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L.. 0 , It 1 ••••••• J. KENTUCKY WOMEN. FAIREST DAUGHTERS OF THE BLUE GRASS STATE. !letter Educated than the Men- busing- LOU Ilea a Woman'a Board of Edura- • t tots Mrs. Ilerr Talks of the Issues of tier Sex. - — (Lexington Letter.) ENTUCKY'S New Women have had t h e remarkable success of electing a full board of edu- cation at Lexing- ton, of obtaining from the legisla- ture a law protect- ing the property rights of married . women, and of ralsing the age of consent; and it has caused the New Women and their sym- pathizers in other states to wonder about Kentucky's New Woman. These ladies are Mesdames Emma Walker Herr, Leonora Hartwell and Jessica • Huntson. Nearly all of thorn are de- scendants from the pioneers who came to Kentucky when it was a wilderness from Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. The descendants of these hardy and fearless men have married into each other's families until all the stronger characteristics of the men and women who blazed the way into the \dark and bloody ground\ are intensi- ned in the present generation. Strange e EMMA WALKER HERR. as it may seem to persons at the North, Kentuckians for the last three genera- tions have bestowed upon their daugh- ters more liberal educations than they have given to their sons. As a result, Kentucky's women, as a class, are rather ahead of her men, as a class, in all that goes to make up the well in- formed and aspiring citizen. As a specimen of Kentucky's New Women, Mrs. Emma Walker Herr, of Lexington, might be mentioned. She was born of Virginia parentage, of Scotch -Irish descent, being the daugh- ter of the Rev. Hiram Pierce Walker, D. D., an eminent minister of the southern Methodist church. Her moth- er was a member of the old aristocratic family of Virginia, the Kennel's. Mrs. Herr is a direct descendant of and can trace her lineage to the Rev. George Walker, the Irish clergyman who took so prominent a part in the heroic de- fense of Londonderry against James II. Mrs. Herr's paternal grandmother was descendant of the illustrious Stephen Gardiner, the celebrated English pre- late and statesman who, through the patronage of the duke of Norfolk. was introduced to Cardinal Woolsey, who made him secretary. and afterward archdeacon of Norfolk, and finally 4 bishop of Winchester. Like the majority of Kentucky girls Mrs. Herr had a Eberlyl education, which was rounded out by extensive travel. She married Pierce Herr, son of Dr. Levi Herr, the famous breeder of trotting horses. Her husband died eight year.: ago, leaving her with two bright boy'. Thrown. practically, upon her own resources, Mrs. Herr at once put her talent to work where it would Ito the most good in the battle of bread winning. She took up journalism, first ac a society reporter on one of the local \dailies and later as part owner of the Illustrated Kentuckian. a paper devoted to the Interests of the women of the state. Six months ago she sold her interest in the paper and has Farce that time been a contributor to several • Journals. She has written little, how- ever, about woman, her work being aleng other lines. She is known by all the prominent people from one end of LEONORA HARTWELL. the state to the tttiter, and Governor Brown. who Is a great admirer of her intellectuality and social accomplish- ments, appointed her one of the five members of the board of lady managers ef the Atlanta exposition from Ken- t uc ky . and the hoard hail the good judgment to elect her its secretary. ' In an interview this morning Mrs. Iiirr talked as . follows; about the new avenues Of usefulness that are opening up to the women of America The American woman lid not come to the front sooner simply because the con ditiona In this country were not favor t.b:e to Iter doing so She was nlways able to hold the position she does to- day; all° wat- , ..ilYea)s a tree agent. Hut she had the good sense to wait until the refining and enlightening influence of educat:on had by -conic sufficiently general to Insure her not only a wel- come but an Intelligent one. She has ever been the power behind the throne. Man's achievements have ever been di- rectly traced to a woman's help, a wom- an's Influence, and, what is far more to him,, to a woman's sympathetic interest. \Whatever may be said about the new sphere of woman, it must be ad- mitted that woman was always pre- eminent in the sphere of love, fidelity, and loving ministry. She has ever been the best example to man of the best and highest qualities of human nature, and man has ever been at his best a he ties yielded to the influence and in- struction of the best women who ta ght and impressed him. I resent, as a I el against her, the portrayal of the New Woman as a creature who scorns all the little touches of femininity, who is utterly void of sentiment and strongly addicted to stiff shirts, etc.; who affects a masculine air, laughs at love, and, in short, an intolerable creature, not in the least a true type of the New Woman as she is to -day. To be sure, as in each new fad or fashion there are ever the extremities, so that now woman is placed where she rightfully belongs and admitted to a freedom of thought, speech and action, and which privilege she takes advantage of, nor lacks one touch of true, noble woman- heod. \There are some who will step over the boundary line and lose the exquis- ite womanly graces, the refinement of I thought and action that belong to the exalted type of our sex—the New Woman. The New Woman imitates man only in the fact that she has awak- ened to the fact that she has a mind and brain as well as a heart and soul. She reads not. the sensational words of the day, but the best work of the past and present writers; the daily papers, the public speeches of our great men, and keeps in touch with all the varied plans of the political situation of the day, and yet through it all retains her refinement, her gentleness of word, manner, her native purity of thought, her delicate' and subtle reasoning, and her keen perceptive faculties, which, combined with the dainty feminine %aye and touches of womanly nature, make her a creature to whom man gives the palm of equality, intellectual- ity, and extends to her the reverence due to her exalted womanhood. \It is said by some men, sincere In their belief, too, that for women to en- ter the professions will prevent them frcm marrying. Not a bit of it. When a woman'falls in love genuinely and earnestly, she is just as sure to marry as the otker sex. There is nothing up - der heaven, whether it be fame, politics, mcney, or medicine, that can ever change a true woman's heart, make her any less a woman or prevent her enter- ing the matrimonial state, if once her mind is made up. The New Woman JESSIC A II UNTSON. will marry, not to escape the vulgat gcesip of a soulless society, but to please herself, and love born of moral and intellectual equality will be the onty consideration. She will regard milltriage without love as unchastlty. \With the common view of politics. no wonder it is thought women should have nothing to do with it. Politics to -day is assumed to be only a base. low struggle for office, power and weelth. To my mind, there is nothing greater, nobler, more important than politics or the art of government. It should not be a struggle for power. It shculd be a combined action of all hon- est, intelligent people to organize and carry on a state so as to bring the gieatest good to the greatest number. The happiness and virtue of every man, wcman and child in the land are influ- erced by the laws and institutIone of the country. God speed the day when the politics of America shall be re- deemed from the base methods into which it has (Mien; when It shall cease to be a mere trade anti become a sacred duty, an honorable work. \The science of the future that shall be paramount th all others is the sci- ence of living, that of knowing how to live this life of ours so that We May realize the full measure of the joys that are In mull of a being capable of rea- soning The time has come when men anti women shoned he the focal point for all this modern light. We are far In the year We have not kept abreast of our material improvements We need to give legs heed to improved Men- ne - elves. less attention to machinery, and more effort for a higher type of men and WOInen, who , ball be worthy their environments The improved ed- mation of the rat -c that will soon be here will give us S keener insight Into the posaibIlitles that are In reach for a better life And whatever our condi- tion, It will drive despair from the soul and inspire is with hope for all good things and enable us to rise with new energy to a loftier conception of the significance of human existence.\ ERZEBOI M MASSACRE. ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE FRIGHTFUL ATROCITY. A sket,it Taken During lot Butchery in Ifundred• of ulkrIstlans Suffered Mart vrtIons- Should Make t hrlstendonS 'Shudder. HE SULTAN OF Turkey has denied many of the stories of massacre in Ar- menia. No one believes him, for he is con- tradicted by a host of trust worthy witnesses. If any- thing were needed to convict him of untruth and to convince the most skep- tical of the atrocities of Turkish rule it is now supplied. A series of photographs has been re- ceived frfein Armenia which confirms the worst stories of massecre and prove that they were indeed on a wholesale scale. Which is more worthy of belief—the camera or the Sultan of Turkey? The intelligent readers of this journal will scarcely hesitate. The photographs illustrate what has been going on throughout the Asiatic empire of Turkey. They prove that a part of the Armenian population of one city was destroyed. But other places suffered even more. than Erzeroum. When we remember that the process of masascre has been going on through the whole of Armenia and in other parts of Turkey in Asia we may judge of the total extent of the slaughter and be- lieve that the estimate of 15,000 killed within a few months is not an exag- gerated one. The importan u Ccity of Erzeroum was the scene of the wholesale massacres recorded by these photographs. They show that bodies were piled together so thickly that the Turkish authorities could not find labor enough to hide them If they wished to do so. Arms, legs and fragments of bodies were thrown together as carelessly as so many bricks. No relative could ever hope to identify them. The streets of Erzeroum ran with blood. The Armenians were massacred without distinction of age or sex by the Turks and Kurds, and nameless atrocities were perpetrated on them. Erzeroum is the capital of a vilayet or province of the same name. It has an extensive trade and is the chief sta- tion for caravans on the way from Te- heran to Mecca. The streets are nar- row and its houses are mostly built of mud and timber. The principal buildings ere the Armenian and Greek churches and schools. The population was about 40.000. of which one-fourth were Armenians. The proportion has been greatly reduced. The massacre began in the Sella, the chief government building in Erzer- oum. In which the Vail, or Governor, arid the chief officials live. It began with the shooting of the priest of Teonik by the Turkish soldiers. He and other Armenians were trying to ob- tain an audience of the Vail to ask protection against murder and outrage. This act of brutality served as a sig- nal to the Turks and Khurds. The massacre continued all day. The photograph shows the Armenian cemetery two days after the beginning of the massacre. Two rows of dead had already been laid down and par- tially covered with earth by laborers, ani they haul just started a third row. The burial of most of the victims took place on Nov. 2. There was no funeral ceremony. Huge trenches were dug and four Armenians took a body drngged it to the trench and laid It there Body after body was laid close alongside another till the whole settee was filled In on, pit 350 bodies were hurled The surviving Armenians gathered around these enormous graves and watt bed the operations sadly. no one knowing when ills 01 her Hall Might. Cottle of Vlehl Mire. The anion of Si haffilaiisen, Switzer land, is ovetrim by field mire in iny awns° nut thers. and the government has been appealed to for ways and means to P) terminate thea ()dente. MYRIADS OF SWALLOWS. They Beset %used! and Cause COIS •tertiatIon Among the crew. From the Savannah News: A Rus- sian steamer hailing front Odessa has for some time been engaged in the Mediterranean trade, priaeipally carry- ing pasestigers between ?Leghorn and Malaga. On one of the recent trips it encountered au adventure which will never be forgotten by either the crew or the passengers. The passage had een a stormy one, but the day of the occurrence was unusually fine. Though a rather, heavy sea was running, most of the passengers were on deck. Sud- denly the lookout called: \Hurricane cloud leaward.•• At once there was great consternation aboard and a mem- ber of people sought safety below. The captain, however, after glancing at the barometer, gave it ae; his opinion that It was no hurricane cloud. The black mass they saw hovering near the hori- zon was, he thought, a particularly dense volume of smoke from some steamer. But the solution of the mys- tery came much sooner than they bad expected. The threatening mass grew larger and larger, and soon was seen to bear down In the direction of the vessel with terrific speed. Everybody. both crew and passengers, became frightened at the mysterioue cloud, hich seemed to move with great rare idity, notwithstanding that a perfect calm prevailed. Then came the aunt- tion. The vast cloud they hnd seen was composed of swallows. Tha fore- runners, a small detachment ef some 10,000, swooped down on the deck, to the bewilderment of the peotele on board. These were soon followed, not by thousands, but by hundreds of thousands. The birds literally over- whelmed the teasel. The man at the wheel lost his bearings, and the wild- est disorder prevailed. The birds poured into every available opening, hatchways, windows anti everywhere else. They got tangled in the rope. and sails and clustered about the rig e lng. Even the smokestack was so filled up one time that the fires were naerly ex- tinguished. The most amazing, part of the whole thing 'was that the birds did not evince any disposition to leave. To heighten the confusion the steamer had BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER. Iftentarkusle Contest for the it rahip of Tennessee Mete tellthe 'Taylors. From the Washington Post: One of the most remarkable political contests of modern days was that between Doh and Alf Taylor see!' the governoeship of Tennessee some years ago. The brothers are both iolinists—in nessee they are knoe it as fiddlers. Alt is the superior periormer. Bob plays left-handed. Neither one is a fin:shed master of the instrument, but they both play the mountain Melodies to the queen's taste. During their unique race for governor Bob and Alf did not actu- ally carry their fiddles with them, but In almost every town the people would hunt up a couple of violin§ and insist on hearing them play. When the elec- tion was over and Bob was occupying the highest office in the gift of Ten- nesseeans a convict of the penitentiary one day sent him a fiddle. It was a home-made instrument, the convict be- ing its author and finisher. Ile had made it while serving out his sentence in the \pen and designed touching a tender chord in the governor's heart by the presentation. The story is best told In Governor Bob's own way: \One day just before Christmas a state official entered my office anti said: 'I have been implored by a poor, miserable wretch in the penitentiary to bring you this rude fiddle, It was made by his own hands with a penknife during the hours alloted to him for ,rest. It is ab- solutely valueless, it is true, but it is his petition for mercy. He begged, me to say that he hap neither attorney nor Influential friends to plead for him; he is poor. and all that he asks is, that when the governor shall sit at his own fireside on Christmas eve with his on - n happy children around him, he will play one tate on this rough fiddle gjad think of a cabin far away in the mount- ains in which is a family of poor, rag- ged children crying for bread and lis- tening for the returning footsteps of their convict father.' \ Who would not have been touched by such an ap- peal? When Christmas eve came the governbr sat at his own happy cside, surrounded by his own happy family, and sitting there he played one tune on the rough fiddle. Far lip in the mount- ItY TURKS AT ERZER4) got out of its course and ran ashore. klowever, on account of going very. slowly, no material damage was done, though the passengers were badly frightened. When the crew had reeov- ered from their amazement, they began to clear the deck anti the vessel it: gen- eral of these enexpeete I and not at all welcome guests. The captain ordered the men to use shovels and whatever else they could to throw the birds over- board. After gettine lairly in ahaPe the vessel proceedee on Its voyage, late - Ina been delayed for eight hours on ac- count of this singular experience The captain could not offer any theory as to where this vast army of swallows came from. All he said ass that the birds were exhausted from a long flight dur- ing the storm of :he previous day and sought rest on his veseel. ray of Russian Ambassadors. Ruesian ambassadors are paid about twice as much as ours. The ambassa- dors to Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople, London and Paris receive 50,000 rubles, or $17.5o0; the ambassador to Rome. 40.- 000 ruhles, timer at Washington, Tokio. Madrid and Pekin 30.000, at Teheran 25.000. at A t hens, Brussels. The Hague. Copenhagen. Mexico. Munich and Stock- holm 20.000 The ministers at Buchar- est, Belgrade. Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and Stuttgart get 18.000 riibles. the en- voy to the vatican 12,000. those to Drew. den and Cettinje 10,000, and to Weimar and Darmstadt 8,000. Well! Well. lie gazed at her with a 2,000 -volt in- tensity. \So you have a past •\ he hissed. \Oh. yes,\ she airily answered. \Two or three of 'em however, on consideration, he cen- t hided that he was willing to become her third or fouirth husbnnui Indi- a napolia Journal fl non 7.• Among Animeie Thf' iii going do. n In leng land down to horses and dogs and eats. The officials of the Vitrinns eluomes\ for domestic animals in Lon don report that the mortality in CRitett of influenza among doge amounts to per rent, among rats In 24 per cent, and the percentage is sail to he even Still larger among horses NI. eine there was another hearthstone bright and warm, the pardoned convict was there with his children on his knees and his heart re-echoing the strains which the governor played ,on the home-made fiddle. ' A Questionable Right. \What I want to know,\ asked the corn -fed philosopher of his assembled listeners, \le whether the alleged new woman will ever attain the right of having her A at knocked off at the the- ater by the indignant man sitting be- hind her.\ --Indianapolis Journal. FLOATING FACTS. An albino partridge, the tips of ius white feathers tinted with pink, Is the latest freak brought out of Ho Maine voods. There is an historic well in Rutland. Vt. It was built during the revolution, end was used by soldiers of Burgoyne's army after behag removed from Boston In 1788. A writer in the Edinburg Scotehman in dealing with the causes of intemper- ance mentions as one of the principal ones -the \want of sympathy at home an d a scolding, sulking, nagging wife.\ Two Russian battleships, the Rurik end the Dinittri Domykol, hate harbored in Portsmouth on their way to lute Med- iterraneen. It is the first time thie privilege tete been granted for a (twit- ter of a century. Robinson Crueoe's sounket, \a fine, old specimen, with long barrel, flint lock, and beautifully balanced,\ Is of- fered for sale in Edinburgh. It came tntc the possession of the present owner through Alexander Selkirk's Si and- nsece. Six deer wandered Into the village of Central Lake, Mich., early last S0ntlay morning. trotted through the fi,:cets for awhile and took to the woods again her -.re any of the Merited inhiteltants onld tenet their nerves milli' lently to get a gun. It itaa been noted that serpent charm err continually talk, sing or wirstle or have an attend int to play- 14)011 still' mus;ral inettument duriag the rime erhild ions are being wit en. That three sounds have their ittrueneo , tt,r r e is not the least doubt. UNEXPLORED ONTARIO. .'51•t Reg1011 IS.110V1n as the Hinterland is An alt lug De•olopnxent. Of Ontario's area, estimated at 200,- 000 square nines, 1410,000 square miles are in an unknown region, only the edges of which have been explored. This is the territory known as the Hin- terland of Ontario. It lies between' Lakes Huron and Superior to the south and the Albany river and St. James bay to the north. In this area is the Height Land, which separates water* flowing to Hudson bay and the StreallIS emptying into the St. Lawrence and the lakes. North of the height is what is called the Hudson bay slope, consist- ing of about 80,000 square miles. This slope may be described as unknown land. The height of land is not a ridge of hills, but is a level plateau smote 1,200 or 1,300 feet above the sea. \The scenery,\ says a surveyor's report, \though diversified by hundreds of rivrs and streams and thousandseof lakes and innumerable crags and hills of rock, is certainly lacking in that no- bility and largeness of view which only the presence of lofty numutains can begtow.\ Of the rivers (lowing north from this slope the Albany is the most Important, being about 475 miles Ion?, and navagabie during the season of high water for - 250 miles. Of the short slope south of the Height of Land, in which are situated the settlements of North Bay, Sturgeon Falls and anal - bury, there is definite and genern1 knowledge, but the whole territory slott- ing north remains unexplored. The Iiinderland is Ontario's reserve. Much valuable timber in this region is destroyed by fires that sweep south of the watershed. Pine, spruce, tatuarach, poplar and cedar are varieties of wood existing in abundance south of the Hud- son bay slope. Here, too, are valuable miaerels, but the treasures hidden in the region north of the plateau and the resources of the plane Itself await the searching of some intrepid explorer. This year further investigations are to be made in both Labrador aud the Hin- terland. Meanwhile, no adventurous spirit need resign itself to obscure in- activity, nor ambitious traveler sigh be- cause there are not new countries to traverse. The Hinterland will reward the eager discoverer, and when he has exhausted that territory the regions of the great Northwest remain unsur- veyed. FACTS CONCERNING HEARING. Bound Has Remarkable Force In Wu , er Experimeol• by gclentisty. An inquiry was recently made in London asqo the greatest distance at which a man's voice could be heard, leaving, of course, the telephone out of consideration, says Harper's Round Table. The reply was most interest- ing and was as follows: Eighteen miles is the longest distance on record at which a man's voice has been heard. This occurred in the Grand Canon of the Colorado, where one man shouting the name \Bob\ at one end his voice was pjainly heard at the other end, which is eighteen miles away. Lieut. Foster, on Perry's third Arctic ex- pedition, found that he could converse with a man across the harbor of Port Bowen, a distance of C,696 feet. or about one mile and a quarter, and Sir John Franklin said that he conversed with ease at a distance of more than a mile. Dr. Young records that at Gib- raltar the human voice can be heard at a distance of ten miles. Sound has remarkable force In water. Colladon by experiments made In the lake of Geneva.estimated that a bell submerget1 In the sea might he heard A distance of more than sixty miles. Franklin says he heard the striking together of two rtones in the water half a mile away. Over water or a surface of ice sound is propagated with great clear- ness and strength. Dr. Hutton relate. that on a quiet part of the Thames near Chelsea he could helir a person read distinctly at the distance of 140 feet, while on the land the same could be heard only at 76 feet. Prof. Tyndall when on Mount Blanc found the report of a pistol shot no louder titan the pop of a champagne bottle. Persona in a balloon can hear voices front the earte a long time after they' themselves are 'naudible to people below. 1.1.017 Arizona Women. Arizona women are out after politics' privileges equal to those enjoyed by the men, and recently a woman suffrage aestociation was organized in Phoenix. Four some years a few representatives of advanced womanhood have champ- ioned the cause in Arizona, anti each stilVessIve territorial legislature hae been asked to pass an equal suffrage bill. Once or twice the bill has passee one branch and has been treated as a joke in the other. Rut statehood is almost in sight now, and the yvnen are eitirrIng themselves to greater efforts looking toward enfranchisement. The governor of the territory has expressai himself as strongly in favor of wornar igeffrage. II gg of a Jilted lover. An awful tragedy occurred at Park immediately after a wedding ceremony two weeks ago. As the newly married couple left the church at the pl ar ,. St. Francois Xavier, a young, well dressed man stepped out of the crowti. and in full sight of the bride and bridegroom he fired two \diets into lila brain fallmg dead at their feet The excitement was indescribable, the bride feinted. and. It le feared, will become insane The suicide was a jilted lover of the bride On•it Mines Discoveriee of valtinitle on% t whici. prontlae to dr:velop Into Yet \ large mines, have been mettle neat iteelds burg. Cal. The stone Is benutifilik retrked and e blast of the Dice of the ledge him exposed it in great quanti- ties.
