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i it VsA ft? fng remarkable In its appearance, since It looks very much like any ordinary box, and yet it is vastly different In that It Is historic, or it was construct- from the material of the cradle In which was rocked the Illustrious George Rogers Clark, and all of his brothers and sisters. From the decidedly substantial character of the small chest, which Is of dark cherry wood, about eighteen inches In length, and twelve in depth and width, the piece of furniture from which It was made could not have been similar to the airy structures In which the darling of the modern household Is soothed to sleep, but was evidently a sturdy box-like affair on rockers, such as are seen in pictures of a primitive time, and quite worthy have cradled tho stem plonker blood, that helped to transform a wilderness into one of the proudest States of the t'nlon. The namel of fien. Clark, perhaps, stands Bj to that of Daniel Boone In bringing about this transformation, Which fact seems to have been, ac-. cording to Ja4nes Lane Allen, well established at an early date, since one Of the boys in John Oray's school, who was not allowed to play the character of Boone, because that honor had been captured through force of arms, by a Victorious companion.

Is thoroughly appeased In assuming the role o( George Rogers Clark. With no psrt of Kentucky Is Oen. Clark more Intimately associated than with the western portion of the State, and especially with Paducah. since all the land upon which this city is located, as well as Its surrounding country, was originally a gift to Gen. Clark from Virginia for his services during the Revolution, itere many of the descendant of his family still live, among the beat and most prominent citizens of the place, and it seems meet that the hero's worth should be perpetuated by such representatives on the very scene of his valor and conquest.

The interesting chest Is In the poe-; Session of the family of a great-nephew of the distinguished soldier. They have besides buttons from his uniform, which were taken from the coat when his re-) mains were disinterred and moved from Locust Grove to Cave Hill by the great-i nephew in His grave clothes had very fittingly been his soldier's regimentals. The buttons are very much tarnished, but are, of bourse, cherished for association's sake. An Indian pipe of curious workman-1 ahip, supposed to have been smoked by Gen. Clark as a pipe of peace In some of his treaties with the Indians, Is also among these relics.

Another relative has a queer little t5x about the size of a large cigar box. I fcj XT 1 i. (i ii wiiti nwij pinj siory iw l-il nected. It looks as if it might have been mads In a foreign country, and was a gift from Gen. Clark to his sister, who, when her little girl was very badly burned one day, promised her this little box to Induce her to forget her hurt and dry her tears.

Whether the remedy was effective is not told, but any way she got the box, which is still lovingly kept In memory of the great man by a daughter of that small sirli who Is Mrs. Philip Wallace, of Mrs. Wallace Is the nearest living rela tlvt of Gen. Clark, and has spent all of her life In Paducah, her father, Mr; George Woolfork. being among this City's esrllest settlers.

Mr. Woolfork was a prominent lawyer and administrator cf the estate of Gen. Clark, attending to the division among the heirs and looking after their Interests up to the time of his death. Among his papers are many Interesting documents relating to It. The rarest of these Is the original drawing of a plat giving the division cf the land among the heirs and denning the boundaries.

In the corner Is the following memorandum: The balloting for the above mentioned lots as lettered was -made by me at the request snd In the presence of Gen. Wlllism Clark on the 2d day of April. ml" Signed. F. W.

Bullitt. The drawing was made by Merrlwether Lew-Is Clark. The largest piece of property Is given to Gon. William Clark, a brother of Gen. George Hogers Clark, which Is subsequently dirtied among his heirs.

The map, however, shows only the first division. There are a number cf letters and papers relative to the celebrated case of Porterfleld vs. Clark. In which the valid. Ity of the Clark title is questioned, on the ground of a conflict between military warrants granted to Robert Por- terfirld in 17S3 and S3, and the Treasury warrant given to Gen.

Clark In ITsO. There are copies of depositions in the case after It was taken ta the higher courts, and also autograph letters and receipts acknowledging fees from John 3. Crittenden and William Owsley, who were attorneys for the Clark side. They are dated from Frankfort from 1S31 to 184. The first Is from Mr, Crittenden, and reads as follows: of Oeorge Woolfork, agent for Oen.

William Clark. ten dollars, my fee In case In Federal Court of Kentucky. Aevnt Worthlngton. isth November, issi. 110.

J. J. CRITTENDEN. Another Is: Received of George Woolfork one hundred dollars, part of fee In the case of William Clark, uaent Smith I'orterftvid. In Federal' Court of Kentucky.

Ivttt No-Vehiher. IsST. tluO. J. J.

CRITTENDEN. There are two letters reading thus: Frankfort, June ICS. My Dear Blr: In a letter written some days ago I acknowledged the receipt of the two hundred dollar sent liy you to reimburse the costs that I had paid for "Clark's heirs in their suit with Smith In the ri. Court tf the State. I hope that before this time you have received that letter.

Since It was written 1 have rc ived your letter of the 22J inclosing me two hundred snd fifty dollars, the amount of my fee In the ca above mentioned. My lurmrr letter, I truet, will have relieved you from every unpleasant feeling that may have been connected with this and will have excused me from every auspUlon of Intention to offend In the least degree. Very respectfully your, etc J. J. CHITTENDEN.

George Woolfork, E-i. "Frankfort, April IMS My Pear Sir: eeterday I received your letter of the 1st by Mr. I'itts. inclosing 1.V one hundred and fifty dollars, part of my 1 il; -b' Y. INTERESTING RELIC.

I Box given by Oen. Oeorwe Roaers CUrk to his alsttr.J 7vi SH fee In the ease of Clark's heirs ads. of Porterfleld now depending In the Supreme Court of the United State. "I am entirely satisfied with the additional fee which tb parties propose to rive me and shall write to Mr. Clark as you advise.

The only reason I did not answer his letter or letters was that I could not for the soul of me decipher some Instruction it contained as to his address. "I wrote you fully In relation to the whole subject of this suit, a few davs before the receipt of your letter by Mr. Pitts. That, letter Is no doubt received before this time, and will give you all the Information, I nope, which you sought. Very respectfully, yrs, i.

CRITTENDEN. "Geo. Woolfolk, Esq." A letter from Mr. Owsley, folded and sealed with a bit of wax, without envelope or stamp, bearing a Frankfort postmark, directed to Mr. Woolfork, reads thus: "Frankfort.

Hst June. 1S. Dear Sir: Yours of the Si together with one hundred dollars, which was Inclosed were handed to me this morning. I had HAP BHOWTNO ORIGIN AX written to you some time ago, Inclosing the mandate of the Court of Appeals in the case of the Innls heirs. Te mandate directs new proceedings and you wiU see from It what has to be dona The Court of Appeals has adjourned.

I endeavored to fet the ease of Hays taken op, but failed, hope to have the ease of Porterfleld disposed of at the next term. I have instructed the Clerk of the Federal Court to copy the Interrogation you desire and send them to you. I filed them Immediately on the receipt of your letter on that subject, and would now Inclose the copy, but I am compelled to have this In the morning, and could not And the Clerk this evening In time to have them copied. Respectfully yours, WM. OW3LET." Following is one of his receipts: "Rec'd Geo.

Woolfork one hundred dollars, part of fees for Win. Clark, due me as attorney, "oth 1UL WM. OWSLET." Senator Crittenden's handwriting Is small, clear and distinct, and has about it a certain dainty precision, but that of Gov. Owsley is quite illegible enough to cope with that of the modern lawyer. If Mr.

Clark's chlrography as mentioned in Mr. Crittenden's letter was half as unreadable as that of the Senator's fellow-attorney, he was thoroughly Justified In not being able to make it out. A copy of the interrogations to which Mr. Owsley evidently referred, among Mr. Wool folk's papers, proves that his Instructions regarding them were carried out.

As la well known the ease was decided In favor of the Clark, heirs, by the Supreme Court of the United States In 144. and It was no wonder, aside from the evident Justice of It. that such should have been the decision, since their cause was championed by such able counsel. There are copies of surveys of the Porterfleld land made In May. 1824, and April.

1S25, by Richard Taylor. who was doubtless of Louisville and a member of the noted Kentucky family of that name. There Is also a bill for a survey of the separate divisions of the Clark es- 1 Sarah Grand, Author of "The HERE Is this New Woman, this epicene creature, this Gorgon setup by the snarly who Impute to her the faults of both sexes while denying her the charm of either where Is she to be found, if she exists at all? For my part until I make her acquaintance I shall believe her to be the finest work of the Imagination which the newspapers have yet produced. I saw a lady the' other day standing beside a bicycle In a country lane. She was a young creature, slender, elegant, admirably built, her figure set off to the best advantage by the new cycling costume, being evidently undeformed by compression of any kind- Judging by what the papers say of the effect of this costume on the female character.

I really should have been afraid to accost her. However, she spoke to me very courteous, ly. asking her way, which she bad lost. I directed her, and then she prepared to mount. "Oh! wait one moment, I exclaimed, emboldened by the charm of her manner.

"Do pardon for asking, but are you the New Woman?" "I'm sure I don't know," she answered, lsughlng. "I only know that I enjoy every hour of my life, and that is a new thing for a woman. But pray excuse me. I am hurrying home to put my baby to bed aod get my husband's tea." She whirled away, leaving me at first under the Impression that, of course, she could not be the New Woman. On second thought, however, 1 felt pretty sure that she was tha New Woman and the Old.

too new In the perfection of her physique, old in her home-lovtng proclivities: a stronger, better, more Waatlfut creature than the blockhead majority can eoneehre. You may know her for certain by hr manners, fur she la always gentle and se-une. It is the Old Woman who shrieks. Her most prominent characteristic la disloyalty to her own sex. 8he heaps abuse uron the New Woman, whom she doe not know; but the New Woman bears her no itl will for her attacks, which are fine samples of what ought not' to be.

and help notably to point her own moral. THE New Woman is magnanimous by nature, and she can well afford to be So. for all that makes life worth having is hers, "dive me a large heart; aa unloving nature is aa unlovely nature." she says. "Make me conspicuous for gentlehood, for courtesy and kindness to young and old, men and women, rich and poor. Give me the country to live In, with the sea In sight, and simple leisure.

Give me the society of my fellow creatures to enrich my human nature, and give me hours of sacred solitude to strengthen that In me which is divine. Love me! love me! and let me love you! Laugh at me. and let roe laugh back. Laugh -with me then. Let us see the fun of it all.

and laugh without bitterness. Life and love last longer and are the better of such laughter." So she prays; and aU her prayers are answered. The New Woman confesses that she la full of faults. Doubtless in some phases her vanity Is overweening, her knowledge 111 digested, and her grammar shaky. What can you eipnet of tha child 1 Sh will Improve in time, especially it the Old Woman will kindly continue to bark at her whenever she makes a mistake, So let the tate from Learcy.

Thurston and Armstrong dated April, 1825. Other bills relating to the estate are as follows: George Woolfork, administrator of Geo. K. Clark, to Louisville Chancery Court, Dr. September, 1S3S, to filing answer ads.

Breckinridge 19, order S3, 1 Step appearance I ss FlUns1 demand, arlfl. Hoi kin, administrator, order J5, appearance 1 step 26 October, order to withdraw demand 25, 1 step 2S Total it 41 Attest: ALBERT T. BCRNLXT. Clerk. George Woolfork.

administrator George Clark, deceased, to Clerk Loulsvlile Chancery Court, Dr. Jan. 7. 1439. to appearance at suit, Holkin, administrator, filing answer 10, order 25.

step 5 I 4 June, to filing papers at suit, same II. Is Total Attest: J. CI-ARK. C. I C.

Then there la the following order: The Commonwealth of Kentucky to the Sheriff of Jefferson County Court, greeting: We again command you to summon Mrs Mary Susan Fttshugh, widow of Clark Flishugh: Merl weather 8. Clark. George R. H. Clark and Jefferson K.

Clark, heirs of William Clark, deceased, to appear before the Judge of our McCracken County Circuit Court at the court-house In Paducah on the first day of our next September term to answer a bill In chancery exhibited against them by Robert Fletcher, and have then there this writ. Witness Braxton Small, Clerk of our said court, at the court-house aforesaid, Uss DIVISION OT CTJLRX ESTATE. LATER COPT 07 29th day of June, 141. and in the SOtti year of the Commonwealth. B.

SMALL. The most of Gen, Clark's property passed out of the family before It became at all valuable, and the only portions now retained by them are some Insignificant farm tracts in a poor part of the coantry. In a list of the divisions and prices as made by Mr. Woolfork, toe highest value placed on any part of It, including town lots, was 13 per acre. To illustrate what a difference time has mods, some of the same property would now sell for U9 a foot.

A unique tax recetnt roads: Received of George Woolfork, agent for Wm. Clark. 17.1 In full for revenue tax for lfO upon acres of land. J. GWATHNET, D.

C. C. There Is a plat and bill of sale for 155 acres of the land for seventy-flve cents an acre, dated 1831L But while the Clark family disposed of the Inheritance that would have made them wealthy through all generations Old Woman be reassured; the glory of grammar will not be diminished. Not that there are always faults where the Old Woman finds them. The sentences stand the test of analysis, but doubtless they took the Old Woman's breath away when she read them, and so she paused In the wrong place, which rendered the sense obscure.

But. at any rate, the New Woman Is progressing, and there are plenty to help and encourage her. She sits down to her work with a smile, for she has won the great heart of the people, and knows that they will like her worst better than the best which the Old Woman has to offer them. EAD without heart goes a very small way. and only Intoxicates, like stim ulant without food; but in the matter of heart the New Woman la well endowed.

Altogether she la a well endowed. Her health is radiant, her manners charming, her wit taking, her morals unimpeachable, and her will a quantity to be reckoned with. Her faults are the overflow of her exuberant spirits, as, for Instance, when the Old Woman is more than usually censorious. and she plays her 1 a trick she wagers that with a word she will have her out on her quill in a hurry, and waits ready to receive her with a shout of laughter when she appears. The Old Woman has no notion of progress.

She ridicules everything to which she is unaccustomed, as is ths way with the Ignorant, She is unaccustomed to the practice which the New Woman has adopted of exposing the sores of society la order to diagnose Its diseases and find a remedy for them; unaccustomed to ths crted that there Is still boundless better In men and women to be developed. This Is the ereed Of the New Woman, and the Old Woman ridicules it. Her own belief Is that evil 'wilt always continue, because it has always been: and she la too conservative to wish It otherwise. HE New Woman's strength of ex pression has shaken the Old Woman, and she accuses her of Indelicacy, al though in the same breath she herself stigmatises some of her own sex with one of the foulest epithets in the language. But Inconsistency was the keynote of the Old Woman's character, and the weathercock her emblem.

The New Woman does not blame her, however, for using the right word on occasions. There are times when eleeant phraseology la out of plaoa. A knockdown blow Is not to be dealt with dainty fingers. Strong words do good when used with that Intent; they disgust us with coarse things. It is the coarse Idea elegantly vailed In choice language so as to render It attractive that corrupts the mind, and you will find this done In the Old Woman's works to perfection.

Whea she happens to be by way of Improving us she Is apt to be a solemn person and deadly dull, taking herself far too seriously. The New Woman errs, perhaps, on the other side. Her sense of humor is always on the alert, ana she not only sees whea other people are ridiculous, but acknowledges it with a grin when ahe has made herself so. Good humor is another of her attributes. She cultivates It, and hopes to see the day when nothing will have power to ruffle her Aa It is, she will meet you sympathetically ea any ground you llks, oppose you with a will, and then maka a salve for your wounded feelina-s If you get the worst of It.

or expect you to do as much for her IX she 'k had it been retained, they have had tha satisfaction of seeing a. thrjvlnsr'xlty grow upon their former possessions, which, designated as the "Pride of the Purchase." feels a certain aristocracy In the fact that the broad acres over which she stretches in smiling prosperity were originally-bought by the valiant services of a hej-o in the war of Independence and one of the earliest pioneers of Kentucky. ORA V. LEIGH. otje Tzivsra jatheblakd.

Stretch out thy arm across the seas. Great Motherland! and we shall come, As come the laden honey-bees. Back to our atill green fathers' horns; Our schooKboy quarrel of the past Shall weigh aa nothing In the scales: Our scars have all been healed at last And vanished with youths' fairy tales. Send out thy voice across' the sea. Great Fatherland! and we shall hear.

And once again our hearts shall be. In all thy days of trouble, near; foe1 hand nU smite thy Our Irh ships defend thy shore. And where thy deep sea ehhs and flows The clash of conflict oomt no mora. Thy lion's roar has hushed the earth. uur eagle's screams the nations thrill.

And stilled Is now the voice of mirth. Of those who would have dons ua 111. Forever on thy wave-washed strand. Old Fatherland, be peace and rest; As heart to heart, and hand In hand. We lean upon each other's breast! Forever on thy hills and rales, Thy castles and thy cottage homes, Fall pure the light that never falls And rest tha love that never roams! The graves wherein thy heroes' duet Commingles with the dust of earth Shall blossom with new home and trust.

For time conceives bis noblest birth. And Erin's harp shall soothe our woes, Her valiant sons be ever near; And Scotland's thistle sting our foes. If ever we have foes to fear; And long as Time, with happy hand, Rings out that Right alone prevails, God bless our triune Fatherland! Its bogs, its meadows and Its dales! WILLIAM F. WOOD. The Unlettered XJpplDcott'a Crudity of diction is not always in dicative of crudity of thought.

The lat ter has been longer In the world than language, for the primeval savage was not without the elements of mind, whea gestures and grunts were his sols meana of expression. To rebel is as human aa to err. and he who defies grammar la not necessarily a fool. Hew often we hear It said: "Oh, he's an uneducated THE SAME MAP. man." and so pay no serious attention to what the "unfortunate" may have to say.

It may happen that we suffer more than he does by such assumed superiority. Toe round of the seasons' can effect as much as a college curriculum to an open-eyed man. Not In the same direction, not with equal artistic flwstrr but fool himself who sets down the untutored student of the out-door world as little better than a fooL By syntax and prosody we can not solve the problem of an oak tree, or that of the minnow In the brook that flows past its gnarly roots. Greek philosophy does not explain the color of a flower, nor Roman sophistry why birds build nests. The Rev.

John McNeill wants some rich Scotsman to help to plant Caledonian Christian clubs all over London, where the good young man from the northcountry may find refuge from the 1 wickedness of the great metropolis. Heavenly Twins," does. She can not for the life of her com, prebend why people should differ with bitterness. HE Old Woman has no sense of humor. Search her books through and see If there Is a flash of It to relieve the reeking sensuality.

She uses sentimentality instead of humor, as an artist sometimes uses a brilliant fugitive color Instead of a duller permanent tint. Just to gain the glory of Its first effect Sentimentality is a fugitive effect; it Is a disease of the nervous system which finds a different expression of itself In every sge. A sentiments! person will be kind to a dog and cruel to a child. But humor Is ousting 'sentimentality out of the world, and sentimentality, suffering from the Indignity, calls It a coarse proceeding. The Old Woman cares only for others In so far as they have It In their power to add to her own pleasure In life.

She resents the intrusion on her luxury of any mention of the working man. What Is he to her but a machine to cultivate her roses an ugly machine that should be shut up in a shed directly It Is done with? Of course. It must have oil enough to keep It from creaking, because the plaintive sound distracts her; but she smiles derisively at the notion that it Is worth anv other attention or that It would be possible to polish it if you tried. What Is It to her If the man ache In her aervice. and have no time for any Joy In life, and onlv bread enough to make muscles to work out her whims he gets bis wages.

Toll for him, ample leisure for her, only disturbed by anger because some beautiful creature that might have made her happier if alive has been slsughtered. The bird that might have delighted her eyes has been made a feather In snother woman's cap, and therefore she Is Indignant. The weary working man never costs her a thought so long as he does not disturb her: but If he complains he becomes a bore to be banished. ITH the New Woman It Is different. She sorrows for all who suffer, from the slaves of service to the sesls of eomnveroe, from the hunted otter to the humming bird persecuted for fashion's sake.

To be consistent, she and the Old Woman should both be vegetarians, and even then should mourn because the lovely cabbage leaves are cut off In their prime to be boiled; but the New Woman will wager her share of humor against the Old Woman's sentimentality that if either of them carried their principles to the point of starvation It would not be the old one. When man Jeers at the Old Woman we resent It for the honor of our sex; but we must confess that she gave him good cause. See how ahe reasons! Because Bismarck la great, therefore there Is no fault to be found with any man! Because Lady Jane Grey, the daughter of a Duke, was taught Latin and Greek, and otherwise enjoyed the advantage of the best education of her time, therefore it is absurd for modern women to clamor for any privilege they have not got! Th Old Woman has no sense of comparison and la a prey to confusion of thousht. She would have ua believe. In the face of all evidence to the contrary.

that the ordinary rl of ability baa always had within her reach the necessary meana of culture: that tbe Vicar of Wakefield's wife and daughters were as carefully educated as hi sons, or, if they were not. It waa their own fault. 6hs oontends that 9 SEGTION THE' COURIER-JOURNAL. LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 31. 1898 A -L preserved la on ot Kentucky's oldest families.

tmo: relic of other Is a quaint Utile wine cheat. There is notb- WORTH A BIG FORTUNE: MRS. VANDERBILFS JEWELS. To a small group of very intimate friends, and to her own and her husband's relatives, were Mrs. George Van-derbllt's wedding gifta displayed on the day or her marriage, "it was, a truly dazzling sight," confessed one of the privileged circle of friends.

Just returned to mis country, "and unique from manv standpoints." To begin with, the whole collection barely covered a table meas uring some six feet In length, and there was not a piece of sliver plate In the whole array of treasures. The friends and family of both the young people wisely decided that It was simply carrying coals to Newcastle to give the owners of Blltmore silverware. For years Mr, Vanderbllt has been buying gorgeous pieces of both new and antique plate, and he also Inherited all of the splendid sliver owned by the late Mrs. William II. Vanderbllt, his mother.

In the way of bric-a-brac, furniture and tapestry, Mr. Vanderbllt's family recognized their gifts could hardly expect a place In the superbly-decorated rooms of bis town or city houses, therefore, to the bride they gave only jewels. Some conception of the great value of tha gems may be arrived at when It is explained that the safe deposit company which now guards the major portion of tha collection In Paris appraised them at something short of t.000,000 francs, nearly 11.000.000. Tha French and English dealers In precious stones are chuckling over the partiality showed them, and are boasting aa to the superiority of their workmanship, which the average Jewel buying American will always vigorously and very Justly deny. Something short of 400 pieces comprised the collection, the most prominent feature of which was a crown of diamonds given by the bridegroom.

This was not a tiara, nor a coronet, nor a mere head ornament, but a perfect crown, encircling the head, consisting of' a band of gold, falling almost on the brow, and passing rather low down across the back of the head. This band, a half -Inch wide, was studded perfectly close with pure white diamonds, and from It sprang seven glittering points, broad at the base and tapering at the end of an inch and a half in seven huge stones. The points were formed of diamonds set solidly. Now, magnificent as this piece Is, Its weight and its imperial richness render It useless for wear on any save the most formal occasions. Even In the Metropolitan Opera-house it would look hopelessly out of place, and a presentation at the English court, a coronation ball or a Jubilee opera night wiU be about the only time when this crown win not seem painfully lonely and conspicuous.

In addition to this head piece. Mr. Vanderbllt gave his wife a dog collar of diamonds, a stomacher so large that, from throat to waist line, she can cover the front of her body In an apparently Impenetrable cuirass of the dasillng gems, and his supplementary trifles, such ss solitaire lings, bracelets, combs, pins, etc, numbered nearly fifty in alt The Duchess of Marlborough presented her new cousin with a notable sapphire. It appeared In a plain setting of three geld prongs, and excited a great deal of admiration. With It came a box full of gold tools for changing It from a hair pin top to a brooch, to a bracelet or to a pendant.

There was some gossip about the Duchess having kindly purchased the stone, by private arrangement, from a great lady In England who needed the price of It. Persons who know the whereabouts and history et special stones recognised this one as the most valuable of its color In En- gland, with the exception of the Sapphics io the Queen's crown. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt gave theb- sister-in-law an astonishing rope of diamonds, passing about her neck and falling to her knees.

Pink, whits, yellow, blue and. violet tinted stones, of perfect match' In size, made up the entirely unique necklace. A Jocose observer of this more than royal spread of gems remarked that Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbllt had reversed the order of marriage celebrations by beginning with a diamond wedding, and somebody asked to see the pearls.

Excepting a few brooches snd rings and one single string of small rose-tinted pearls there were no pearls for the bride. Diamonds absolutely dominated Writes of women have nothing to complain of In the way of opportunities, and Illustrates the point by Insisting that the curate's clever child, living untaught In a country village, without a penny to buy a book or a friend from whom to borrow one, would succeed If she had It In her, because Oeorge Sand, a woman of birth and position, besides be. ing a genius born, succeeded. But even she did not succeed till she gave herself a man's opportunities to develop her powers. OCR Old Woman also maintains that the village doctor's daughter, a girl with a big brain and no occupation, should be satisfied to see her stupid brother sent to school to enjoy advantages which would have made her life worth having, but are only lost upon him.

Mrs. Somervlile, having every opportunity, every book, every instrument and every encouragement, made her mark, aa also did Elisabeth Barrett Browning under similar circumstances; therefore the Old Woman thinks the village doctor's daughter has nothing to complain of. Was ever more admirably compared to a bull's foot? Pattls are doubtless born, but where would the perfection of their method he but for the making? Singers have a tale of training to tell that Is second to none if seventy. No reasonable being could sc. ytse that talent was enough without the means to develop it; but one must not expect too siuch of the Old Woman: ahe was never supposed to he a reasonable being.

She Is of settled prejudices, settled virtues, settled vices, a creature of custom, who has oome to a standstill. The New Woman, on the contrary. Is altering always. She Is progressing by degrees. Attempts sre made to check her with theories, but she declines to be bound by these until they have been put to the test of experiment, and their value demonstrated.

With her. as with other creatures, pert of the procees of development Is unlovely. She Is apt to be angular whea only half grown, and to exhibit the peculiarities which provoke the abuse whlc the Old Woman, mistaking her for a ful. grown specimen, with her usual want of discernment, levels at her. ajr CCH that the Old Woman says of her then Is true, but what I say of het is also true she Is the most complex, most Interesting creature on earth.

Her progress Is In obedience to the law, and 'he law leads upward. There Is a wee dash of boy in her to relieve tbe Insipidity, but all that la not boy Is gentlemwoman. Her superiority to the Old Woman shines in her versatility she can do so many more things in a womanly way. When ahe takes up a new pursuit tbe Old Woman derides her. She makes every step in sd-vance painful for her, but when the atep is taken, and another advantage gained, the Old Woman comes In cautiously, and seises more than her share of It.

Twenty years ago. women were held in each lew esteem. In consequence of the tactics, of tbe Old Woman, that they were not sate' from Insult In the pub-io streets, could sot drive In a hansom, mount to tha top of an omnlbua, live alone In cities, withoat loss of casta, or make their livelihood tn a hundred honest ways now honorably open to them. But the New Woman came, exacted respect and won It. The Old Woman oppcavd and bespattered her so long as the struggle lasted, but when tbe wind chanced and tha rising tlda of publlo opinion carried the New Woman ea triumphantly, then ths Old Woman the occasion, sapphires came next In order, there were a few emeralds, several magnificent star sapphires, two glorious rubles and one fine opal.

SPEOTI2JQ HIS CASH. Baron Grant, of "Emma Mine" Notoriety, and His Doings. The sensational and. to those not Informed, sudden and unexpected failure of a man who not long ago was supposed to nave cleared a couple of mill-Ions sterling out of a single deal recalls to the London Dally Mall several other similar colossal commercial catas-trophies. One of the most dramatic.

If not actually one of the largest, so far as the liabilities were concerned, was that of Baron Albert Grant, of "Emma Mine" notoriety. Grant was the uncrowned king of the financial world of his day and generation. He made millions almost as deftly as the late Mr. Harney Bamato, and he spent them right royally. He bought Leicester Square and presented it, a free gift, to the people of London.

He gave a dinner to nearly 1.000 city magnates, at a cost which was popularly reputed at the time to have exceeded 100 guineas a head, and which. In any event, undoubtedly established a record in extravagant dinner-giving which has yet to be beaten. And he started out to build a palace in Kensington which should "knock spots off" all other private residences, past, present or to come. Everything was got up regardless of expense. The ball-room walls were Inset with panels of pink Italian marble, costing 800 guineas each.

In the entrance ball were four pillars of porphyry, worth The building was scarcely finished when the crash came, and it remained for long a brick and mortar white elephant on the hands of the trustees In bankruptcy. Eventually most of the Interior fittings and decorations were disposed of piecemeal, the grand staircase, which had cost to build some being acquired by the representatives of the late Mme. Tussaud for a trifle over a fourth of that sum. In now forme the main approach to the upper and principal suite of rooms of the new exhibition buildings In the Marylebons road. Two Timely Autographs.

THE BUMBLEBEE. Tmj better not fool with a Bumblebee! Et you don't think they can sting you'U They're lasy to look at, an' klndo" go Buuin' and bummin' aroun' so slow. An' ac" so slouchy an' all fsgged out. Danglln their legs as they drone about The hollyhawks 'at they can't climb In Ithout lat a-tumble-un out ag'in! Wunst I watched one climb clean 'way In a Jlmson blossom, I did. one day, An' I 1st grabbed it an' nen let go An' "oh-ooh! Honey! I told ye so!" Says The Raggedy Man; an' he 1st run An' pullt out the stinger, an' don't laugh none.

An' says: "They has be'n folks, I guess. 'At thought I wua predjudust. more er less. Tit I still muntaln 'at a Bumblebee Wears out his welcome too q'j-ick fer me." JAMES WH1TCOMB RILEY. In Kentucky.

Sioux City Journal. An anecdote of Bishop Thomas U. Dudley reveals, in hla own words, the secret of his success. When it was first known in the city in which he was settled that he was to go to Kentucky, some of his friends were disposed to be critical. "You are not going to Kentucky, art you?" asked one.

"Yes, Indeed." "Do you know what kind of a State that is? I saw In the paper that one man killed another In a Kentucky town for treading on a dog." The Bishop said nothing, and the man continued. Impatiently. "What are you going to do In a place like that?" "I'm not going to tread on the dog." was the calm reply. the New Woman followed her, greedily reaping the benefit of her success, but not giving thanks. THE OLD WOMAN is a creature of clothes, and she will adopt any ridiculous or Indecent fashion that comes to her by way of the fashion papers, but she can not be taught to dress herself.

8he has shown as much of the upper part of her body unclad as she dare for generations, and she has gsaed complacently at the bare legs of the ballet, too, but she hisses the new bicycling dress, -flike the goose she Is. When the battle of the bicycling dress is over, however, the Old Woman will discover that It can be worn as modextly as ridtna: habit or bathing dress, and then she will adopt It, Mean Old Woman! The New Woman Is much purer even as she Is much greater of nature. She can live on occasion among crowds of human beings without a thought In her mind to sully her delicacy. She believes that men and women can meet together, be herded together for tbe moment, if you will, under circumstances of the closest intimacy by exigencies of occupation or travel, and not hae an objectionable thought among them, and so believing she creates about herself the moral atmosphere she prefers. Grossness Is In the mind that entertains It the nasty mind.

HE New Woman does things which ths Old Woman could not do without thought of evil because the New Woman lives In a more rarefied moral atmosphere than the Old one. She knows that thoughts are things, that mind moves mind Insensibly, and so she banishes the corrupt mind from her presence as she banishes tbe cor. rupt work from her book shelves. The Old Woman has not attained to this knowledge, and Is satisfied with restrictions imposed upon language. We agree that a nasty-minded young person should neither be allowed travel nor to associate at college with her superiors.

She should be shut up In seclusion with the Old Woman. Naaty mlndednesa Is contagious, but so also Is refinement, and the woman who knows and is not tainted is a finer creature than the one who is not enlightened because she can not be trusu The Old Woman knew her own sex as little as she cared for It that Is to say, not at all. She only recognised other women in tbctr relation to men, and that only In the one senso the sexual. She sees in our sacred humanity evidence of one function only, and deals with that principally la a state of perversion. Hers were the threw bottle daya of sexuality.

The New Woman despises any Intemper. a nee. Besides, she has no time to do more than sip a wholesome draught. She Is a well balanced creature, with Innumerable Interests In life, and enjoys them all without excess. HE Old Woman depended on Man for her pleasures.

She liked to be made love to, and so does the New Woman when It Is delicately done, and there Is not too much of it. But to live only to be loved In that way would be too much sweet to be wboleaome. That was tbe mistake the Old Womaa made she was limited. She bad only the one great Imareet In life, and strove, always to prolong It. Hep paradis was tba paaalon period: she had no great aympathy with any other phase of nature, which made her a monotonous person, in whom one's interest soon became exhausted.

The whola aim and obct at taer ealataaoe was sensual pleasure. Tim New Woman a nobler creature. Bet face softens at the thought of her In of In 10 Battle and Surrender of Yorktown Described By An Eye-Witness Written for the HERE Willi be many descriptions of the battle and surrender of Santiago de Cuba written by eye witnesses, and the stirring scenes enacted there will be de S3 scribed again and again by the participants. Such has ever been the case In history. When anything of Importance has been achieved men never tire of telling of It.

and of their small part in bringing It to a successful issue. Readers of this generation have been brought up on stories of the civil war told by fathers and grandfathers, and after the revolutionary war this trait of recounting personal experiences was Just ss strongly exhibited by the soldiers of that period. A short time ago I succeeded in locating an old manuscript written by my great grandfather, Daniel Trabue. which he tells of many Interesting things which occurred In Virginia and Kentucky about the time of the revolution. This manuscript had disappeared many years before and Its existence was entirely forgotten by all save one member of the family.

After some difficulty I succeeded in tracing it to the Historical Society of Wisconsin, at Madison, where It had been placed by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, the famous collector manuscripts and formerly the Librarian of that society. This manuscript describing ths battle and surrender of Yorktown. was written by Daniel Trabue for his children order thst they might not forget all that their father had experienced In helping to win the freedom of thlr country.

Daniel Trabue was an eyewitness of the battle and surrender at Yorktown, October 18, 178L and I give below his vivid description of It In the quaint language of the pioneer. Just exactly as It was written over a hundred years ago and now first published: "Gent. Lafayette still augmented his army and pursued down the river sfter Cornwall's. About this time art and every as of oar militia was called for to go to help take CnrawallU. fount De Grays, the commander of the French fleets, had blocked up Cornwallls.

snd he was at Yorktown fortyfylng himself there, Cornwallls had many thousands of negro men and Torrys a working at fortyflcations, while he himself and veterans were contending with Lafayette for every Inch of ground. They met la aa old field called old Jamestown, near Williamsburg. They had a severe engagement. The cannon did roar dreadfully on both sides, and the Infantry was much engaged also. Lafayette kept tha field, was In sight of this Battle looking at It, but was not engaged In the Battle, neither were half ths men we had In It.

Cornwallls left the old town and went to Wllllamaburgh and went down the River. Fayette's army Increases every day and he advances nearer Little York on Cornwallls, and Cornwallls contends for every Inch of ground, and they often have skirmishes. GenL Washington has oome to camp with troops from New York and they fetched a number of yokes of oxen to haul their wsgons, the largest I had ever seen. Then came wagons loaded with spades and they were laid out in piles. I did not know where they could get so many.

When morning came there was a ditch all around about feet wide. I mean on the South aide of the River. On the other side Is called Glouster. I understood they had a ditch dug on their side the same night. This ditch was nearly half a mile from the Fort and then the two ends run In ths River.

The length of this Ditch that was cut In one night was nearly two. and one-half miles long. In it you eould walk all around and not be seen by the enemy. Every 2S yards they bad a Battery for a cannon or Blotter to fling bombs. Be- and the Old.

little ones. Man may be dear as her lover, but he Is dearer still as tbe father of her children. HE New Woman can be hard on man. but It la because she believes In bun snd loves him. She recognises his Infi nite possibilities.

She sees the God In him, and means to banish, the brute. She has full faith In his ultimate perfection, otherwise she would not tolerate him for a moment. And, alas! for tha Old Womsn, after the way tn which she laid herself out to attract him, man likes the New Womsn bast. He suffers bo pin pricks of petty mind in her company. Her admirable temper and fine physique are a lasting charm, and he likes her confidence in him her frank camaraderie, her sincerity but more especially is he surprised and delighted to find that she doea not nlllaae bim- She la a loyal lady, and wboleaome minded.

Her bosom friends seed not keep one eye on her and the en their husi-ands. Her kisses are for ber own and for the children, and tba- Is mora than the Old Worn, an eould sav. aa a rula Tho Old feus had her day. Lot ua hope she enjoyed It. She has done good In her time, too, for did ahe not enllKhten us as the carnality of the 8u John's Wood of her descriptions? Hsve we not shuddered at the kind of carrion which came to ua thence, and vowed that our men should be approachable, literally aa well as na-uratlveiy.

without the aid of the essences ahe mentions. She has taught ua what to avoid la life, many thanks to her, although no one )s more disgusted than she is at tbe effect of her works upon us. A WAIN was agreeable to the Old Woman, doubtless, but only Galahad Is good enough for the New. She Is arro gant In that ebe aaks for the best roan. and means to have him.

But what the New Woman demands spe clatly Is what every man worth the name Is glad that she should have fair play. She objects to ths cowardliness which will trade upon a young. Ill-educated girl's In dolence, love of luxury and mistaken notions of life: who knows her nature, while she herself Is kept In Ignorance of It, and usee his knowledge to degrade her. That Is not fair play. There Is no need to Interfere between men and women of the world.

Let them regulate their relations as they Please ana take tne consequences; tney know what they are doing. But the mother In tbe New Woman sches to pro. tect the young the young girl from being brutallsed by man, and the young boy from tailing Into the woman's hands af tor all that waa angelle In her haa been destroyed by evil association. DOES tbe Old Womaa really think thsr we. without foreseeing a better day to come, would leave tbe sacred solitude of our woods, leave tbe gladness of summer seas, ths glory of summer sunset, tha sotgs of birds, the perfume of Bowers, tbe companionship of our frienas, snd all the ecstatic Joys of seclusion, and go forth to light for any motive but tha highest? Ton who are not unacquainted with the horrors of lust, stand aside for ua Love' Is our God, and we go forth at hla bidding to deliver his message, but let no one shame blmsaif by saving that we do not suffsr in tha goina-.

The Old Woman draws her hood over her bead, and sits in darkness that she may not know us for what we are. We are the new generation mentioned by the. Master, and already we are knocking at the door. Our knocking is tha knoll of tna Old No wonder she shudders! But rt Is useless to resist. She must go.

That Ja inevitable-and It Is also pathetic Courler JoumaLJ fore night came on must of the morters and small cannon were firing. 1 don't think there waa one m.nute that night but there were bomb-shells In the air. some times 10 or IS at the tame time. It was entirely liitht tbe whole night. Some did ear It was light enough to ptck up a ptn.

There waa great rejoicing In the Camp. The shells over the River were also seen a flying over the enemy's fort. I felt xlad and calm too. It looked like we had got In a new world to see these shells flying ail around and lighting la the Fort, Every shell made three reports. when It came out.

when It fell and when it burst. It wu trnly awful. When the shall would first come out you eould see It turning over llk a summer set making a noise like T-wlch-t wltb-t we' and we could see It with a great blase all the way until It would fall and then the report was dreadful and Immediately It would burst. Thase shells are made of pot metal Ilka a Jug a hair Inch thick with out a handle with a big -oouth and filled with powder and other combustibles In such a manner that tha blase comes out of the mouth and keeps on a burning until It gets to the body where there Is a large quantity of powder. Then It bursts and the pieces fly every way and wound or kill whoever they hit.

"One morning Mr. Merry man. an officer on the staff, came to see me and said: That great big and mighty cannon will be ready for firing by 10 o'clock on the bank of tbe river below the tort. Come. let us go down and see the We mounted our horses and started and went a circuitous route for fear of the enemy's cannon.

When we got to the place It was a sight to see such a big number of offl-' cere and soldiers, I suppose 2U0 or 3U0, besides spectators. Just before they fired they would put wool tn their ears to stop them. We did behold and mtm a vast number of drowned horses that the enemy bad drowned. The tide wss down and we could see them. Don't know bow many, but expect upward of a thousand, and perhape several thousands.

We all cried out a ain and shame. They flred on the fort. We eould sea where the ball hit and It did mik, ahuntl. anue of timber fly from the fort. The earth wnere we stood Old shake dresdfully and it deafened me very much.

Just before they fired they would out wool in thair eara Mr. Merryman and I did the same. i i iirwi ua, mry wouiu eoon oeai aowa that Sail at that plaoa. "Alf at once we aaw a hnat with a wMta flag froir the foit coming down the river ta u. -rua Dag waa received by the offi cer 4IB pluce.

Tbe officer that fetched rw said be-had a letter to (len. Wash. Inst on. The officer that commanded here sent one of his officers with him to Oen. Washington, who waa about a mile from here et headquarters near tha eenter of our Una As quick as they were gone tba big cannon llred aaaln and still continued to beat down the walL Ths conclusion among us all was that Cornwallls wss about to surrender.

About this tlms the flag reached Oen. Washington, and In a very few minutes the Are ceased, and con. tlnued alona the line each way to ceaae, and aa quick as the ordwrs could go over the river It censed there also, so In sbout one hour all was etlll and calm and the storm over A great many hands make Ugh, work. 'Washington and Cornwallls sent several dltatcha to each other before they concluded finally on the capitulation. I think It waa the second day they finished tha matter and sgreed on a certain day they wnnld march out and ground their ma.

rne news went rar and near, and vast number of people from different towns and the country csms forward to see the great and mighty sight. "Tne British had a very large sat a in the south side of their fort, and on that side waa a level old field. Our army waa placed In a solid square column about a halt mile or more around the said fort gats. It waa a great slant to see. Part of our Una were continental troopa a part were militia and a part were Franch.

and on tna outside of thle column of soldiery there were a vast many spectators, mostly In carriages, such as chariots. Fsyators. chairs and gigs, and soma common wagons. The carrtasea were mostly full or gentle men and ladlea and children; besides a number on horseback and some on foot. Some of them had come as far as the City of Richmond, which was upward of seventy mllea.

There were many thousands of thene spectators. Tien. Washington and soma of the gen- eral officers, with their aides, were about the eenter of thla vast column Immediate ly before tbe gate and about one-half or three-fourths of a mile distant. About the middle of the day the big gate opened, and the redcoats marched out by platoons tn a solid column, with soma of their officers. Our soldiers, offloers and spectators said: T-Md you sver, ever awe the Uker snd many words were spoken at that time, but not loud.

It was the most tremend-oua, the most admirable sight that I ever did see, and the countenanoes of our officers and soldiers all seemed to claim soma credtt for the greet prise, and the coun tenances of tha spectators seemed to say also they claimed some credit. It waa truly a wonderful sight to sea so many redcoats coming out to ground their arms. They marched straight up to Washington, gave up their swords and ground their arms or stacked them, and then returned to the fort, from whence they came to be hereaftwr taken to Winchester. Our soldiers snd officers mostly went to their tents, while some few advanced near the fort to guard them. I took notice thst night that the officers and soldiers could hardly talk for laughing, and they could hardly walk for Jumping and dancing and singing ss they went about.

i "That night there was a CoL Smith from our county, who was on parole, who said to his countrymen: 'Now. boys, retaliate. Remember Sutbery's Old Field. Theae sre the very men thst plundered our men and used them so bad. Boys, plunder them, but be cunning; don't be ketched at it, as your officers will not sanction And there wers a number of them plundered, sit" enough.

"The Continental officers and soldiers guarded the fort gate, and none of the militia was allowed to go In the fort. One reason wss tha small-pox was rife there. I had a relation who was a Continental officer. He was Lieut. John Trabue.

The very next day I went with him all over the fort. The fort seemed to be nearly one mile In lentrth and nearly one-fourth of mile In width. It was truly a dreadfully shocking sight to see the dsmage bombshells had done. When a bomb fell on the ground It would sink in the ground so deep that when It burst It would throw up a wsxonioad or more of dirt. and whan It fell on a house tore It to pieces.

Tbe enemy had a number of holes and pits dug sll over ths fort, some large snd some small, with timber hi the top edge, and when tha soldiers would see one shell a-eomlna- near them they would Jump In one of the pits and squat down until it was bursted. They had some larse holes under the ground, where Cornwallls and some ef the nobles stayed. They called them bum-proof, but with all the caution they took a vast number of them got killed. I have been told by some ef the soldiers since, that they were always on the watch, and thay conld see the bum-shell whea It was s-comlng. and at times there was dreadful scampering.

Sometimes they would come so oftn they were much beoet A Mr. Jacob Phillip told me a while before they surrendered they lost forty men every hour, and that thsy threw a number Of their arms and cannon tn the deep water. When humshell would fall on any hard place, so that It would not go under the ground, a soldier would so to It and knock off the fls or nefc. and then the bumehell would not burst. The soldier would get one for that set.

The soldiers they did not care much about their llvas; that shilling would get soma rum. There were a number of ne- groes In the fort -engased In filling up these holes In ground, making alt thins look smooth as possible. Aftr the surrender the British officers and Tories looked much dejected and thatr countenances As I ssw them passlnc I hardlv heard one word coming out of their mouth. 1 thvught the Enalieh soldiers and Hesnlans did not item ta care much about It, but everything In the fort tbohed gloomy and aad. I thought Lord Corn, wallla and his other big officers looked not only sad.

but ashamed, as they had lived under the ground like around noes, and the nearoes looked condemned. Ths British hsd promised them tbeW freedow. but Instead of freedom made them bawl' wagons by hand with timber to build their works, and made them work with spades, within an inch of their very lives. 't u-ft tbelr fort and went to our army, and slut a contrast! Our aws eo pari Uvsijr aod stui "rKXBV If: 1 7.