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CHAPTER II.
HEN Mrs. Van Gueldres
■nude her morning tour In
to the bridal chamber next
morning she found the
room a scene of devastation. The
jewel cases were all empty. The
•mailer articles in gold and sliver were
nowhere to be seen. Stupefied, she
»anced all over the room, then hasten
g* to her daughter.
“flava you been In the blue room?"
"No, mamma. Why?” Kitty mad*
answer indifferently.
“Homa on« bus rubbed the bouse."
"Mamma!”
"I'm not Joking”—
Kitty arose and fled toward the rav-
bthod chamber. The mother followed,
shill»«* at tlie aaine time the niakj In
ttee dining room. Kitty stared about
her in bewilderment
“Who can It have been? Was the
floor broken opeu?” she gasped, sweep
Ing th« despoiled cases with amaze-'
asaut
Sarah, tl.< maid, entering, almost
ahrieked in astonishment.
“Have you Iwu on thia flour this
morning?” Mrs. Van Gueldres asked
confusedly.
“No, .Mrs. Van Gaeldtw. I have beet
•t my regular work,” tl»e maid answer
ed piteuiMly.
"When* is Benham? Send for him.”
When the maid was gone Kitty brokt
out: "Why didn’t we take heed of
Cotint Malstern’« warning? Hundred«
must leive known of the jewels, and
burglars liave l>ecoine «o acientlflc that
we might have fore aven thia wretched
business."
“Hut how could it be burglars? Nc
doors were broken — at least I'v<
beard of none. Ate, Benham,” ah«
cried as a grave domestic *topp*el 11
the doorway, "you see what has hap
peued. Everything of value has beer
carried off. at least out of the room
Have you been through the house?”
"From cellar to attic, ma'am. Not
a sign of break or disorder anywhere
except that the chain was not up ou th«
front door.”
Kitty started. She had forgotten tc
put up the chain, but how could s
burglar know that?
When it was found that no clew
could be traced by questioning the serv
ants Kitty promptly suggested send
Ing for Teddy Acton; as a lawyer he
would know what to do. Iler own de
•ire was that nothing should be said
of the matter and that the presents
should all be replaced at her own ex
pense, as the talk and wonderment
were more than she cared to encounter
But a still more critical loss was in
store. Teddy Acton had not been al
his home. Ills law partner had not
seen him since the previous afternoon.
At first Mrs. Van Gueldres shrank
from telling Kitty this. But when the
evening came with no word from het
sweetheart the girl felt that something
evil had befallen her Teddy, who had
never missed the house for twenty
four hours during the last aix months
To remain away at such a Juncture a*
this he must be til. Iler mother
listened to her daughter's vehement
conjecturing«. Incapable of revealing
the brutal facts as laid before Mr. Van
Gueldres by bis counsel.
These were simply the cynical state
ment of the lawyer’s conviction that
Theodore Acton had made away wltli
his sweetheart's trousseau of Jewels.
When this hideous surmise was finally
of necessity broken to Kitty her wrath
was electrifying.
“Papa, you let that dolt of a Fingul
say that to you? There must be some
lsw to punish such monstrous vilifica
tion. Don't invite him to the house
again while I'm here.” Kitty fled In
tears from the room.
The family’s first efforts were direct
ed to keeping the “affair” from the
newspapers. This was not difficult, as
the servants were adoringly loyal tc
the whole household and regarded any
misfortune to their employers aa a pain
to themselves.
Brlnton Flint—Acton’s law partner-
took It upon him that the clubs and
congregations where Teddy was known
•liollld tie satisfied with a reasonalilt
Invention; then lie set to work to un
ravel the mystery. He knew Acton as
men know their brotliers. He bail lieen
bls crony In Harvard. They had made
tlie grand tour in Europe together, ami
lie would as soon have credited the of
ilciatlng clergyman at the wedding
with the pillage of the presents as bls
friend Teddy. Ills first proceeding was
to procure a morning’s talk with Kitty
By infinite patience tie drew from het i
the story of her relation with Count
Malstern. Rhe had. she admitted, half
promised tlie count to consider his woo-
Inj, hut «be bad per» r loved hit». Rbe
frankly told him when her heart was
engaged by Teddy.
“Tell me don't hasten, don't think
anything trivial—tell me word for word
Just what Malstern said when.you dis
missed him,” the lawyer persisted
carelessly jotting In a notebook.
Kitty blushed and looked restive.
“It la absolutely, vitally essential for
T«»lily's good name, for Ills recovery!
la fact, that you ahouM tell me.”
"His recovery? You know whore he
H? la he 111? Something lias happened
to Mm!” Kitty cried beseechingly.
“It la useless to torment you with my
eonleetiiree. my auspicions. If Teddy
tat living. Ilia life will only lie wortji liv
ing by getting nt th« facts In tlie case.
1 don't think ther« has been a murder
A plunder eo largo as this of your Jew-
•1« linplica • master hand. Such men
4i not commit murder. Probably In
Vlas couree of a few day» you will re
eeOe a p*o|swnl. upon which will de
»•*» Acton'« eelsnee."
-Ykm y<>« tbli4 th* count has car
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The abominable
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"TM other day he would have car
rlflU yMi eH Perhaps hsd you been
14 that political reminiscence of feu-
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dallsm, the Kaiserrelch. be would have
whiffed you off instead of your Jewel«
• nd your sweetheart. But—Malatern'a
words until the last moment you suw
him.”
"He said that I would find that I
had made a mistake In choosing Mr.
Acton; that he was not worthy of me;
then I stopped him and rose. He rose,
too, and as lie went out said, more lu
sorrow than in anger, ‘It is too bad—too
bad to throw away such a life.’ ”
“And that was all?”
“He returned the night of the rob
bery and gave me an opal, which he
■aid bad been bls mother’s and an heir
loom in the family for ages.”
“Was that stolen with the rest?”
“No. I left It in the library when we
went upstairs with niHinma to show
the count the presents.”
"Good. Let me have that opal.”
Armed with the gem, Brlnton Flint
took leave, saying, as the girl followed
him wistfully to the door: "Telephone
me the instant you receive the anony
uious letter. It will reach you soon.”
He went straightway to an eminent
jeweler’s, known for the perfection of
the work turned out In bls establish
ment. The first glance trained eyes
gave the gem It was pronounced
paste. It was a very excellent lmita-
tation and in Its old German setting
would never be detected save by an
expert.
“Where did it come from?”
The Jeweler called an employee hi
the rear. "Israels, where was that put
together?”
The man examined the gold circlet
with a glass and answered promptly:
“ Ra ndgall’s— London.”
That evening Flint made known to
Kitty that he would be absent from
New York for some time, lie gave her
a cable address In London.
In such agitation as may be easily
conceived, the Van Gueldre« set them
selves to evading curiosity. It was no
difficult matter to replace the Jewel«
and gold work stolen, as the lioxe«
were sufficient to give the dealers the
clew. The problem was to account for
the postponement of the wedding and
the absence of Acton. This was more
or less successfully done through Flint,
who gave out that Acton had been
seized by a recurrence of angina pec
toris and under the doctor's orders bud
gone into seclusion.
Meanwhile every scintilla of clew
thut could be evoked from persons and
Incidents was in energetic and cau
tious hands. Berthold—the young but
ler, the count's protege-was kept un
der close* surveillance. He hud given
a straightforward account of lilniself
the night of the robbery. Illa com
rade, the footman, bore witness that
Berthold hud gone to bed at 10 o’clock;
that once or twice during the night he
had awakened and saw him asleep be
side him. No trace, however, could
be found of the carriage in which Ac
ton had been driven from tlie Van
Gueldres mansion.
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Ten days later Flint was in the Jew
eler's In London. The firm dhl not rec
ognize tue ring as of its manufacture.
had hoped to identify the purchaser
anti get autficient evidence to procure
extradition papers for the implacable
count. Now he was helpless. He saw
nothing for It but to return to New
York and trust to the dubious ingenuity
of the detective system. Nothing could
■hake his conviction that Count Mai
stem had robbed the house anti ab
ducted Acton. What his motives were
for the abduction lie could not wholly
determine; possibly to throw the guilt
upon the successful rival. At all
events, he could make Inquiry' at Berlin
before returning to New York.
In the German capital be found that
the count's family were of the sereneat
caste. The count himself was rich, far
beyond the wealth of t'.ie ordinary Ger
man noble, lie bad estates In Venetla.
Sicily mid Bulgaria. The family was
really of Italian origin, having taken
service with the emperor ill 1512. The
count passed bis winters cruising in
the southern seas, and it was supposed
in Berlin that he was somewhere In
the Pacific on his yacht. The Journey
to Berlin had not been in vain. A tele
gram to the proper authorities brought
the resisjitse that the Malstern yacht
was last reported at Barbados, en
route for New York.
[TO be continued .]
WILD ANIMALS.
DHTsrent
Methods by Which
Are C aptured.
The,
The different methods by which varl
ous wild animals are captured in tbeli
native state are interesting. Lions arc
generally caught by being tempted tc
thrust their beads through nooses ol
strong cords composed of twisted
bides. Pieces of meat are used for bait,
but frequently the Inniters have many
duys of hard chusing before the lion
can be persuaded to try the noose
When he does, tlie cords are pulled
quickly around his throat, stifling him,
und other stout cords are bound around
his legs. Tigers are more savage than
lions and cun rarely be captured when
full grown. Recruiting Is accordingly
carried on among tlie cubs, the parent
tigers being killed and the young, left
w ithout protectors,"being easily caught
The cubs readily accustom themselves
to captivity. Perhaps the most difficult
of ail wild animals to capture la th« gi
raffe. In addition to being very rar«
giraffes are exceedingly timid and
swift footed. There Is no special way
to capture a giraffe. Many different
ways have been tried, and all have
been equally unsuccessful. Til« meth
od which has occasionally resulted in
a capture Is that of using a long cord,
at each end of which Is a round weight.
Tills cord is thrown by the hunter in
such a manner as to wind around the
animal's legs, either bringing it to the
ground or rendering It incapable of es
caping before It is made a prisoner.
Most of the giraffes In captivity have
bwi caught by chance when young.
PRIMITIVE MINING.
LINCOLN AND LONDON.
Tuner Dedicate« to Uarfrrildrat In The Wn> Hables Are l-'ound. V»a«bed
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und Sold la lluru».
au Eugllsh Charch.
"With charity for all aud malice to
ward none" these well known words
of the great, bpne. sagacious Lincoln— I
appear In large lettering 1» the creed
of Christ church, Westminster road.
It Is fitting, then, that the Imposing
tower of thia superb structure, costing
over £62,004 (*310,000), should be dedl
•ated to the liberator of a race. Row
land Hill, whose name Is linked with
the world’s great preachers, founded
Surrey chapel eighteen years before the
close of the eighteenth century. New-
muu Hall was one of his successors,
aud under his leadership the church se
cured this spleafliil temple and center
of Christian service. When the build
ing was still lu the hands of the archi
tects Dr. Hall conceived the ldeu of
dedicating the tower to Abraham Lin
coln, the martyred president of the
United States, aud today within the
tower you may read the following In
scription:
LINCOLN TOWER.
Inaugurated 4th July, A. D. 1876, by
Str Thomas FowSii Buxton Bart.
The memorial stone was laid Sth July 1874,
By the American Minister to this country.
The cost (£7.000) was defrayed equally by
English und American contributions
obtained by the Rev. Newman
Hall, LL. B.
It was built In commemoration of the
abolition of slavery effected In 1865 by
.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN;
And as a token of International brother
hood.
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST.
—St. Nicholas.
THE JAPANESE BABY. .
Showered With Gifts Before It Even
Makes Its Appearance.
A hundred gifts in various shapes
are offered to the baby before its ap
pearance—toys, big ones, of course;
pieces of cotton, silk or crepe, invari
ably with a happy omen In their de
sign, are a joy to the mother. The
housemaids will be busy with the
baby's dress under the supervision of
the grandmother. It will be no slight
affair If the baby is a boy—yes, espe
cially if it be the first son.
Parties coming with their congratu
latlons will begin to stream into the
house the very next morning after the
announcement. They will bring dried
fish or a box of eggs to express their
good wishes, which will be returned
in some form of present when the baby
is two weeks old.
On the seventh day after the birth
comes the christening, and rice cooked
with red lieans—doesn’t red mean hap
piness?—will be sent among the friends.
Matsu (pine) Is a favorite name, since
It signifies bravery, keeping green even
under winter's frost.
Isn’t Mume
(plume) better, since It is the harbin
ger of spring, breathing out the most
divine odor in the world? Ml amalri
(going to temple) will take place on the
thirtieth day. The boy will be dressed
in a kimono. It must be silk, with the
BROKEN MIRRORS.
family's coat of arms on it. He will
»«,!«« Phases oi th* »«•»«■••<••■ be put under the Immediate protection
of the deity. Ills fortune will be se
That (Haas te Tk»a.
A young man with a ball bedroom cured.- Good Housekeeping.
atmosphere about him got off an ele
vated train at Rector street. He omit
CROWN OF A TOOTH.
ted to take a paper bag that a passen
ger who got aboard with him at Fifty 1« la Ceotpusea af the Margee«
Kaewa Orgaala labaiairt.
ninth street saw him carrying.
The crown of a human tooth Is cov
"Ht!” shouted his fellow passenger.
ered by a brilliant white cap of ex
“You've forgotten your luncheon.”
The young man hurried off without treme density, the enamel, which is
appearing to hear. The train hand not only tlie hardest tissue of the hu
peeped into the bag. "Broken shaving man body, consisting, as It does, of 96.6
mirror tills trip,” he said to the pas per cent of mineral and of 3.5 per cent
senger. “We run across broken mir of animal matter, but also the hardest
rors In bags or wrapped In neat news known organic substance.
The whole of the friction entailed by
paper parcels every few days. For my
part, I put the pieces under the seat tlie mastication of food falls upon the
for the cleaners to take away. If one cutting edges of our teeth, and these
Is superstitious at an It Is Just as un are protected by an extra thickness of
lucky to dispose of the pieces of s enamel. So hard Is this that only In
broken mirror as It 1 b to break ths extreme cases, In persons who live on
glass. I don't want any secondhand very hard food requiring much masti
cation, has It been known to wear off.
bad luck handed out to me.
This enamel cap Is composed of a
"Somebody has got to break shaving
mirrors or there wouldn’t be any sale vast number of microscopic rods, one
for new ones, but young chaps-who live end of each of which rests upon the
In boarding houses don’t like to leave dentine, and the other reaches the free
the pieces around when they break cutting surface. These rods vary in
one for fear of the landlady. There shape and position, some being five
Is no more superstitious person on and others six sided, some straight and
earth, not barring the sailor, than the others sinuous, but they are all arrang
New York boarding house keeper. I ed so that the maximum degree of
have heard of cases where a man has compactness and strength 1« secured.
been asked to give up Ills room because
he happened to break a mirror.”—New
l*ia Moaey Fnr th« Rich.
Y'ork Press.
The devices of the daughters of
rich men to make their own money
Where Stanley Worked as a ••)
are perfectly well known to the mana
He sometimes, but not often, spoke gers of women's exchanges, which are
to me of hla life as a boy. I remem established solely to help poor women
ber In 1800, when we were staying In put their work on the mnrket. One
Cincinnati together, Ms asking me oue day I was In an exchange when a wo
afternoon to go for a walk with him. man, evidently a lady's maid, came In
He took me through obecure back and registered some embroidery In her
streets and down dirty alleys until we own name. The superintendent took
reached a wharf on the banks of the up the work and. In a casual way .asked
Ohio river. He stopped at the bot the supposed artist to show her bow
“ft U one of the Makltcxta poiaontrt." tom of a street which ran steeply to do a particular stitch. The woman
A Venetian workman. Instructed to ex down to the river and pointed out a pleaded lack of time and went out etn-
lad who was rolling a large cask of barrassed and guilty looking. “I thought
amine it, exclaimed In surprise:
tallow from a cellar down to the so," said the superintendent. "She
“It is a Malatesta.”
“A Malatesta—whst's that?” asked wharf. He said: "I have brought you brings her mistress’ work. Her mis
here because I wanted to show you tress Is ths daughter of a very rich
Flint.
“Walt,” answered the Jeweler. He this place. I was doing exactly the man, but she has no pocket money,
took a slender steel nipper from a tool same work as that lad, and. If I mis and the poor thing has to cheat the ex
box and, running the point along the take not, that Is the same cellar In change by selling her work here under
Inside of the broad gold rim. presently which 1 worked."-—"iiemiulHeeuceS ot her maids name.”—Everybody’s Hag
azine.
touched what seemed a spring. Th« Sir Henry Stanley” tn Scribner's.
whole disk under the stone sunk in
What 1)14 the Hantaan Raoktf
This Topsy Tarry World.
ward and a thin streak of milky mat
At a depth of nine feet underground
This Is a topey tuny world. One
ter oesed etit,
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at the old Roman fort ot Aliso, oear
“Ah!” exclaimed the Venetian, care man Is struggling for justice, nnd an Haltera, the surface of which was
other Is fleeing from It. One man Is
fully avoiding the fluid. "I knew It.’
proved to have remained undisturbed
"Knew what?" asked the head of th» saving to build a house, and another Is since the Roman occupation, fifty-four
trying to sell bls “for less than It cost”
firm.
fragments of various clay pipes were
“It Is one of the Malntesta poisoners One uian Is spending all the money he found. Their shape was almost uni
None have been seen In Italy since the can make In taking a girl to an enter form. and they could be divided Into
expulsion of the Germans In the six tainment and sending her flowers In three* groups, one of which was char
the liope eventually of making her bls
teentb century.”
acterized by clumsy nnd very rough
"But what does It mean—how poi wife, while his nelghlior Is spending workmanship. The other groups were
the gold he has got to get a divorce.
son?”
of much finer make and decorated with
"When any one with a secret venge One man escapee all the diseases man figures and Roman characters. From
am-e wanted to get rid of s trouble la heir to and gets killed on the rail
marks found on all of them It wns evi
some friend or rival lie gave him or tier way. Another goes everywhere with dent that they had lieen used for
out
being
hurt
nnd
dies
with
whooping
such a ring ns this. You see, it must
smoking.—London Standard.
lie worn with the pointed edge toward cough. Such Is life!—Exchange.
the finger tip, elsewise the sharp points
Perversion by Abbreviation.
Comparing Notes.
would stab the hand where the lingers
Mrs. Gadabout—People are saying
Mrs. Apollo—Your cook seems to have
join. Now, when the ring is slipped
you called on Mrs. Verdigris the other
on, the inside roll is pushed in and the a very refined appearance. Mrs. Brooks day and got a setback. Mra. Upjohn—
—
She
says
she
Is
a
Vassar
girl.
Mrs.
poison oozes out drop by drop. In th«
What a willful perversion of truth!
course of a month, if the ring were re Cunningham—She worked for me once I called on her and got a set of Dick
moved nightly, as such gems are. th* and then said she was a Wellesley girl. eng bsck that I'd lent bar two year-
surface cf the skin would be sufficient Mrs. Devine—She told me she had been befo«.—Chicago Tribune,
ly abraded to absorb the poison. It Is a cook at both colleges.—Smart Set
probably very powerful, and the work
•«•■laiae «I*» ot it.
A Qaeatloa of Color.
would never tie suspected.”
Iler Husband- I suppose a woman
jlggs
What's
the
difference
bet«rflen
Flint's heart stood still. Kitty would
would hav»to be quite a phllosonher to
have been flrad at that very moment a hectic flush and a bobtail flush? be Indifferent to her appearance. She—
had she worn the ring. This horrible Jaggs- A hectic flush makes some one She'd have to be a lunatic.—Brooklyn
denouement was far from what lie had red and a bobfoil flush makes same one
:
expected In journeying to London. He | blue.—PhlladelDhia Bulletin.
The sy ie:u practiced for obtaining
gubies lu tl.e mining districts in Burma
is of the most primitive description
The rniniug shafts are simply holes
about two feet square sunk to a depth
varying up to fifty or sixty feet Th*
shoring up of the walls of th« shafts Is
most crude, the sides being supported
by posts at the corners and brunches
of small trees secured against the
aides by stout sticks.
The miner carries a tin pot similar
in shape to a blunt ended cone on bls
head. He squats down in one cornet
and digs between bis knees in the op
posite corner. The earth, or byon, as
the ruby bearing earth la called. Is con
veyed to the top as fast as It is exca
vated In small buckets let down from
above. The apparatus for raising and
lowering the buckets Is simple In th«
extreme. A stout bamboo post about
twenty feet high, called a tnaungdlne.
Is fixed upright In the ground at a con
venient distance from the pit or dwln
and a loug, thinner bamboo pivoted
horizontally Into the upper end of it sc
as to project an eighth from the mln«
and the long arm toward the mine.
From the end of the long arm bungs
it long cane fastened to u longer thin
bamboo, the latter ending In a double
book, and from the short end bangs a
basket of stones. The buckets are
raised by the. Inner arm with Its hook,
while the stones counterbalance the
weight. Usually three men work in a
dwln one down below, one hauling up
the baskets, and the third operator
piles tip the byon as It la received. The
byon is excavated by means of a
straight, strong tool about two feet
three Inches long, with a broad blade.
The baskets are shallow and circular,
with loop cane handles.
When enough byon has been piled up
It IS taken off nnd put into a stone
paved circular Inclosure resembling a
bath under a fall of water and shov
eled about with a mattock till the mud
and clay are washed away and the
stones are all collected In a deep hole
at the end of n narrow channel. These
are thet) strained, sieved and Anally
sorted and all rubles and sapphires
placed in a little bamboo cup full of
clean water till the wash Is over. They
are then transferred to a little calico
bag. which every mine owner carries,
and are finally transferred to the un
clean hands of the money lending fra
ternity, who flock around In crowds on
the bazaar days to buy any stones
found during the week. — Scientific
American.
THE FIRST RAILWAYS,
Whea Sixteen Mlle» an Hoar W&4«
the Passengers Dfxsy.
In 1830, when the railway was open
ed between Liverpool and Manchester,
the Liverpool terminus was at Wap-
plug. Lime street tunnel was not com
pleted until about six years later.
At first the service consisted of three
trains each way on week days and two
on Sundays, but this was soon found
to l>e insufficient After Lime street
station was opened there were six first
rlass trains and six second class trulns
each way on week days and two of
each description on Bundays. The Jour
ney of thirty-one miles occupied near
ly two hours, which led to complaints
that the speed was too great to be
pleasant and caused dizziness. On the
other hand, sanguine expectations were
Indulged lu that In course of time the
average rate of traveling would be at
least double the ordinary speed of the
swiftest flbnveyances drawn by horses.
It was anticipated that the general
adoption of railways would lead to “a
vast decrease lu the consumption of
oats and hay by the substitution of
steam engines in lieu of horses, and
that portion of the soil which has bitb
erto been allotted to the growth of
such produce may be appropriated to
the raising of food suitable to the hu
man species”—an Important considers
tlon in the time of the corn laws. It
could not have been foreseen that the
railway system, so far from supersed
lug horses, would lead to an Immense
increase In the demand for them.—Liv
erpool Post.
■»»V m «8 Adjourned tha Court.
On one occasion Wayne MacVeagb
succeeded In adjourning the supreme
court before the usual hour. Mr. Mac-
Veagb never remained In Washington
overnight if he could help It, and on
this occasion he greatly desired to take
the 4 o'clock train for Philadelphia.
Although talking to the court he kept
his eye on the clock and at 3:45, giv
ing himself Just enough time to reach
the station, lie ceased his argument
and said: “May It please your honors,
I move that the court do now adjouru.
I want to catch the 4 o'clock train for
home.” The cool audacity of the re
quest seemed to paralyze the justices,
but the chief Justice made the custom
ary order without a protest, and Mr.
MacVeagh got his train.
■ajeaiy of the Law,
A great deal is said of the majesty
of the law, and a sonorous phrase has
been coined to «»rpmrai It, but Its majes
ty resides In the sternness, prompt
ness, Impartiality and fearlessness with
which laws are enforced and the au
thority of the courts vindicated. If the
law has ever been brought Into eva
tempt it has been done by no act of
criminals or of Intending offenders, but
by the weakness nnd failures of the of
ficer* of the law and tlie ministers of
Justice to maintain the majesty with
which the law should clothe them.—
New Orleans Picayune.
A Question ot Weight.
The enthusiasm of oarsmen for theft
sport Is, I think, keener even than that
of the golfer. They never can help
talking “shop.” The other day a young
oarsman told me of his engagement to
be married and also of the engagement
of another well known OAtsman. I en
deavored to find words suitable to the
occasion, but I was stopped, as he
promptly interjected, “You know, mine's
11 stone 3, and X.'s is only 9 stone 1.”
The ruling passion was strong in love.
—London Truth.
Tte« C««saltatloa.
Friend—You'Te never been called In
consultation, have you? Young Doctor
—No, but I'd like to tie It's nice to
charge ten times as much as the other
doctor for saying that you don't know
any more about t»e case than he does
WOMAN AND FASHION
Show« Hiure to AdvaiilHKr
Closely sheared zibeline I» used for
this wooltex autumn frock. The tight
fitting coat la double brenMed and
trimmed with silk braid. The munnkh
cellar and small revers are of velvet.
SOUTH AMERICAN ANTS,
'1 he >!«»»< IlMnurrou» Mud Troubl«»
•uuie Eiieiuli1» ut the lluuler.
’ W lint are (be UiObt datiKViiiiis and
troublvMoine beast« you ever encoun-
ti-risl?" a famous big game 'hunter
uas asked, atlt-r be had llnisl)«*d t- ll
lug u string of yarns about bis ad
veutures ill South Americu.
“Ants,” lie replied. "They are fat
worse thau bears, jaguars, alligator«
or any other beasts al>out whom hair
raising stories are told. They give the
hunter In tropical aud subtropical
countries more trouble than anything
else.
"Once I rested ury gun against s
tree to take aim at a deer. There was
uu ants' nest in that tree. As soon
us I tired the ants tumbled out in
swarms and fell all over my guide and
myself.
"We were nearly stung to death
und had to tear our clothes off and
wallow up to our necks in the mud
of a nearby swamp before we could
get any relief.
"Another time I climbed a tree to
wait for mountain lions. I did not
notice that there was an ants’ nest in
the trunk, for the ants were all In
dixus when I climbed up.
I shot u mountain lion and started
to climb down, but the ants had beeu
disturbed by the firing and they
swarmed all around that tree trunk
by millions. I bad to slide over them,
and I didn't forget It tor a week.”
ACADEMY OF BRAN.
A < el<-l>rate«4 Italian Literary lu.tl-
tutlon and It. Alina.
also trimmed with braid. Both velvet
and braid are used to give a finishing
touch to the plain coat sleeve, which Is
a feature .of the new fall coats. The
.walking skirt is a seven gored model
with four plaits Introduced at each
seam.
Ilrlgo of the Button.
Buttons will be conspicuous the com
ing fall and winter ns ornamental ac
cessories to handsome toilets. Some of
tlie new metal buttons are so mude as
to closely . resemble delicate enibroid
erles on silken grounds. A new yet
decidedly old fashioned button like
those our mothers used to wear Is cov
ered with silk, tufted with velvet of
contrasting shades. Indeed, several of
the novelties In buttons are reminis
cent of the preceding generation.
The Dlrectolre lint.
The new dlrectolre hat, with its high
crowu and picturesque wide brim. Is
not for small women nor yet very tall
ones. In the one case the wearer looks
extinguished by her hat, and In the oth
er she Is apt to look nmnzonlan. For
women five or six Inches over the usual
five feet allotted the American the hat
Is usually very dashing and becoming.
The Little Touche«.
There Is u fad which Is being carried
out upon many of the new costumes
and In the prcttl(*st possible manner.
Bands of silk are embroidered by bund
nnd Ufced ns n dress trimming. These
bands, which should bo twelve In num
ber, are about twelve inches long.
They are cut wedge shaped, with the
big end of the wedge cut to a point
A Novel Neifllffee.
No color is more attractive for the
negligees of oriental suggestion than
bright red. This sninrt and novel kf
mono shows the color in stripes on a
ground of white wash flannel and is
The Academy of Bran was the most
celebrated of Italian literary acade
mies, und Its title was borrowed from
a previous literary society nt Perugia,
the Accademla degll Scossl, or the
Academy of the Well Shaken. The
device of tlie earlier society was a
sieve, and Its motto “Il plu bel flor ne
coglie” (It collects the finest flour).
The principal object of the Bran
society, the Accademla della Crusea,
was the purification of the Italian
language. In order to effect which, In
the spirit of pedantry common to the
age. It reintroduced many obsolete
words which had been replaced by
more effective derivative forms or
foreign adaptations.
Its greatest work was the Vocabu
lario della Crusea, the Vocabulary of
the Bran, published in 1613. Th«
whole tone of this work was archaic.
It affected to regard tlie fourteenth
century as the Augustan age of
Italian literature and endeavored to
make the standard of that period a
standard for all time. The Accademla
della Crusea is now incorporated with
two older societies, the Apatlcl, or Im
partíais. and the Florentine academy.
ANIMAL TAILS.
Home Th.) Are Qalte U.efwl a. Well
n» Ornniuental.
The tall, or, more strictly speaking,
the caudal fin, of a fish Is, says Pro
fessor Seeley, “the great organ of mo
tion,” nnd atnoug the mammalia wo
find several useful tails.
The most remarkable is, perhaps,
that common to most Ainerieun mon
keys, which Is as good ns a fifth hand,
owing to its prehensile powers. The
yellow tailed howler, If It is shot
when hanging by the tall, will remain
suspended for some hours, so tight Is
the grip. Humboldt noted in South
America how* spider monkeys form
themselves Into clusters by means of
their limbs and tails, the whole group
being suspended from a bough by tlie
tail of the strongest.
Tlie long, thick tnll of the kangaroo,
which serves as a balance against the
heavy hind quarters, especially when
the animal leans forward to browse,
and also aids in supporting it when In
Its characteristic upright position, is
also a most valuable appendage.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The very best a man can do Is not
very much.
Some way It causes a smile when a
married woman announces that she is
taking music lessons.
To be a fool is always bad enough,
but to be a fool and be In love is the
most fatal of all the combinations of
fool.
Remember when you run away from
punishment that punishment has a
great habit of waiting around till you
come back.
One of the most pitiful sights In tlio
world is an Intelligent, energetic, pro
gressive woman married to a worthless
man who doesn't know much.
When a girl buys her wedding outfit
she should leave her father enough
money to pay 'for the relief expedition
he may be compelled to send to her
later on.—Atchison Globe.
WASH PT.ASNKL KIMONO.
trimmed with bands of Persian silk,
In which Is much red, nnd worn with a
plain red sash. The style of the gar
ment Is peculiarly desirable and be
coming, f*nd the empire suggestion
suits present styles to a nicety.
To make It for a woman of medium
size will be required eight yards of
material twenty-seven, seven and three;
quarter yards (uin-y-iwu or six- yards
forty-four Inches wide, with one and a
half yards of silk for bands nnd three
and a half yards of ribbon for sash.
don Metnl Silk.
Gun metal silk Is one of the fashion
able materials for dowagers this sea
son. When shot with white and
trimmed with rich white lace it makes
an Imposing costume.
4 Frenchnmii ’ r Hn»e.
Mme. Bouvet, the wife of a Paris
shopkeeper, who left him, received the
following letter: "If you will not come
and see me alive, you will perhaps
come and see my corpse, for by tlie
time you receive this letter I shall bav«
committed suicide." She hastened to
her husband's house, nnd on breaking
open the <l<s>r saw a body still swing
ing to and fro. "Oh, my poor Edwnrd!”
she sobbed "I have killed him, and I
am a wretched woman.” At that mo
ment her husband rushed out of the
kitchen, exclaiming, "No, you hnve
not killed me, but you will If you do
not come back nt once.” Tlie body wns
found to lx* a skillfully made dummy
which find been arranged by tlie artful
husbnnd. He wns nevertheless nrrest-
ed on the charge ot hoaxing a public
official, as Mme. Bouvet was accom
panied by a police magistrate.
Draped Hodler«.
The use of drapery across the front
The Man.
of the bodice distinguishes many very
The way a man describes business
deals to his wife would make bls male
smart costumes.
associates wonder and wonder whether
they have not entertained n business
or One Mind.
Lady—I want some nd vice about get prodigy unawares.
The nearest way to a man's heart Is
ting a dlvofoe from my husband. Lnw-
y«r—I'll give you some for nothing. through his stomach, and tlie nearest
If you will wait a few days you will ba way to his temper Is through hls pock
a free woman. I filed a bill for him etbook.
In youth a man often desires a son
yesterday.
to bear his name. In middle age he of
ten desires a (laughter to help him to
The Doctor*» Viewpoint.
Doctor—Well, sir. I congratulate you. forget the same son.
One thing makes a man's tact glar
It's all nicely over. Newestpop—And
what is It, doctor? Doctor One hun ingly conspicuous, Its absent.
Men rate a woman at the value she
dred dollars, thank yon.—Town Topics.
places on herself.—Clubwoman.