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8 U i' "1 H- Master's ....By FREDERIC 4 I -- -1 CHAPTER IT. THllK next day after his little ad 8 venture the hounds did not a meet. The mare came back In i the morning, with a polite mes sage of thanks, but no note, and Lord I'aladore sent his groom to inquire for the Injured horse, which was still at the farm. For an hour or two he tried to persuade himself that It was his duty to ride over to Sherburton and In quire for the lady as well, but his own bashfulness and the rellection that she bad sustained no injury restrained him. Usually he was glad of a non hunting day to get through some work, but this morning he did not get on. The blue books palled, and when he tried some writing instead he found himself, having some little gift that way. making sketches on his blotting pad of a young lady jumping oxtrava cant fences on a remarkably free going horse. This also failed the young lady was not pretty enough. Later In the day he took his gun and shot round an outlying co crt or two; but. though his spaniels worked well and found him plenty of birds, he did little execution among them. Yesterday's quick gallop had in some way unsettled his nerves. It was a curious coincidence that his father that evening after dinner, the family having dined alone, should have tackled him on the subject which was now nearest his heart namely, his son's marriage. Now. generally this was a subject upon which Lord Paladore had little to say. It was- not so much that the idea of marriage was distasteful to him (hV recognized the abstract obligation, but not the urgency of Its concrete fulfill ment) as that as yet he had seen no one who sufficiently attracted him or who seemed to possess all the excellencies requisite to such promotion. This even ing, however, for some undefined rea son, the topic of marriage was less irk some to him than it sometimes war. He suffered his father to urge upon him the attractions of a certain Lady Sarah without demur, but it was not of Lady Sarah that he thought as he stretched bis legs to the cheerful glow of the jreat gleaming fireplace and sipped his rlaret. His fancy strayed from her la iavshin's cold style of beauty and aus terely correct manners to a more pi quante personality, whose presence he considered might add warmth and col or to the great chill house in which he lived with his elderly parents. His fa ther, entirely unconscious of this defec tion, meandered on about Lady Sarah lo his heart's content. She was not, by the way. at all the sort of woman who would have attracted himself in his own youth, but he imagined she was md chuckled over her charms with in finite zest. Tho fair ntratif;or wns out the next flay and on most hunting days after that. Her nerve was unshaken by her fall, and she went brilliantly whenever the hounds gave her the chance. Her youth, her good looks and her splendid horses excited much simulation as to He h-til ut with the ynuwj Uuly alone her identity. Some thought she was an Austrian princess (one had hunted a few se.-ixMis before from the same hotel, which may have given color to the sur mise, but there were no signs of for eign extraction in her appearance, nor had she any attendance suited to such rank. She was chaperoned at the Dig by Grand by an elderly lady whom she called aunt and was attended in the field by a neat but unliveried groom. Others aillrmed that she was a Mrs. Compton, a fine horsewoman well known in the shires: others, again, that she wns a famous skirt dancer from a Lon don theater. The season was an open one and proved one of the best the hunt had ever enjoyed. Excellent runs were ob tained, lit all of which the fair un known performed in such a way as dulightcd the Crack more Yale. Besides being splendidly mounted, though gen erally on young horses, the girl seemed to have a natural aptitude for crossing a country. She rapidly became a great favorite with the men, and even the ladies, who are accustomed to look askance at a pretty intruder whom no body knows, were forced to confess that her conduct and form were Irre proachable. The elder habitues of the hunt, men of weight in the saddle and count v. jostled each other In their ea gerness to greet her at the covert side r.r i .men a irate for her when such ..rvi-. was required, while, as for the Voung men, they rode as jealously as could be, not for the honor of giving h,.r loiid. a form of politeness sue ojs dnined. but to keep her In sight when the hounds were running and if possi- Mo in iret ii word with her at a cnecu some nf the wealthier bought horses of -Kill '1 vv Mistake ADYE Copurlght, 190U, bu FrcdetHc Adyc 4 purchases. Young Lord Wrockwardine gave two hundred and fifty for an Irish four-year-old, with which he subse quently won the Point-to-point Ri-d-coat nice, while General Strcnsham parted with nearly as much for n mag nificent weight carrier, which he de clared to be the finest mover he had ever ridden In his life. Where she got such horses was n marvel to every one. for the sales did not seem to diminish or impair her stud. Within a few days she would have others as good as she had sold. It was a greater marvel that no one could discover her name. Inquiries on the part of some of the more curious elicited that the only name known at the hotel was that of the aunt, Mrs. tticketts. Everything was booked In her name, and that of the young lady had not transpired. Lord Paladore was the first to discover It. Hiding one day beside a member of the hunt, who had lately returned from abroad, he said. "I suppose you don't by chauce happen to know Uie name of the lady on the gray?" "The lady on the gray? Yes, to be sure I do," his friend answered, fixing his glass to his eye and staring through it at a girl on a gray cob who was within his view, though Invisible to the master on the lower ground. "She is a Miss Hervey. the parson's daugh ter at Enmore, but staying with her aunt at Sherburton. Not a bad looking filly, is she?" "Not by any means," the master as sented dryly, his thoughts of course occupied with the fair unknown, who that day was riding an iron gray four-year-old, and a line fourteen stone hunter It was too. But Just then there was a view halloo and no time for further chat. Lord Paladore crammed down his cap. took his mare by the head and gallop ed off to the halloo. He had made out who she was. and that was something. Week by week, as the season ad vanced. Lord Paladore became more and more enamored, and the more he s:iw of her the more worthy of his ad miration did the object of it appear to be. On the strength of the service he h;.d rendered on their first ac quaintance he was admitted to a great er degree of intimacy than was accord ed to any one else. He found frequent opportunities for a few minutes' con versation during the chase. Twice or thrice he rode home with her and even got as far as to call upon her at the hotel. On this occasion he was not presented to the aunt, but had tea with the young lady alone. She was charm ing as a hostess, fashionably yet quiet ly dressed in the perfection of style, and looked even prettier, Lord Pala dore thought, If that were possible. than she I?;1 In tL'C li!!J!UM 1 lfr Moreover, she talked to him, not mere ly of hunting, but upon such subjects as were consonant with the more intel lectual side of his character, thereby making greater progress in his regard than she could possibly have achieved in the role of pretty horse breaker. Lord I'aladore. as has been said, ab horred a woman who wns horsy and nothing else, but for one who could take an intelligent interest in the ap proaching political crisis, discourse on current literature and even knew some thing of his favorite subject of politi cal economy (she seemed to have John Stuart Mill at her fingers' ends), and yet ride to hounds as she did. nothing seemed too good. She was somewhat tinged with Radicalism, it was true, whereas his lordship wns an advanced Conservative. Hut, then, how delight ful to reason with her and gently guide her into the better political way! She had a way, too, of deferring to his lar ger experience and clearer insight which was very charming. A month or two elapsed, however, before the matter came to a climax. Ah long as Lord Paladore could see her whom he must regard as his bride elect twice or thrice a week, exchange a few words and watch her graceful form where it showed to perfection, on the back of a good horse, he was con tent, particularly when toward the end of the season, matters being taken more easily and hard riding circum scribed by reason of the springing seeds, there was more opportunity for such philandering. But w lien the young lady began to talk of going homo he felt he could not pnrt from her without some understanding, the more so that he was quite aware he was not her only admirer. Several of the young men in long skirted coats and compli cated neckcloths, one especially of an extremely eligible character, had been far more demonstrative in their atten tions than he, and as of course she could not be expected to attribute any thing serious to the casual courtesies of so great n personage as the noble master It was obvious that If the noble master meant business it was neces sary that he should declare himself. His attentions, limited as they were, could hardly escape the notice of the field, and the youth of eligible charac ter previously alluded to was heard to Inquire after the facility for rellection afforded by a blank day, during which the master had appeared more inter ested in Miss Harvey's conversation than in the prospects of sport. If his comrades thought that Paladore was, to use his elegant phrase, "on the Job." Diverse opinions were express ed, some thinking It looked like it others surmising that he was hardly the sort of Johnny for that kind of tiling, but that If lie should happen to be so it would behoove any other John ny who might also be "on the job" to cut In at. once and look sharp about It. since it was not probable that any girl who had the chance would neglect to haul In a catch like Lord Paladore Thus admonished, the Johnny In (pies tion did cut in without loss of time and was as promptly rejected, having failed probably in some subject of the sonior Cambridge, perhaps in Profess or Fawcett's "Manual of Political Lord Paladore was somewhat more successful. He made his offer as they rode toward Sherburton along a grassy lane in the dusk of a spring evening. It was an idyllic scene for such an episode In the life of a master of hounds the wide pastures bathed in dew stretching out before them to where the Minster tower rose dark against the daffodil sky; they the sole figures in the landscape; the only sounds the bleating of lambs and Jocund whistling of blackbirds in copse and hedgerow. Their horses, subdued by a fair day's hunting, paced quietly side by side, affording every facility for the settlement of the mo mentous question between the riders. Lord Paladore. having made up his mind, was no diffident wooer. lie went straight to the punt and expected an equally definite and direct answer. 'Ibis, to his surprise, he failed to ob tain. The huiy was conscious of the greatness of the honor conferred upon her, admitted that she preferred him to any one she had ever met, with many pretty things of the same kind, but a plain yes or no she could not be Induced to say. lie must see her fa ther and renew his offer after the in terview, if it pleased him so to do. And this was all he could get from iter. They rode together so far as the entrance to the town, where tluiy part ed with a warm clasp of the lialid. As he turned his horse's head she said: "If you decide to go on with tills, my lord, you will want my father's ad dress. If you have a pencil I will write it down." "There Is no need," he replied. "I know it." It was too dusky for him to remark the look of surprise which swept across her face at this very common place rejoinder; otherwise lie would have been more puzzled than he al ready was. It was getting late, and he had several miles to ride home, so he put his horse into a sharp trot and pondered things as he went. They were certainly a little dubious. She evident ly liked, possibly loved. Why, then, this reluctance to accept him? Of course he wns prepared to ask her hand in the orthodox manner. But wliv should she have looked so grave about It. so suddenly unlike herself? Where could there be any difficulty on her side? What parent would be likely to throw obstacles in the way of a daughter's marriage with one so fa vored by fortune as himself? It wns, ho imagined, somewhat old fashioned for a girl to insist upon the parent's con sent being actually obtained before giving her own. Still, no doubt it wns quite proper. If a little prudish. And why should he resent such nicety In one from whom he would expect all sorts of niceness, both present and to come? He reasoned thus with himself all the way home. Nevertheless when he dismounted at his father's door he still felt a little chill of disappointment in place of the glow of satisfaction which would have been more congenial to the situation. With the next morning's light things resumed once more the roseate hue most agreeable to happy lovers. Lord Paladore was not too anxious to be styled a happy lover, but his spirits rose considerably when after breakfast his T cart came round and he started for the seventeen mile drive to Enmore ... l.T . I . l.-.-r.'.. . .... IT was resolved to learn his fate at once, and, It being a nonhunting day, he was able to set out on his mission with a clear conscience. It was a bright spring day. and the rapid drive behind his pair of well bred horses exhilarated him at least for the first part of tho Journey. The latter half of it was by cross country lanes, hilly and in such an abominable state of repair that Lord Paladore's mind was diverted from dreams of love to the composition of a trenchant letter impeaching tho district council and Its road surveyor for the next Issue of the local chroni cle. Enmore when reached proved to be a straggling village situated fh a miry bottom between two low ranges of hills a depressing place to dwell In, It appeared to Lord I'aladore, and a wretched hunting country, with Its small lnclosures. mostly plow, and great unjumpable fences. No wonder his ladylove, with her fondness for the sport, preferred the aunt at Sher burton and the green pastures of the Crackmore Yale. The parsonage was discovered without dilllculty, a faded, forlorn looking place, the woodwork rotten and mildewed, the stone green with slime and damp. Lord I'aladore had time for rellection as he waited at the blistered front door and wrestled with the broken bell pull. He could not understand matters at all. How, if her people lived in such a placo as this, which he would have considered Ineli gible as a site for his kennel, was she able to afford such horses and such dresses? Perhaps the aunt, perhaps a little fortune of her own, but in the latter case it would not be like so nice a girl to leave her parents In such a hole as this while she enjoyed herself In comfortable quarters elsewhere. These disturbing meditations were at length interrupted by a small and untidy servant girl, who did not know if her master was In, but would go and see, which she did, while Lord Paladore waited In the passage with much Impatience, but Incrensed mis givings. Presently the vicar came to him in a dingy drawing room. He was a depressed, colorless man of rather more than middle age, a gentleman no doubt, j'et one who through continu ous ill usage on the part of the world had evidently lost touch with many of those things in it which go to sustain that character. He opened his dull eyes In dazed surprise when Lord Paladore explained the nature of his (TO UK COXTINUKD.) The Other "Wny. I understand you to say that 'Did Skadchase was suffering from heart trouble brought about by financial em barrassment?" "No. 1 said he wns suffering from financial embarrassment brought about bv heart trouble. The heiress lie was engaged to has jilted him." Kcccntrlc. Burgess Oh, yes; Charley is all rlirht: a little eccentric, though. I've noticed several times when he has bor rowed a lead pencil, instead of putting it into his nocket. as any one else would do, he hands It back to the own or. Boston Transcript DRY BONES VALLEYS PLACES WHERE DEAD BODIES ARE PRESERVED BY THE CLIMATE. In Chile, For Inniance, the Air la So Dry That It In Alnaont Iinpomiible For un L'nburled Hotly lo Decom pose In the Ordinary Manner. Among the most curious things In tills queer old world perhaps the weird est is the "valley of dry bones" which continually crops up In various parts of both hemispheres. In Chile, for instance, the air is so dry that It is almost Impossible for a body to decompose In the ordinary way: Here and there in the mountains or on the plains one may discover a body that has been clay for several years, but has no more returned to dust than to life. There Is literally a "valley of dry bones" not far from Valparaiso where a battle was fought during the Balma ceda troubles. Here may be seen today bodies of men nnd horses scattered among the rocks that are like nothing so much as Egyptian mummies, shriv eled by the fierce sun and embalmed by the natural dry atmosphere. This Is not. strictly speaking, "a val ley of dry bones," but that there is a real one In Ceylon no one who has vis ited that Island can doubt for a mo ment. It Is a peculiar fact and one which is borne out by the testimony of the English planters in Ceylon that when an elephant feels its last hour approaching It will If permitted to do so escape into the Jungle to die. Once the sick elephant gets away it is never seen again. Where they go to Is the problem. It is absolutely certain that they must go somewhere, and therefore as they vanish o mysteriously in the hour of death one cannot but give credence to the tale which Is often brought down from the hills by the Tnmlls nnd Cingalese. According to these people, there Is a 'valley of dry bones" near Talawakele, which Is about twenty-five miles soutli of Kandy. the old capital of the Is land. This valley, to be correct. Is said to be a vast underground tunnel, with numerous but dllllcult to find en trances nnd exits. Such places are common In Ceylon, but the particular cave where the elephants go to die has never been discovered, though numer ous expeditions have sought for It. In view of the fact that the ele phants do disappear when they nre about to die It seems probable that some such place does exist on the Is land, for it Is certain that the great unwieldy beasts do not swim across the gulf of Mannar. The person who finds this elephant sepulcher will prob ably reap n fortune in ivory. Another strange place exists as a real "valley of dry bones" in the is land of Jamaica, West Indies. Of course there is a legend attached to It, but hero are the hard facts and an actual description of the valley Itself. It Is situated near the Cunncuna gap. In the Maroon country, at the eastern extremity of the Island. This region Is clothed In primeval forest, and the fact that rain falls on an average twelve hours a day all the year round gives the Jungle a luxuriant green vegeta- tlonnoTT6"be found "elsewhere. But this valley, though situated right In the heart of the "wet country," Is bare of leaf ami life. The limestone rock is white and hot. Giant trees that seem to have been blighted suddenly stand up all gaunt, white and dead. The valley Is sheltered from the wind and the first force of the rainstorms. As a consequence this strange ravine Is silent, unmolested and (piite dry. The weird feature Is that, although vegetation seems to have been dense here In former years, nothing will grow now. Nature has come to a com plete standstill. During the hot season the temperature of the valley Is almost unbearable,, and It is visited by seismic disturbances that cause the dead trees and dry hot stones to rnttle like dry bones; hence the name the valley has acquired. The legend of this "valley of dry bones" can hardly be taken without a pinch of salt, but let us be nothing if not complete. Many years ago, says the negro story teller, a woman lived on a plantation in Cuba. She was no torious for her cruelty to her slaves. She used to throw cayenne pepper in their eyes and afterward stick cactus needles Into their bodies Just for sport. One night the slaves revolted and burned the plantation house to the ground. The woman managed to es cape In an open boat to Jamaica, where she sought refuge from her ene mies in the heart of the Jungle. Here she developed a mania for col lecting all sorts and conditions of cats. When she had procured a multitude of the feline tribe she nmuscd herself by torturing them. The legend has It that every night the demoniacal shrieks of the woman nnd the cries of the cats were to be heard even In the Maroon villages. But one night a severe earth quake came and swallowed up the cats, their tormentor and her home. New York Herald. Forbidden Frnlt. A request was once made to the au thorities of one of the colleges at Cam bridge that room might be found on the spnclous lawns of their garden for the lady students of GIrton college to play lawn tennis. Guessing clearly enough what would be the result of the admission of these students of the fair er sex among the undergraduates, the master replied that It was ordered in the stntutes of the college that the gar dens must be devoted to the purposes of floriculture nnd must not be used for husbandry. Spnre Moments. The Real Reanon. "How did that prima donnn come to lose her voice?" "Well," answered the Impresario, "some people say she sang too much, but my personal opinion Is that she lost it arguing about salary." Washington Star. Quick Diiipateh. A bill was once stuck on the shop window of a tradesman in the Fried rlchstrasse, Berlin, setting forth that "these premises are temporarily closed owing to the marriage of the proprie tor; to be reopened in twenty minutes." FRENCH MIDDLE CLASSES. They Are PumiinK Klch on a Thon Mnml Dullam a Year. "A French lady, widow of an officer, once said to me," says the writer, "that she always traveled first class because she was rich, afterwa.rJr explaining that her income was e.retly 200 a year. But she was rich because most likely she never spent more than 170, and the explanation, I dare say, ap plies to the medical men In the coun try. They are rich, In all probability, on three or four hundred a year rich just because they make much more than they spend. In order to compre hend French life and character we must bear one fact In mind. Appear ance is not a fetich in France as in England; outside show Is not sacrificed to; Mrs. Grundy is no twentieth cen tury Baal. On the other hand, good re pute is sedulously nursed; personal dig nity and family honor are hedged round with respect. "We must not take the so called real istic novelist's standard to be the true one. Frenchmen, I should say, as a rule, spend a third less upon dress than Englishmen. It does not follow that the individual is held In slight esteem, personality discounted. These provin cial and country doctors do not out wardly resemble their spick and span English colleagues, nor do they affect what Is called style In their equipage in most cases the conveyance Is a bicy cleand manner of living. How can they upon an income derived from one and eight penny fees? But many are doubtless rich In the logical accepta tion of the word that is, they live con siderably below their Income and save monev." Chambers' Journal. STARFISH AND OYSTERS. SI Intake That Wan Made by a Planter of the nivnlvcM. "A few years ago." said a Long Is land oyster planter last week, "one of the planters here made a big mistake that nearly cost him his whole year's oyster crop. "You know, I suppose, that the worst enemy of the oysters Is the starfish. We catch them with an instrument called a tangle in great quantities and pile them up ashore, where the sun soon kills them. But that, as you may Imagine, is not an operation calculated to make the neighborhood of the place very fragrant, for the star has a fear ful odor after he dies. "Now. tills planter of whom I am speaking had a plan to avoid all this. He told one of his men off with an ax, and as fast as the boats brought in a load of starfish the ax was plied, and the pieces were then dumped over board. "He rubbed his hands over his good idea, but he wasn't so pleased a month or so afterward when the starfish be gan to devour his oysters again, and investigation with the dredge and tan do showed that there were more of them than ever on his beds. "About this time an expert from the fish commission came snooping around for curiosities, nnd he heard, of course, about the stars. He began to laugh. " 'All that you succeeded in doing.' said he to the oyster planter, 'when vou chopped up the starfish was to in crease them. Don't you know that sTnTjdrcTrtf-lie cut Into as many as six pieces and still not only survive, but form a new starfish from almost every piece?' "New York Press. Getting n Good Start. "Miss Sophie." beloved benefactress of half the poor of New Orleans, sat at her desk writing when an elderly wo man who had made many previous de mands upon her was ushered in. "Oh, Miss Sophie." she said breath lessly. "I want to borrow a dollar, please, right away." "What do you need the money for, Ermagarde?" "Well. now. you see, I'm going to get married, and I need it for tho license." "But If the man you are o marry cannot pay for the license how is he going to support you?" "That's Just what I want to explain to you. Miss Sophie. You see. tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and we are coming to your free dinner. Then you always give us something to take home, nnd In the evening the King's Daughters are going to have a basket distribution, and we shall each get one. That will keep us a week easilj. and by that time we'll be on our feet." KiiKTlaiid'H OldcMt Rallirny Station. The only railway station in England that can boast of being really old is that at Bourne, Lincolnshire, which is an ancient Elizabethan mansion, for merly in the possession of the Digby family, some members of which were Implicated In the gunpowder plot. When the Great Northern nnd Mid land railroads came through this dis trict, a memorial was sent from the Inhabitants of Bourne asking that in stead of pulling the old landmark down It might be converted into a railway station, for which purpose It answers admirably now. Part of the house Is used as a residence by the station mas ter. Lengthening Life. The difference between rising every morning at (5 and S in the course of forty years amounts to 29,200 hours, or 3 years, 121 days and 1G hours, which are equal to eight hours a day for ex actly ten years. So that rising at (' will be the same as if ten years of life (a weighty consideration! were added, wherein we may command eight hours every day for the cultivation of our minds and the dispatch of business. When Cat "Were Scarce. In n curious collection of ancient Welsh laws, dated 0-13 A. D., appears the following sentence, from which It would appear that cats were rather scarce at that time: "The worth of a kitten until it shall open Its eyes is one legal penny; from that time till It shall kill mice, two legal pennies; after It shall kill mice, four legal pence, and so it shall always remain." Annlojclea. "I understand your friend Jenkins has resigned that city clerkship he held." "Resigned? n'm!" "Oh, wasn't it voluntary?" "Well, It was just as voluntary as his contributions to the campaign fund were." Philadelphia Press. WOMAN AND FASHION WnlMt Fur Yonnjc Girl. No style of waist suits girlish figures more perfectly than this one, with Its box plaited bolero at the front below a deep yoke. The model is made of porcelain blue messaline satin, the voke being overlaid with motifs of ace, and is trimmed with silk braid. MISS BLOUSE WAIST. but there are a host of materials that might be suggested. The pointed yoke, together with the sleeve caps, gives the broad line of the season, while the bo lero, with its soft folds, provides just the fullness required for slender, un formed figures. The sleeves are full and ample, with cuffs that form deep pointed extensions over the puffs. To make the waist for a girl of fourteen years cf age will be required 44 yards of material 21, yards 27 or 2 ynrds 44 Inches wide. Xcw Style In CorxetN. A new corset lias a twelve incli clasp, with tho material extending below It for several inches. Over the hips the depth from the waist line to the lower edge is sixteen inches. This section of the corset is honed with fine single whalebones. From the waist up the corset is formed of four horizontal shaped bands, ranging from one Inch nnd three-quarters to three Inches wide, the upper band being finished at the top by platted net lace. This is espe cially adapted to long waisted, full figures. Many, nnd in fact most, of the new corset models show the higher bust line, but not over an inch higher, with the dip as deep as ever below the waist line. Summer Millinery. The new turbans are decidedly smart with the tailored or street gown, the color of which they should match There are straw braids in striking col or combinations and two toned effects that lend themselves to this style. They require very little trimming, a breast, quill or straw buttons being sufficient Some of the season's smartest mod els are the broad brimmed fiat hats The brims are soft and easily made to conform to Individual becomingness. Folds of tulle, shirred chiffon, silk or lace form the brim facing of nearly al the new models Ribhonx Popnlnr For TrlmmiiiKM. Ribbon trimmings become more and more popular. The flowered gauze trimmings set with fagot stitching are a most charming addition to a summer gown, while the Louis or Pompadour bows are to be seen on almost every thing. For tho adornment of the full dress toilet nothing is more charming than the gold and silver gauze ribbons, on which are embroidered designs in delicate faded tones. For Summer "Wenr. Tliis chic little girl's frock is of white linen, with the skirt composed of three flounces of hand embroidery. Two ruf- GIUIj'S WHITE FIIOCK. Acs of the embroidery are effectively arranged below the small tucked vest of Insertion. A broad sash of soft satin ribbon is worn with this. The Xev Rnin Cont. The latest in rain coats Is the pure white one. It Is made of a spotless sntln surfaced water proofed fabric that is very handsome In itself. If It Is one of the very new ones, It is loose and buttons all the way to the feet, with large pearl buttons. Jnimncitc God. It is said that there are no fewer than 8,000.000 gods worshiped by the Japanese. Praying Is made very easy. In the streets nre tall posts. with prayers printed on them and with n small wheel attached. Any one pass ing by can give the wheel a turn, nnd that counts as a prayer. The people in the second largest of the 3.S"0 is lands of which the empire is couponed worship the bear and reverence the sun, moon, fire, wind and water. nflfff 14 MADNESS OF THE DESERT. ISflect of thr Monotony of Sllcace Upon ilt:inan ileinffn. "The silence of the desert has a mad dening effect upon the human brain," said a traveler whose experiences are not often paralleled. "Monotony Is more severe than anything else deriv ing Its entire pain from mental effect. The monotony of silence is worse than any other kind. "Take a mnn away from the hum of the work of men and send him out on the alkali deserts, and the deep silence becomes awful and Is sometimes un bearable. All at once, without any previous symptom, some member at the party may stop suddenly, with a dazed look on his face and n wild ex pression in his eye. He is dangerous. His reason is torn In wild confusion. Anything or anybody familiar infuri ates li I in. "lie must be disarmed and bound at once or lie will deal death to the whole party. He is possessed of 'desert mad ness.' brought on by the monotony of silence. He suffers excruciating men tal anguish. He needs to be relieved, by being brought back to his n'ecus- tomed surroundings. "On this account men used to the desert refuse to go out with those with whom they nre well acquainted. The mad man s not HUoty to attack a stranger. If there Is no friend in tbo party his madness Is likely to assert tsclf in running rather than in flgbt- ng. It is a fearful disease not yet un derstood." Birmingham News. FEMININE LANGUAGE. An EnKllh Critlcium of the Ue of AVordM by Women. You may talk to n woman for an hour or more and understand every word she says. .Meat, bread, money, motor cars, drains, the ace of trumps there is really no space at my disposal to give a list of the words that are com mon to both languages. In fact, most of the solid, concrete things of life may be left out of the question. It is when we nass beyond the concrete that the real misunderstanding arises. Take a couple of very common words used enuallv by both sexes. A man will say that So-and-so is a "nice" girl. I should know what he meant. A woman will reply that the girl is pretty, agreeable and all that sort of thing, but that she is "not quite nice." The two are using the same word to express different ideas, and they will never agree as to whether that girl is nice or otherwise until they can talk the same language. iVgaln In the feminine dictionary Uie opposite of "nice" is "horrid." A man will talk of a "nice scoundrel' and a "horrid bore." and I can understand him. But when a woman tells me that a man Is wealthy and clever and good looking "but I'm sure he's horrid" she has dropped Into her foreign lan guage. I can only be sure that she does not mean what I mean when I speak of a "horrid girl." London Out look. The Xanie Tibet. Many forms of the name Tibet sprang from the Chinese T'ubar (fifth century) through the variations of Tuebet To boct, Thibet (11G5), Tebet (120S), to Tl- been variously accounted for, but the weight of historical evidence indicates that the word is derived from Tubat, a famous family name proper to several ancient Tartar dynasties, extensively used In the sense of "chief." Hodgson asserts that before the ar rival of Indian teachers the people had no name for themselves or their land, and. though the present name Is not, as some say, unknown in the country It self, the modern Tibetans call them selves Bod-pa and their land Bod-ynl, Bod being a Buddhist appellative sug gested by the Sanskrit b'ot, or bat. so working back to the Tartar name. London Spectator. Wood Palp Paper. Despite all man's ingenuity he has not yet been able to use wood pulp newspapers over again. After the daily is read and thrown aside it is use less for the press again. Instead, the junkman carries it off and disposes of it in various ways. Waste paper, for instance, is steamed, washed and press ed into a sort of wood, which is used for iloors. By the addition of a little clay the surface can be made smooth enough to resemble metal. Under pressure paper is als turned into car wheels, buckets, plates, penholders, pa perweights and statuary. The street fakir who wishes to sell you a Venus de Milo. which he assures you that you can drop and It "won't break any more." holds In his hand the combined product of a half dozen old newspapers. New York Tribune. Irih Nomenclature. Irish names have often a knack of being frankly pugnacious, so that even a peaceful lord chief justice has had to bear the inciting to murder sobriquet of Killowen. But the mountains from Lismore to Clogheen, known as the Knockmealdown range, are capable of an entirely pacific Interpretation, for we commonly say we are knocked down all in a heap by tills or that which takes us by surprise, and these mountains surprise all by their beauty. There is no lovelier sight in Ireland, nnd if an air of melancholy prevails it is because the scene somehow sad by excess of serenity." to use a phrase of Henry James it would be difficult to better. London Chronicle. KnklmoM Appetite. The Eskimos have enormous appe tites. An arctic explorer relates that he saw a boy eat ten pounds of solid food nnd drink a gallon and a half of liquid with much gusto. This same explorer observed an adult eat ten pounds of meat and two candles at a meal. Sir P. Phillips tells how a lad of seventeen years ate twenty-four pounds of beef In twenty-four hours. Explained. "Here is another example of faulty English." said the teacher of the class in rhetoric. "In this essay you have written 'her sight broke upon a land scape of entrancing loveliness.' How could nny one's sight 'break upon' a landscape?" "She might hare dropped her eyes," timidly ventured the young woman who had written the essay. Chicago Tribune her and were well satisfied with their Economv."
