when fhilier and son.- still erect, still future was left to bls own determln ' "Yea. 1'iu going to break through In
WOMAN AKu FASHION
CROCODILE FISHING.
to No. 7, or”— He bent over and kiss
proud, still silent, entered the parson ing.
He
went
down
Into
the
bowels
of
the
ed
her.
"Send
some
men
here.
I'll
luscutoo«
krih.it of talvhla* th«
age diuiifg rexui. * bouquet of fresh
TSe Fashluaable Mohair«.
HE IS WILLING to fiqht before
m
Urarl« t «rd la India.
spring flowers graced the tabje. “ftiey earth day after day not only to dig. ueed them- after the explosion ”
No
material
makes
more
satisfactory
She would have held him. but al
HE IS ABLE TO FLY.
Seemed almost a mute, geutle prayer but to study. By and by be chauged
A correspondent of the Loudon Field,
suits for traveling and geueral wear
ready be had stepped on the carriage
for tolerance, for putlence, but the
writing ou the pursuit of the crocodile
than
does
Sicilian
mohair
in
the
new
and with the rattle and clank of cable The Fladeellas Has Woaderful
eyes of the elde* man never strayed
and fashionable designs. This one iu the Malacca «trait, describes the in
•y wirriaor ui*> ♦ their way. Finally he <trop|>ed his
drums be shot out of sight. When See
Strength of Dill. Is Couraaeoas aad shoWB a small ggeen and blue plaid genious method of catching the beast
ger came back from the telephone,
fork, his napkin slipped to the floor,
Ansrreealve and la as Ralck Alatosl and is exceedingly smart as well as adopted by the natives of the Kedah
t
*
: and
with determination written on bls
one
strongly
veined
band
fell
upon
as a Flash of Llghtalag.
serviceable, the trimming being bauds river. He says: "A small bamboo raft
♦
Ci/pvrujht, !*>!•■, bu H l«t*r,'p Alien
♦
face,
be
met
an
equally
determined
but
the tablecloth With an almost despair
of plain colored taffeta piped and some two feet square is constructed,
In
the
south
there
la
one
bird
which
pale
faced
girl.
When
be
beard
her
ing crash.
stitched.
The Jacket is one of the new and ou it Is erected a dag post sur
everybody
knows
whether
be
Is
a
na
story be exclaimed:
"The first Marvin In four generations
mounted by a red flag, while from the
/ —l>JIUlit 'IIGOING was g'>od enough
“He’ll never come up alive!”
ture student or not. I refer to the
underside of the raft, or dost, ruu
If | tor women, argued the sturdy to fall! Preachers before you. every
“
Yes,
be
will,
”
affirmed
Lucy,
her
turkey
vulture,
or
turkey
buzzard,
as
twenty or thirty yards of stout Hue,
II I miners of the Crosscut Coul one of us—father, grandfather and
faith
in
her
lover
paramount
to
her
most people call him. This bird seems
ending in a few feet of chain. To thia
company, it kept their tongues great-grandfather, and you, my only
discretion. “He knows the mines bet to be un ever present feature of the
chain the barbed hook of hard brass
w..ggiug 011 other themes than the son. fall me—utterly."
ter
than
you
do.
He'll
never
try
It
un
There was no appeal in that voice,
southern landscape, for look upward
metal is attached by three feet of un-
shortcomings of their husbands. But
less there's a chance. And you'll give
twisted fllwr lu order that the fine
when
you
will
you
may
see
blm
sweep
for men! Well, why should they on only harsh, accusing pride. Arthur
him that chance, won’t you?”
ligaments may get between the croco
this one day In seven, when they might squared his shoulders, and bls voice
Seeger paused and looked Into the ing the sky with outspread wings,
dile's teeth and thus prevent his snap
bask In sunshine and breathe air un rang out more convincingly than from
wheeling in broad circles or soaring in
pleading,
uplifted
face.
It
meant
a
de
ping off the bait. On the shank of the
polluted by noxious gas and tire damp, the pulpit:
lay of a few minutes only. The flames graceful spirals, with seeming never a
"It is not my fault, father. If you
shut themselves within the narrow
book a live fowl is made fast, together
could
gain
Utile
headway
in
that
time.
stroke
of
the
mighty
pinions
for
hours
had spent one-half the money you put
with a short length of bamboo, to give
walls of Zion church?
He strode to No. 7 and detailed a res at a time.
Yet, strangely enough, on this par into my theological course on making
it flotation, aud then the raft, line and
cue
party
for
No.
fl.
The
news
spread
One
day
I
saw
a
vulture
sailing
thus,
ticular Sunday in May every one of an engineer of me I would have been
bait ure dropped into the river. Loudly
like the seething flames far beneath says Ernest Harold Baynes In the
them manifested a surprising deter a credit to you. But now—well. I did
squawks the unfortunate fowl for a
their
feet.
Arthur
Marvin
bad
gone
Boston Herald, and I carefully marked
mination to be numbered In Parson my best to please you, but the work Is
few minutes, but Its sorrows are short
down No. U shaft to save the entombed
Marvin's flock, and loud and earnest not for me nor In me."
livid. A splash, a swirl, the bait has
bis flight until he descended from the
men.
No
one
knew
just
bow
nor
asked.
His father stepped to the study and
were the demands for shoe brushes
disappeared, aud then the men return
It was a ray of hope, and heartsick white clouds and disappeared near the
returned
with
a
letter
bearing
the
and “boiled shirts.”
to their homes, leaving a boy to mark
women Joined with willing men In the edge of a distant wood. Supimslng
It was old Tom Caughey, boss of uote head of the seminary from which
the progress of the floating dag. Next
that he had come down to feed ou some
rush
to
the
head
of
No.
C
Just
as
a
Arthur
had
Just
been
graduated.
Ar
No. 7 shaft, who told Father Feeley
day or the day after half a dozeu men
carrion
—
a
dead
horse
perhaps,
which
second
deep
toned
boom
fell
upon
their
the reason, as he stood, hat In hand, thur read it and handed it back to bis
paddle down stream until they sight
ears.
bud been drugged just outside of the
when his spiritual adviser came out father, his face turning ashy gray.
the raft. Then, taking the line ashore,
Lucy leaned faintly against I'aator woods and left—I made the best of my
"I will not call Dr. Crawford a spy
from early mass.
they haul away, aud aa by this time
Marvin,
who
bad
been
passing
from
or
an
Informer.
It
was
probably
bis
way
to
the
spot
where
I
lost
sight
of
“It's no hard penance you’ll put on
the hook Is firmly entangled In the
"Our
foremen
are
supposed
to
look
after
duty,
or
part
of
It.
to
keep
you
In
group
to
group,
praying
and
adminis
the
bird,
that
I
might
be
a
witness
to
me, father, for goln’ to Pastor Mar
crocodile's iutestlnes, he shows but lit
these matters."
formed
as
to
my
movements,
but
he
tering
words
of
comfort,
but
who
now
the feast.
vin’s church the day? Sure, it's little
tle fight aud Is easily dispatched."
I arrived at the wood, but neither
Arthur that'll be preachin’ to the peo might have gone further. He might to other workings. He wanted to stood silent and haggard, with bls eyes
have
suid
that
every
recitation
I
miss
know something of other veins, drifts straining toward the shaft. Was Ar bird nor carcass could I see. Then I
ple of Wymore Gap for the first time.
THE HALIFAX GIBBET.
He’s been away to college these three ed was made up—that every absence aud formations, and far into the night thur alive, or had that blast been bls bethought me that this was the month
years, an' they do say he’s a smart could have been accounted for In the he talked with Tom Caughey. who deathknell? The silence which follow of Muy, and that perhaps the buzzard
A Sort of Guillotine That Wa« Once
man—him that took many a ride down office of an expert engineer -that my knew the Crosscut property as a good ed was the silence of death. From the had a nest thereabout. I bunted un
l'»ed In England,
visits
in
the
slums
were
for
the
pur
top
of
No.
6
came
no
sound.
Women
Mohammedan
knows
bis
Koran.
Ev
der
the
bushes,
along
the
side
of
fallen
In the carriage with me an’ has played
Au ancient law of Hardwick forest,
pose
of
studying
the
real
condition
of
MOHAIR
TRAVELING
SUIT.
looked
into
each
other's
eyes,
and
hope
ery Sunday morning Arthur went to
trees and In some old stumps which
roun’ the breakers ever since me own
the lowest and most slavish working Zion church to study something else
died down again. A young girl whose were standing near, but not a feuther ones that are quite collarless and al a tract coextensive with Halifax par
Tim”—
ish, is sung by Taylor, the water poet:
He paused, and Father Feeley grasp classes. As for heretical speeches—I the unyielding features of his father lover was with the ill fated group un was to be seen.
low a choice between the mandolin
At Halifax the law so sharpe doth deale
wish I had made more of them. I wish and the pathetic little lines which derground fell unconscious at Pastor
l*resently I spied a log which lay and plain coat sleeves. Its many Beams That
ed the thin, muscular band.
whoso more than thirteen pence doth
“With the saints by now, Caughey, I could have dragged every one of were beginning to show In Lucy's face. Marvin's feet, but he did not see her.
somewhat apart In the shadow of some mean slender lines as well as perfect
steale.
those
students
away
from
their
books
Hark!
Yes;
the
clang
of
the
engi
They
have a jin that wondrous quick and
He
worked
on
day
shifts
and
on
never fear. Yes, you go and bear
shrubs, and as 1 approached it out fit, and the closing can be made with
young Marvin. I mind him myself, a to men. to the lives into which they night shifts, but it was always night neer's bell. Some one was alive and from somewhere came a big turkey loops aud buttous, ns shown, or invis Sends well
thieves all headless Into heaven or
likely spoken and civil mannered lhd, were expected to bring relief and com down there. The summer waxed signaling. Men fought for the right to buzzard, which quickly disappeared ibly by means of a fly, as may be pre
hvlle.
who seemed always to love our mines fort.”
Btlfllng hot, and autumn swept on, cool answer that call, but Seeger’s hand behind the trees. On coming up to the ferred. The skirt is cut in nine gores,
This "Jin” resembled the guillotine
Tastor Marvin stood with livid face, and refreshing, but the temperature was first.
Up—up—slowly—slowly log, which was a large one, I found each alternate one being stitched aud in construction and stood ou a stone
and men.”
Three hours later Arthur Marvin the letter crumpled and moist in his In the mines did not vary. Then one came the carrluge. Wbat would it that it was hollow, and In the cavity trimmed to give a panel effect. The scaffold, unearthed when Gibbet bill
stood with tightly folded arms, gazing hand, and the voice of bls son swept day when the first snow was on the bring to the waiting women—life or there were two eggs, which doubtless fullness at the back is laid in Inverted was leveled. The ax is preserved.
from his window across the square to on.
ground, and the men, coming from be death? Now it reached the head of the belonged to the vulture which had just plaits, and the skirt fits smoothly aud This, the only gulllotiue used In Eng
the church which had been his father’s
“Now that we are at the root of this low, looked like gnomes against the shaft, and a singed, puffed, but llviug departed. They were considerably lar snugly over the hips, while It flares land. was the forerunner of the "maid
charge and which, according to the matter, let’s speak the truth. I'd rath glistening hillside, Arthur Marvin face appeared above its rim. Wbat ger than the eggs of a domestic ben, freely about the feet To make the en," introduced into Scotland by Ke
rules and regulations of the denomina er give men a chance to live here than again presented himself before Super mattered It that several fingers were and In color they were dirty white, suit for a woman of medium size will
gent Morton and now in the Edinburgh
tion he represented, might now become to assure them of safety In the life to intendent Seeger. The latter looked gone; that the flesh quivered and heavily spotted with chocolate brown. be required for the jacket 4 yards of
Antiquarian museum. The “Halifax
his.
come. How can they prepare for a up Impatiently. What did this son of stung? Here were life and air—and I left them that I might have an op material 27, 2*4 yards 44 or 1% yards gibbet" was last used in 1050 and the
Eagerly he watched for each familiar future existence amid conditions so de a preacher want now—promotion be mother. A woman sprang forward portunity to study the young.
54 inches wide; for skirt. 7 yards 27. 4 "maiden” for Lord Argyll iu 1061 and
face In that slow gathering congrega grading? How can they serve the fore his turn?
with a great cry of joy and knelt be
The next time I visited the hollow yards or 44 or 3% yards 54 Inches wide. his sou In 1685, who spoke of it as ths
“Well, Marvin, you must be taking side the bruised form. Seeger was log the parent birds were not In sight,
tion. There was Mary MacNeal, whose God I preach when-they are starving
sweetest maiden he ever kissed.
stepping up on the carriage at the but In the nest I found two dowuy
husband and son had been killed In the that some one man may accumulate a day off."
The New Helt«.
Dr. Guillotine did not Invent the ma
Perhaps in the tone was Just a Bug head of the rescuing party when be fledgelings, which could scarcely be
explosion of 1891. She still wore black, wealth?”
The newest belts are charming, the chine. Dr. I.ouls constructed one in
gestion
that
men
who
were
above
and she had company in plenty, for
felt a light pressure on bls arm. Lucy called pretty. They were in every way loveliest being made of rich black 1791, the "Loulson,” but the name
Pastor Marvin swayed and clutched
there were pretty Bessie Maguire, a chair back for support. And this their work were given to taking fre spoke In low toues.
less attractive than young hawks of satin, cut ou the bias and lined with “guillotine” became general from the
quent lay-offs. Arthur made no reply
"ills father—he kishes to go down. the same age. They expressed their black cbina silk. These are folded, are burst of surgical enthusiasm, In which
w hose Dick had been caught In a pre was the son of a preacher whose—
mature blast, and Lizzie Dugan, whose
disapproval of my presence by a weak wide at the back and graduated nar Dr. Guillotine, in 1789, after deploring
“How cun I look to these people for to the thrust, but plunged at once Into Perhaps Arthur”—
husband of three happy months had financial support when I know that the object of bls call.
Seeger put the other men aside. Pas growling sound.
row at the front, where they are hook the tedious torture of banging, ex
"There's a nasty bit of fire damp In tor Marvin walked silently on the car
gone down with the last nasty cave-in, every dollar they pay into the church
I could not visit the spot again for ed underneath and confined by a horse claimed, “With my machine I strike
and yes, there was dear old Caughey. Is earned at the risk of their Ilves? I No. 7, and the fans don't seem to car riage; then Seeger motioned Lucy to some weeks, and when I did one of shoe. a heart or golf stick of fine off your bead in the twinkling of an
A band of rusty black still clung round tell you I'd rather Invent some means ry It off.”
follow. Down, down to that awful them hud disappeared. The other wan rhinestones.
These ornaments are eye, and you never feel It!”—London
■Most miners expect to contend with uncertainty they dropped. The air was no longer In the hollow log, but stand large, the sparkling stones mounted on
his Sunday hat, though to Arthur It for neutralizing fire damp, of lessening
G lobe.
seemed years since he and 'Ilin -square the chances of explosion, than to tell Are damp. They don’t anticipate a still thick with Btnoke and dust. After ing at a little distance, and I was in a dainty rim of French gilt. In the
shouldered, light hearted, honest lnten- these people to accept privation and picnic down there.”
signaling the engineer above to stop terested to see the change in bls ap center of the back the fullness or folds
SECOND WIND.
Arthur flushed, but his voice was re the carriage Seeger led them along the pearance. In the first place, he had are drawn through a rhinestone and
tloned Tim-had chased round the death as dispensations of Providence.
breakers together. Then one day Tim And there was no other way to con spectful.
gangway toward the No. 7 workings. grown tremendously; the down which gilt buckle about two Inches wide by It Comt« Who« All the Long Calls
"This is not an ordinary amount or They could see dimly the great gap In had formerly covered the whole body six Inches long. These buckles are set
had gone to work In his father’s shaft— vince you that I was not meant for
Are la Full Play.
and had never come up again. Just one the work than just what I did today— in ordinary kind. It means—trouble." the earth, through which Arthur and was now confined chiefly to the head, upright, and two long loops of the satin
The following Is a popular explana
Seeger whirled round tn bls chair Im Caughey, the latter bruised and bleed neck and under parts, and the rest of rise above the upper end, while two tion of what Is known as second wind.
day! Arthur felt a strange grip on his to let you see for yourself that I was
throat. He turned abruptly from the a failure—a dead failure!"
patiently.
ing, but still stanch and strong, were the bird was clothed with firm black sash ends aliout a quarter of a yard In ordinary breathing we use only a
“Our foremen are supposed to look drawing a limp figure.
window as Caughey, with uncertain
feathers. He looked fat and well fed.
“And you flaunt It In my face! You
long fall below. Buckles in modish portion of our lungs, the cells at the
steps, entered the unaccustomed place boast that you were a failure—and I after these matters, Mr. Marvin, and I
By the flickering lamps of the rescu
I reached out my hand and caught designs are also in old silver, gun extremity not being brought Into play.
of worship.
the witness of your disgrace! You are believe Standish, our Inside man. Is ing party Arthur's face looked discol him by one wing. But here be had a metal and Boman gold finish, but noth This is the reason why those who are
They crossed the little square togeth no son of a Marvin. I have done my perfectly competent."
ored and drawn. He did not see Lucy, surprise for me, for he seized my fin ing can be more charming than those not In training when they try to run
Arthur did not mention that Standish and she sprnng forward with a glad ger In bls hooked bill and with a turn of rhinestones, glittering against the for any distance soon begin to gasp
er—Pastor Marvin, tall, stalwart and best for you, but you will not see the
bad been too Intoxicated for three days cry. Then she stopped suddenly. Aft of his head twisted off a bit of the lustrous black satin.
proud despite his threescore years; Ar light."
and uuless they are resolute enough to
thur, a trifle shorter, slighter and fairer
His hand pointed to the door. And to distinguish between fire damp and er today her love would come first, al flesh before I had time even to object.
persevere In spite of this choking sen
Illuminating
gas.
He
lowered
bis
voice
ways, always, but this she recognized After hurriedly cleansing the wound I
than Ills father, but with the same de Arthur understood.
Handy For Warm Mornlnir«.
sation are forced to stop, but if they
a
trifle.
as the appointed hour for another. again advanced on the enemy, who
termination In his bearing, and Lucy.
Night was settling down on Wymore
This is the season when the wise wo persevere the choking goes off, and
"Mr. Seeger, unless something is done She drew back. A tall, erect figure was game enough to satisfy any one man makes ready her clothes that will
No one In all Wymore Gap knew Lu Gap when Lucy tapped at Arthur’s
they acquire what Is known as second
cy's history. I'ustor Marvin had one door. He sut at bls window watching there’ll be an explosion within five strode through the uncertain light, a and came to the attack with open bill. be needed during the warm weather. wind.
hours.
”
trembling
hand
rested
on
Arthur's
Of
course
he
was
not
dangerous
tn
the
the
tiny
lanterns
of
the
night
shift,
day been called suddenly to Philadel
Among the most necessary of these are
When this second wind Is fully es
The superintendent rose, flushing an shoulder, and a voice shaken with feel least, for he was very young and could
phia, and when he liad come buck Lu twinkling ever and ever nearer to the
tablished the runner does not again
grily.
Ing exclaimed:
not even fly, but for a fledgeling the
cy liad come too. Some said she was yawning boles in the mountain side.
lose his breath, but can run In comfort
“Permit me to remind you, Marvin,
the daughter of a boyhood friend who Ills grip, packed with his few belong
"Arthur, my son, my son—‘greater grip he could give with bls bill was
as
long as his legs will carry him. The
In dying had bequeathed the child to ings, lay open on the bed. Lucy crept that you asked me for a job in the love hath no man than this.' But I—I astonishing.
fact is that on starting the farthest
However, I picked him up, took him
the Marvins. Another popular tale held softly to his side, and her arms slipped mines, not as my adviser”—
<lid not understand. You must for
portions of the lungs are choked with
His next words were lost In a deep, give.”
home and tethered him In the garden
that she was the orphan of a repentant around his neck.
air and the remainder do not supply
reverberating
detonation,
which
shook
“Arthur, dear, you’re not going? Oh,
with a strap to one leg. The first night
parishioner. Be that as it might, the
enough to meet the Increased circula
the
very
foundations
of
the
long,
nar
he ate a good meal of liver, and after
A CIVIL WAR TOAST.
gossips united In declaring that Lucy he will feel differently tomorrow! It
tion induced by exercise.
that he took almost any kind of meat
had developed in tlie placid life of Zion is only his family pride that is hurt, row office building.
By degrees, however, the neglected
a Very Embarrasslna Site« that was given him. I let blm have
The two men looked each other silent The
parsonage like a rare mountain flower, and you will break his heart and mine.
cells come Into play, so that when the
atloa M'a« Relieved.
ly
in
the
face.
No
need
for
explana
carrion
whenever
It
was
convenient,
Arthur,
dearest,
you
will
stay,
Just
and that if she did not in due time ac
entire lung Is In full working order
tions now. From adjacent rooms peer
It may seem rather trite to go back but at other times be ate freshly killed
cept the heart and hand of Arthur one more day?"
the circulation and respiration again
ed
frightened
faces,
and
the
next
In
to
civil
war
times
for
a
story,
but
all
"No. I would be a thorn In his flesh.
frogs, fresh beef, opossum and even
Marvin, then truly would every tradi
balance each other, and second wind
stant
from
the
distance
came
the
sound
the
tales
of
that
memorable
time
have
fish.
tion of poetic and romantic justice be I tried to make him see this years ago.
is
the result
not
been
told.
Lucy, but he was obdurate. He would of many feet hurrying toward the top
One night soon after I had brought
shattered.
of the shaft. White to the lips, but
My uncle. Major Thomas Bidgly, blm home I went out to see how he
Side by side walked father and son not listen to my side.”
Iu the Hat Pit.
"But I—what am I to do without with a great determination burning In was a surgeon attached to General looked when he was asleep. It was so
down the center aisle and up the steps
The ordinary house rat will not fight
bls
eyes.
Marvin
reached
the
place
even
Grant's
staff.
It
was
after
the
surren
you?
I
have
waited
so
long
—
three
long
dark
that
his
black
plumage
was
not
to the haircloth sofa behind the gaunt,
if be can find his way into a hole. In
before the startled superintendent. Yes. der of Vicksburg. The Union forces visible against the grass. All I could
unlovely pulpit. Side by side they years, think—and—I—love you so!”
closed in the pit. with no chance of es
It
was
No.
7,
and
Caughey
was
down
had
entered
the
city,
and
much
merry
Gently he took her hands In his nnd
see of him was a white spot, his head,
sank on their knees, and old Caughey,
cape, the case Is different. The rat will
there.
making and entertaining were going as It hung near the ground.
nervously fingering the crape band on drew her close.
not only fight Its enemy, but will turn
The
old
heartrending
scenes
were
re
on.
One
night
a
dinner
was
In
prog
“
Just
a
little
longer,
Lucy.
You
must
I
approached
very
quietly
and
was
his old fashioned derby, murmured an
on those of Its kind with which It is
enacted.
Arthur
had
witnessed
them
ress
at
which
many
northern
officers
stay
here
until
he
understands.
I
could
within
five
feet
when
something
hap
“Ave," unconscious of Its Incongruity
bunched. The trained rat dog will
In this church, where there were nei not rob him of his all, and some day before. The anguished faces of wom and a large number of southern ladies pened. Out of the dnrkness there came
jump backward and forward, often
en
hovering
near
the
shaft
and
about
were
present.
Many
toasts
had
been
a flash of white straight toward me
ther altars nor candles nor sad eyed we will be together with his consent.
times entirely over the rat, In avoiding
Now—well, he does not wish you even the carriage, the waiting stretchers, proposed and drunk, all of them practi with a speed which caused me to step
madonnas.
its bite, and, watching its opportunity,
that
first
awful
load
of
maimed
and
cally in honor of the successes of the quickly backward, and at the same In
When the simple Introductory serv to see me."
the dressing sacks, which are so inex will catch the rat by the back, give one
For an instant the girl’s spirit rose In blackened forms, the Instant of horri Union army and the men responsible stant there was a startling, rustling
ice was finished Arthur rose, unfolded
crunch and break its spinal column.
sound, accompanied by n guttural pensive, easy to make and, oh. so com Then it throws the rat, dead or dying,
his manuscript and announced his rebellion. Then she looked Into the ble uncertainty, then the cry of cries— for them.
fortable to slip Into early in the morn
•Fire!"
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Finally
one
of
the
southern
ladies,
a
calm,
clear
eyes
of
the
man
who
loved
growl,
which
for
a
moment
I
did
not
text. Then he paused and looked al
ing! In the model Bbown here we have aside and like a flash leaps Into place
great beauty and noted for her intense
most wistfully Into the uplifted faces. her and yet for that love would not
Caughey and half a dozen of his men partisan fueling for the south, arose recognize as the voice of the young a design that Is both pretty and yet for seizing and killing the next rat.
vulture.
By some strange coincidence Mary break Ills word, and a brave smile were entombed in one of the cham-
and said. "Gentlemen may I propose a
Altogether It was a most startling very easy of home manufacture. Tbo
MacNeal, Rossie Maguire, T.’zzlc D'l» came to her lips.
ben» farthest-from the shaft, with th« toast?”
A l'kllar In Norway.
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••••••
phenomenon,
and, although I realized front has a prettily shaped collar, the
gnu and old Caughey sat close togeth
tire erreping slowly toward them.
back is fitted, nnd the sleeve may be
(.'lose to the old Augvaltlnaes church
With
natural
gallantry
nnd
a
little
in
a
moment
that
the
bird
was
In
some
er on the right hand aisle. Ills glance
The next morning John Seeger, su
Seeger liad been directing the efforts
in flowing or bishop style. It is charm on Karneon island, Norway, nnd lean
rested as If hypnotized on that blur of perintendent of the Crosscut compa of the rescuers, but now there was trepidation the ranking officer said, way the cause of It, I do not know ingly developed in figured lawn, using ing toward It Is a stone pillar about
“
Certainly."
even yet Just what happened. This
black; then, with shaking hands, be ny's mines, glanced up from bls desk more important work at hand. The
“Well, then, gentlemen, I give you. much I know, however, that the bird plain color for the collar and facings. twenty-five feet high called the “Virgin
turned the first page of bls sermon.
to face Arthur Marvin. He bad heard property of hfs employers was endan
Mary's Needle.” Tradition holds that
“
The
Southern
Confederacy.
’
"
rushed at me, growling with all his
It was a dissertation on the resurrec of the scene at Zion church, and he gered. It could tie Havixl only by flood
Tartan Voile.
when the pillar touches the church the
It was an embarrassing situation, might, and that the flash of white was
tion of Lazarus, and the people lis wondered if the young fellow was ready ing the mines. He had started toward
Among the multiplicity of voiles In world will come to an end. The super
but
with
hardly
a
moment's
hesitation
the
white
down
of
the
body
uncovered
tened wonderlngly to his vivid word to start anew In a humbler way, per the long distance telephone booth when
every weight and color there is a tar stitious local preacher whenever he im
one of the northern officers relieved the by the opening of the black wings.
pictures of the scene, his sonorous pe- haps by asking the privilege of holding Marvin stepped in his path.
tan plaid which is really newer than agines that Its point is getting nearer
tension.
The
rushing
sound
was,
I
think,
riods, the Inflections of his rich, well noon prayer meetings In the works.
“Mr. Seeger," he said quietly, "there
anything yet produced in tills material. to the sacred building mounts the pil
"Down
with
It,
gentlemen,
”
he
cried.
caused In some way by the wing feath
trained voice. For twenty minutes he
“What can I do for you, Mr. Mar eau't lie more than live feet between
And the glasses were drained without ers or tall feathers, or both, but wheth The plaid Is a very small green and lar. It is said, nnd chisels a bit off the
road on, yet each word seemed to vin?” be inquired politely.
the workings of Nos. 7 and 6, and
bhie check representing the only com
lou can give me a Job, Mr. See Caughey and the others must be at embarrassment and without disloyalty. er by dragging them along the ground bination of the kind so far attempted. top so as to save the world from an un
strike agatust a sounding board and
timely end.
—
Lippincott's.
or
otherwise
I
cannot
tell.
I
tried
on
ger."
come back to him with a mocking me
the fnr end of the gnngway In 7—If
The fact that this new voile Is not
several
occasions
to
find
this
out
by
ap
The superintendent whistled softly they're alive. I know every inch of
tallic ring. Yes; Arthur Marvin, their
cheap obviates, for the summer at
Raaslnn Choral Slnulna.
The Koto and Samlsen.
proaching the young vulture when least, any chance of Its being too much
Arthur, whom they had known and and leaned back in his chair. Then be that ground. A light charge of dyna
Love of music, cultivated and en
Japanese
girls
of
the
upper
and
mid
there was Just light enough for me to worn to be desirable. A stunning gown
loved as babe, Ind and youth, had surveyed the little form rather super- mite would break the wall. They'd
larged by the fine rendering of the an
dle classes learn to play the “koto.” see what happened, but he would never
come back to them knowing many riliously.
have a fighting chance. At least I
while those of the lower orders usually act In Just the same way unless It was of this material Is made with a three thems nnd chants of the services of
“Well, really, Mr. Marvin, I don't could get in and see."
wonderful things, and yet—
tiered skirt and trimmed with little the churches, is a trait of the Kusslan
learn the “samisen.” The "koto” Is a quite dark.
They did not understand, but he did. lielleve I can accommodate you. Ev
Seeger listened Impatiently. He was
kilted frills of blue taffeta, the bodice peasant. The choral singing of men
narrow
horizontal
Instrument
about
j
No
doubt
this
Is
some
provision
of
It pierced his very soul. Tbelr disap erything in the otfhes is Ailed, but If not thinking now of a few Imprisoned
becomingly arranged with trimmings ami boys In some of the smaller ham
five
feet
long
with
a
sounding
board
nature to protect the bird when It Is of the kilting.
polntment was pitiful. In some way there's a clerkship open within a”—
miners, but of the result to bis com
lets is indeed so rich and flnished In
"Thank you, but I prefer the mines, pany and himself if that Ore was not upon which are stretched strings sup young and helpless, and I can testify
he had failed them how they could
style as to be a constant source of
ff there's any chance In No. 7 I'd like controlled. He did not realize the bru ported by ivory bridges. It is played that It Is a good one, for I am sure that
not say.
Popular Hat Flowers.
wonder to all travelers—Social Serv
by
means
of
ivory
Anger
tips.
The
1
few
night
prowling
animals
would
care
to
be
with
Caughey.
”
He reached his peroration. What
Hydrangeas are as popular for sum ice.
tality of hfs next words.
________________
player
sits
before
the
Instrument
on
to
pursue
their
Investigations
after
be
Superintendent Seeger almost whis
was he to tell them? That men no lon
mer bats as wistaria and lilacs and
"They'd better drown than burn.
the floor In the ordinary posture, and i ing given so startling a reception.
ger needed miracles to convince them tled again, then drew himself up stiff Tile mines must be flooded."
make a most effective decoration.
Medical Advice.
ul the love nnd tenderness of God? ly, as becomes one of bls position when
Arthur’s eyes were steely as he w hen she touches the strings she often
The Proper Case.
“What prompted you to rob this
Whlatllna Women.
sings
a
soft
accompaniment.
The
"sa
Suddenly before his eyes rose n gray dealing with a common miner.
watched Seeger disappear. Then he
"It’s a peculiar fact,” remarked tlie man's till?" asked the judge of the
"I think the matter can be arranged. turned swiftly and dashed toward the misen” is a kind of banjo and is often ' Teacher—Sammy. In the sentence, "1
ish mist, nnd In the center of It stood
have a book.” what Is the case of the observing youth, "that only one wo prisoner.
played
during
theatrical
performances
■
out the black robed group on the right Good morning."
mouth of No. i’> shaft. The carriage
"My family physician, sir." was the
Sammy (promptly)— man In a thousand can whistle.”
So after this fashion was the name swayed sullenly over the yawning and recitations. It gives forth dull and pronoun ‘I’?"
hand aisle, lie faltered, stammered a
reply. "He told me It was absolutely
Nominative
case.
Teacher
—
Next
boy,
"Nothing
peculiar
about
that."
re
monotonous
tones.
few words and abruptly folded bls of Arthur Marvin, graduate of the hole. He turned to face Lucy.
tell me in what case to put the noun joined the man with the absent hair. necessary that I should have a little
Frances Allen seminary, added to the
manuscript.
“Oh, Arthur.this Is awful! Can't they \
"tiook?”
Next Boy (thoughtfully)— "As long as a woman can talk she change.”
Necessity Drove.
The prayer which followed wns more payroll of Tom Caughey. boss of No. do something? Mrs. Caughey is near
He—I don't understand your extrava Bookcase. ________________
doesn't care to whistle."—Illustrated
lifeless, more cold, than the errmon. 7. Not only did he work under Caugb- ly crazed. What"—
A Sn**c«tloa.
■eaa.
gance! Before we were married you
Bits.
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T. ik - v . Ilateniug ns one froteu In shock ey. but he boardad at the boss' simple
Arthur clasped her trembling bands. ' bad the reputation of being very eco
Miss Snnppe— Why doo't you propose
Miss
Mugley
—
I
always
try
to
retire
ed surprise, forgot to bew her head, home, where Mrs. Caughey loved blm
The Happy Part.
"There's not a second to waste. I’ve
to her by telephone then? Mr. Hoatn-
and wtih wale open eyes watched the for his own sek*- and Tim's. Wy got to beat Seeger. When he comes nomical. She (sweetly)—But you for before midnight. I don't like to miss
She—Did your uncle die happy? He ley Tltnmid Maybe she wouldn't know
face <4 the young |**a<Acr, now al more Gap gossiped over the affair for back he'll flood the mines unless you get. dear, that before we were married my beauty sleep. Miss Pepprey—You —Well, to tell you the truth. I didn't who I was. Miss Snappe— Kxactly.
frost htish in Its sternness.
a' time; then arose fresher and more tell him to wait till be bears from me.” I duln't have the money.—Detroit Free really should try harder. You certain notice him. but everybody else seemed That migtU help your chance«.—Phila
Press.
ly. don't get enough of lt-Exchange.
She slipped out the sidh doot. and exciting topics, and Arthur Martin's I “You”—
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delphia Ledger
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