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footpath at the water's edge. No SOCIAL LIFE AT SEA. ARE TO BE PHYSICIANS all of which, she said, she would be un able to do In the hot months in Spain, sooner does the visitor's footfall re sound on the stairs than the green She said that any suggestion that she was not on the best of terms with all water, hitherto motionless and ap ALL IS ABOARD A UNUSUAL, WOMEN GREES WIN IN A NOT WAR CRUISER. her relatives was ridiculously false. parently lifeless, becomes peopled WD SHOTi Her surroundings are in the highest with large brown tun, rising from the degree suggestive of wealth, and are 11 r-C depths, gliding and dashing about in a great state of excitement These certainly in flat contradiction of the l'h Omrr of tli V.

8. Warship Chicago Lionized lr Society of the are cod lythe and saithe, which, reports that she is in straightened clr for the First Time In the ITIitory of Education In Scotland Girls Hear Off the Titles of Bachelor of Medicine and Master In 8urgry. caught on lines in the sea, have been European Cnpllulii Ploture of a Urand curastauees, Bushey hall is a large and picturesque mansion with many Naval Uull. transferred to this pond to be fattened for the tablo. They are fed daily by gables.

Immense gates open upon the keeper, and experience has taugh Ktrnngcr pressed his hand to his fore-hoad, gave a long, gurgling sigh, and sank down on the boards, while from the hull came tho shrieks of women and tho horrified shouts and throats of men as they surged from tho doors and tho stage. Alcorez stood for a momont stupo-flod. In that short second a dozen possibilities whirled around ono dull central fact lrrotrlevablo ruin. Possibly ho had mixed his cartridges; perhaps, even, somo ono had tampor-od with his pistol. Ah! after all the poltroon might have only fainted.

Ho rushed across, bent down, and grew ghastly as ho saw a red fresh streak on the fallen man's brow. Theatrical to the last, ho faced the raging crowd and, tearing opon his shirt, placed the weapon to his own heart and fired. A rone wed burst of shrioks and cries greeted this. Ho neither fell nor moved, but stood with uplifted hands as if mutely calling on heaven broad avenue leading to beautiful lawns, which are dotted with great HE LIFE OF A was the last evening: of tho engagement of the French inrrtrir. n.

tlirt IS7 OR THE FIRST time in the history of Scottish univer naval ofllcor is by them to connect the sound of footsteps with their meal time. Formerly a clapper used to be rung to summon no means all poet them, but this was no more than ry. Indood, there Is an abundance of trick of the stage; the footfall on the stone is quite enough to awaken them to activity. Most of the cod, being ihiwriilnffHTiifpnip" I sities the dogrees of bachelor of medicine and master in surgery have been conferred upon two young women by Glasgow university. It Is reported by Scotch papers iff! very prosaio and even repulsive duty in it But there are long periods when it is rosy with deep-water fish, become totally blind in captivity from excess of light; but they become so tame and accustomed many delights, and to thoir keeper as.

not only to feed out 1 1 ri r- Elysium Musio hall, and. the house was crammed. Tho prestidigitator is not always a popular "turn;" ho lacks piquancy and excitement, and very often originality; but Alcorez had got hold of ono or two almost startling feats which current rumor gave him the credit of perilously stealing from Thibet. At all events his name on the bill was a featuro, and he always took well. The conjurer himself stood at tho bar waiting his call, and drank sparingly with his admirers.

He was in good spirits that night, for on the following week he was to start on a nerhaps there is that as Miss Marlon Gilchrist, who of his hund, but some of them allow themselves to be lifted out of the nothing in itnioro poetical and charm' to witness his innocence. water. One may see the strange sight lug than a station at soma of the great European or American They carried the dying man into of a huge cod, more than an ell long, dangled on the knee like a baby, says an English exchange, his mouth where society is at its best, ana wnere the uniform of one's country'is a sure a dressing room and placod him on a couch, while Alcorez followed, sickly with terror and agitated beyond words. The manager was there al passport to the best company. Araorl- stuffed with mussels and limpets, ranked third on the list of graduates who took the degrees "with high commendation," passed tip to the dais to be "capped" by the principal she received a perfect ovation of enthusiastic applause, which was warmly joined in by the professors, and Miss Lilian Cumming was quite as heartily welcomed.

Both the women who have the honor of being the first graduates in medi- pan officers who have long been enter after which he is returned to the water with a mighty splash. On the ready. "See if there is a doctor hore," he said briefly to an attendant. table these fish, thus tended and fed, prove much better than fish brought from the opon sea, THEY ARE MEN AT TEN. tained and foted in some foreign city, as the officers of the Chicago recently were in London and Antwerp, are never happier than when they can return some of the courtesies by giving a festival upon their own ship.

There is something about a war veBsel which seems to make it specially suitable for dancing puroposes. The beautiful decks, so spotlessly clean, seem to have been made for the pleasure of "There is no need," said the stranger suddenly, as he rose from the couch and stood firm. "I was not hurt." He took a cloth, wiped his forehead clean, and showed his hand smeared with fresh red paint. There was a hushed pause, broken by tho sound of Alcorez falling heav rRINCKS8 EUI.AI.IE. Hots Have But a Short Childhood In trees.

Near the house are splendid Corea. gardens, which require the care of a In Corea, the tiny little kingdom number of employees. The house is over which China and Japan are threatening to have such a dreadful ily to the ground. From the little big American tour which was almost certain to result in further engagements and assure his future. On the stage tho Sisters de Loarl were singing the tliiri and encore versa of their great success, "Wo Get There All the Same." At that early period they dressed as their grandmother.

Thirty yoara later they will make up as nearly as possible like their grandchildren. Art demands such sacrifices from its votaries. Alcorez made his final adieus and went behind to his dressing room. The Sisters do Leari gave place to a low comedian, then the curtain went up on Alcorez's table and appliances, his name blazoned in letters of gold magnificently furnished and decorated. The walls of the reception-room are hung with pale-blue satin picked with gold, and the chairs are row, the boys are called men as soon as they reach the age of ten.

They receive their final names at that age, and assume the garments of full covered with Pompadour brocade. The room also contains a profusion of pictures and bric-a-brac. group of men came a word: "Coward!" "Perhaps," said tte stranger, unmoved, "but listen. Onoe before months ago I upon the stage to assist that man. Never mind why.

I went to help him, that is enough. Ho repaid mo by making me a laughing stock for ail present. As it happened, it involved more than grown men, all except the horsehair hat, which they can not put on until they have passed through a period of BUILT IN 1632. probation. Permission to wear the satin-slippered feet The illumination of the ball room which has the sky for its dome if the weather be serene, and which is protected by vast canvas awnings if there is any danger of a sudden storm, can easily be flooded with eloctrio lights.

The sides of the ship are beautifully decorated with flags and trophies of all nations, and with gleaming cutlasses and bayonets, while here and there a monster cannon looms up black and grim to remind the merrymakers now and then that peace is maintained by being well prepared for war. Even the chaperons are happy in the horsehair hat is the final art of transforming the small boy into a real, An Old Brick Church In Wight County, sure-enough man though he doesn't Virginia. In 1C33, twenty-five years after the look it Such a short childhood may, at first landing of the English colonists at Jamestown, in Virginia, there was built a brick church in Isle thought, possess a charm lor Doys in our colder climate. But it will be quickly understood that making boys of Wight county. This was one of the MI8S MARIOX GII.CHBI8T.

cine of any Scottish university have studied for the last seven years in Queen Margaret college. either he or I knew at the time. I have taken the only means I could of humiliating him. Ask him how it feels. Now we are quits.

And before anyone could move he passed out of the room and was gone. He was more than quits. Alcorez's name appeared on the bills no more. Ilis nerve was completely gone, and from that night his hand never again knew its cunning. Solssinjr the Opportunity, Lord Coleridge sprang into eminence as a lawyer by adroitly seizing a simple incident while ho was pleading the cause of a man on trial for murder.

In tho course of his long argument, a candle in the jury box flickered and went out, leaving upon a black background. At different times and in all places there are sympathetic audiences and exacting audiences. Why, and what controls them, none can say. Simply they are there and have to be allowed for. As the juggler bowed, his experienced eye took in the sea of faces, and he smiled.

lie generally began with a very simple trick that is as easy as it looks impossible, and older than the necromancers. Ha would borrow a watch, get a stranger from among the audience to come upon the stage and hold it, and then cause it to disappear and be found in someone elsa's'possession. It is very absurd when you see how it is done, but it is capable of endless variations, and can always be made to raise a laugh, which is the conjurer's first object. To-night Alcorez borrowed the now the women department of the university of Glasgow three years in arts ana tour years in medicine. Miss Marion Gilchrist was born inBothwell Park, nine miles from Glasgow, and received her education previously to joining her college in schools at Both well and Hamilton and by means of private study.

In her college career, after distin guishing herself in her art classes, the court room in darkness. He stopped speaking, and the silence in court for a moment was oppressive. The usher replaced tho light, and Coleridge resumed his address. 'Gentlemen of the jury, you have a she took the general certificate of Queen Margaret college, the university degree in arts not being open to women at the time. In the course of her medical studies she stood first of her class in zoology, practical chemistry, anatomy, histology, physiology, surgery, medicine, pathology and solemn duty, a very solemn duty to discharge.

The life of tho prisoner at the bar is in your hands. You can take it by a word. You can extinguish that life as the candlo by waicn. Almost Before ne had made the request a man from the front row of stalls stepped upon the stage to assist him, This alacrity was so unusual that Alcorez looked at the man curiously, and wonderad that the faca seemed so familiar to hiin. A word from the audience caught the juggler's ear and ho turned quickly to tha stranger.

"Sir, are you my friend, my accomplice, my servant? A gentleman in midwifery. She took her clinical work in the Eoyal infirmary and in the Eoyal hospital for sick children, in both of which abundant facilities your side was extinguished a moment ago. Hut it is not in your power, it is not in tho power of any of us of any one in this court or out are given to women students, ssiie has now been appointed assistant to Dr. Joseph McGregor Robertson, a physician in practice in the west end of Glasgow. Miss Alice Lillian Louisa Cumming of it to restore that life, when once taken, as that light has been restored." The tone in which tho words were spoken, the cadence of the voice, and the action of the orator, with the inspiration of the scene and the hour, produced a thrilling effect.

The jury acquitted tho prisoner, and Coleridge's fortune was made. Argonaut. was born at Houston, Renfrewshire, and educated at schools in Glasgow. Her seven years in college have been characterized by steady, persevering, and excellent work. She will beg-in her medical practice by acting as assistant to her father, Dr.

James S. the audience distrusts me. Is it so?" "Certainly not," said the stranger, "Have you ever assisted me before and become familiar with my ways?" continued the conjurer. There was just the suggestion of a pause, but the "no'' was firm and emphatic, and Alcorez proceeded. Generally it was easy to reduce the assistant to the necessary state of confusion at a very early stage, but the stranger did not indulge in any of tho humorisms by which the volunteers lay themselves open.

Alcorez, a little puzzled, placed tho watch in a handkerchief, g-ave the ends to a stranger to hold, and crossed the stage. There was still an almost unfailing ruse. Few men those accustomed to powder least of all can face a gun or a pistol without a tremor, This gives the conjurer a double advance; by means of a weapon he can fcnng a too observant assistant into Cumming, Blythswood sauare, novelty of the scene, and have comfortable chairs in the sheltered nooks among the guns, whence they can look out unon the promenade of their Founded in 18S3 by the Glasgow As sociation for the Higher Education of Women, which was formed in 1S77 with the object of bringing university Heroic Measure. One of our neighbors, an unusually learned clergyman, writes James Payne, was much given to Greek quotations. 1 was learning Greek at that time, and those sonorous lines of his to which the ladies listened with reverent awe, irritated me extremely.

One of them asked me once, in a hushed whisper, the translation of these quotations. I gave her to understand, with an op- instruction or its equivalent within A BALL ON THE CHICAGO. first substantial churches built in America, and is to-day the oldest Protestant church standing on this continent Until the early part of this century it was known as the Old Brick church, and that fact strongly implies the genuineness of its antiquity. The neighborhood tradition that the church was built in the year before mentioned, and the traditions of the families resident in the district for many generations corroborate thia Recently the date of its building has been settled beyond doubt by the discovery of bricks in the walls bearing the date 1633. The church was in into men as soon as they are old enough to feel that they would like to be men is not a wise idea.

The Coreans although possessing a certain degree of a queer kind of are not a people to be patterned after. In Corea, if a young man's parents are not rich, he can never hope to become so by his own efforts. And, if he is not a member of a noble family he can never hope to reach; an exalted position. As for courage the Coreans have never shown much of that The Corean men are not in themselves a good argument for a brief childhood. Reminiscences of Inness.

the reach of women, Queen Margaret college, in 18i0, added to its faculty of arts a school of medicine for women. This was originated entirely on uni- portune blush, that it was scarcely meet for a lady's ear. "Good heav A Philadelphia artist says of the late George Inness, according to the San Francisco Argonaut: "There gayly-costumed charges and see that there is no outrageous flirtation with theinconstant'men of the sea. To the officer who has everything before him, these balls on shipboard are like bits of paradise got up for his especial delectation. He builds upon them visions of advantageous marriage, and of entry into the great world.

Many a promise destined to be broken or forgotten is made in the shadow of the frowning cannon, while the musicians are resting for a moment after the waltz or and the young officer two or three years later when doing service on some gloomy and misty northern station, or sweltering in a Chinese port where there is no society, and nothing to repel the ad van be of ennui, remembers with a keen pang of regret those elysium moments of the balL When the American squadron lies for the winter at Villefranche, hard by the fashionable sea places of Nice, not far from the temptations of Monte Carlo, many are the parties, balls, receptions and dinners given on shipboard. The beauty and luxury of the equipment of our new ships excite great admiration in Europe, and all the great ladies, wherever they come, are anxious to be invited to at least one festival on some one of these new and interesting 'vessels. All fashionable London poured forth to visit the Chicago on rhe first occasion that was offered. EULALIE IN ENCLAND. fi JS" ens!" she cried, "you don't mean to say "Pray, don't quote me in tho matter," I put in pleadingly; "but I really no, I ref.lly couldn't tell you," which was quite true.

She went away and told all her lady friends that Mr. indulged in quotations which were such that could not be translated to modest ears. It injured his character for a long time, but cured him of a very bad habit. It was my first appearance in the role of a publio oene factor. Hotter Than Herbs.

Anxious Mother Thero is a certain very eligible young man that I want my daughter to fall in love with. Do you deal in love philters? Modern Magician No, madam; but I can bring the match about in another way. "Oh, thank you. What shall I do? "Shut her up in a boarding school for a year and then arrange your plans so that this youth will be tho first man she meets after she gets out" N. Y.

Weekly. wat a strange commingling in his nature of sturdy independence and extreme sensitiveness. When a young man, one day in the streets of Borne, he struck down a helmeted gendarme, who had ordered him to remove his hat while a religious procession was passing. For this he was imprisoned and only secured his release through the strenuous efforts of the American Minister there. Yet late one afternoon, when he had worked on some foreground cows all day, when I said the cattle loooked like he dropped his mahl-stick and palette and swooned.

I dashed water on his face to bring him to and then he laughed with me over this exhibition of acute sensitiveness." Outlook For Massachusetts Men. Here is food for thought in a question propounded by a Boston woman; "What would prevent" she asks, "if we were to have universal suffrage in Massachusetts, our disfranchising the male population? Nothing in the world if we are united. There are 49,000 more women than men in this state, and we should have it all our own way, and would soon be masters of the political situation. THE OLD. BRICK CHITBCH.

regular use from then until 1830, six generations of Virginians having attended services there. About that time it was thought to be too far from the center of the local population; and another church was built The population has again become thick about the old church, and when the building shall have been restored and repaired it is proposed to resume services there. A FISH STORY. GAVE A LONG, GURGLING SIGH. such a condition of nervousnass that he is unable to proceed, and he can, for a moment, startle a whole audience out of watchfulness by tho sudden flash and report.

Alcorez picked up a glittering revolver, raised it quickly, and drew the sight dead on the other's face. "Are you ready?" he called sharply. "Quite," unflinchingly replied the stranger. Alcorez lowered the weapon. "The danger is small," he, said, with a lightness he was far from feeling at that moment, "but I like not to take a fellow creature unprepared.

But then" with professional face-tiousness "1 have killed only one man as yet." "There's luck in even numbers," said the other quietly. "Perhaps I shall bo the second." Alcorez shrugged his shoulders. After all, it mattered little. He could create a diversion and make tho pass afterward. He took up the revolver again, judged the sight well above the head, find fired.

The effect was instantaneous. The MISS lilLian cumming. versity lines, and with the view of preparing for university degrees; and when, in 1892, in consequence of the ordinance of the university commissioners authorizing the Scottish universities to admit women to instruction and graduation, Queen Margaret college became the women's department of the University of Glasgow, its slasses in medicine taken previously to its incorporation with the university were recognized as preparing for the degree. Hitherto it has been chiefly to. the younger universities and colleges in Britain that women have had to.

look for admission to instruction and graduation in arts and medicine; and although instruction and graduation in arts has been granted by all the Scottish universities for each two years, the fact that one of the oldest universities in Scotland (the University of Glasgow was founded in 1450) has now led the way in conferring its medical degrees on women taught within its own walls, marks a new accession to the facilities afforded for the education of women which will be welcomed by all who are interested in their welfare. Patriotism. Lisbeth I hear you have broken with Ambrose. What was the matter? Jeannette We fell out about literature. Ambrose is such a horrid Anglomaniac.

He persists that Shakespeare is funnier than Bill Nye. St Louis Post-Dispatch. A Employer. Publisher You look lame. Been kicked out much? Book Agent 'Bout forty times.

Publisher, kindly Well, leave your encyclopedia here, and canvass with this sample bible until your back gets welL N. Y. Weekly. Passing Her Time at Picturesque Bushey Hall. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, who visited the World's Fair at Chicago last year with her sons, Alfonso and Louis, and her daughters, Maud and Victoria, is sojourning for tho season at Bushey hall near Hampton court In an interview recently, the infanta said the English climate suited herself and her family during the summer nd all better than the heat of Spain, enabling them to enjoy greater freedom of out-door life.

She rides out in the morning, plays tennis until luncheon and drives out in the afternoon; It Comes from Ireland and Beats All Previous Ones. At Logan, near the Mull of Galloway, there is a most interesting tidal fishpond. A rent in the cliffs facing the Irish channel admits the salt water through a narrow fissure protected by grating, into a circular rock basin, some thirty feet in diameter and twenty feet deep The cliffs rise high all around; stone steps descend on one side to a ledge leveled into a Feminine Culture. "People lift their eyebrows," says William Morris, the English poet "over women mastering the higher mathematics. Why, it is infinitely more difficult to learn the details of good housekeeping.

Anybody can 1 arn mathematics, but it takes a lot of skill to manage a house well".