The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

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N.Y. irman 9 9 THE battle field , my EMPTY CA frTE fN . . f'lUB m x v x 0 SSSS±a*tmSKsu Iiacts mo fiooil to bear of him. nit sobers me an(l wake* me fool though ’iworo onlyyesterday Wefaiwpod toia-lher—Sara and t, il-eM'* Komothiiitr strange and sad, my friend, *MUt iiiownyold scones comehuelr i I'Bontnymemory to-nlgUt. ■■fiilko to toll about a drink m,»t SWailmftn * tioya gave us one nlgbt:— }jo« weirietl with tbe heat and dual 01 tdlliome march, a* n gbt drew on, Yljjrumand lUotho bait proclaimed. OHM up bur straggling ranks, and waked vkn tbougbis of camp and food .and roat, empty canteen mocked my thlr.st. • Jacamradcs spoke through parched lips. Df'lowus. t tr tho river gl**flie<)i 1 VOhint el "rook, <* peoL pTapflug ..*< AH«sged tho fever in’m ttjvW n * ,', ■ * w?tllmbed at length th* wopda4,«”«t! ' Filedrisbt ami toft, Inordered line*. - i 0dstacked our ajtins; t#en*ljpnt atpod. •-OmskranksI” Ml notppon o&r.rara; '' ; But,through Vhp dusk and,bll«nt gloom, Acrotsour front, then face to face ' 0ote passed a host of unnrm-d mon— pjjlung their canteens-r-bade us “drlnltl” ■Tilthus that you. to-day, revive • Myfainting heart. Aorose 'the years— ■ •Tteicofolred and dusty years of strife— jly weary march draws noar Its close. ’ flight's shadows hide my camping ground, Aihlrst and famished. In tho gloom Ihukivrhon to my Ups you pros* ThisCop, with cool, sweet water fllled, , —Iowa State Register. MAO. BELL’S DUEL. roatandLungs “ I have been ill for g e “ about five years, “ have had th e best *• “ medical a d v ic e , “ a n d lto o k the first m e doubt. T h is result- f hours easy sleep. There ther bemorrhage.tilluext in I had a sligh t attack pped almost immediate- lie th ird day all trace of d disappeared and I had much strength. The,. y I sat up in bed and att r, the first solid food foi ths. ■Since th a t time I dually gotten better and able to move about the My death was daily ex* id my recovery ha.' lrprise to my frieritoymiJiu r. There can be no doubt 2 effect of German Syrup, an attack ju s t previous to The only relief was aftet dose.” J.R . IyOUGHHEAD, Australia. @ IILE AND ALONE ' AS SZLS XOVEBS. r~y dispel poisonousMlofrom rv-tern. tin-r>-i*y curing bill* attacks. consilpntloii, head. - !, malaria,ritseatery, and all tacb and liver disorder*. fwo sixes, one prico. . c i;cAMs. 20 In each bottle, One a dose. kTlninsBSriT.I., ^OTaesch — liiiUSe, 2 tu 4 a dose. :ar Coated. l'.casant tm cnxuly. bold by Druggists. 25 cent* per b o ttle. . T . SM ITH i s CO., 35A SOTOretnwlch Street, NewYorkCity. KS‘SCALE WORKS. „ ’‘Gentlemen, hero arc the weapons" •xololmed the doctor, as two large base- ha)l hats rolled out of the oilcloth. Ha ■wiv of yam* OF GENERAL INTEREST. —A building site la Washington pr*» muted nothing extraordinary1from out- Ml and placed one in the lianda " f r 1 ^ p tin c% l. “U ind.fgentlcmcn, >u‘ W e j a v ^ n g J nipt to violate' the r e to keep n* » f J ton p * e 8 apart. A toyo ttrtody?” * * ^ “Capt, Poor and I gazed a t each other. reat u.P?n- The difficulty was overcome The seconds were doubled up on th e , ^ d n vm g -p lic a ground in convulsions of laughter. Even I —E»ch tr ip of a first-class ocean th e doctgr smiled, and to cap the cH* 6toam«r> 6a7 fl'om Now York to Queens- max, aidlvery -■ laWhvfrom m woman’s town or I.iyefpaol, coSt | about *20,000. lips broke the stillness of the air as the >Tins includes salaries, maintenance of IN WOMAN’S BEHALF. WOMAN'S SPHERE. wtuaNOf C / t A f ETC tfATfON BtAMO u A L f c O i it rAMwwm tu is * NtminM M h iM ii Wl tUMSSS! i* cHEtr IftTHERM IFIC R. ft ncitUMralOnM-' limber U tM »« t i MKiers, WMV.UMCM i IMMmmviHWitMk V MEWltfll IMfM’nctbm ifjrr*KA 4 MrUmfW|«««* AMeeting on th e Field o f Honor That D id i S o t l*rov© D isastrous. ‘ An emblematical button of the Loyal Legion adorned the lapel of a cheviot tout worn by Maj.. Oscar Bell a t the Al­ bany- ‘IAstory, eh?" laughed the ex-army officer, as he detached his eyeglasses from the bridge of his nose and looked inn good natured way a t the expect­ ant Republican reporter seated beside him. “Well, lemme see. The smoke of Shiloh is a chestnut now, and the battle of the Wilderness probably has been smothered from further interest by a profuse growth of weeds. By jove! I can give you a little incident th a t has never been in type. I t happened in 1883. when our regiment was in, camp at a little Missouri •town called Lex­ ington. I wore a captain’s straps at that time and did the- shouting for Com­ pany It. “The captain of Company D was nam­ edHenry Poor. Unknown to me he de­ tested me, and all because 1 once made a pun on his name while a t West P o in t lloing a young man of stringent means he was' mortally offended, bu t la te r ■seemed to tpve overlooked^an unin-’ tentional sally of w it th a t I got off a t his expense among a group of fellow- cadets, ’ . • “Weil, when we got our commissions the loaded dice of faith threw us both in the same regim ent and w hen the war broke out we went to the front un­ der the same colonel. As I said before, our regiment camped a t. Lexington, Mo., near Kansas City, or Westport, os it was known in those days. Among the events that transpired during the . ^weeks of our sojourn was a grand 1 ■| given a t the residence of a loyal ,L.jrrftern woman, for - Lexington, al­ though a Missouri town, had g reat re­ spect for the confederate colors, and a great many of its citizens heartily sym­ pathized with the southern cause. A t the ball, several of .the officers of our regiment- wore invited—Poor and my­ self included, "During the evening I placed my name on the programme of one of Lex­ ington’s belles, but when 1 called for the dance I was horrified a t the discov­ ery that my name had been deliberately •erased and th a t of Poor substituted. When Poor and the young lady stnrted off amid the seductive strains of the or­ chestra my blood, which had in the meantime been increased to 140 degrees Fahrenheit by a liberal- indulgence in diampaigne, fairly boiled with, indigna­ tion, Later iii the evening 1 caught Capt. Poor in the gentleman's dressing- foom alone. I slapped him roughly in face and told him just what I thought of him. lie did not resent it there, bu t •Hie next day I received a challenge fromhim to fight a dueL "1 had never fought a duel afid Xhes­ itated some time, bu t ra th e r than be accused of cowardice I consented. The .^maticiL was jplaced in the hands of friends, and one bright moonlight n igh t five dark figures sneaked out of the camp and into a neighboring wood. The fifth figure was th a t of a doctor of Lexington, who had been let into the secret and consented to act, in consid­ eration of a big fee fo r his services. To every appearance the duel was to be a tragic one, although I thought a t one time I detected a slight stnirlc in the features of the seconds, who were mu­ tual friends of the determined princi­ pals. "Measure off ten paces," commanded the doctor as he wiped a tiny stream of ' -Missouri nlcotitie from his chin wlils- k*r«. The doctor was to a c t as master of ceremonies. The apace w as.m eas­ ured, “Bring on the weapons." was the next command. The seconds brought forth an old oihlfifiiis-ldtiking bundle carefully wrapped up in oilcloth. Capt. l’oor shuddered. I v r u equally nerv­ ous, Cgh! the weapons were evidently wicked sabers,, and i t would be a duel from which neither principal would emerge alive. We took our plaoes ton Faces apart and stood g laring a t each other, patiently Waiting for the suppos­ ed swords to be placed in Our hand* re»dy to pierce each other1* heart*. fair cause of the duel strode onto the dueling ground with eyes sparkling with mirth. “ ‘Do be sensible, gentlemen, and sliakehands,’ said. she. ‘There ip going- to be another party next Tuesday evon- ing, and I will divide my programme of waltzes w ith you both if yon.do. ’ “I looked afeToor .and ;w«. qw l half way ahd /shqiqk hands. The ludicrous contemplation, of a duel w ith baseball bats q t a distance of ten paces was too. muchdor us, ’ We laughed heartily after casting a r e p m c h f u l glance a t tho mis­ chievous seconds who put the job up on us." ’ At this juncture there was a rustle of satin n^ar th e h o te l.elevator, and the major arose; in response to a signal from a well-preserved lady. As he left the reporter he said, with a sly winlf of the le ft eye, <‘I got th a t young lady for life though, and Poor is up in the Sioux country now .and still a bachelor.” With these parting words ho disappear­ ed into the dining-room w ith th e wife of his romauce.i—Denver Republican. A BRAVE CONFEDERATE. Bombardment and .Capture o f Fort I’u- i luskl l>y tlie Federal*. .Fort l’ulaski was captured by the fed­ erate April 11,1802. Great preparations for the bombardment of the place had been made by Gens. Sherman, Gilmore and Hunter, and weeks lmd been spent in constructing powerful batteries at all available points. When the heavy guns had been mounted and all was in readiness, on the 10th pf April Gen. Hunter sent a note to the commanding officer of the fort notifying him that an attack was about to be made and calling upon him to surrender, in order to avoid the useless eiFusion of human blood. To this Col. Charles U. Ohnstead, the commanding officer, of the fort, returned this gallant reply: “Sir: I hovo to acknowledge receipt of your communication of tills date demanding the un­ conditional surrender of Fort Pulaski. In reply 1 can only say that I am here to defend the fort and not to surrender It.” • On this refusal, and a t 7:37 o’clock on the morning of th a t day, fire was opened on the fort from eleven powerful bat­ teries. Three minutes later the fort re­ plied from a tendncli barbette gun. The bombardment continued ■ with great fury for eighteen long hours. 1At the end of th a t time the fort had been broached a t the southeast angle, and a t 2 o’clock on the afternoon of the 11th preparations htid begun for a grand as­ sau lt by the federals. Ju st then the white flag wain run up. and the confed­ erates surrendered. Forty-seven guns, a g reat supply of fixed ammunition, forty thousand pounds of powder, large quantities of commissary stores and three hundred and sixty prisoners were taken.-fChicago News. . crew, wear of machinery, etc., and a reasonable interest on the money spent in building the vessel. —A'Georgia veterinary surgeon, has performed quite a skillful operation on a mule. The animal’s,hoofs had grown out about eight inches long and had re­ mained in this condition so long th a t it Yvas walking on. its hind legs something like a boar. The surgeon lmd three Inches of its hoof sawed off and had It ■hod in such a manner, as to straighten It up on it* feet again. - —GirigeF tippling1has become quite common"of late, and it is safd to be very harmful. A Philadelphia physician de­ clares th a t ‘‘the tincture of ginger can be bought for .about five cents an ounce. I t contains fully ninety-five per cent, of alcohol. I was called, not-long ago,” he adds, "to attend a woman who ad­ mitted to me th a t she was in the habit of drinking sixteen ounces a day." — Henry Carter, a Colorado million­ aire, was walking about in Philadel­ phia and saw a servant girl sweeping off the fron t steps of a house. " Ju st WAIFS FOR OLD WARRIORS. II What I t lle a llr I* a t Vlawed From is OMinsii Standpoint—Fhqn ganitblp Read­ ing. ....... I t is no empty delusion! the woman question. Every one must concede that, who 1ms not faced the present social strugg le’with Complete ignorance of indolence. ‘But while'some place hope In this knowledge, others, the* direct enemies of the movement, seek to in­ crease the hinderances, the prejudices of centuries, which stand An the way of lts champions; and a third party, earn­ est and without prejudice,' but filled with pitiful doubt, discuss tho ques­ tion whether the change of social con­ dition for which the representatives of womun’s emancipation, are intending, would no t run directly contrary to wo­ man’s most beautiful, her ‘‘natural'’ calling, 1 One fact they forget to consider, which 'indisputedly is of great signifi­ cance in the decision of this question, th a t woman in the first place is a human being. The task which men and women in the plan of .the world have to dis­ charge,. may differ at certain points ac­ cording to .their difference of sex; but the common attributes of humanity, strength and mind-power which n atu r­ ally and irrepressibly demand activity and satisfaction,, can not be refused to women by any just thinker. • And even grant th a t in women these arc less S a Mriii. E. J ames , of Kittaning, Pa., a veteran o f tho Two Hundred nnd Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, is tl»o possessor of the key to the main door of old Libby prison a t Richmond. Ax old soldier, J. II. Douglas, who had passed unharmed through the per­ ils of the battlefields of the war, was killed in his own shooting gallery in Louisville, Ky., recently, by a young colored woman. J ohn MrwJOAN, said to have been the oldest member, of the Grand Army, being upwards of one hundred, died re­ cently a t Mechanicville, Saratoga coun­ ty, N, V. He was a soldier of the One Hundred and Fifteentjii New YotkJRcgi- ment. W hen graduation day came for Cadet Joseph E. Johnston a t West Point his coat was so shabby th a t he found it necessary to borrow a better one from Cadet Wilson. I t is worthy of mention th a t Gen. Johnston forgot neither the borrowing of the coat nor the cadet of whom he borrowed i t A fjooD story is told on one of the judges o f --the New. Jersey, courts, who persistently questioned a prisoner, a" veteran of the late war, who was brought before him for sentence, as to whether he had ever been in prison. After a long time his honor evoked an affirmative answer. When pressed fur­ ther as to the date and cause of his in­ carceration the old soldier replied, with some warmth: " ’Twas a t Anderson- ville prison, sir, twenty-five years ago, while you were in New York writing editorials how to end the war.’’—Phila­ delphia Press. One of Indiana’s bravest soldiers was Col. Sol. Meredith, Of Cambrige City, Wayne county,and many amusing anec­ dotes are told of him. Ho was colonel of the Nineteenth Indiana a t the Lewis­ ville skirmish,and noticing th a t his men dodged every time a shell exploded over theta, as he rode along the lino, ho ex­ horted them to hold up their heads and ac t like men, Suddenly an eighteen- pound shell burst within a few feet oi him and he involuntarily ducked his head almost to the saddle, while his hots* squatted w ith fear. "Boys," ho exclaimed, M hd rose up, "you may dodge th e larger onto-" A cheer apd a laugh w ent over tfaa aatirn Imp. .lsdihnspolis N«Wt tho gal I w aut for ,a wife!" whispered | sharply defined than in man (an appear- Henry., And in. three weeks ho had her on his arm and was’westward go­ ing. Thirty-two thousand five hundred and eighty-six Philadelphia servant girls now hustle to sweep.—Detroit Free Press. ■ - t -A French paper contains the follow­ ing advertisement: "A governess—with diploma—would like to ,accompany a musical lady to the country and on tho piano." Here •is another: "Wanted— a French nurse who loves children of fi and 8 years.” And hero is the queer­ est: “Wanted—A professor /to come twice a week to the house of a noble family in order to reform the pronunci­ ation of a parrot." —In connection with the equipment for fire protection it is recommended that n gallon pail filled with fine sand be always placed within convenient reach for each workman. This practice might well be followed wherever there is a possibility of fire starting in oil-or oil-soaked Materials. There is nothing which w ill squelch fire in its incipiency more quickly and ’effectually than sand and there are no afterclaps to the way of water damage either. ,j —Perhaps one of the most enterpris­ ing newspaper reporters th a t this coun­ try evet, produced lives a t Cleveland, O. News items being very.scarce one day he determined to furnish his newspa­ per with something in the way of news, so he took a dose of poison and tele­ phoned the fact to his paper. Tho en^ terprising scribe, however, was pumped out in time to save his life, and he- is no doubt now hutching up another sen­ sation,- which will enable him to scoop the rival sheets, —There is a man from Now Yoirk taking baths a t Mount Clemen's, Mich., who can be classified among the curi­ osities. He has straigh t black hair and w.as a white man until some time ago, when his skin t 'rneti to the color of maliogany. Ho was nffi'icted with jaun­ dice, and the medicine he. took is sup­ posed to have caused his change of com­ plexion. In, the morning lie is several shades lighter than toward' night: Tho medical fraternity have labored in vain to bleach him, bu t by, talcing a course of baths he hopes to be able to again recognize himself. • ' —The newest slot machine' is a mi­ croscope. Underneath it in a box is arranged a circular glass plate to which are fastened various, minu'o ob­ jects. In the one the reporter saw Was a piece of the flesh of a monkey, a black spider's head and eyes, a flea, and a collection of insects said to have been taken from sea shells. Under the plate a small lamp bnmed. I t gave sufficient light to enable the man who looked down the microscope to distin­ guish the objects on the plate. A cent dropped in tho slot started clockwork ancc which is to be traced to the system of education laid on t for women, and to the oppression of centuries;. much rather than to natural foundations), do the social conditions of the present of­ fer the possibility of insuring satisfac­ tion to woman’s genius according to this acknowledged necessity? They do not. Is it not a barbarity to withhold from a creature what its organization urgently requires as necessary nourishment? One quickly pities a fellow-creature who hungering and freezing reaches out the hand for alms; but there are natures to whom privation of spiritual necessities causes incomparably greater woe than is possible from any physical hunger,— and this even the most benevolent and tender-hearted men seem not to realize. The glowing, passionate impulse of the soul to search the heights and depths of science, the longing and wrestling for the highest fortune und possible perfection, the satisfaction in the consciousness o f devoting one's strength to the service of mankind—is all this for man only? Shall woman feel within her nothing of. that sacred fire of intellect? Shall no voice within her breast .say th a t it -is mankind’s moral duty to be free? If all these at­ tributes and privileges are only 1 for man, woman -can not be considered human. Then the ideas mankind and man are identical; then, also, man has perfect right to treat woman us a slave. I t is personal freedom which will be least willtogly conceded to woman, by the opponents of the struggle for eman­ cipation. "Let man strive for freedom, woman for morals!" they call out to her and by this call demand a fresh proof of her bondage—submission to the sway of authority. They forget the saying. "Man is not born to be free!” Can not a woman struggling for freedom a t the saiqu time lie inoral? Wjll she not in consequence of this struggle be so? Is freedom synonymous with license? No. The intellectually developed hnman being, whether man or woman, is free to submit liimself to the moral luw.and only such kind of morality is worthy of mankind. As woman is a p a rt of-mankind, so ought she in the first plage to fulfill her mission ns a part of mankind, that is, serve the common cause of human­ ity according to her strength and abil­ ity and under the supervision of her own individual inclinations. And here lies the most glaring, the most conse­ quential injustice which man has in­ flicted upon woman (anil hence upon the wider order of humanity). "Wom­ an shall be wife and mother: that is her particular, her natiirul .calling; all others are unnatural," has been- said for centuries, and with this law of tyranny man lias crushed out woman’s individual life, and systematically com- thut made the plate revolve. I t stopped i polled her to what as a matter of fact ;in instan t as each object was directly !B]lc jias almost become: a willess tool under the microscope. The microscope ) 0f man, a creature without character, magnified about forty times.—N fiu n ,-------- . ___________ _ __________ —A strange story in which a cat is a pathetic character has come to light at Paoli, Go., says the Savannah News. A little boy of th a t village owned a cat that was a great pet in the family. But the ca t would have nothing to do with any one except the boy. The latter died, and for two weeks the cat would come as usual every morning to the door, and, going in the room, would cry very monrnfuUy, ir.d walk over tho child’s bed hunting for its lost friend. Finally the cat disappeared, only ro turning occasionally. A t last one oi the child’s sisters saw the cat in the graveyard, where it remains, only re­ turning occasionally for food. " It keeps guard a t the boy’s grave, and can be heard a t night crying pitifully.” Human Nature, Mother—Now, Johnny, you must bo a good boy and study hard this week. Remember the nice presents yon got for being a good boy last Christmas. F ather (wlio was once a boy himself) —Johnny, if 1 hear any bad toporta from your scliool-teaoher there’ll be no circus-tickets next -Saturday, Unden* stand? Johnny- Yea, air.—N. Y, Bacordea, ■ented, and hence of enjoying the beat result of culture. The artificer’s daughter to whom per* haps nature k*x’giv#n a rgpl} intellect and disposition (that th is eometime* happens nobody denies) is always edu­ cated for fnture wife and housekeeper. It.were foolish to educate h e r to th e same- plane as one in a high social po­ sition. In beT circumstances in life j» higher culture were a cursed ‘So with wi,se care they withhold from tho child, glOWJrig w ith enthqsiasip for, tbe beau­ tiful and sublime, everything for which she longs. Thus they bring, i t about that she is not prejudiced against her "natural” vocation. , The opppsem of woman’s Cmancipa* tion continually harp th a t it is the no­ blest duty of wornaq to make the family life beautiful and harmonious, to alle­ viate sorrow, and to exercise love. 'Do they then forget entirely th a t—accord­ ing to psychological law—the exerclBC of this beautiful, womanly virtue is first possible when it is induced by condi­ tions corresponding to her individual­ ity. Only from one point of view can it be understood that woman's natural call­ ing consists in being wife and mother —upon the same ground that the natur­ al calling of man is fulfilled iu his char­ acter as husband and father. .But it never occurs to anybody to assert this. Complete freedom is permitted the man to found a household or not; never is he required before every thing else to be husband, and father. That were ab- Bur.b! But ■woman—every woman—in tbe fulfillment of her duty shall rise only for the family, in work for the home, which in spite of wish and aspir­ ation is not all interesting to her. Experience has demonstrated that woman in almost all departments of in­ tellectual work has achieved, andi therefore, can achieve greatness. And yet men perseveringly. exclude her from the lecture-rooms of science, they con­ fine to a narrow limit women to whom the mastery of a branch of industry is a question of existence, to a region where a cultured und intelligent woman finds no suitable field of activity for her in­ tellect. They, believe it is due to th e : welfare of humanity .to deny the ablest, most aspiring woman, what they grant without reserve to the worst, the idlest man. O humanity! O justice! ■ Henceforth woman—as man—accord­ ing to her individuality, her. ability and her inclination. Should he educated as a morally free. Independent human being (this is the ideal aim of all education), moreover singling out one of her talents, she should practice' assiduously her chosen profession, aiming a t her ideal; finnlly 'she should . appropriate that knowledge and. readiness, which 'give her standing, to fulfill in a worthier manner her position as wife und mother if following her-free will, she either wholly or partly quits ihc pursuit of an independent calling and for the future takes her path of life at the side of a husband. . In such an instance her “natural call­ ing" would not hinder woman in the fulfillment of Tier most natural calling, the performance of her duty to human­ ity; her aspiring mirul would not be limited to tbe narrow circle of home, it- would wander, out into the greater circle of the community, and her intel­ lect, her aspirations wot 1be satisfied. —Translated from the Frauenberuf by Sophie Salvanius for the Chautauquan. ABOUT AND FOR FAIR WOMEN. individuality, independent feeling, so th a t Schopenhauer was nearly right in ltis assertion th a t women were only sorts of existences. He seems not to have considered th a t this condition of woman’s mind has been artificially in­ duced. The boy In most cases is freely per­ mitted to choose his life-calling accord­ ing to his own dictates; more than this, Often an intellectually weak or aver- agely gifted boy is given all possible pecuniary, aid to pursue this calling. The daughter without exception is edu­ cated for "wife and mother."'But man is sagacious and justenongh to vary according to circumstances the pro­ gram of training, within the limits pre­ scribed by nature. The girl in good circumstances as wife, mother atad housekeeper lias other duties to per­ form than one who is simply a common laborer's wife. She not only must be proficient in household affairs, but also in social duties, and must possess a cer­ tain degree of scientific and artistic cul­ ture. All these elements of culture must be taught her and she must re­ ceive them, though her unsusceptible mind may oppose ever so Stubbornly, though her intellect be ever So lUCapa* ple pi tftttaUfctlnff the material pre* A EAi>v employed in tho Tiffany jew­ elry house receives n salary of $2,500 for designing watch cases anil lorgnet­ tes, which are submitted to critical buyers. This young woman was a country girl, living on a farm up.in tho h ills of Massachusetts, ten years ago. Miss F uancks W jm . aud ' s long prac­ tice in presiding at public meetings has given her an case of manner in tho chair th a t many a man might envy, Hlie is among the few women who pro­ duce the impression of being no moro embarrassed when acting as chairman for a large ussembly than she would feel with a single guest in her own drawing-room. Miss V ji H. et L ohne writes In Bi­ cycling News th a t ut a certain ladies college a debate took place lately as to whether bicycling was a proper and correct form of exercise for women. Out of the fifty-three feminine voices th a t voted on ffie subject afterward, thirty-two were in favor of it, fourteen ; were’strongly against. Jive confessed to *knowing nothing about it, and two cau­ tiously refused to commit themselves over the matter. .. , Mhs. K at e S mith is th e o n ly w om an ch ief of d ivision in th e governm en t ser­ vice. In e ig h te en m on th s'sho rose from a S<i0 clerk sh ip to h er p resen t position , w h ich has a sa la ry o f 81,600, Sh e passed th e required exam in a tion fo r h er first p lace cred itab ly; sh e gain ed th e title o f "queen o f th e cen su s office" b y th e m anner in w h ich she used th e coun tin g m ach ines fo r ta b u la tin g population} and she now ha s charge o f th e co llection o f data on m ortgages on hom es and farms. '.S witzeiu .ANI) has become a favorite resort for continental women dcsirout of the higher education. Its univer­ sities last year had between 400 and 500 of them, 329 of whom were regularly matriculated, and preparing themselves to taho degrees; 110 of them came from Russia, 20 from Switzerland, 21 from Germany, 12 from Bulgaria, and 5 from the United States; 150 of them ttOpirc to diplomas in medicine, 6 are in the legal departments, and 07 are try* iag to become.doctor* o i philosophy*