,000,000 of people inhabiting the central plain Asia. It is known to have suddenly changed its course nine times. It has moved its mouth four degrees of latitude each time, emptying its vast floods in different directions, and finding a new channel for itself where scores of towns and villages have stood. The river has greatly changed the physical character of a wide area, converting fertile regions into a sandy desert or making shallows of them. Whether it is within the power of modern science to save this great plain from disastrous overflow and changes of the river's bed is a question which during late years has been widely discussed, especially in the scientific circles of Paris and London.

Another remarkable river is the Indus, a great stream in Hindustan. It rises in Tibet, and its course is a wonderful one. On reaching Sussi, its most northern point, it turns southward, loses itself in the hills and reappears at Takot in Kohistan. The Indus is 1,700 miles in length. After receiving the waters of many tributaries its clirmnel grows narrow, and I1.ere it is divided into many channels, some of which never return to the parent stream. It abounds in fish and crocodiles.

That classical river, the, Ganges, is erratic in its course, like the Iloang Ho. It is prominent both in the religion and the geography of India. It varies not only from season to season, but from year to year, find frequently exchanges old passages for new ones. It has been said that the Ganges delivers into the sea every year 534,000,000 tons of mud, sand and other solid matter.—Philadelphia Press.

Self Defense.

"So you accompanied your wife to the play, after all?" "Yes. I happened to think that if I didn't she would tell me all about it when she came home."—Chicago Record.

Over one-third of the entire population of the globe, or about 400,000,000 people, speak nothing but the Chinese language.

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TEACHING BLIND DEAF MUTES.

Surprising Progress Made With

Three blind deaf mutes, whose faculties have been developed from a completely latent condition, are subjects of special notice in the report of the Perkins Institution For the Blind, Boston. Edith Thomas is described as furnishing convincing testimony to the efficacy of the system which is pursued in training Buch children. She has a good share of common sense, but is a little averse to intellectual exertion. Yet she is improving fast, gaining knowledge regularly and systematically and is 'steadily becoming

Three Successful Girls.

Twelve years ago the Misses Stewart of Cincinnati, three young women reared in wealth, were, by business failures, thrown upon their own resources. They secured a room in a business block and established a lunchroom, where they made a specialty of home cookery, doing most of tlio work with their own hands. The excellence of the food soon created a demand. The little lunchroom became a success, and at the end of five years, when the great Chamber of Commerce building was put up and there was to bo a large restaurant connected with it, the Misses Stewart boldly implied for it. They were backed by many business men, who had known them in their days of wealth and been impressed by their ability as business women. Their bid was accepted, the Misses Stewart assumed charge of the Glencairn lunchroom and have conducted it for the past seven years.

The patronage is very large. For rentand services alone the yearly expenses are $10,000. The prices are reasonable, yet the sisters have not only paid all expenses, but live in comfort and are becoming rich. They have never lost social position by going into business, and during their entire career have never had to borrow a dollar. In spite of their success, and the fact that from their surplus they have been able to make many profitable investments, they have not ceased to give their personal supeITision to each department.

Three Keal ftstarc rro i-.-r*.

Mrs. Candace Wheeler, Mrs. William Hovt and Miss Stearns have formed a business partnership under the name of the Town and Country Real Estate and Rental company. They intend to deal in the best class of furnished apartments and houses in New York city and in promising country property. They have the exclusive handling of the art cottages at Sliinnecock Hills, N. Y., and of all the property at Outcora, N. Y.

If You Are Pale, Avoid White.

The rage for white satin stocks increases. If worn by the right people, they are immensely becoming, for the brilliant luster sets off a brilliant complexion as nothing else can. But the pale and dull colored women should avoid white satin as the plague, for nothing else can so take the vitality opt. of a face already lacking in color. ..

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ful, logical and earnest, and the stream of her thoughts grows broader, deeper and richer. She is fond of letter writing and does it with increasing facility of expression, while her letters show that she appreciates the pleasures of life and despite her privations enjoys them highly. She likes reading and being read to, but wants her books true to life and will not listen to fairy or highly imaginative stories. She is able to appreciate the rhythm of poetry, and Whittier and Tennyson are among her favorites. She dislikes arithmetic and is backward in it, but is proficient in geography. She has learned to mold maps in clay and is able to repeat accurately the details of the surface of the regions she has studied. At the school commencement of 1804 she modeled the map of Massachusetts, divided it into counties in the presence of the audience and pointed out the natural features and the towns with her left hand, while with her right hand she spelled the names into the hand of a blind classmate, who announced them. She has become a skillful doll's dressmaker without the aid of patterns, and in teaching the use of the Braille typewriter to her companions she has exhibited the qualities of a strict diseipl inarian.

Willie Elizabeth Robin, now 10 years old, came to the institution foiu- years ago, totally blind and deaf and ignorant of language. She has become proficient in reading, writing, elementary zoology, articulation and knitting and sewing by the Sloyd method. She has even learned to use her tongue rather than talk with her fingers. She is specially interested in studying animal forms and searches out the minute details of their structure. She is expected to tell all she can discover of each specimen given her, to represent it in clay and afterward write down what she has learned. Of a crayfish studied thus she reported: "It has eight arms and two legs and a tail and two eyes it has a body it lives in the water. The body is hard, and the arms and the legs are not strong they are soft.''

Tommy Stringer came to the kindergarten department feeble, inert, exhibiting few signs of intelligence and seemingly devoid of most of the impulses of children. He is now full of eager curiosity concerning the world about him, enjoys life and is bright, affectionate and extremely fond of fun. He is at the head of his class in some of his studies. He is remarkably interested in matters of housekeeping and domestic economy. He has a strong bent toward zoological study. In a talk about fish his attention was drawn to the backbone. He felt it carefully from end to end and then passed his fingers up and down his own backbone to show the correspondence. "On discovering the eyes, mouth, nostrils, etc., of the frog, he pointed to similar features of his own, and when he found joints in the frog's hind legs he immediately began looking for the joints of his own body and found nearly all." No seeing boy's portrait is more animated in expression than his. —Popular Science Monthly.

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