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Cornado of Salamanca.
Dedicated to the Knights of Ak-Sat-Ben.
The room of the Arabian sage was as dusky as the half-fallen night Yet through the glom Francisco Vasqnez de Corondado could see mystic signs of the astrologers, tokens of an esoteric faith, and old Egyptian [i?ics} Among them was the man of destiny-old-old and very miserable with years spent in caves of the Arabian deserts, very allen looked he too, amid the gay life if Salamanca, where those who wished to read the dark page of the future came to him For his leaning was as a lamp which he held high, illuminating even those things which to all others were unknowable
In its tripod the incense smoed and fumed, sickening the air and dulling the scene, and over his crackling parchments bent the sage, reaching there with necrmatic power, the story of the cavallers life Beribboned and gaudy was the cavalier, with haughty hold of head and fashionable trick of manner Yet his plumed hat was doffed before the learning of this ancient man-before the knowledge that he had wrenched from star and water, from crystal globe and entrail of beast, from all the signs that lie in the living created things, whereby men may grow wisdom Figures and diagrams covered the sheets that lay ont he worm-eaten table, and over these again and again, as following a decious way, the long forefinger of the sage went in perplexing tracery
'The stars in the courses, he said at the length, with voice as faint, yet deep as the sound of surf on distant shores, tell this one tale Lord of a vast dominio shall you be, and mighty of conquest. Over vast waters, past pountains that lose their summints in the clouds, past plains that rolls for leagues, past the seeing of they eyes, is that land, overy which you shall rule by right of sunjugation Love will be yours and power and plentitude. But over all falls a shadow dark as death-for it is the shadow of death Not that fair death which offers man a rest the end of his long journey, but violent and unseemly death"
The young calalier trembles in every member of his great frame.
'Tell mem tell me' The nature of it- speak- it may be avoided"
'Destiny is never avodifed. my sun Wair, I will see."
He took a globe of crystal, rubbed it again and again with his hands, breathed on it thrice then held it before they eye of the hard-breathing vacalier And in those crystal depths, as he looked,
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STANTON BIBLE FOR WOMEN
It Is to Be the Work of the Sex for Whom It Is Prepared.
Will Explain Away All Inconsistencies and Have “No Masculine Finger in the Pie.”
One Woman Who Takes Issue With the Venerable Editor of the Publication—Why She Objects.
A bible for women—that is what Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her 80th year, is about to prepare as a monument to her life work.
The one explanation that thus far has been offered for this extraordinary undertaking is that Mrs Stanton is 80 years of age. But, unfortunately there are many women associated with her in this work, who cannot be defended with the plea that their resolution is the whim of dotage. The ladies who have consented to act on a committee to prepare an exegesis of those passages in the bible that relate to woman s position in the church and state are said to be Lady Henry Somerset, Miss Frances Willard, Mrs Stanton Blatch Mrs. Alice Cliff Scratcher, Rev Pheobe Hannaford, Rev. Olympia Brown. Mrs Robert Ingersoll, Ellen B Dietrick Frances E Burr, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sarah A Underwood Mary A Livermore Little D Blake, Mrs L B Chandler, Josephine K Henry, C A [F?] Stebbins Helen M Gardener Clara Bewick Colby and Mrs E B Granni
Now here are names respectable for the energy, intelligence and bravery with which they are associated And in the lend of Mrs Stanton the persons who bear them propose to prepare a bible containing only those parts of the book as reference to women, revised and altered to meet the demands of Mrs Stanton and her colaborers Mrs Stanton says that the revision of the bible which was completed a few years ago leaves woman's position in the scriptures far inferior to that of man She feels that the worst foe the woman has to advancement is the misconception of the bible as regards woman This venerable woman will herself, revise Genesis delegating the task of other of the books to her co-laborers. The following letter written by Mrs Stanton to Mrs Chandler will explain better than anything else can, the manner in which she proposes in work Mrs Chandler is it will be noticed, to be given the epistles of St Paul to St. Timothy in which are contained a number of the passages which have most been quoted by the churchly for the discountenancing of women Mrs Stanton says
Dear Mrs Chandler You will please take Timothy but do not abuse him
It is my hope to have the book finished before I die, and as I shall be 80 in November the time for me maybe short
The Woman's Bible as the work is by women commenting on women no masculine finger in the pie it seems to me that is the best title. One of the essentials in a title is to have it as short as possible commentaries or interpretations would a title too long In the preface or introduction we can explain whatever seems inconsistent My idea is to have all schools of religion and thought represented—Protestant-Catholic Jew and gentile evangelical and liberal Fach one over her own signature shall be responsible for her message.
Question its inspiration its allegories its preambles, in fact say what you think in as choice and beautiful and refined language as you can command I wonder that so many revising committees of man should have repeated from time to time the indecent language and indecent scenes they have left in the book
Buy a cheap bl[?] the revised edition of 1888 cut out the texts on which you wish to comment, then head your chapters thus
THE WOMAN S BIBLE
The Apostle Paul to Timothy,
By LUCINDA B CHANDLER
The chapter and verses will be in fine print and changes in coarse print
CREEDS AND DOGMAS LET ALONE
As we comment on nothing but women no creeds or dogmas neither authority nor inspiration except as it touches women it seems to me we could not get a better title than The Woman s Bible What is a sail of us occupies just one-eleventh part of the oil and new testaments. As we shall comment on only one-eleventh commentaries would not do. All that is said of us we can put into a nutshell I think we shall make a small book of about 400 pages. Our comments should be short, clear pointed. We must not write essays but sprightly comment[ades?]. No matter about Hebrew or Greek roots unless you know all about them or Hunters in translation We a state in plain English that the bible does not dignify our sex Even a female lamb or kid was not fit for sacrifice In Deborah [Huldah?]. Yashi[?] and Mirlam it gives us a few grand characters We can accept its general principles, Love thy neighbor as thyself are, etc, but that God talked to the Jew officer to face and told them to kill and slay all the Hittites and do a thousand other outrageous things we do not believe
If we can get any learned woman to point out errors in translations touching women we should like to have that done but if we cannot we will do the work with plain fluent English Yours sincerely
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
I have always had a good deal of respect for Mrs Stanton. She has done something toward paving the way toward that large degree of liberty which American women enjoy. But the latter transcribed above is that of an ignorant and egotistical old woman who has placed herself in an absurdly inconsistent position.
If Mrs. Stanton really supposes that the words of the bible are inspired sacred and unalterable then she should submit herself to the teachings and insist that others do the same. If on the other hand, she supposes that the world has outgrown the ideas of the men of past ages that we cannot take the actions of the half naked semi barbarians of the time of Abraham as our guides nowadays then should say ‘If the bible does not sustain the self respect old woman then so much the worse for the bible.
Either she should submit to it or disregard. If to suggest that women should make such alterations as seems to them consistent with nineteenth century ideas, and yet to maintain the absolute inspirational character of the book is an inconsistency and absurdity that must draw ridicule upon Mrs Stanton's very beautiful white hairs and place all women who are working for a fuller development for their sex in danger of being thought equally ridiculous. If she does not believe in its absolute inspirational character then its out-grown theories may be passed by.
Mrs Stanton being asked of what utility the new revision would be, said
WILL RESTORE RESPECT
It will restore the self-respect of women I have seen that women believed themselves cursed of God that they are the origin of sin and that maternity is a condition slavery. If they could only be brought to see that instead of that, they were represented in the Godhead at creation, that woman was consulted and woman was created in the image of the motherhead then they might regain their self-respect This it seemed to me could only be accomplished by a recision of the bible and while the work proceeded only [?] ultimate necessity for it never left me.
[?] to take a materialistic view of the matter in the progress of the race from savagery to civilization, woman has been kept in an inferior position. She still occupies it now that an advanced state of civilization has been attained. One thing that keeps her there is the misinterpretation of the bible as regards woman The correction of this will restore her and deprive her enemy man of a reason for his oppression and a weapon of attack.
Restore out self-respect Does Mrs Stanton suppose we ever lose it except through our own sin Does she suppose we find it any curse to beat children or ever think of that tradition of the garden of Eden any more than any other old tradition of the beginning of man? Does she imagine that what has been to us the greatest blessing and joy of life can even seem a curse? Mrs Stanton claims that woman has always held an inferior position Ah, the centuries that have passed have been full of vissicitudes for men and women There has been fighting, labor, toil, har sin joy truth. home happiness and change Both men and women have suffered much enslavement in different ways Women have been governed, they say They have submitted to be ruled Well, perhaps But have they ever grieviously objected? If at any time they had greatly objected could they not have had their way Women make up half the world If they then represent half the force of the world, they need not ask, they can take what they want
The women who are today helping on the evolution of women are not those who theorize fret fume and lecture They are the women who are doing their work well in homes schools farms factories shoes stores laboratories offices professions and arts. While
WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN.
At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The bretelles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown.
these foolish and clamorous women are talking about their rights the other women are taking them Women are not worrying about what Faul thought of them or directed them to do The wrongs of Vashti make pretty reading—a sad and quaint old tale—but there s no need to fret about them now
Eve—if, indeed the dear woman ever lived—may have been cursed for her mysterious sin and banished from Eden but she took an Eden with her when she went, in the man she loved and the little boys whose naked limbs she kissed and pinched and tickled as they lay in the long grass of the green fresh world at twilight, when the day s toil was done
ONE GETS COMFORT
There s one tremendous comfort about all this enslavement It hasn't felt half as bad as it sound The changes have often been of flowers And even when they have been of iron they have been no heavier than those men had to bear
Besides we are not so much enslaved, either to living men or dead traditions as Mrs Stanton seems to think We will inspect garbage for the good of our cities without looking to see what St Paul through about the matter We will enjoy en low instruct in and create universities without a thought of what Abraham would have thought of such proceedings We will speak, write do what we have the ability and desire to do without any hesitation, because of an apprehension that the Corinthian ladies might not have been permitted to do such things
Mrs Stanton has been frightened by such words as these
The wife hath not power of her own holy b[ it?] the husband . . . The head of the omen is the man . . . for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man All one can say is that it is too bad Mrs Stanton should have worried about that Other American women have not—and be it said to the glory of the chivalrous race no American man ever quotes them As for other nations—but Mr McKinley will not permit us to consider other nations Mrs Stanton, however, is about to do something which will awaken the contempt of scholars and the ridicule of even her own sex It is too bad It would have been so much better if she had written dull translations of Horace like [?], Gladstone But probably Mrs Stanton would complain that she did not approve of Horace and that he took unjustifiable.
THREE STYLISH TOILETTES.
In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape.
liberties with ladies, calling them by their first names and inviting them to wreathe his bowl for him—when he [?]ught to have been attending primaries with them and securing them seats in the legislative halls of their country
WHAT A PROSPECT
A woman s bible’ A woman s heaven to Mrs Stanton ‘ What a prospect You can t imagine can you Miss Stanton that any woman would ever go to it’ No more would any sensible woman divorce her religious belief from that of man, or set apart the portion of the sacred book that deals with her Has not man outgrown the vengeance of the old testament? Has he not outgrown slavery and polygamy? Has he not almost outgrown war? Has not the delightful companionship of men and women in the nineteenth century triumphed over all the old laws, traditions and superstitions? The day of fuller liberty dawns for all But it dawns, esteemed lady, in the human comprehension—in the expanding desire Leave the chronicles of the dead past in the past taking with you that which the inner consciousness holds still to be true and fair But do not slay men of straw, or light windmills Do not become ridiculous in your venerable years Do not offend literature with a vandal and unscholarly act
ELIA W PEATTIE. -- GIRL WANTED. -- The Editor is After a Desirable Domestic.
(South Omaha Tribune)
We want a girl’ Not a girl to love, to fill with ice cream and soda water, to act as bookkeeper, typewriter, or check drawer nor one to wear bloomers and show us how to ride a bicycle read Ibsen and “Coin’s Financial School,’ or to teach us lawn tennis, the Rye waltz or the sublimity of the sublime but a plain, everyday maiden, who has a face that would scorch the sun a hand that would
WALKING COSTUMES AND MOURNING GOWN.
At the right is a Paris walking gown of fine copper colored broadcloth. The beetles are of green [faile?] over white silk. Down the sides in front are apple green [faille?] bands At the left is another Paris gown of pale biscuit diagonal cheviot with old gold velvet bows on the skirt In the center is a French mourning gown.
act as a stove lid and a foot that would give the Goddess of Liberty odds and then beat her in the race for the prize as a Triliby model She need not be as tender as a newly cut onion or a restaurant porterhouse nor as pert nor as flippant as the wren or as intelligent as the lady’s maid who plays the piano and goes into ecstasy over the latest foreign arrival while the baby of the house is upsetting the spittoon and lacquering its angleic face with the nicotinic comments or trying to imitate the ostrich in filling its stomach full of tacks or mamma’s hair pins but we would like to see her as tough as the trunk of an elephant or a heavy tragedian, that she may look on a little work without experiencing an attack of vertigo or a desire to marry an Italian nobleman, as lively as is necessary for one to be to arise before sun up to cook a plate of ham and eggs or a dish of summer flap-jacks by the time the family arose at 8 o clock or thereabouts, and intelligent enough to distinguish a napkin from a baby’s hood or to tell the ward policeman that it is the parlor and not the kitchen where she receives her company
She is not supposed to sleep over fourteen hours a day, as there are times when we might want her to go out and tell the tramp to levant or to assist us in getting up a lunch when our restaurant asks for a small payment on account or to entertain our unexpected friends while we are changing our toilet As there are only seven evenings in the week we can allow her only that many off to take in Manawa or the ball game while we unable to raise car fare sit at home and wonder when our landlord intends to send us our usual notice If the girl we ask for will come to this office and satisfactorily answer a few orthodox questions put to her by the religious brownie his political leg-pulling partner may afford her a position of ease and refinement in his kitchen provided her ideas of a good salary are limited and not subjected to union rules
P S –Wanted—A good servant girl Apply at this office Good wages -- TIT FOR TAT.
(Buffalo Express)
- “Do you ever sell these photographs that you keep in your show case? ‘ I asked of my friend, the photographer I don’t make a business of it “ he replied ‘The fact is, I got into trouble one for selling one”
THREE STYLISH TOILETTES.
In the center is a skirt of elephant gray crepon with fur English jacket of gray Persian fastened by enormous silver hooks and eyes At the left is a tan cloth box jacket with piping of bias brown velvet There are perforated velvet plastrons on the sleeves and back At the right is a stylish skirt and cape.
You see,” he continued It was the picture of a very pretty girl, whose father was rich and who moved in good society The fellow I sold it to used it on an advertising calendar, and it made her father mad He sued me for $5 000 damages and got a judgment But I got the money back all right”
How so?’
Why you see the case got the girl so much notoriety that she went on the stage on the strength of it Then I sued for $10,000 for advertising “
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ALL FUSS AND FEATHERS
Wedding Ceremonies Which Are Almost Grostesque Because of Their Flummery.
The Simple, Quiet Wedding Seems to Be Condisdered Very Largely a Thing to Be Ashamed Of.
Mrs. Peattie Writes of the Marriage Rites Which Are Like a Brass Band and a Circus.
The following dispatch appeared in the papers last week:
"Edward Howard, son of ex-County Recorder Howard, and Miss Eita Garceau, one of the most beautiful young ladies of South Bend, were to have been married this morning in St. Patrick's church. At the appointed hour the church was filled with prominent society people, when the priest appeared and announced that no wedding would occur. It develops that the bride and groom-elect left the city last night and were married at some place out of town. It is believed they were married by a squire at Niles, Mich. The act of the young couple created a great sensation. They were to have been at home May 1 at Pttisburg, Kaa."
Now, that strikes me as being one of the most interesting newspaper paragraphs I have read for many a week of yesterdays. Of course, the prominent society people" must have been annoyed. They must have accused the beautiful Miles Garceau of incnsideration, lil-bredding, selfishness and several other bad qualities. No doubt a great many persons thought it unbecoming; the priest was probably much pained at such intemperance of action and-they young men laughed to themselves and symathized. For as a general proposition, it may be said that all men would like to run away to be married. Man has never entirely got over the love of capturing his bride. Moreover, man never became addicited to the wedding of civilization. He may submit to it. But he does not like it. It not only bothers and mortifies him, but it actually offends something fine in his nature. He does not like to have the weeks which precede marriage given up to a great extent to the overseeing of flummeries. Only a very few men have I known who desired any display at their weddings. These were all young men who were making an xcusable but not very picturesque effort to rise in society, and to develop business. They each appeared to think that business would be assisted and social standing more or less assured by a large public wedding, at which there should be many people, many flowers, a variety of classical music, endless millinery, and, incidentally, a wedding ceremony.
There must be a bit of the nature of the squaw left in the civilized woman. that she should so run to the decoration of herself at an hour when one would suppose that it would be natural for her to be consumed with thoughts which left material display far in the background. I shall never forget one personal background. I shall never froget one personal experience in my life. I knew a lovely woman, with a fine and well-trained mind. She came, in course of time, to select from many lovers a man of much firmness of chracter, who was nobly and devotedly attached to her. Their love was of the lofty type and I doubt if trifling words of any sort passed between them during their courthsip. Now I fully expected the wedding to be the climax of all this and looked ot see this ceremony ideally conducted. But what was my amazement to see this woman suddenly drop all her dignity, all her beautiful love-making, and become a flurried, nervous creature, flying from milliner to dressmaker, rejecting twenty samples for a gown to telegraph for more bunches of samples, weeping over bonnets which she thought did not become her, and quareling with dressmakers over the fit of her gowns! It was as if Ariel on being released from the cloven pine tree whould have asked if she could have pancakes fro breakfast.
The wedding was stupid. It was an anti-climaz. She thought all during the ceremony that the back of her dress did not fit.he had a voil on his neck, and one of the maids tipped a tray full of water glasses over the heads of the guests-that was really the only enlivening and perfectly natural thing about the occasion. The Ideal of love sat weeping somewhere on the back stairs, and the and the milliners and dressmakers were with us in our thougths and even I believe in our prayers. I am almost sure the bride peayed that no one would norice the wrinkle under the arms of her gray-blue velvet gown. I have forgotten the ecpect she mentioned it accureately in the payer.
The Young Lochinvar sort of wedding is really the thing that seems to have most madness and delight in it-or the sort that sweet Madeline and Prophre indulged in. You remember-but these are the lines"
They golide, like Phantoms, int the wide ahll@
Like Phantoms to the iron porch they glide.
Were lay the porter, in uneasy sprawl,
With a huge empty flagon by his side:
The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide,
But his sagaclous eye and immate owns:
By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide:
The chains lie silent on the footowrn stones:
The key ruens, and the door upon its hingers groans.
And they are gone: ay, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the stom.
That night the baron deampt of many a was.
And all his warrior guests, with shade and from
Of witch, and demon, and large coffin forms
Were long be-nigthmared. Angles the old
Died paisy-twitched, with meager face deform;
The Beadsman, after thousand saved told For eye unsought for slept among his ashes cold.
In one of his books Hamlin Garland. In his regard for the spirit of things and his disregard for form, chanced to neglect to mention the circumstances of the wedding ceremony of two of his lovers, merely speaking of them as being unitedin their lives. The prines and prisma readers wrote frantically to the Arena to inquire if a wedding ceremony was really perfromed. They had to know before they could approve of the story. Garland aplogized. He said the ceremony had been perfromed. He had not supposed that his characters seemed so grotesque that anyone would suspect them of disregarding a wise law, but he had considered a ten minute ceremony of too little consequence. In view of the purpose and passion which untied hi lovers, to consider it worthy of mention. His readers still could not understand. They requested him to mention the fact of the ceremony when he published the novel in book form. And he did. It may be that he also mentioned the amount of the fee and the kind of flowers the bride carried-but I am not sure.
There used to be a tradition that runaway marriages did not turn out well. So many marraiges turn out lil, that it would probably be fair to suspect marriages of any sort of not being absolute perfection: But there are many runaway marriages which are ideal. The Brownings fled together-Mrs. Browning gathering from her elation of spirit, and her semse of power and love, the strengths to walk, which she has not posses for hears. Her happy heart healed her weary body. William Henry Stoddard and Elizabeth Stoddard, both of them poets,, fled together and tell of it now, even when their heads are white, with enthusiasm.
As for Gretna Green, ballad and story has made it famous and dear.
The one great objection to runaway wedding is that it may bring much
And so it was done-and society was cheated of a pagent, the cater had his horrid little paper dishes of sweet breads left on his hands, the mothers grieved honestly, society whispered and marveled, not understanding and the young men laughed.
Elia W. Peattie.
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EASTER LILIES AND GIRLS
Reigning Styles Favor the Curves of the Easter Flower.
Some Odd Designs in Spring Gowns for the Church Festival.
Bonnets, Hair, Skirts, Sleeves and Capes Carr All Be Apadpted to the Lily Shape.
The Lily girl will bloom today.
Easter Sunday is the fit day of all the year in which to consider the "lillies". All flowers in some oriental languages are classed under the term lillum a name of ancient and uncertain origin. The botanist has classified fifty species of the lily family all confined to the northern hemisphere in thinking of speaking of lilies we always mean the snowy bell-like flower with its breast of gold, but there are fed purple and blue lillies. Japanese lillies with their splendid wealth of coloring white dotted with purple of coloring white dotted with purple and striped with gold, white and rose-colored and the familiar Chinese tiger lily, with its bronze flecked petals.
The lily of the Old Testament is conjectured to have been red in coloring, and the red anemone with which all the fields of Gallilee are dotted, is likely to have suggested the figure, perfect in its sublimity, which Christ used in glorifying the lillies of the field.
But the glistening white lily waas one of the commonest garden flwoers of antiquity, appearing with the rose and the violet from Homer down to the sweet poet who sings.
Take a lily in thy hand. Gates of the brass cannot withstand One touch of that magic wand.
As the flower of spotless purity it was always contrasted with the blood red rose of Aphrodite. In the middle ages the lily was taken as the symbol of heavenly purity, and the painters have crowned their Madonnas with the golden-hearted flowers and placed the spray of tender gleed, blossoming and budding in the head of the angel that with raiment white as snow declareth the resurrection of Christ."
It is doubtful if there be any record in the New Testament of Christ's having ever made public reference to any other flower save the lily and this makes the blossom peculiarly fit to be the emblem of the Eastertide.
WHERE THE LILIES COME FROM
Our Easter flower is an alien coming from Bermuda, Holland and Japan ninety per cent come from Bermuda, the extra freight preventing other countries from competing with the island, and for another important reason, that the Bermuda lily is the most beautiful and is easier to bring into bloom at Easter. The bulbs to the number of 8,000,000 are annually imported in July or August.
The lily growers separate the bulb into parts, and plant each part. The new bulbs are not exported the first year, but are the second. It takes four years to produce the great bulbs four inches in diameter, from which spring the tall stalk, crowned with many blossoms.
The grower has boards with four holes of different sizes, and the bulbs are sorted by passing them through these holes. One sees in Bermuda lily fields covered with plants from a few inches to two or three feet. The bulbs from the tall ones are sent to the United States. The florists then pot them and keep them in green houses where by a system of clipping they are forced to bloom just at Easter.
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
The growing of flowers has become an important industry and one man frequently puts out 30,000 bulbs. The 3,000,000 bulbs will average 18,000,000 blossoms allowing six to a plant and besides that enormous quantity thousands of choice flowers are cut by the Bermuda growers just at the Eastern season.
These answer all the purposes of decoration and will last almost as long as potted plants. They are shipped in the bud, each one wrapped carefully in cotton. Just before they are wanted for use they are set in water, when they unfold and become perfect flowers, only a little inferior in size to those grown at much greater expense in the greenhouses around the great cities.
Fifteen million blossoms will be in use all over the land today. In the churches the stairs will be banked with the cut flowers woven into garlands, wreaths and crosses the chancel will be screened from sight by the tall potted plants, some rich with a dozen buds and perfect flowers in the Sunday schools and missions the children will be taught the beautiful resurrection story, typified by the dark brown bulb buried deep in the earth, arising in the sunshine and warmth to blossom in white and gold.
In the homes all through the land the flowers will decorate alike the palace of the rich and glorify the novel of the poor, telling its beautiful story as the holly and mistletoe bring the message of peace and good will at the Christmastide.
THE DASTER GIFT.
"The gift of gifts for friends or loved ones is the tall green plant with its crown of white and gold, in the beautiful vase of wonderful pottery.
Thousands of these messengers are sent every Easter morning, besides great bundles of cut flowers, which the maiden will pin on her breast, or place between the lids of her prayer book as she hurries away to the lily-decked church.
THE LILY GIRL.
A beautiful thought has come to some of the maidens who have been keeping Lent and wearing sombre cloth and colors. They are having the fronts of their Easter gowns filled in with violets, valley lillies sprays of lilacs of whatever flower best suits their fancy, and with their blossom-wreathed bonnets and the great nosegays they will carry they will be veritable Easter flowers themselves, the fairest and sweetest of any land or clime.
The flaring skirts of the present mode offer abundant opportunity for the designing Easter gowns adapted to the form of the lily. the wide sleeves the tiny bonnets and even the prevailing style of wearing the hats all possess the same delicate curves of the great Easter flower and it is not improbable that today's Fifth avenue parade will contain many examples of the animated lily.
100 BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
What shall our little girls read? Little girls are made of sugar and spice, and all that's nice, as everyone knows and there is no who [word] such a precious thing as a daughter, without being more or less puzzled as to what shall furnish mental food and recreation for her. A gentleman writes to me I have read lists of books for boys, lists of books for old people, but I do not remember to have read, what concerns me most a list of books for girls (Our boys are all girls) Will you not kindly publish an ideal reading course viewed from your point of view, for girls. Our oldest daughter is now nearing her 10th year. The entire field of literature will soon be at her disposal and I am and her mother is, very anxious that the best shall be given her. The same desire is, I am sure, uppermost in the heart of every patient visited by the World-Herald. This letter is written at my office, but I know that my wife would join me very heartily in my request if she were here.
Our painstaking young librarian Miss Jessie Allen, once said to me.
There is a great depth of good books for girls. I am really sorry for the girls who visit the library. Many of them have read every book which could be strictly considered a girls book, in the place. There are plenty of authors for the boys. But the girls have not for their share of good literature."
With this in mind I looked over the finding list of the Omaha public library only to find that there are five books written particularly for boys, to one written for girls. Speaking of this to a very cultivated woman who has a genius for instruction, and whose acquaintance with books and girls is large, she said.
"I do not think that either girls or boys should be kept on literature designed especially for their sex. I think that girls should read boys' books and boys should read girls books. It enlarges their sympathies and rounds their characters. They sympathize with and understand each other better. Nor do I think it wise to keep girls too long on juvenile literature. The Dinsmore books, and even Miss Alcott's stories can be overdone. I have known girls of is or I who have been kept on that mild literary diet until they had taste for nothing better. Wholesome baby food is right for infants, but after one's teeth are cut, stronger food can be digested. Now anyone can enjoy 'Little Women and the rest of Miss Alcott's stories. You understand I merely mean to say that a young girl's mind cannot be expanded to its capacity if she is kept on books of that sort. It is good as far as it goes. We all love it and the class of books it stands for but if vistes are to be opened up to the mind the library of a young girl must not be limited to books of that kind. As soon as possible I would lead the mind of either boy or girl to the classics, and I would encourage them to read books that relate to achievement I would give them lofty ideals. The daily stress of living will lower their ideals fast enough at best. The books that refer to commonplace, everyday things are wholesome and sweet. They should be read. But they are not enough. A higher note must be touched."
This is the children's age. This is also the children's country. Henry James used to say that Americans-about whom he always writes as if he were an alien-gave him the impression of being the serfs of the children. He is wrong of course. James knows how to be brilliantly wrong and always in the most elegant English. But it is true that to serve the children has been one of the religions of America. It is in this country that there has grown up for them a delightful and healthful literature. Here have been printed those almost perfect periodicals which weekly or monthly bring to the fireside illustrations, tales simple philosophy and ethics prepared by the best artists and authors. The home that admits St. Nicholas Harper's Young. People of the Youth's Companion opens up the way for a good education, a standard of honor and pleasant manners to the children. An intelligent child will come to have all these desirable things as the result of a continuous perusal of any of these periodicals.
The days are fortunately past when children are forced to read the disgusting pages of 'Gulliver's Travels" in order to find amusement. They still cling to "Arabian Nights" "Robinson Crusoe" and "Swiss Family Robinson," and no child a library should be without them. Taking it for granted that these stand on the shelves of our girl's book case, let us consider further. This consideration must have its tentative qualities. It is absurd to be dogmatic about a thing of this kind. But, supposing that our daughter is 10 years of age, that she has had those [word] little Dotty Dimple books just as she has had the measles got through with any number of brilliantly illustrated books of infantile doggerel and is really ready to begin reading books, let us see what she would better have on her shelves.
Suppose, then, that we wish to provide her room with 100 good books which will give her information in a pleasant way, stimulate her imagination in a healthful manner, and give her much amusement and delight. How will the following list do-a list which has purposely avoided many of the books popular with girls for reasons not necessary to explain in detail. The list is not dogmatically offered. It is merely a suggestion, and it might be well for those who are interested in the matter to correct it make further suggestions or enlarge it.
1- The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling. 2-Alice in Wonderland, 'Lewis Carroll" 3-The Wonder Book, Nathaniel Hawthrone. 4-Hans Brinker, Mary Mapes Dodge, 5-Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 6- The Story of Habbette Ruth McHennery Stuart 7-The story of Siegfried, James Baldwin 8- The Story of Roland Baldwin 9- The Story of the Golden Age, Baldwin 10- Lady Jane, Mis C. v. Jamison 11- Tolnette's Phillip, Mrs. Jamison. 12-Melady, Larua Richards 13-Little Margorie's Love Story, Margaret Bouvet. 14- Sweet William Miss Bouvet. 15-Black Beauty, Sewall 16- Beautiful Joe, Marshall Saunders. 17- The Story of Patsy, Kate Douglas Wiggin 18- The Bird's Christmas Carol,- Miss Wiggin 19- Child Life in Prose, J. G. Whittier. 20- Poems of James Whitcomb Riley 21- Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellows 22- Queen Victoria Girlhood and Womanhood, Grace Lippincott. 23- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. 24- The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang. 25- The True Story Book Lang 26- The Yellow Fairy Book, Lang. 27- Old Caravan Days, Mary Hartwell Catherwood. 28- Common Wayside Flowers, Olive Throne Miller. 29- Deal Daughter Dorothy's Plympton 30- Eyebright, 'Susan Coolidge' 31- A Battle and a Boy, Blanche Willis Howard. 32- Young Folk's History of the United States T W Higginson 33- Child's History of England, Charles Dickens. 34- A Child's Dream of a Star Dickens. 35- Tanglewood Tales, Nathaniel Hawthrone 36- Story of Mexico, Edward Everett Hale. 37- The Boy's King Arthur, Sidney Lanier. 38- Stories from Famous Ballads, Grace Lippincott. 39- Stories and Sights of France and Italy, Lippincott 40- The Story of Spain, E. E. Hale 41- Little Folk's Letters, Ralph Waldo Emerson. 42- Sara Crewe, Frances Hodgson Burnett 43- Little Saint Elizabeth, Mrs. Burnett 44- Giovanni and the Other, Mrs. Burnett 45- Little Lord Pauntleroy, Mrs. Burnett 46- Piccino Mrs. Burnett 47- Edith's Burglar Mrs. Burnett 48- Story of the Iliad E. Brooks 49- Story of the Odyssey E. Brooks 50- Story of New York, Elbridge S. Brooks 51- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 52- In Leisier's Time E. S. Brooks 53- Story of the American Indian, E. S. Brooks. 54- Historic Boys, E. S. Brooks 55- Historic Girls E. S. Brooks. 57- The Boyhood of Christ, Lew Wallace. 58- Juan and Juanita, Frances Courtney Baylon 59- Birds and Their Ways E. R. Church. 60- Adventures in Thule William Black 61-The Absent Minded Fairy, Thomas A. Jansler 62- An Old Fashioned Girl Louisa. M. Alcott 63- Betty Leicester, Sara Orne Jewett 64- The Water Babies Charles Kingsley 65- The Children of the Cold Lieutenant, Schwatka. 66- Knockabout Club Fred Ober 67- Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb 68- Robin's Recruits Plympton 69- Stories from the Magicians A. J. Clark 70- Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow 71- Jenny Wren's Boarding House Kaler 72- Doris and Theodore Thomas Janvier 73- Holiday House Sinclair 74- Captain Polly Sophia Sweet 75- Wild Life Under the Equator Paul Du Challu 76- Wild Life on the Plains, Elizabeth Custer. 77- At the Back of the North Wind, George McDonald 78- With Trumpet and Drum, Eugene Field 79- The Bodies Books Horace E Scudder 80- Three Vassar Girls Elizabeth Champney 81- A Jolly Fellowship Frank Stockton 82- Miss Dewberry's Scholars, Margaret-Sangster 83- Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris 84- Crowded Out o Crofield, W. O. Stoddard 85- Timothy's Guest Kate Douglas Wiggin 86 The King of the Golden River, John Ruskin 87- The Little Lame Prince, Dinah Mulock Craik. 88- Diego Pinzon John Y. Coryell 89- Stories from the Greek Tragedies A J Church 90- Three Greek Children A. J. Church 91- Cast Up by the Sea Sir William 92- A Flock of Girls, Nora Perry 93- Chapters on Animals, Phillip Gilbert Hamerton 94- The Children of Old Park a Tavern, T. A. Humphrey 95- Chapters on Animals, Phillip Gilbert Hamerton 96- Gypsy Breynton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 97- Jack a napes Julian Horatia Ewing 98- In Nesting Time Oliver Thorne Miller 99- Stoles Told to a Child, Jean Ingelow 100- Snap Dragons, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
As said before, this is merely suggestive. A large number of these books have been recommended to me by my own little daughter and two of her personal friends and each number is, so I am told "the loveliest hook that ever was" Children know, of course what they like and ought to be given what they like, so long as they do not show a vicious tastes. But I am persuaded that juvenile literature even when it has such classics in it as contained in the foregoing list, will not long satisfy the active-minded girl. They like more vital creative fiction than that which deals merely with childhood. I discovered that about six months ago when my small child went around with a long end rumpled brown veil dangling from her head. Several days passed without my curiosity being sufficiently aroused to inquire what this extraordinary decoration signified. At last I asked
"I'm Rowena" she replied in a stately manner, 'Rowena of the Saxons. I've just been to a joust and nearly all the knights were killed."
On rainy days the brown veil still asserts itself and Rowena, a very small and thin little girl, with eerie gray eyes, sits on chair arms looking down into an imaginary arena.
It is an easy step from one of Scott's books to others and already the excursions are being made. And as for Dickens- a child can no more be kept away from Dickens than flies can be kept out of a sugar bowl. Children do not need to be protected from literature as much as commonly thought. A pint cup holds only a pint, though it be dipped in the Atlantic, and a child can read adult books and take away only the part that assimilates with childhood.
Certainly, for a well trained childhood the girl of intelligence may well be trusted in the home library to read what she pleases. It is not for any one to set bounds and metes for her. She may have a capacity for comprehension which the purchaser of the library never possessed. The human soul soon comes to its own responsibility. The human mind runs to its liberty. ELIA W. PEATTIE
CAME IN AT THE MUZZLE. A Story of the Minie Balls Which Met in [Midan?]. (Japan Mail)
Here is a remarkable story of the war in Far Cathay. While storming the first line of forts at Fort Arthur, a soldier belonging to the Twenty-fourth regiment raised his rifle to fire at an unusually conspicuous Chinaman. Just as he was about to fire a bullet from the enemy's side came whizzing on, and, marvelous to relate, entered the barrel of his own gun as smoothly and neatly as if the muzzles had been placed mouth to mouth. Of course, there was an explosion, and the soldier's piece was shattered to the stock, but without his receiving any injuries whatever. A fractional variation to the right or left would have caused the hostile bullet to enter head or face, so that his escape was nothing short of miraculous. He preserved the stock of the now useless weapon and afterward exhibited it to his colonel who permitted him to keep it as a memento of his narrow escape it is probably the first instance of the kind on record since Baron Munchausen's day.
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ARRAIGNS THE MISSIONARIES.
Thomas G. Sherman Blames Them for the Trouble in Hawaii.
Five years in prison! Five thousand dollars fine! That is the price one woman is sentenced to pay-for what? For being suspected of trying to regain what it by right her own.
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii had been sentenced to this imprisonment and to the payment of this fine by the "provisional government."
The government inspires respect. It is associated in the minds of men with legitimate authority. But it is not, therefore, necessarily proper and right that men should pay respect to government. We, the lineal descendants of magnificent rebels, have a right to consider without prejudice or fear the claims which this provisional government of Hawaii makes.
Personally, I must confess I would not feel much interest in the matter if it were not that a woman, who seems to have been a dignified, modest and law-abiding person has been sentenced to imprisonment, the payment of not small part of her personal property, and degradation from the estate to which she was born. When a thing of that sort is done to an innocent woman, other women are inclined to ask why.
If Robert Louis Stevenson were not dead there would be some one else to ask why. Only there would be this difference. Stevenson knew how to ask his questions so that men would endeavor to find answers to them. He was a "Questioner," as Walt Whitman would say, to whom one had no choice but to listen.
Mr. Thomas G Shearman, standing in Mr. Beecher's church, said the other day: "I wish to express in the edifice the opinions that I believe he would have emphatically voiced from this pulpit had he been alive. Seventy years ago the American board of foreign missions sent a few Congregational missionaries to the Sandwich Islands who were received by the people with enthusiasm. They did not really have to convert the people, for they were all ready for conversion.
"The chiefs and the people threw away their idols and embraced Christianity with all their hearts. So conplete was their trust in the missionaries that, practically, all government was placed under missionary control, and the missionaries and their sons or their nephews have ever since had the practical government of the islands. What has been the result?
'They round 130,000 people there, and now they report that there are only 34,000. But of these 34,000 they recently reported that 18,000 were members of the Congregational churches-a larger proportion of church members that can be found in any other Protestant country in the world. The missionaries boasted that those natives were better educated, better behaved, and more peaceable, orderly and religious, in proportion to their numbers, than the people of many parts of the United States.
"The triumph of religion, and especially of Congregationalism, in Hawaii, was made the subject of endless boasts by missionaries and managers of missions, and was made the gound of appeals to American Christians for fresh subscriptions and aid for missionary work.
"Suddenly their whole tone changed. The missionaries' sons and some returned missionaries vehemently asserted that the native Hawaiians were filthy and ignorant, and a debased, licentious, and idolatrous race, utterly unfit to be trusted with liberty, but must be kept under the control of a firm and unscrupulous, but pious, Congregational despotism.
"Assuming this to be true, then the result of between fifty and sixty years' unbroken missionary government in these islands has been that the population has been reduced in number by three-quarters, and that these three-three-quarters are as debased, licentious, and brutal as they wre when the missionaries began their labors, and that the whole missionary enterprise has been a disgraceful failure.
"Meanwhile there are some other facts, which the missionaries do not mention, but which cannot be disputed. During the fifty years the government of these islands was under missionary influence, most of the natives were deprived of their rights in the land excepting about 27,000 acres, and all the rest was divided among the king, the chiefs, and the families, and friends of the missionaries.
'The missionaries sons and their associates boast that they own four-fifths of all the property of the islands. Nearly all the rest is owned by the descendants of the former chiefs. The great mass of the people own nothing. The missionary government, finding that the natives would not work for less than 25 cents a day, complained of the want of labor, and insisted on the importation of scores of thousands of the scum of the human race, including Chinese and what are called Portuguese, a mongrel race, who never saw Portugal, but who speak something resembling the language of that country.
' In this manner the missionaries' sons cut down the wages of the native Hawaiians, and compelled them to work on their sugar plantations at such rates as seemed good to their masters.
"And now the very same men who by hundreds and thousands have protested with pious indignation against the southern states for their practical disfranchisement of the southern negroes, who are by the confession of their own best men vastly below the moral standard which the Hawaiian missionaries have until lately boasted as the peculiar attribute of their converts, are full of enthusiasm over what, with bitter irony, is called the Hawaiian republic.
"A republic forsooth, in which no man can vote unless he has property which would be equivalent to the possession of $5,000 in Brooklyn, and in which no one can vote for senator who is not worth $3,000 which is equivalent to $20,000 in Brooklyn.
"But even with this restriction of the suffrage our republican missionaries are afraid to trust their republican voters. Accordingly they did not dare to allow the people under any limitation whatever to elect the president but, having got possesion of the constitutional convention, they appointed Mr. Dole president to hold office for six years, and just so much longer as the senate and assembly should fall to agree on a successor, restricting the choice, even then, to such persons as should be agreeable to a majority of the senate, which will be elected by about 200 of the richest men on the island.
"Nor do they stop here. They passed laws severely punishing any one who dares to speak disrespectfully of any of their high mightiness. Any one, whether a native or an American, who dares to say that this republic government is not republican or the any of the missionaries' sons who deign to govern the barbarous Christians of Hawaii is not well fitted for the post is liable to a long term of imprisonment and a heavy fine."
This has been a long quotation, but there has been no [qoint?] at which one was willing to interrupt the flow of Mr. Shearman's indignant eloquence.
The words came from a life-long Congregationalist, and are aimed in their reproaches, not at Congregationalism. but at the betrayal of its spirit, and the renegation of its principles.
The Commercial Advertisers of Honolulu of January 17 contains an account of the 'insurrection," for the participation in which Liliusokalani has been sentenced. Her home was searched for ammunition and arms, and a small amount of both was found in her cellar. There were also some bombs made of cocoanuts and other things and which "wore a very wicked look,' so the local paper states. The Advertisers says, concerning the raid made on the queen's residence:
"The mission was a dangerous one on account of the large number of natives that usually pass their time at the ex-queen's place. Ample precautions were taken by the authorities to protect the policemen who were sent to make the search. Riflemen were stationed about the grounds surrounding the place, and a company of regulars were held in readiness to leave the executive building at a moment's notice. Nothing happened however, owing no doubt, to Parker's diplomatic treatment of the forty odd natives who were on the grounds when the wagon with the police aboard arrived.
"He gave them to understand that he would restore Liluokaiani to them today This little fable seemed to please them. At any rate they did not interfere with the search
"Parker and his men then went underneath the house and with the aid of a lantern unearthed the arsenal. Gun after gun was handed out and placed in the wagon. Then the pistol, swords and cartridges were taken from their hiding place. The last and biggest surprise was the discovery of the bombs. They were placed in a bag and taken in charge by Parker.
"After the cellar was cleared out the men jumped in the wagon and rode triumphantly to the police station"
This paper is owned and edited by the men of whom Mr. Shearman speaks. The sort of conduct which they recommend and admire is certainly not the sort that would have been advocated by their missionary father before the greed for power and gold got the better of them.
And what are these natives who are so dangerous, and against whom Congregational Hawaii is railing? One prefers to see them through the eyes of Robert Louis Stevenson, rather than by the way of observation of prejudiced reformers, or money-making missionaries. They are a gentile, lithe, languid people, fond of song, fond of stories, very affectionate not particularly clean, of trained imaginations with almost inordinate love for their palm-clad island, a passion for the sea, and a religious love for the mountains They are children of nature, with a limpid tongue a primitive simplicity, and also primitive revenges. Their government, before the interpolation of Christian greed, was the simple monarchy-the good, old, primitive monarchy.
Clever, assertive, determined, selfish and acquisitive, the Americans have forced down the queen from her throne, taken the land from the people, instituted the accursed law of supply and demand, harnessed the people to relentless labor in the coffee and sugar plantations, and conspired for annexation, in order that the republican millionaires may find a pathway to the easy making of further millions Concerning annexation, Mr. Shearman says.
"And now it is proposed to annex this island with its barbarous, idolatrous, dirty, debased. Congregational heathens Chrisitan idolators and the 100 000 Mongolians and half-breed Portuguese to boot, and to bling it into a republic as one of the states of our union to help govern us Already one branch of congress has voted to expend $700 000 in beginning to lay a cable for this purpose, which, of course, will involve us in about $3 000 000 more, in addition to that already [incuned?], to enable Hawaiians to plant sugar at a cost to this country of $50 000 000 taken out of the public treasury, and put into the pockets of the planters to enable them to employ Mongolians and half-breed Portuguese.
"But we are to spend many millions more in annexing them. We shall have to build warships to defend ou possession when we get it.
"I consider this the most dangerous and disastrous proposition that has ever been made in this country. If successful it will launch us upon an era of colonization and of petty, lisgraceful foreign wars. It will bring into our union sham republics, which will still further corrupt our already corrupt government, and speedily destroy all reality in republican institutions.
"We are on the brink of a precipice, and a very little effort is needed to push us over. If I were standing alone on this continent I would oppose and denounce this whole scheme of foreign wars, annexation and colonial projects to the very last."
The queen maintained with dignity and with sadness that she was not responsible for, nor a party to this rising among her people, which the Commercial Advertiser, with rancorous language compares to the work of the Chicago anarchist. It says at the conclusion of a rambling and angry editorial, "The only difference between the Chicago riots and the insurrection of Hawaii is that the anarchists of America accomplished their deadly purpose while the Hawaiian anarchists were balked at the outset. They murdered only one man but it was not their fault that they did not commit more heinous crimes. There is no evidence that one manly, honorable action was proposed by those connected with the inssurection. The prisoners themselves have not offered a word of testimony that savors of anything but cruel, inhuman slaughter. These are hard uncomfortable facts which the lenient minded supporters of the government should take home and ponder well."
Other editorials reproach Mr. Cleveland for his indifference to the republic of Hawaii," and demand the banishment of the persons sympathizing with the restoration of the queen, and speak of them as the foes of honest government, and the people who are sucking the life-blood of the nation. This hypocritical and arrogant attitude of men who are in reality intruders is only equaled by the manner in which we have treated the American Indians, defrauding them, lying to them, refusing them citizenship, confining them within bounds as if they were cattle, forbidding them to sell their own possessions excepts to us, making it impossible for them to buy at any market save that which we provide, disregarding their tribal government, and educating them for a mode of life impossible for them to follow.
Having come into possession of the land and the government of Hawaii, it is now the sole desire of the Americans to make money out of these gentle creatures who can so easily be enslaved. To employ them at the minimum wage on their plantations, to work them in gangs, under section bosses, and to coin thousands-millions of money, out of human creatures is their desire. It is easily done. In one way or another we are doing the same thing here every day It is a trick we Anglo-Saxons have. We have done it more successfully than any other nation in the world. We have built up fortunes such as kings might envy-fortunes sucks as princes and counts sink their pride to obtain And we have made these fortunes out of other men It is only by the sweat of other men's brows that a millionaire is a possibility.
And the queen? Well, five years for her. Why? Because, poor woman, she was a queen. And because, when she was bereft of her rights, her friends tried to restore them to her. It is the fate of queens. It is the fate of "savagery." It is the fate of gentleness.
And the lands, the place, the power, the responsibility, the shrewdness and the intelligence is in the hands of the Americans. And presently our patriotic orators will be talking platitudes in the school houses of Hawaii, and glorifying the flag, while the eagle-which cannot blush poor bird-will sit outside and hold the beautiful island in his talons.
ELIA W Peattie
MARY LOWE DICKINSON. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, the newly elected president of the national council of women, is a resident of New York, and her election removes the central office of the order to the metropolis. Mrs. Dickinson is entirely qualified for the position to which she has been called, having long been an active worker in educational and philanthropic movements. When the order of the King's Daughters was organized she was made its general secretary and still holds the office. Recently she was honored by being made dean of the woman's branch of the University of Denver. Having a large experience in public affairs and a thorough knowledge of parliamentary rules, being a fine speaker and a highly cultured woman, it is safe to predict that Mrs. Dickinson's leadership will result in good to the order.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS. Births- Burton Karr, 2614 Burdette, girl, Jan P. Nelson, 3420 Cass, boy James Brown, 2810 Chicago, girl, James Rhinehart, Fifth and Hickory, boy, Chris Hanson, Fourth and Dorcas, girl, C. W. Ortman, 1636 South Thirty-third street, girl, Walter Adams, 720 North Twenty-first, boy, Philip B. Collins, 2101 Leoust, boy, R. E. Herdman, 4201 Grant, boy, W. E. Harris, 970 North Twenty-fourth, girl.
Deaths--Robert L. Fisher 27 years, 631 South Seventeenth avenue, Silas M. Waite, 70 years, 2317 California, R. E. Scott, 1 year, 2923 Douglas, Margaret Jones, 2 years, 2206 South Seventeenth, Mary Agnes Johnston, 6 years, 1343 South Nineteenth, Mrs. A. Donahue, 26 ears, 1353 North Eighteenth.
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