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THE LUMP CITY MER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA. BOUT LADY EDEN. 2 . HE WOMAN WHOSE PORTRAIT CAUSED TROUBLE. Artist Whistler Admired the Picture to Such an Extent that He Placed It on Exhibition in Paris, but to This the Husband Objected. ADY EDEN, whose portrait by the Anglo-American ar- tist, Whistler, ex- hibited last year in the Champs de Mars, has recently been the cause of an amusing contro- versy between her husband and the painter, is a woman of altogether ex- eeptional beauty, and famous as such not only in England, but also on the continent of Europe, and in America as well. She has been a favorite sub- ject for great artists, perhaps the most successful and best-known portrait of her being that exhibited a few years ago at the Royal Academy in London, by Herkomer, and which now hangs on the walls of her country seat, Windle- stone Hall, opposite Sir Peter Lely's celebtated and historic portrait of Neil Gwynne, from whom the present Duke of St. Albans is descended In direct line. Prior to her marriage Lady Eden was known as the lovely Sybil Grey, and her great-grandfather was the first and fa- mous Eael Grey. With regard to the portrait which has been the subject of dispute between the baronet and the artist, Sir William declares that Mr. Whistler undertook to make a sketch of Lady Eden for 100 guineas. On re- ceiving notification that the portrait LADY F:DEN was ra Ady felt. William sent his check for that amount and received an ar- knowle4ment from Mr. Whister for the same. Sir William left an the fol- lowing de .• for India. On his return he eund Hut 'he sketch, which was about the size of s sheet of note paper, had been exhibited at the Salon, without his permission, where it had been greatly admired. On rieir William demanding its delivery the artist refused to comply therewith, claiming that the price paid was preposterous, and that the picture was worth a great deal more. Sir Wil- liam then instituted legal proceedings to compel the artist to surrender the plc- ture,whereupon Whistler. In a fit of pet- ulance, painted out the whole head. The French courts have now issued a decree commanding 'he artist to re- store the picture, and .'o turn It over to the baronet, with $100 lamages for de- lay In delivering the victure, besides paying the entire costs of the proceed- ing'. It will be curious t» see how the restored head of Lady laden will com- pare with that originally painted by Mr. Whistler. FOR SORTING TL.A. A Machine While% Is Surrounded with Some Mystery. Some interest has been created >y the announcement that a tea sorting net - chine has been invented In India. From the description given thin machine con- sists of two angular steel frames meas- uring 8 feet long at the top and 9% feet at the base. standing 2 1 ,4 feet high. placed opposite each other, and stayed together two feet apart. Between then. operate with a reciprocating motion two long light steel frameiewhieli are the sift- ers, placed one above the other, theme working on four oscillating levers. se- curely fastened to the angle ateel frame inside at four points by Strong ease - hardened pine, upon which they act from the center: the upper sifter is firmly secured by trunnion brackets on the side to the levers at the top, and the lower one in the same way under- neath. Roth sifters have an independent action, and work in opposite directions at 100 to 140 revolutions per minute: the upper sifter Inclines toward the crank, and these are fitted with four sizem of meshes, two In each, the trays being Interchangeable sliding trays and U nder neat h How Hills of Sale Are Made. A hill of sale Is a formal written voysnoo of personal preperty. If the property Is delivered when sold. or If part of the purchase money is paid, a written Instrument is not necessary to make the eenveyance. hut it is con. venient evidenee ' ef the transfer ‚if titl e , flue to protect the Interests of the purchaser against the creditors of the seller, the bill is not 'natl.-lent of itself; there should ale° ho a delivery of the property If an ?equal and con- ti nue d change ,,r d ,ree not taerompany the sale It Is , obi a« against th e ere e meee of the srlior Sol subse- quent purehasers and mortgagees in good faith, tiniest.' the hover can show that his purchase was made In g.“)41 faith. without Intent to defraud. and • that there was some good reason for leaving the uoporty in the hand1 of the seller WOOL AND ELECTRICITY. Highly Charged Hails Are DIfticult to Handle. An important fact is discussed by a writer In the Manufacturers' Review. viz., that wool, after it is shorn and cleansed preparatory to the carding and spinning processes, is capable of being highly charged with electricity, and that though the phenomena re- sulting from this characteristic are fa- miliar to all carders, the influence of this agent ie oftentimes so active as to interfere materially with the working of the wbol; the fact, however, that wool when thoroughly wet, or well :ubricated, either artificially or with its own natural grease, shows no effects from the presence of electricity, may be considered as establishing the fact that in all grades of wool the susceptibility to the influence of electricity increases in the ratio of dryness or absence of lubricating material in the fibre, or, In other words, to its freedom from the moistening effects of oil or water, while sufticient moisture properly applied will not only prevent all the evil effects of electricity in wool, but will destroy every evidence of its existence In both the picker and card rooms. The writer adds that by making the feed light in bulk, speeding the feed roll and doffers faster for a quick speed and quick de- livery. and reducing the speed of the main cylinders, tumblers, fancies, and the vibrating motions of the condenser, the effects in question are done away with. SOLUBLE GLASS. How It Is Utilized in France for Bleach - lag Linen. According to M. Geisenheimer, in the Comptes Rendus, an entirely new de- parture has lately been made in France in the application of soluble glass to the bleaching of linen. In explanation of this It is stated that, to insure the com- plete bleaching process, the process arose ot increasing the causticity of the le and prolonging the time of boiling. to the injury of the fabric though im- proving the color; and though the pro- duction of yellowish or brownish patches on the linen Is usually attri- buted to impurities in the chemical, it is chiefly due to the presence in the water of calcium and magnesium salts, which are precipitated on the fabrics and act as mordants, fixing the yellow- ish coloring matter of the lye. --an ef- fect preventable by adding to the water a mixture of sodium carbonate and soluble glass. Calcium and magnesium silicates are thus precipitated in a floc- culent form which settles rapidly, does not adhere to the fabric, and becomes granular and pulverulent on boiling, and. thus purified, only a very small quantity of caustic alkali is necessary, the greater part, of the saponification being effected by means of the less In- jurious alkali carbonate. A convenient form in which to have the soluble glass for this purpose is said to be obtain- able by adding from ten to twenty per cent of anhydrous sodium carbonate to a saturated solution of the soluble glass. Wonderful Cures of a Shepherd. From the London Daily News. Wonderful cures are attributed by ig- norant German peasants to a shepherd named Ast of Radeburg, who professes to diagnose diseases by inspecting the hair of the neck of his patients. Al- though this quack has repeatedly been fined for this illegal exercise of medicine he seems well enough off to pay his (Ines and to continue to defy the law. An amusing instance of credulity came to light at the hearing of the case the last time he was prosecuted. A man from liremervoerde went to consult him with regard to some real or Imaginary ailment. Ast Inspected his back hair, and then calmly prescribed an hour and a half's wood -chopping exercise. It seems that Mrs. Ast wanted some wood chopped, and Mr. Ast hit upon this very practical expedient for gratifying her. The patient, strange to say, submitted to perform the task in the full confi- dence that it would cure him. Wyoming's New Senator. Among other things done by the re- publicans of Wyoming during the re- cent session was to elect Clarence D. FIENAToR CLARK. W trMINO Clark to itinlor t7nited ettatee sen- ator Mr flail( is a new figure In the polities! nrons, no vor ha, Ing dabbled In p„1111,.. ( 0 any great extent prior to the meeting or tho legitriature. Of course he Is a lawy or ht profeemion and like all far woetern senators I s a r i c h man thlarp hilly If pr. , 11 , 11one of hie ma n) irers g f' 'r much he will be oleo rich in honors befere he leaves the tier'. ate. He is only 41 yéars old. All nett. ere In the Austro-Hungarlan va It t row: , hereafter learn teleg raptly WOMAN AND HUMOR. MANY FAIR WRITERS POSSESS THE GIFT. Harriet Beecher Stowe the First of Her Sex to InaugtIrste It in \'ropey\— Satire ot the \IS itiOM itettutt Papera - - Hamiltioi'n Wit (Special Correspondence.) ARRI ET Beecher Stowe was one of the very first Amer- ican woman to pay tribute to humor. Her offering was Topsy, that woolly headed classic, who has been translated into more lan- guages than any other character of fiction It was Topsy who said: \I wasn't born. I growed.\ Topsy will never die. Topsy is invincible. Fanny Fern was another pioneer in this field. Her familiar, con- fidential style is now obsolete. But her crisp, tart utterances remain as vital today as in their first youth. It was she who said: — Pile silliest man who ever lived has known enough when he said his prayers to thank God he was not born a woman.\ Close upon the heels of Mrs. Stowe's and Fanny Fern's debut carne that of Mrs. Witcher, the author of the inim- itable \Widow Bedott Papers.\ In def- erence to the times, which decreed that women should be silent citizens, this extravagant satire upon the provincial CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK. busybody was published anonymously. Only accidentally did It leak out that the author was the wife of a well known minister in Elmira. It was Wid- ow Bedott who said: \Why want I there? 'Cause I don't •sociate with such company as tee coons. I wa'nt invited. to be sureL-she'4 as soon a -thought of invitin' the go\-nur as me.\ Then there was the sparkling wit of Phoebe Cary. Her fun bubbled up in verse, covering lhe wide range from keen -edged satire to such rollicking nonsense as her rhyming tirade upon a detested artiele of food, which ends with the couplet: \It is what I hate the man who eats . It's poor, cold, cussed pickled beets.\ Gail Hamilton's epoch of popularity may nerve her as a connecting link be- tween the times which evolved the first - mentioned group of witty women and those of more modern writers. Miss Dodge's name Is seldom eeen in current literature. But in the old days she was caustic. She was breezy. She was orig- inal. She was as biting to the mental senses as red pepper is to the physical. It was ehe who said in her sermons to the clerg - y: \Grace and greenbacks are the two horns of the altar.\ And. \if ever I am on speaking terms with abitrph I mean to ask him why It was that during the twenty odd years of his prison and palace life he never com- munieated with his father.\ For a score of years Josiah Allen line been entertaining large audiences. In his name, and lietsey Hobbit's, Mari- etta Holley has dane some excellent work of the broader sort. The spon- taneity of the earlier books is missing in the later , nes. hut still Josiah re- mains the laughing gas of the masses It was he who insisted that a certain poem was as long as \Paradise Lost\ --not that he had read Milton's master- piece. but he had \hefted it.\ In the first days of the \No Name Series\ burst e prominence the au- thor of \The .1.rnel's opera Cloak.\ It was she who created Pomp, that ab- eurelly amusing pivot, around which the shiftless St. John family revolved. Cp - e \I' VF. THANE - 1e on thl• eg , . servant fell re., e h,.„\ ho1.1 (hit . .1-inemtic or nmral, from cooking and delivering the family ward robe from pawn to admIninterIng the parting benedi, lion upon the heroine bride. 101,' go forth en take y'n place nations oh 'arth, fourth el- a g! Pon 1tai7r. tr.- &t h en Early in the 'Ses Charies , Egbert Crad- dock eent forth her Tennessee Moun- tain folk to sow smiles broadcast. A pure, deep, irresistible humor runs through every volume of Miss Mur- free's dramatic, and often equally pa- thetic, work. Séteah Orne Jewett. Rose Terry Cooke. and Louise Alcott, among New Eng- land's women writers, have all made appreciated offerings to humor. As has also Oceave Thanet, in a great variety of tales of the west and south. Florence Courtney Baylor's contribu- tion has been the brilliant and satrical \On Both Sides.\ In the seine category and in the fore- most ranks of women humorists the world over stands Sarah Jeanette Dun- can. In \The Adventures of a Memsa- hib\ she gives us, among other deli- cious scenes, the woman traveler shak- ing her parasol at an approaching tiger and calling \Shoo.\. In \A Social De- parture\ we have the interview with the Japanese reporter and his subse- quent translation to the victims of the printed interview which contained such startling news as: \Miss Younger- Rady measuring ten stone and wearing six shoes and a half.\ Among the more recent story writers who have made us laugh more than they have made us cry, though they have done both, are Mary Wilkins and Ruth McEnery Stuart. Miss Wilkins' whimsical New England creations take varied forms, but we find her quiet, delicate sense of the ludicrous oftener satisfied with the obstinate old man character who figures in \Pembroke.\ \The Revolt of Mother,\ \In Gentian,\ \A Christmas Jenny,\ and many other of her delightful stories. Mrs. Stuart's fun is more robust. The middle-aged father's monologue over his first son is the most subtile and al- together charming of her amusitr, work. To the attending physician this simple parent in rhapsody says of the half-hour old baby on leis lap: \He's slep'—an' waked rip—Tan' ya\i'ned—an' soez—an' sniffed—*thout me sayin' a word. Opened an' shet his lit- tle fist, <meet, like Of ef he craved to shake hands, howdy. He cert'n'y does perform 'Is functions wonderful.\ Eva Wilder McGlasson has interwov- en much that is delightfully funny with the scmberer tints of her stories. A \Monument to Corder\ is likewise a monument to humor. The writings of Kate Douglas Wig gin are filled with humorous touches. What could be more deliciously mirth- provoking.for example, than the strug- gles of the immortal Ruggleses to catch and hold company manners on that great dinner party day in \The Bird's Carol's? \Timothy's Quest,\ too, abounds In bits of fun and pathos that are equally irresistible Agnes Repplier. the essayist, in re- viving a languishing branch of litera- ture, must have been a boon to the reading public, even if she had not achieved so clever a resuscitation. Miss Repplier is beyond question one of the wittiest women of her day. In \Esoteric Economy\ she says: \Be- yond a rational and healthy impulse to save on others, rather than our- selves, few of tie can boast of much *a- AGNES REPPLIER. lightenaent in the matter, and even our one unerring guide is. in a meas- ure, neutralized by the consistent de- termination of others to exert their own saving powers on us. Among our humorous verse writers we find many women prominent. A few of those who have been most no- ticeebly popular in this field are Made- line Bridges, livesle ('handler, Louise Imogene Guiney, and Helen Gray Cone. When a collection was made or lighter American verse ft rew years aft. , so se- ver.- a critic as Mr. Howell?! /teetered that the work or the women, riot or as it all Wmts, eurpaased that of the mere With nr y‘ spa poi - women wit seems epidemic It would be impossible to mention all a ho have won laurels in rivaling the rencois report. But some names that swing most persistently through the memory sr.: That brill- iant critic of the Pacific slope. Betsey B., who was and is no more, her suc- cessor, Gereldine Bonner. Bolen Fol- lett of Chiongo,Lbille Hamilton French, Bolen Wetter/ern, Louise Betts Ed- warde, Elizabeth Jordan, and Haryot Belt Cohoon I have rot ern it ed to deal with the witty American woman only on her lit- erary side When we consider what mho ham done In thra «erne direction on the stage and with her ponell wo feel 'mimed to rilleule the men who aver that •'wornen have no sense of humor To Ion more, the'- ma v. not la well at PV0T - V male Joko nut that Is only h. - \amis\ they ha' \nt time The, are too bilisN making better ones of I heir °ern. A II es. her'al Answer When Earl Ferrars had been convict. \1 of murder great •rfort s we, • in iris to obtain ml pardan. on the ground that he nag insane His rnothor being sip - plied to and requeet>1 to write a strong letter on the subject, answePred, but If I do. boa am I t, marry off my datighttnir —The green Dig. OUR LAUGHING GAS. PLOATING WIT, HUMOR AND SATIRE. The Theater Hat—The Pineville Farmer and the Telephone—Ruling Passion I. Strong In Death—A Darkvüle Emus , rection. O M E lawmakers quite recently, sat Very gravely dis- cussing t h e theater hat, With the purpose of calling it down from its perch At theater, opera, lecture or church, Or suppressing it wholly from decking the pates Of their charmingly lovely but obsti- nate mates. Then they drew up a bill with this ob- ject in view. But lacked enough ballots to carry it through; For each married man in that legisla- ture Knew something at least of one wo- man's nature, And said in effect, that contrariwise Must be any statutes that they should devise— That victory only by them could be won By commanding the ladies to keep their hats on. —Truth. A Visit to Town. Farmer Ephraim (Pineville, Pa.)—I've got a lot o' good lumber up on the old place; kin I send yer down a lead next week? Wiener (of Young & Wiener)—One [nutrient. I'll ask my partner! Farmer Ephraim (who has been warned against Fool's Day jokes)—See hier, young man. I don't kalkelate be- lo' as smart as ye, but yer can't tell me year partner's in that thar box.— Truth. Impending Trouble. \Is there a surgeon aboard?\ hastily asked the excited passenger on a Third avenue car as he rose up and looked anxiously about. \I am a surgeon,•• answered a man near the door. \Thanks rejoined the excited pas- senger \Don't get off for a few min- utes, please. I see a fellow up there at the next crossing that always grabs my arm about the elbow with his left hand, while he gives me the pump -handle shake with the other hand I was vac- cinated a meek ago, lost SP/ on a base - ball match yesterday and my wife cleaning house. If that man gets on this car there'll be bloodshed.\—Texas Siftings. A C'hronle Mrs. Pete Amsterdam is much given to flirting. On catching her winking the other eye for about the fortieth time, Pete told her to go to a certain warm climate. \Did you tell me to go to hades.\ she asked. \Yes I did, but I'll take It back. You needn't go. You wouldn't be there ten minutes before you would be flirting with the devil,\ Burglarious Item. Peofessor—What constitutes bur- glary? Student—There must be a breaking Professor—Then. If a man enters your door and takes a ten -dollar bill from your veet pocket in the hall. would that be burglary? Student—Yes, sir. because that would break me.—Texas Sifting. She Gave Thisoks. II\ (earnestly)—And now that we are engaged, Ethel, will you pray for me\ She—Oh, no. George I've been pray- ing for you fnr the laet eight years Rut, now that I've got you I'll thank the Lord for you. I really think I ‘erreit to. A Dsageroos Thing. Lawyer—What's that book you are reading? Law Student—oh. it •R mi o. ,, ,rk on com- mon Senile. Lawyer—Yes, sir; ale) nne day with such a book as that would ruin your mind for legal work ferever —Judge. A Long Range Riga. Johnnie Masher—May I kiss you with the ardor of the diking pun kissing a ben t tiOwPr Mime Flirty -Yes. I will grant your - re - (lure It yoU will May ag far away front me as the sun is. Endormetood HI. 111.1•Ineom, Trate Clictt\TY1 ,, r !-Zot , m ‚ q -c. Ail my ft lend. are laughing at this bargain Pull I ought of you They say it s a ndie too big Is-aler (iron tJ y I Stine frient. I kru . ,u. dr. , e...suess het 'iam, von r f t i Sh o m t on ‚'alt liii it 1-14101.
