THE;EVENINGheAzErrn7 ‘:‘-.. ENGLAND LEARNS OF US. ' The Device for Telephoning to Lightships Adopted. ,4 The success of experiments conducted By the United States Lighthouse Board for establishing telephonic coinniunica’ fion between lightships and the shore has attracted the attention of a European Government, which had failed to solve the problem after years of trial, but which now propose to take prompt ad- vantage. of the achievements of Ameri— can ingenuity. The Treasury Depart- ment, upon application, has already furnished copies of the report to several foreign Ministers in Washington. and the system perfected at Sandy Hook will soon be in operation abroad, while, through lack of funds and the failure of Congress to make appropriation for the purpose, the United States service is prevented from enjoying the benefits of its own enterprise. The principal advantage of commu- nication with lightships anchored at sea . being that of reporting incoming steam- ers and other maritime news, which is not within the province of the Light- house Board, that organization has naturally deferred to. those whose in- terests are more directly involved to urge legislative. action, and they have so far neglected the opportunity. The Board has suggested the advisability of establishing a floating telephone station at sea 011? Fire Island, upon which it would embrace the opportunity to dis- play a light as an aid to navigatio'n, but the newsgathering part of such an en- terprise would necessarily be under other auspices than those of the Board, which has therefore hesitated to take the initiative in the matter, though warmly endorsing the project. WOMEN RUN THIS TOWN. All the Town Officers Except the Dog Catcher are Women. In Decatur, Mich, the population of which is 1,500, the President of the ViIu lage Council is Mrs. Alma Sage, and all of the town offices, except that of offic- ial dog catcher, are filled by women. Mrs. Dr. Kenney is one of the leading physicians. Mrs. Ada Gregg is apreach- er, and her church—~the Advent—is taken care of by a janitress, Mrs. Bar— nett. The restaurant of the town is conducted by Mrs. Crane and Miss Haines‘. The biggest store in the place is owned and kept by Mrs. Mary Schood. _ Mrs. Nicholson is the Postmistress. Miss Clara Hotaling is a shoemaker, and a good one. May Percival is a furniture maker. Miss Anna Pardnett makes harness. Mrs. Carpenter is a florist. Mrs. Child is a carriage painter. There are several women painters, weavers and brokers. The women have a secret society run on the endowment plan. There is also a women’s literary club. The women control the town, and the only things to drink are soda and pop. In a village near by there is a-woman undertaker, who can attend PERSONAL NOTES. . Josef Hofiman, the boy pianist, still keeps up his reputation as a musical prodigy, and at the concert in St. Petr ersburg recently 81,500 were taken in. which Hoffman turned over to the Ru- binstein fund. . T. B. Aldrich, the poet, and his wife, are coming home in the steam yacht Hermione, owned by Henry L. Pierce, of Boston, whose guests the Aldriches are. They have had a delightful time, cruising in the ,West Indies, and are now as far north as the South Carolina coast. " Mr. Barrett Browning, great poet, has justbeen thanked by the municipality of Venice for the liberali- ty and splendor of his hospitality. Re- cently Mr. Browning lent his magnifi- cent palace, Rezzonico, for charitable purposes to a society composed of 'the noblest Italian women in Venice. The fete held in it was of unusual magnifi- cence, and the sum realized was $3,400. Jerome Hill, of St. Louis, rode away from Appomattox owning nothing but his uniform and a mule he borrowed from General Grant’s army, but he is now the biggest cotton buyer in the country. Besides being credited with having handled more cotton from pro ducers than any other commission deal- er, he is the owner of several large plantations, and as he has made a life- time study of cotton and the methods of handling it, he enjoys a vast measure of prestige, as well as popularity, among cotton men, and his opinion on matters affecting cotton is regarded with much interest throughout the South and Southwest. A Bit of Boston English. A correspondent sends a rare bit of English. It was written by a woman in excusing her tardiness in answering an inquiry that had been addressed to her: "I would have written before, but I have been sick with a dog bite in the arm. The man that owns the sawmills’ dog bit me in the road—Boston Even- ing Transcript. The Speed of the Camel. 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She waited, however, until the ‘poor young woman had vainly tried to quiet the baby, and then, when she yielded the battle and delivered it over to the elder lady, the curious woman opened fire in this manner as the Chica- go Times-Herald reports. “How old is your baby?” she asked first, and the young woman blushed and looked desperately at. her compan- ions. “1 don’t know,” she answered at last. “Do you, Edward?” “No,” was the brief response of the man, as he glared at the curious wom- an man fashion, “I don’t.” ‘ The young womap looked as if she censidered the matter settled. and sigh- ed comfortably, as she leaned back and began playing with the'baby, but the inquirer was not yet satisfied. and she returned to the charge. “Has your baby any teeth?" she asked, smiling cordially, and again the young woman blushed. “I—I— really don’t know,” she said, slowly, “Has he, grandma?” “I’m sure I don,t know,” was the an- ‘ swer again, and the young man rose hastily and. went out upon the plat-- form. . _ "You don't know, either of you?” ejaculated the curious woman, in aston- ishment. "“How funny.” But no ex- planation was offered her, and she tried another tack. “Is this your first baby?” she said, with an insinuating smile, “or how many little blessings are there at your house?” “Fifty,” answered the old lady short— ly, seeing that the younger one was helpless with embarrassment; and the curious woman fell back in her seat with astonishment. “Why,” she gasped, looking, the in- crudelity she felt. “how can that be possible?” “I’m the matron of an orphan asyl— um,” explained the old lady, icily, “and these kind young people are helping me to take this baby to the lady who has adopted it.” _____- Trust and Experience. Young Wife—I have the dearest, most considerate husband in the world. Old One-—Ah, indeed? Young VVife—Yes, indeed. He didn't. come in till three o’clock this morning, and when I asked him where he had been he told me he had too much re gard for my feelings to tell me. N ow. wasn‘t'that lovely? Old One—Huhl—Jl‘he Capital. 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I had' hardly been in camp 3 week before the regiment was ordered to charge a Russian battery which was posted in a commanding position. We went forward on a gallop through a dense cloud of smoke, swooped 'down' upon the battery, sabred the artillery men and captured the guns. \Ve lost many of our men. brilliant charge. one hussar who acknowledged himself to be a coward from beginning to end." “Then you were terribly frightened by your first battle?” . “Yes, that is the truth. I went ahead with the others, but I was trem- bling with fear and excitement. I shut my eyes and made no attempt to guide my horse. I thought of my good mother at home, and wondered how I had ever been so foolish as to think of the army. when there were comfortable profes- sions, like the ministry and the law. ‘whichl might have followed. “The charge occupied only a few min- utes, but it seemed an endless time be- fore we were behind those murderous guns and had the cannoneers at our ‘ mercy. I was among the first to be with them, and I swaggered with my sabre, while the horse rode down and killed a gunner. But my heart was like a ball of ice. A greater coward never scrambled over an intrenchment. All the time I was repeating texts from the Bible and sentences from the Lord’s .prayer, and wishing myself thousands of miles away.” The veteran laughed heartily] over his reminiscences of the first battle he fought in. "The funniest part of it,” he added, “was that they considered it a great exploit, and insisted upon giving me a medal for my heroic and courageous conduct, when I was a white-faced, mean-spirited coward from 'first to last, and my horse did all the fighting for me, trampling the gunner under foot.” Probably the veteran exaggerated his boyish trepidation and panic. He could have alforded to do so, for he was a sea- sonedsoldier whose courage and even recklessness were well known; but he was not far from the truth when be de- clared that no soldier ever felt like a here when he was first under fire.— Youth’s Companion. The Cadi’s Wisdom. ' . There is a stOry current among the Persians, which sets forth the disclos- ' ing power of wisdom, whereby a wise man uncovers the thing that is hidden. A certain cadi. or‘magistrate, was called upon to decide a curious case. A woman was claimed by two men as wife; one a peasant, the other a mirza or scribe, Each of the two men swore to the truth of his claim. The woman, for some reason, was silent. The cadi, unable to get any evidence which cor- roborated the claim of either of the men, ordered the woman to remain for a time with his own wives. ' The next day he handed her over to the scribe, and ordered the peasant to be severely bastinadoed, that is, beaten on the soles of his feet. .Then the wom- an broke silence for the first time and praised the just Judge. The spectators also applauded the justice‘of the cadi, but failed to see the ground of his judgment. . ‘ “I told her to milk a cow,” said the cadi, “and she could not. Then hand- ing her my writing case, I told her to ' put it in order. She took the little sil- ver spoon and replenished my inkstand with water. Only the wife of a man who could write would have done this correctly . Hence my decision. The woman’s act of replenishing the inkstand with water instead of with-ink is explained by the fact that a Persian scribe writes with India ink. A sponge like ball of silk full of this ink is placed on the inkstand and moistened with water to keep it from becoming dry and hard. ’ ' “’hat It Depended On. One day Tom Logan,,an Oregon law- yer and an inveterate, wag, was argu- ing a case before Chief Justice Greene} of the Supreme Court of what was then‘ the Territory of Washington. Opposed to him was a backwoods lawyer named Browne. Logan continually referred to the counsel on the other side as if his name was'spelled “Browny.” to the evi- dent annoyance of that gentleman. At last the Judge interfered, remarking: . .1, “Mr. Logan, this gentleman’s name is spelled B r-o-w-n-e, and is pronounced Brown, not Browny. Now, my name is spelled'G-r-e-e-n-e, but you would not pronounce it Greeny, would you?” “That,” replied Logan, gravely, but with a merry twinkle of his eye, “de- pends entirely on how your honor de- cides this case.”—Northweet Magazine. In Piaee of Tobacco; Coltsfoot, or the leaves of lettuce, be. ing slightly narcotic, would form a harmless make-believe for the, good folk who persuade themselves that they could not sleep a wink were they, de- prived of their evening comfort. Ages ago both Greeks and Germans, accord- ing to Dioscorides and Pliny, 'found comfort in smoking through a ,reed or pipe thedried leaves of- coltsfoot, which relieved them of old coughs and difficult. ‘ breathing. And as to lettuce, it has been famous since the time of Galen (Claudius Galen , us) who assnts that he found relief from sleeplessness by taking It at night. , —-L.'.ni.en;an‘s Magaiuel . , I was a young " - But it was a very, Yet there was at least ' /"
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