ST W. B. STOELX&
But lie did not oom disponed to dwell
golnH home wltli Mr. Ilffh nd might
not be back ljcforo mornintr, got into tlio
doft OJirl ; tlitmiih I hurl sumo doubts as to
whether wti nliould be nlile to proceed to
the aeone of the catastrophe.
However, when we rcadml the railway
it seemed that there would I no difficulty
on that score. Lord Statu' . was a great
nnn t.l, .ni,i,t f,i,i "'" """' " .n, ana Jim
.thor that mu, connected with the pmient S T ? ' LT t'T"''
or the fntnra. It was about old Eton "'"1 16 fta"on m""'r- 0,1 "'nft om
aay that he wanted to talk, and very S',,Rt mV H?lne at our
aoon Jim and he were chuckling ovw the I'"1?'!''10."-,, 11 )ml 'Jf Ve.T M, T1'
memory of many a bygone escapade"" K "S" w" "T?. ""5
they bud been schcoiboy. togelher' one I " " ' '1
was one of them.
I hanlly know why both Jim and I
more. At last Bracknell glanced at his
watch and pitched away the end of bis
"Ah. welll" 1.. m "Ik i... r. I ?hon1'1 "a n opposite opinion.
lollv amine von fell. !, w. ' We did not comn.miicata it to each other
uiue up now anu i must go and say
goodby to the governor and Mildred. I
hall have to get bock to London this
evening, so as to make an early start to
morrow. You might wolk up with me,
Jim. Oh, no, by the way, you can't,
though. But come down to the station at
A o'clock and see the lust of me, like a
good chup, will youf"
Jim promised that he would be there,
and presently Bracknell took my arm and
walked me oft toward Staines Court. I
accompanied him very willingly, because
I wai' rather enrlons, I confess, to k
what would happen If he enwmntered
Hilda; and, as luck would have It, when
we wore within a tew yards of the house
that ill used lady, in a neat walking dress,
oame tripping down the steps.
She nodded to Bracknell, without any
manifestation of surprise. "Oh," said
he, "you have turned up at lost. Have
you oome dowu to stuyf"
"No," ansiverod Bracknell shortly, "I
have como down to nay goodby to my
father. I'm leaving for the tioudon to
morrow." "Bnallyf How spirited of youl When
will you lie buck, do you suppose?"
"I'm sure 1 don't kuow; never, perhaps.
Don't let me keep you standing in tha
old"
Hilda smiled and shrugged her shonl
, ders. "I am not much accustomed to being
left out in the cold," she remarked. "No
body has ever yet succeeded In treating
me in that way, und I doubt w hether yon
will succeed. 1 shall stay at Staines Court
until you return. "
"Shall you'viid Bracknell "I shonld
think you would find that rather dull
work. However, you kuow best what
ults you. UcKidhy."
"Goodby," returned Hilda. "Take
care of yourself."
She nodded again as she turned away;
and so they parted, without so much as
liuking hnnds.
This short dialogue had the effect of so
bering my compuniau, whose face was
grave enough when he mug the bell and
asked tor Lord Ktuiui. 1 waited for him
In the drawing mom while he went to bid
farewell to his father and sister, and a
long time 1 hod to wait before he reap
peared, looking a little flushed and agi
tated. "Come on," he mid, hurriedly; "we
haven't much more than lime to catch the
train." And when we were out in the
park he drew a Ions breath. "Well, I'm
glad that's over!" he exclaimed. "Poor,
dear old boy! 1 shall never see him again,
you know; and dash it all I I wish I had
boon a better son to bitn. Not much use
uyiug that now. ehr But 1 do wish It, all
the mme."
I mode some stupid conventional speech,
to which Bracknell replied, "Oh, he's
breaking up fast, anybody can see that,
ud be knows it himself. Besides, it's
rather more likely thon not that I shall
leave my bones in Kgypt; and between
you and me, Idaynnrd, 1 sha'n't mind If I
da I've been pretty well sick of life tor
some time past, and if I could make a
fresh start However, I can't make a
fresh Blurt; and as for living with my
wife again, I'd sooner go Into penal servi
tude. Upon my word, 1 think she's the
most infernally wicked woman I ever
came across! und I have seen a fairish
number of women who are commonly
culled wicked."
It was ueidicr my business nor my in
clinatioa to mho tip the cudgels on Hil
da's behr.lf, but I suld, "You won't make
her any better by deserting her, will
youf"
"Nor any worse," returned Bracknell
"She'll be glud enough to get rid of me,
you may be sure, and she won't have
much to coniplnlu of, for when I oome
Into the property, If lever do come into
it, she shall hnvo thu lion's share of my
Income. I must pay oil Beauchainp too,
somehow or other. I any, Muynard, do
you believe lu Providence!1 Of course
you do though; you're the sort of respect
able fellow who would; mid your mother
brought you up well. I sometimes think
Providence may Imve tuken poor little
Sunning away for very good reasons. He
wouldn't have had jour udvuuluges, you
see."
Then he suddenly changed the subject
and talked alwut the Egyptian campaign
until we reached the station, where we
found Jim wailing lor us.
The train dashed lu immediately after
ward, bo that our huive taking was a brief
one. 1 remember lhat Bracknell's lust
words wore: "IJoodhy, old Jim; don't
forgot me It 1 get knocked on the head
out there."
Indeed we scarcely spoke a word during
the half hour or so that we spent rushing
tnrougn me uuraness in me use A 01 tno
southeasterly gale which had risen since
nightfall but afterward we compared
notes ami found that neither of na bod
hud any hope from the first. Perhaps, as
far as one of us was concerned, hope
would not have been quite the right word
to use. A little soonor or a little later
death must come to us all; and the fu
ture, as poor Bracknell himself had said
a few hours before, hud had but few
bright possibilities to offer him. Yet
when among those four silent, stiffened
bodies we recognized the one of which we
were In search, I own that my philosophy
broke down, and that I was just as Borry
as it there had been no mitigating circum
stances connected with this swift blotting
out of a life which was still young and
vigorous.
Jim took the loss of his friend terribly
to heart He hod always loved the man,
always admired him and wanted to be
lieve in him, even when faith must have
been a little difficult, and it was long be
fore he recovered from the shock of that
fatal night. To the present day he cannot
bear any allusion to ft; nor, 1 must con
fess, la It a subject upon which I myself
cure to dwell, Our first duty, of course,
was to break the news at Stulucs Court;
sidered It undesirable that tho ceremony
should be too long postponed; so good Mr.
Turner tied the knot, and the young
couplo have been living at Klmhurst ever
since in a seclusion which I dare say is
agreeable to both of them, but of which
the country docs not altogether approve.
Jim tells me that the debt of honor be
queathed to his wife has already been
paid off and that he hopes In the course of
a few years to be able to move to Statntvi
Court, which Is at present shut up. In
the meantime he Is very well satisfied
with his less pretentious abode; and in
deed, if a man were to bo condemned to
live in the country from year's end to
year's end, I don't know that he could
And a plcosnntcr place to live in than
Elmhurst, while I am persuaded that he
would search in vain for a fellow exile
more amiable and charming than Lady
Bracknell.
The other I July Bracknell the vis
countess of that name has quite recently
decided to put an end to all confusion of
Identity between her sister-in-law and
herself by changing her condition, vat
ing the first few months of her widow'
hood she resided with her father a
touching spectacle to the neighborhood,
as she drove about, with lowered eyelids,
In her weeds. Whether after a time she
became bored with the respectful synv
pathy of the neighborhood or whether sh
found herself better off than she had an-
tlclpated I do not know; but she moved
somewhat suddenly to London, set up
house there, discarded crape in favor of
pale gray and began to dispense a hoS'
pitality of which many people wei found
ready to avail themselves. RumfJr has it
that, on recovering her freedom, she
made a desperate bid for the Beauchamp
property and that the fortunate owner
thereof met her advances by requesting
her in bo many words to omit him from
the list of her acquaintances; but I do
sot believe this story. Hilda has expe
rience enougn to be aware that flirting
with a married woman and espousing her
after she has become a widow are two
very different things, and it is not likely
that so clear sighted an observer would
have wasted time and energy upon a for
lorn nope.
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW HISTORY
REPEATS ITSELF.
and hrwr in nrwimnH-hwl tli'a 1 nn lorn hope. As a matter of fact, she has
scarcely reuwmlwr. The one thins that doDe f"r bt?tter for hersel lilft slie would
stands out clearly in my recollection Is have done by marrying Beauchamp; for
Hilda's look of horror when she was told Bhe about to be led to the altar by the
in what maimer her husband hud met his J eldesfc 8on a duke- aid I hear tnat
death. the bridegroom's relatives have received
"I can't see him!" she cried. "Are I with marked cordiality. Her career,
they bringing him here? I won't look at , 80 ftr as It lias gone, may serve as a
any thing allocking
it seemed to me amazing that at uch a
moment the woman's llrst though jaould
have been to spure herself; but perhaps,
after all, it would have been more omuz
ing if her first thought had been anything
else.
ird Staines was in bed when we
reached the bout. It was thought best
that I should at once tell him what could
sot long be concealed, and he listened to
me with very little apparent emotion. He
asked me whether I thought Bracknell's
deuth had been a painful one; and when
1 replied us, happily, I was able to do
that it must huebeVn iiihtantaneous, he
muttered, "Weil, welt!" and lay back on
his pillows, looking straight before him
with sunken, weary eyes.
"So there is an end and a finish of us,"
he said presently; "maybe It's best so.
Jt seems odd that Brackuell aud Sunning
should both go before me; but I don't
suppose 1 shall have much longer to wait
now. When my poor boy and I parted
this afternoon, we knew that it was for
the lust time, and I'm glad he came to Bee
me I'm very glad he cume to see me,
lie was in great glee at the prospect of a
tight he bus always been like that from
a boy. We Henleys may have our faults.
but I don't think we have ever been ac
cused of wanting pluck. Bracknell will
warning to impulsive young men and as
an encouragement to the daughters of the
clergy. ,
THE END.
Mr. WaJlenbar's Remarkable Ens;.
A rug 10 by 15 feet, made up of the fur
of thirteen wild animals, is now in the pos
session of W. H. Walienhar. Mr. Wallen
bar keeps his rug, which cost tiim $1,500,
locked up in the vault in bis office, and
takes It out only occasionally to exhibit it
to particular friends.
The rug was made in Moscow and took
one man two years to put the pieces to
gether. Finished the rug has the appear
ance of a rich mosaic, the deep yellow of
the tiger woven into the coal black of the
South sea seal in diamond shaped blocks.
The center is made up of three rings of a
diameter of twenty inches, the patchlike
diamond pieces radiating from a circular
tuft of monkey skin and bordered by a rim
of otir. Tlie groundwork of the entire
piece is in monkey skin. Outside the large
center pieces are two rows of circles. The
outside contains fourteen circles six inches
In diameter, made of mink, Angora and
otter. The inner rows contain sixteen cir
cles of Russian Bable and monkey skin.
At either end and on the sides is a
6-inrh selvage of Russian silver fox hide,
and twenty silver gray fox tails adorn the
make himself heard of out there, you'U ends. In the make up pieces of the furs
see. l was a little vexed with him at from the Russia sable, Persian Iamb, An
first for going off and leaving me, but he goragoat.Chiuagoat.miDk.otter.Southsea
gave me reasons, and I behove he was
right. I wish he didn't hate writing let
ters so much I The newspapers will ttll
us all about him, thouglL"
In this wity the old man wandered on.
until Lady Mildred came softly into the
room and made me a sign to leave him. I
seals, moukey, Thibet lamb, muskrat, wea
sel, leopard aud the Russia silver gray fox
are used. Chicago News-Record.
Beautiful Italian Women.
"The prettiest women tn the world are
t1sua nf nnrtl.U.a ..1.1 U I'
tXr: Bartew,wboho.romp,etl.trip.ro'd
. i- T ti . I , , ,tne world. "1'retty w not exactly tlie
next few days he talked a great deal
about nia eou, sometime, .peaking of him
word to be used in describing them. A
.hi i. ' .V "T ' ? , w d be pretty. The women of
aet ll a ve, eonietimes a having been I ,.,,,. ,,J, ,,L,1kIv ,,,,?"
killed lu Egypt; but he did not eeera able
northern Italy are gloriously, madden
lugly beautiful. They are a mixture of
failed to recognize those about him. One J !' "k8'?0 y f T
duty, fortunately, recurred to his mem
ory, and his performance of it was, I be
lieve, on immense comfort to two simple
minded and coum-lon turns people.
"My poor boy," he stud, when he had
country and the voluptuous, half oriental
beauty ot tbe other. If you want to
understood what the poet meant by the
'dark eyes' spJeudor' go not to tlie Vale of
Cashmere, nor to Cadiz, but to Milan,
iVUl'IliltJ I1UU (, . , ir.i. ii
caused Jim Leigh to be summoned and T UKl pro-
made him take' Lndy Mildred's hand, duce stuch figures, nor Spain such
"told me thHt I might consent to youi Jluett8- Add to unnvaled beauty of
marriage without loss of honor. I hud fe and figure the sweet cadences of the
thought differently, but Bracknell assured ulian tongue, and 1 defy any youngster
me tout some one the other man" 6 . J wmuuuu ricn.
"Mr. Beauchampf" suggested Lady
Someone has said that Italian is the moth-
Mildred gently, when her father came to " VDg1ue of: the lovej r-
a long pause. I tumly there is nothing sweeter it is mel-
"Beauchamp, yes Bcauchnmp, it itsellV'-bt. Louis Olobe-UemocraL
seems, withdraws. 1 here is money owing
to Beauchimip, and I can't attend to busi
ness now; but you will see that he is re
paid. Bracknell explained it all to me,
Before the War.
A veteran sportsman, speaking of the
hunting in South Carolina before the war,
but I have forgotten. Ho promised that aid the other day, "Ducks used to swarm
the money should be paid, though." I u our rice fields then. Turkeys, partridges
"It shall be paid, papa," said Lady Mil- nl other game filled the forests. Snipe
dred. infested the rice stubble in millions, and
"Thank you, my dear. You have been woodcock were plentiful in every swamp
a good daughter and you will lie a good when In season. Never in any country
Wife. I wiisli you all happiness." have deer been more strictly preserved.
These were the hist intelligible words ! From the 1st of February to the 1st of
that he said. Be lingered on for some ' August the sound of a gun was never
CHAPTKU XVM.
I was dlnhi! up stairs with my
mother that evening when our aged
factotum came in tosny that Mr. Leigh
was at the door iu his dog curt, and wished duys after this, but soon sunk into a state heard in certain preserves, where deer mui-
to speak to mu. r of semi-conscionsuess, In which he at last tiplied like cattle. It was nothing unusual
I ran dowu stalin, feeling sure that imssed quietly awuy. My mother says he for a planter to reserve four or flvethou-
Boine misfortune had happened, aud my did his duty according to his lights, and sand acres of woodland for a deer park.
fears wore con'lnuctl wliou J stepped out wlU be judged by thai standard; and per- have seen no less than twenty-two deer
into tlie windy nfi;nt und Jim, stooping haps it may be allowed that in this in cross the road in one herd. Bears also were
down over tliu 'luauilng lamps of tlie dog stance she does not push charity beyond
cart, said: "i want you to come up to iftll reasonable limits,
the station with mo. Harry; there's been 1 1 His titles died with him, except that of
an accident to the cxim-st.'
Ilo hud heard no pai'tUiulars, only that
a collision hud occurred dowu the line and
that a great mini y lives were believed to
have been lust. "I couldn't go to sleep,
not knowing whecher lh-uckudl was alive
or dead," he said. "Besides, he may be
badly hurt, und there's nobody with
him."
I agreed that uuythlng was better than
suspense, ami having sent
he barony of Brackuell, which is of an-
lent creation and which has puss-jd to his
very common." Charleston News.
Whea Money Is Freely Spent.
East side Hebrews are no doubt as care
ful of their money as any people in the
laughu-r. By her also have been inherited world, but thev will "nart with the dol
us estates, which, although still heavy lar" freely under two conditionssickness
incumbered, will doubtless recover them-1 or death in the familv. There is one noor
wives in lime uuder their present judicious little fiat oft" East Broadway where a little
lunagcinemp. cuuf wus badly scalded two weeks airo.
Jim's marriage was a very quiet affair. I The family have had a trained nurse all
phc bride being iu deep mourning at the that time and have had the doctor three
ime tor her lather and brother; but Lady ; and four times a day, aud all the members
to wy mother to (he etlect that I was J orphan after Lord Staines1 death, con- J gut the money for it all-New York Times.
Mate Lroy 8iiKgotn That It Is Hardly
the Thing- to Wear an Old FaNhlonod
Clown and m Modern Uonnet Hum of
the Latest Style
lOopyrlfrht, 1W12, by American Press Associa
tion. How history repeats itself we need only
a glance at the passing fashions to see, and
while we might have some reasons to ob
ject to wearing old styles over again we
still have others to be thankful that we
are thus enabled to cull the choicest ideas
out of two or three centuries. If one
woman looks better in a long skirted and
short wafsted dress, why not let her wear
it in as serene content as fills her sister's
heart in a fin de siecleF If one finds her
great-grandmother's old poke bonnet sets
off ber fair face to good advantage, why
frown because ft is not a tiny little crea
tion with a pafr of velvet donkey's ears
upon M That is how fashion stands to
day. But when Individual fancy causes a
woman to put on a frock that irresistibly
recalls that of her great-grandmother's.
and a little bonnet of the hour, the effect
is not exactly artistic. To dress artistic
ally is easy. All one wants to do is to
have everything in perfect keeping. When
that is not done the richest and most elab
orate costumes fail of their effect.
The dressing of the hair has a verv great
deal to do with the becomtngness of the
whole of a lady's toilet. With the Dres-
ent style of wearing a soft fluff of hair over
the brows or a few short curls all the hard
lines are softened, and almost any kind of
headgear can be worn, and the softened
and refined effect of the broken lines reaches
indefinably through the whole svBtem of
woman's apparel. The face is framed like
a picture in the loveliest manner, and its
grace and softness pervade the whole.
One may know this by occasionally meet
ing a woman whose hair is combed smoothly
back, leaving the forehead bare. There is
no bonnet or hat that can look well under
such circumstances, and not only the face,
but the whole woman, will have a hard and
unwomanly look. She may partially hide
it by a hat which covers her forehead, but
there is still that uncompromisingly hard
outline.
Notice the left figure in theillustration of
new walking costumes. It is made after a
long forgotten
fashion, with stiff
braided folds
around the bottom
of the skirt, with
a formless short
corsage, and ro
settes looking as if
carved from wood,
with a. three fold
jSfberthe extending
around the shoul
ders, the whole
effect being ugly
and ungraceful
in itself, with
really no redeem
ing quality. Look
now upon the little
plateau bonnet,
fitted to the shape
of the heud and
softly fastened to
the mass of lovely
curls and waves
of hair. That is
the saving grace,
and the awkward
ugliness of the
dress is forgotten
and the remem-
r France lost in the
C 11 r I H. Imnirino
RUSSIAN CLOAK. the hat on the lady
beside her as sitting over a forehead with
the hair brushed back. Such a hat could
not be woni without thewildernessof curls
and waves of hair, unless the wearer
earned the name of a perfect fright.
The gown is of stone gray cloth over
tartan velvet, the scallops bordered with
narrow band of astrakhan. The back of
the waist is seamless, and in very many of
the newest gowns there are no Bide forniB
at all, and where they fasten is a mystery
to the uninitiated, though I have a shrewd
suspicion that it is uuder the left arm. It
is told that in times long past the Spanish
ladies used to consider it vulgar and a
mark of low origin to require any fullness
of the dress over the bust, and thev were
said to wear Jeadeii plules to diminish
the breadth of their chests, and the tend
ency seems to set strangely in that direc
tion now.
There are many little usages of social
manners taught us through the medium of
don'ts. There should be a volume of
don'U for the instruction of ladies in dress,
and one of the first should be, Don't con
strict your chest, whatever fashion may
dictate. Another should be, Don't follow
a fashion unless you are sure that it will
not bring out all your worst points or in
jure your health.
Shoes are now made on a common sense
with beauty combined. There is no
pinching of toes and crowding ' '( ;'';,
the foot out of shape, and yet tee' V-,';
Were so daintily dreshed as now. Larger
waists are the present result ot the better
understanding of the laws of health, and
certainly thedrawlngof cornsges so tightly
across the bust is not a henlthful practice.
Let me say to all women thinking of doing
so, Don't.
It is a real pleasure to note a garment or
gown that has found its pltfce. Simplicity
and lightness for the young, rich and heavy
fabrics for the middle aged are in keeping,
and the young girl or the matron who un
derstands herself thoroughly is a delight
to the eye and a perfect picture for the ar
tistic souL Witness a Russian eloak for
the mother of four marriageable daugh
ters. The front and sleeves are of black
velvet, and the back is of fine biarrlt
cloth richly beaded with applique of vel
vet, and the whole is bordered with a band
of mink. The muff Is also of that soft fur.
It is cut simply In princess shape. The
distinguishing feature is the band of far
across the bust and around the sleeves. A
man mustadmirethedaughtersof so taste
ful a mother.
One great fault of our American girls is
that they are so apt to want to wear rich
and expensive fabrics white young. Youth -needs
no decoration. An opening rosebud
wants no background to show its exquisite
beauty, aud the fresh bloom of youth
shows sweeter and fairer in delicate bus
SEW WALKING COSTUMES.
WALKING UHKRS AND ItUHSIAN COSTUME
inexpensive tissues. No jewels can add to
the bright new of their eyes, and it does
not need the flash of diamonds to distrocG
the attention from their freshness and
bloom.
The matron, however, as her color fades
and the indefinable but certain marks of
ago appear, needs the aid of handsome and
elabori-t costumes made of costly and su
perb fabrics like the heavy brocades, vel
vets, moires and other materials which
bear upon their surface a tale of value and
the requirement of middle age. Diamonds
are for them, and lovely as they are they
are nfr,ir ail but a poor compensation for
the beauty of early youth.
No mother now dresses all her girls
alike. If .she has a dozen each one wears
gowns its individual as the girl herself.
WThat suits one would not do for the other,
and so we meet two lovely sisters from one
family out. for it walk on upper Fifth ave
nue. The one is tall and fair, and she In
habited in a curious combination of tartan
plaid and' dark blue cloth, with the nar- .
row est possible binding of astrakhan. A
tiny pink capote, with bronze velvet
donkey ears and hows, sits lightly on her
golden curls. A thin little black silk um
brella adds a chic to her rather severe cos
tume. !
The other is a brunette with large brown
eyes and a niaguillccut color. Her dark
brown hair is the resting place of a turban
with a row of black fox fur around it. Her .
Russian jacket is bound with the same
and trimmed with a nurrow thread of gold
around it, just above the fur. The same
narrow braid borders tlie rose plaiting of
dark green tMk which trims the skirt, and
the whole costume is of a dark olive green,
nearly black. There is a bunch of deep
scarlet velvet flowers on the hat. The
gloves are tan anil tlie ninbrella a very
large one, with a massive handle of painted
porcelain.
The other sinter wore tn the theater the
other evcuinga quaint but most comfort-
able cloak. It was
of ash colored
eider down flan
nel, bordered with
narrow hands of
gray fox, and lined
throughout with
pale pink satin.
She wore it over a
dainty little frock
of silver gray Hen
rietta trimmed
with a white lace
berthe studded
with fine steel
beads. The hat
was of gray felt,
with a narrow
black velvet fold
around the crown,
and two handsome
?ink feathers,
'hisdaughter has
brown eyes and
light golden hair
and very dark eye
brows, and some
how she seemed to
have grown up in
this costume, so eidkk down FLANNKL
well did ib suit cloak.
her, aud so much u part of herself did it
seem.
Of course such a wrap Is thrown off tn a
theater or concert aud carelessly turned
Inside out to show the beautiful lining,
else why should there bu such an eleganl
one? Mate Leboy.
fill
fub' tumfurter.
The Captain-Colonel Waxem will be
banqueted after hi wedding tonight, and
t am to respond to the toast, "None but
the brave deserve the fair." What the
ieuce shall I sayf
The Major I hardly know how to ad
vise you. After you've seen the bride,
you'll have to turn your speech into an
argument to proveeitherthat Waxem isn't
brave or that he isu'c tfettiug his deserts
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