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••MC it is lig lit iT tly a at lie ii y S i S) of on ed up a C t an, ir.ou eft 'era say to. to -1 car ere I V e illy Igo Op 1 or - (if rest ern Li nig hat lie the It a , to \ • TIIEY WRITE MUSIC. NEW YORK WOMEN WHO PROF- IT BY MELODY. Irhey A.rs, However, Forced by Preju- dice to Use the Nantes of Men—Their Productions Would Not Sell So Well Otherwise. (New York Correspondence.) EW YOltK has an extensive list of women who com- pose music. This assertion will make the average music dealer open wide his eyes, for he little knows that he is carrying in stock the compositions of • women, and that these same composi- tions are \first-rate sellers.\ Music written by a woman? No, in- deed. The music dealer would refuse to buy from the publisher anything that bore the name of a woman on the title page. The public won't buy music written by women,\ he says, and the publisher caters to this sentiment. So this simple announcement will be a revelation to many a retail dealer. The prospective Atlanta (Ga.) exposition, so extensively heralded, will disclose the secret, and it is confidently expected by those having the matter in charge that after the secret is out the exist- ing prejudices' will be eliminated. So great has been this prejudice that when a woman offers to her' publisher a manuscript she haz e be invariably asked to make her name appear on the title page as though the work had been written by a man. The New Woman has grown tired of masquerading under false pretenses and proposes through the medium of a music room at the At- lanta exposition to show the world how gullible it has been in buying music. New York is in the lead with its wom- en composers, and will be represented by a long list of names which will be at once recognized in society. Who are these women composers: , Mrs. Theo- dore Sutro, the wife of the Tax Com- missioner and leader of the German Re- form Union, is one who has achieved success in musical compositions. She is also a graduate in law, and because of her attainments was requested by the It managers of the exposition to take charge of the Law and Music Commit- tee for New York, and she has thrown herself heart and soul Into the duties required to be performed. When I began the work.\ says Mrs. Sutro. \I took the quickest method, as I imagined, to find out the names of the women composers of music in New York. I went to the dealers in sheet music. 'There are no women com- posers; if there are I never heard of them,' was the invariable answer, but I knew there were many of them. I've found them.\ And Mrs. Sutro's apartments at the Berkeley, No. 20 Fifth avenue, bear witness to the truth of her statements. ADELAIDE NORTH. They are filled with music written by women, but the casual observer would not know it unless told, for in almost every instance all trace of the sex of the author is carefully obliterated. Mrs. Sutro, who was Mtge Florence Edith Clinton, a member of the family descended from Governor Clinton, has ever been a patron of music and art. A devotee herself of the science of melody and harmony, she has gained a mead of Praise that Is often dented to the amateue. Certificate A of excellence in the various departments of music have been granted her by such acknowledged authorities as Dr. Wil- liam Mason, Dudley Buck, Harry Rowe d'Ernesti and the Grapd Con- servatory of Music, from which she graduated with the highest honors. ' The highest compliment to her skill, however, WAS when a fugue—one of the most difficult forms of composition— t ha t she had written was publicly played In Steinway Hall by a full or- chestra under the direction of the celebrated Dr. Ernst Eberhard. This mak. e a proud record for a woman, but she has also composed many songs that have nett with popular acclaim. Another woman who has given to the mesh -loving populace a large number if musical compositions is Mrs. Edward Lawson Purdy. wife of the noted single tax b•ader. Mrs. Purdy publishes her songs under the name of \M. McCrack- en Purdy.\ She is a prolific writer, and all her compositions are noted fat or- Iginality and are popular. The greater portion of her musical edeen t ion was received abroad. In Slut? gart and other musical centers, and her W. ks robew strongly the imprees of the French and German schools. Some of her hest known songs are \The Stars.\ \A Seremolai.\ \Kathleen \Good bay,\ a quartet for mixed voice's. She Is a member of the Manuscript Floclety. as well as of various other organizations. Her mush at abilities were Inherited. as her mother. Mrs Melvin Copeland. is well known amateur harpist. and for a number of year, the muslealem in sere c or ,,,i ste rm drs wing rooms, both in America and Europe, were events ef the y sessin, and irivhtioii, were die lined save from the utmoNt necessity, as there Was ever a elmnee that the hestes1 might he persuad,411 to tiring forth her fayttrite Instrument Music hath power to more than charm the savage ear it ran fascinate the blase members of society, and this fart prove:, by the ancee/ 1 / 1 4.11 of Mrs tram Cleaver Von Kroh In the field of witmeltIon. Mn, Von Kroh 10 a mem- ber of the Board of Managers of the 1 suppLy West Side Swirly. W CAMPHOR. She uses the name of \Jean Gilbert Von Kroh\ on all her published musical compositions, which are many, and its - elude the \Gypsy Caprice,\ \Little Queen Waltz,\ and the wmg \My NV1811.\ Mrs. N'on Kroh was a New Jersey girl, and as such helots a warm place in her heart for Princeton College, to which she has dedicated a number of her corn- posititins. The \Little Queen\ was played at the recent tableaux vivants for the benefit of the Atlanta Expo- sition. She also took part in those \living pictures\ which were the cause of so much discusslen between Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Sutro. A talented pi- anist also is Mrs. Von Kroh and a charming hostese. It is only with ex- treme reluctance that she consents to play in her own house at her musicales, which are justly famous for the skill of the musicians present. Mrs. Adelaide North is one or the few names that publishers and dealers have been forced to recognize among the women composers of New York. tier work Is of such a high character that by sheer force of merit she has made a lasting name for herself. But it first it was hard work. The usual objection was effered—that Is, the deal- ers stated to her their inability to sell the compositions of a woman musician. hut with characteristic pluck she In- sisted, and, as the old Irish saying, \Patience and persiverance Made a bishop of his riverence,\ - has it, she succeeded. She will be In- terested in the exposition and will be represented by a number Of her works. Mrs. Lillie Siegfried is one of the versatile composers of New York, Ref EMMA STEINER. song, \Under the Mistletoe,\ was a _S- nounced hit, and the quaint Chinese music set to the jingle. \Li Hung Chang,\ was a popular creation. Mrs. Sles:rled loves music, and a friend of hers once remarked: \I think that w.o- tnan thinks in sharps and flats.\ Miss Carrie Roma, whose pleasing so- prano voice has been heard at many musicales, is rarely suspected of being a composer, but she is. and one of merit also, for her songs have sold well. Everyone who knows much of mod- ern music has heard of Miss Emma Steiner, but hardly one -twentieth part of those who know her as an able and skilled musician could tell of the many compositions made by her that are pop- ular. Miss Steiner has composed and had performed over a dozen comic operas, has conducted orchestras, and exhibit- ed a fine musical talent. Mrs. Marcy -Raymond, daughter of Dr. Edgerton E. Marcy, also writes music, and, what is more, has it eager- ly sought for by publishers. Mrs. Ray- mond understands . music; she thor- oughly enjoys it, and the result is seen in her compositions. Mrs. Laura Sedg- wick Collins Is still another member of the same band of women composers. She has done some excellent work in composition and has received much praise from the public. The Atlanta Exposition's music room for women composers will show to all who care for music just how greatly she has contributed. There Mrs, Mary Knight Wood will have a fitting dis- play of her many compositions, which, as a rule, are beautiful, full of melody, and of a class to touch the hearts of those who hear them. Will the people recognize some familiar airs when het music is played? Undoubtedly, but they will be surprised when they learn that they were written by a woman, and, in rushing to see her picture in the music room, will find there the photo- graphs of marry more Nevf York women idItS 11. 3; K who nO 0 made music that has been enjoyed by countbiss th. 'rs, mits e•pleg 'Great he:Irene, ; 'Aired the tile' man. springing medal's (hive t..p at a jump Find dashing usitti uplifted truncheon Into the t O•iotograptier•s studio, \what are volt fighting about up here? Are you n11 In this row Grandpa and Uncle John and Aunt Sarah and pa and me and cousin /lean Fi n,1 y“ting Mr ThIniege. her 1,toing no d the two ettiteine from Bir- mingham and Uncle Charley and grand- ma all looked kind of silly and were quiet, tot? t he leen eers p e er ihil \(th that's n11 right, there's no row: we're lust trvIng to keep the baby quiet yeller we like its picture, bless it.\ pssit poticeman Chorus item. bang. smash, whistle. crash, slam, elem. toot I. toot. bang, ba.vg, smaah' Picture Is taken_ PRODUCTION AND CORNERING THE MARKET. Japan the Chief l'roducer of the Arti- ele--Attempte to Renew the Depleted Camphor Forests—The Fro, es• of - Helloing. --- E RECENT talk about corner- ing the camphor market is of inter- est to all housekeep- ers and has directed more attention to camphor than that article has received for years. Few peo- ple who use cam- phor have a definite Idea of where it comes from or how it is produced. In olden times camphor was produced in Sumatra, Borneo, and other parts of the East Indies and China, but nowadays most of the crude camphor of commerce conies from For- mosa and Japan, mainly the latter. The camphor tree is an evergreen of singu- larly symmetrical proportions and sometimes resembles a linden. Its blos- som is a, white flower, and it bears a red berry. It attains a huge size and a great age, some of the trees being fully fifteen feet in diameter and up- ward of 300 years old. As venerable and graceful giants they adora many of the temple parks in Japan and de- light the eye by their bright foliage and constant verdure. Much of the island of Formosa is still Inhabited by savages, and as the cam- phor forests are found only inland, the production of crude camphor is attend- ed with considerable difficulty and dan- ger. The Chinese have occupied the coast line only, and the savages have made it hot for the Celestials who have tried to make explorations in the in- terior. The camphor of Formosa is not equal to that produced in Japan, and the quantities obtainable are uncertain. japan now supplies the world with cam- phor to all practical purposes. The annual export of crude camphor from Japan averages about five million pounds, of which about one-fourth comes to the United States and the re- mainder goes to Europe. It has to be refined before it can be used. The pro- cess of refining has hitherto been car- ried on in America and Europe. Re- cently an attempt was made to refine camphor in Japan, and that country is now shipping the finished instead of the crude article. The envie camphor is produced by boiling the camphor tree. The - tree is cut up into chips, anti these are boiled in an 'apparatus constructed for the purpose. The vapor from the boiler or still is conducted into a receptacle con- taining several partitions surrounded by cold water; in the sides of these partitions are apertures, opening al- ternately to cause the vapor to enter the divisions by a circuitous route. The camphor vapor condenses, and is de- posited in crystals or grains upon bam- boo screens, whence it is ftnally col- lected as crude camphor. This process is rough in the extreme and the ap- paratus most unscientific, but it has the sanctity of age, and will continue to be the most acceptable to the Japanese. The production of crude camphor means the destruction of the tree, and many dietrjets are now denuded of camphor timber. Only recently have the government and the people taken steps to renew the depleted forests. Many new trees have been planted, and their growth is being Carefully tended. Although the youngest wood hitherto used for extracting camphor has been about seventy or eighty years old, it is expected that under the im- proved managemiitt the new trees will give equally good results within twen- ty-five ms thirty years. It an inter- esting fact that the roots of these trees contain a much larger proportion of camphor than the trees themselves. Of course a large quantity of wood has to be used to produce only a small quanti- ty of camphor, and if two hundred pounds of the former give ten pounds of the latter it is considered a good out- run. The remaining supply of camphor trees in Japan is very large, and it has been estimated that the trees belonging to the govei lament alone are capable of maintaining (luring the next twenty- five years the present al, erage annual supply of camphor from Japan. In one district, Toga, In Japan, there Is a group of thirteen trees about one hun- dred years old. whieh It has been esti- mated can produce 40,000 pounds of crude camphor, and are worth as they stand about $4,000. l'Oliratinn of Melt Water. The cable power plant of the Sutter Street railway, In San Francisco, probably gets its condensing water from a greater distance than any other street railway plant In the world. The water is piped five miles from the ocean to the power plant After use in the condenser, It is piped to the Lur- line bathe near by, at a temperathre of Do deFsrees Fahrenheit. The piping of the water Is done by the ()lymph Salt Water compriny, end the Sutter Street railway pays for it, 'lee in the condensers The daily output Is 3041, 000 gallons The arrangement Is on. , mutually agreeable to the street rail way and salt water company. and mar be a euggestIon of what call he done elsewhere alnserel Sudety What lovely little fingere you. ha‘e got. Mime Fanny 'Flies are nawily larger than a baby's fingers Fanny YPA, ma always Raid that It would hardly cost anything at all to get an engagement ring to fit my finger Ex FOR YOUR bCRAP E00K. Little lilt, of I/If/oral/allot/ Tbat Worth Itemembrrieg Mexico produces anything that may be raised in any other country. So varied is the climate that in the same state may be raised any product of the tropics and of the polar regions. Cot- ton, wheat, rye, silver, silk, cocoanuts, bananas, rice, cocoa, vanilla, logwood, mahofehy, hides and wines are the prin- cipal products. The center of popula- tion in 1790, was about twenty -throe miles east of Baltimore; in 1800, abobt eighteen miles west of Baltimore; in nip', about forty miles northwest of Washington; in 1W20, about sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va.; in 1,530, about nineteen miles southwest of Moorfield, W. Va.; in 1840, sixteen miles south of Clarksburg, W. Va.; in 1850, twenty-three miles south of Park- ersburg, W. Va.; in 1860, twenty miles south of Chillicothe, 0.; in 1870, forty- eight nines east of Cincinnati; in 1880, eight miles west of Cincinnati; 1890, twenty miles east of Columbus, Ind. The University Press at Oxford has ap- pliances for printing in one hundred and fifty different languages. Dr. Lek- ner, of Zurich, by chemical and me- rhanical means, practically supersedes the silkworm, and spins from suds raw material as cotton waste, jute waste, or wood pulp, a thread that even the ex- pert eye can hardly distinguish from that of the natural cocoon. Scientists believe that all salt, wherever found, has come originally from the sea, in some way or other. The lake of Ura- mia, in persia, contains more salt than any other body of water in the world. On analysis the water has been found to contain even more salt than the Dead Sea, which holds twenty-six per cent. or eight times as much as the ocean. Taking the world over, there is an av- erage of one death and one and a quar- ter births per second. Only one-half of all who are born into the world live to the age of seventeen years. Only one marble statue of the human figure with eyelashes is known. It is the sleeping Ariadne, one of the gems of the Vatican, and was found in 1503. An inch of rain, falling upon an area of one square miles, is equivalent to nearly 17,- 600,000 gallons, weighing 145,250,000 pounds, or 72,625 tons. Women at Billiards. A quarter of a century ago few ladles Indulged in billiard playing. The billiard room , was reserved for the men of the house and for the male guests for whom hunting was wearisome and the drawing -room unattractive. But to -day there are many country houses, both in this country and abroad, where the ladies themselves have asserted their rights to billiards and a billiard - room for themselves. In France, where billiards is almost universally played, the game has become extremely, popu- lar in higher feminine circles. The princesses of the English royal family have contributed much to popularizing the game throughout related courts in Germany. Among the crowned heads who play billiards may be mentioned the Dowager Czarevna, who is very skillful at the game. Queen Mar- gherita of Italy is very fond of retiring with her court ladles to her billiard - room, believing the exercise of the game has a beneficial effect in retard- ing her tendency to stoutness. Prin- cess Leopold of Bavaria, the daughter of the Austrian imperial pair, is re- ported to beta very graceful player, And in her Munich palace she and her chil- dren have many interesting tourneys in the afternoon hours. The queen Regent of Spain was, in her girlish days, a splendid handler of the cue. Tonsorial Item. First Barber—There Is one man in this town whose hair I don't care to cut. Second Barber ,Who is he?. \Baron von Schmidt. His hair is al- ways plastered down on his head with pomatum so that I can't get at it with the scissors.\ \Turn him over to me the next time he comes, and I will tell him some of my experience with the Indians that will make his hair stand on end, then I can cut it without any trouble.\—Ex. SOUTHWEST BREEZES. gk ei S ntg u is e ti picion shall be all stuck full of eyes. - The more happy I am the morel pity The mortal who expv.is bad luck will tine cannot sell the cdev anti have the milt, too. Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water. Few take wives for God's sake or tor fair looks. About the hardest thing to reform Is a reformer. • Get a name to rise early and you may Ile all day. All powerful souls have kindred with each other. Through green eyeglasses everything looks green, Happy is the man who sees hls fogy In his yourn. A kind enter Is to the heart whet light Ii to the eye. Have lel/ fre, friendn, though much acquaintance Charity begin, at home, but It should not end there Little sticks kindle a fire, but great ones put It out. Ti are once Is better•than to hear a h tin ol red times Lead othere, not by violence, but by law and equity In temperance' there is ever cleanliness end elegance Nothing make, its doh that does not intake 110 gra ter III. If salvation did not depend upon love it ciiiiht not be •terna I lie who Is racked by superstition can never find potece of mind. If a leek man did not die, WS the Phv•I , lan o h,', cured him. 't.nritier a vice tennis , and you gave your deseentants untold misery.- From t he Bout h wrote • Highest of all in Leavei.ing Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE A New Use for Ears. In the old days in Western Pennsyl- vania, when the people had little money to pay for teachers, and could spare their boys but little time from thin work of the field. school -kept\ almost incessantly it II ring the few weeks when it was in session, with no Saturday holidays and very brief re- cesses. At ono little school-bouse among the mountains an old-fash- ioned Irish school -master was once employed who kept his boys grinding steadily at their tasks, but gave them permission to nibble from their lunch - baskets sometimes as they worked. One day, while the master was in- structing it class in the rule of three, he noticed that one of his pupils was paying more attention to a piece of apple-pie than to the lesson. ..Arrah, there!\ said the master; \Jaek Blaes. be listenin' to the Essen. will ye!\ ..I'm listening, sir,\ said the boy. tistenin', is it!\ exclaimed the mas- ter; 'then it's listenin' wid one ear ye are, an' rain' poi wid the other\— Argonaut. The, Sworn Tormentors Of the Spanish Inquisition never inflicted tor- tures more dreadfnl than those endefred by the victim ot inflammatory rheumatism. The chronic form of this obstinate malady iii sufficiently painful. Arrest it at the start with Hostetter's Stomach Bittern awl avoid becoming& lifelong martyr. The Bitters will remove malaria and kidney complaints, dys- pepsia, constipation, nervousness and neu- ralgia, remedy debility and hastens con- valescence. A Si, trp Girl. t'So you have sued him for breach of promise'?\ -I have.\ \Do you think he has -the sand to fight the suit?\ \I don't know; I'm not troubling myself about his sand; , it's his rocks after.\ Precocity. First Youngster—I've got a new baby brother, what come from heaven last night. Second Youngster—That's nothin.' My little baby brother went to heaven yesterday. First Youngster, reflectively—Pete, I bet'it's the same kid. Do You Desire to Adopt a Child? Address the International Children's Home Society, 234 Lai Salle St., Chicago, Illinois, Rev. Pr. Frank ?,l, Gregg, Gen- sral Manager. Such a child as you may deem, of any age.' will tie went' you on ninety days' trial. Enclose %tamp. 'orry—Carson 'went,' to be •ry friendly with everybody all of a sudden. Vokee— Ves; he is going to get married soon, and he want, to have as many fririrls as he ean to invite and get presents from.— truth. HALL'S CATARRH CURE is • liquid and is taken internally, end sots directly npon the blood and mucous sttrfaies of the syntern. Send for !testimonials. free Sold by Dritgoolses. The, F. J. CHENEY CO,, Props., Toledo, 0. The largest diamond the \Braganra\ i. '4? about the size of a guise egg. It weighs exactly' lUsa ounces and is valued s at Va 000,WO. - - \Hanson's Magic Corn Salve.\ Werrantel to ewe or 1,0507 ief,,ndal. *0.5 you/ drugwl.t for It. l'elee Ili cent. The largest theatre in the wotld is the Paris oi era hou-e. It covers over three acres of ground and cost 100,000,000 franc,: The Great Hod of Mare. The most gigantic, as well as thee most valuable and elaborate, article. of bedroom furniture in the world, is -the great bed of Ware,\ a relic es ancient times, recently sold to an antiquarian ti,t Hertford, Englaml -fhe Book of Day's\ says that it far believed to not be older than Eliza- beth's reign ( born 1533. died 160$). but another valuable referenoe - work. \'rho orld's Great Nations,\ says that the bed bears the date of 1463- Be this as it may, it is a curiosity as well as a relic. It is a square'of ton feet nine inches and is seven feet six inches high. It is very elegantly carved and cost not less than Ers00. Shakespeare mentions -the bed of NV s re. \ See -Twelfth Night,\ act 3. scene 2. Keeping Her In Suspense. Bingo: While I was matching that ribbon for you to -day in a dry goods store a man came in, 'threw downs. bomb; there was a terrible explosien. several people were killed, and I bare- ly eseaped with iipx life. Mrs. Bingo (arvilously): Youdidn't lose that piece of ribbon, did you?—. Cloak review. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood IS impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habituat constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without Ir- ritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of' Figs. Willie—Del Tee hew a good time tAi the picnief Jiminte--(Or 'at! S113 got Into a be -'s nest. pa fell out 0! a tree when he was putting up a swing, and ma turnot her fingers makin: tea on an open fire. It as el immens—ruth. Mothers who have used Parker's Ctittrzew Tonle for year, insist that It lienrats more than ether medicines; every form or distress and weakuesa ,1411 to It. The largest cut stone in the world is ba. the Tetn rile of the SILO at tiatrabeC. II inderrorns la simple remedy. but ft lairs “ut thr \urns and what a tenettatitue ft Is! 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