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BAN DON IIKIOB.DKK. CHOICE MISCELLANY Trials of UuKlnn Writers. People here are so accustomed to re gard Russia :ts an illiterate land that thev will nrobably be surprised to learn that a popular book at a low price has been known to reach a sale of IMHXJ.OOU copies within a few months of its annearamo. Such is the avidity witk whieh the Slav reader seizes upon what appeals to hi:n. in m outer country, moreover, nave writers been called upon to suffer for their literary opinions as in Kussia The story of many of them is a verita ble martyrdom. Novikoff. the first modern writer, whom the metropolitan of Moscow termed "the bet Christian he ever knew," was immured for fif teen years in the Schluosselberg and eume out a broken man. I.abtu was Imprisoned and exiled. Radischcff in exik ended his own life bv ui-idt' Kjlref was hanged, with five other le-ser writers, by Nicholas I. Pushkin would have dud in exile but for being kill-il in a duel, and Lcnnontoff was :i!s- killed when i i -Tle hi tu .-i-re of sunn and twenty. u.Wvskv was bro- ken h twelve years' h.-nl lalior in a Siboriau convict prison. Polo.haeff was eoitiiei.tuvd to a thousand strokes wttu tle iMstitiado and tw.-ntv the years' service in joiutl regiment, ami it similar fate was reserved for Shev ehenko. Tlie lit?t could be extended to ,ii. i iii.,.k .. ...... i .....i.... - .t . v. l.vuuon i eie- gr.1h. Ioic:i In K:c:r. Kggs may Ih xisotinus even before mv iKKi. i uio eiieerrm state- Went made by Professor .MetelmtkniVki.. ...LI .u: r ..i- ... of the Pasteur institute in the witnes I ... MM. . 1.1.. bnHinr n..w .i ...... nil t iiiiit iiii .i.iiuitt . i i . . ed survive hi a v.-et:iti" atat.. t.J U'i degrees r.. ,r Uti degnx's 1 Conse- tfiteiKily a inw or even partly cooked gg. liowever fns!i. nwy alv.nys be poisonous owing to the posil!e pre-;- once of lively 1 ;rili m tin' wl He :uil coiuained tncrcin fittiii the ver.- Iwgin- nini:. The iirofes-ior's evklei co was gheu in a ease lfore the tirst chain er. iu wIikii a pastry cook i; lniug suctl Uy twemy-tiw jerMn wlo had h'M made very ill by cuing some of i . i . ... . . . . . . ii ej t-wui lans ana ty iik ii .r ot a twiHity-slxtli. who diini of it. Odieial ejcHrts. supp:itel by M. Aic- lnrkotr, stati at the tir-t hearing of the case that it Is utterly hei ositde ever to mjtke ure that wuip;Ml cram eon- tabling white f egg uulMihM shall be fniKxruoiis Iwwover fresh the egg. f-r me Mtiuve n'asims. fans inciter to London Telegraph. A I'leti I'.ir Itaeiuir C:ir. Kucing ears are fuiiHHng a worthy I and high function, and all tmrit and rtuers oi every sn.nie or eHiservat;'in are indebted to i1h-m spvd eat Jlt.it Let uieir ute out m a trail stnietuiv for the sake of quiet and safe -mar Vd motoring. Hie man that turn-- to curse a tiring chauffeur ought to Uujw enough to praise him. He puts each part to a white hot test. An h.ur of a speed, debauch is worth a .vunr of sano bowling along. The cxiicrimcMs on tlie racing ear, the results of which have been taken over ami incorporated in ttie touring ear. are lonir shot on the me ot tne mter. .ud this system oi ,ul,,"t iUf, u. ..uruuig fiery iM't.nn- is sitiui: lis me iiicreas- ingly excellent touriug cars. Countrv Life In America Modern Crusoe. Crusocs are still possible. A whole French crew has undergone the experi ence of Selkirk. The thrc masted ves sel Anjoti, owned in Nantes, was lost in the Tacific in rebruary. All hope that the crew were alive had been given up when a few days ago the ship owners received a telegram from New Zealand annouu-ing that the entire ship's company had been rescued safe and weil after liviug thrtv month- on a desert island. The name of t Is given iu tlte Paris papcr iet I And- pel. and it Is stated to 1m ir-.u- th Auckland group. Kcplnslon.s on Old lint I l-llelil- The forests in the mountains known as Loudon heights. ,it.iMi-i:e Il.u-ne:- Ferry, took Are recently am! i,mni . . with great interitr. After some t lis;.- a series of explosions were heard which - ----- i startled the inhabitants, ami the con- cttssion was so groat that it broke win flows in souk Ihhi-m'S la Harpers Fer ry, across the Shenandoah. Tla epli, sioits- w-re cau-ed b- the bursting of shells which had ln-on thrown on th heights at uV time when 'Jetieral Mills surrefcdrcd to Stonewall Ja ksoit In These had failed to explode w hen they were ilred and had remained there for mure, than forty years. me jjciienj- uucarcttc. Another blow has been struct nr tin chrarette. Now comes a medical :m - - . v 1 thority to declare that leeches amdied to inveterate cigarette smokers die of nicotine poisoning after a short time, u iue oiuer nana, tney enng to nana- ual pipe smokers without experiencing any apparent discomfort, from which It Is argued that the cigarette smoker absorbs tlie nicotine while the pipe smoker does nor. The Investigator is silent regarding cigars. A Profitable Crop. aiaipa is as sate an investment as iue uaiiK or jsaigianu ami as lertste in dividends as Miller's get-rlch-niiiet concern if a certain forest in Kansas Is a standard of success. An average annual profit of ."2 per cent maintained for twelve years on a Sfiu acre nm. Ji of catalpa Is the showing of the bal- i nnce sheet of Mr. L. W. Yagsv of Hutchinson, Kan. Catalpa accounts f .r one-half of the success; sleepless man agemeut was the price of the other half of the triumph. Country Life In A merlon. Ilolmnii Ilunt'n rnJntliiK.. Mr. Holnian Hunt spent seven years on his great painting "The Triumph of the Innocents." and then was not at all satislied with It. while "The Shadow of Death" took him three vears. I have seldom known any one who deserted truth In trilles that could be trusted In matters of Importance. Ps?.Iey. POLL! UflNI I lev. Frederick F. .Shannon, pastor of CSrace Methodist Fpiscopal Church M Hrooklyn, gave a merited rebuke to women who lavish not only alfcetioii, but wealth, upon' their dogs, in a re cent address before the Long Island .Methodist Preachers' Association, lie stated that in the citv of Brooklyn there were women who spent a thoiis and dollar and more a year in clothes for their ioo'ile dogs. They purchased erniine-linedcoats costing the modest sum oi two hundred do ars. Thev I must lit just to, and in each pocket of these dear little coats was tucked a oanu nine iiiiUKerenief ol teat laci M-'tie JsrooKI n woman went so far as to have a Queen Anne cottage built tot her dog. Th roohis werepaiiered and carpeted, the windows hung with lace curtains, and the tiny bed must be airett and sunned t very day. At a cer tain hour of the morning a woman l4ll,tu l" ", cirri and periume lite i 11. ..i . .. i . M'Ulc darling and then take him out r n walk. He has to have his nteab served regularly to avoid a eoinnliea lion ,.f ..vil tli.it ,..i.ri. r..n.... if l... I ww - - l w:is allowed to eat everything at an v and all times. This precious dog must have its own dainty dishes of Havi- land china, for he knows the dilfer- ence at once and would refuse to eat oil of common table ware. It seems hard to believe that Mich simpletons as these Women have proved themselves to Ik - i i-n'iiiii i-.i3i in mi- eiji oi eiiiiuiiieii ntent and progress, and shows them ul' 1,1 ""ytlniig but an enviable light. 11 ,s lhe healthy chu, as a rule, who "'"'ii- t"s bg fad, giving it far ,llort' attention than they would a little M'ninl, the latter b-.Miig u.-ttally turned over to a nurse and i probably een once a day for live minutes. 1 heard a young mother say not long since that her little girl was nearly a year old and she had never had the care of her for a single dav or niuht. and that the child t hought a good deal more of her nurse, who had taken eiiarge ol her since the day she was Ihuii, than she did of her. This wo man had an ugly little pug dog that slept on the foot of her bed every night on a tine angora rug bought especially for him, with sheets, a soft, fleecy lilauket, silk ijuilts, ami with a lace- . edged pillow for him to rest his ugly liitl.. ii...,,! .mi MM... ..i. ; i.i . 1..... :.. .. . . 4VJ 1 iu il nsiam r(Hm tin ine nurse, wnere, it 11 chanced to cry during the night her nat would not be interrupted. She looks anything but the sellish, cold hearted and indiHerent mother she has proved to be, for she has n rosy, dimpled face that can be wreathed iu smiles, making her bewitching and very pretty. She is popular, tx, among her fritrtids and she entertains a great deal. Hut as lone as she clings to the dog and neglects her child, her beauty ami attractiveness count for nothing. .Shesays children are a great i,utia.r ami sUe ia opposed to more than one or two children in thehoue. but a dog is good company ami no trouble whatever. I suppose she think- the dog hasn't a soul and she does not have to bother herself about his spiritual welfare, etc. He is smarter than the average dog, comes from blue blooded stock of the best kennels in the country, and what more can she ask'.' Hrooklyn is not the only place when money is spent lavishly ujk)ii dog.- Herein .San Francisco voti see women of wealth carrying around a fat, roly 1.. !. 1 1 ... . 1 ?. I'oiy 'log in ncr anus uecause ii uies him to walk, and in one of the leading and highest priced stores here, they carrv the little animal to be fitted out in coats, which of course have to be made for him, and he must have hi.- own lovely brush and comb, articles oiai many a sw eet, teiiiicd girt wouid to possess, but which arc beyond the limit of her spending money. Thi dog has an exquisite little band of gold with his name engraved unou it. it i set in pearls and turquoises and a liny gold padlock fastens it around one of his front feet. His mistri'ss alway.- ea mi's ine uev wmi ner. i ne nun -ill-: coat, handsomely embroidered and fur-lined, has the little lace haudkor- chief, scented with the peifuuiery in likes best the wood violet, at a dollar ImikI.m null sill ounce--MleKeO JIWMV III graved wnn ine uog s name, lasteti tin , . . , r c'!l1 - 1 h:i1 ,SM 1 this dog mu-t have his own particular playthings, or else he mopes and acts a- though lit were sick. "ror little dear, he Io-t hi - .lolly coming from .Sacramento the other day and he has grieved a!oul it ever since," said a lady owning this particular dog, to a clerk in this big clothing house for ladles and children. "It was all my fault." she continued. 'for I put the dolly in the window while lie was asleep and accidentally knocked it old. Let me see some of the prettiest rag dolls you have." A dozen dolls were shown to the dog without arousing any particular in terest m the fat little pug. "No, he doesn't care for them, but I know he would like this one if 3-011 had a blue dress instead of a pink one on it." She left her order to have it dressed in blue by the following day and she was to call for it. Next day she was on time to the minute, rfhe could not get the doll quick enough, for she said the poor dog was pining so over the loss of the other doll that he was losing his appetite. "Don't wrap it up," she said to the clerk. "I will carry it so he can see it all the time and get used to it." She cheerfully laid down a live dollar gold piece for it and went smil ingly out of the store, with the fat, blinking pug dog in one arm and the doll in the other. This is only one in stance where women of this city allow them&elves to become simpletons over this dog fad. She has plenty of com pany. I low much better it would be if these women why have nothing but dogs to spend their allecUott and time upon would take the same interest in some poor little waif and see that it is fed and clothed properly and given oppor- Utilities that will make them helpful and useful citizens, and who in turn fur the heiwvliii... i..,:..i. .,ie... - - lilt l.ill tlllV. tion that comes from a grateful and loving heart. How much they are missing that would in after life bring them pure joy and happiness as they watched the successful careers of those who had been helped in their hour of need. Vet, they forget here is a chance of benefitting mankind, and fat puggy dog fill their nanow, warped hearts to completeness. BRIEF REVIEW. Disastrous Fortune Telling. n extraordinary case of madness, in which all members of a family, con- sisiingof father, mother and four chil- dren, were simultaneously allli. ted, re- cently occurred in lie giuni. A party , ... . f ' - of strolling gypsies, who undertook to tell the father's fortune by means of cards, declared that he would be killed while serving in the army, and this prediction so impressed him and his family that iu the course of the same day they all developed signs of waver tug reason and before long had to be put under restraint. The gypsies, who were the source of the trouble, were ar rested by the (lerinan police when crossing the frontier from lielgiuni. Cause ol Comets' Tails. A subject to which much discussion and tlicori.tng has been devoted dur ing recent years is the cause and char acterof the tails of comets. Many in genious hypotheses have Uvn proposed but none of them as yet is generally in cepted as the right one. K. (J. .Shaw some time ago published a new theory. He attributes the tail to the action of the cometic atmosphere on the sun' i-i. t . . iays, which renders itiein more capa ble of being refracted and reflected by the meteoric dust in the neighbor hood. I hat is, there is really no tail, but merely a local ilium ination of the interstellar dust. .Shaw also explains the gegeiischeni by the same phenom enon. A Deadly Disease. The American Hoard of Foreign Mis sions has received reports from its Af- rican ntis-iotiaries relating to thepecti- nar disease Known as tne sleeping sickness, which is seriously allecting lent rnl Africa, particularly the kin doni of I gauda. These reports show that there have been deaths within the kingdom from the disease. It is believed that the maladv is con nected with the presence of the taetse fly, which hitherto has not been sup- posed to be harmful to man, though fatal to cattle and horse.-. Bedroom Suit Worth $100,000. At Knole, Seveiioaks, Kent, Fnglaitd, the residence of Lord Sackville, there is a room called the King's bedroom, containing a bed made for James that cost ; lO,tjiM), a solid silver table, a toilet -ervice of silver valued at o00i and many other treasures that entailed the expenditure of much gold ($100,000 in point of fact), when the apartment was furnished in the precious while metal. Equal Sulfrajje in Iceland. I t a 111 Iceland men ami women are 111 every respect political equals. I lie na tion, which number.- over 70,000 peo ple, is governed by representatives elected by both men and women. ( f all the sad lives of this sail world, there are none so sad as those of the mile gin widow.- oi India. I here are 77:;, 000 girl widows in India, who are nine years old. India does not vet know that the quality of the mother must prove the quality of the men. Mrs. McHryde John. I'm simply dis gusted. While I was out this morning the eat got Into the pantry and ate every single thing except a cake I had Just baked. Mr. McHryde-What a wonderful thing animal Instinct Is. to b-sure! Cleveland Leader. !!- uss-on as to the length of the line betw een Maine and the I tolllillioll of Can sd.: c-tu-ed an Augusta man to write to the librarian of congress for a definite di-cisiou In the matter. He r" coived the reply that, roughly meas ured on the map. the total distance was N't miles, l,ut the ritggedness of th-' in mi ami tne ins and outs oi the water boundaries could be depended upon to raise that figure to oOO. r.xery year it Happens mat the Kaiser fells this or that young ollieer whose dancing is not up to the mark t leave the ball until he has improved. Tin coll'teipience ot this strictness is that tor weeks before the beginning of court festivities every regimental ca sino oi me guards is uiriied into an officer dancing academy. Th older f "leers become dancing masters and eoacii tlieir younger comrades in the particular dance. practiced at court. ' ' ml ! . s.- ; li:g g -1 :;,iioiid on ".11-111 ale .- it h. I been t"ken from South Afrha to Lou don. lie asked tlial It lie brought to his private apart -iients iu P.tickiiighani p-.hice by a court ollicial, but the cus todian of the ge- 1 respe fully refused t allow it out of his sight. The king was much amused at this and rallied his entourage on the suspicion evi dently entertained as to tlieir honesty. The hank having custody of the dia mond finally agreed to its absence for one Hour, charging SlrJo as a premium on a special policy of $2,fi00,000 Insur- ... 1 . a nee, the custodian-accompanying the h precious lump. i: r: TS. Tt ij t . i 1 1' lite Old Sole WJiccIei-s In (he In the enrlv L'iii ly Diij . il.wi there was ;i rgu l:ir line of packets between St. Louis and Si. Joseph, all side wheeler-;, and the average round trip occupied eight day-. A boat left St. Louis every day for ihe .Missouri river, and as there were fourteen boats in the line each boat made a round trip once everv two weeks during the season. During tin winter the boats ran between St. Louis sum N,'U' Ufh'nns. I "tiling U the rivet the boats ran all night, but in going down they al ways laid up as soon as darkness set In. Iu going d iwti the river the boats usually left St. Joseph early in the afternoon and laid up for the night at Weston, where there was always a lot ;f f;ei.;;.: to I - i 1. The nerd l.iy they went to Lexington, the next to Iloun ville and the next to St. Louis. Occa sionally during high water a boat would leave Lexington at daylight and pencil St. Louis in time for breakfast the next1 morning. The boats carried from 12(H) to KM) passengers on the trip up the river. COlintinir the imini-T.-ints itn the lii-!.- i solfJ b.u.k lhlv 0Illv ,,.ul ,..,, passengers. The cabin fare from St. '-""i to St. Joseph ranged from $10 w,ur" "'""! meals and state- ' ' ' '. 1 m' U)!US m :l" sPIiie.i I Willi fill.. .....1... ai.t.l .1... ... ........... ..... , . , . . lived on the best that money could i,m- The average boat carried r00 to C.(iO tons of freight in addition to passen- gers. During low water freight that now costs l!0 i cuts a hundred cost a hundred. The expense of a round trip from St. Louis to St. Joseph. In cluding loading and unloading, was es timated at $-1,000. and the Income from cost to $7,000. Kach boat carried a crew of from SO to 100 men. The aver age vahr of the boats in the line was probnbh $f.",(M0 each. The biats were often on sand bars, where they sometimes remained for a day and night, but altogether the time was made surprisingly well. A pilot who luid a reputation for keeping ill.-, boat ol the bars cotnmande.f as high as $."0o a month. I-Zach burd was pro vided 'villi two pilots, and this expense usual!; amounted to from $; to $1.- (nn.1 a mouth. All a river pilot saved he put in his watch chain. You could tell a high priced pilot by the size of the lh.ks In his gold watch chain. A rattling good first male who knew how to ban. lie a boat after it struck a bar received $L'."itl a month. Poker was a favorite river amuse ment, and it was not an uncommon sight to see eight or ten games goiug at the same time in the main cabin of a steamboat. Ami tne playing was .or actual money, which was displayed in stsicks on the tables. Among the famous boats on the river at that time were the Kate Kinney. F. !. Aubry. Morning Star, John I . Per ry, Moux i:;-. oii.::ha, t arner and the James H. Lucas. The last named made the fa-test run in the history of ilm river- .ii f sours ami J.: minutes trom St. Louis to St. Joseph. lion AVI ii I'm Are ("oloreil. "Most people think whitf grapes make white wine and davk gniHs makejred wine, sum a visitor. J hat is a m, Hi lar error. "Red wine is made by fermenting grape juice and grape skins together the skins giving the color, and white wine is made by fermenting grape Jii'ce alone. "The Juice of white and of dark grapes doesn t ditrer In hue. In each -ort of grape the Juice is almost color less, like the weakest lemonade. "Champagne, one of the dearest of the white wines. Is made of a grape so dark as to be nearly black. lint the juice of that nearly black grape is quite as pale as tin juice of the blond est white grape." Minneapolis Jour nal. .In pan one Itndinli. Picture to yourself a pure white radish the size of a baseball or larger. firm and solid. Such Is tlte Japanese radish. Cut It, and you find it has the consistency of a llaldwin apple, firm and fine grain: taste, and It proves to he away ahead of the most delicate spring radish that ever passed your lips. It will thrive at any season dur ing the growing year. It may be trans planted or left alone, cultivated or u:i- ctiltivaicd. It Is as good to eat when In bloom as In Its younger days, and one radish will provide bulk enough for three or four people or more. Harden Magazine. War Illxtory. darky was watching parade one .Memorial vociferously cheering An old the day the !. A. R. and was baud. I suppose you were through the civil war. uncle V" snid a bystander. "F.ver step of it, suh!" "At the sur render too?" "F.ver' step of It. suh:" "What did Ceiieral Lee say to General ( Irani V" "Never said nut tin, suh; Ick chopped olt his hald an' went on! ("llm:il- unit ('oiininiittts. Ill a book op bis adventures iu Tibet Colonel L. A. Waddell writes: "Due curious result of the cold should be mentioned here nainelv. Its effect upon the speech of the people. A peculiar ity of the language of the Tibetans, in common with the Russians and most nretie nations, is the remarkably few vowels In their words and the extraor dinarily large number of consonants. For example, the Tibetan name for Sikhim is Hbrasljoiigs. Indeed, so full of consonants are Tibetan words that ni 'st of them could bo articulated with almost seniielosed mouth, evidently from the enforced neces-ily to keep the lips closed as far as possible against the cutting cold when speaking." Siienk ;mhI of (lie Living. Few will be found to dispute the spirit of the old Latin proverb "De inorttiis nil nisi bonum." Is it not a pity, however, that we are all so in dined to offer fulsome adulation of the dead, about whom, while living. 110th ing was too vile to say? This is not to be understood as criticising unfavor ably the natural tendency to forget the faults ami foibles and to remem ber only the virtues of the people who nave "gone on before, but it uos scout too bad that, more even justice, - rrea:er toleration and charity tan not be shown to thu living. Success. SYDNEY SMITH. A.- n oiintrj Parson mid h.s a Peace ni.-l. in .MsiKiNtrutv. For twenty years Sydney Smith re tnained in Yorkshire, tind, though his ideas of clerical duty were not those of today, yet it will not be denied that he was a vigorous country parson, en- V'-ring Into the pursuits and the daily life of his humble neighbors and doing his utmost to improve their lot. His descriptions of his life and surround lugs at Foston are among the most de lightfttl of Ids humorous writings. Ev cry one has heard of Annie Kay, the little country girl, "made like a mile stone," who, christened Bunch, "he came the best butler In the county;" of the rawboned riding horse Calamity, which "Hung tne over his head into a neighboring parish as If I had been a shuttlecock, nnd I feel grateful that It was not into st neighboring planet;" of the ancient green chariot named the Immortal, "at which the village boys cheered and the village dogs barked; of his four draft oxen Tug and Lug. Haul and Crawl of which "Tug and Lug took to fainting and required buckets of sal volatile and Haul and Crawl to lie down in the mud." As a magistrate Sydney Smith became fa mous for making up local quarrels and for dealing gently with pinchers. The game laws, like a good Whig, he could not abide, and It stirred his honest wrath to reflect that "for every ten pheasants which fluttered in the wood oiio KugUsh peasant was rotting ie jail." Like Charles Kingsley at Kvors ley in after years, he refrained from shooting. "If you shoot," he said, "the squire and the poacher will both con sider you as their natural enemies, and I thought It more clerical to be at peace with both." Uev. ('anon Yaughan in Longman's M aga.ine. BORN FOR A LAWYER. V.'hy ills Mnfiici- Iteeoiiiiiiemleil 1 1 1 111 to CoIoik-I luivcrsoll. Aiming the st :-Ies which Coloiu-i Hob IngcrsoM del -dUi-d Jo tell was the following, si-.ys ti.e writer of "Anier 'ten's Most Popul; .- Men:" While studying law with a firm out went the colonel lound himself alo.ie In the office one day. He was interrupli'd by the entrance of a raw boned, sharp featured country woman, who amble! into the room ".ending a freckle faced, watery eyed tMi-y ear-old bo by the hand. "Air you the lawyer:" she began. (in lK'ing auiweiVHl hi the affirmative she went on to say that she had brought her boy Jim to town for the purpose of binding him out at the "Iawyerin' trade." She was moral':, certain, she averred, that Jim was a lHrn lawyer and that all he needed wa-- a chance. "P.m. madam." objected the colon 1. "he Is entirely too young to begin the tudy of law." "Too yonng. indeed!" sniffed the fond mother 1 onlvta; 'uoiwly. "You don't know Jiy:. lie was bora for a law yer." Much amused, the colonel asked her on what grotimis she based her hopes of a future at the bar for her darling child. "Why," said she, "when he was only seven years old he struck work, and he wouldn't do another lick if he got killed for it. When he was eight he got sassy and put on more airs than a prize horse at a country fair, and now. Lor' bles mo. he jest freezes on to everj thing he can lay his hands on." The Klrst KnirlUh I.lRlii Iioukc. It Is to the Romans, who left so many marks of their presence In Eng land, that Rritons owe the first light house. Tlds was, and Is still, the Phn ros watch tower to the south of the keep of Dover castle. This Is remark able as the only remaining specimen of Roman work In the castle and as the earliest piece of regular masonry now existing in dreat Britain. It con sists of a casing of flints and tufa, with b inding courses of large Roman tiles tilled with smaller stones. Its shape is octagonal outside, but square inside, the inner room measuring four teen feet and the walls being ten feet thick. Repaired again and again. It was used at one time as a government storehouse. London Chronicle. Keep Serene. When you come to think of it, most of us do have a hard time keeping our selves In order, temper, nerves, selfish ness and longings, ambitions and de sires all Insisting to have a hearing, and down steps wisdom and orders con trol. Of course there are the cool head ed, intellectual people to whom self sacrifice means nothing, and little they know of the light of the other passion ate half. Ill health and discontent are the fruits of the bat lie. Keep serene, say, "I shall control myself and he a cheerful philosopher," and all will go well POINT LACE. Ttie HcmiM ,r die (;,MIH at Ilnrlmrn I Mnt.111 f Snxony. A little knot 11 example of inventive genius in w..:can is u,at afforded bv P.arbara l'llinii of Saxony and her j point lace so 1 ug in fashionable use all to suppress the orgies at popular re over the world. She invented the proc- sorts In the town. A few days later ess and app.i, it us for manufacturing the police raided the principal restau this b.-aulitui handiwork, whieh has rants after midnight, and the next sim-o given employment to millions of , morning General Trepoff asked of his operators and which, in its line, has 1 august master directions for the pros never lx-eu excelled. The apparatus ecutlon of one member of the Imperial looks like a long pincushion bristling family, two Judges of the high e-jurt, a with pins arranged to outline the pat- ' mayor and deputv mavor. several gen terti or design. The operator manages ' ,.,-als and manv women well known In from ton to It) ty peculiar spools, allow- Moscow society, who. among others, ing the thread to feed over the pins al- unl ljWM1 arrested In the raid. The t ornately until the design is completed, j matter ended there The spools or bobbins are purposely of j different colors, so as to be easily dls- tiuguis'tiable. The process is slow and I di:iieu!t to learn. Miss rttman found-! . 1 :t!iim1s where thousands learned it. Sin e her s!:. c . n inventive ability was rare even aiuoug nun. her idem have U cu incorporated in the construe-1 tlon of machinery by which the lace is produced at wonderful lower rates, and yet P.arbara ftt man's lace still sur passes all.- London tjueeu. The Vwftil l.onellnchN. The Friend What made you close your season so early? The Actor The solitude, my boy; night after night, the annulling solitude. Brooklyn Life. ; : e i iaisi of W.'sttiian. south of Ice i.- has a ptpuluMnn of ".00 souls. 'i' it - uSniost entirely on fish. Kven h- 1" v animals an- chiefly fed on fish. QUALR i. Snvurr 11 ml yl;:l:;i-y All tin Venr Iloimil mid Liked by All. Nearly all our vegetables and herbs appear originally to have passed through some preliminary stage in the laboratory of the medical herbalist be fore being admitted to the full honors of the kitchen. The fact Is not so strange as It might at first sight ap pear, and its results have certainly been to the general advantage of man kind, for, though for the most part tlie old herbalist's prescriptions were of a kind neither to kill nor cure, his hives tlgations of the specific qualities of plants were often useful. The ancients seem to have regarded sage as an herb of first Importance to the physician, ami the many traditions concerning it refer a'ni'ist entirely to this aspect of t!i' plant. "Why should a man die who has sage in his garden?" was one of the maxims of the famous school of health at Salerno. The belief in Its vir tues survived through the middle ages and wa handed down with unimpaired vitality to quite modern times. The writers of the sixteenth and seven teenth centuries were full of Its praises, and there was hardly an ailment of mind or body for which sage wns not pronounced a cure or nn alleviation. Thence sprung the idea that as It was thus generally wholesome and recom mended by the faculty the housewife might prudently admit a dried winter supply to her storeroom. And so this "sovereign herb" gradually found Its way into the kitchen, of which It has ever since remained an Indispensable adjunct; not that It at once lost all Its : medical attributes. "lie that would live for aye must eat sage In May" runs the proverb. But the cooks soon began to take broader views. They pronounced sage to be equally savory and salu tary all the year around and of special and peculiar value at the season of Mi chaelmas. But this Is advancing matters. Kven the best of things eatable have had to overcome prejudice and slowly make tlieir way, and In the case of mere con comitants some help from (he encour aging hand of fashion has generally been necessary. The rather nauseous brew known as sage tea was so com mon a domestic medicine to our fore fathers that they could not at once ac cept the herb in the character of a savory adjunct. But we live and learn. and the merits of sage as a modifier of certain rich viands began to be ac knowledged. It seemed to have a kind of natural affinity with roust pork. gO'ise and duck and presently became the constant attendant of these dishes. Larly In the eighteenth century an ae- knowlidged authority laid It down that as to geese and ducks, cooks should stuff them with some sage shred fine ami a little pepper and salt and the same with a suckling pig." London Olobe. Our Golden "Cold Wnvi-n." We Americans are always talking a. ::t our mountains of gold and coal an 1 iron, of our fat fields of corn and wheat, but few of us ever realize that we have in our climate a great advan tage over all other nations. In the oi l wave which in summer and win ter so often sweeps across the land and sends the thermometer tumbling .10 degrees In almost ns manv minutes we have a constant, a never diminish lug asset of priceless value. The wave lets as a tonic; but. unlike any tonic made by man. It carries no reaction. No other land has cold waves like ours To the cold dry air of this periodic c-.dd wave, which brings extraordinary changes of temperature, we owe much of the keen alert mind, the Incessant, unremitting energy of our American race. Century. NiiuncR und Kkk Skin. In cases of violent nausea when all other remedies have failed the skin of a perfectly fresh egg Is an almost im mediate relief. If the first skin does not havo the desired effect two more will cause a cessation without fall. This has been tried successfully In ca--es of cholera under the eye of a phy ciau who acknowledged he had tried every known remedy In the pharmaco poeia. The egg skin is said to form a new coating temporarily for the stem ieh. The skin of an egg Is the part that clings tightly to the Inside of tlie shell. It can be given with milk or water and should be rolled up Into as small n dose as possible. London l'lfiybotiMes. In the London playhouses there Is nn dr of comfort and quiet luxury not always evident In our own theaters. The auditoriums are usually very small, but the seats and aisles are spacious, and the furnishings and dec orations suggest a drawing room rath er than a place of public amusement. The atmosphere Is further accentuated by the evening clothes of the men, which are compulsory. San Francisco Argonaut.. Too Ulcli 11 Ilnnl. When Ceneral Trepoff was chief of police In Moscow, before the estab lishment of the state liquor monopoly. he was told from the highest quarter- linn the Mnat Leitn. 'f'10 little creature which bears the distinction of owning more legs und ,t,(,t than any other known organized hi'in;: i t:.e milleped, which literally means "thousand footed." There are several species of these curious worms, " possessing the characteristic of hav- Itic i tno in- .m ..-1 1 . I 1 1 . .1. I " -' uoo., eacu seg- ment provided with a pair of legs. Un- like the centlpeds-"hundred footed"- they are perfectly harmless. ; Impatient. I . o:.. i . . . - ' cep yourself unspotted from the world, Cornelia. You are so licitous, are you not, to enter, heaven utter you cross the river? The Bud Yes. But. auntie, I'm not uverse to n little heaven on this side. Puck. WOMAN AND FASHION For the Seaiihorc. If the vacation days are to be spent at the seashore the bathing suit will be an Important article Iu the summer wardrobe. The ready made ones are usually ill fitting and unsatisfactory and lack the smartness and style that a well fitted suit gives to the wearer. Jt.VTI.'IN'i .SUIT. Any woman could easily make her own and would be well repaid for tlie time spent in the making. The model here shown Is a particularly good one and as illustrated was made of black wa terproof taffeta, trimmed with bauds of wiiite Serge, mohair, brilliantiue. linen and silk arc all used iu the mak ing, and dark blue ami black are the favorite colors. The medium size re quires six and three-quarter yards of forty-four inch material. I'nnhtoii Fitncleii. Prunella is a cloth revival. Cloth is used to trim summer silks. ; Skirt yokes are by no means "out." The latest decolletage is wide rather than low. Tailored linen blouses are first choice for morning. Reseda Is best set off with a touch of cream and gold. lJr.rn and brown is a favorite com bination in changeables. Lingerie sleeves are seen inside tlie sleeves of tailor coats. A cut out design in taffetas Is a smart trimming for tlannel serge. Tinted AValut I.I 11 1 11 kk. The trick of putting a lining under neath a white bloii-e that will bring out the tone of the gown Is quite a fashionable trick and a very prettj' one. Red linen coat suits, for instance, carry pale pink muslin slips under white lingerie blouses. For this rea son bobbinet has come Into favor for 1 - . .... I. 1. . . 41 1 s:iiiii vi!iii; 11 : 1 x I i iri ti-i i v nifT-M does not pull out of shape like- many of the muslins. Tinted WalntN. The fashion of wearing colored shirt waists, no matter how delicate the tint, with white skirts Is not approved. A tintiil waist may be worn with a white coat suit and is considered a higher touch of fashion than the all white suits. Model In New Silks. Silks make a notable feature of the season and are so thin and cool that they will be worn during the entire summer. Illustrated Is a most attrac tive waist made of one of the pretty louisines. with cuffs and collar of lace. Tlie model is high at the neck, the yoke being formed by a succession of shlr rings, but it can be cut low, with the sleeves In elb-.v. 1, ngih, so becoming and suited to evening as well as to day TUCKED SHIia-.KP YOKE WAIST. wear. The sleeves are tlie very newest and are slurred to form a succession of puffs. At the waist is the fashionable full belt, and the closing is made Invis ible at the back. In addition to the silk the model would be effective uude from any seasonable material that Is soft enough to shirr with success, both soft lace and fiowen-d nets being much liked, while mousseknes' and silk voiles are many. For the medium size j will be required s!x yards of material j twenty-one, five yards twenty-seven or ; three and a quarter yards forty-four j Inches wide, with three-quarters of a yard of all over lace. There'll Ue :o I'le." I An energetic pastor who was mak ing preparations to build a new church received nil kind m- mii-i .v.r. . - - - . . . . . v. 11". I'M. , . . isniouers, and the greatest amount came from those who had contributed the least toward the erection of the church. So at the regular services on the following Sunday he said. .t i,,. ,,- w.,...i..i , , uwu luwitiUK lei- UI IlllvlCI ult;ii ioiu oy certain mcuuers of the congregation that It wfd not do to have too many Augers .n the pie. I can assure you that I .vlll attend to that part of it. Thero " HI be no pie." Harper's Weekly. "-SJSrei!- fi F V -efZ f !W
