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Grim Ghost Story That
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MRS. MORSE IN WALL STREET
Working For Husband, Who l> Serving
P’ison Sentence.
Mrs .Climles V»’. Mor-e, wife of the
coin t o d < \ ice king and M-.k presi
dent. Ii is entered Wall street with tlie
purpose of rebuilding tlie shattered
fortunes of her husband mid obtaining
a pant..ii for him. She recently ojieu-
ed mi office at 43 Exchange pla> e.
New York dry. to take charge of the
convicted financier's involved business
affairs.
Mrs. Morse hail intended to rent a
cottage near the federal prison lu At
lanta that she might be able to visit
her husband as often as possible, but
on seeing him lu prison garb she
« hanged her mild. Tlie si -.lit of Ids
MHS. CHABI.ES W. MOUSE.
A Story
of
Graustark
By George Barr McCutcheon
Author of "Graustark,” ‘‘Beverly of Graustark,” “Brewster's Millions,” “Jane Cable,**1
“The Man from Brodney's,” Etc.
A Devil-May-Care Young American in a Land of Romance.
Novel Adventures in a Strange Little Kingdom.
A Captivating Story in McCutcheon’s Best Vein
and a Great Treat for Our Readers
humiliation so possessed her with the
desire to work lor his freedom and rhe
réhabilitâtiou of liis fortunes that she
returned to New York.
As if tlie associations of her husband's
former financial triumphs would stim
ulate her, Mrs. Morse has made her
business headquarters in the building
which the little financier had con
structed for the h.une office of his
many great enterprises.
On its ground floor, for example,
are the onyx columned, bronzed railed
counting rooms of the National Bank
of North America, head of the chain
of banks will« h Mor-e established and
xy liicli all collapsed with his downfall.
In addition to as-timing the bur len of
her husband's large business interests,
Mrs. Morse is circulating petitions ad
dress o,| to President Taft asking for
the pardon < f the ex-ice king.
In her work she ii ably assisted by
Miss Katherine Wilson, formerly Con
fidential secretary and stenographer to
Mr. Morse.
Use of tho New Hairpin,
For Illi" fashionable sw irl, mop or
turban style of hairdressing, called re
spectlvely by one or all of these
names, come the new square hairpins.
They not only serve to keep the braid
in place that winds about Hie head.
This
Interesting Serial Will Begin In The Next
I
Number Of The Recorder
An Odd Gypsy Custom.
The Artistic Japanese.
In Hungary, when the quest ion of
Artistic Impulses govern even tlie
tlw baby's future comes up for dis ordinary artisan in Japan. This, from
cussion among tlie gypsies, there is no an article in the Craftsman by Mr. L.
time wasted in argument
A I banket Wakeman Curtis, illustrates the fact:
is held by the four corners, nml the “lu so commercial nnd nonartisie a
baby is thrown into the air.
If it porcelain district as Nagoya I saw a
comes down ou its little stomach it is big room full of men working in clay,
a sign that It is going to be a mu
hastily copying ill quantities pieces
siclgii; If it fulls on its back it is to that were
go, in a shipload, to till
be a thief, and the education of the an order in England.
I paused be
child Is begun ns soon as possible in side a man who was finishing soap
olio of these two time honored profes- dishes. On each cover, before it went
slons
to be baked, he was adding the knob
That on
by which it could be lilted
Painfully Frank.
the European model before him was
“Mr. t’oldcnsh I have come to ask
utterly without sentiment, less gra-
for the hand of your daughter.”
dons of shape than a freshly digged
“My daughter, sir?"
onion or potato. With a few slight,
“Yes. I can't live without her."
quick touches, seemingly as unthink
“Well, sir. finish your sentence.”
ing as a machine, lie was yet doing
“Finish my sentence?"
more than was required he was caus
"Yes, you were about to say you
ing each knob as it passed under his
could not live without her income. hands to take the look of a half open
Let us be candid.”
ed bud. a faint hint of a leaf being
also quickly modeled in the •biscuit’
How Sho Got the Job.
beneath it.”
“The one thing we demand from our
etaployi*es.” said the head of the office
Paris’ Worst Flood.
force, “is correctness in figures.”
In the year 12!M> rose the greatest
The applicant smoothed her hipless
flood of which history makes any rec
skirt complacently.
ord In Paris. "Men went in Isiats over
“1 have never had any complaints on
the- wall of the king’s garden." All
that score,” she replied, with a glance
the is-ami was covered, and from the
of assu ra nee.—By st a n l er.
foot of the hill of the university to
the rising ground beyond the Murrain
Anticipated,
tlie upper stories of the Imuses rose
;
“I've often marveled nt
your bril-
out of a lake a mile wide
in that
llancy, your aptness at repartee.
flood waA swept away the old stone
yo«r”—
bridge that Charles the Bald had built
“If It's more than 5 shillings, old centuries earlier, before even the Nor-
man. I can’t do a thing for you. I’m
nnns liesieged tlie town, and In that
nearly broke myself.”- London Mall.
flood the Petit Chatelet was destroyed.
The Petit Pont fell Into the river also,
Innocent Fun.
but that was nothing wonderful, for it
“Hey!” exclaimed Ills uncle “What was the nmst unfortunate of bridges
are you trying to do—break my nnd never stood firmly for fifty years
watch?”
nt a stntch, but was forever twing de
“No," replied the innocent solemnly; stroyed nnd regularly rebuilt.
The
“t'yin' th’ow ft thoo the Foor “—Buf waste of this flood was the signal for
falo Express.
Philippe le Bel's rebuilding.—Hilaire
Belloc’s “Peris."
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He Could Not Recommend It.
The editor was seated at Ills desk,
busily eiigjgcd in writing a fervid edi
torial on the necessity of building a
new walk to the cemetery, when a
battered specimen of the tramp print
er entered tlie offici*.
“Mornin’, boss." said the caller. "Got
any work for a print?”
"1 have," answered the editor,
happened in Just right this time,
got only a boy to help me in the office,
and I need n man to set type for about
a week. 1 have to make a trip out
west. You can take off your coat and
begin right now. I start tomorrow
morning."
"All right." said the typographical
tourist, removing his coat.
“What
road are you going to travel on?' !»•
"The X., Y. and Z. mostly. I’ve nev
er been on It. Know anything about
It?"
“I know all about It. I’ve traveled
it from one end to the other.”
"What kind of road is it?"
"Bum!" said the printer In a tone
“The
indicative of strong disgust,
ties are too far apart!”—Youth's Com-
panion.
Points About a Good Horse.
There are some points which are val
uable in horses of every description.
The head should be proportionately
large and well set on. The lower Jaw
bones should be sufficiently far apart
to enable the head to form an angle
with the neck, which gives it free mo
tion and u graceful carriage and pre
vents it bearing too heavily on the
hand. The eye should lie large, a lit
tle prominent, nnd the eyelids fine anil
The ear should be small anil
th I n
erect and quick in motion, The lop
car Indicates dullness and stubborn-
ness. When too far back there is u
di position to mischief
Comas
The. following remarkable ghost
story is told of two brothers, members
of a distingiiisfnsi family in Frleslaud.
a province of tlie Netiiei lands: The
young men were officers in the same
l>*ginient. anil their only fault—a cer
tain rash valor, so ditTerent from the
quiet prudence so characteristic of
their milieu made tlieir comrades al-
iiicsi idolize them.
These young officers were exceed-
luglv anxious to see a ghost ami took
a great deal of pains to plunge into
ail sorts of gloomy places In the tio|>e
of finding them tenanted by Isdnga
from tlie other world
At last they
seemed to tind the orthodox old castle
wit'll its hail tiled room.
Everybody
l>< re witness to tlie horrible sights and
sounds nightly to be seen mid heard
tliereiu, and these young gentlemen
determined to pass the night there
Il was Christmas eve, and they pro
vided themselves with a good supper
and a h ittie of wine each, a lire, lights
and loaded pistols
The hours wore
on.
No ghost was seen; no ghostly
sounds were heard.
The younger
brothei-. wrapped closely in Ids warm
cloak, laid bis head on the table and
deliberately resigned himself to a com
fortable sleep.
The elder brother,
though exceedingly weary, determined
to remain awake and await the issue
of events.
After awhile a noise roused him
from a reverie into which lie had fall
en. lie raised his eyes and beheld the
wall opening In front of his seat.
Through the opening glided a tall fig
ure in white, who signed to him to
follow.
The rose and followed the figure
through long. damp, dark passages till
they reached a large, brilliantly light
ed room where a I all was going on.
Above the strains of musk- and the
din of voices pierced a strange, sharp,
(-licking sound, like the notes of casta
nets.
Bewildered and dazzled by this sud-
•!i transition from darkness and si
lence to this gay festive seem', it was
some moments before he could col
lect his senses, but he was shocked by
perceiving that these gayly dressed la-
dies and their richly iniiformed cava-
liers were skeletons, and tlie curious
sound th-tt impressed him so strangely
was the clicking of fleshless Jaws!
The figure at his side ordered him
to take a partner from this hideous
throng, which he refused to do. Irri
tated at this refusal, the tigli re raised
Ills arm to strike, hut the officer In
stantly leveled at him the pistol he
had continued to grasp and discharged
I
It full in his face.
With the shock and report he started
to Ills feet. The white figure, the ball
room. the fearful, ghastly dancers, all
had vanished, mid he was in the room
where he had supped, but his brother
lay d lug at bis side,
lie had shot him in his dream and
a w <il. ned only to receive his last ut-
terance. From tliat awful Christmas
night he was an altered man.
All
the ga.vety bad gone out of Ills life,
all the sunshine had faded front his
days, and after a few years of una-
retnor.se be found
bear the burden
regrets and put an end to bis
To Gauge His Wife's Temper,
"I heard about a peculiar case of
henpecked husband recently, said a
young woman the other day.
“What was it?" her friend inquired.
"There Is a man who tins some diffi
culty in gauging his wife's temper. At I
times sho is considerate of his welfare, I
and at other times—well, he rather
thinks that married life is a failure.
"He has a peculiar manner of find
ing out tlie state of his wife's feeling
toward him. In the evening when lie
I
returns home from work lie never
I
steps into the house without going
through a sort of ceremony. First he
throws bis hat in the house, and then
lie seats hilnself ou tlie steps anil
walls.
If five* minutes pass without
the hat being thrown out again he en
ters and generally finds Ills wife very
agreeable.
However, if the hat Is
thrown out again the unfortunate man
seeks hospitality for the night some-
where else rather than brave the nn-
ger of liis helpmeet."
The Fishing Otter.
AN ATrttAcrtVB lllSfOSAt. of tiie c, quark
HAIKPI.N.
but they are decidedly decorative.
These pins are generally of tortoise
shell, but other materials me em
ployed for their makeup.
Another
pretty device for tlie new hairdress
ing is the fillet of tortoise shell with
side comb attachments.
Old Style Bouquets.
Bridesmaids and debutantes nre car
rying the formal bouquets which their
grandmothers gloried in when they i
were girls. These bouquets call for a
mixture of blossoms nnd for long ends
of ribbon or tulle or both, often with
little clusters of the flowers knotted in
with the ribbon. A florist says that
fully half the debutantes nnd brides
whom he has supplied with flowers at
their weddings and coming out recep
tions this season have selected this
kind. A bouquet usisi for a reception
had cream colored rosebuds massed In
the center, white narcissuses around
those, a narrow edge of violets around
the narcissuses and a tine feathery
white flower next the violets. Then
eanie a row of purple orchids, a row
of lilies of the valley bordered by tn a Id-1
enhnir fern nnd looped green pink
tulle nnd white lace paper. Ends oft
plnft sntln ribboa and tullt fell from
th» tec a «Mt
otter used by Scottish poachers
Is one of the most deadly fishing in
struments known.
In some waters
It is far more effective than a net.
It may bo described us n water kite,
which serves to take out over the
water a line bearing fifty or more flies.
The otter itself Is a floating piece of
board leaded nlong one side to keep It
upright. The poacher walks along the
side of the loch or river, letting out
Hie fly decorated line as be goes, the
otter board gradually working out
toward the center. Au enormous area
of water Is Ashed nt one time and
-lumbers of f’sti are killed.
A Drop of Water.
A gallon of distilled water weighs
8.330 pounds, mid, there being four
quarts to the gallon, and two pints to
Ihe quart, mid sixteen fluid ounces to
tin* pint, mid two tables|sionfuls to
tin1 fluid ounce, and four teaspooufuls
to the tablespoon, and forty-five drops
to the teaspoon, a drop of water
pound, slightly
weighs 0.00018057
more.
Another Creditor.
Blobbs I la rd tip; >e says he owes ev-
erythlng to Ids wife. Rlobbs—Hard-
nppe is a double distilled prevaricator.
He owes $10 to me—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Shear the sheep, but don’t flay them.
Spanish Proverb.
GLASS illO CUI GLASS
Pressed Ware at Times De
ceives Even Experts.
A GUIDE FOR THE UNWARY
The Seeker After Cut Glees Is Safe In
Purchasing “Closed In" Articles, as
They Cannot Be Duplicated In Press
ed Glass—Art of the Cutter.
Buyers tot large houst*s nre some
times de< eived when buy Illg cut glass
mid find they have bought wbat is
commercially known as pressed glass
instead of (lie genuine article
Yel llieie are u few simple rules
that will safeguard the ordinary buy er
at retail The chief one is to pick out
only iilmt the inatiuf-icturer calls
closed in articles. By this he means
vases, jugs, pitchers, bottles and the
like
These cannot be duplicated in press
ed glassware, which is first molded in
patterns and the edges ground. This
process gives it so «-lose n resemblauew
to real cut glass that ^'ven experts
may be deceived
But in the "closed in” articles some
way is yet to lie devised by which the
pressed lines can be followed through
the opposite side when put ou the
wheel to be cut, as tlie pressed part
interferes with the workman seeing
through the glass, which lie hits to d >
in order to follow the lines of the d*.-
sign on Hu* cutter,
The kind of cut glass that Is couti-
forfeited is called open work, such ns
plates, nappies or any flat article
through which the workman can read-
ily see when finishing it.
Another help in selecting ent glass
Is its weight, The genuine is made
from pure lead glass, made < llietly hi
America, especially for cutting
This
lead glass Is very heavy
The first step toward cutting Is to
mark on the "blank"—that is, the dish
in the clear glass in red or other paint
the design that has been selected for
It.
The most common designs are dia
mond shapes, stars ot various points,
crosses mid squares mid other geoniel-
rical |>a items.
The design must be marked on the
glass exactly to stand the test of com
pass and rule. W hen all lines are in
perfect accordance with the pattern
mid also fit tin* blank the "roughing"
begins. J Ins is ( tilting the heavy work,
sucli as the uecks ot vases and bottles
mid the heavy lines on tlie stars.
This is done on a machine called the
“mill," a big wooden framed affair, on
top of which is a hopper holding about
half a ton of Berkshire lulls sand
Tills sand is the only kind in this
country that has proved satisfactory
for this work.
The sand rims down through the
hopper, is moistened with water and
comes out of a large steel disk, the
edge of which is sharp ’This disk is
turned by power at a very high speed.
The wet sand of the disk gives It a
“tooth." wl|icb when the glass is held
against the edge of the disk cuts very
rapidly.
All the course mid heavy culling Is
done on this “mill "
The cutting in of the finer work be
gins on a mill with a stone disk re
sembling an old fashioned grindstone."
but milch narrower mid with n beveled
edge. These stones come chiefly from
Italy or Scotland They are very hard
and carry a keen edge a long time,
They are used for the tine cutting al
toget her.
There is a stone fouod in Nova S<‘<>-
tia much softer that cuts quicker and
Is used for fluting on water bottles
and compotes where heavy cuts are
desired. Very often as many as fifteen
or twenty different stones of varying
degrees of hardness are used for the
cutting of one article.
After the design has been all cut.
comes one of the most difficult parts
of the Work, the polishing
This is done on the outside of the
work with a very high speeded brush
wheel covered with moistened pumice
stone powdered. This stone is lava
thrown off by a volcano.
Large wooden disks made to fit the
cuts and fed with pumice mid water
are used for polishing the fine work in
and around the delicate tracery ot the.
pattern
The timid of the glass cutting expert
must be steady, strong mid accurate,
for the least mistake spoils a whole
pattern. In the case of a fourteen
inch punch bowl this means I lie loss of
$50.
Another kind of glass cutting is
known as stone engraving. it Is d<>ne
with little stone wheels nnd copper
tools entirely by hand. The designs
are chiefly vims and flowers. They
are not cut deep mid are often mis
taken for pressed glass. lu reality
they nre the most expensive kind of
cut glass, the prit e for n single piece
of large also and ornate decoration
reaching four figures.
Glass ( lining Is not only a trade, but
an art, and any one after seeing tlie
method employed w ill readily under
stand v. by geigiinc cut glass com
mands high prh cm —Boston Globe.
The J«;b Department.
Fortner Employer—And so yott are
a newspaper man now. Thompson?
Thompson—Yes. sir; I’m the editor of
the Job department, Former Rmploy-
ejr— Editor of the Job depart nient 7
Thompson— Yes. sir; I cnrrlen In coal.
nnd scrubs the floor, nnd cleans the
windows, and all such editin' iis that.
sir.— London Graphic.
Violence In tlie volce Is often only
’h" death raffle of rensua la tlw
throat —ktoyuF.
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