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i Ef OK E lilt-yell na btf n me a craze f( 1IB Women iiirruuiiuui-n-i uvm (TOO 0 ""''" a ,l10 l",Jow of a . tn-tw.-i u Mr. anil Sim. Cran But ''' M' Cranston bought .,leml learned to ride well there J jiMgnumi-nt which cnnio very breaking up 0 happy home. They -,.u married three years, ond they gften said tlmt their married life ,.n oue long honeymoon, g baJ yielded rciullly to all of jlftf-g willing Hint lo bad uncon tly gained an opinion that her iwas to hlui like the law of the and the Persians, tlili Idea was all knocked to when one morning an they nut gakfast Mrs. Cranston said jpt, I'm going to order my dress t to make a milt of bloomers for day. 1 Jo 80 n,ui'h bicycling now Iklru are too heavy for me." lint!" shouted Tom, dropping his I In the oatmeal and spattering ill over bin necktie, looking at her augli she had announced that she jolng to commit suicide. Cranston also dropped her spoon ooked In surprise nt her husband, aid," she repeated, "thnt I was go t get a bloomer suit. What strikes I particularly strange about that?" Lit strikes me as particularly ge?" he repeated, with a wild look eyes. "Do you think for one In ttbat I will allow my wife to race jd town looking like a lithograph rarlety entertainment? Not much." It, Tom,'' said Louise, In a tone bad never failed to persuade her HiJ that she was right and that be trrong. "I don't aee why I can't pj bloomers. Mrs. Kynaston and Bentley and Mrs. Jennings all (them and their husbands don't t, so why should you?" makes nodlfference why I should," Tom, doggedly. "I don't Intend pre my friends on the exchange ig to me and saying Tom, I see wife's wearing bloomers.' Not If w It." It, Tom,' she began, "I " 4 don't talk any more nonsense, ," he broke In. "I am sick of It. iha'u't wear bloomers, so thnt set-1 V" And Mr. Cranston, whose np ih.nl lieeu entirely taken away by ! Ife's nnuouueemeut, got tip from j .ble and started for the door. ! od-by," he called from the hall. : ben the door shimmed, ami Louise t the breakfast table wondering ; it was thnt she had never before ' a thnt her husband bad a will of vn. had told all of her friend, only 7 before, that she would be wear oomers within a week, and when hail suggested that her husband Object she bad said iat! Tom object? Why, he never to anything." .' ', now Tom had absolutely refused w her to wear them, with a facial Ion which showed that he would ip short of the divorce courts to tit. JJy she arose from the table and io her room. and an idea which she thought. If "ly .anlid oi.t, vo.i'd gain Tom's ut to the wearing of bloomers. She a hurried note to her dressmaker !ng a bloomer suit of a pattern It she had already selected, and donned her old bicycle suit to pay 1 on Mrs. Kynaston, who had a nd thnt did not object to bloom- told her troubles to the vivacious Xynnstoti. who was not sparing lu .ynipathy for the poor friend who 1 a narrow-minded husband who ol 1 to a convenient bicycle dress, hy, bow foolish of him," she said, n't believe the poor mini has ever proper bicycling, costume. I'll you what we'll do. We'll all go ling this afternoon, and come back ur house at Just the time your bus ! gets home, and he will see what mier suit looks like." 1 so the bicycle party was arrang ed when Thomas Cranston arrived i house that evening he saw Ave n rld!ng In front of the bouse and af them were In full bloomer cos .1 The fifth, who wore skirts, was tte. was not so badly shocked as be bt he would be, and he wished le bad not been so decided In bis U of his wife's request, but he tip his mind that It would be un I to yield after his remarks of the fag, and so with a bow to his wife ier companions he went Indoors gan to dress for dinner. t night Louise again broached the fit of bloomers, but ber husband si i her by saying: w, see here, Louise, don't speak to tout bloomers again. Yon may go p women's rights If you like, and may wear staudlng collars and t waistcoats, but you shall not ' trousers, even If bicycling does J It In your eyes." augers!" cried Louise, Indignantly. said anything about trousers? talking about bloomers." know you were," said Mr. Cran "and plense don't talk about them aore. I'm tired of It, and I won't t mentioned again." next morning when Mr. Cranston I his coat to start for his office b!s tolled him back and said: ra, I'll promise you never to men bloomers again, but If you ever :e your inlud about tbem please n. for I'm really very anxious to them." smile which for twenty-four had been absent from Tom Cran- face came again, and he kissed -fe. fs a dear good girl. Ixmlse," be "I bated.to refuse your . equest ally I don't like the Idea of your Rg those things. And now If ' ! scything else you wsnt me to yon Just name It, and I'll do It" pair of Bloomers. Me went away, but returned iu a mo ment and called out t'U, l.oulse, I m going to a dinner nt the club to-ulght, and I want you to have my dress suit handy when I come home, (iood by." "Now, then," said Louise, as she went upstairs, "I'll see If I can't make Mr. Tom chnuge bis oplulon about bloom- erg. That promise of big was the very thing I wanted." The hour longed for ly both came at last. Tom entered the house and rushed to big room to put on his dross gult "Oh, Tom!" Ixmlse called while bo was dressing, "come down here; I want you to redeem your promise of this morning and do me a favor." . "All right!" be called; "I'll be down In a minute and I'll keep my promise." i lie found his wife sitting on the floor with a dress pattern lit frout of her mid dress goods scattered all around. "Well, what's all this?" be asked. ' "Are you making a rag carpet? What Is It you want me to do for you? If It's to clean up all this mess here I shall re- fuse, for I have some work to do next week. "No," she said, laughing. "I don't want you to clean up tho mens and I'm not making a rag carpet I'm making a bicycle dress, which I must have early to-morrow morning, and I want you to let me drape the skirt on you so that It will bang all right' 'But, Louise," be objected, "I've got to go out to that dinner at 8 o'clock, and It's now nearly 7. 1 won't have time. I can't let It go, for I must have It to-morrow morning," sho Insisted. "You've promised to do what I asked, and now when I want you to do a little thing like this you refuse, and I think It's real mean." Mrs. Cranston stood up holding a pat tern In one hand and an unfinished dress In the other, and looked as though she were about to burst Into j tears. Oh, come now, Louise," he said. Im patiently. "Can't you see that your re quest is trivial and unreasonable and 1 must co to that dinner?" The tears that bad seemingly been ! held back with such au effort now be came visible and rolled dowu her checks. "I think It's mean," she sobbed. "You promised to do anything I wanted you to, nnd now you won't keep your word. I've cut up my other dress and the bi cycle party is of Just as much Import ance ns your old dinner." Mr. Cranston looked grave. He did not want to lose thnt dinner and he didn't want to break his promise. "How long will this lilting business List?" be questioned, after several nn tucnts' silence, broken only by the sob bing of bis w ife. "About half an hour," she replied brightening up a little. "Well, then, hurry up," said Crnns ton, throwing off his coat and standim erect. "Bring the thing here." And so the gown was put on Mr Cranston, and I-oulse dropped on one knee and began pinning the draperlei iu n hurried mnuner. "You see, Tom," she said, as she tuck ed up the first fold and surveyed Ii with a critical eye, "this Is of the great est Importance to me and I know you will help me out." "I'm," wns the only answer her hus band made. He wns looking straight nt the clock anil wondering how It wn thnt the minute hand was moving si fast. He thought that the clock must be out of order. He pulled out bis watch an I saw that the minute hand there moved with the same railroad speed, and It was 7:110 o'clock. "Are you anywhere near through?" he asked. Impatiently. She shook ber head nnd turned her attention to the dress. Tom fumed as he noticed that It wns now 7:43. "Have you any Idea how soon yow will be through?" he asked, with a forced calmness. "Not the slightest," she replied. In a voice that was either muWed by pins or laughter. Tom couldn't tell which, for she was stooping and studying the bem of the dress. At that moment the door opened and Mr. Kynaston, the husband of Mrs. Cranston's bloomer-wearing friend, threw open the door and stood gating In open-mouthed astonishment Why, Tom," he said, when he re- j covered himself, "I thought you were j feet wide to Broadway, In Troy, and : going to cnll for me If you left down- a channel of the same depth, but only town first? You know you told me so, 3)0 feet wide to the state dam, at the and said If I got ready first I was to j head of navigation. The contracts for come here and walk right In. Are you this work, let In 18M. cover thf re golng to the dinner?" ' moval of 4,fi2n,oriO cubic yards of earth This will be all over the exchange ' nd 1W.0O0 ton. of earth and the build- to-morrow; maned Tom. Inwardly, "Yes, I'm going to the dinner If Louise ever get through with this miserable skirt," he added, aloud. "Oh, nonsense, why don't she wear bloomers? Come on. We are late al ready," said his friend. "Louise." whispered Cranston, "If you'll call my promise off you may have bloomers or anything else you want .a -un, you near, guu WJ, v.. Louise, with well-feigned surprise. "Go "Oh, you dear, good boy -S l V m a-Att'll IV fill IjlUliri. "'-" T be late." Louise put on her bonnet and went to Mrs. Kynnston's bouse. "Katie," she rried, ns her friend wel comed her at the door, "I'm to have bloomers." And then she told the story of the manner In which ber husband bad been Induced to chnnge bis mind. And she said in conclusion: "I bought the bloomers yesterday, and I'll wear them to-morrow." "You really cried, did you?" asked Mrs. Kynsston. "Well. Ixmsle, If you went In for woman suffrage we would have It In twenty-four hours. Talk about teen's executive ability! Why, I believe you could make your busland wear bloomers himself." New Yor Evening Sun. CORSICANS KEEP THEIR WORD. Death Will Not Pete r Them From i kcdectnlnu l'leituo. , i A writer tells the following pathetic i story of a sequel to Uw story of Uonei 11. who secured tl mic put on tin head of a well known brigand by mur dering an old pilgrim and palming on the body as that of the b.-.gnud. Cas t nova (the brigand), commonly called Cappa. was already dead when Itoncip was beheaded. The slory of his death Is picturesque and It breathes the an cient faithfulness and honor o the Corslcnu character. Cappa was boni fied by the conduct of Honclll. ami. none the less, much affected by the news of the murderer's arrest. Cappa .felt hemmed In an all sides and tied to the mountains nf I'riinelll .11 SI mi Orbo. This district hug long In en fa- mous for the courage ami hardiness of Its sons. In I-ouls XVllI.'s rel,-n a few of Its hlllmen kept 5.m0 soldiers at bay. Here Cappa withdrew nn.l hid himself In a lonely vnl.ey. wavh- ed over by shepherd fr'.cmW. and here the bunted outlaw fell sick. The mountaineers tended him sg well as they were able. An old priest also ministered to bis comfort, ami. v Ml- succoring the needy body, tried as well to play the "soul friend" to ilie bandit, He Influenced Cappa 'ttllclcmly to make hlra promise neve.- again to use gun or knife In killing a fellow man. Cappa was still 111 when the annual festa of a distant vlllng came round, The shepherds had no foir for their giiest. They did not know that spies were set to watch him. The men of tho valley were seen leaving Hie place and Information wag gen: to t'ie ncxr- est gendarmle. The sick man ha t ltli him only a few ciilld'.eii, soiie of whom kept a lookout. The police, who were nr.t In strong forci, ventured with g-nvc misgiving Into the dangerous, seam-l known gloti. On perceiving iheiii the vonng- sti-rs gave the alarm an. I the weak ami ailing bandit selz.'d bU gun, making ilowo a narrow pith fur a wall, be yond which wns the .M.tituls 'lie nuf 'awg' asylum, "the b-aiher' of the S'ectilsh royalists, other .vis- dear life, safety! When he bad all bat gained the wall he saw a single gendarme close to blm. Cappa was a dead shot. In an In stant he had covered his enmy. I' nt he remembered his solemn promise to the old priest. He droppd bis woai. on and let the gendarme go fr.'e. The police are under orders t shoot down bandits as a keeper snoots down ver- , mln. This fellow, of course, fired. Cappa was hard hit, but ne dragged himself across the fence and Into the thick covert far be could not go (iti hla kneeg, clasping his gun with one arm au" wlln tlle 0,nrr ?in trei hole, his pursuers found blm some hours afterward, stark and cold, quite dead. Westminster Gazette. Rrmsrkahln Winter Force. The effect of the hydraulic motor, i which Is now being used for the pur pose of removing masses of earth, well ! ulgh passes belief. A stream of water j , Issuing from a pipe six Inches In ilia me- : ter. with a fall behind It of 373 feet, ; ! will carry away a solid rock weighing 1 i a ton or more to a distance of SO or ws feet. The velocity of the stream Is terrific , and the culu tun of water projected Is ! ; so solid that If a crowbar or other . heavy object be thrust against It the i Impinging object will be burled a con- ! i slderable dlstauce. By this stream of j water a man would be Instantly killed ; If ho came In contact with It, even at a 1 distance of 2K feet. ! At 2u0 feet from the nozzle a slx-lnclf I stream with 373 feet fall, projected momentarily against the trunk or a tree, will In a second denude It of the heaviest bnrk ns cleenly as If It had been cut with an axe. The "Tree ot Life." The Guaraunos are to be found all over the delta of the Orinoco. They eat little, and wear less. Many authori ties claim that they subsist on the morlche palm-tree alone. Whether this be true or not, the tree lu ques tion Is without doubt sn Indispensable factor In the problem of life. Not only does It furnish a safe elevstlou for a home, but gives a nutritious sago, or meat, from which bread Is made, a tree fifteen years old yielding six hundred pounds of this meal, lu addition, the Juice furnishes a kind of wine, and out of the fiber Is made cord, rope, ham mocks, nnd a rude species of cloth. This tree, owing to the many and vari ous purposes It serves, was called by the early missionaries the "tree of llfe."-Century. Deepening the Hml. on. The deepening of the Hudson river to twelve feet ns far as the state dam, ; seven miles above Albany, will prob-; ably be completed within the next two years. The Improvements being car j rled out by the national government . call for a channel 12 feet deep and !') mg ot e.a-m '"- tlmated cost Is $:,.V"V"0. A Mystery of Vision. The ancient naturalists, anatomlsM and optlelang bad a great deal of trou ble In explaining why It was that only single Image resulted from douole Tlslon. In fart, tt wag not until the stereoscope wag Invented that the phe nomenon was generally understood. Even Snurzhelm attempted to explain declaring that only one eye was T . BCUTO O l B l The fle of th Moon. The moon Is a comparatively small world; yet, although three of Jupiter's nnd one of Saturn's moons are much larger, It Is, In proortlon to Its pri mary, the largest satellite of the solar system. Its diameter Is twenty-one hundred snd sixty miles, which means that It would take forty-nine moons to make a glolie the size of the earth. Ladles' Home Journal. 8rcam. "1 want to pay this bill," he said to the hotel clerk. "But I think you have made a slight error here in my favor I've b-eu reading ovi-r the ex'rss. ami I canuut find flint you have elinrgi-l : mesnyvhlng for telling tne9"u thought . It might rsin."-Emvurium Eito. VASTNESS OF ST. PETER'S It Product! Aluioal the KfTnt of Ter ror on the Ml ml. The building Is so fur beyond any familiar proportions that at tirsi sight all details ii n Iom iihiii Its broad front. The mind and Judgment arv ducd mid staggered. The elrth should not be ble to bear such height iipo'i Its crust without cracking aud bending like an overloaded table. On each side the colonnades run curving out like glnnt arms, alwius npm to receive the na tions that go up there to worslilii. The dome broods over nil. like a giant's head motionless In mcdita'lnu. The vastness of the structure tiik-s hold of a man ns ho Issues from the street by which he has come from S.int' Aligclo. lu the open space In the sqtnire and In the idllpse bet u ecu the colonnades nnd on the steps, two hun dred thousand men could be drnwii up In rnuk and (lie. horse nn.l foot and guns. Kxceptlng It be on some special occasion, there are randy more than two or three hundred persons In sight. The paved emptiness makes one draw a breath of surprise, and buiiiuu eyes seem too small to take lu nil tin- flat ness below, all the breadth liefore, and all the height ulxive. Taken together, the picture Is too big for convenient sight. The Impression Itself moves linwleldlly III the cramped brain. A building nlmost five m:i drcd feet high produces a monstrous effect iiK)ii the mind. Set down In words, a description of It conveys no clear couccptlon; seen for the (Irs I time, the Impresslou produced by It cannot be put Into language. It Is something like a shock to the Intelligence, per haps, mid not altogether a pleasant one. Carried licyoud the limits of a mere mistake, exaggeration becomes caricature; but when It Is mngullled beyond humniilty's eouimoii measures. It may acquire an element npproachiug to terror. The awe-strlklng glauts of mythology were but mngiilncd men. The first sight of St. Peter's affects one ns though, lu the every day streets, walking among one's fellows, one should meet with a mnn forty feet high. -Century. Gnus of Kiprrsolitn. Julian Italph says that when be was taking a trip on a Louisiana bayou, be and a friend reclined on some sacks of freight, the better to enjoy comfort and tho scenery. There they attracted the attention of the roustabouts, or col ored porters, who talked freely to one another about the strangers as they pnssed, bowed under luck bending loads. "H'm!" said one. "(iness dem gem men been steamboatln' befo. Never sein white folks lay round on de freight that way. Seen niggers do It. though." Sometimes tnclr comments on the existing state of things were very laughable. On this steamer tho poor fellows had a ulglit of almost luces Mint work on the heels of a day of fre quent landings. They were tired, and tnls was their brief discussion of the situation: "I don't work on dls yer bont no mo'," said one. "Work on dls boat!" exclaimed an other. "I wouldn't work agin ou dls boat ef she was loaded with grlddlc cakes au' de molasses was drlpplu' ober de sides." "1," said the first rpcakvr, "1 wouldu't work aglu on ills yer boat e. she was loaded wld rabbits au' dey wag all Jumplu' off." With thlg word-picture of a boat's cargo which was able to unload Itself, the roustabouts threw a sack of grain upon his shoulders and slouched up the gangplank, apparently unconscious that he bad said anything at all humor ous or uncommon. One Tiling at a Time. Tho last King of Hanover, before that state was Incorporated Into the Prussian kingdom, wag for many years blind. There was living at the court an English lady, Mra. Duncan Stewart, who, with ber wit and learning, enter tained his maJestv. The blind king delighted In her con- j versntlon, and for many years she would save up every Interesting story j she beard so as to tell It to him. It Is , remembered that one day she was tell- j lug him a story as they were out drlv-1 lug together. Suddenly the horses started, and the carriage scenic. I about to upset j "Why do you not go on with your , story?" said the king. "Because, sir, tho carriage Is Just , going to upset." "That Is the coachman's affair," said . the king; "do you go on with your J story." j Must Have Cake. j The cheap restaurant started by thei Clark Thread Co., of Newark, N. J., j for the benefit of Its employes hag been abandoned because the employes failed to patronize It. The restaurant , wag gtarted Inst fall ami was run nt a loss for seven or eight months. Iur j Ing the winter the patronage was en-i couraglng, but when warm weather! came the trade diminished. The oh-' Ject of the restaurant wns to encourage the operatives, and the girls especially, I to eat sustaining and wholesome food prepared In a scientific manner, but; the young women resented the absence of crullers, doughnuts ami pie, and sneered St the nourishing stews, soups, 1 etc. The prices were very low audi the quality of the food was of the best, i while there wns considerable variety. I The absence of pie and cake doomed tbe enterprise, however. j gulls hafo. j A hypocbonrlac friend from the coun-; try, who was staying with Father Ilea- ly at Bray In tbe hope of obtaining re lief from chronic dyspepsia, was one day taking a walk along the bench with his host. .i uv, derived relief from drinking a tumbler of salt-water fresh from tbe tide," said the Invalid, solemnly. "Do you'thlnk I might take a second?" Father Healy pot on the Intent ex pression which was his "thinking cap." "Well," said he, with equal serious ness, "I don't think a second would be m I ssed." I'rndenco. Tbs audleuce Is calling for you," said the young tragedian's manager. "Are you sure I'm the person ,l"7 want?" "Of course." "Well, go out and study tbe expres sions on their faces and tell mt what you think they want w!tb uie."-Washington Bur. CONTROL OF THE ORINOCO. I'unla Itarlma Impnrtvint but Not Vital I'oint. To comprehend fully what the con trol of a vast waterway treading the rlchet part of (iuhina would mean to America and American luterests. one must study carefully the map of South America. Geographers divide tho southern continent Into three gnat basins, thog,. of tho Amazon, the Or inoco, nnd the I'lnta. To dominate the mouth of utiy one of these great ar-terli-s of commerce w ould be to be Mine the muster of one-third of South Ato-t-len. Tho Orinoco Is navigable for ves sels of the deepest drnft to Cludad Bolivar, Venezuela's eastern metrop olis. Within this distance of four hun dred miles, twenty other navigable rivers swell the mighty current of the Orinoco, while stliynrthcr Into the In terior, the eastern bank receives the waters of ninety-one large rivers, and the west those of thirty. Two or if former are navigable to the attlocuta of the Amazon, and many of the latter to the n'lnote Interior of the nelg'.iUir lug republics of Venezuela and Co lombia. If she were to gain control of tho Orinoco, Knghind would possess the key to the entire eastern part of South America. This view has been ad vanced by ex Tresldent (iusmnu Blan co In a recent publication. He attaches to the possession of Punta Barlma the ability to dominate the Orinoco and the entire water system which empties Into It. Punta Barlma Is on the south eastern bank of the Orinoco at Its Junc ture with the sea, and Is described as a high bluff which, when properly for tified, would control this entrance, I bo most navigable of all the mouths of the Orinoco. It would not be under water during the period of Inundation, and with a dockyard and three or four river gunhonts. Its master might lock up the Orinoco and all that vast tribu tary country. On the other hand, the countervlew Is advanced, and should be stated, thnt the position of Punta Barlma would enable the English to dominate only one pass by means of guns placed on fortifications on shore, since at least two of the other mouths of tho Orinoco can bo entered by ves sels from the sea. The best line of communication to day between Trinidad and Cludad Bolivar Is by a side-wheel steamer, built In the 1'nlted States, which passes through a mouth of the Orinoco far to the west of Punta Barlma, on the bar of which there Is at least eight feet of water. It therefore may bo argued that fortifications at Punta Barlma could not clone the Orinoco, the con trol of which would depend upon ves sels of wnr. Knglnnd's strength as a sea power, with Trinidad as a base, gives her all m-cessnry control of the river to-dny. If British fiuinna should develop Into a great nation, cki I tiling and owning one iMink of tho Orinoco, Punta Barlma would liecome a point of great Importance; but this Is a con tingency hardly to be dreaded by Vene zuela, since, with her superb natural advantages, she must Inevitably keep the lead. Century. A IKir That Meets Train. "It bt the little things lu traveling that makes It Interesting." said Pn. Gregory Amnnn, of Portland, Ore., tit the Shorebam. Fruf Auianu Is cou nected w lib tHe State University of On? gon, and Is now starting abroad on h.W nuuual excursion. "I mean that a per son can get as much enjoyment, and IHissllily more Instruction out of the lit tle Incidents he encounters en route than be can from the stupendous strue tun's built by man or the magnificent baudlwork of nature. "I have made tho trip across the con tinent several times. It always hap pened thnt I went through Burlington, Iowa. Tbe train stops for a change of engines In a suburb west of the city. The last time I went through there otu of the porters from the dining-car got, (iff and carried a plate of food to a small yellow dog that waited out at one sldit of the track. When I saw It I remem bered that this porter had done tho very same thing tho last time I had been over tbe route. "The eugluo bell rang, the porter gavo the dog a pat ou the head and ran and caught tbe aln-ndy moving train, and the canine wagged blm a farewell. A idiort time later the porter told mq tbmit the dog. He said about tbreui years before the dog had had his leg bmken by his train. The men took pity en blm and nursed him, taking blm along lu the cars for a few days. Whim the leg began to heal ho was again left nt the same station w here we saw hlin. "The porter's car came along every dny at that time, and each day the dog would be there to get the food he al ways saved for It. By-nnd by the trnln snipped there only four times a week, for It had become a through trnln. Tho little yellow dog soon learned of tho change. lie would luvarlably be at tho station when that particular train ar rived, though no one could be found that ever saw him there at any other time. Another strange tiling was tnai l.c would never approach nearer the car tracks than the little grnss plot on which I saw hlin, and that was two rods from them. He never missed the train. If It was late he would wait for It, but be was never late himself." Washington Time. Appropriate M ins. "Storekeepers' slgus have always been au Interesting study to me," wild Ilev. F. II. Smytbe, a clergyman from Illinois, who was a guest of Vice Pres ld"nt Stevenson during the past week, "but I do not think I ever enjoyed them so much as I have here. The first one which struck my eye wns that of Itlch & Co., bankers. What wonderfully happy combination of name and busi ness! I saw the sign of Mr. Hackney, a livery stable keeper, and there was plenty of evidence gathered about tbe place to show that he was In the hack ney carriage business. I ran across Mr. Garden, who. of course, Is In the flower business. What else could he be In with such sn appropriate name? The following day I had the pleasure of seeing the sign of Mr. Plugge, to bacco dealer, and on the evening tbe sign of Ur. Songster, who Is a voice and thn.at doctor. The entire com bination surpasses anything In that line I hare ever seen, read of or heard of." Tbe only way to thoroughly enjoy cherries, Is to have pretty girl climb th tree, and band tbstn to you. SAVEO BY AN UMBRELLA. Trick of a Kmart Yankee Captain t riluila a lloatlls fleet. I An IntervMtlng ndlc In the Charles , town navy yard museum Is an uuibret i In, which was used by the Constitution lu milking I..T esvapo from the British , fleet lu July, IM'.'. This Is all that Is told by th" cant attached to It, and the umbrella Is a complete puzzle to hourly every one w ho visits tht museum, lu i the Hint place It Is utterly unlike any umbrella any oue ever saV licfoiv, and, lu l lie second, not one person lu a hun dred Is able to llgure out bow the Cnli- : 1 1 ii I Urn made use of It in making her ; escape fnuu the British vessels. It Is t nciiy like the umbrella frame lu gen- ' era! shape, but the slick Is about ten feet long, with a heavy Imu ring at i each end, and is about three Inches In diameter. The frame slides up and down on It, Just like the frame of an ordinary umbrella, and Is made of stout , lion bars. Some people think that It may have been set up ou Ilie deck to give the oltli eis a little shade ou a hot j day, but they cannot sec bow this help ed in the scrape. The purpose for . w lili-h It was Intended and us.il was for a sea anchor, and Its story Is as fol lows: ; Ou the 1Mb of July, the Consti tution, then cruising under the com- ! mam! of that famous old fighter, Isaac Hull, was surrounded by Brooke's squadron of live vessels. Before they could close lu on blm, however, It fell calm, and Capt. Hull at once made ' use of the umbrella, of which there wcn two nbonnl. A cable was bent to one of the iimbndlas at what would be the handle In one of the onllnary kind, and the umbrella was folded up and takeu out by a boat to a cable's length ahead of the vessel It was then throw n overlsmrd, and as soon as the crew began to haul In on the windlass It, of course, spread out, giving drag by which tho vessel could bo warped abend. While the vessel was warping up to this one, the other one was taken out, and before the British had dis covered what Hull was doing, be had gotten outsldo of the circle with which they had suriounded him. They Im mediately began to pursue the same tactics, but he rnn two twenty-four pound guns out of his cabin windows, ,nnd kept them fnuu getting anywhere near him, as, whenever oue of the Imais , carrying nut a drag, came up astern of him, be would Are with one of the I "Long Toms," and In this way kept the ships fnuu closing In. This was kept up for two days, and on the even ing of the second day came up a squall. Hull carried sail through It, gaining such an advantage over the' "English men that he was able to elude them lu the night, and wns nut of sight tho next morning. Thus, but for the uncouth-looking umbrella at the navy yard, the Constitution would probably have been captured or sunk, and some of the faln'st pages In our naval his tory would have remained unwritten. -Boston Transcript. niirns' Last Written Wonla. "In July, 171HI. the protracted Ill ness from which Burns bad Im'cii suf fering became sn acute thnt be wns ad vised to go to the ac'islilc as a Inst nv sort," writes Arthur Warren, apropos of I lii approaching centenary of Hub ert Burns' death, In the 1 .ad lis' Home Journal. -He went off to Brow on Solwny Firth. All bis II gbts at this time were of bis wife, whose condi tion wns such ns to warrant his fears. His anxiety for her Increasing, ie lum tened back to IHllnfrles. lie wns so weak on reaching home that be coul I hardly stand. Bandy able to bold a I it'll be wrote a note of appeal, begging Ills wife's mother, who wns estranged from ber daughter, to come ou to Dum fries, as Jean was In urgent need of tier care. They were the last words he ever wrote. "Let us not forget thnt tbe eaplring effort of the falling genius wns Im pelled iy tender anxiety for bis loving wife. In bis dying hours he Ix-ggcd her. If bis mind should wander, to touch blm mid thus recall blm to him self. It wns as be wished. The touch of bis Jean was the Inst sensation which Hubert Bums carried with blm to cloviilty. He died on the twenty llmt or July, 171HI, In the thirty eighth year of his nge. On the dny of bis burial bis son, Mnxwell, was Ixirn. The littlii fellow lived less than throe years. "The Scottish admiration for Burns wns so great that his widow and chil dren (three sons slid two daughters) were not suffered to know want. A subscription of six thousand dollars was Immediately raised for them. Four years Inter, that Is to say, tn 1800, Cur rle's well-known edltlou of the poet's works appeared. This realized seven thousand dollars more for tbe family. These sums mado snug fortune In those days. Duly Invested, the amount yielded an Income for the modest though comfortable maintenance of Jean and her children. Jean Burns survived her husband thirty-eight years." "Hulls" Not Irish. Thoso who are not Irishmen some times trespass on Irish proserty. A French cure, proachlng about sudden death, said, "Thus It Is with us. We go to tied well, a ud get up stone dead!" An old French lawyer, writing of an estate he had Just bought, added, "There Is a chapel upon It In which my wife and 1 wish to be burled, If Gut spares our lives." An English lecturer on chemistry said, ' One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat Is sufficient to kill the strongest man." snd sn English lieutenant said that the Royal Niger Company wished to kill him to prevent blm going up the river until next year. A merchant who dliil suddenly (.ft In bis bureau a letter to one of bis cor resHiudetits w hich be bad not seal il. His clerk, seeing It necessary in wnd the letter, w rote at the Isittom, "S'nce writing tho aliove I have died." Tbe First of Many. The first white child horn on l'nlt.t'1 States soil was the grand daughter of White, the Governor of Koiiuuke Isl and. She was christened by tbe name of Virginia Dare, snd ber birthday was Aug. 1, 1.VS7. So woman's hair Is as long hanging down ber hack as It looks to be In the wsd on top of ber head. Let wise man bare good ,uck a few years, and he will do ss foolish things as anybody. It appears that Harold Frederic Is' the author of the novel, "March Hares," which recently appeared anonymously In London, Catulle Metiilee has written a new volume which he calls "L'Homme-Or chest re." The work Is said to be as whimsical ns thn title, which Is saying a good dcnl. ltlchnrd l.e Galllenue's "Search for the Golden ;irl" Is pronounced by thos who have seen the proofshects to be by far bis best work. The British sea stories by Crockett Parker. Frederic, Qulller-Couch, and Clark Hussell, which appeared lu tbe Idler, are to be published In the autumn under tbe title, "Tales of Our Coast." Mr. Barrle has acceded to an Invita tion from bis American publishers and will visit this country In the autumn, accompanied by Dr. Itobertson Nisoll, the editor of the European edition of the Bookman. In the .Metaphysical Magnzlne for July Prof. Elmer Gates, formerly of tbe Smithsonian Institution, announces for the first time the results of his ex tendi psychological experiments and researches. Tho Bookman Is authority for tbe announcement that Copeland & Day will discontinue the American edition of the Loiulou Yellow Book, as Its pop ular vogue seems to have declined since Auhroy Bennlsley left It for the Savoy. "Bound In Shallows," Eva Wilder Brodhead's new serial. Is a Kentucky story which attempts again the solu tion of that mooted conundrum, "Should a girl marry a man that she may reform hlui?" Jnakoff Prelnokor Is engaged upon an Anglo-Russlnn romnuce to lie called "I'Blasha and Masha," which narrates the fortunes of two Russian sisters, daughter of Dissenters, Introducing tragic episodes which tbe author claims to be facts. The publication of John Davidson's volume of short stories, "Miss Arm strong's ami Other Circumstances," leaves blm free to devote all tils ener gies to the poems with which he hopes to Incronso tho fame he won by his "Fleet Street Eclogues." A new story by Edna Lyalt Is en titled "How the Children Raised the Wind," and the clever cover design, re produced In tbe current Bookman, la the work of a talented young artist Miss Ethel Belle A Pl"'l. Among those whose nsmes have been added to Librarian Spoffonl's copyright lists lu the Inst week Is Prof. Zella Allen Dixon, librarian of the Culvers Ity of Chicago. Tbe new book Is a con tribution to bibliography and will ap pear among the fall publications. Tbe London Literary World says that a very Important and lucrative literary position was recently offered to Edward W, Bok, one detail of the offer being a teu-year lease of a mansion In Grosvenor Square. Mr. Bok was much dined and wined In tils recent Ixmdou sojourn, and once ho danced with a real live Duchess. An Oriental Itlle. Only those who have studied Byzan tine history can have any Idea of bow closely the ceremonial of the Moscow coruuatlou resembles, even In Ita min utest details, that which used to be ob served at tue coronation of the Byzan tine emiwrors. Although the Russian Church did not separate from that of Homo until the tweirth century that Is; nearly 4-R) years later than thn schism of Phot I us, which rent the West ern and Eastern churches asunder nevertheless it retained Its oriental rite. In 11H4 Russian commission arrived In Byzantium to study the etiquette and ceremonial, ecclesiastical and pro fane, of the court and church of that capital. On their return to their native country a groat change took place In the national costume, architecture aud ceremonial. When Moscow became the sacred city par excellence of tbe em pire, the Kromlln was rebuilt on the same lines as tho Blachernae Palace, on the land walls of Constantinople. Like Its Greek model It consisted of a series of halls and apartments kiosks, as the Turks call them linked togeth er by ganlens, nnd Interspersed wttb scores of churches and monasteries, the whole surrounded by a wall and en tered by strongly fortified gates, above which were Icons of the Virgin and saints. Burnt down early In the cen tury, It has been rebuilt In plainer ar chitecture, hut on tbe same Byzantlue plan. Iondoti Chronicle. Tho Men Gull Is Benefactor. Tbe sea gull Is doubly the benefactor of man. It not only follows tbe plow (on farms near the coast), lu order to eat the freshly-turned grubs, but If scours the surface of the sea near tba shore, and frequents harbors to seize on floating garbage, dead fish, or othtr putrefying morsels. The service of ! these birds have saved many a seaport town and village, round which tbey i hover, from plague and pestilence. I Yet every year they are massacred by thousands for Idle anil cowardly sport ) or for tbe sake of their wings to be iMied In millinery. Their eggs are plun dered wholesale for museums and to fill the shop windows ot naturalists; One man boasted year ago that ho had killed 4,000 klttlwake gulls In a single season with bis own gun, anl an order was given and executed from one London bouse for 10,000 pairs of wings. At this rate gulls must soon disappear altogether. Tbe carrion crow, tbe raven and oth ers which follow their example, mora or less, confer an Immense boon on mankind. Sparrows clear tbe gutters and places which they inhabit from a vast quantity of scattered fragments. Though too small to be seen, these un savory morsel would soon become dan- I gerous to human life and health.- I Spare Moments. Antiquity of tha Hornpipe, Tbe dauc called hornpipe dates as far back as 1,300, and took Ita name from the Instrument, tbe plb-corn, to 1 the music or wblcn It w as danceo. j We have noticed that Just before 1 cbnrch attempts to raise lot of money ' the pastor deliver a high tribute to I women.