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The Great Tontine hy HAWLEY SMART Autkw ( "Broken Bonds." "DuiU U Tin," Cu. C1IAPTKR XV. .Turk Phillimore, most artistically nt tirod a a smart young sailor, with hands carefully stained, had made his appear ance in Rydland, and, putting up at a second-class inn. had deferred inquiries till the following day. And now. Jack, unwittingly, began to experience thp diffi culties of thp task he had undertaken. To lxKin upon, he attracted considerable attention in the quiet little country town. Rydland had nothing to do with ships and the shipping interest; it was n purely agricultural market town; and a thorough Jack tar such as Phillimore was a sight ir rarely witnessed. The inhabitants, like most towns of its class, hnd plenty of spare time on thoir hands except on mar ket day. The consequence was that Ryd land came pretty generally to its shop doors to look at the handsome sailor who was loafing alniut Its streets 'inquiring for Mr. Krnbbe. The women especially were enthusiastic nhont the handsome seaman; and invented fuels ami anecdotes about Mr. Krnbhe with the most audacious ef frontery for the gratification of talking t him. , That evening .lack comforted himself with the reflection Hint he hnd done a rattling good day's work. lie had ascertained that old Mr. Krnbbe had been a clerk in I'egmni's othee for some thing like five-and-thirry years. Every body in Rydland knew him, a quiet, plens flnt, kindly old gentleman; a man of mid dle age when he first came to Rydland, but a very old man now. Mr. Pegram took a cottage for him outside the town, and pensioned him off. and he lived there now, with a nurse to take care of him. On one point had he failed, and that was in seeing Mr. Krabbe. He hid been out to the cottage, seen the nurse, but he had not succeeded in seeing Mr. Krabb. The nurse was very civil, and would have apparently made no difficulty about his eeing her patient, only that he was asleep. He slept, she said, a great deal. Disturbing him made him very irritable, and it seemed a pity to do so when it was very doubtful whether ha would recognize his visitor when he saw him. Of course, as Jack said. In his rase that could not be expected. Ho waa a distant connec tion whom, lu all probability,, Mr. Krnbbe had never seen ; still he should like to see the old man. The nurse told him if he called about noon the next day, the probability is that he would find Mr. Krabbe awake, ami that h could then am' him. Excessively well satisfied with his day's work, and 1 1 to manner in which lie had played his part. Jack laid out his plans .for the next day. He conceived that lie jiad nothing much to do now beyond see ing Mr. Krabbe; but, as the train did not go till the afternoon. Jack determined further to call upon lawyer Pegram, and ee what he could make out of him. Ten o'clock the next day saw .lack in Mr. Pegram's offices, and respectfully in quiring of the clerks if he could Bee that gentleman. A few minutes more, and the clerk, requesting him "to step this way," ushered him into the presence of the 1'egratns. father and sou. "Well, my man, you want to see me ; what is it? That is my son and partner, Mr. Robert Pegram, '' he continued, seeing Jack's eye wander towards that gentle man ; "you can speak out before him just as you would speak to me. Now what is it?" "Well, your honor," he replied, "I ain't much of a hand at a yarn, but. you see, my father, he married a niece of old Mr. Krabbe's; and so. as I was cruising in these parts, I thought Pd just have a look at the old gentleman, 'cause my moth er she thought a deal of him, she did; and as 1 hear he lived with you a many years, 1 thought, may be, your honor would tell me something alout him if I called." "Very good," rejoined old Pegram. "I hall be happy to supply you with all the information you require about Mr. Krabbe ; but, in the first place, let us know who you are eractly." "Jack Fluter, boatswain's mate on board Her Majesty's ship Casiope." Neither old Pegram nor his son had the slightest previous knowledge of the name Casiope. and yet they both felt in tuitively that a common sailor would not have so pronounced the name of a ship. "And the name of your captain is ?" "Fletcher, your honor; and r. real smart officer lie is. If lie is harrlisti on the skulkers, he is a good skip,'- to the chaps as does their duty. They were tell ing me. in the town. sir. that my great uncle served his biggest s-pell under your honor's command." "Mr. Krabbe was over thirty years in our office, and when he broke down last yar we pensioned him off as an old and valued servant. We found a nice little cottage for him about three-quarters of a mile from the town, and got a practiced nurse down from Ix-ndon to take care of him. You must know lie lias broken down both mentally and bod ily; however, you will be glad to hear that he is well taken car of. and every thing that can be done for a man in his position is, we trust, done for him." "Yen. 1 am told everywhere that your honor has been very kind to the poor old gentleman. I went out to his cottage yes terday to see him. but he was asleep, the rurse said, and she did not like to dis turb him. I thinking if your honor naw no harm in it. Pd just run out and try and have a look at him to-day." "Harm:" rejoined Pegram, as he one more eyed the sailor keenly through his pectacies; "of course not. His old friend, relative, or indeed anybody else, are quite welcome to see Mr. Krabbe wbenerer they think fit. As I have no doubt his nurse told yon, he sleeps a great deal, U very irritable, and apt at time to be rery much pat out by seeing those who are virtu ally t rangers to him. k, old acquaintances be can bo long er recollect; of course, If, as Is very like ly, your presence annoys him you will cut your visit short." Jack I'hillimore, after leaving Pegrara & Son's office, continued to louuge about Rydland, gossiping with everybody he came across, and still under the allusion that ho was admirably personating the British Boarnau, and considerably lncreas Ing his stock of Information as regarded old Krabbe. Then he proceeded to the cottage. Passing , through the garden, he tapped lightly at the door, which, after some slight delay, was opened by the same woman whom he had seen on the preceding day. She welcomed him with a smile and said : "Of course you have come out again to see the old man ; if you will just step Into the parlor and sit down he will be in in a few minutes. I am afraid you won't make much of him, for he is very queer and crotchety this morning; but then he is always that, more or less, and when it is an amiable day with him it Is gen erally because he is rather drowsy. If you will take a chair," she continued, opening the door of the parlor, "I will bring him to you directly almost." Jack awaited with no little curiosity the appearance of the old man, of whom he had heard so much during the last four-and-twenty hours. He had hot long to wait. The door opened, and supported by the buxom nurse on the one side, and assisted by a stout stick, upon which he leaned a good deal, on the other, there appeared a sad specimen of senile old age. The old man dropped his shuffle and came to a dead stop when he saw Jack. "What," he piped out in a shrill treble tone approaching to a falsetto, "is he doing here?" "He is come to call upon you," shouted the nurse into his ear, "and inquire how yon are." "Much he knows about it." piped the old man : "I call it a very cold day." "You are quite right," bawled Jack. "It is cold, very cold, sir." "Cold! yes. I said Void.'" muttered the old man in his childish treble. "What did he want to say it was not cold for? People are always so contradictory and stupid" ; and having thus relieved his mind, he shuffled towards an armchair by the fire, in which, with the nurse's as sistanec. he was speedily installed. "I don5t think you will be able to make much of him," said the nurse quietly to Phillimore; "and if you really" have any thing you wish to ask him, I am afraid you have little chance of getting an an swer." Jack Phillimore had already recognized the impossibility of making anything out of Mr. Krabbe. He had seen him. and felt that if he sat fiber and stared at him for an hour he should make nothing more of him. Jack made his way to the railway sta tion and took a ticket to London.. He had some little time to wait, and paid very little attention to his few fellow loungers on the platform. Certain it 1s, that when the train came up, and he jumped into a second-class carriage, he took no notice of a sleepy looking youth, about sixteen, who got into the same com partment, coiled himself up in a corner, and apparently slumbered the whole way to town. CHAPTER XVI. Ronald Ringwood has held rather aloof from the little cottage at Kew, for one thing, he really had nothing to communi cate. All trace of the missing Finnigan seemed lost, and both the detective em ployed by Ringwood and Pegram's emis sary had given up all hope of tracing the missing man from Guildford, and return ed to town with a view to a fresh de parture. And, in the second place, Ring wood was fain to confess that tie had not got on quite so well with Mary Chiches ter of late. That young lady resented being kept in the dark as regards what she termed the great mystery. She ar gued, as we know, and with considerable reason, that it would be very much to her aunt's benefit if there was confidence be tween them on this int. and Miss Cater liam consequently enabled to discuss the tiling freely with her, Mary Chichester. P. ut poor Miss Caterham had worked her self up into such a state of nervous ap prehension of foul play on the part of her competitors for the great stake, as to b really not quite rational on that point She could have put her fears in no very definite shape had she even tried to tell them to any one. She would have cer tainly expressed a strong opinion that the Pegrams. in seeking Terence Finnigan, were seeking him with murderous purpose. She had a hazy idea that even her own life might le aimed at; oblivious of the fact that she hnd disposed by will of her chance in the "Great Tontine," as well as all her property, in favor of her niece, and that consequently her death would merely put Mary Chichester into her place as a shareholder .in the "Ton tine." the decease of a nominee being the only thing that virtually extinguished the share. She would further have told you, although she had no knowledge on the subject, that she thought it quite possible Lord I.akington also had his emissaries working on his behalf. Ringwood was sitting in his chambers the morning after .lack Phillimore's de parture for Uydland pondering over the "Great Tontine." His reflections were cut short by a sharp knock at his door. In reply to his "Come in," the door open ed, and his clerk appeared: "Mr. Car-biK-kle has just sent over, sir. His com pliments, and will you come across to his chambers at once." "All right." replied Ringwood; and tak ing up his hat he proceeded at once to comply with Mr. Carbmkle's request. "This is a very sad business. Ring wood." exclaimed Carbuckle. "Of course, poor old lady, at her time of life it is not a thing to he surprised at; but I can not help blaming myscelf for not having leen out to see her since I got back. Mary Chichesler says in her letter that the 'Great Tontine' has killed her." "You are speaking, of course, of Mis Caterham: you do not surely mean tc say that she is dead, poor thing?" "Yes, I am sorry to say such is th case. I have just received a note from Mary Chichester informing me of the fact. I want you to run down to Kew to tell Mary the whole state of the case; Kay that I shall come out to see her as soon as I return ; end that I shall, of course, be present at the funeral. Any little thing that she wants assistance and advice about. In the meanwhile, I am sure you will undertake for her. Do this for me, l&e a good fellow, or else I shall hare to telegraph to my sister that I can't com until to-morrow, which will be a great disappointment to her." ' ... ' , ' . ' "Of course I will," replied Ringwood "I will drive out there almost at once After, the terms have been on witt poor Miss Caterham, and knowing then: as I do, through you, there will be noth ing much in my taking your place in your unavoidable absence, l!y the way, ol course, if Miss Chichester asks me what was this secret which so troubled her aunt, there Is now, I suppose, no objec tion to my telling her?" "Ahem ! N'o ; better not, perhaps," r plied the more cautious senior. "Yon can tell her that Miss Caterham's will must explain everything." Ringwood made his way down to Kew a little later. He made his way up the gravel walk, and knocked at the door. "Yes, Miss Chichester would see him,H replied the maid, after disappearing for a few moments, and he was duly ushered into the drawing room. A little time, and Mary Chichester en tered, and Ringwood could not help think ing that she had never looked better than she did now, as she swept towards him in her black draperies, and greeted him with extended hand. He had composed rather a neat little speech on his way down, with which to introduce himself, but it all vanished as he looked at Mary' pale, sad face, and all he said was: "I am very, very sorry for you." "I knew you would be sorry to hear o the death of my poor aunt," she replied "You have, of course, heard of it fron Mr. Carbuckle. I rather hope to see him in the course of the day." "I am here. Miss Chichester, as Mi Parbuckle's deputy; sincerely as I sym pathize with you in your loss, I should hardly bar? ventured to intrude upon you until a few days later if it lutd not been for that. He has only just returned to town, and is compelled to leave it again for a couple of days, and begged me to run down here on his behalf, lie begged me say that he should come to you the minute he returned, and should, of course, attend the funeral." "Which I hope. Mr. Ringwood, you will do also. You were a great favorite with my poor aunt: but on one point I sadly fear I was right, and that misera ble secret which you allowed her to boar by herrelf really did hasten her death." "I sincerely trust. Miss Chichester, that on that point you are mistaken ; as I told you lefore, I was powerless; my lips were sealed, as they are now. A few days more, and you will know everything." "Know everything!" she cried passion ately, and rising abruptly from her chair. "What do I care about your mystery now? I wanted to know it before, that I might share the trouble with her who tins been as a mother to me, that I might soothe and comfort her in her wretched nervous prostration. I wanted to know it. because I saw that bearing it alone was the cause of the weak, nervous state into which she had fretted herself. Had I shared the burden with her it might who can sav? have kept her a utile longer with me. I am blaming nobody, continued .Mary, ns sue paceu me iu.nu with impatient steps; "but it is so hard to think that a life we value might have been prolonged by more careful tending." "Poor Miss Caterham was so very res olute in her injunctions as to secrecy that we dared not disobey her. A few days more and then " "Too late. I tell you." interrupted Mary; "I have no desire now to know this miserable secret, and and I think I think I had better say good-by," and putting her handkerchief to eyes, Mary Chichester hurriedly left the room. The day of the funeral arrived, and a little knot of mourners, which included Carbuckle and Ringwood. assembled at the cottage at Kew to follow poor Miss Caterham to her grave. The deceased lady's solicitor was among those present, and intimated to Mr. Carbuckle and some two or three intimates that he thought it would lie most convenient, now all was over, that they should return to the cot tage and hear the will read. "It is short and simple, and concerns you, Carbuckle, slightly." (To be continued.) The Complete (irnfter. Grafting is no easy matter. It calls for special qualifications. In the first place, one must be consistent. To start out on a grafting career under the be lief that we may permit ourselves oc casional lapses into virtue, makes for timidity, for a certain unprofessional uncertainty at critical moments. Eter nal vigilance is the price of success in grafting, as in other occupations, in order to succeed. Take one form of grafting anil stick to it, and till other things shall be added unto you. Then, again, the earnest grafter rec ognizes that, if lie is to make a rei manent success, he must keep himself in good condition. His home life, there fore, must be an ideal one. Some of our most famous grafters have had loving wives and golden-haired chil dren, were home every evening promptly at i. ami never touched a drop. In grafting, one must have good man ners, a devotion to one's duty, a sterling honesty of purpose, ami a continuous self-respect. Grafting, in its most ex alted form, is in reality an art. To be come pre-eminent in it one has to hnve an alKtunding faith that a new victim is born every minute. Grafting, Indeed, may only lo acquired by a certain amount of fasting and prayer, and pro longed patience. Thomas L. Masson, in Success Magazine. nixi-onrnfclntr. "Strive on. little man," said the benevolent old gentleman, "and some day you may lc President." "Aw, that's a pip." scoffed the youngster in the green sweater. "Me parents spoiled me chances long ago." "And how did they spoil your chances?" "Why. dey forget to name me Bill, dat's how." Moving Day. Bacon Didn't I notice yon were moving up at your house, to-day? Egbert Yes; all but the hired man I Yonkers Statesman. Life does not make as, we make life. KaTanagb, Barn for mixed Farming, The furiuer who can so adjust his work that he may dispense with the help of one man Is lucky indeed, but many a farmer has done so by sim ply changing his system of feeding and caring for the stock; also by so dis posing of the grain and hay that In stead of hauling many tons of It to market it is fed on the farm, and the beef, pork, butter, cheese, etc., sold. This allows the farmer to restore to the ground at least a part of the fer tility in the shape of manure. The barn plan shown herewith in the two Illustrations, the ground plan and the perspective view, is so ar ranged that one man may feed and care for the stock in a short time. As shown on the floor plan, the barn will accommodate fourteen cows, twelve horses,' has box. stalls for both the CROUND -PLAtf. GOOD BARN PLAN. cows and horses, also a large calf pen. The installation of manure carriers aud hay fork is very easy, and these will soon pay for themselves in the labor saved. A feature of the barn not to be overlooked is the arrange ment of the feed room and silo. The four-foot chute extends the entire length of the silo, and has small win dows for light, a tight door below separating same from the feed room to keep out dust and odors. The silage Is dropped down this chute, and from there shovelled to the mixing boxes one for the cows and one for the horses. There are two bins in the feed room and two more may be locat ed on the floor above and connected by small spouts for drawing off ttie grain. These spouts may be located di rectly over the mixing boxes. All hay is supposed to be fed from above, one Feeding- of Kkk. Hens will not refuse to lay provid ing the condltons which surround them are favorable for egg production. Of course, a hen cannot keep on laying all the time, nor will some hens lay even for a majority of the time, but the farmer who provides the correct condi tions of housing, feeding and general management will find that he will not be entirely without eggs at any time of the year. Of course, it Is not the lien's nature to lay at this time of the year, but If she is comfortably housed and well fed, the farmer will Hnd that the hen after all really has little senti ment as to just which season she shall produce her eggs. Getting eggs Is not entirely a matter of feeding, yet if we feed correctly the hens will not have that as an actual obstacle to' laying. Maturity and vigor are two important things in the hens that are to be heavy winter layers. Keep the hens in a thrifty, vigorous condition, nrul be sure and feed a va riety. These things count for a great deal toward success. Corn, oats and wheat are the three principal grain feeds, but there are others that may well be fed by way of variety and the meat and green stuff In some form should never be neglected. Give any kind of meat scraps or prepared meat foods, as it pays. Try to keep the hens under conditions as near like those in existence at spring time as you can, and you will not suffer severely from an egg famine. This is nothing impos sible, and briefly, only means comfort able housing, a variety of feeds, green stuff , and meat scraps, and sanitary quarters. Agricultural Kpitomist. Instruction bjr Ilafa. There are those who declare that nothing is created In vain, and that rats and mice are in some way a lenellt Lo mankind. It is hard to see Just how. The statistician of the Agricul tural P.ureau at Washington computes ihat iiiey cieate $15,000,000 damage a year. That Is the real money damage, laying nothing of the annoyance. As in offset, the rat catchers of the world sell about $1,000,0(10 worth of skins per rear, and the furriers work them and sell them for Ave times that sum. It Is estimated that a full-grown rat will tat six bushels of corn per year. PER SFCCTIVE view, -, I i F wo f evw 1 ,TA-U I HA ft N CSt 1 g.O.M "'"" is B-EI g Q fell 13J 0 hay chute being provided for each two stalls. - The milk room being located as it is, the milk may be taken to it at once. In this room should be located the separator; also plenty of clean water; if possible running water should be provided. The shop is a very neces sary room, and It will Bave many small repair bills. In it may be stored the nails, bolts, etc. In the horse barn the harness room Is located In the center, which makes it handy to all parts of the same. The two box stalls provide room for both male animals as well as sick and ailing ones. The hay bay is supposed to be open clear to the roof. However, some farmers may wisli to arrange this space different. The partition sepa rating the cows from the center sec tion is boarded or plastered up tight, except the calf pen, to separate the cows from any odors, dust or dirt from the other animals. The box stalls, however, in both the cow and horse barn are so constructed that the In mates may have a good view of the other ainmals. They like company, and will do better if they can see their neighbors. The floors of the cow stable, the milk room, feed room and silo are of cement, the gutter being formed in the floor and having a four-inch drain at the rear leading to the manure pit. The stalls are made to tit both long and short cows. The first stall in front is four feet wide and Ave feet long. The rear stall is three feet six inches wide and four feet eight inches long. The stalls then slope from front to the rear, each stall being slightly shorter, stalls are now con structed in so many different ways that it is hardly worth while to men tion them, every cow man having his own views of the matter. However, It is wise to so build them that the stall may be easily cleaned and washed. This construction will comply with all sanitary requirements of Inspectors. The floor of the horse stable may be of cement or clay. The location, the local supply of materials, etc., will of course govern to a certain extent the material enter ing the construction of any building, and, in fact, nil buildings. The bam as shown is twelve feet to the eaves and thirty-eight feet to the peak; the silo Is thirty-eight or forty feet high. The barn should, of course, have a good foundation of stone, brick or cement. On many farms it has been the practice to build a small shed here and there and the stock Is scat tered nil over the farm. Tills causes an unnecessary lot of labor to care for them; also an unsightly appearance to the surroundings. In constructing a barn of this sort it will not be neces sary to do all the work before the same may be used, but a portion of It may lie left until time and perhaps your purse will allow it to be finished. Wallace's Parmer. Small Temporary Smokehouse. If one butchers only once a year, says a correspondent of Farm and Home, it Is not necessary to build an expen sive smokehouse, for almost as good .SMAI.I. HIT M Vt.i "I'l K SMOKKIIOISK. results can lie obtained from a de vice Mich as "the one shown herewith. It is made by taking both ends out of a barrel ami mounting it upon a box or above a lircplacc in the ground. The meat to be smoked Is hung from the sticks laid across the top of the barrel, the lire built underneath and the lid put on. To In itch r Fruit Yield. One orchardist is said to have In creased the yield of his orchard from fifteen to "."Vo bushels ill the following manner: He reduced the tops of the trees one fourth ; then in the fall he plowed between the trees. After ma nuring well he planted corn, bean and pumpkins, and harvested a nice crop of each. The next spring he related the same form of cultivation, and that year, in addition to the good crops of corn. Iieans and pumpkins, harvested seventy bushels of good apples. The next spring he manured for the third time and planted jiotatocs. which did not do well, but he harvested 250 bush els of fine apples from the orchard. Champion Da Iter tow Dea. Tedro's Estalla, champion butter cow of the world, with a record of 712 pounds in twelve months, was killed by an accident at the Missouri Agricul tural College farm. WOMEN WAR ON DRUDGERY. ' ' ndlea ScrubuInK anil Houneclcan liiK Declared Hnd, for the Soul. The Slate Federation of Pennsylva-. nla Women has placed itself on record aa against the "drudgery" which its members say is the mistake of tho housewife of to-day, according to Pittsburg dispatch to the Now York Times. It was decided that there was entirely too much washing and ironing, cleaning and scrubbing in the life of the average housewife, and, while there could be no objection to a little mend ing and darning, it was certain that something must be done to cut down the scrubbing and cleaning. It was decided to raise a fund of $15,000 to endow a scholarship at the State College of Pennsylvania, to be known as the Knte Cassatt McKnight memorial for "permanent domestic science." Many ringing addresses were made in favor of this move, Intended to teach the girls how to mend, etc., make the home happy. It would seem, however, that the mop and the scrub brush are not to be Included in' the curriculum. Mrs. Anna C. Tilllnghast of TItusville brought down the house by exclaiming tragically: "What effects, think you, will an end less round of cleaning and scrubbing, washing and ironing have upon a hu man soul? How far toward the ideal in moral and spiritual development will such a soul be able to advance?" It was 1 bought best not to include the scrub brush in the resolution, and some of the more calm members, after due deliberation, presented the follow ing resolution, which was passed: "Whereas, Believing that the safety and continual blessing of our country rest upon the sanctity and comfort of our homemaker. and that for the ac complishment of these desired condi tions we must act in sincerity and co operation; therefore lie it "Hesolved, That this Federation of Pennsylvania Women raises $15,000 for a permanent domestic science scholar shin at State College, this fund to be properly Invested in good securities as fast as accumulated, the Interest accru ing thereon each year to be used for the purpose aforesaid, this scholarship to be known as the Kate Cassatt Mc Knight memorial." The Hat a Menace to Ilenlth. Men and women who keep their own bodily health good by adequate at tention to the laws of modern hygiene have in themselves ample protection against the diseases spread by rats or other germ carriers, even when the germ Is that of the plague. I'nless ex posed to the Infection for too long a period, or too repeatedly, the clean, healthy body Is fairly safe against the attacks of the rat's host ile parasites. Dirt and overcrowding in cities and dwellings where sunshine Is not per mitted to freely flood the infected places with its germicidal rays these are the conditions favorable to the growth and propagation of the rat and the parasites of the rat. Although the outbreak of the plague In Canton In 1804 caused the death of many thou sands of natives of the poowr classes, none of the American or English resi dents was affected. During the year that elapsed, after the plague appeared in San Francisco In ltHTT. only one hun dred and fifty cases developed, because of the prompt enforcement of up-to-date sanitary regulations. The awful visi tation which decimated London In 14 was so noticeably confined to the slums, where underfeeding had weakened bodies and overcrowding had developed dirt and vermin, that the disease was ailed the "poor man's plague." Nevertheless, we can not rest easily. nor can we keep the barriers and de fenses adequate, without great vigil ance, while In the Orient the disease remains virulent. Always there Is the possibility of plague-stricken rats reach ing us In such numbers as to spread the bacilli broadcast. Success Magazine, The Addrma, An Irish girl serving in ttie capacity if cook for a family In Massachusetts recently received a visit from a cousin from the "ould counthry." who, on leav ing, promised to write soon. The Irishman evidently looked about bun pretty carefully while In Sotner ville. for In due time a letter arrived addressed as follows: "Miss Bridget Callahan, "At Mr. N -'s, "Private Way. "I lajigerous Crossing. "ScimerviUe. Massachusetts, "P. S. A." Success Magazine. o Donlit a Header of "Inneh." A hearty laugh liad gone almost around .over the story of the fisher man who. to locate the place on t lie lake where he had had good luck, cut a nick In the side of his boat. "Al most around," for the Englishman sat solemn and silent. About live minutes later, however, lie awoke with a roar of laughter, and when asked the trou ble, replied: "Well, wouldn't It be a corking good joke if that fisherman got a different boat tla next time he went out r Not Vet. When tailors see three-cornered hats In ricadllly and Bond street it will he time enough to lay In a stock of pink dress suitings. But unless we are mistaken, this sort of thing will not trouble the present generation. The present rage is for quiet tones. Tailor end Cutter. There are a tremendous number of men willing to furnish $50,000 worth of experience if the city will furnish 150,000 In money.