What
t
Became
Mary
111 So mud
Minium
1M tho unaccustomed warmth bring
back happy memories of lush Jungles
and A fries sunny fountains, or did her
crumiH-d quarters irritate the snake
lute au effort for freedom?
JOIU IUU1
-etued the Imx secure, hut with one
iist i iter it the body Mary Ellen
ItoHfti ttY two slats and slid half her
tiexiblc length into the nom.
The colonel heard the noise, but did
aet turn around m look. Let the opos-
mi. escape it u could; it was nothin
to n.:u. If it got away perhaps Tom
wonkl bo Idniiied. and he did not llko
Tom. So he took another drink and
continued ;o read.
J reed ipt.ii her prison, the reptile
paused. Sbc -emed thirsty as well as
hungry, for slie he-ltaied between the
man nntl the pail of drinking water
wf.-Ofi stood on a splint Kit touted ehair
lr taw door. Thirst conquered, and she
p!:dd Aiclely i.. . . water p.ut and
drank halt" it eei-tent-.
ft m
u'iiiniiih' i uoitei reati on. un-
cis ;..us 04" iiis peril. Absorbed by a
Weil written editorial, he bent the sheet
as Ik reached the middle of the col
umn. Tin rustle of the paper drew the
ttl!ithn f the reptile, and. turning
fnttii the water pail with a greedy glit
tcr in her eyes, she started toward him.
CHAPTKK II.
x w- M tlie old iMiitictan been young
I f I ntd active Ids situation would
E have lvn iriious; but. old.
J wloezy and half intoxicated
1.:
i-e was wen men tiesneratc. llie
advah. inc suitkc was between him and
the doer, tlie two rear windows were
both eksel. and he had no weapon. It
tM'oared as if the anaconda would
ijse ltitn and crush him in hor coils
en? he was aware of his danger. Hut
fate seemed resolved that he should not
jierisli by violence nor till any but :
drunkard's grave, for by a strange ilis
peu-:iiin of Providence the appetite
fr drink that had wrecked his health
itd mine! his life came to his aid.
It lutd been several minutes since the
uknei had taktii a nip. and when the
snake had slided within a few feet of
him tin o.d man reached for the bot
tle. At tin- motion the snake hissed,
ami the horrid sound lilted him to
his feet soaking like one palsied. IIo
tttrned.
Was it a reai snake or only a phan
fceixt of drink V
A s..md hiss lrocht a shriek of
ietwr fnnu the old man. and rushing
. the rear of the room, upsetting and
happily ejamcnishitig the lamp in Ids
frigiit, he i.'.unj.M hadioug through
the glass wludt.w salt out into the
enow.
Ai the momeni of the colonel's pre
cipitate exit titere were no eyes to
witness the Hying leap, for excessive
coHi had driven the sxxi people of Oak
viile in their hearthstones, and It was
only by eliance that his terrified shriek
reached the ears of a human being.
Two blocks distant Jim Kvans was
on his way to his wedding. There had
len some delay in obtaining hid mar
riage license. In Ul bachelor igno
rance the y;2!tg editor had thought it
wHik! be as simple a matter as buying
a postage stamp. It was more like til
ing a bill in ch.iHC.Ty.
Finally. eitnatiiig himself from the
uarl .f rel t:ti he hurried away
from the prdate otilce with the lndis
i?nalJe diiuit'm to dres. Annoy
n pwretiet! him. It hail been ar-rat:-.!
tiiat Iiek Ilaiidin. Jennie's
brother. 4Kuk! raiuc to him at 7:-4i.
At 7iC k occurred to hint that he had!
'&rgwni w tell I tick of hi j change of
qut j ters. He ilts'rveil a kicking for
W frs'tfuiifss. He had moved his
lus'ifij.nu.' uly a week ago. and his
tfrM-r rm was thn'-qtiarters of a
uiiU dstaui :U the otlwr end of the
sli--T. If I i-k went there f,r him and
w.i directed to Ids new :,iKi,. there
"UM 1 fully ten minutes' delay, per-ha;-
iiioiv. and if he were tartly at his
wed-'ig be wukl feel disgr:cel. He
wouid not keef his britb! waiting for
1. r weiglit In srikl. He must meet
M k half .ty.
1' was ylisrlight. Tiiloiigh the wide
wii,.' tJtfw.i 1m(i1is of the trees by the
Hkk-v. ft ttie st;;rs llashetl lit fully like
a sH-ii-m f tiretlles. Another time
lie woi !i have hh-scd their ob
Uloi.iirtation, but tonight, haste
di;.eu. be 1 nired for the more eff
t;d radian-e f direct lights which
'iakville did not I -ast. And the wind
le had tv likl Ids hat on, while the
SSflt -.t bare water oks groaned in the
fierce Amal which snapped their dead
twigs und sent them hustling down
ward. "J'urning a eruer he saw his sanctum
InUliauiiy illuminated. It was the
"cloiiel. of ntursc, ami he hopetl the
kl man v.tikl keep stdier enough not
i set tlni place aiire. Following this
ihu-iit cjiim- the eokmel'b yell.
f 'clirluui tremens and a lighted lamp
In au iutiainuuible printing ollice!
ll:ivi:" exclaimed the young
Mtan. and ran toward the place at full
sfieed.
If "loiiel Ihtdham's exit from the
'Lruieles Iwiek window be likened to
J 'lie 'rftrmance of a circus girl
through a paper hofip. the latter half
tf his Hying leap resembled the feat
known in gymnasiums as the porpoise
' .
!!. Tor h moment he lay stun
eCi ;
Ulu lite snow. Fortunately for his
neck a piece (f castaway stove piping
and some barrel staves had broken his
fall, though in doing so they had gash
ed his fop h -ad ami torn his clothing.
Hut the wound on his face and the
rut eitused by the broken window
jtias! agisted the Icy air in restoring
bint to consciousness.
However, the low temperature did
14 drive all the fumes of whisky
front his head, and his brain was far
froui clear when, bareheaded and with
Bitow and ldood sticking to his gray
hair, he rose to his feet and sped
tlmowrh the night.
....By SAMUEL
MINTURN PECK
of
Ellen
n
Yet of one thins he was sure. It was
no hallucination of drink, hut a real
serpent that he had seen, though how
it had cot into the Chronicle olllce he
(il nut tt-r fit f.!lin Tlmn HI, is
; ,:lsh ns ht, ran ,amo thl. UloUi:nt th:lt
his fearful assailant must be Hind
foot's snake and that the next person
who entered the office unwarned would
surely be crushed. No sooner had this
idea entered the colonel's ioor, drink
fevered brain than he began to fancy
that such a catastrophe was already
happening. In another twenty yards
it seemed to him he could hear the
noise of a struggle in the room behind
him. and In twenty steps more his head
was in such a Jumble he was Incapable
of distinguishing fact from fancy. An
impulse, born perhaps of rapid motion,
drove him to tell his story and eek
help, and In the wake of this impulse
followed the thought that the surest
and quickest succor against the snaku
. juhl I . found at Higgs barroom.
which was aiways full of men.
A moment more, and the colonel pass
ed, bareheaded and bleeding, into the
bright glow that shot forth. like a great
red tongue, from the barroom door.
Higgs' establishment, a nis place
nt all times, ami especially noisy at
night, was divided into three eompart
ments. The first, a kind of entry, lit
up by a largo ret I lamp, contained a
mall tobacco counter. The barroom
proper was divided from this vestibule
i m1 hidden Ironi tho street by a screen
I -Irnd which gleamed the Circean
of glistening crystal and many
! : d lipiors. to whose jKtent spell-;
Use rat'le tif dominoes and the clicking
of b..I. .id ball added an alluring ac
(t ittpaiiimeut. Separated frm this
gl. tiering shrine of Bacchus by a lat
tice wtis a smaller and less brilliantly
ltghlNl apartment, where the god's
dusky devotees befuddled their woolly
heads fr less moiie .
The riles were at their noisiest when
the colonel burst in. but in an instant
all mirth ceased. Here was something
mere amusing than billiards or domi
noes. 1 r :..ers put down their glasses.
half eon-..::.ed. on She bar: players de
serted tie ir tables, ami till came to the
front, liven tho negroes, imbibing
tanglefiKti" and "red eye" for ." cents
a drink, momentarily forgot the color
line marked by llie-' second lattice ami.
crowding forward. presetl upon the
heels of the white men.
"Are ycr sure it'sj a snake ami not a
moiiKey; exclaimed one f the latter,
when the old man (had gasjied out his
breathless storv. 1
"I viy. colonel, dlid the snake swal
low your hat';" cried another, and
l hee and similar sjalllcs were greeted
wlUi jeals of coarse laughter, in wmcii
the negroes joinetl uproariously.
llu-dt. Im.vs:' sail Higgs gravely.
I'd-gs. i jfii you it's true." reiterat
ed the coi .nel in agony. "Hindfoot's
snakes kiliiitg somi one at the Chron
icle oihce. llurrv:,?
1'he saloon keeper viewed the speak
er w ttlt a thrill of fit v.
"All right, colouia; don't you worry.
I'll take care of 'the snake. Come.
tato a urink. said Higgs coaxlngly,
adding softly to the bystanders. "It's
the best thing for him till the doctor
sees mm.
I'll-- assistant barkeeper walked to
the dr and looked up the street.
See. colonel; it's all dark at the
ChronVIe oliiec. There's nobody there;
Jim Kvans gets married tonight. Ue-
ddes. it's too cold for snakes anyway.
Th-.-y'd freeze to death in ihe minute
l.o- around this weather."
'The .ld man leaned agtiiust the door
jamb, for he began to feel weak. lie
undcrsto.l. They ahought he had de
lirium tremens. If he talked till day
light he saw that no one at tin- bar
room would believe him. and cursing
in his heart the wretched appetite for
drink that had made his word lighter
than the wind, he shook like one in an
ague lit.
"Hv Ceorge. he's got 'em bail!" said
a sympathetic bystander. "Let's tak
him home."
Higgs nodded Indorsement, and two
men stepped forward to lay hands on
the colonel, but he eluded them and
ran out the dior. As ho turned the
corner he stumbled and fell, but, ris
ing, he hurried on. As he ran he wiped
the blood from his face and tried to
smooth his hair. If he only had his
h it and looked less wild, he thought,
some one might give him credence.
He turned in at Hrandon's drug store
mid trhtl to tell his story to the young
clerk, but the boy lied before him Into
the back room.
A few blocks farther on he knocked
at the door of the Haptlst parsonage.
The preacher listened with a sorrow
ful glance.
"f'omc In. t-olouel, and sit down,"
said the young man sympathetically.
Hut the eolotiel heard hint whisper to
his wife, " Telephone f,tr I r. Seyton,"
and the old man lied from the house.
He was chilled to the bone, but he did
not feci the cold, fur j his excited fancy
pictured the horrlhh tragedy that he
feared was transpiring at the Chronicle
olhce. livery one thought him mad,
and he felt as If he soon should he If
he did not lii id some one to credit his
words. Would nobody believe him?
Yes. Jim Evans would, he was sure.
lim was ahvavs kind, and even if he
did not credit his story he would go
. . . ... ,
with him to the place if only to "re
lieve the colonel's fears." It was
strange Jim had not entered his mind
earlier.
With this happy thought he turned
alniui ami made for Kvans" room, now
not many blocks distant, so rapid had
been his Speed.
"Ycr ain't gwine find him dar, suit,"
said a passing negro, who heard the
:-oione's knocks and cries at Jim's
flout.
The colonel was daz&d.
"I-iwd. boss, don'tjyer know ills is
Marse Kvans wcddln' night?" added
J
the negro. "He gwine marry Miss Jin
ny Hamlin, de belle o' de town."
The colonel had again forgotten the
wedding.
It seems a simple thing to put on a
wreath of orange blossoms and a veil
of tulle. That is what a man would
suppose, a poor ignorant man. That is
what Tom Wilson thought till he saw
it done.
Tom had the freedom of the house by
right of cousiuship and reporter fir
the Chronicle, and he had come early
that he might not miss anything, lie
watched the white cloud as it descend
ed on Jennie's dimpled face and shoul
ders and settled like n silver mist over
her lissom form and thought that was
the end. It was hardly the beginning.
"A little more to the right, Ilattie,
said Mrs. Hamlin. "There, that's bet
tor."
"No. Aunt Hattle. It's too far," said
the bride, twisting her head and gaz
ing in a hnnd mirror. "Just see how
that still bud sticks out; it makes me
look like a scarecrow."
do you like it this wayT" nek
d Aunt Ilattie, moving the wreath
again.
Mrs. Hamlin viewed Jennie doubt
fully.
"I think It looked better at lirst."
Then the whole act was repeated.
"Hy (Jeorge. Jennie, you look as pret
ty as a picture however It's fixed.
said Tom, with admiring eyes. "And
what will Jim care? lie thinks 3-011
are period anyway.
That's what he ought to think. Mr.
Thomas." said the bride saucily.
At last the wreath and veil were ad
justed to suit all. and Tom walked
1 n u ml his pretty cousin, who resem
bled a plump little fairy arrayed in
moonlit gossamer.
"You'll never be able to sit down in
idl that rigging. Jt nnie."
'i don't Intend to; Jennie Hamlin
will never occupy another chair. When
net she takes a seat she'll be Mrs.
James Monroe Kans."
Tit UK CNTINl"KI.
BRILLIANT SWORDPLAY.
Italy Im the Home of I-Vnoltifj ns
Hell 110 1 Art.
Although the (o rmans were always
redoubtable at the rougher games of
swordsmanship. !t is in Italy that wo
lind the first development of thai
nimbler, more regulated, more cun
nlng. better controlled play which we
have learned to associate with the
term fencing. It Is from Italy thai
fencing as a rellned art first spread
over Kurope. not from Spain, as It has
been assorted by many writers.
It is In the Italian rapier play of the
late sixteenth century that we find the
foundations of fencing in the modern
si n-e of the word. The Italians if wc
take their early books as evidence and
the fact that their phraseology of fence
was adopted by all Kurope were tho
lirst to perceive, as soon as the prob
lent of armor breaking ceastnl to be
lite most Important one In a light, the
suierior capabilities for elegant
slaughter possessed by the point as
compared with the edge. They ac
coiilingly reduced the breadth of their
sword, modi lied the hilt portion there
of to admit of a readier thrust action
and relegated the cut to quite a second
ary position in their system. With this
lighter weapon they devised in course
of time that brilliant, cunning, catlike
play known as rapier fence.
The rapier was ultimately adopted
everywhere hv men of courtlv habit.
but in Kngland at least It was not
accepted without murmur and vitu
peration from the older fighting elas
of swordsmen. Cornhill.
MEASURE HIS FINGER.
If It Is I.onuer Than VuurN. He Will
Utile Ion When You're Wed.
It is rather late In the day for this
bit of ad-, ice. but the girl who thinks
of marriage should take the precau
tion of fust measuring the forefinger
of her lover with her own before she
commits herself irrevocably. If his
forednger happens to be longer than
her own she would best reject him.
for she will never rule her own house
hold, the rule iK'iug that whichever
has the longer foreiinger becomes the
ruling power In this home. One en
gaged girl, upon being told of this
test, carefully measured lingers at
once. and. upon finding thai her
fiance's finger was much longer than
her own. stoutly declared that she
didn't care. "She didn't want to rule
the house anyway!" The man breath
etl freely once more. It was this very
same girl, however, who was observed
to make special and strenuous efforts
to set her own right foot upon the
church step before the groom, and to
place this same foot upon the carpet
before his! It Is a sure sign that which
ever sets foot lirst upon the church
step and upon the carpet at the altar
will rule the house!
Which oilers a solution of the "long
est forefinger" problem! Avoid as
you would the pestilence the tying of
your shoe in a carriage upon your wed
ding day. It Is "uuiucky!" Kxchnnge.
Loudon Doctor.' I-'eoh.
Idscusslon by London newspapers of
doctors' fees has brought to light some
curious Information. "I know a man."
one doctor Is quoted as saying, "who
has a guinea practice In Hurley street,
a live shilling practice In Kensington
and a sixpenny practice In Seven
I dais."
In Clapton, a poor quarter of London,
fees of twopence (1 cents) are said to
be not unknown. One newspaper re
marks: "Of the twopence fee It might
be said that It brings sickness within
the reach of all. In Clapton, at any
rate, there Is no excuse or justification
for any one being well."
This same newspaper says, "Now
that lints are so fashionable the doc
tor's difliculty In guessing the paying
ability of his patient Is enormously In
creased. Hats being alike the refuge of
the wealthy and the Indigent."
CnmiioiiHiitlon.
Head of Family - 1 want to leave my
property to my two sons - one-tenth to
my elder son. John Ilutts. and nine
tenths to my yougger son, Koyal Ches
terfield Montgomery de I'eystor Hutts.
Family Lawyer- 1 I'm! Do you think
that's quite fair? Head of Family
Yes. I want to make some kind of
reparation to Royal for allowing his
mother to give him such a name. Lon
don MuiL
SKELEl'OXS L BOOKS
SECRETS THAT ARE UNWARILY LEFT
IN LIBRARY VOLUMES.
V
Storle of l.ove a Well nn of Crime
Ilnrleil Met tt en the I.eaveN hy Ah
nent mlmleil Headers The Way Dim
.Murder .Mywtery Wa Solved.
The letter began. "My Sweet Anne.
Surely a stranger must be pardonec
for reading It through, for It was fount
hidden snugly away between the leaves
of a dusty and ancient volume of poems
drawn from a great library. The find
cr took it carefully to the librarian.
'Another one?" said the librarian In
quiringly. "Out of the old edition of
Moore, eh? Well, I guess we won'
send it back. I generally return per
sonal letters If they are of enough In
terest and nobody calls for them, but
If I sent everything back thut we find
the directors would be about my ears
for wasting postage stamps." The aft
ernoon was a quiet one, and the li
brarian continued:
We shake every book that Is return
ed, and almost always something falls
out. It may be a letter like tho one
you have Just found or n visiting card
or a hairpin. Almost Invariably the
treasures that we unfold bear the ear-
maiks or lemlnlne possession. I am
not charging women with carelessness.
I am simply stating a fact.
iicmraliy the things we una are
documenlarv in their nature. Last
week I shook out of a book on home
life a signed and indorsed check for
.?7l made payable to the dressmaker
whose statement of account was
pinned to it. On smother occasion a
fifty dollar bank note fluttered out.
Hoth were called for within a short
time. Occasionally one gives us a
glimpse of a love secret or a tragedy.
Not so long ago a letter was taken
from a book which was of such an un
usual nature that I remembered the
names concerned long enough to recog
nize them in the newspaper reports of
a court case which divided a family.
,The letter was addressed to a woman
and filled with the frank and open
aowal of a man's forbidden love, for
the woman was the wife of another. 1
c. refullv secreted the missive and a
few hours later was confronted by a
tall, heavily veiled lady, who asked If
- - 11 V 1 I.. 1 1
a letter mm neon puiiki m a oooiv
which happened to be a morbid prob
lem novel of great popularity at the
time, the work of a well known Kng
lishwomau. The question was asked
n a voice which tried hard not to
shako. 1 handed the letter over, and
the woman hastily took herself off.
Scarcely a month later I ran across her
name In the newspapers sis defendant
In a dhoree court.
Yet the writings we find in books
are not ahvavs so intimate. Sometimes
t!: y savor of domcstieit ami the deli-!,
ts of the kitchen. Indeed I have
enough recipes for desserts and sweet
meats to publish tho collection as a
cookbook. Now and then a book Is a
veritable mine. I have found In them
gold, silver ami precious stones. Km
broidery silk by the yard and of rain
bow hues may be fished out from some
novels, and, alas, an -occasional ciga
rette paper.
'The evidences of masculine forget-
fulness are rarer. I have forgotten al
most all such Instances, but of those
which I do remember there Is one of
which the details are as clear to me
now as if they had happened yester-
dav. Indeed It will never leave my
mind, for it led to the capture of a
jrang of criminals.
A wealthv but solltarv old bachelor
was found lifeless on the tloor of Ids
library one morning. On his body no
wound was discovered, and as far a
the detectives could ascertain no one
hs.d gained access lo the house. The
ca..e excited great public Interest, and
I followed the developments with close-
ns in the newspapers. 1 here mm
been at first some talk of suicide and
more of heart failure, but the autopsy
put a new phase upon the case, for It
bowed that tho old man had come to
his death through an Insidious yet pow
erful poison. Tho question then arose.
Who administered it? As I was read
ing the detailed report of the doctors I
suddenly dropped the paper. I remem
bered that a month before a stranger
had come In one wet. dismal night and
tked for a recondite work by a for
eign author. It was a standard
treatise on poisons and a volume sel
dom read.
"I hurried to the library and sought
the book, opening It and rapidly run
ning over the pages you may Imagine
my astonishment and almost horror to
lind lying between two pages devoted
to a detailed account of the very poison
that eaused the old man's death a
smirched and thiynb marked piece of
paper. On It was. writing In a small
and angular hand referring to the
chapter and page on which the poison
was described. I then looked up the
record of the book's withdrawal and
found the namo which the man had
given. I also found thnt the book had
not been taken out since. Having as
certained these facts, I went at once
to the police. Taking the Information
as a clew, the detectives, after a long
and arduous search, followed It to its
logical end and arrested the only rela
tive tho old man had possessed, a med
ical student, whose existence had not
even been known. He confessed his
share In tho crime and. with his accom
plices, paid the penalty. That casa
opened my eyes to the value of Inspect
ing every book as it returned to the
library." New York Tribune.
; Slie'ii .Ttiwt Prnetlctnsr.
"I understand that Mr. Hlux and his
fiancee have had a quarrel."
"es." answered Miss Cayenne
"Hut It is nothing serious. She Is a
prudent girl and wants to make sure
.she can manage him when lie Is an
gry." Washington Star.
Not Her Fault.
Eva I thought you were never go
ing to speak to Harold again as long
as you lived? Ciss I know I said so,
but it wasn't my fault that I broke
the resolution. Eva How did It hap
pen? Ciss -IIo called me up over
the telephone. Woman's Journal.
"When something ls very dilllcult to
understand," said the distinguished
professor of biology, "It Is called sci
ence; when It ls Impossible, it Is called
phllosoph."
WOMAN AND FASHION
simple IllotiMc.
Kmhroidcry worked on to the mate
,i.! makes the smartest of all trim
mings am! has a certain inherent ele
gance that nothing el.se quite equals.
This charming yet simple blouse is
made tif white linen lawn, with yoke
ami cuffs embroidered and the plaits
wniTK tiAw.v, K.Mimoiini'!:n yoke.
held by French knots. The effect Is nn
exceedingly good one. while the mate
rial has the exceptional' merit of grow
ing more beautiful each time It Is laun
dered. The waist Is made without lin
ing and can be blouscd at the back or
drawn down snugly, as may be pre
ferred. The closing Is made at the cen
ter back, that of the waist beneath the
box plait, and the yoke collar Invisible
hy means of buttons and buttonholes
woriceii in a ny. At the waist Is a
crushed belt made of soft white silk.
To make the waist for a woman of me
dium si.e will be required five and a
quarter yards of material twenty-one,
four and a half yards twenty-seven or
throe yards forty-four Inches wide.
with throe-eighths of a 3ard twenty-
one inches wide for belt.
Little lliatft.
There's a perfect rage for green, and
iarasols and stockings of that vivid
tile are the very latest.
Handkerchiefs have been sadly over
worked, but they really do make the
prettiest kind of underwalsts.
In I'arls Ihe fashion of repeating the
dominating color of the toilet on the
uppers" of the boots still obtains fa
vor.
Hags of all kinds, from the everyday
leather to the gold meshed, jeweled va
riety, are in demand for all occasions.
ICxIt the IMalti Skirt.
Oversklrts and pi.nnier effects are
icre to slay. I he plain skirt Is a thing
of the past. Perhaps one of the easiest
ways of making an old skirt up to date
Is by inserting a front panel of ruf-
tllng or embriodory and gathering the
idditional fullness thus gained Into a
hip yoke if there is no hem to let down.
siimuiiT Sashes.
Sashes are returning to favor, and
juite a number of Parisian dressmak-
rs are introducing them on the sum
mer gowns they are making. Hut the
new sash Is anything but a simple
"aiianv 1 1 is eiahorateiy nonc-l ana
knotted, and the ends are frequently
trimmed with chiffon lace.
Soft I "dice For Parasols.
A soft finish is given to the edge of a
plain white silk parasol by a braid of
while velvet set on. This takes an
edge about an Inch wide.
For n Vni n tr Ctrl.
There Is a certain inherent charm
about the blouse costume worn by
young girls which makes It a well de
served favorite, and each season sees
It In slightly varied forms. This very
pretty model Is adapted to all the ma
terials used for frocks of the sort, but.
ni.oi'si: COSTUME.
as illustrated. Is made of blue linen fig
ured with white and trimmed with
white bauds piped with blue. The skirt
ls box plaited and Joined to a body lin
ing, the two closing together at the cen
ter back. The blouse Is separated and
Is finished with a box plait at the con
tor front, beneath which the closing ls
made. At the lower edge Is a hem In
which elastic Is Inserted to regulate
the size. lo make the costumes ror a
girl of ten years will be required seven
and a half yards of material twenty-
seven, six and a quarter yards thirt3
two or four and a quarter yards forty
four Inches wide.
An Fentful Dny.
"Well, well." exclaimed tho editor.
"If that wasn't a queer experience!"
"What was that?" said the foreman.
"There was a man In here Just now
who didn't seem to know any more
about how a newspaper should be run
than I do.'J
Fond of Children.
"The dog you sold me yesterday
would have eaten my little girl up this
morning if she had not been rescued."
"Hut you insisted on having a dog
that was fond of children."
A SNOW EXPERIMENT.
Frozen Vapor Front the Action
Sulphide of l.iirlion.
a
Two solid boilies. one yellow, sul
phur, the other black, carbon, unit
under certain circumstances to form a
colorless liquid called sulphide of car
bon, which must be handled with much
precaution on account of its great ex
plosive property. The soluble property
of sulphide of carbon renders it valua
ble to take spots off garments. If
Its odor Is more disagreeable than thai
of benzine or turpentine, it has at least
the advantage of being dispelled quick
Iy in consequence of the prompt .ap
oration of the liquid. There is nothing!
equal to it to take off spots of paint or I
clothes. It does not du It, however,
without creating great fear in persons
who use it for the lirst time, for they
see on the very place where, to their
great pleasure, the paint had disap
peared a large white spot, the nature of
which is hard for them to define, and
the more they brush the more unsightly
and the larger that white spot grows
Ls then the garment lost? No, for
fortunately after a few moments the
spot melts away never to show again
It was snow and nothing more. Tin
sulphide of carbon in evaporating takes
heat from the cloth and surrounding
air. ami the result of that Is a sudden
lowering of temperature sufficient tc
freeze the vapor of the atmosphere.
Without operating on your clothe
you may make the experiment in the
following way: Fill a small vial with
sulphide .of carbon, taking great care tc
do it far from all llame or heated stove.
Then close the bottle with a cork stop
per through which 3011 have previously
bored a small hole. In this hole place
a piece of blotting paper made up Into
n small roll. The paper must reach to
the bottom or the bottle and about an
Inch above the cork. Within fifleer
minutes you will see the outside of this
paper covered with snow, the quantity
of which gradually Increases. The
liquid hns risen through the pores of
the paper as the oil of a lamp through
the wick. When It gets to the open air
It evaporates, and water contained in
the surrounding atmosphere, being
brought to a temperature below 32 de
grees, has been frozen. If you divide
the paper outside of the bottle Into sev
eral pieces you obtain flowers and most
charming effects. You may make tho;
experiment In summer and In the full;
rays of the sun. The result will lie
obtained then more promptly, evapora
tion being more abundant.
First Stoules .Hade In Pennsylvania.
"The first stogie was made by handi
In the wilds of Pennsylvania," said a I
tobacco man of Allegheny City.
"The story which they tell once in
awhile in West Virginia and which
must be true Is that the long cheroots
derived their name from the town of
Couestoga. Pa. An emigrant train of
wagons was finding its way across the
state, ami a supply of tobacco was
found at Couestoga.
"The emigrants got a lot of It, but
failed to get any pipes and so could
not smoke unless they made pipes
themselves. Necessity Ls the mother
of Invention. You may have heard
that remark before. Anyhow one of
the men rolled a leaf of the tobacco in
his hand and wrapped it with another
leaf. That was the first stogie. Oth
ers followed his example, and they tillj
called the article that they made n!
'stoga in honor of the town at which!
the tobacco was scoured. That is said
to be the true story of how the name
'stogie' originated." Louisville Courier
Journal.
Hrnaoii For Marrying
They were talking about a friend of
hers who had married a bishop sta
tioned In Kamchatka or Timbuktu or
some other heathen land.
"I never could understand why she
married him." said the young woman.
"She seemed the last girl on earth to
marry a bishop. She cared so much
more for having a good time than she
did for church work and sewing cir
cles." "Girls are pretty wise nowadays."
said the young man, "and they general
ly have a good reason for marrying the
way they do. A girl friend of mine
married a doctor so she could always
be well for nothing, and maybe this
girl married the bishop so she could
be good for nothing." New York Trib
une. The Trnitor' Stone.
A curious specimen of the famous
Traitor's stone of Home Is still pre
served In Kngland. It Is a large round
piece of sandstone, much of the ap
pearance of a millstone, with a few
apertures which make it bear a faint
resemblance to the human face. At
one period li Uoman history It was
the custom to have all persons suspect
ed of traitorous conduct place their
hands lu the mouthlike opening. If
the stone bit their fingers the prisoners
were deemed guilty.
A lilt of a llloir.
"I suppose you have encountered
worse gales than this?" asked an in
quisitive passenger of the sailor man
during a very moderate bit of a blow.
"Tills yore ain't a gale," responded
the salt. "Why, I was onct In the bay
o' Hlscay when the wind blew all the
paint off the bulwarks. It took four
on us to 'old the captain's 'at on 'is
'cad, and even then all the ankers was
blown off 'Is buttons. That was a blow
for 3er. Why. even"
But by this time the c;.r!ous passen
ger realized that he was being guyed,
and he did not give the Imaginative tar
the chance of finishing his interesting
nurrative
Ilelaxntlnn.
Mrs. Saltonstall-I feel tired to death
tills morning. I've been out till mid
night the last four nights running. Mrs.
Walslngbani So do I. I have had com
pany for two weeks now. and I'm all
worn out. Let's go shopplng.-Somer- J uou's ,-'ct with ins lungs, or what
vllle Journal. ! l'VtT "' uses t0 1'roatho with, and have
! an uucomfortiiblo way of looking at
Araericnn PnrtrirtKe. ' you at the same time as his eyes.
In the north, where the ruffed 1 He has a mouth, too, but It ls on the
grouse ls known as the partridge, the under side of him nnd convenient for
bobwhlte la called the quail. In the
south, vrhero the ruffed grouse Is
known as the pheasant, the quail is
called the partridge. Country Life In
America.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit
wins the soul. Pope.
NIGHT ATTACK AT SEA.
of
Ito.iriltnu a Hostile Ship From a
Fleet of Small lioatx.
Imagine a hostile ship lying at an
1 hor in an apparently secure position
on a dark ami cloudy night. Titere are
just enough breeze and sea to make
sounds on the water indistinct. Around
a low headland half a mile away from
the anchored vessel steal four or five
boats, pulled with muflled oars and fill
ed with armed men. They approach
noiselessly.
Perhaps they are not discovered and
thus reach the sales of the ship. The
h"t instant the armed men are pour
ing over her bulwarks, and a desperate
fight takes place on her decks. Per
haps they are discovered bufore they
reach the vessel's side. The alarm fs
given. The men In the boats hear It
and lash their oars through the water
in a determined effort to reach the ship
before the rapid fire guns can open up
on them. Flashes of fire illumine the
night. The searchlights send out shafts
of blinding white. The sharp peals of
the six and three pounders, the rapid
hoarse barking of Hotehkiss revolving
cannon, the vicious sputter of (atliugs,
break upon the frightened air. "1 live
way with a will:" shout the oMie.er. of
the boats as the men bend to the t::::j
and tho light guns in theb:ws hurl
their defiant answers back at the wall
sided ship. As the boats swt t p up to
the vessel's side gongs clang ami rat
tles sound calling away the riileiueu t
repel boarders from the Inc. Is. If the
boats crews can board tin- ship an.l
flap down her hatches before the crew
gets on deck, theirs is the victory, but
If her secondary battery is manned and
her rlllemen stationed before the boats
tire alongside, then goodhy to the hunt
expedition, for titere is nothing more
pitiless then Catlings and revolving
cannon - W. J. Henderson in St. Niuh-.
olas.
THE HEAD ON THE FLOOR.
Startling Incident .liToiiipnnyhlK tha
Ileatli of a Slave Trader.
In a s,,u::!:d court in Kdlnburgh
many years ;.go a man who had been
notorious for his cruellies as a slave
trader lay dying. Mental terror made
iiis end .-.ppalling to witness. Accord
ing to Scotch custom, the family open
ed tho door to let the spirit pass. Tc
their infinite horror, the bloody head of
a black man suddenly rolled into the
nom. The family shrieked with fright.
The man tut the bed gave a yell of ter
ror. They turned to his bedside, but
he expired as they watched him. When
thy looked toward the door again, the
head bail disappeared. There was a
splash of fresh blood upon the lloor to
im.rk the spot where it had boon, but
nothing else to certify that the horrid
siht had net been a creation of morbid
imaginations.
This appearance of a negro's head In
the room of a man dying after he had
committed innumerable barbarities up
on black slaves was a strange coinci
dence and nothing more. Professor
wen. the famous anatomist, bad been
attending an anatomical lecture where
the body of a negro had been dissected.
He was taking tho head home with him
to examine it more carefully. Tho
streets were wet and slippery. Just as
he was passing the open door of the
rimiso 10 WIi'imi Trio rutin Inr Jilni, l.n
tripped, and the head, slipping from
the cloth In which he had it. rolled
Into the little room. The cry of the
dying man diverted the attention of
those who were in the room, so thnt
Owen was able to secure his treasure
and depart unnoticed.
A MODERN HAMLET.
"Wherein Ilntvthorne "Was Akin
to
the Melnncholy Dane.
Certain characteristics of Hawthorne
are. of course, indisputable, and It Is
not fantastic to add that some of these
qualities bear a curious resemblance to
those of that very Prince of Denmark
who seems more real to us than do
most living men. Hawthorne was a
gentleman; In body the mold of form,
and graced with a noble mind. Like
Hamlet, he loved to discourse with un
lettered people, with wandering artists,
with local humorists, although without
ever losing his own dignity and Inviola
ble reserve. He had Iron3- for the pre
tentious, kindness for the slmplo heart
ed, merciless wit for the fools. lie
liked to speculate about men and wom
en, about temptation and sin and pun
ishment, but he remained, like Hamlet,
clear sighted, enough to distinguish be
tween the thing In Itself and the thing
as it appeared to him lu his solitude
and melancholy. Ills closest friends,
like Horatio Bridge and WilliamD.
Ticknor, were men of marked Jus
tice and sanity of mind of the true
Horatio type. Hawthorne was capable.
If need be, of passionate and swift ac
tion, for all ids gentleness and exquisite
courtesy of demeanor. Toward the
last he had. like Hamlet, his forebod
ings "such a kind of gain giving as
would perhaps trouble a woman"
and he died, llko Hamlet. In silence,
conscious of tin unfinished task. Bliss
Perry In Atlantic.
THE BARN DOOR SKATE.
A I.nndluhher's Description of Thin
Peculiar Fish.
The barn door skate beggar's de
scription. I never could tell whether
he was looking at me with his eyes
or his breathe holes. He ls n bottom
fish and flat like a flounder. He has
a triangular bod 3, the apex of which
forms the snout; opposite his snout
are his tail and a few extra pieces
of his overcoat, which kind nature has
tagged on to him In case he gets torn
and has to be mended. His tail ls em
bellished with a few spines tills I
know for a fact
He has a couple of eyes a little way
back of his snout, and right back
of these are a couple of holes that
- 'Xt'l completely through him. These
business. It ls a funny thing, with
spines on the lips, and when you pull
the lower Jaw the upper Jaw moves
with It a sort of automatic trap, not
unlike what you can see in any ten
cent restaurant. This ls a landlub
ber's description, but It is enough.
Country Life In America.