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« • • • 4» •■ A Feudal • ••• Bj Copyright. 1904, by Usury F. Keenan ) 4» 4« n 44 b HENRY ,N st CHA ITER OBODY out of the most sacred ly intimate circles of the Van Gueldres ever knew exactly whether Kitty Van Queldree was or was not engaged to the Count Malstern. It was known as such tilings are generally known, that Kitty met the count at a social function In the American embassy in Berlin; that the count thereafter found the quarters of the Van Guoldres agreeable and that be never found them inhospitable. It ’ was known further that when the Van Gneldres set forth on a tour In south- •rn ltussiij and the Dgnube the count parted with bls trusted valet, Berthold, to act as guide for the family; that • Leu Pups Van Guelylrea cabled bis wife to return to New York the count put his “navy" at the disposal of his American friends and that they, with a large party made up in Faris, r«- evoaaed the Atlantic In the count's yacht. When a few weeks afterward the count himself appeared in New York there was no sort of doubt among the knowing ones that Kitty Van Guel dres had accepted the Prussian hussar. Thereujion, as the wont is In New York, legends of absorbing Interest In vested the count's personality. It was made known that bis birth and race were of the historic picturesque. By Uneuise an Italian, of the prluceliest house of the peninsula, leagued by blood with reigning princes in Prussia and on the Danube, Count von Mai stern took rank second only to royal atal Imperial personage« In Italy, Aus- trla and Prussia. There was no doubt In any one's mind that such a suitor m list be accepted by any girl, and ao defy looked forward to the great event with lively curiosity. But at the mo went tile marriage was regarded as among the certainties the knowing group were startled by an official an nouncement of the engagement of Miss Van Gueldres to Theodore Acton, a comrade of her childhood, a young lawyer of promise, well known, but by no means preeminent in the social groups of the town. If all the world loves a lover, the gisls themselves must lie enamored of a maid in love. Men, at least in the circles that impinged on the Van Gueldres set, seemed to take It for granted that Kitty Van Gueldres’ en gagement to Theodore Acton gave them the imprescriptible right implied In the adage. Miss Van Gueldres was st a certain juncture quite the most notable young ¡leroon In the regnant social segment of the metropolis. Neither a provincial bonanza nor a railway parvenu, the head of the house had grown up with New York and reached opulence by what the econo mists call the "unearned increment” His millions were quoted at such fabu lous numbers that speculation tired of formulating figures of tire Van Guel dres fortune. Kitty, sole heiress of these stores, was never described twice in the same way by the many adorers of her beauty. It would therefore be words wasted to attempt to set forth the grace of her person, the clearness of her skin, the violet azure of her eyes, the profusion of blond tresses that might make a garment had she been calk'd on to play the part of Godiva. \ ery young men thought her a trifle too stately, ami In the Junior clubs she was discussed with the sort of awe amateurs fall Into when rap turizing Wagner’s or Mozart’s music. Men. however, who had attained mus- taehlos that required cosmetics and the curling Irons to give them form found Kitty Van Gueldres sprightly, -viva cious, fairly "bon eomarude.” Perhaps the best proof that the mustachlos Judged her best was given in her choice of Teddy Acton from the army of eligibles at her commnnd. There were divers opinions in the matter of Kitty's conduct with the count. His partisans declared that she had treated the nobleman heartlessly, while her friends-vehemently nsserted that she could not do otherwise than dismiss him when Ills disparity in years and “eccentricities" became known. It was furthermore held to Kitty's credit thnt she had the moral force to relinqnisb the match, which would have given her the rank of an Italian princess, a Prussian countess, to say nothing of lineal precedence In the Danublnn principalities. What. It was asked, could all these add to tlie distinction of a young person like Kitty, who by birth, beauty and nfflu ence ruled the high court of New York society? The women who discussed the question, however, sided almost nnnn^nitmslr with the count, He was declared the most fascinating lover | ever seen out of n play, the model whose like had never been known among the tit led wooers in search of a 1>l':iti(y di* side the ocean, itis pit" i tures adorned many of the exclusive albums of tine court circles, nnd bls worship became a cult where the Van Gueldres were not loved. His yacht In the harbor and his retinue of servants In the hotel were known only to tlie lnlt hi ted. In the clubs he was quite the English nobleman, divested en tirely of the antipathetic Insolence nnd Intolerance of the Prussian "well born " Hence when It was announced ■ uh < mere was no engagement Between I the count and Kitty society was dis-I erectly divided. Nothing could be more perfect than bls conduct when the incipient engage ment was canceled. He touched the motherly heart of Momma Van Guel dres by his solicitude for his vnlet, Berthold. whom he proposed leaving in New York while on a grand tour In the west. "The youth can't return to Germany," the count confided to Mrs. Van G«el- dres, “because he Is liable to military duty. He has a sweetheart ready to join him here within the year, and ns N I shall to Berlin by w •ay of (hi- na and Japan I cannot take him with me.” The Van Gueldres were so much struck with the amiable nobleman’s solicitude for his domestic that they nt once made place for the young man to assist the butler. Th? subsequent conduct of the count was considered perfect. He was pensively distraught whenever events brought him near Kitty. In the clubs he was cheerful, and though he never permitted any allusion to his matrimonial discomfi ture his air was that of resignation and magnanimous forbearance. He could never be brought to meet Teddy Acton and was only beard to allude to him as an "unfortunate young mad man.” Presently, when lie left New York for a season In the Rockies, lie bore the plaintive regrets of a large part of feminine New York. The count said nothing when be dis appeared from the city; there were few to continue the controversy, ex cept those who spitefully maintained that Kitty was waiting for a duke or prince. When, however, In the au tuinn of 187— It was announced that Teddy Acton was the lucky man, sur prise nnd pleasure greeted the news. Theodore Aeton—Teddy, as he was always called—was what the world agreed upon as an ideal husband for any girl rich enough to Indulge Is the luxury of a mere man! Beside* his legal emoluments, which were defklve for a marrying man, Teddy hud pith ing to count upon but the possible! ler- ltage of two Immensely rich nnplen aunts whose minds were taken up vlth foreign missions and the Chun b of the Heavenly Pilgrim. By the discriminating, Kitty »as pronounced the queen of girls for let g<ssl sense in rewarding Teddy's an- orous insistence and for making a n»r rlage according to the old fasbiosd rubric of love. The surprise was vry great. To give one's world something t talk about—that la. a subject that ow cun talk about at home and liefer one's mother and sisters—It must ti admitted, by those observant of th dearth of topics open to the diseussku of the elect, marked Kitty as a vet' observing young person. For six we<is this match, which would have been r guided as eccentric In a less doiniiM "It can only be worn In one wav." ing girl, enlivened the clubs and solaced the dullness of the Four Hun dred dinner tables. The interest had not palled nor the piquancy lost its point when, lnte in February, the cards fell among the Four Hundred announcing the day nnd date of Miss Katherine Montcalm Van Gueldres' union with Theodore Fredric Acton. It was Miss Van Gueldres herself who selected Friday, March 11. instead of Thursday, the day set down In the calendar of the conventional« for marrying and giving In marriage. “I think Friday much the best day." Kitty said Imperiously, “tiecause one can't very well take wash day, as Mon day is vulgarly held, nor Wednesday, because of some equally stupid preju dice. Friday is a day of possibilities. Anything may happen on Friday. It's neither the first day of the week, the middle nor the last. It Is a day by Itself.” “Well. ! •hall always hold Frida, the king of days." Teddy murmured fondly, "though I think well of Sun day, because it was Sunday—I—that Is you”— ''You- are -cv.-ttikily- tdushie.g. Ted. What could It have liceii that brings such signs of guilt? Have you a se en'!. sir? Are you about to avow some misconduct that will force me—to say —to—speak to papa?" “Ah, Kitty, how can you? I mean to say that it was on Sunday—that you said ‘yes.’ ” "Oh, 1 often say *yes' on weekdays.* "But you never said that ‘yes’ lie- fore?” “A girl doesn't like to say ’no* though If I remember rigidly I didn't say any thing. I.lke most men. nil men. you took something for granted.” Kitty's reply was lost by the sudder entrance of Mamina Van Gueldre« I d a state of as much perturbation ns t personage of such equability could per mit herself to manifest. “Kitty, dear, what do you think'. Count Malstern baa lieen summoned back to court. He sails tomorrow arx? has cnlled to take leave ot you. Wil you see h«n?” Kitty looked at Teddy Inquiringly ”Bv all means. Why not specs! th« parting guest? Poor fellow, 1 can tee. NEW SHORT STORIES for him." 'lethlv cried heartily T1.» count gave no sigfeof the rav The Barber nu<i His Klval. 'ages assoei l with luckless love, ■< ChkllJey 14*1* the first iyor of recounted hl« experiences in the fai Atlantic City, reTnt.si ut Atlauilc City's wet-' and lameuted his royal master*« Itf! eth unniveraap some interesting untimely command, which did not leav« reminiqrem es of tlie town’s early life, him free to assist at Miss Kitty’s uup says the New York Tribune. tlals. "1 call to mind.” he said, “two rival “But," he added, "it gives me an op bailors. They have been dead a long portunity to ask what I couldn’t well time now. They had shops opposite write. Under other circumstance» vne another in Atlantic avenue, and Miss Van Gueldres, you accepted till« the competition between them wa« ring. It was my mother's; it lias beer brisk and bitter1 . In our family since the Malstenis were "Smith, the younger barber, always ennobled. I ask that In memory of UM had his hair cut and dressed in ths you wear it. There Is a legend that it brings luck to the owiatr. You see,’ addressing Teddy, “it can only be wort in one way—with the pointed star up ward.” The ring was a very uncommon Jew el, a massive, oblong opal, flashing In a blaze of light. In a setting of ancient Incrusted gold. He had persuaded Kit ty to accept it shortly after their first acquaintance In Berlin, but she had re turned It when his suit was denied. Kitty was very much embarrassed, but, as Teddy remarked afterward, on« cannot refuse a wedding gift, especially when given by hand. Mamma relieved the embarrassment by asking the count to visit the “treas ure chamber,” as the depository for th« wedding gifts was called. “It’s perfectly amazing,” mamma prattled. "I never saw such a collec- tlon. A gold or silver smith's estab llshmeut must have been depleted." It was certainly a sumptuous exhlb it To him who hath, to him shall b« given. Miss Kitty, already possessed of an incomparable trousseau of jew els, was showered with every conceiv able caprice In the art of the lapidary and g'ddsmith. The count’s eyes open cd wide as case after case was di» played. “Is It quite safe to have such im mense values in a private house? In Europe we should have a squad of po lice or detectives In and about the "I OET MY BIVAL TO DO IT.” premises." uiost graceful and correct manner, and “Ob. we’ve no fear. There are able bodied servants In the bouse, and with lie was always sliaved beautifully. the doors locked no one could possibly Brown, on the other hand, would be carry anything off,” Mrs. Van Guel shaved badly, with a cut on his chin dres replied tranquilly, enjoying th« and a patch of overlooked beard on his cheek, and his hair would be cut In spectacle. “My man, Berthold, drilled soin« steps, ns though a child had done It. “Smith couldn’t understand why his time in the cavalry. Give him a sword or a pistol and he will protect yout rival displayed on his own person such treasures,” the count cried gayly as poor examples of barbering, and he they left the chamber and descended sent a friend to Brown's one day as a detective. to the drawing room. “The detective got shaved. During “You'll make Kitty nervous if you talk so seriously of danger,” Mrs Van the process he said: " 'How is It, Mr. Brown, when you Gueldres answered, just a shade an sire yourself a barber, that your hair noyed by the nobleman's pretense. He dropped the subject, and when he is always badly cut and your face took his leave presently hoped the hacked up from the razor?' “ 'Why,' said Brown, ‘the explana bride and groom would make their wedding journey as far as Berlin that tlon is simple enough. I can’t cut my he might show them the wonders ot own hair, and so I get my rival across tlie street to do it, and he shaves me the new Weltstadt. Now, Kitty, like the simplest Clorin too. You see the result.’ ” das, had of late fallen into the sweet Seaatar Hoar’s Wit. heart Way of keeping her lover late Senator Hour, whose humor was and letting him out with her own fair hands. It was a daintly little comedy keen as a rapier, not long ago said to each night, Kitty Insisting that Teddy a newspaper correspondent: “When I am asked for my opinion should talk to her through the door as she retreated into the vestibule and on any subject I refer the Interlocutor fastened the Inner portals. It was to my messenger, lbMierty. He talks after 11 when the lovers parted this more freely than I do.” This same Doherty guarded the door night, but one before the wedding, and the farewells In the dim vestibule were to Mr. Hoar’s committee room for al repeated a score of times before the most a generation nnd was the sena heavier outer door was finally safely tor’s factotum. Some one. In describ ing him not long ago. referred to him closed. “Can you hear me?” Teddy's voice as Senator Hoar’s "Fldus Achates.” “Do you see what these newspaper came through the big keyhole. “No; you must open the door; I want men have been calling you?” said Sen to tell you something I’ve forgotten. ator Hoar, directing Doherty's atten tion to the paragraph. Teddy.” But there was no answer. “What does that mean, senator?” To surprise him she seized the large bronze handle and turned the knob, anxiously Inquired Doherty as he read but with all her force she could not —to him—the strange expression. “I would not like to tell you, Doher pull the heavy frame toward her. “You’re bolding It; I shouldn’t let ty.” solemnly replied the senator. Doherty Immediately started out to you In now even If you beg!” But Teddy was evidently gone. She discover the offending newspaper man, waited a moment; listening, slie heard but In telling bls troubles to a fellow the scraping of steps and scraps of employee he was enlightened as to the meaning of the Latin words.—New voices. “Ah,” she thought, “some of 111 b Y’ork Mail. friends have surprised him; that’s the The Staff of Life. reason he didn’t answer.” She hasten- Rlr Reukema, a Milwaukee lawyer ed to tlie drawing room and just as •he flung the curtain aside a carriage and member of the Wisconsin legis started from the curb in front of the lature, Is superintendent of one of the largest Sunday schools in the city, says steps. the New York Times. [ to be continued .] Mr. Reukema was making a chil dren’s day nddress nnd, wishing to OUR FINGER NAILS. get an explanation of "manna,” asked. "What is the staff of life?” Method by Which They Are Formed An agitated hand waved the air, and nnd How They Grow. on lining encouraged to make reply a The nail is a special modification ot lad answered, “Whisky.” the cuticle, the superficial Cells being The assemblage was astonished, but harder, more horny and more firmly roared when the boy. encouraged to adherent to ench other than In the make himself clear, continued: proper skin. The deep layerof the skin "Moses threw down his staff, and Is peculiarly modified to form the bed then the people saw a snake.” of the nail. Is highly vascular, and Is studded with almost pnrallel ridges, Wanted an Epidemic. the true skin overlapping the sides Complaint was made to the late Hen and root of the nail, which fits Into the groove, as a watch glass Into Its ry Niles Pierce, bishop of Arkansas,' rim. The surfaces of all these ridges thnt a certain clergyman of his diocese are covered with growing cells which, had preached a heretical sermon and as they flatten and change into horn, that the man must undoubtedly be mad. form one solid curved plate, the nail. The bishop sent for the offending di Nalls grow both In thickness and length, The Increase tn thickness Is vine, had him read the sermon, which caused by the formation bf nerve cells he found to be a brilliant, thoughtful, on the bed of the n»Il; the Increase In broad minded discourse. Later he met length, through the formation of new some of the critics and astonished ! folds at the binder part of the bed. them by bis comment: "Well, if that man is mnd I wish ■ T’. < null, thus constantly receiving ad he ’d bite all the ministers In my see!” ditions from below nnd from behind. Is slowly pushed forward over Its bed —New Y’ork Times. till It projects beyond the end of the A Engene Field Story. finger and la cut off at intervals or During-h!« sojiurs is San Fr«r.ctoee worn away. Eugene Field often visited at the pub lie library, says the Philadelphia Press Sifted Pcnrln. Some yenrs ago the sultan of Sulu At such times the inquisitive female learned that the pearl fishermen were employees would manufacture excuses 1 reaping big profits. lie supplied his for entering to gaze at the celebrated revenue collectors with sieves and or author. Sizing up the situation. Field dered that all pearls found uear Sulu announced In an authoritative voice, to must be tested In these sieves. Those the consternation of the young women. that dropperl through were to lie re “Y’es, sir. In view of the financial con tains. 1 by the fishermen; those that re tiltion of the library, salaries must be mained In the sieves were to belong to reduced!” Thereafter he was trouble. 1 the sultan for taxes. It nearly ruined by no more unsought admiration. the pearl fisheries. His Idea of 1«. Missed n Few. "Yes,” said the clerk at the Sklnnem bouse, "we have 1.800 servants.” "Well.” said the departing guest, “J oust have overlooked four or five. I'm quite sure I haven’t tipped that many.” —Pittsburg Tost. Caller—Why, I'm Irish. Bobby. I was really born in Ireland. Bobby — Ob, you’re In disguise, then. Caller—In dis guise? Bobby—Sure! You ain’t got any rcl chin whiskers nor a pipe stick in' In your hat!—Philadelphia Press Personal. "Is there anything you don’t need She—Suppose, dear. I find you that I might take?” askefl the slovenly haven't given me thoney enough?' lie eld Junk man. watching Hubbubs p»k —Then telegraph for more, Sballa vs .ng his g»ods on the moving van. •“Yes," snapped Subbtbe; "a bath.” you a telegraph blank? Would Be Prepared. •• •• • • • X • • • • ADMIKAL ÜYNQ. A Brave SnIl*r W bo Paid ike Penal« «> of Otker Urn's Folly. Two years after Voltaire left Prussia George Keith came to visit him In Swit- ' Zetland to plead the cause of an Eng lish friend, Byng. Tlie story of Byng ' Is familiar to all las countrymen. Th« | French had beaten the English on the sea. and, mad with disappointed rage, the biiuidering mttilstry of England turned on their luckless Instrument, Byng Voltair« was the lifelong friend of Richelieu, the conqueror. But be wa«, too. the man of whom it was said that “for twenty years the redress of Judicial wrong" hung entirely on his pen. On Dee. 20, 1750, he wrote to Richelieu telling Byng’s story, and that vainglorious person replied generously enough in an open letter, wherein he stated that had Byng continued the fight the English fleet must have been totally destroyed and that the admiral's misfortune came not from cowardice or Inefficiency, but from the hand of God and the valor of the French. Voltaire wrote to Byng, sending Rich elieu’s letter, but he could not save the victim. Byng paid the penalty of other men's folly. To Voltaire he left a grateful message and a copy of his de fense, and In “Candlde,” with that ban tering malice which Is his alone, Vol taire sharply satirizes the scene of the admiral's execution. "And why should this admiral be put to death?" "Because he baa not killed enough people. He fought with a French ad miral and is not considered to have been sufficiently near to him.” "But,” said Candide, "the French ad miral was just as far away from the English." "That is certainly true," was the an swer. "But In this country It is salu tary to put an admiral to death now and then pour encourager les autres.*’— Cornhill Magazine. ZUNI FAMILY LIFE. 4 Village Look« Like a Huge Hive of Clay on a Sandy Knoll. WOMAN AND FASHION I The Newest Sleeves. The style of the sleeve is all Im portant to the success of the garment and determines its date more surely than any other detail, These excellent models cun be utilized alike with tlM- new couts and for those that are to The three styles In l>e remodeled. PLAIN AND FANcgr COAT SLEEVES. chide a full sleeve with flaring cuff, a sleeve in regulation style with roll over cuff and one that is known as the club sleeve, which is distinctly larger at the elbow and Is made In three sections, the upper portion be lug cut In two, with the seam concealed by a strap. The full sleeve is In one piece, gathered into a band which is concealed by the cuff; the sleeve in the center Is cut with upper and under, the roll over cuff finishing the lower edge, and the club sleeve Is cut with the upper portion made as already de scrilted. the regulation under portion ami cuff, the curved edges of which meet at the center of the upper part The Fall Blouse. Already some separate blouses show the higher, fuller shoulder effect that Is becoming noticeable. The high, close cuff is also a prominent feature. Some blouses of checked taffeta have u close cuff inset with linen figures to tlie el bow, with the rest of the sleeve a large puff shirred in the armhole am) again at the cuff. About the shoulders is a collar cut to make tabs over the tops ot the sleeves and cut out in front In the form of a rabat. It is trimmed prettily with narrow bands of white taffeta and small pearl buttons. This Is of course a simple waist, as waists go now, but the new sleeve makes It valuable as a model. The little half civilized children of Zuni so aroused our curiosity that we drove through forty miles of sand and sagebrush, from the railroad at Fort Wingate, to pay them a visit. As the Indians do not provide for travelers we took our hotel with us—tents, beds and food and camped Just outside their village. The village looks like a huge beehive made of clay and stuck fast to the top of a sandy knoll. The hive is filled with a mass of cells—300 single rooms, placed side by side and piled in rows one on top of another. In each of these rooms lives a Zuni family. There are no Inside stairways leading from story to story, but if the boys and girls living In one row wish to pay a visit to a house above them they must go outdoors and climb a lad der. On the slope between the village and the Zutil river are a number of small vegetable gardens, each one In closed by a mud wall. Zuni has no inns, no shops, no saloons, not even proper streets, but only narrow alleys that thread their way through the strange town. As we walked through the village all the world came out to see us. Girls and boys clustered on the roofs or sat on the ovens—queer little cones of mud which seem to grow up out of the house tops—while fa thers. mothers and babies peered out from dark doorways to stare at the visitors. When we had finished our tour of the roofs and alleys we were hospitably Invited Indoors. Even there the children followed us, and as we glanced up at a hole In the celling which served as a window a girl’s laughing face filled the opening. We must have looked etrnnge enough in our hats and gloves and long skirts.— Marla Brace Kimball in St. Nicholas. The glace taffetas now appearing in Paris will be generally offered here for autumn wear. Glace peau.x are also to be used for wraps. These lustrous goods are expected to lead the duller materials. Silks and the ribbon novel ties of the autumn are also glace. A CURIOUSTREE. Fall Coat For Girls. Mitts To Be Worn. Mitts will be worn in the house the coming winter with the elbow sleeves that are used on almost all gowns de signed exclusively for the house. Many women do not like to have the lower part of the arm bare, and mitts cover them without hiding the skin or de tracting from the dressy effect. With black lace gowns black mitts will be Used, but with all light gowns white are preferred. Many girls have moth ers or grandmothers who have bad mitts put away for years, and they would do well to get their relatives to hand over this finery of day.» gone by. Wardrobe Secret«. The clever girl has three petticoats nowadays for the price of one. She has the foundation In black moreen, reaching below the knees. This foun dation is nicely finished off with a deep hem, on which are sewed buttons a few inches apart. By means of this device the clever girl has three or four different ruffles, which can be but toned on to the foundation according to the costume to be worn. Glace Taffeta« the V oruc . This Norfolk coat is of lightweight cheviot, but other suitings nnd mate rials are appropriate. The cont is made The Welwltschia mirabllis is a won with fronts and bneks that are laid In der of the vegetable kingdom. It box plaits which extend for full length grows on the barren land of the west and are joined to a shallow foundation ern side of Africa, where rain la al most unknown and the only moisture is that from d?ws which fall at night. This plant was discovered In 1800 by I >r. Welwitsch, an eminent scientific traveler. The welwltschia is a tree Which lives for many years, many specimens being estimated as more than 100 years old. Every year of its life increase« its •fze, yet it never grows higher. Ris ing Just above the ground this strange plant, looking like a rough round table, regularly enlarges by adding concern trie layers to Its circumference. The flat upper surface of the trunk Is very hard and dark, resembling In color and texture the crust of an overbaked loaf. The trunk attains the size of from fourteen to eighteen feet In circum ference. but is never more than a few Inches above the ground. Tlie welwltschia is remarkable In the fact that It never loses Its first two leaves and never gets any more. These leaves Increase In size year aft er year until they attain the length of six or eight feet or more. They are flat and leathery and frequently spilt Into numerous straps. Onr of Nature*. queer Products That Are Found In Africa. NORFOLK COAT. • • • • • jafanese lacquch . So Ute of H |. So Elprii.lt« 1 hut l> Seldom Kt-srltr. Is. In the Lilly country two Industrie« -iiii.c t > he p agriculture namely, silk raising ami lacquer. To Bum« only one I 'irlct. the vilhigM along the Naka- eiulo b-ive galiM'tl much by modern Improvements in silk raising. The lacquer tree may possibly have been Imported from China, as so many other trees and plants were, but It cer tainly was known and used In Japan at a very eerly period. We are used to thinking of It as ornament only. It Is that and much more besides, for plain hiet|iier latwls and trays are al most necessities of dally life. They raise most of what la used In certain P'ovinees, but Tokyo Imports a gm>d deal of Juice to lie manufactured there. The tree Is a species of rhus, closely allied to our poison ivy and having the same power to produce an Irritating rash on the skin. The workers get over this, however, and do not have u igaln. but they say that people some times get It from handling bowls or trays which have not been dried long enough. To get the sap the farmer cuts a notch In the side of each tree, and aft er a time a thick Juice oozes out; then the farmer goes around with a wooden spatula gathering the drops Into a pall. It will keep for a long while, but must not be allowed to dry up nor to be heated above a certain point, for It contains n peculiar acid which causes the Juice to ferment and harden. The pieces that have been varnished must therefore be dried In mild and moist air. Tokyo In August is usually Just right, ubout 87 degrees. A good piece of lacquer has to be most carefully made. In the first place, and then varnished with layer after layer, each being dried and polished before the next goes on. Certain pig ments mixed with it give red. black or green. To apply gold a wash of var nish Is laid where the design la to be nnd the gold powder sprinkled on from a hollow bamboo stick with a fine sieve over the end. YY’hen it Is dry It must be revnrnlshed and repollsbed over all. With all these repeated proc esses a fine piece may be on band for months, even yenrs. Naturally this Is not the kind that Is prepared for for eign export, for people abroad will not pay for it.—Anna C. Hartshorne In Cbautauquan. WAR CORRESPONDENTS. Some of Their «'unions Feat« of Phys ical Emlnrnnce. One of the finest achievements of a wnr correspondent was that of Holt White, a representative of the New York Tribune, in the Franco-Prussian war. He witnessisl the battle of Sedan from the Prussian headquarters on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1870. At Its conclu sion he rode to Brussels, but there the postofflee authorities refused to trans mit his dispatch to London and even threatened to arrest him for saying that the French had been defeated. He then went on to Calais, crossed to Do ver by special steamer and took a spe cial train to London, where he arrived at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning. Next day there was a description of tlie but tle six colunms long In tlie Tribune. It was not till Tuesday that the London newspapers had accounts of the con flict from their correspondents. But the most famous deed of physic al endurance In tlie race for news be tween war correspondents was told of Archibald Forbes. In the Servian war of 1876 Semlin, the nearest telegraph station, was 120 miles distant from the scene of the battle. So soon as Forbes knew the result be rode off. and all night long he kept at a gallop, chang ing horses every fifteen miles. At Sem Illi he had one long drink of beer and then at once sat down to the task of writing, hour after hour, against time, the tidings of which he was tlie bearer. After he bad written the story of tlie battle and put ft on the wires he lay down In his clothes and slept twenty hours without waking. He had wit nessed the battle, which lasted six hours; ridden 120 miles and written nnd dispatched a telegraphic message four columns In length to the Dally News, all In the space of thirty hours.— Macmillan's Magazine. WESTMINSTER HALL. !«■ IlnrKMlii Counter«, State Trial« and Coronation Bnnquct«. Westminster hall, whose old gray walls have seen coronation banquets and state trials, list'd to echo with tlie bargains driven at shops or stalls which at one time fringed Its walls like a modern bazaar. These were kept by booksellers, toy dealers, sempstresses and milliners. The rents and profits went by right to the warden of the Fl<“et. An engraving of the busy scene was made by Mosely nnd prints taken therefrom by Gravelot before 1773 showing bow. Tn hall of Westminster, Sleek sempstress vends amidst ths courts her ware. In “Tom Brown's Amusements” (1770) we read: “We enter into a great hall where we were surprised to see in the same place men on one side with baubles nnd toys and on the other tak en up with fear of Judgment. In this shop are to be sold ribbons and gloves, towers, headdresses, etc. On the loft hnnd we hear a nimble tongued paint ed KcmpstTeSA wiili uUC ctiUTTuingXiebis invite you to buy some of her knick- knacks.”—London Mall. yoke. Tlie shaped yoke Is arranged KEEPING WELL over the whole, and the belt passes It I. Better nnd More Economical over the plaits at the back under those Than Getting WelL at the front. The sleeves are large and I have often been horrified by find ample, laid In box plaits above tlie el Ing people-i! CarJubad cr Msr'/mbs«’- hows and ftsreilrr f’Ul puffs below or some other of these severe water and are gathered in cuffs shaped In bar cures wlio bad come there simply on mony with the yoke. The material for their own Initiative anil without any medium size Is four and three quarter medical advice. This Is really tam yards twenty-seven Inches wide, two The Gentlnnl Plant. and three-quarter yards forty-four pering with one's constitution. Gentlus, king of lllyricuni, the eAst- I am coming to the conclusion in Inches wide or two nnd three eighths ern boundary of the Adriatic, wa« tak recent years that It Is better to trust yards fifty two Inches wide. en prisoner by the Rornnns about a to air and to exercise than to waters century and a half before the Chris Plaited Pendant«. for the renewal of the physical sys tian era for encouraging pirates and Plaited or Jabot pendant pieces ar« died In custody. He discovered that a tern. Since I have taken to golf I find so much improvement In my health newer for neckwear than just flic plain certain plant was a very good tonic, thnt I no longer pine, as I used to do. tab.________________ _ and that plant has ever since been for the water cure. But there again calk’d gentlanl, after him. This plant Hl. Cost of Arms, every man must Judge for himself. If "Now that you are wealthy, Mr. C„” Is generally supposed to hqve been th« a man has too profound a love for the said tlie man who denis In pedigrees tall, coarse nlpiue, common In moun pleasures °of the table It Is almost a and tlie like, "you really should liegln tainous districts In central Europe, necessity for him to go to one of those to adopt a coat of arms." and known to botanists as G. lutea, a places where the system seem» to gel "I’ll do just as I please,” retorted preparation of which is still In high a thoroughly complete washout. Mr. C. hotly. “If I like to go nbout tn repute as a medicine. But If a man be of moderate appe my shirt sleeves, that ain't none o’ your tlte and be able to keep himself well business!” Tellfnfr on the Tall. under control even when temptation Mamma—Johnny, how mnny times Desperate. Is great, then be has no renson for have I told you about pulling that cat's “Can you make both ends meet. toil? Johnn*- I don't know, mom, but going to Homburg or Carlsbad ot Marienbad. He had better seek good Pat?” from de way de tall la worn It must “Fhure and I can't make one end be a tot.—Philadelphia Tok graph. mountain aii piny golf and keep out meet!"—Town Topics of doors.—London M A P. • • • ••
