The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

) ' mwi Tiff'lpH The C edarville H erald. W. H. BLAIB, Publisher, CEDARVILLE, : : ; OHIO. TH E MOT -M O T ’S TA IL , A Noticeable Feature In the Matte-Up of a Very Queer Bird. , At the present time a. bird of more than ordinary interest is to be soon in thia-houso, which, though- not “ new to the colleotion,” will certainly be new to a vfjry large majority of «tbu' present Visitors to the 54oo, as It is a very long time—how long wo can not say with oertainty, b u t,a t least twenty years— since-the’last specimen died there. The Iblrd in1question is a mot-mot, presented about a week since, and is to be seen in the largo cage, nearest to the keeper’s room. It has not' yet been labeled, but is, we^beliey e1_Moinot'u$ Vraiiliensis. .It • is an. extremely .striking though- not very brilliantly colored; bird, about $>e . sizo of a jay, with a long tail; its bright­ est color, -a most beautiful blue, forms a band round .the crown of, its head, which is black, and there tiro smaller patches on its cheeks; it* has a bold, —b righ t oye, the iris of which :is red. Its tail, ho\vovor, Is^iWtte^qglJt'irts-Hiost- noticeable feature; natSb much, from its- longth and color, as from the. extraor- . dinary habit the bird possesses, ospe- : d a ily , i t would'seem, when excited, of ■swinging i t from sido to side after the manner and with the regularity of the pendulum o f'a clock, occasionally vary­ ing tlid mOnotony of tho proceeding, by jerking it straight up over its back—an ■odd habit, calculated to attract the at- ■ tention of the least observan t'. ^ The mot-mot’s, tail has the further ' peculiarity that the two middle feathers, , which aro longer than the other’s,^aro racket-shaped at the ond-.-thafc is to say, th a t for about an inch the feather is perfect, ..and thou for another inch.'or . rather more, the shaft' is- entirely de­ nuded of web. This peculiarity has given rise to some controversy, olio sido v contending th a t i t is natural, while tlio other avers that it is artificial,' being caused by the bird itself. .Wtftorton first drew' attention to the fact' th a t tho a bird acted as its own harbor, and de­ scribed the process as follows: “This bird (the mot-root, or bouton as ho called it) seems to suppose that its beauty can bo increased by trimming tho tail, which undergoes the same operation as one’s hair in a harbor’s shop, onlyw ith this difference, t h a t .it uses its own beak, which is serrated, in lieu of a pair of scissors.' As soon as its tail is full grown it hcginB about an. inch from the extrem ity of the two longest feathers in it, m ak ing 'a gap about an inch .long. Both malo and female' adonlso their tails in this maimer, which gi.vos them a remarkable appearance among other birds. While we consider tho tail of tho houtou blemished and defective,, were he. to cotno among us ho would, probably consider our heads, crapped and bald, in no hotter light.”—Saturday Review. ________ _______ * SHOOTIN .G^TiGERS . Twfcnty-thnie Man-Eater* Killed lljr Three , Men Wltlnn Three Week*. . I t was my, good fortune to .bo able to shoot many tigers in Eastern Bengal, sometimes slnglo handed, but prefer­ ably with one or more companions. I •never camo to grief, or had any .native with me injurod by .a tiger, but there is always the chance of an accident when playing with, edge-tools. I was almost invariably In company with experienced men and good shots. But some men aro excitable, however experienced, Ono day, as wo were starting after a notor­ ious tiger, the wife, of my companion implored me not-to lot her husband got oil his elephant till tho tiger was dead. I.thought littlo of her words -at the mo­ ment; hut, by and by, after rather a scrimmage, I had stopped the tiger with Vahot through his back th a t paralyzed him so th a t be could not rise. As he lay glaring a t me with his terrible big green eyes J r tfraSTiorrlfled to ,see0my companion running up to tho tiger on foot, for ho had. jumped down from his ^elephant .on seeing the tiger fall. Luckily I had a sp3T&bATr«l,-riith-which- Tput a bullet through the tiger’s lieau a t once, and his eyes ceased to glare. I t was my good luck with two friends to g e t twenty-three tigers in one ex­ pedition of three weeks .on tho Berham- pouter eburs, but wo had to work very- hard indeed for it, I merely mention th is to justify myself In'writing about the wild tiger, From the security of the liowdah I have seen him in almost every position, usually sneaking off, , trying to hide himself, but sometimes' charging and fighting for his life, Tho pictures of sporting incidents aro often exaggerated, and so are tho descriptions of them. Tho tiger is usually an un­ willing combatant and seldom fights except in despair. On more than one ' occasion It seemed aa.. if tho tiger thought tho elephants were only big cows, amt th a t they could he easily frightened or killed. In Eastern Bengal a man-eating tiger is seldom found. But if a tiger has once,- by chance or in­ tention, killed a human being, ho finds th e hfcmam neck so fragile and the human being so incapable of resistance th a t h e ,is less disposed to take tho trouble to kill tho deer or cattle, who in th eir death struggles tnay hupt him with th eir sharp' horns and hoofs, Nor is a man-eating tiger always old apd mangy, as some writers have said. -Tlhe finest and cleanest tigress that I ever shot had been killing human beings for Homo little time before the news of her rav- ‘ages reached me.—Longman’s Maga- ila« , THE BATTLE FIELD. WHISPERIN’ BILL, So you’re tnkln’ the census, mUtcrT There’s three of us livin'1atlll, • My wife in i'I, au"our-only son, that follts cull Whisperin’ Bill; But Bill couldn't toil yo his name, sir, an’ so its hiirtlly worth (jivin', For yo sec a bullet lclllod his mind, an’ left his body livin’. ■t Set down for a minute, mufor; ye seo Bill, was 'only fifteen At the time o’ the war, ns likely a boy as over this world has seek; An’ w.iiat with the newa o' battles lost, the . speeches an’ all the noise, I guess qvory rarm In tho neighborhood lost a part of Its'orop o’ boys'. 1 - •Twas liarvest timp when Bill left home; every • -stalk In tho fields o’ ryo Seemed to staml.tlp-too to sOoblnl ofi an’ wave him a fond gdod-byep His SiTectlioart was hero with some other girls —tUe sassy littlo miss! - An’ protendin' sho wejited to whlspor’n his ear,. * -jho gavo-blmarousin' kiss,. Oh, ho was a hun’some" feller, an’ tender; an’ dbiiivo an’ bmart, / An' though he was bigger than X was, the boy had a woman’s heart.1n loouldn't control my foolfngs, but I tried With all my might, „. ■ . ■ . An’ hie mother an’ rah stood o-cryin’ till 'BUI Was out'o’ sight • . * ■" a His-mother she often-told -him. when she. knew ~ —ho-was-golni-aivay "That (Jofi would take pare .o' him,- may-be. If ho . didn’t forget to pray; -> An’ on tho bloodiest battle-fields, when bullets ■whlzzei'llnthoair, An’ BUI was u-Ughtln' despo’rlt, he used to whis­ per a prayer. i ' Oli, Ills comrades has often .told, mo th at Bill neVt-rfllndhci.a,bit When overy^second a • gap in the ranks told where n ball had-hit. f , , , An' one night, when the field w as,covered with v I the awful harvest o’ war, They fodnd my boy ’mongst the marty’so ' the cause he"Was flghtin’for. His fingers wero olatohod in tho dewy grass.—O, -no sir. he. wasn’t dead;"-”' , ' But bo lay sort o' helpless, an' crazy with a rifle ball In his head; An* If Bill had w illy died that night I'd give all 1'vft got worth glvlu’: ' For ye see the bullet had killed his mind an’ left his body livin’.. An’ offli-or wrote and told us how the. boy had been hurl In the fight, Bht he snId" that, the doctors reckoned they e«uld firing him around all right, .And then wo heard from a neighbor, •,disabled at Malvern ilU'l, — • . That he thought In.tuo course of-a'wook or so he'd bo earnin’ home with BUI. Wo was th at anxlons t’ see Utm-we'd set up an’ talk o’ nights . ’Til the break<r>'day bad dimmed the-stars an' put out tho northern lights; We waited on’ watched for a rnlinth or more,an’ the summer was nearly past, : When a letter came one day th at they’d started • for homo at last. • I’ll neve'r forgit tho day Hill'camo—'twas har­ vest time again— ' An' the air blown over the yellow fields was ' sweet with the scent o' tho grain; Thodoorynrd was tulf o’ tho neighbors, who had . come to share our joy, A n'tillof us sent up mighty cheer at the sight o' th'nt-sqUllur boy. , Ari‘ all of sudden somebody Said: "My God! don't the boy know his motlicrl'’ An’ Bill stood n-wblsperin', ,fearful like,' an ’ ' 'sta rin ’ from one. to another: “Doh’t'bu afraid, Bill,’’ said ho to hlmsolr, as he stood tn his coat o’ blue. “Why, God’ll take cure o’ yo'u. Bill, QodiU take care o’ you." Ho seemed to bo loadin’ and firin'' n gun. nn' to ' set Uko n in<>« who hears, Tho awful roar o’ tho battle field n-soundlu’-In • Ills ears; I saw that tho bullet had touched his brain urn) somehow made It blind, With the picture, o’ war before hlsleycs an’ the fear o’ death in his mind. I grasped his hand, an* says 1 tq Bill, "Don’t ye ' . remember ine! . . I’m yer father—don't yo know tilt*! How fright­ ened yet seem to b e1.‘ ., But the boy ltep’ a whisperin’ to himself, as It . ' Mwas all he knew, , ‘‘Uod’lltaUo care, o' you, Bill, God'll take care o' you." - . .He's d eter known us since that day, nor hts sweetheart, an'ho nevor will; Father hn’ mother an* sweetheart ore all tko same to BUI. . - An’ many's tho limn his mother sets up the whole night through An* smooths hts head, and says: “Yes, Bill, ’ ■ Ood’ll takercare o’ you,” e> TJnfortunlt! Yes, but wo eaa’t complain. It’s a livin’ death more sad When the body clings to a life o’ shamc.an ’ tliC soul has gone to tho bad; An* Bill ’.a o at o* the reach o’harm an’ danger o* s t r r r .W T . ... .. ............ __ We onV taka ts:o:t,t-u>-Cuup, "out t.H./Vi 'I;*.»,w?. earn o’ his mind. Irving Bacheller, In N. Y. Independent, officers were nearly wilA wltk ra je a t their repeated losses, *Tho doors and windows pf the room wore sealed, nod private marks were put on the wax. The nbxt morning the officers wont into the room. The wfix ;was all riffiit, hut an­ other bushel of potatoes had vanished. I t was the maddest crowd you over saw? They locked me In, and a,llg,h t 9 d candle , was put at each end of the room so that I coul^lseo. I was ordered, to shoot on sig-ht anybody th a t I saw stealing those yams. I t was terrible lonosonto in th a t room* Ju st as fast as I would light ono candle and go to'the other end of the room to- light the otlior, tho.rats would cut the first ono down, They-were regular Con-v federate: rats, and a-candle was a god- send to them .... ■• * . About midnight I heard a croaking, gratin-g noise, I .cocked my guri arid listened. The noise ceased, I could soe nothing imt tlib rats, and I began to' think th a t tiro p.liico was haunted. Rres-^ ontiy tho noiso occurred-again, I looked at tho pile of ‘potatoes, 'apd- presently saw something drop. £rom the ceiling and fall fin tlw-m. I sawdt was a brick, ' and could distinguish a rope tied to it, it was drawn slowly up, and thoro was: about a pock of potatoes sticking to i t I t went up through a hole 'which had , boon in tho floor above, and presently camo flown“ again with a thump right." among, tho potatoos. I t was tho. most, artful arrangoment y.pu ever sa;V, ■The brick aborit had fifty holes drilled in i t , . and through each hole a shai-ponod ton- pen'ny nail had boon run, so th a t when the brick fell- among tho yotatoos those nails stuck into every ono they fell. on. I colild not help laughing at tho'sm art’ fiodgo those**. Yaukeos had taken. I gently put myrhand -forward ami caught hold of tho rope. P retty soon -they ho-, gan to draw on it, and when it did not. move I hoard one follow say: ■ \ “Steady boys; tho brick’s hung in something. Pull hot* -steady without jerking,” , ■ „ ; ! They did pull, steadily, and fairly lift- * ted.mo from tho floor. “Now jerk: easy boys, easy,” the di­ rector said, as thoy tugged away. l.got pretty rod in the face holding;to the rope, I was afraid to lot go because I thought some, of those spiked nails’ might strike mo-in passing. 1 thought of niy pocket knife ,apd' hauled it out just as they were putting all thoir weight on the other end of th e roper I cut it in two nml tho end shot back through tho hole in the'coiling, and I could hear arolling and tumbling on tlio floor above, showing that the- sudden . giving way d£ the rope 'had a disastrous effect- I heard another voice say: > ' ‘There, now; I told you so, You’vo ' broken the. rope. We’ve lost our brick, and to-inorrow we’ll he found' out. Can’t you -see it? ;VVo might hook it up." < Next I saw o long nook protruding through.the hole', and a fellow peering down. Then I called out; “ If you trouble any raoro of those, po- tatpos I’ll shoot." That fellow's head shot hack through that hpln just like a terrapin, and It was as still as death up there. . I- bated to tell 'on them, because it was such a sharp sd;emo of foraging on tlio enemy, but I had to. ; When the officers wont up next morning to examine the room it took a long while to itlnd tho hole, Those Yankees had’cut a hole about a foot square through the floor, and it was done so neatly that it took good oyes to discover it .—Toledo (0.) Blade. IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. BE JU S T , AND FEAR NOT. Broad i s tho fluid th a t wc .must plow With slinrfi-beum gauged for furrow deep; And resolutely women now Must work with will and cease to weep. ., ■ . a Prayers nnd petitions naught avail— The harvest will no fruitage yield If Agitation's plow and flail No work have done within this field. P u re words of true progressive thought Must scattered he by yoice and pen, To germinate, ns sure they ought. Within the quickened minds of men, Tho’wrong has long withstood the right, And deaf hns been to login’s power; Bold prejudice and stubborn might -. Grow weaker with each passing hour, . Foi’womimstoUin front liatU come, Ami stretches forth lior empty hands: Tlio’ long oppressed, she claims her own— ■She asks for-freedom and demands ' ’ The ballot for her country’s good, The ballot for lior children's sake; Tho franchise for all womanhood, To ahvc this nation Cro too Into,, " Tq turn the retributive tidtrw ,^/ , Which sets again toward this land; Unrepresented nml denied, - A t last for equal rights w-e stand; .-■ . t - F or bldck and white moot now ns foes, ) And rich uud poor resort to arm s;'v . Tho drink curse weighs us down with,woes, And lust robs woman of h er chai-ms; ■ .--While legislators neither heed ■Unrighted wrongs no*-pleading cries: Intent ace they on power and gfoed , - Blind to tlio ttorm-clond in the skies. i ’ But, like the hernipes of old. • 'B oth wives aiul motliers forward ■ And organize with'courage hold i» •5 ' To gain thoir rights, and guard the home. .Good'men and true, give them your aid— Join hands ami make their cause your own; Ho right, and never lie afraid ' , That Justlce will her knigliis disown, i —II. It. Clurke.dn Womun's Journal. FOR HIGHER. EDUCATION. • t~~ PICKED UP A T RANDOM. widow of Stonewall Jackson for liis.aor* vieps during; tho Mexican war. Tup ox-l’rlsoncrs of War Association has mado.Carrie Barton and Annie Wit* tennteyor advisory members of thoir board of munu^emext. . • “D aisv ,” tbo vetoran war horse which carried Captain William A, Hill, of Bos­ ton, through the battles of Gettysburg and Antletam, died recently. The horse was thirty-four years old T h e ltc a liz a tlo n s am i F o n d H opes o f th e W om en of.'G erm nny. Thoro is so much activity of thought and examination of -educational; issues to-day thatonoTnust have a,hundred pairs of eyes to seo it all, and one must bo a modern jlriarous to clip all the items, caught b y ' printers’ ink, '.It would bo enough to .occupy one’s hope and atten­ tion ' to sliuly-a single .movement—that in Germany looking td tho. higher edu­ cation of womon thoro. I t is a little stir to givo the privileges and ennobling of larger educational opportunities whoro there has been a comparative dearth of thorn for women, except in the case of specially favored ones, few in Dumber. An association for th e purposo of se­ curing ' advanced education for women was founded, ju s t where it ought to have had its origin,-at Weimar, in 1888. The ladies of tho association forwarded to the Minister of Education of Bavaria, Wurtoinburg and Prussia it petition ask­ ing for tlio admission of women to the universities in these par.ts of the Em­ pire; urging the privilege of • following certain scientific courses. Their argu­ ment was th a t women, should bo more exlonsivoly employed in teaching girls,- especially in teaching ethical subjects and those forming character, and that the Government should provido Bchools where* Women might receive training adequate to these demands. Thoy argued, further, that schuols for girls .wero organized on tho wrong principle, and that they should nim to train all tho faculties pf girls, toprodueo woman­ hood of tho highest and complete1 typo, just us tho present system of cdu- . . , , ... cation for men alms to produco manhood A l’KNsiox has been granted. to* tho-|i0f q 10 j,ieal kind. Tho paper frankly admitted th a t wom­ en of the kind desired do not grow on every wayside bush, but that thoy must bo trained and thus provided, Tho peti­ tion was marked by a wise Conservatism th a t neither asked nor favored the ad­ mission of women to the universities, bu t pleaded for tho orcetion oLpublic colleges similar to tboso for womon in England, viz.: Girton and Nownliam. Tbo memorial further showed th a t wpm FISHING FOR POTATOES. . A Good Story Told 1>y- an Ex-Guardsman of I«lbhy i ’rixon. The following story is told by Mr. Joseph Wingfield, an ex-guardsm&n of Libby prison, of his experience while standing guard over the prisoners ono night, in 1808: * TJiO building was so crowded with pris­ oners th a t a largo number of them were quartered in **ho second story of tho building across tbo stroot. In tlio first story of this building tbo prison offi­ cers bad stowed a large supply of splen­ did North Carolina sweot potatoes, About tho third day after.the prisoners had been placed in tho building it was noticed th a t tho potatoos wero disap­ pearing a t tho rate of about a bushel a day. A t first it was thought that tlio rats had taken thorn, hut a second thought showed th a t tho idea -was ab­ surd, Sentinels wore posted around tho building, with orders to shoot any man caught stealing those potatoes; but thoy didn’t seo arivbody to shoot, and, although they wore posted there day and night, and no ono was allowed to enter tho room in which tho potatoes wore kept, thoy still 'continued to dis­ appear. Sweet potatoes a t that timo wero con­ sidered luxuries, and tho Confederate A t the battle of^ Bull Ituiq Governor Cn aro mentally and physically equal to tho severe co.urso of $tudy asked for thorn, and th a t they will gain in woman­ liness by having such a course. After eight months, Minister von exaggdr5it*(ITthaf~wpmen were atrehAy- extensively employed as teachers, and that the best positions were open to those who would qualify themselvfes for them; that tho government was already making generous provision *for tho training of women in the seminaries at­ tached to girls* schools, The idea that women should teach re­ ligion was wreposlerOus, in that It seemed to deny the usefulness of the confirmation instruction, which, as now given by men, is a ’“most blessed insti­ tution.” . The separation of the women who went to college would end their estrangement from family life. Finally —andfctho “finally” is a littlo idiomatic when logically considered—many poor but respectable young women, how finding employment suited to their abilities in the girl’s Schools, would be unable to pay the expense of the pro­ posed course, and would be thus driven out of tho business of teaching. The petition has accomplished npth- ing directly. As soon as the attitude o. the minister was known, the documefn Was pigeon-holed by the Prussian House of Representatives, Tbo indirechbene­ fit, however, can hardly he estimated. The public presshas taken up the causi and is eagerly discussing it pro and con. Influential leaders’of public opinion are airing the arguments of the petitioners andare emphasising them to the people, Alger met a breathless soldier fleeing with the rest of the army toward Wash­ ington. Tho soldier had a wound on his face, "That’s a had wound, my v:;-« ’’ j’-fl/l the .Governor ns tlio snldimr halted; “wliorq dbi-yuir gofc V t “Got i t a t the Bull Ihm fight -yesterday. "But how could you get h it in the facer a t Bull Run?” "Well, sir,” said tho man* half-apologetlcally, “I got careless, and looked back!” M bs . j O bnebab G b A vt says she first met tho General.in 1814 and thoy were married in 1848. She haS many of the letters written by him during the days of their courtship, and while she re­ gards these in their entirety as too sacred for the public eye, she will make extracts from them for her hook of rem­ iniscences of her famous husband. Slid Is working very slowly on the hook, and does not expect to have It ready for pub­ lication before next spring. Bx-SEX.vronGiiiMAX M austox , of New Hampshire, who died recently, was wounded badly in tho arm a t Bull Run, but refused to have the member amputa­ ted, though tho surgeons told^iim his life depended upon that operation. lie in­ sisted upon being placed upon bis horse, and was led to the front amid cheers from tbo “boys” of his regiment. He once refused to allow bis troops to board an overloaded transport, because be had “brought those men from Now Hamp­ shire to fight, not to bo drowned.” Tho orders of a tyrannical superior to build a guard-house "without so much as 'W crack in It” bo obeyed literally, solid logs being so used that there was not oven a door to enter by. Th« weakness of Minister von.Gosxler’* argument, has furniBhed tho target for so many arrows of w ftthat the air is full of their whir arid whiz. The conscience of£ the Prussian Government is go pricked by this that it has lately sent an envoy to inquire into the methods and workings of tho English colleges for womon. Moreover, a higher course of instruc­ tion for women who aro to teach has boon established in connection with tho Victoria Lyceum a t Berlin, The ideal and method of this course are essential­ ly tho same as those of tlio universities, and i t is thought th a t the Lycbum will develop into u, university for .women. ' The courses are to bo systeraatici and ] obligatory, to extend* over three years, to combine lectures with seminary work, and to terminate in "a State examina­ tion "with_a diploma for' those. who pass. • Another movement is the Jtoalkurso fur Frauen, recently Inaugurated at Ber-> 'lin, which aims to givo women advanced' , instruction „in- mathematics,- physics, chemistry, political economy ,and Ger­ man,"the instruction being such .as will make women more independent in their relations to modern life. , . Parallel with all this is the -decision of the Prussian Ministry In regard to women teachers; In 1870, whenmen wero scarce, becausO-thowar needed, so.many Of. thorn, women wore, tried .as teachers. ‘ Now it is dcaroed that'.whenever a fo- , male-teacher’s place becomes vacant it * can not ho filled by a man, as was pro­ posed by: a provincial government, hut must be filled by a woman. -Thisis.an entoring wedge in the mattor of higher education, and every ono is watching eagerly for the outcome. The whole /position is better under­ stood when one realizes that the girls of Germany enter school at seven or eight yeats-of age and are graduated a t fifteen or sixteen. “The last years are devoted to a furious cramming process, and at nineteen . thoir education is merely, a ■reminiscence.” The ambitious and tal­ ented young women aro obliged to go abroad, to study, because they have no opportunity at home. • . —’ ~-- A fter all the longing eyes that able ‘arid appreciative women have cast at tho Opportunities for learning in Germany, is it any wonder that movements like.’ that of tlio Weimar Association sw ‘ awaited with breathless interest? Ger­ many does things so well and thorough­ ly th a t tho imagination V>'erleaps...itself in ’picturing the fluSI results, of Gor- . many’s awakening to) hen obligations to women and to the Smte iff this matter. Emma Atkinson Almy, in Woman’s Journal. . I r O INTS OF PROGRESS. Philadelphia has a trade school for young women! L oud -S aijshtbv , tho British Prem­ ier, lias declared himself in favor of woman suifrago. , . T he Columbus, O., Board of Educa­ tion has decided th a t there shall here­ after be?no distinction between tin sal­ aries of men and women teachers in the public schools. L ondon University has on its rolls ’ novon "lady-masters” of a r t I47baebq- lorstof art, two doctors of science, 21 bachelors of soloncp, and eight Women holding medical and surgical degress. 1D uiun A the past year tho Woman’s Club of Pittsburgh, Pa., has studied the history of Spain from the earliest rec­ ords- to the present day. This, with dis­ cussions upon current topics and other matters of interest, has constituted nn unusually good year’s work. • T he ‘now cditiqfi? o f “Mon of the Times,", now in preparation, will be callod “Men and Women of the Timos,” a correction th a t has long been desirable from a strictly literary .point of view; and as a matter of- recognition of the, place woman occupy in affairs. About fine hundred now names will bp added in tho forthcoming edition. * i M bs . M aby M uxo . v , of Madison Coun­ ty, Ky., was the first woman in that State to btf elected county superintend­ en t of public schools, fnfl hqr adminis­ tration was so successful that at tho re­ cent electlojuthere was no candidate in tho field against her. Her example has proved somewhat contagious, as there wArAGf Tvmr»n» - for th a t office in eleven countjcs ln ihv- State, S ta t is t ic s have been published of th e women students of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, proving the fallacy of tho old argument that study is injuri­ ous to women. I t is shown that among students, both men and women, tho pro­ portion of marriages is comparatively small. I t is also shown that there ate fewer childless women among -the mar­ ried students than among other women, and not only that, but thoir children ar.o , healthier. EV f . n in Finland the educational au­ thorities move along abreast of jbo times. The question whether ladies, without special, permission, might be allowed to pass the “student’’ examin- •tion has recently attracted much atten­ tion in Finland, and tho university ap­ pointed acommittce to deal with the matter. The decision has been pub­ lished, to the following effect.- “Finish ladies may ho admitted to tlio universi­ ty as students on tho same conditions, and with tho same privileges and obli­ gations, as tiiqso in force for students and tho malo sex, subject to tlio restric­ tion th a t any examination passed by a lady can not entitle her to. other ap­ pointments than such us are in accord- aucO with existing laws and regulations- Nor is any lady entitled to receivo such free scholarships as are distinctly in* ; tended for men.” niator t* TEMPL * a u n t l WIi]' 8k* Wo «ye ,* “Did you *ma’am? l'n tp a t .line, a« home, A y bank cavin’ on a side ,bU me, knowin’ aim an hone The cprnp’n; “ *Do I giv strengthen!) “ You’ve great . 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AVo look* and poor a very, very Mag had; spare frui ‘scrubbin’’’ looking uf “Gilbori and got to his office across the eAst windi Worki an’ ho. up all get the da peaked a most tern got up, hi flesh, an’ my feet, rock and loino pr< The rye v ine and cough.’ I liked it. swallow 1 * -“ 4ft*CI he, and wouldn't under th- ho re-fiilf money <(, it, and ft being, si when it wero is v the door - ‘For Vvi;,- ot pain s in the su body had to he u-t; should it “After to the lo and I co:. by , th e i h im se l 0-, Boa th a t the ction bet women t* •rsityha* ters” of doctors once, and . and surj a st year fh; Pa., h i from th at day, ' rrent top *st, has c ear’s wot don of i prepara Women c has lorfg literary, o f recog] cupy in a / namKi v ng edition I.I.ON, of 1 * first wc ed county tools, and iccessful ire was nc hqr. 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