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 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”— 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. ___ _____________ 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