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THE TIMES SUNDAY SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING, FEBKUABY 27, 1898. 17 ticular section of the bilges was on the starboard side of the extreme after part of the engine room. Immediately aft of the engine room was the ship's magazine, separated from the engine room by a steel partition. Bilges are cleaned with turpentine-soaked Current O00t? of DANGERS EVERYWHERE ON A MODERN WARSHIP MAN-OF-WAR'S OFFICER MUST KEEP A THINKING HEAD ABOUT HDL outside, when suddenly a clap of thunder came and a flash of light which blinded the women sewing. After they recovered from the shock.

Mrs. Allen found that bolt had come down the chimney, aud as it flew across the room It brushed against her back hair and melted all the hairpins that had held it up a few nuraents before. A further investigation revealed the fact that the bolt had st nick the corner of a bed in the adjoining room, shattering the wood. Strange as it may seem, Mrs. Allen's hair was not even sinned." The other members of the party moved nneasllv In their chairs, exceptiugtheChicago man.

Turning to his companions, he said: 'While in Georgia a year ago last spring a darker was struck by liuhiulng and lives to tell the tale. He was riding home across a cotton field during a thunderstorm when a bolt of lightning struck him between the shoulders. It ran down his back, burned a hole in the saddle, killing the mule under him. He fell off the mule and walked home in the rain, bemoaning the loss of his suit of clothes, which hnd been badly torn by the lightning. I'pon his arrival home, when he went to change his clothes, his wife made the discoverv that the Mistiming had made a white stripe down his black back.

He carries that mark to this day." then, by pulling the escape valve, to descend within the city or on its outskirts. As he must have known how thickly the harbor was Infested with shaks. he could certainly not have seriously entertained the thought of letting his balloon descend In the harbor. 'At any rate, when his balloon reached an altitude of about half a mile, we could see that it had swam into a current of air that plainly began to carry it over the harbor. With the aid of our glasses we could perceive the aeronaut climbing from lie trapeze into the basket, and.

a moment or so after, he disappeared from view, it became apparent to us that he had pulled the escape valve, for the balloon begun to rapidly descend, but by the time the valve was opened the upper current had carried the balloon well over the waters of the bay. The engineer of our launch, at my direction, started our boat for the spot in' the water where we figured the balloon would descend, for we all knew that the aeronaut would not be long In the water before the sharks shot after him. The balloon came down too swiftly, however, for the launch to be of any assistance to Margulles. We were two hundred Mb I L'JIiVil Willffli'uiJ III i'a Ei'H It I II. I i.Ltt omen tn WOMAN apothecary? Why not? It sounds a little new, to be sure, but the more one thinks of it, the npore proper ana fitting It seems.

If a woman can make pies, why not pills? And yet In the scramble for new fields or worn in which women may compete with men, the science of practical pharmacy seems to have had a narrow escape from being overlooked. A few women have thought of It, however, and, as Is quite usual In matters pertaining to the advancement of women and their higher or specialized education, Philadelphia holds the world's record, though she bears it so modestly that the fact of women pharmacists is scarcely known. Of the regularly graduated women pharmacists In the world, the first one to take up the work and the largest number now engaged in It are graduates of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, that college Itself being the oldest one In America, having been established in 1821. It is also the largest, having conferred the degree of graduate In pharmacy on persons, of whom thirty odd have been women. Such women as desire to take this degree are admitted at this school as full students, on terms of entire equality with the men.

There are no separate classes for them, each woman student being a nipmber of the regular class of the year In which she enters. The women students come from all over the world. One of the present graduating class is a Russian. Their ages range from 18 to 111 years. Joseph P.

Remington, professor of the theory and practice of pharmacy at the college and dean of the faculty, is justly proud of the fact that since the first woman applied there for admission about twenty-five years ago, there lias not been a single Instance of disrespect shown to the women by the men. The compounding of medicines Is a profitable business and one for which womeu, with their natural deftness of manipulation and passion for being exact, are particularly liited, and the worldly success of some of I he women who have graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy would seem to suggest that their delving into the mysteries of chemical compound has revealed to them the composition of the philosopher's stone. The worst enemy to their complete and universal success, according to Professor Remington, is marriage. Those who defy the fickle promoter of matrimony achieve universal success. The work is light and clean, not unsexing, free from exposure and violent exercise, though not loo confining, and of a kind which keeps the mind active and unwearied from mechanical routine.

The first woman to attend lectures at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy was Dr. Clara Marshall, now dean of the Women's Medical College of this city. The first regular graduate was Dr. Susan Hayhurst. She received her degree In 1883.

In 1SS!) she took out a regular license to engage in the retail drag business, and is now in charge of the pharmaceutical department of the Women's Hospital in this city, where, last month, for Instance, under her supervision, her women assistants compounded 3,500 prescriptions, which is something over a hundred a day. Dr. Hayburst's ancestors were among the first Quakers who came to this country. Besides being a pharmacist she is a doctor of medicine, regularly graduated from the Woman's Medical College. She Is and all her life has been a teacher.

She has a wide acquaintance with medical students aud women scientists the world 'over and has been of inestimable help to them. She is said to be the first regularly graduated woman pharmacist in the world who took up the business in a practical way after graduation. The second woman graduate of the school was Miss Grace Lee Babb, now the wife of Dr. Abbott, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, and now of Washington. Miss Mae Thompson Haulers, a Philadelphia girl, and a last year's graduate, is now iu charge of the woman's department of the Merck's Model Pharmacy, recently established In the city of Now l'ork by the Merck Chemical Company.

Miss Jean Gordon, ns principal, and Miss May Reynolds as assistant, both graduates of the Philadelphia school, had charge of the Women's Pharmaceutical Department at the World's Fair in Chlcage. Miss Gordon Is now in charge of the apothecary shop of the Howard Hospital and Miss Reynolds Is the head of the Siegel-Cooper Company's drug department In Chicago. Miss Mary Haney, another graduate, Is apothecary in the female department of the Norristown Insane Asylum. Miss Sarah Xaly, a recent graduate, has made a great success In Denver, where she Is now conducting a retail drug business and apothecary shop. Two graduates are now operating drug stores in this city.

One Is Miss Susannah Sf Haydock, whose place of business Is at Twenty-second and Locust streets; the other Is Mrs. Carrie Howard, who, when her husband died, took full charge of his business at Sixteenth and Christian streets, where she Is making a great success. Mrs. Mary O. Miner has had the unusual distinction of being a vice president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, while the secretaries of State pharmaceutical associations in Louisiana, Nebraska and Kan.

sas have been women pharmacists. The present graduating class has five women students. They are Miss Lulu Brooks, of Texas; the Misses Grace Mathers. Ida De Haven and Mary C. Greer, of Philadelphia, and Miss Rose Slobodkln, of Russia.

The entire number of women students now In the EATEN BY SHARKS The traglo Fate of an Aeronaut In Havana Harbor. From the Washington Star. "Havana harbor Is as Jammed full of man-eating sharks as the I'pper Orinoco is of alligators," said a Washington man, who lived for several years In the Cuban capital, "aud, although it Is a sorry enough thing Jo have to say, I cannot believe that many of the bodies of the poor fellows who lost their lives In the Maine disaster will be cast up on the beach. Aside from the big man-eaters that Infest the harbors of the islands In the South Pacific, close to the line, I don't believe the waters of the whole world hold any more ravenous or ferocious sharks than those that make sea bathing In Havana harbor a luxury that is Indulged In only by the most reckless and foolhardy men. The so-called man-eaters of Northern waters, big and ugly as they look, are generally as rank cowards of the-eea as coyotes are of the land, and a whole school of sharks of the temperate zone will scoot from a level-headed man who keeps up a steady kicking and splashing in the water, like a pack of released rats scurrying from a terrier.

Hut the sharks of Havana harbor have got a tasto of human blood for scarcely a week passes that some silly Havana man or boy does not get himself gobbled up by the man-eaters and the fact Is no longer disputed by seafaring men that once a shark acquires an appetite for human beings he will risk anything afterward to appease that appetite. "When the city of Havana was celebrating, six years ago. the anniversary of the birth of the young King of Spain, the next biggest feature of the blowout after the bull fights was a balloon ascension by a Spanish aero-nut named Kamson Margulles. I was spending the holiday on an electric launch with a party of friends, nnd In the afternoon we watched for the ascension. Along about 4 o'clock we saw the balloon shoot into the air from one of the minor plazas, with Margulles.

dressed in gymnast's tights, hanging by his legs from the trapeze suspended beneath the basket. The air was still, and the aeronaut nan apparently figured on mukln iking and a reasonably high stralght-up ascent waste. The bilge cleaner, too lazy to fill one of the usual turpentine cans provided for the purpose, dragged a five gallon can of turpentine to his bilge station and began work. Smoking is strictly prohibited in the engine rooms of a man-of-war, on account of the large amount of combustible stores necessarily stowed below. This bilge cleaner was a reckless sort of blade, however, and when he had got his bilge cleaning underway he took out his pipe and lit it, carelessly chucking the match In the bilge.

There was some turpentine in the bllge.ond the match, still aglow, set it into a frame. The bilge cleaner jumped to bis feet, and in doing so he overturned the five gallons of turpentine. Then the bilge was converted into a roaring mass of flame that shot to the berth deck gratings and played directly against the steel bulkhead separating the engine room from the magazine. The careless bilge cleaner was scorched, and he bolted for the spar deck, yelling like a madman. The second-class fireman with the head on him was the only other man In the after engine Doom nt the time this happened.

He made a jump for the bilge covers that had been removed by his reckless mate, and, although severely burned while doing it, he thrust them over the bilges. Then he seized a wrench aud knocked open one of the intakes from the sea that let water directly Into the bilge that was In flames. The water came in so rapidly that it knocked the bilge covers off, but it drowned the fire. There was more than a foot of water In the engine rooms before the intake could be closed again, but that was a small matter compared with what might have happened had the hot turpentine flame lapped the magazine bulkhead much longer, liy the time fire quarters was sounded and the men on deck got down below, the second-class fireman, with his hair and eyebrows all burned off nnd the skin peeling from hi face and hands, was throwing bucketful after bucketful of the Incoming sea water against the steel bulkhead, which was already so hot that It sent back clouds of steam. "Spontaneous combustion in the coal bunk- ers of men-of-war something that has always to be guarded against.

There is a good deal of coal dug out of the ground In many parts of the world that is practically perfect for steam-making purposes, but It is not used on men-of-war on account of Its known liability to ignite of itself In hot coal bunkers abutting upon fire and boiler rooms. In all inui-of-war bunkers there Is an apparatus that gives the alarm when the temperature of the bunker rises above a certain set figure. The bunkers are all numbered. If the temperature of bunker No. 1.

for instance, rises beyond the set mark, the alarm la given by means of a ringing registering machine, placed just outside the skipper's cabin. The marine orderly for the commanding officer, whose station outside the cabin door enables blm to keep his eye on nnd his ear attuned to the music of this bunker fire alarm. Is always the man to make the rush to the officer of the deck with the news that there Is something wrong In one of the bunkers. Then the ship's bugler sounds fire quarters, anil all hands gallop to their fire stations. Steam Is turned Into the hunker, the coal In which Is ignited, aud the fire thus put out.

Such fires are not at nil uncommon, but accounts of them rarely get Into print. "A week rarely passes by that some man or other ou a man-of-war doenn't get more or less grievously hurt. If there Is not an unguarded open hatch for him to step Into, the man-o'-war's man has a chance to mash a couple of toes or fingers In the mechanical manoeuvre drill of overhauling batterlm. On the cruisers that still carry sail for steadying purposes he may be slapped on the side of the head by a loose, snapping halyard or he may, and often does, take a bad tumble to the deck from a suddenly slackening ridge rope. Down below, among the black gang, a fireman is always thoughtlessly picking up an almost red-hot slice bar or devil's claws at the wrong end, or getting a stream of steam in his eyes from careless handling of valves.

On the whole, notwithstanding the firm conviction of nuwt eallormen that there is less danger on the sea than on the land, the inan-o'-war's man ou a modem cruising ship Is kept pretty constantly guessing If he wants to get back to his wife or sweetheart as sound, whole, and healthy as when he last saw her." ftep (Ujnfaf over the belt. The second coat was in putty, colored velours, with long lines of jet embroidery from collar to waist Hue. A very thick ruching of soft black chiffon lace encircled the throat aud hung with long ends below the basque In front. This was lined throughout with brilliant heliotrope silk aud was exceedingly smart and effective. I notice that all the new tailor gowns are being piped and corded with lines of contrasting colors.

For Instance, one very smart yet severely simple gown oftan-colored cloth has all Its seams narrowly piped with cream-colored satin. Another dress of pale gray cashmere has the skirt trimmed with heavy cordlngs of a red aud white silk tartan. The bodice also and sleeves are similarly treated aud the effect I found rather pleasing. Tuckings and Fhirrlngs galore are everywhere used, while the over-elaboration of the newest skirts still continues with unabated zeal. Miss Sheldon is one of the coterie of pretty and talented American girls at present belonging to Sir Henry Irvlng's company at the Lyceum Theatre, and has been fortunate to receive Miss Gertrude Kingston's part In the revival of "Madame Saus-Gene," which begins next week.

As she has already played the part with success throughout the provinces she will doubtless gain the approval of a London audience. She possesses a most remarkable gift of memory. At this present moment she could play any part, male or female, In the cast of "Peter tho Great" without rehearsal, and. I believe, she also knows every line of "Madame Sans-Gene." Tills Incursion of the American actress must be somewliat exasperating to her English sister, especially when such a citadel as the Lyceum Theatre is so successfully stormed. Speaking of the Lyceum and Its American members must necessarily remind me cf th fact that the latest "International alliance," tlmt of Miss Ethel liarrymore and Laurence Irving, is stated to have been broken off.

Although It certainly is nobody's business but that of the parties most concerned, the newspapers are busily manufacturing nil sorts of little fairy tales about the whys and the wherefores the separation of tho young people. Why any public comment arise from this decision of Mr. Irving aud Mlssliarrymoreseeinsuunecessary. Like good many other young men and women, they became engaged, not for "keeps," exactly, hut more as a "trial" trip. If they choose to bring such temporary arrangement to a close, why on earth should everybody make as much fuss as If It had been the severing of a royal betrothal? Miss Harrymore is pretty, youthful and agreeable.

Mr. Irving is youthful, intelligent and ambitious. They both are quite sensible enough to know their own minds: so why should anybody else have anything to say ou the subject Anne Morton Lane. FAMOUS CHAIR Its Seat Said to be the Stone ou Which Jacob Slept on the Plains of Judcu. From the Chicago Record.

The most precious felij In all England, and to the English In all Europe Is an o'd Gothic chair which stands iu the chapel of St. In Westminster Abbey, beside the sword and shield of Edward III. made of black oak iu the Gothic stylo, and the back is covered with caned inscriptions. incmmng tne initials or many lauious men. The feet are four linns, that look like pooola dogs with their tails curled up over their backs.

The seat is a large stone about thirty Inches long by eighteen wide, aud twelve inches thick, and all the sovereigns of England for the last eight hundred years have sat upon it when they were crowned. Tim chair Is known as the coronation chair, and the stone Is claimed to be the same which. Jacob, the sen of Isaac, the son of Abraham, used as a pillow when he laid down to sleep on the starlit plains of Jinlah that, memorable night as he was on his way from Bcer-sheba to Ilaruii in seurch of a wife. It was then he had his dream, and saw angels and archangels ascending and descending ladder that reached to heaven, and Jehovah came to him and made the great promise which Is being fulfilled to the Jews.this very day. And Jacob took the stone and set It up for a pillar, and poured oil upon it, ami vowed a vow, and called the name of thj place Bethel.

The kings of Israel were crowned upoa this stone from the time that thev ruled nation David and Saul and Solomon aud all the rest. The story goes that 580 years before Christ, at the time of the Babylonian captivitv. Circa, the daughter of Zedckluli, the last King of Judea, arrived In Ireland, and wa. married at Tara to Heremon, a Prince of the Tuatha de Danan which is said to be tho Celtic name of the tribe of Dan. The traditions relate that thlrt Priucess went originally to Egypt in charge of the prophet Jeremiah, her guardian, and the palace? Ta-phaues.

in which they resided there, was discovered In lswi by Dr. I'etiie, the archaeologist. After some years they went hence to Ireland, and from Circa and lleremou yueen Victoria traces her descent through James who placed the Hon of the tiiua Juilah upon the British standard. Jeremiah Is said to have concealed this sacred stone at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews, and to have brought itt "the stone of the testimony," Bethel, the only witness of the compact between Jehovah and Israel, to Ireland, whence it was known as the lia phall (stone wonderful). It was carried to Scotland by Fergus nnd thence to London In the year 1200.

and has been used at the coronation of every King nnd Oueen of Eng land from hdward 1. down to ictoria. it is thus the niost priceless historical object In the British empire, as it was the palladium of Israel. It is a curious fact that the altars of Ireland were called Bethel, house of God. In the same chapel surrounding the cor onation chair In Westminster abbey are th graves of six Kings, five Queena, four Princesses, a Duke and a Bishop.

THE FEAR OF RATS But the Bravo Woman Thought it a Mere Toy. From the Galveston News. An amusing lltil" Incident occurred In a Galveston home recently, which discounted the experience of the tenderfoot in Arizona, who sat quietly in a dance hall while two cowboys emptied their revolvers at each other, he having been told by a friend Hint there was a move on foot to fool him by having a sham fight In his presence. When the guns began to crack he thought that the performance for his benefit had begun, and sat undisturbed through It all, with his feet cocked up on the table and a cigar In his month, while the bullets flew about him thick and fast. The Galveston lady who forms the subject of this story was fully as brave, although she, like the tenderfoot, was not aware of her owu couraire.

It seems that she. In company with several other ladles called on a mutual friend wlm has a bright little 6-year-old, whom she wished to show off before her visitors. The precious lad had a leaning toward elocution, and bis fond mamma lost no time in apprising her callers of bis powers in that direction. They, of course, askeil to hear some of his work, and he began reciting than characteristic sketch of James Whliconib Itiley's, entitled "Seeln TlilneV Just, an the "boy reached the lines reading "I'm not afeered of ruts an' mice an' things 'at giri is skeercd of," an enormous rat darted across the room toward a convenient bole. The ladles, except the one about whom this story Is told, screamed.

Jumped on chairs and tables, gathered their skirts around them and made every effort to convince everyltody interested that they had no desire to form the acquaintance of the rodent. The other lady, who, by (he way. Is near-sighted, sat quietly In Iter rocker with a smile of appreciation on her face. When the excitement had subsided she calmly remarked that it was "very good," much to the mystification of her companions. It developed that, she thought that the small boy had thrown a toy rat on ihej floor and that his mother and the her callers were agisting to make the performance realistic.

Nevertheless, she Is regarded ai quite a heroiue by her friends, among whom the story, of course, has been circulated, SOME PERILS WHICH HE FACES Only Prompt and Decisive Action Can Avert Fatalities-One of the Surest Ways to 'Win Promotion During Times of -Peace Is to Display Quick, Unerring Judgment In the Face of These Conditions A Xavnl Officer a Brave "The man-of-war's man or officer who neglects to keep a careful, thinking hfad on his shoulders during all his waking hours aboard ship Is liable to get hurt," said a man well Informed on naval affairs, apropos of the disaster to the Maine, to a Washington Post reporter. "Dangers lurk everywhere on a modern ship of war. The most careful naval sallorman often fluds himself on the very brink of a disaster, that, without quick thinking and lightning action on somebody's part, would land hlni and many of his shipmates, if not his whole ship's company, In kingdom come. There are several warrant officers in the United States navy to-day who owe their uniforms to rapid judgment aud bravery in the face of Impending magazine accidents. "One of the first of the steel ships of the new navy had not been In commission three months before a level-headed apprentice boy executed a rapid descent into the pit of the ship's endangered magazine that put blm at the top of the line for the gunner's warrant he now holds.

The gun dlvkdous of the crew were overhauling tho after magazine breaking out fixed ammunition and can3 of powder and gun cotton and cleaning and red-leading the bilges. The ship had not yet been equipped with electricity, and so closed lanterns were employed to illumi- natc the Cimmerian darkness of the magazine. The lanterns, as was customary on men-of-war before the days of movable Incandescent electric lamps on naval vessels," hnl been carefully inspected by an officer before tho hatch of the magazine was lifted All of them were found In apparently tight I order, and the work of hoisting the magazine eoutenM to the main deck by means of hlocH and tackle was begun. Tile chief gunner's mate, under the direction of a division officer, was superintending the movements of the men. He was leaning over the hatch, calling out orders to the hands in the pit of the magazine, when he knocked the lantern he carried In his hand against one of the steel sides of the hatch.

The spring that held the lamp within the lantern gave way, and the lamp fell through (he hatch. Still lighted. It fell bottom side up on top of a big can of powder that was hooked and ready to be hoisted to the deck. The two men In the pit of the magazine had gone away aft to haul more cans of powder to the hooks, nnd, their backs being turned to the hatch opening, they did not see the lantern lamp resting on the can of powder, with the flame of the wick right next to the metal of the can. The men at the top of the hatch were In a stupor of horror, but the alert apprentice boy, who afterward got his sword for the job, was wide awake.

He shinned down the tackle an instant after the lamp fell, grabbed the lamp, the flame of which had already begun to heat the can metal, and yelled up the hatch: 'Pull me and the can up to the main deck, you "Having extinguished the lamp with his flngera, he grabbed the rope with his right hand and the oun of powder with his left, and the men at the hatch opening had him on the main deck In a Jiffy. The apprentice boy cooted up the poop ladder and chucked the heavy can of powder over the aide. The commanding officer of the ship did not complain of the loss of the powder. "A second-class fireman serving on one of the smaller cruieers.had his head about blm when the of his ship was threat-' encd a few years ago, and he has had the much better rating of a water tender ever since. One of his shipmates of the black gang was cleaning his section of the after engine room bilges one morning.

Ills par- From a Correspondent of The Times. London, February IP. HE SEASON, as far as Parlia mentary uinuers, ouieiai receptions and various other formal aud dry-as-dust functions, has undoubtedly begun in London. Its tdon arrl and rrlval Is decidedly premature. nobody seems particularly pleased about it.

Of course the real gayetles, appertaining to the "smart set," do not begin till the end of March at the earliest, and most of the pretty women are either gambling at Monte Carlo or Nice, or hunting in the country. The "Parliamentary crowd" as a whole is stiff, dull and unamusing. They give stately receptions aud heavy dinners and go to bed and get up with admirable regularity and punctuality, hut the two divisions of London society, the official people and the fashionable people, have little in common and Bave at the big "crushes" seldom meet. The new Idea about the German opera season at Covent Garden is being eager'y discussed on ail sides. I suppose you have heard about It the performance Is to begin at 5 and last for an hour, and a half, an hour and a half's Intermission for dinner and then the continuation of the programme, which will be arranged to finish in time for supper at 11! There Is a good, wholesome German solidity about this arrangement that should appeal to English audiences, but how terribly shorn of half Its heauly the opera house will be at such an Innovalion.

No more jewels Hashing iu an arc of splendor round the house, no more gleaming white shoulders and gem-ladcu throats. At 7i o'clock men and women alike must be In afternoon dress, and, of course, the appearance of the house will suffer In consequence, however smartly the people may clotne heiuselves. In milliner shops, as a result I suppose of the novel "dlulng-opera" arrangement, are displayed all sorts of quaint little sprays of flowers bound together with Jeweled ribbons, and bunches of tulle, sparkling with glittering particles that are dubbed "opera bonnets," while modestly tiny toques of jet or velvet or lace are satirically called "matinee hats." Speaking of hats reminds me that I was shown some very charming brand-new ones yesterday at a smart Bund street shop. There was one close-fitting little toque til made of close-fluted turquoise blue chiffon, trimmed with bunches of drooping black fuchsias (the newest aud most fashionable horticultural enormity) and two flexible black wings heavily jetted that rose Mercury-wise above the forehead. Very pretty also was a curiously-shaped long narrow hat of flnely-Jetled black crinoline with a flat oval-shaped crown entirely composed of crushed white roses with pale, greenish cen tres.

The brim was turned straight back from the face rather after the style of headgear adopted by Napoleon, nnd caught on the left side by two big soft black plumes with Jetted steins. At the hack the brim also turned up, and underneath, close against the hair, was a narrow row of the white roses. All the crowns In the new hats seem to be quite flat and there Is to be noticed a tendency to return to that style of two years ago tilting the hat right over the nose and turning the brim straight up In the back with a cache pelgne of flowers or choux of ribbons or velvet. The one-sided effects are fewer, but they are still used, while, as I said before, the toques arc really tiny aud not ut all high. Milliners predict that chiffon will be largely used for summer hats, and at present they are using white, cream and biscuit tints In combination with the new stone and putty shades, and relieving It with an Intermixture of rich dark velvet or black plumes, these latter being conspicuous on the lightest headgear.

These stone and putty tints are conspicuously fashionable. In flowers the bright pink geranium, the Inevitable violet and the yellow mimosa arc mostly shown, but in preparation are the most exquisite Irises, In glorious shades of purple and dahlia, dainty pink heather, shading off to creamy-w hltc and heliotrope, popularly known in England as "cherry-pie" In a slightly brighter hue than found In the natural blossom. These flowers wil' be worn later on, nnd orchids of rare.it coloring, and a particularly bright turquoise cornflower, while poppies are of every possible hue. In the cut of the new coats there Is a good deal of difference to be noticed In the length and style of the basques, which are flat and rather long. Many are rounded off like the masculine morning coat.

These should be chosen with care, as they are fatal to a figure that Is not built on very excellent and rather meagre lines. In the loose-fnmt-ed bodices tlw short, full basque Is frequently omitted altogether, and this, of course, undeniably takes off the Kiisslnn effect, but as yet the pouched blouse Is worn, and I Imagine will be in some similar form during the summer. Another change in the popular "blnused" form of coat or bodice is that in the newest shapes they are made to fit tightly at the back and sides, only the front bagging slightly over the belt. A couple of beautiful coats that I saw yesterday were both excellent examples of deml-saison coverings. One was of black velvet, with a delicate pattern vines and curling tendrils all over It, large passion flowers being cut out of the velvet and filled In with a silk lace stitch to show lining of rose-colored silk.

A high rolling collar of velvet was embroidered In the same way, the rose tinted lining (of velvet this time) milking a most effective background for the face, while on the slightly full sleeves the same openwork pattern was also visible. A narrow Jet belt encircled the waist, the back of the coat fitting closely to the figure, only the front drooping slightly THE QUEEN AND GLADSTONE i Why She is Anxious ns to the Health of the Grand Old Man. Queen Victoria, according to the London correspondent of the Mail and Express, Is very anxious about Mr. Gladstone, and has telegraphic reports of his condition sent to her twice dally. Her venerable Majesty-such' Is the story has some Idea that Mr.

Gladstone's death will be but a brief forerunner of her own. because of a prediction ouce made to her by a fortune teller. Many years ago the Queen and the lute Prince Albert were out walking together a lulle two distant from the Highland They were quite unattended and were passed on the hii.ii road by gypsy caravan. Acting on a sudden Impulse Prince Albert hailed the gypsies and intimated that be "and his wife" would like their fortunes told. A tall, gnunt-hioklug mother of the trIW approached them, aud.

It Is supposed, with no bleu of their exulted rank. The hand of the Prince was the first offered, but with a hurried glance the gypsy dropped It and then for a few minutes stared into the face of the Queen's husband. "I can tell you of no fortune," she at last muttered. "You live with the sun, but the dark iney soon deepen." The Queen and the Prince laughed, and then her Majesty's palm was extended. The gypsy woman looked and then fell on her knees.

"I am In the presence of one who Is great In this world, she murmured, "and' so 1 give you homage, though I know not whom you may be; your days may be long, but sorrow will not spare yon, nnd when your end comes there will le a falling stone." No explanation was vouchsafed by the gypsy, and ns the rest of the caravan's Inhabitants were beginning 10 gather around them a liberal dole was he-stowed nnd the Queen and Prince resumed their walk. Probably the gypsy's words were forgotten amtil recalled by the death of the Prince Consort. The allusion to a falling stone remained a problem, but now it might he solved ns having reference to a falling (Glndistoue. As prophecy It Is no better or worse than other utterlngs of oracles. It happened to -come right iu the Prince Consort's' case: It cannot very well come wrong iu the Queen's case.

Her Majesty Is well stricken with nge, and so she cannot long survive Mr. Gladstone, propheoy or no prophecy. The AVny to Care for Them. "I cun't see fur the life o' me," said the Hon. Spud Hooper, of Pine Stump district, "what this country means by allowin' our battleships to mi away off frum home fur an' git Into trouble.

Anything whut costs four or five billions ov dollars orter be kept at home wbur hit could be seen atter an' tuck keer ov. The icly ov exposln' these yere line battleships to the weather Is plum redlckllls. These yere hattleslllps orter be locked up in a show case with red velvet around 'urn an' when thev air tuck out In the rain a uniberriller oner be strotched." Atlanta Journal. A Jr1 OZkv'. rr-o Attn -rTfv Ar, ORAWINO TRAJJt AND JOOA yards away when the basket of the almost collapsed balloon struck the water.

Just before the basket reached the water Margulles appeared on the edge nnd dived head first Into the harbor. In order, apparently, to prevent his becoming entangled with the basket netting. We saw his head bob up once, and we put on all power to reach him with the launch. But when he saw a dozen man-eaters' fins cleaving the water straight for the spot where the unfortunate aeronaut's head had appeared, we knew that It was all up witli him. He did not show at the surface again, and when we readied the spot where he had Jumped in we saw nothing but lltt'e eddies of blood on (he surface of the water.

The sharks had torn him to pieces." FREAKS OF LIGHTNING OnejBolt Melted "Watch, Another a Lady's irIrplns nnd a Third Left a White Streak on a Neftro. From the Denver Republican. A parly of commercial men lounged In the easy chairs In the rotunda of the Brown Palace Hotel last evening. "As I was going to remark." said the cologne man, "I was traveling In Texas a few years ago, and spent a day or two at a place where a gang of men were building a new railroad. There were at least i(x of them.

On this particular day a thunderstorm came up and a bolt of lightning struck almost In the centre of the men. A dozen or more of them were stunned by the blow and knocked down. One man, who was standing very near where the bolt struck, had his clothes burned a little. He was all right in a few minutes and went about his work. About quitting time he put his hand Iu his pocket to look at his watch, and, much to his surprise, found his pocket empty and the bottom torn out.

He went back to where he fell when the lightning struck and found a chunk of silver, all that remained of his watch. The heat from the lightning hail evidently melted It, and It burned its way through the pocket and fell to the ground." "If that story won't convince you on the spot, I have one that will." said the pork packing man of Kansas City. "Before I go further, let mo state that this story Is an actual fact, and no fooling. Arizona, last summer. Mis.

II. .1. Allen, wife of the financial agent of the I nlted Verde mine, was seated in a room with another woman sewing. A thunderstorm was raging.