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THE MODEL HOUSEWIFE. h docth ber husband's trill alway, gM ep bMi hen aad. mllrn wbeo he's gas kjoi u bil "mother uiml to oook," w,i recliwa from her book. pnM Iba children to mil 111 I AD4J never "J uum a. ,v . on bl button, aud dartu hli socks, Kentr aptlu of her oervoua itiouki; gioRs to him. rt-ads to him latent news, Bui KUMiipa or gives bar views, ubrre I tnul nxxlnl you wooder wbaral Tb x-'bo " b0"1 on lb enW air -Jood Houaeknplnf . A HOLIDAY FAIRLY WON. "The question before the house Is, Can It be done? and the speaker rapped on the table with her lead pencil to attract the attention of the other three, who seemed disposed to wander from the sub ject in hand. "What do you say, Elsie?" "If we all agree we want to do it, then It can be done." replied Elsie, with a de termined nod of her head. Good," resiionded Margaret "What iav you. Belle?" I o'rrce with Elsie that whatever we undertake we can carry out, and I am willing to do anything, provided my blessed mother approves of it" "Splendid!" cried Margaret "No Lizzie, let us hear from you." "Well, iiejrnn Lizzie doubtfully, "you know 1 think nothing could be lovelier limn to join the camping party at the beach for a whole month, but, first, we are poor, second, here we are stuck down in a little country village where there is no chance of being richer if one Uvea to l a thousand years old; and lastly, I cannot see how we can ever make $80 if we can't find something to make it by. Why, girls, that $80 looks like a moun tain." "Rut will you consent to earn it If you can?" persisted Margaret "Yes, assented Lizzie slowly. "Well, then, listen to my plan, and don't say a word till I've finished. Of course, 1 have consulted mother, and hlie approves and thinks we can do it, so that encourages me to tell you. VV e can gel work in Penton, easy work, that we can do without much practice; wages. l" a week. We can cet a comfortable J- ..- o mnlli oiw I I an, r j I IU III lis, V 1 " UIUIIVII, HUM U 114 BUI , our mother would give us enough pio- visiiui ) l.it n week and send us moie from time to time. In that way w three could at least save f 10 a week, and Jut the end of two months have enough jto pay the fare here and back and tho '&30 for the trip to the beach. What do ou think of my plan?" 1 "The plan is lovely, but you haven't said what the work was.' objected Lizzie. i"ln my uncle's match factory in Pen on." "Matches, cried Clare, in surprise. "Why, 1 never made a match in my fe," from Belle. "What would people say?" asked Liz- tie. "Of course, girls, if we do not want to So it we are not compelled to, but we tan earn the money for the beach trip in that way if we will, and be more than repaid in the end. As to what people think of us, I, for one, do not care, and ks to making matches, it is the easiest thing in the world, when we know libw, Girls, Uncle John says we can have fclaces in the sorting room and can begin t once. What do you say; to go, or not lo go?" j Lizzie looked down at her fingers and thought how disagreeable the continual smell of sulphur would be. Belle and Elsie stared gravely at each other. Two hole months in a mutch factory wasn't g pleasant thing to contemplate, but the lovely trip afterwards would more than Compensate. !"What do you say?" urged Margaret "We'll do it!" chorused the others. I A week later four girls, a trifle home sick, but too proud to confess it, sat down to their first meal, picnic, fashion, in their own room in good Mrs. Blake's house in Penton. The rooms looked very bare, hut with a few home photographs and a scarf here and there, the staring white walls lost half their bareness. The "table was spread hi the middle of the room and made pretty with some early spring flowers. I "I did not know mother's bread was a good, Baid Margaret, "but 1 really must curb my appetite, or there won't I enough left for breakfast What I blessed relief it will be to take our din iters at Mrs. Blake's table." JMr. Craxhaw from his office window taw with a grim smile the four girls ap proach, the next morning. "lt won't be a paying business for me," hit said to himself, "but girls with such luck deserve to be helped. "Ilere we are, Uncle John, ready for ' usiness," announced Margaret, and her nele, taking his hat, led the way to the ctory. "We might just as well go over the hole building and give you an idea of ' ow matches are cade, he said. " 1 ou here, the timber is being cut into tanks or slabs the exact thickness of a latch, then with one blow from this ilillotine-like machine, which, you see, Orks with it treadle, the cut matches f dl into this box. ''Then three little splints, just the I gth of two matches, are fitted into i is frame, and are ready Ur the dip I ing, first, however, passing through i lie bands of the inspector yonder, who 'lakes but the loose splints ami fastens i frames; the dipper next takes them, id laying the ends of the plinis on ; lis heated surface for an instant ! dry all moisture, deftly dips firl one end and then the other into the pan of sul 1 iiur the thickness of cream, ami then i-'ito the pan of phosphorus. When dry taey are placed in trays and car.i' d i" i! room where you will work. There t'i matches are cut in two bjr the little machine fastened to the work bench mid ! 'aced in the boxes ready for ship; in,;, i ids is your room," he said at last, luv 'r them where the hands were busy 1 ling boxes, 400 n each, never too few too many; so ccurate were they. "Now, young ladies, don't eat, sit (! .n on or stp, on the matches, or go near the dicing P40" and J0" I- t to finish your two months," and with t: t feeble atumipl at a joke Uncle John h n them to make their lirst trial. "I hadn't any idea matehe were so f ' rTery." said Lizzie, with a sigh, vainly trying to rill a boa with finger which r nsiantly let the matches fall to the G-Tjr Define caiue with practice i. wever. and Cncle John was forced U c nf ess that he had not made such a lad t .rgain after all. Th four friend r uited off the slowly passing days b) tha bour. . . "I never want to see jam again rr "aned Lizzie. or codlUhr said Margaret "Nor cold liaked 103118!" fro.n Bella. "Nor ginger bread!" chimed In Elsie "Won't we enjoy our trip to the beach aftcrall these mulches?" cried Bell, with a laugh. "I shall live and die an old uuud rather than make another ui"- but pillow thrown ul her by Margaret smothered the sentence. "If there was only a wee bit of excite ment to breuk this monotony." said El lie one morning toward the end of the two months, "seven whole weeks, and nothing to vary mutches but picnicking ou oi ones trunk. "They, too, shall pass away," quoted Margaret, loconilort her. Slowly, but surely, the week did roll by, and the four met in Uncle John's olllce and watched with glistening eyes as lie counted out the monev due them nine shining gold pieces, all their own, the fruit of their patient, faithful labor. "This melius moonlight suils ou the sound, girls, think of it, said Margaret. patting the gold with loving touches. "and clam hakes and sea bathing and no matches. "Give it to Belle. Her purse is the emptiest and largest," laughed Elsie, "and we'll act as sieciul police on the way home. Mr. Crashaw spoke to them at that in stant, and I hey turned to answer his question "There, I've left my penknife on the work bench," said Hello. "I'll just slip up and get It. and she ran lightly bock to the now empty room. A hasty search on the bench, the floor, In every comer failed to reveal the miss- ing knife, and Belle was forced to give up the search. She wulked slowly back to the dour, looking on either side as she went Uxn reaching it, she found to her amazement that it was locked. The janitor had come in nnd, not seeing her as she stooped under the work benches. had locked the door and gone away for the night, and here she must stay, pos sibly until Monday morning, who could tell. The three girls waited until tired for Belle's return, and then, concluding she hud gone home without them, sauntered slowly back to Mrs. Blake's, rejoicing that it was tor the last time. Belle, left alone in the gathering dark' ness. paced the tloor of her prison with impatient steps. Here was the ad veil ture Elsie had hoped would come be fore they left, nnd Bello defiantly wished she was hero to enjoy it Surely the girls would become anxious about her and come to seek her, ese cially as she had the precious money in her pocket At that remembrance her heart gave a faint throb of fear. hat if something should hupcn to that! She walked to the window and peered down into the narrow court below, but not a soul was to be seen. As she turned back a slender tliread of smoke caught her eye coming from the window of the dipping room. She watched, lirst with curiosity, then with growing alarm, as pull after pull came faster and faster. The sickening truth that the factory was on fire and she was alone Hashed upon her! She watched the ever increasing smoke with a fascination she could not throw off. Now the flames could be seen. Was there no help? Must she die alone? And the money I The precious money, the girls had worked so hard for. Must that, too, be lost? She flew from door to door and window to window, lieating them with her fists and calling aloud in her agony. At last, after what seemed an eternity, she heard the sound of voices in the streets, and cries of fire and calls for water. The room she was confined in had no windows lacing the street, and she could not venture near those on the court, as the' smoke rolled in in clouds. Must she die? Life was so sweet! She must make one more effort to save it, and picking up a heavy wrench, with the strength of despair, broke the lock on a door leading into me next room. With a cry of joy sho darted in, only to lie met with such volumes of smoke that elio nearly lost hope. Burying her face in her apron she crawled to the window and fell more dead than alive across the sill. There on the street below was the en tire village watching the flames roar and leap from story to story. Among the sea of faces she could barely distinguish those of her friends. "Margaret!" she called. "Margaret, save me. Oh, won't some one try to save me?" The faint cry for help reached Marga ret's ears and her eyes met Belle's figure darkly outlined against the wall of fire. "Save her! Save her! she cried in agony, and nil eyes were now turned to ward the crouching figure, wJiose white face and moving lis prayed for help. The cry, A woman in me omniing: us taken uu and passed from lip to lip, and a dozen brave hearts otlered to scale ladders and try to rescue Her. In the uiiiU of her greatest peril Bello did not forget the gold pieces she held firmlv clased in one nana, ami nnsiiiy tying' tlienr in her handkerchief she tossed it far into the air and it fell at Margaret's feet. Ladders are soon in place, stout hands are stretched to the fainting girl, and when she 0M?ns her eves she is safe in Margaret s arms, with KIsIp and Lizzie ouestioning and crying all in one breath, while the crowd gathered around to congratulate her. "To think," sohled Lizzie, "tlmt yon should have thought of the money in all your danger." Within a few short weeks, four happy girls started on their su ler holiday, and in all that merry party it is safe to sav none enjoyed it more than the four m-fm hud so kirdlv earned it. Louise Thrush Brooks in Springfield Homestead. Paatcafe Treatment of Ujdrophobla. M. Pasteur is responsible for the state ment that out of 7.000 people who have undergone his treatment for bydro-.' phobia the total number of deaths has been seventy-one, or 1 per cent Two hundred and fourteen of these patient were Enzliih subjects, treated in Pans. Of these there were five uncuccessful cases after completion of the treatment and two more during treatment The methods followed have been continu ally undergoing improvement, so that last year, out of a total of sixty-four Enelish peraons bitten by mad dogs and treated in Paris, not a single case has succumbed, although ten were bitten on the head acd others on the limbs, often to a very serious extent Detroit Free Press. Clmlut on Sand. Th. harhor of Philadelphia are in earnest in their expressed determination tn rr tha barber shops of that city on Sunday and thu obtain a day of rest Five barber wbo kept open weir stores on Sunday last nave area rwctuicu. tk pra fined bv the magistrate under a law passed in 17M. New York Tribune. MEN WHO DO WOMEN'3 WORK. or th Occupations In Which Main Us lha Work of I'rraaln. While it is true that women have to a great extent of late year taken to doing men's work, it is aUo true that some men do women's work. In Cali fornia Chinese men are largely employ ed a domestic ervatit, and wherever Chinamen go they are chiefly employed in laundries. In many large laundries where new shirts are done up expert men are employed who make good wages. The reason why men are em ployed on new shirts is because the new shirt require more strength to iron them properly than shirts that have been previously lanndried, and few women have the strength to do the work prop erly. In the state prisons men are common ly employed at laundry work, mainly on shirts. It is curious, by the way, how differently a Chinaman use an iron from the method employed by women. When a woman uses an iron she begins with it at the right heat for use, and conseqnently it soon cools, and she coii snruet much time in changing her irons. The Chinaman, on the contrary, gets his iron very hot much too hot for use. When he begin to use the iron he plunge it quickly into cold water. This cool the snrface for a moment. The heat from the interior then begins to come to the snrface, and continues to do so for some time about as font as it Is cooled by nse, so that the necessity for the frequent changing of irons is obvi ated. Worth, the man dressmaker of Paris, ha counterparts in other countries. The largest producer of dress pattern for women in New York is a man, although hi business ha been for many years conducted in the name of his wife. The most expensive and best fitting dresses that women wear are tailor made dresses which are made by men. The designs for new dresses are mostly made by men. The most expensive ladies' hats are made by men. The man milliner is pro verbial. In the department of nursing, which is considered specially women' work, many men are employed. Where pa tient are helpless and require much lift ing it has been found necessary to pro cure strong men, because women are not equal to the hard labor. Sewing is especially women's work, bat the very finest and best paid sewing is done by men in fancy tailoring. Since the introduction of the sewiug machine the proportion of men sower ha in creased in those branches where the work is heavy and require strength for long hours of labor. Although cooking is regarded general ly a women's work, the best wid cooks are men. In the great clubs, hotels, restaurant and private house where fine cooking ia required the best cooks are men. It I the men who have made cooking one of the fine arts. It is true, however, that the great artist in food disdain to be called cooks, and are known as chefs, aud they command sal aries of which the average lawyer would be proud. Housecleaning is looked upon a wom en's work, yet there are establishment that will clean a house from top to bot tom and put it in order, and employ mostly men to do it. Boarding house keeping is mostly women's business, but there are many large and successful boarding bouses in New York that are managed by men. Often they get two or three houses to gether, and the tendency of men in that business is to enlarge it so as to make these places approach the character of hotels. It is ii rare thing for a woman to keep a hotel. There are even men chambermaids. On steamboat and steamship most of the chamber work is done by men. Even in large hoarding house it ha been found expedient to have men to do the chamber work. New York Suu. Mr. Antor'a Fianrre. Mis Ava Willing, of Philadelphia, the betrothed of John Jacob Astor, sou of the late William Astor, haa a softly brilliant complexion, with a lovely pink flush that comes and goes in her cheeks. Her face is round, and it beauty is em phasized by the daintiest oval chin with a dimple in it. Iter bair 1 very dark brown, almost black, and her eye, which are of deep violet blue, look much darker for the long black lashes which curtain them. Miss Willing' figure is extremely pretty and graceful, with a rounded waist and lovely shoulders. She is a trifle above medium height, and while she impresses you a being very slender, she is, as a matter of fact, quite plump, and there is not a sharp angle about her. She appears to be thoroughly natnral and unaffected. Iler manner is sweet and winning. Her intimate say she has the loveliest disposition imaginable, aud if only half of the nice things said of ber are true young Mr. Astor is to be most heartily congratulated on winning so fair and so charming a bride. St. Louis Republic. Saved by a rjalrplau The hairpin in the trolley ha again come to light. Several weeks ago The Herald printed a story telling bow a hairpin furnished by a lady passenger enabled one of the electric oars to con tinue on its trip to the hill Friday morning the hairpin was removed and replaced by one made for the purpose. It is only justice to the hairpin, how ever, to say that it could have satisfac torily performed the duty allotted to it for several month to come. It was in the trolley of car No. 7, now running on the Turpin hill line, with Fred Merntt at the motor switch, Augusta (Oa.) Herald. A Soak Voodoo a Chlekam. A farmer in the upper portion of this county was aroused one night not long since by the squalling of a hen on her roost in aclusterof vines near the house. Ooing out. the hen was apparently trans fixed with fright and helpless in her movement A large snake was found near by with eyes evidently set upon his prey. The hen continued ber squalls without moving, a if in a nightmare, till the snake wa killed, when she fell from her perch, recovering and flying away, but has since been in a droop. Dal ton (Oa.) Argus. A Start tm HoawkacplBg. VenetU "Does Charlie really think be will ever marry you?" Beatrice "I'm sure be does; hi pres ent are so very practical" Epoch. Dlffaraac Milk. Housekeeper I this sew Alderney mUk? Milkman NoV, bat It' New Jersey Bult-Oood News. flTCAIRN ISLAND. latamtlng Nom an Ilia lrv4aBtt at lha MultoMra. Capt William Smith, master of the bark Frith, of Clyde, in his last voyage from San Praiicl-o to Falmouth, touched at Pitcairn Inland, the home of soui of the descendant of the mutineer of her majesty's ship Bounty. Ho furnishes Hie Chronicle with the following interesting note of the visit to the island: Pitcuiru Island is situated in the South Pacific ocean, hit. 33 dciT. south, Ion. 130 degs. west, and is directly In the track of vessel from California home ward bound by Cae Horn. I left San Francisco on Jan. 13 and called off Adanistown, Pitcairn Island, on Satur day, Feb. 0, when James KiihsoII McCoy, chief magistrate, w ith six others, came off in (heir Uat. The names of the boat's crew were: Benjamin Stanley Young, Ernest lleywood Christian, William 11. (!. Christian, James San for J Warren, Elias Christian, all native of the island, nnd Philip Coffin, a ship wrecked sailor, married and settled on the island. There arc twenty-two families on the island 117 souls in all forty-five male and seventy-two females. There are at present thirty-two children attending school, v. hich is kept by Simon Young, agisted by his daughter, Miss Young. Mr. Young also ofllciutea in the church and Miss Young is organist The organ was presented to the islanders by Queen Victoria. Judge of my astonishment when Mr. McCoy informed me that this was their Sabbath, .aud a they had missed their morning service through coming off to tho ship, if I had no objec tions ho would hold divine service on board, which ho did in a very able man ner. The reason ho gave for keeping the seventh instead of the first day of the week was that as God had given the Ten Commandments to Moses, written on tables of stono on Mount Sinai, and we acknowledge nine of them, we should not discard the fourth, a it distinctly ay the seventh day and not the first which argument carries some weight with it. Religious book were gladly received, especially those of the Rev. Robert Murray Chayne, late minister of St Peter' church, Dundee, The Chris tian Herald wa eagerly sought after. They are well posted in the doing of the outer world, and were quite conver sant with American politic and the lato election. I supplied them with all the latest American, English and Aus tralian newsiaiers, which were thank fully received. They aro un extremely kind hearted and simplo people. They brought a quantity of pumpkins, cocoa nuts, bananas, pineapples, eggs and a lovely bouquet of flowers. Mr. McCoy also sent half of a cooked fowl and a piece of a pudding made from sweet po tatoes anil ludian corn for the captain' dinner. It was with the greatest diffi culty I got them to accept anything in return, it being their Sabbatli day. The only things that Mr. McCoy would ac cept were some wino for communion purposes and some medicine. After re maining ou board about two hours the islanders took their leave. San Francis co Chrouiclo. Two Shark Stories. The schooner Hester A. Seward, Capt Traver, with 8,000 dozen pineapple, arrived at Pratt street wharf last night at 10:30 from Green Turtle Cay, Abaca Capt Trovers reKrt seeing a red can buoy adrift in latitmlo 27 deg. 80 mill. N., longitude 7 deg- 79 ruin. W June 26. W. II. Miller of this city, who went out to the islands for his health from New York in February, returned a passenger on the schooner. Capt Travers told an American rc(orter that just before he left the islands, July 4, the natives cap tured a shark eighteen feet long. When it was cut oiien a half barrel of suit pork J was found intact in its stomach, brides a number of other articles which the . , , ii i w- lf:il...Kl.A' monster nan swauuwvu, mr. jnhu-i had a shark story. Two months ago the dead body of a shark was washed up on the beacii at Abaca Inside the huge mouth was found a small barrel It wa wedged so tightly that it would neither go up nor down. In the barrel, the head of which was off, was found all the food the fish had managed to get inside his teeth. The barrel caught all the food, and the shark starved to death. Balti more American. A riicnomauoik V. O. Thomas wa in town on Satur day, lie says that a few days ago while riding over a range he witnessed a strange meteorological phenomenon that startled him for tho moment Tho weuther was perfectly clear and he was near the head of Second creek, when, looking directly in front of him, toward the butte he saw the butte turn white. He remarked to his companion who was with bim that it appeared like nov coming from a cloud. This is what it wa concluded to be, and the horses were halted for a mo ment and they stood and gazed on it It appeared that a cloud opened itself and emptied its contents all in one spot This kept up for twenty minutes, when it cleared up and disappeared. They af terward rode over the ground visited by the storm and found hail lying over an area of about five miles to the depth of about five iuches. The creek had filled up with hall, and everything indicated that the hail must have fallen ag if it bad been suddenly dumped outof areceptacle. He is satisfied that if a man or horse had been caught in it he would hav been killed. Fortunately there was no stock within the storm limits at th time. Yellowstone Journal. Brigands Around Roma. Letters from Rome represent that brigands are numerous in the environs of th city, committing frequent robber ies, and that traveler by rail even, art not afe from robbery Th Epoca i quoted a saying that no less than on hundred robberie. many of them ac companied by violence, hav occurred in the section of railroad between Oenoa and Ventimiglia. A few weeks ago the eldest son of the Swiss consul at Men ton was murdered aud roblied on till road. Exchange The forty-third annual report of th commissioners in lunacy for Great Bri tain contains interesting figure. On New Year's day last there woro in the kingdom 8L340 insane persons Various causes of Insanity are vl forth In a table covering 130.478 caaea- Of these ..V;K persons lost their reason from domestic trouble, 8.000 from "adverse circum stance," 8.278 from overwork and worry, 8,769 from religious e xcitement and 18,25)0 from intemperance. The in flueno of heredity was ascertained in 88,063 caaea, and congenital defect in B.&bl. ELISE'S BEAUTIFUL ARMS. fha Oteat Triumph ami Tragic fr.il of aa ArtUt'a NihIH In llrrllik Two yepr ago Elite Kemmler, then IS yean old. was a waitress nt a restaurant iu the Minli'iit quarter in Berlin. She was nut pretty. She was freckled, square shouldered ami dumpy. She was so plain that she did not even get the usual caresses and love pals which the (lerinan waitresses almost invariably get from every man I hey servo. She had, however, out1 beauty of form her arms They were large, white and exquisitely molded A young artist noticed them one day as i'.lise, with her sleeves rolled up, brought him his U er aud roast goose. From that day on KIimj was probably more sought alter by young meu than any other waitress in Berlin. Every artist wished her to sit for him, so that he could iminl her U anlifiil arms. After the young urtUt who discovered her arms had given their counterpart to his HeU's and Venuses and Dianas, dozens of other artists wished to repro duce them on their canvases. As a model Elisu made double and treble the money that she had earned as a waitress She spent il all iikii her person and tic came immediately vain. By means of a bll of lacing, a free use of cosmetics, and a lot of new gowns, she inado herself over into a very attractive young wo man. Site had lovers by the dozen. Hardly an evening passed for the next two years but that she drank wine with an artist or student in a tluo Berlin res taurant, or sat beside him in some sec ond class theatre. A few weeks ago Elise had an engage ment to sit for the young artist who dis covered her She went to hi room and prepared to reveal the beautiful arms which he had wished to paint lie told her, however, that she need not take the trouble. He had found a woman with more finely molded arms than her. She threw herself on the floor and wept He tossed her tome money to comfort her. She threw It back to him and hurried off home. There she locked herself in her rooms. For two day she refused ad mittance to every one nnd ate nothing. On tli'' morning of the third day her landlady wa attracted to her bedroom by groan On the bed lay Elise iu con vulsions, She confessed that she had poisoned herself, but begged the land lady not to summon a doctor, as she wished to die. A physician who was culled in considered her incurable. She was sent to tho Charite hospital, where she died two davs later. Now York Sun. Seeking Ills Own HapplnrM at LmU A tall, duo looking man of distill- guished apH-arance and clerical air stepped into tho olllce of Clerk of Courts Hewitt yesterday nnd asked with great dignity if Mr. Hewitt were the one who made folks happy. Mr. Huwitt joined him in a little blush, and shyly admitted that he sometime distributed great chunks of happiness to young men for a consideration. "1 want a marriage license, theu," the stranger remarked. "What is the name?" asked Mr. Hew itt "Spratt Rev. O. M. Sprott, of Phila delphia." Alter tho usual questions required by law to be asked of those who come there for tickets iu tho lottery, Mr. Hew lit ob served: "Of course 1 can see that you aro of age, but," in on npologeticaltono, "I am required to ask your exact uge." "Certainly, certainly, sir," responded the clerical visitor. "I know how it la. I have ofllciuted at a large number of weddings since the law went Into effect I am 73." The bride Mr. Spratt was to lead to the altar was Mrs. Amelia Down Whee ler, of Corry, whose age is C7, so that tho combined ages of the bride and groom reach the almost unprecedented age of 143 years, an eveu century more than the ago of the average bride and groom. Erie Gazette. Holland's King aa a Put Ian. I have alluded to tho trouble which the doctors have had with the king of Hol land. Not only ia It a fact that his tem per is frequently painfully short, but during hi last and most serious Illness he took it into his head to make game of hi medical attendant. The old king used upon occasions, with a grim and sardonic humor it is difficult to realize, to deceive his doctor by exaggerating hi symptoms or even by affecting to have dovclopcd new one. Then just a the royal physician were about to leave the royal chamber the pa tient would burst into loud laughter, or, if too weak for that, would chuckle grimly at the way In which hi medical attendant had been misled by him. It can be imugined, therefore, how increas ingly difficult the task of the Dutch doc tor was made. Since his unexpected partial recovery the latest account is unfavorable it ha been necessary for tha old king to breathe air of one tem perature, and that a rather high one, so that his apartments have to be kept heated in a manner which make the devotion of the young queen to ber wreck of a husband all the more notable. London Truth. Luck la Oklahoma. A local hack driver purchased two lot on the day after the opening from men wbo decided that there would never be a city, and who were going away In di gust For one he paid 10 and for the other he traded a well worn six shooter One of the lots be has since sold for $1,100. and he is holding the six shooter lot for 11,500 The luckless boomer who exhausted his scantily tilled treasury to get into the land of promise and went away empty handed, contributed by hi teal and earnestness to a boom which has already netted many neat little fortunea Oklahoma Cor. Globe-Democrat Two Uurar talve. Two bovine freaks hav appeared in this vicinity recently. 8. Landman has calf without tail or eyes, and Robert Jones ha another that ha the skin of an elephant and no hair on Its body. Waynetown (Md.) Cor. Indianapolis Sen tinel ' Although the late Duke of Bedford was cremated, whea the bearers raised the coffin they fonud it as heavy as usu al, the duke Laving left instructions that a piece of laud should be put iota his oof fin with a statement of the cremation. In case, if the coffii were opened centuries hence, there sho ild arise some loxpirion concerning his death. Neither the submerged chain system nor the endless rope system of canalboat haulage ha proved satisfactory to Ger many, so that experiment are now being made in the use of heavy towing car drawn by locomotives similar to tbos uavd in miue. STYLES OF HAIR CUTTING. A Wntrrn llarlwr Cain Out aa Amuilng ami I Mliii Fanhlnn Plata. Mr Henry A Mayor, a Main street barber, has iei levied a unique hair dress er's fashion (.late A man can look ever the fashion plate, select the style of hair cut or heard n immin he wants, and has only lo call out the iminU'r of the one selected without giving any further In structions The iileaof gettingupsuch a fashion plate snesteil itself to him on day while looking in the show window of u photograph gallery. He haa spent over a year in perfecting his fashion plate, has it copyrighted and has applied for a vatcnt In order to procrly carry out his plan of getting up a fashion plate, he would would go Id the park or some publio place, or even on the street, find a suit able subject and induce him to have his hair or lieard trimmed in tho style most becoming l him, then have him pho tographed, front, side, and back view. The fashion plate shows forty -eight dif ferent views There are seventeen dif erenl styles of trimming the beard, tho "Oreeley," ' English," "Vandorbilt," "Turko," ' Senator," "Scotch," "Uer mun," "American." "French," "Ladida," "Bridle," three kinds of "Prince Albert" 'Favorite," "Clergy." and several slight variations from these. The "American" or Southern style is the most popular for older men, and the "Favorite" for younger tueit The styles of cutting the hair are manv, and all the styles ure represented on the plato. Threo or four styles of pompadouriiro shown, and a barber who knows his business lias a better cnonce to cut a man's hair to suit his face in a pompadour cut than any other. .This is still the most popular stylo. The prin cipal styles of hair cutting he calls the one-fourth, one-half and three-fourths shingle, with different styles of parting and of trimming the neck. Then there aro the "Saratoga," the "horso shoe," tho "feather edge," the "high peoked," "society" and "squaro" pompadour, th "tight clip," "medium clip" and "Bill Nyu" styles. Several heads perfectly bald on top have tho hair so arranged as to cover up the deficiency. The Logan roll ia the most elalsirnte haircut, and ia really two cuts in one. Tho hair is cut long und square all around. Then the hair i lifted up, and a regular one quarter shingle cut given and the long hair turned under at the bottom. Kan sas City Times. Will Hunt No Mora Quail In rloriila. Three Nimrods who have been hunting quail near here for some weeks past were on Thursday last troaUd to an experience that they will never forget. They were huntini that morning In the flat wood near Ueresford, ami, while trying to locate a covey of quail that their dogs hud flushed cl.we to a growth of high polmettoes, one of the party who was some distance from the others sud denly called out, "A rattler!" His dog wa only a few feet iu front or htm, when all at once he sprang to one side quicker than a flush and came "to heel.'' On the instant there came from nnder the palmetto tliat well known but dread ed souud to tint hunter the rattle. To locate the snake wa an Impossi bility, for tho peculiar noise that ema nate from that vibrating toil so affects the drum of the ear that, unless the snake is seen, it wonld seem to be within a radius of but a few feet, but whore yoo cannot tell. Finally, after much caution by the hunters, with the aid of a stick at least ten feet long, the palinottoe were beaten down enough to see hi head routed out of a "gopher hole." Angry and fierce he looked; hi eye seemed fairly to emit spark of fire. After gag ing at him for a short instant, one of the party fired, hitting him full on the head, and the hideous warning ceased. Then, with a forked stick and the united effort of two, he was pulled out of his retreat. His length was five feet and ten inches, and he girted at the center of the body twelve inches and one-quarter having twelve rattles. One of the party re marked: "Gentlemen, I have seen my first rattle on it natural domain in Florida, and I'm ready to quit. If quail live in their locality, even if every bird had a new $10 silver certificate tied to it, I say let it go." De Land Cor. Florida Timos-Uuloii. Htaam Crane Kieavator. A steam crane has been constructed for employment on the Manchester ship canal which has done some remarkably good work, both in hard and in soft ma terial. The machine is an ordinary ten ton locomotive crane, with an excavator attached to the jib, the whole being car ried on a steel truck tilted with wheel. The principal feature of the excavator is the method by which the bucket ia fed np to its work. Thi Is done by a spe cial steam cylinder, which Is bolted to the arms carrying the bucket, and by means of which the bucket can be moved in or out a distance of two feet as desired. In making a cut the bucket is first lowered to the bottom of the cat ting, and then fed up to its work by the steam cylinder, the valve of which are controlled from the footplate of tha ma chine. The lifting gear is then applied, and the bucket is swept up the face of the cutting by meau of the lifting gear. In practice entire cutting np to 20 feet deep and 40 feet wide have been worked by these machine, the output varying, so the maker state, from 200 to 800 wagon of 4 cubic yard each per day of eleven hoars. The cost of such excava tion and delivery into wagons i laid to be a trifle les than two cent per cnbio yard. New York Commercial Adver tiser. A Kara Orrhl. In one of the tropical greenhotva at the Harvard botanic garden in Cam bridge may be seen in flower a wonder ful and noble plant belonging to th or chid family. This magnificent plant, which l technically nani-d Angraecum sesquiprdale. Is a native of Madagascar, where it is fonnd growing npon tree. In it native country it stem U from three to four feet high; the leaves, about a foot long, dark, shining green. Th flower i about six inches in diameter, ivory white, with a spur from twelve to eighteen Inches long, and it has a power ful fragrance, particularly at night It was discovered about seventy year ago, but wa not introduced in a living stat until 1M7. It haa become famous as one of the orchid which Darwin was specially interested in on account of the exceptional length of it spar. Th plant at the Cambridge Botanic garden is a particularly good specimen, and ha four spike of flowers, with thre blooms on each spik. Boitoa Journal SHE LIKES ORIGINAL PRAYER8. Child Aatma Margnrrlla field OhJata4 to "Now I tj Ma Down to SUap." Marguerite Field la, without doubt, the most remarkable child actress in th country. She is scarcely 6 year old and has played with Mr. Oliver Byrou iu "The Upper Hand," "Th Inside Track" and "Across tho Continent," and every where she is the leading attraction and get more recalls than any one else on th bilL Her rendition of comlo songs Is ber strong point, and her childish treble is clear enough to fill the largest hall. Tho little one is full of originality and Is always doing things which are not on the programme. Mr. Byron says be never knows when she Is golug to appear or what she is going to do. Once in the farce called "Reuben Glue" she was standing on a chair hold ing up a loaf of bread at which she gazed, exclaiming: "The world I mine!" Clara Morris' agent wa in one of the boxes, and Mr. Byron, teeing him, said to the little girl: "You may get down now, Clara Morris." Instantly the little one replied) "I'm not Clara Morris." "Who are you thenr "I'm Rueben Glue," she said, and then she sang, "When the Reubins Nest Again." It Is needless to say that th house came down. Marguerite has a little dog of which she I very foud. She carries it to th theatre with ber, and once she inter rupted a very tender breakfast table scene between two lover by marching on the stage and setting the dog down among the dishes. The little one is quick at repartee and says some very funny things, though in her innocence she is sometimes rather irreverent Once while traveling on a sleeping car she begged to sleep with Mr. Byron. It was late at night, after a long performance, but the little girl was, to quote Mr. Byron's words, "a fresh aa a daisy." "Have you said your prayers, baby?" asked Mr. Byron. "No, but I'll say 'em now," she re plied, and turning over on her face she made a long petition, then putting ber arms round Mr. Byron's neck, she said: "Now you say your prayer." "I have said them." "But I didn't hear you." "Well, I certainly said them." "Say them over again, then." "Oh, no," said Mr. Byron. "That wouldn't do. God hasn't time to hear people say their prayers price." "Well, say a little one just .for me. God won't mind that." In order to satisfy her Mr. Byron be gan to repeati "Now I lay ma down to sleep," when to his surpris Marguerite dropped her devout mood and ex claimed: "Oh, that's a chestnut! Say me a prayer out of your head." With all her brightness and despite tho fact that she is made so much of, the little girl is us natural as a child should be. She seems to be all unconscious that she excites applause.. On one occasion she said: "I wish the people would stop clapping their band. I wouldn't have to sing so loud then to make them hear." New York Journal. Tha Flood Cur for Balduasa, In a letter received yesterday by Dr. M. Marbury, residing at the corner of Independence avenue and Locust street, this city, la related an incident which l indeed marvelous, and, coming directly a It does, ia beyond all doubt true. The letter is from Mr. Frank Marbury, a cousin of Dr. Marbury, who is just re covering from a frightful experience In th Johnstown flood. For seven long hours he battled with the waters for hi life. Every hour teemed a day, but at lost he was rescued several miles from the place where the hotel had stood. The strange part of the story is yet to come. Mr. Marbury is 88 years of age, and for twelve years he ha been entirely bald, and the top of his head had become quite popular with the flies as a summer resort He had used the wonderful hair restoratives people reud about In th hope of starting the hair, but all to no purpose; it refused to grow. Two days after the flood he noticed a downy sub stance all over the hitherto bald bead. A time passed the down became hair, which grew remarkably fast, and now haa reached th length of one inch all over his head. Kansas City Time. Turganlafn Sick Monkey. Since my reference the other day to the experience of the physician here in Boston wbo was called upon to attend a sick monkey In the Italian quarter In th North End, I have com across an anec dote In the advance sheets of a new book which illustrates a similar pa'.hetio im pression which the rufferings of a sensi tive monkey made on a great Russian novelist In the "Impressions of Rus sia," by Edmund llrandes, there 1 a touching story of the tender hearted Tur geniuf riding all tUi way on a solitary journey by rail from Hamburg to Lon don holding the paw of a timid monkey who was terrified by the fearful motion aud roar of the train. "With a poor, cowed, fettered little monkey's hand in his," says Brandes, "the genius whose spirit bad ransacked the universe, hand in hand with th little anthropoid ani mal, like two kindred mortals, two chil dren of the same mother there is her uior true devotion than in any book of devotion." There wa certainly a nobl spirit of yniathy in thi act of Turge nlef, and it help to account for the hold he has on the human heart tliat bis own should hav throbbed so tenderly for th poor little monkey. Boston Post Cardinal Xawmaa In Bcttar Health. Cardinal Newman has returned from Malvern to Birmingham in improved health being, in fact, as active at 89 a he wa when he and the century were a decade younger. Though hi mind is clear at ever, his bands hav forgotten their cunning. He write only with great effort, and now th difficulty b Increased by a slight failure of eyesight But th cardinal still tees well enough to read hi daily paper and to scan th obituary col umn, in which th record of th death of person wbo art almost centenarian make him feel that he is not to very old ifter alL London World. An Age) Aatograph Turtle. A. & Maine's dog at Westerly caught a veteran box turtle last week, while th dog wa following th hired man, who wa mowing in a meadow. On th turtle' hell war inscribed In deep letters: "L Carrie. 1805;" -1839;" "J. K., 1869."! Mr. Main added hi nam and th date to th turtle' back load and then let It fa Norwich (Cons.) Cor. Pittsburg Di pttca.