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Prisoners and Caplive s Dy II. S. MERRIMAN CHAPTEIt V. (Continued.) Tli" Idlers ill the shipping office at Tower Hill were treated on the followinr morning to a strange sight. According t j formula, the brokers of the Martial had Indicated to the shipping authorities their desire to ui jr off the crew of the ves-"l. Shortly before the hour named a number of women tx'gan to ssseinhle. Home were drtssed jvif ImIjI v. oilier were of III lowest class tlmt I-oiidou produces; hut all in ! some stleiniit at mourning. One or two wore their crape weeds with that Incomprehensible feminine pride In uch habiliment which show itself in nil grades of society, while others were clad in black runty, ill-fitting, evidently bar rowed. A common sorrow, a mutual In terest, wrved as Introduction anions these. Indie, and they talked eagerly together. Scraui of conversation floated over the black bonnets. One had lont her husband, another her sou, a third only her brother "Ain't lie come yet?" they asked one another at intervaU. "Th mi rv Ivor 'Itn that brought 'er ome with hi own hands I wani.-r ak him about my man about liia end." At Inst a hansom cab turned the cor "Then he la interesting?" "Yea, 1 think you will find blm Inter estine" Helen waa already seeking In her niln l bow things could be made eaay and com fortable for the unpolished hero whom her brother had ao unceremoniously in- l rod need into the house. "Agnee Winter waa coming to-morrow to dine, but ahe can be put off." ah ob served, carelessly. "Agnea Winter why ahould ahe be put off? Iet her come, by all mean." The little man 'a manner waa perhap too Indifferent to be either natural or i polite. He waa either unconsciously rude or exaggerating an indifference he did not feel. Helen, however, continued her re mark without appearing to notice any thing "Would yno not," ahe Inquired, while replacing In It vase a flower that bad be come ilisplaceJ, "rather have him quite alone when we are by ourselves, I mean ?" oh, no. He 1 all right. Jf be ia good enough for you, be ia good enough for Ague Winter, laa he got a ault of dresa clothe?" ner of the Minorie and pulled up noisily gj tm Admiral, with blunt laugh. on the noisy atone. Claud Iyara threw Lieut. Grace let hi hand fall heavily open ttie door and stepped out. lie nua upon hie thigh w ith a a-eature of tuock come to tie paid on ; he waa tne crew ot i regret. the Martial. nulte forgot to ask him." he ex- In a moment he waa surrounded by the claimed, dramatically. women, every one clamoring for newt of her dead a.illor. The broker' clerk, an observant youth, noticed that during tbe half hour that followed Tyar never re- 'There 1 aome mystery attached to (hi person, laugheu Helen. Her laugh ter waa a little prolonged in order that her father, whose duller sense of humor ferred to hi log-book, but answered each sometimes failed to follow hi son's fan- question unerringly from memory. He gave details, datea and particular with out hesitation or doubt. It was perhaps owing to a knowledge of the ronmierclal value of a good memory Hint the young clerk made note of these detail. He was not observant enough to take account of the tiner shades of manner, of the in finite tact with which the survivor of the crew treated the women folk of .hi lute ry, mignc comprenend tual till waa Joke. 'Well," aald the old gentleman, thrust ing hi hand deeply Into hla pocket. "I iik a man to coma to my table In claw-hammer coat." CHAPTER VII. Ilelen'a eyes rested for a moment on her brother' face. With an almost lm. comrade, lie cliu not detect ttie auntie movement of lid nH .vh.n- nri uy which some were srill swny rr- i reassured her joicing over the dogged, dauntless courage of their husbands; he wa only conscious of a feeling of admiration for this man who, hitherto, had hardly noticed him. Itut he failed to discern that the dlllicult task waa accomplished unconsciously. He did not realize that Claud Tyar possess ed a gift which -Is only second to genius in worldly value the gift of unobtrusive ly ruling his fellow men. A Tyar drove away from the shlp- plng nlhce he aaw the street news vend er displaying their poster with the words, "A Wonderful Story of tbe Sea" printed in sensational type. "Hang It I" he muttered, with vexed laugh, "I never counted on a notoriety of this sort." Presently he bought an evening paper I Innocence. "What time i dinner? I told him to como at 7 o clock, said be, holding out his cup for more tea. "That i right," anawered Helen. "Vou would have done better," aalil the Admiral, (till unpadded, "to have given the man a dinner at your club." "Ob ! replied hi on, ereuely, "I wanted you and Helen to make hla ac quaintance; besidea, I could not have in vited Muggins to the club." Muggins !" growled the old gentleman. Interrogatively. The dog." "Ah ! la ha a presentable aort of fel low, then, that you want your atster to meet him? The dog?" inquired Gract, with much do. because In such matters po rule ran be laid down defining where sense begin and foolishness ends. The man who got Aguea Winter would be stusible, however he did It." Presently the girl went to dress for dinner, leaving her brother standing at the wiudow, whistling softly beneath hi breath. CHAITKIt VIII. If there had been any doubt enter tained or discussed as to the prvsenta- bility of Claud Tyara In polite circle, these were destined to an instant re moval when that Individual entered the drawing room of No. Iti5 It rook atreet. Ilia dress, if it erred at all, did so on the side of a too scrupulous adherence to the latest dictate of society. His man ners were those of a traveled and expe rienced gentleman. That Is to aay, he was polite without eagerness, pleasant without gush, semi-interested, seuil-ludif- fereut. Oswin Grace advanced to meet blin with quick glance of satisfaction at bis irreproachable get-up, which Tyara show ed no sign of having detected. The necessary Introduction wera made, and Tyar displayed tbe same per fect knowledge of social habits up to date. Hi bow was pure and aim pie, and to the Admiral be offered his hand In a calm, decisive way, which somewhat in terfered with the old gentleman's digni fied coldness. "I think," anld Helen at once, with characteristic desire to make thing pleas- ont, "that we have met before. She wa looking up at Tyara, who, being very tall, stood a head higher than any one In the room, and In her eyes there was no speculation, no searching Into the recesses of her memory. The re mark waa without Interrogative hesita tion. It waa the aasertlon of a fact well known to her, and yet her color changed "Yea," answered Tyara; "I had the pleasure of dancing with you on several occasions at tbe Commemoration three years ago." Itut you are not ao Oxford man put in Lieut. Grace. "No." He did not seem to think It worth while mentioning that hla name waa on the booka of the aister university. What a good memory you have, Mr. Tyara!" observed Mi Agnes Winter in a smooth, soft voice. "I'erhapa you can help mine. Have we met before? I know your face. He turned to her with a emlle in which there wa no light of dawulug recollec tion. Hardly," he replied. "Hut you were sitting In the middle of the last row of the stalls at a bvrformauce of 'Hamlet' last autumn. To be eontlmied.l ir. v,Cs '- II , , i Mahr ami Wretchedness M JlBsS beneath Country interested In a 'movement to cleanse Washington of its reproach &Bk ASS- .Ail A. Www of the Nation to 3 Copifo! I and read of the exploits of "llaiitain" Tyars with a singular lack of pride. When Mr. Iowell, the owner of the Martial, offered blin the command of the ship the same afternoon he gravely ami politely declined It. With the ahlp-owner, a with Lieut. Grace, Tyar appeared quite blind to the necessity of an expla nation, and none waa asked. So ended the Incident of the Martial. Ita direct bearing upon the life of Clnud Tyar would aeem to terminate at the aanie moment ; but indirectly the experi ence thus acquired influenced hi career, formed to some extent hi character, and led aa all things great and small lead ua to the end. CIIAPTKK VI. In the infant line Lieut. Grace hod re reived at the hands of his father ami aister a warm welcome. Without announcement of any descrip tion he made bis way from the Admiralty to llrook street ami knocked at his fath er' door, lie found the old gentleman and Miss Helen Grace engaged in the consumption of afternoon tea. "Oswin!" exclaimed the old nilmirnl. "I thought you were on the African const." Helen Grace was a young lady not much given to exclamatory expressions of feeling. She rose from the low chair he habitually occupied mid kissed her brother. Then she turned his face to ward the light by the collar of bis coat. "Have you Is-en invalided home?" she asked. "No." "Hut the Foam is out there still," put In the Admiral, eager to show hi Inti mate knowledge of olTiclal matters. "Yes. I came home on a derelict. A fine, big ship without a crew. All dead of yellow fever except one. I am glad that he wa picked out by Providence to survive." "Why?" Inquired Helen. "Ilecause I like him." "What waa he, an officer?" asked the Admiral. "Second mate, holding a captain' cer tificate. I have asked blin to dinner to morrow night." "Oh!" murmured Helen, doubtfully. "With hla dog the other aurvivor." "Ah!" said Helen In a more interested tone. "Io they know how to behave themselves ?" "I think o both of them," wa the reply. "Although w did not dress for dinner on board the Martial. "It seem to me," observed the Ad miral, with an easy chuckle, "that you did not devote much time at all to tbe question of toilet." "No," replied Grace, frankly. "We were a hady crew. You see, there were only ten of ua to navigate a thousand ton ahlp full rigged. W had no time for peraonal adornment. You will see all about It In the evening paper. I brought one with me on purpose. May I have aome tea, Helen? It ia month since I have seen such an article as bread and butter." The girl hastened to supply hi wants, performing her duties with a deft ure nes of touch where maidens are not doll. While Grace waa performing won der among the dainties supplied to him, hi father read aloud the detail of hi deeds upon the high sea, and Helen listened with a faint smile of pride upon her refined face. "And thla man," ahe Inquired, when the paragraph had been duly digested "the man you have asked to dinner What I be like?" The naval officer helped himself to a limp slloe of bread and butter with great thoiightfulness. "That I Just the difficulty, my dear," be replied. "I cannot tell you what he la like, because I don't know. I do not understand him that I the long and short of It. He 1 above me." "I euppose," euggeated the Admiral, who held the keener study of human nature In some contempt, "that he la merely a rough sailor man a merchant captain?" "No, he Is hardly that I want yon," continued the lieutenant, after a pause, turning to hit sister, "to judge for your self, so will not tell you what I think about bint." "No," laughed his father, deapite him self; "the man Tyre, or Sidon, or what ever his name I." jyar. lei; l think ao. Tyar is distinctly presentable, or else f would not have auggested hla coming to dine with Helen and Agnea Winter." Helen had moved away toward the window, and waa now leaning agalnat the folded and old-fashioned shutter. She turned and looked at her brother aa he wanted, the element U-lng the current I.iltle Things That (asst. Muny littles ninke a uilckle" in I America aa veil ait In SootlumL That is I a kkm1 jsdnt for lxya to remember who ore Inclined to HllKht little thlnjrs In I their own or their employers' service. A very small matter may at time turn out to Ih of ImiMirtance lu the "uiuckle" of success. Only a little thing was a vent pocket note book which a yoting man lu the employ of a big wire company worked out. The comtuuiy which einnlovetl - - i him had a nuinlier of factories la vari ous parts of the country. Whenever a contract was aoutrht It was necessary to nmre out for the nearest factory the cost per foot of the size of wire spoke, with that gentle, womanly scru tiny. Like her brother, Helen Grace favored to some extent a gravity of demeanor when in repose, and her face was of that refined tye which possesses a great mo bility. Some faces there are which seem to have brought from old time a recol lection of gay knight, full of poetry and full of fight; of troubadours and patient women. Oswin and Helen Grace were of this mold. In profile the chbteling of either face wa perfect, for Helen was but a retined miniature of her brother: the shadow of the treat, chaste dome ot the capltol "t N'Hstiiiijioti lies what Is at once the fairest and the foulest city lu America. Thousands of visitors, from verv section of the country, catching only lui- prtntsmiis of broad avenues, stately buildings and mug nifk-eht monuments, take home with them only patriotic pride in lu beauty, unaware that here thrive sijualor, vice aud civic ilothfulness not excelled, and prAhahly un ojiuled, la decree at least, In the length and breadth of the luud. in the very shadow of capltol and White House, a cumimlciit declares, exist slums that rival tho worst cf those against which social purifiers of New xork and Chicago have been battling for a quarter of a century. But the crowning blot on the nume of Wash ington la the fact that the book of her laws Is hare of nearly every one of the meusures for civic betterment which enlightened sentiment has secured for practically every other American city. Iu tbii city which should lie In the vnn of civic right eousness, among other amazing deficiencies, there are: No compulsory school attendance law and lO.OtiO children last yuur were absent from the public schools. No child labor laws. N playgrounds. No udwjuate housing luws to regulate the slum evil. Washington 1.s the victim of congressional neglect Her outward signs of dignity, beauty, stateliness have created the false Impression that there were no ioor, that there was no vice, that uncleaiillness could not thrive, that grandeur would beget righteousness, that the waited glory of marldo pile and shaft would hestieak civic purity. Now conies the Investigator revealing the fact that igalust grandeur and beauty stand sloth and vice; that the splendid array of snowy marble Is the sym bol only of whi ted sepulchre. The case were sad Indeed, were It not for the fact that along with the ex posure comes I the cheering word that a great national movement hat been Inaugurated to make Washington what PreslJeitt Roosevelt has called a "model city." Appalllnw I oadltlona. Very reeentlr a communication has been sent to mem bers of Cuagresa urging action upon the several bills before Howe and Sennte to provide a legal framework for the repnarntlon of the capital. The men signing the fltlls-ill ir !n Hiilwumnilttee of the Xntlmiul !nl. Ac tion Committee which was organized last year to get at the facts otiaial conditions In Washington among 3(H) American rtlesi and to put them liefore sople so that public opinion can act Intelligently. Under the auspices of the committee Is published a weekly magazine. Chari ties aud the Commons, and to this publication were re cently sent reports of conditions In the lower strata of Washington life, based uimiu ten mouths of careful aud Intelligent Investigation. The Investigators reort the discovery of conditions of life lu many of the nelghlior hoods visited more debased than anything found even iu the most squalid sections of New York. The city Is hoiieyeointied with alleys, often concealed behind rows of splendid hopies. Narrow lanes lead to tangles of con cealed thoroughfares built up with Jumbles of shanties, shacks and hovels, side by side with stables, refuse heaps and unsightly, health-menacing structures. No water, no sewerage and some of the worst conditions of disease and dilapidation found In the district character ize "Chinch row." This suburb of civilization Is three blocks from lHiKnt circle, heart of aristocratic Washing ton, and seven block from the White House. Men and women domestics, employed In well-kept Washington homes, are found lu shanties here. A brief Inspection tour over the ground covered by the work of the Inves tigators rob the visitor of wonder thnt the fair city of Washington ranks among the most unhealthy cities on this continent. To remedy the blight of the alley It Is promised to sweep these clear of shack, hovel and shanty, to often and widen the alleys aud to provide legislation that shall demand homes supplied with the essentials of decency, healthfulness and comfort . Tbe Kdaratlonal Problem. The education problem Is equally as grave as thnt of proper housing regulations. Ten thousand children of Washington are now growing up In Ignorance and Illit eracy for lack of a compulsory education luw. The census of 1!X0 showed that 2,000 children under 13 years of age were at work In the District of Colum bia. In the face of that fact a child labor law was de feated In the last Congress, and the present Congress Is treating the matter In a dilatory and Indifferent manner, despite the earnest-work of many local agencies and the advocacy of the Committees on the District of Columbia. Washington Is not a manufacturing city, but boys and girls are employed In stores, laundries, In the street trades and as messengers. Protests have been vain, and Congress fulls, session after session, to pass a law that will correct this flagrant wrong. Itomhay Is the most crowded city la tbe world. Kuzzards and vultures can scent their food at a distance of forty uilles. Iu the Amazon there are kn-iwi t exist at least two thousand sjhjcIc of tlsh. . A railway engine usually travels about one million miles before It worti'out A shipyard at Umluato, Japan, still In oiieration, was established 11X10 years ago. A floating bottle dropped In the Gulf Stream as It leaves the Gulf of Mexico will cross the Atlantic lu about 10 days. ltlrds cannot ojvn the foot with the leg bent; that Is the reason they d not fall off their jwrches. When a hen walks, Its toes close as It raises Its foot, and otitis a It touches the ground. Compressing three hundred thousand newspaisTS by hydraulic machinery, nu Austrian genius has constructed a yacht of the material thus obtained. It Is sixteen feet long, and every part Including the masts aud sails. Is pain'. Silk stockings 'originally came front Spain, and It Is said that Henry VIII. I considered a pair of silk Spanish stock ing a great luxury and wore them on state occasions. In 1570 Queen Kllzn- lieth was presented with a pair of silk stockings by her tirewoman, and after ward never wore any other kind. The I stocking frame was Invented by Wil liam Lee In the reign of (Jueen Kllza- ' beth, about 15.S!). Egg gatherers of the Scottish Island of St Klldo prize roix-s of human hair, , Itoies vary In length, some being forty to fifty feet long. Such a rope Is a bride's dower. To manufacture It Is the work of years, but the St. Klldan girl saves her hair combings religious ly. A curiosity collet-tor who visited the Island a short time ago wished to buy a flue specimen of hair rope, but the $100 offered was refused. Delegate Koduey of New Mexico tells of the amazement of a ranchman when he first saw a linotype machine at work. After staring at It for a while the ranchman said: "Great Scott t Ain't that the most Intelligent machine you ever saw? Why, It's plumb hu man." Finally, overcome by his ad miration, he took off his hat, mado a low bow to the complicated mechanism and said: "I surely would admire, Mr. Machine, If yon all would come out and take a drink with me." price of a pound of cotustr. the weight of a foot of wire, and the fixed cost 5 inr foot of making that size wire lu that factory. The amount of computa tion In a year was enormous. The young salesman, seeing a chnnce to save lalmr and to guarantee accur acy, figured out In his spare time the the cost of a foot of wire of every standard size at each of the factories of the concern for every eighth of n wilt fluctuation In copjier, over a margin OF THEOID SCHOOL. i torn of to-dny has wisdom. Several words "child psy- a worthy sclnsil- iind in smiling their gray eye lighted up of tell or twelve cents a iHiuud. These lie arranged and copyrighted lu a note book, each page of which represented a factory. Across the top of the page were column headings representing the sizes of wire, and down one edge were hand hail at all events possessed the the prices of copticr. Itv selecting the er of loving her children. Oswin Grace proper size and the proper nrlce nnd with the selt-saine soft merriment. As she stood in the soft sunlight look ing sideways toward her brother her ten derness wa visible. These two were the only children of a deail mother, who if she hail never unite understood her ho.' had left home early, a all naval men must, and during the short spells allowed to him by a grateful country as recrea tion he hud not learned to know his sis ter very well not well enough to forget that he owed to her the respect due to all women. The two men now started a conversa tion upon very nautical matters, employ ing inch technical terms and waxing so interested that Helen sought a chair near the window and settled down to listen with resHctful silence. When the Ad miral had left the room Oswin crossed the floor and atood beside hi aister, his scrutinising glance cast downward. "How is Agnes Winter?" he asked. "She la very well. Did those flowers remind you of her?" "Ve-es," he replied, slowly. 'I wonder why?" "Because she arranged them, I sup pose," auggested the girl, looking up sud denly, a If struck at the possibility of her idea being of some weight. "Perhaps so. She is not eng.igod yet?" Helen threaded a needle with some care and tooied over her work. "No; she ia Just the same a ever. Al ways busy, alwaya happy, always a fa vorite. Itut one never hear the light est rumor of n engagement, or eveu a flirtation." "While." added Grace, airily, 'her dear friend flirta here and fllrta there, but keeps clear of the serious part of It all with eoual skill." "Which friend?" Inquired Helen, In nocently. "Yourself." , "Oh ! I have my dutlea. Papa could not get on without me. llesidea, 1 never flirt. Marriage and love and all that my broth er, have much more to do with conven ience than la generally supposed." "Indeed?" he Inquired with fine sar caam. "Yes ; I have atndled the question. You may know more about the alave trade than I do, because you have had superior adrantnge In that direction; but I also have had advantages, and from personal observation beg to state that In nine case out of ten convenience la the source of love in the tenth case It is propinquity." "Thank you," he said, fervently. "I will make a mental note of your observa tions, and when I marry a plain and stupid heiress perhaps you will withdraw them." She Ignored hi pleasantry. "I often wonder." he aaid, thoughtfully, "why somebody or other does not fall In love with Agnes Winter." After a pause he put forward a sug gestion. "Itecause she will not let them, per haps." "That may be so; but sorely a sensible man does not wait to be allowed." "The question," be anawered, with mock gravity, "Is rather beyond me. It hi bard to say what a sensible maa would following column and line to their In tersection, the price of that foot of wire lu the required factory at the moment was found, which with a single multiplication gave the cost of tho con tract, less freight Tho ease and rapidity with which the salesman furnished estimates at tracted the notice of his employers, who found the book so valuable thnt they isiugtit It or him, and furnished copies to all their salesmen, Another little thing of the kind that Interests every American boy Is now working on a pier at Iturrwood. La, a little town on stilts nt the end of Southwest Pass, w here the new Jetties for the Mississippi river are under con struction. In the Jetty work great mats are made of willow brush, bound together with timbers pinned with Winston pins. Many thousand feet of tlinlsr are used every day, each piece ts.re.1 witti eiglit one-Inch holes nt exact Intervals, and cut to a given lenirth. Formerly each hole was bored by hand by a cnnnter after the ends bad IsH-n squared, and the Intervals carefully measured. The superintend ent In charge, seeking both aecurncy and economy In the Interest of his em ployers nnd moved by that love of Improvement which Is the ninrk of tne successful workman designed a set of eight bit and two circular saws mounted In a frame and driven by a steam engine. Lumber, fed upon rollers. Is brought Into the machine and locked Into place; by a turn of a lever the ends of each piece are squared and the eight holes bored simultaneously In a fraction of a minute, each exactly In the required spot There Is no chance for error. Aa a result the work Is done faster and cheaper, and It Is wrtaln that when the titular conies to the weaving frame each hole Is exactly where the pin should go. A fitting complement to this, and part of the same machine, Is a sharpener Mnctly like the 5 cent pencil hnrj.eiicrs used by schooling. t,ut large enough to take In an Inch stick. Hound sticks an Inch thick are fed to this, which au tomatically ehnrpena the end and cuts off a piece as long as a pin should be drops It and sharpens tha cut and again. Haaaie the Boaee. Myer-Black tells me ha has a broth r who Is a rattling good acton Oyer Thafa a fact net on of Um end man In a minstrel show. The educational i- not a timnoxily of centuries before tie chology" were heanf master and sago .poto down theories upon the Instrtiitloti of the young which are more in accord with the principles of the present time than with the methods of the rod and ruler prevailing forty or fifty years ago. At a recent book auction a' volume was sold for two huuilred ami twenty-five dollars. The bisik was Koger Ascham's "The Sclinlc Master, or plalne and ikt Ote way of teaching children to under stand, write, and speak, the Latin Tonga" It was printed by John Daye of Iiondon In 1571. "If a child doth well," says the gen tie "schole master," "praise liltn and sny, 'Here ye do well.' For I assure you there Is no such whetstone to shar pen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as Is praise. I know by good experience that a child will take more profit of his faults gently warned. I now declare at large that love I better than fear, and gentleness bet ter than beating, to bring a child up rightly In learning. "l'et some aien will sny thnt chil dren, of nature, love pastime and mls llke learning; because one Is easy and pleasaut and the other hard and weari some. Which b an opinion not so true as some men ween. For the matter lleth not so much In the disposition of them that be young as In the order aud manner of bringing up of them that be old. "The clean, pure wit tt a sweet young babe Is, like the newest wax, most able to receive the best nnd fairest print ing. Therefore to the goodness of na ture should be Joined the wisdom of the teacher In leading young wits Into right ami pajn way of learning. "The schoolhouse should be counted as a sanctuary against fear." AS SEEN BY AN ENGLISH FUNNY PAPER. "ssBssssssssss"Sssssssaaa if f ilKfell The dark domestic age of the tyrannical, overlsjarlng. Impudent Cook Is giving way to the dazzling brightness of the Electrical Kitchen, with the high class Dlploma'd nnd Certificated F.lectrlcal Ijidy Chef, with her volts, switches, currents and storage batteries. London Scrnps. Handle Werk with Gloves. "I hos," n ij the woman who was ordering a pr 0f slippers made of nowcreu satin, "that you will tell your workman to wash his hands before be begins to make these up." "Wash his hands I" repented the clerk. -Why, madam, be never will touch these itb bis bare hands." Then the clerk explained that all workmen employed In making allpi?rs of light colon worked wltu w bite gloves on. 'Try to keep them clean ." he contln-uo,l- "I should say they dl.L They try so har,j that they change their white glove three times a day." Which Is not so fiu,ai,tlc as It may seem, for If a shoemaker sidls material of this kind the nn,,ne to blm of replacing the material, to say nothing of the loss ot nis time, mikes It worfli bis while to work la iores and keep them clean laaL-N,.. fork Press. When the children wait for the sec ond table, 4,n-t dilly-dally, after yon U"T aten; h children are Hungry nd art not intrrtel In your conver sation. "Such as wake ou the night and sleep on the day, and hnutit taverns and ale houses, and no man wot from whence. they come uor whither they go." So quaintly describes an old F.ngllsh stat ute against the Gipsies. Lver since the year 15: 10, says a writer In the Lou don Standard, Great Krltuln bus tried to get rid of this strange people with out appreciable success. Every year or so some county Is up In arms against them, yet they persist In returning, and apparently thrive under persecution. Tbe Gipsies are popularly supposed to come originally from Egypt as their name Indicates, but their origin Is traced farther east than the land of tbe Nile. Wherever they come from, they are a separate people, a tribe quite by themselves. They apiwared In England about 1505, and twenty-six years later Henry VIII. ordered thera to leave the coun try In sixteen days, taking all their gotxls with them. "An outlandish peo ple," he called them. The act waa In effectual, and In 152 Ellxlth framed a still more stringent law, and many were banged. "But what numbers were executed," says one old writer, "yet notwithstand ing, all would not prevalle, but they wandered as before, uppe and downe." They got Into Scotland nnd became an Intolerable nuisance. Iloth In thnt country and In England legislation proved quite Ineffectual. The acts gradually fell Into rtesuetnde. Under George IV. all thnt was left of the ban against the Gipsies was tbe mild law that any person "telling fortunes shall be deemed rogue and a rags bond." "Gipsies are no longer a proscribed class," aaya a recent writer. "Probably tne modern uipsy does little evil be yond begging and petty theft, bnt his determination not to work la aa strong as ever, ana it aeema curious that aa 8UCCESSFUL RABBIT TRAP. Device Canstht 30 Animals la On Msht la Australia. Consul General Ilray reports from Melbourne that a now rabbit trap Is be ing used In Australia with great suc cess, whereby rabbits may be caught alive In very large numbers, says the Washington Star. It Is used In connec tion with small trap yards, diagrams for the construction of which are sup plied by the patentee of the trnpa. The trap Itself Is IS Inches uig, 12 Inches high and M Inches In width. It has a balanced ' moving floor and a door at each end, which opens and closes au tomatically. The weight of the rabbit on the Inverse end of a floor closes the door behind him by which he has en tered and otietis the door In front lead ing to the trap yard, so thnt the rabbit has no option hut to go on, and when he lenve the trnp It goes back to Its former position, thus resetting Itself. The small trap yards are constructed of double-wire netting fences. In the spaces between which green fodder or hay Is cultivated or provided, nnd, al though these foods cannot bo reached by the rabbits. It entices them to enter through the traps to try and get out the fodder from the other sldo. Two, three or more trap may bo used In contteo tlon with each trap yard. The Inven tion has Is-en tried with great success mi several extensive ranches In Austra lia, nnd the Inventor hns a number of certificates from leading ranchmen, one of whom states that with two of the trnps set at a small water hole be caught t!30 rabbits In one night ... ........,, lw,e Ke ours continues Book Colleclln. Madaeaa. ..... ca III ii tie ill rtrorislUlir.n I I pes ... Idlers." How .mniern,,. . n- k" I . lw "'"snte craving or book col- . . lectors is illustrated In the ense nt Rawllnson, an English bihllomanlao mny lie gnthored from the fact that the number who wintered In Surrey one year was estimated at ten thousand. The language as well as the life of the Gipsy trllie has a tenacity of Its who would buy a book though he had twenty copies of It. lie lived and died among bundles and piles of hooks cov- own. Many of their words have taken ere1 Wlth dUHt aud co,,wp,,p- Tb 8l?- tlrm hold In a half-slang, half-permlssl- tator n,en,,on" two Electors' whose ble way. Shaver Is the Gipsy word for covet0U8nww Increased with their col- chlld. Pal Is pure Gipsy. Codger means lertUm- a mnn. Cutting up Is Gipsy for qunr- Mr- IIebpr t,,e brother of the bishop, rellng, and cove stands for "thnt fel- bo""11 H that came In his way, by low." cartloads and shiploads and In whola libraries, on which In some cases be never cast his eyes. Of a similar dlsltlon was the fa mous Antonio Magllabccchl, who la said to havejlved on. titles and Indexes and whose very pillow was a folio. The old bibliomaniac lived In a kind of cave made of piles and masses of books, with hardly any room for his cooking or for the wooden cradle lined with pamphlets which he slung between hie shelves for a bed. He died In 1714, In bis 82d year, dirty, ragged and as hap py as a king. London Standard. Was- the Hair Tarn Orar. The color of the hair deHnds on lit tle granules, which can be seen If the nair ts examined under a powerful ml croscope, says St Nicholas. Sometimes the hair may become white In a night Brown Sequnrd tells us that when he was o yeare old his beard turned white in two days. This took place wbea he was perfectly well and without any ."". Bometimes, however sorrow or inness produces the change nr asl t na lHllat-Ai ......-. ... me man it would usually take place. As to the cause, some have said that the hair becomes filled with small air particles which make It look gray; oth ers have said that the outer part of the hair lHimies altered so that It Is like ground glass and you cannot see the coor. i5Ut a ninn hy the nnme Metchnlkoff tell us that the real rea son Is because small movable bodies In the hair devour the grains of coloring matter and move them to the root of the hair. Sometimes poisons In dis ease, or some result of sorrow, bring about an effect upon these small mi grating bodies (cells), causing them to become active In the above fashion. That la aald to be the reason why the hair grows gray. A correspondent asks: "Do mn lleve the women chase the menr We are trying to avoid all violent contra. Venice, and refuse to lUte A Miser's Wish. Oreedylot, who Is rather miserly, was recovering from a long Illness. "How wns It doctor," he asked one dny, "that I wns able to live so ninny weeks with out entlng?" "Why, you v ere fed by the fever." "Are you surer Then after a mo ment's reflection, "I wish I could give It to my servants." Joba ( alnamaa Takes Alblellee. The first big athletic meeting In Chi na was held not long ago and a tim .... dents from forty-seven schools too part A corps of doctors wns on tho ground and were kept busy during the meet so strenuous were aome of h. contests. There Is something fine and nice In a daughter who takes pride In making her mother dresa becomingly. "