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A #t&rhaa-s VOICE. - - dnly dres ming, nothing more, : . Llach sfain 8o many yeoars g Herding sheép—"twas when the war Filled theland with blood and tears, Just a_li. tle f)oy agoin, e i Tending sheep, with brother John; , h » . Both of us are bearded men, i And the¢ years creep on andon . ol { . . g 4® - Butldreamt, with strange delight, . . 1&“ Of tho gcenes of long ago: . - ¢, . "There thé woodland to our right, ol There {he cherry grove below; w_’ R - . ; A s There th¢ hapoy childhood home, : “,\ There the sheep-shed, long and wids, Vi There the creek that tossed its foam ] 'Guinst‘ the rocks on either side; There the échoolhouse by the lane - Where,l learncd my 1% B C's: There the clearing where the grain 5 Nodded-to the gummer breeze. s i In ‘my dream T saw it all, ’ v g Lived my childhood hours in one, . Heard tHe voice of father call: ‘ “It is dhylight--corue, my son!’’, ’!5 * . O'cr his amve the rain and snow ‘Many ycars have fullen deep, And I only see him now, : Only hdar him, in 1y sleep ; And the ¢ld home does not seczg.\ . , - Asit did in other years— - s ; -Cnly when I slecp and dream : Dreams of joy, to wake in tears. .l Soy s ;i - When upon the bed of death ; : I at last am called to lie, And my slowly ebbing breath =_ Comes \with labored sob and :1:;3. Ican in t‘ny pain rojoiée ‘ ; That mly lagt day's work is dons, It I hear|my father’s voice: . “It is daylight—come, my son!"’ ; A Bixby, in Youth's Companion. Wi : K"'———"“-_'_‘_— . e GREAT ). —— 3 ﬁ:@' P ﬁQ, I‘ b - ;";s}/ i [ ! 2 ﬁ:@;gﬁ‘ ) | o . ae firoead LAS LA [ " VRV S A e et IRAE

* | [CoPYRIGHT, 1804 ] ] : crm‘:j'rmn XVIIL~CONTINUED. " . From Gen: Waterson’s account we ‘learned ‘that there were about fifty people in the building and they were talen completely by surprise, but so admirablyl pre-arranged was the plan that they flad no opportunity to give: alarm and were all shut up inoneroom and a gu%rd placed over them, after which the invaders had the building to themselves. Everything was done with the utmost expedition and the nicest petvision,jand at two o'clock the regiment was in possession of two million dollars in coin. It was ten minutes past two when the column was set in motion, axgd at that tine there ¥vas the most COHf}ISGd notion in official circles as to whpt was going on. The idea that an ax{med regiment had taken possession of| the United States deposits “in the he:ﬁ"rt of the city in the middlé of the day aPpeared to be too incredible at first tobe alarming. It was therefore two-thirty o’clock before the first attempt was made at police ' head- | quarters fo take summary action and’ call upord| the reserves. The rumors, spread like wildfire throngh Wall street,’ and Printing House square, and when the regiment moved, Wall street, Nassau stx'ee:iand Broadway were c;hoked_‘z with people. DBut @en. Watersonf handled liis men with admirable skillf and the solid column was not likely to suffer any serious interruption from merely angry or suspicious crowds. By the time the newspaper bulletins got the first wave of intelligence, the regi‘ment was at the foot of Courtland ‘street. lE‘had marched through that usually choked thoroughfare with a tactical adaptation to circumstances. that was amazing. It marched in force through the two ferry gates: took possession of two boats; put everybody off but the pilots, and the vessels started: Jjust as the first division of the reserves marched I@o West street, three blocks away.: ) s .

At thisé point the state line, which was no embarassment to the soldiers, interpos;éﬁ an invisible barrier to the authoritiges. * : New Ygfrk stared acrosg the river in bewilderdd astonishment and then re- - sorted to the telegraph and the utterly futile police boat. | Hidndrigks’ close calculation of time was again shown here. His agents ar- - rived in Jersey City with fifteen minutes margin, and that was enough to enable ‘t}?’em to take possession of a . train of ten cars on® the Pennsylvania road and Eet in motion before the order had arrived to hold all trains. - 'On the ferryboat Gen. Waterson and his officers encountered a number of ;passéngelfs with large portmanteaus. They were there by prearrangement .and brouirht the change of garments with them. When 'the boat arrived at the New Jersey dock the officers were in diﬂ’crebt apparel and were protesting most| bitterly against the impu-~ dence and insolence of the soldiers. The g‘cneiral and two of his aides are known to have got back to New York on a returning boat.’ At leastone hundred men| had gone out.of their uniforms while on “the water. This was easily enidugh acecomplished,seeing that they had but to tal:e off shirt, trousers and hat.| These .articles of clotliing were we‘ig‘hted with their arms, tied to the dmpty and open knapsacks -pnd flung into the ludson. On the ar- - rival of the boat they followed the troops with the crowd and were unobserved. [llalf an hour later when they were loolted for they had disappeared, most of them returning to New York by various routes, ' - Gen. Waterson, we lknow by his own . @account, put ap at an obscure downtown hotel where hé registered as John Ficlding, of Newark, and that ‘#ame night reached an up-town rendezvous where he freed himself from the gold and then gave himself with curious zest to watching the course of events. asd of public opinion in the oity. G By o o e ’ CHAPTER XIX. i ‘The regiment left Jersey City at halfpast three with “eight hundred and seventy-five men on board. It had not crosaei the Jersey flats when the en- - gineer.was locked np in' a closet and _the engine taken in charge by one of the geneial’s otvn men. The first act was to cut the telegraph wires when ‘ten Imiles out at a secluded spot, and here twenty-five more men were ~dropped. | The train was then run with @ view to land the men at the best - point and to keep abead of ‘the special ;&;:t it was ';:%;i_avea ‘would Im;;;ﬁ.‘m‘ ~heels. | Gen. Waterson’s report. leaves usin nodoubt as to How his plan dismmwwwww %&fﬁ Fif %ﬁ e pre et g ar@;; b %’gﬁﬁw%ﬁﬁg@‘%’ﬁm o ;W«,mwiwwmwmwﬁwfr***r

dred lety and at Princeton Junction, at the suburbs of Trenton, four hundred more disappeared. Fifteen miles ouf of DBristol the remaining hundre£ dropped from the cars. The engin was then reversed and the train started spinning backwards to meet the special. e

Most of these men adopted the plan thdt had been tried at St. Mary’s. Fhey started at once in diverging lines and disappeared in the surrounding country. ' | The excitement in New York over the affair was widespread, and was fanned into a flame before evening by the news that came from Philadelphia that the United States mint had been similarly robbed by another regimént that bad seized a train and gone to Lancaster.- 3 ;

The next morning full details of the two exploits were' printed, and there was no doubt that they were both parts of one plan. But no one &ppears to have suspected the exact method of the regiments or their plan of subsequent disintegration.- The popular imagination planted an armed force in the field somewhere and added untold resources of men out of its own terrors. Something of this fecling was reflected by the press and the actiom of the secretary of the trecasuiy, for all the endeavors were directed to the interception and capture of an armed force which as the reader knoivs did not exist. New York now recalled the St. Mary’s affair which it had formerly treated as a western practical joke, and the Louisville papers were rather exultant at what they called an castern dose of the joke. : - i But it must not be'supposed that the central police-office at New Yorlk had been entirely led astray by thes¢ events. It had quietly arrested six men whom its sharp-eyed detectivei had recognized as being in the ranks of the visiting regiment, and on one'of them was found five hundred dollars in gold. The superintendent, who saw underneath the surface what he .conceived to be a.vast and brainy conspiracy, summoned his best men; put himself in communication with the secret service bureau at Washington, and very soon began to formulate some of the inevitable deductions. In this he was fortunately aided by one or two circumstances. He obtained from the Washington bureau the photographs of the men who had boarded the Corinthian, which photographs had béden forwarded from England. One of the persons in the group was discovered to be Fenning. The other circumstance was that the Washington bureau had sent two men west on- his trail and they had disappeared in Tennessce. With these facts before him, it did not take the supcrintendent very long to focus his suspicions upon western Tennessee. : :

. CHAPTER XX The one man who seemed to have the clearest comprehension of all this was Hendricks, who, from his retreat underground, watched by some inscrutable process every move that was made. Gen. Waterson reached Laran on the 20th of July. He left New York just six hours before the police began to look for him, and he found that four hundred and fifty of his men had preceded him to the Laran. Durirey his absence the sanitarium had been burned to the ground. This took place on the Bth.: Cn the Oth Gen. Luscomb’s party had been attacked in the rear. The general had been killed and his men routed. Those that escaped got in at Covington and reported the sanitarium burat and the gang gone eastward. In the public mind this appeared to explain the appearance of the regiment in New York on the 12th. hiood ke :

About ten miles east of the Laran snugly perched on the side of a wild glen is a solitary Swiss cottage. 1t is built of stone and looks down upon a rugged but beautiful country. It is just three miles from the town of Hoxie on a branch of the Tennessee railroad where there is a post office and telegraph station. The people in the town understand that an eastern literary woman who has an enormous mail has hired the place on account of its seclusion and salubrity. She has a pony and two servants, one of whom is a man, and she comes to town frequently with her pony to mail her letters, get her papers and meet, an occasional visitor from the east whom she takes back with her. This literary woman is Mrs. Hendricks. In her pretty little boudoir on the secoud floor 'she has a telegraph.instrument built into the wall, and she communicates constantly with Hendricks in the Laran by an underground wire that has been laid with great care and expense through the wildest and most unfrequented part of the intervening ecountry and which enters the cave' through an artesian drill that is hidden by four feet of soil. " In'a fragment of a preserved letter of Ilendricks he says: “This wire cost me more trouble- and labor than any thing else.. It had to be laid at intervals after a careful survey in order to avoid observation, and it had to follow the unfrequented ways and escape the possible surfaee water courses, for if it had been bared and discovered my enemies would have had the iron clew that ran to the heart of my mystery.” The man servant in this establishment is none other than Fenning. The room in which he and his companion toil at their mail'is tastefully furnished and the windows on the inside are provided with stcel blinds. The two Royal Dane mastiffs that have already been seen at the sanitarium lie at fall length on the rug. They can be depended upon to hear a footfall on the mountain side before it gects within a hundred feet'of the house, =~ 7

. In this comfortable and secluded retreat Mrs. Hendricks is at work during. the latter pakt of July. - The mails are kept guardedly down to a correspondence of necessity and to the daily pa- ‘ pers from thé large cities. ¢ } We can thus see how indifferent Ilendricks was to the prospects of a siege. | He ¢ould safely nnd secretly direct the movements of & vast organization seattered through the country twhile he and his immediate forces were safe from molestation or disturbance while their supplies lasted. T On or about the 98th~ of July, Fenning succceded in getting Mrs, Hendricks to send for Miss Laport's assistance. Dut that young woman-refused to leave Laran voluntarily. Fenning suspected the in- : fluence of Stocking. Mrs. [Mendricks was-surc of it. Preparations were then made at Fenning’s suggestion to send her at night under a strony gnard to meet him somewhere on the route, when thoy were interfered with bm&:‘ mews from Laran. This was -on the ﬁwhnn& Dendricks telggmphﬂx

“Something ot vur secret is discovered by the government. How much, I do not know. Watch the papers. A United States gunboat anchored in the river this a. m., opposite the bayou; a strong force has been ashore. The probability i§ that this is one feature of a general movementand other forces are concentrated. It is therefore foolhardy to send Miss Franklin at this time.” : :

It was Mrs. Hendricks custom toread off these messages to Fenning while she was at the instrument and he wrote them down with a penecil in order to be sure of their meaning, burning them immediately afterward. They never suspected or ever knew that they were read by somebody else. But they were, and it is that curious fact which enables us to follow the details of his operations.

In the interval between the collision with Gen. Luscomb and the departure from Laran of Mrs. Hendricks and Fenning, Calicot had had ample opportunity to cultivate the acquaintance of Miss Laport, whom he knew only as Miss Franklin, and as the two young women in the place were thrown much together, he saw a good deal of Miss Endicott. The doctor, who had found him a well-read man, had become quite attached to him and had told him a great deal about Miss Endicott’s peculiar temperament and condition. The young woman herself enjoyed Calicot’s society, and he and Miss Laport spent most of their evenings visiting her. On one of these occasions she had lapsed into her trance condition and the doctor was not present. Something that was learned from her lips made Miss Laport and Calicot consult long and carefully. The very next night when they were alone with her, she again passed into an abnormal state, and Calicot, with his companion’s. coneurrence, questioned her. The doctor was busy elsewhere; there was no fear of interruption. Miss Laport got the packet of hair that she knew to be Mrs. Hendricks’, and Calicot; with curious interest, listened to the girl. Then it was that she described the scené¢ in the Swiss cottage and read the telegram which Fenning had wriiten dowrn with a pencil from Mrs. Hendricks’ lips. Calicot was puzzled. He had no means of finding out where this place was. Miss Endicott could only describe what she saw. She had no eXpldnations to make, but it suddenly dawned upon him that he had in this young woman a complete offset to Hendricks’ secret advantages. ‘Miss Laport acknowledged to him, in corroboration of what he had heard, that she had refused to go away withqut her father, and now that she had learned of the preparations to send her to Fenning, she was visibly alarmed. Calicot encouraged her by every means in his power. He§ pointed out to her how great an advantage their discovery gave them. She li,ster.\ed to him helplessly; but they became confidential confederates. - e cautioned her to.say nothing to Stocking at present and got her to use her womatjfpinﬁueﬁce with the girl to carry on the experiments. When. he was alone the disc¢overy filled him with all manner of conjectures and alarms. It kept him awake all night in an effort:to make a correct deduction from the information furnished. The next day he cautiously endeavored to test the truth of Miss Endicott’s vision. Ile met Hendricks in the rotunda, and after a polite salutation said: “It is impossible for me to wander about in this plaze and not hear the men occasionally dis cussing your affairs. ILhave just heard something that leads me to believe that a war vessel is watching the bayou. Is. tHat true?” - **Yes,” replied Hendricks. ‘‘She arrived yesterday morning. I expected her before.” :

. He then walked away as if disinclined to talk further upon the subject.! ! So this piece of information was absolutely correet. Calicos saw that the aifairs of Hendricks and his men were now too urgent to leave them much time to think of him and the women, and he resolved to improve the opportunity with Miss Endicott. Miss Laport made the task an easy one, for she brought Miss Endicott into her apartment, gave her an invalid chair and admitted Calicot. He observed that the girl did not suffer in her trances when the doctor was not present. She even acknowleged that the doctor frightened and pained her, but volunteered to take the packet of hair and tried to do what Calicot desired. She closed her eyes a moment, gave way to a little tremor and then said: ‘‘Yes, there they are. He is reading the papers to her.” Calicot very soon discovered that she could not repeat what she heard, if, indeed, she heard apything at all. - Whatever her special gifts were they appeared to be confined %o vision. She eould read the title and the type of the paper in Fewning's hands and she saw his lips move. Hs was undoubtedly reading to Mrs.. llend‘ricks,. and she was summarizing the intelligence in dispatches to Hendricks. It was not difficult to direct the girl’s mind to the news in front of I'enning, -and she read it off with: her body bent forward as if straining to perceive an indisting} object and speaking slowly like a ehild conning a lesson. . - e ' ~ What was Calicot’s astonishment o hear her, in this manner, convey the import of the matter before her strangwe vision. :

He learned that the success of the authorities in tracking the source of the widespread Junta conspiracy to western Tennessee, had led to some curious developments. The New York police had succeeded in linking together several mysterious events which pointed to the fact that the master spirit of this new danger to. social order was no less a personage than the andacious pirate who had robbed the Atlantic steamship two years ago. The United States government had taken means to stamp out this socialistic rebellion and the gunboat Arapahoe had been ordered to Memphis; the Sixth United States infq’n,tr:ﬁ, with battery A and troops A and F of the Twelfth cavalry, had been ordered to reéport at Paducah from Leavenworth; orders had also been forvarded for two companies of the Fifth United Statos regiment at Fort Benton, Tex., to proceed to Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll was Elgced in command of the forces with his headquarters at Paducah. Here the girl stoppisd. and Calicot -v?#hj‘ﬁnow&ble' impatience asked her to go on: ‘llle ‘.Eas‘laid the paper down,” she said; “I camnot see it and hé¢ has got {uxp., e is looking for some thing. It is a v.irtting-pi%i He sits wn beside the mﬁnmha:i;gwritm“g. . ~ “Yes, yes. It is & telegraphic mess

A RECORD THAT DAMNS. Facts Which Show the Rottenness of Rei publican Methods. I ~ The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which sometimes rises above partisanship, is subject to the most disastrous relapses. ‘Here is an instance of the latter: ' “It is a well-known fact that the present unfortunate situation is due mainly to a radical departure from the republican policy under which such a situation was unknown. The demecratic tariff law has reduced the revenue to a point which causes a monthly deficit, and democratic schemes of currency reform have seriously impaired th'e public credit.” ' This is not well known, and it is not the fact. e o We will not say that the trouble about the gold reserve and the currency generally began under the Harrison administration, for such trouble really begins when the first false step is taken, and that was years before. But, it is a fact that the trouble began to manifest itself distinctly and unmistakably under the Harrison administration, and that it progressed so far that even in tbe last month of that administration Secretary Foster had prepared to issue bonds. This was charged last fall, and when Foster was asked to deny it, he wrote to Washington to inquire whether there was any record! evidence there that he had done this. Being informed that none had been found, he wrote a letter saying there was no foundation for the statement. Then a letter of his own was printed giving directions for the preparation of the plates, and the plates themselves are still in existencé. . ' A few indisputable facts are worthy libraries full of theories. Specie pay‘ments were resumed January 1, 1879. For the fiscal years from 1879 to 1881, inclusive, the redemption of United States notes averaged $2,635,000 per annum. All understood that they could get gold for greenbacks when they wanted it, and, consequently, few wahted it. The banks furnished the gold needed for export. For the fiscal year 1892 the redemptions amounted to $9,125,000. This was under.the Harrison administration, and before the election. The distrust caused by the Sherman act and the McKinley bill had already begun. For the twenty-seven months succeeding the close of the fiscal year = 1892 the redemptions amounted to $206,500,000. All of this period, except thirty-four days, was under the Mc¢Kinley bill. | Prior to the period of distrust which began under . Harrison the normal amount of gold received for customs at New York was about 75 per cent. From July 1, 1892, to September 30, 1894—a1l of which period, exeept thirty-four days, was under the McKinley bill—it was only about 12 per cent., and during the last seventeen months only 3.7 per cent. The movement upon the gold reserve, therefore, and the virtual suspension of specie payment by the banks, began under the Harrison administration, and has gone on atan accelerating ratio. Account for it as you may, that is the simple fact. Impartial financiers attribute .it to the Sherman and the M¢Kinley acts. S

' It may be asked, what had the MeKinley bill to do with it? It certainly had as much to do with it as the new tariff act, and republican papers say that the latter is the cause of the present troublé because it does not yield revenue enough. Now the McKinley bill is subject to the same objection. The republicans deny this, because they say there was no deficit till the McKinley bill was reépealed. They try to establish this by showing that there was no deficit ‘“‘at the end of a fiseal year,” while the MeKinley law was in force. But every intelligent person knows that this is a quibble and a mere attempt to palter with us on a double sense. It%is easily demonstrable that the McKinley bill did not yield revenue enough to meet the enlarged scale of expenditure to whjch the republicans committed the country. i

The Harrison administration began dissipating the surplus even before the McKinley bill was passed. The habit. of estimating this surplus at $100,000,000 is misleading. Mr. Cleveland left in 1889 an accumlated surplus of about $100,000,000, and besides, the revenues were some $100,000,000 a year in excess of expenditures. If the revenue had been kept up and expenditures kept down during Mr. Harrison’s term the surplus would have been nearer $500,000,000 than $100,000,000. A reduction of revenue was, therefore, proper if expenditures had been kept down. But the Fifty-first congress, while reducing the revenue, increased expenses, and this led invariably to a deficit. :

~ The Harrison administration adopted _several expedients to avoid the appearaace of a deficit. First it squandered -the surplus—not only the surplus in March, 1889, but that which accumulated between that time and the passage of the MecKinley bill. Then it changed the form of the debt statement. Then it seized a trust fund of $55,000,000, held for the redemptio¥ of the bank notes, and used that, and much of it was not refunded before the expi~ ration of Mr. Harrison's term. Then finding itself unable conveniently to ‘pay more than $25,000,000 of bonds due September, 1891, it continued them. In these various ways, by the shifts-and evasions of bookkeeping, it contrived to conceal the deficiency of revenue which existed under the McKinley bill. If the McKinley bill furnished revenue equal to expenditures, why was the surplus dissipated? Why was the national bank redemption fund seized? Why were $25,000,000 of bonds continued within less than a year after the McKinley bill was passed? In all but ‘'the name this was a borrowing of money, and this would not have been necessary if the MecKinley bill had ‘been affording adequate revenue. . As to the present tariff, it has not yet become fully operative. Very little duty has been collected on sugar and none on incomes. It is generally believed that after this fiscal year it will afford abundant revenue for an administration of the government not more prodigal than it is at present.— Louisville Courier-Journal. | 1

——The nomination of Elkins for the West Virginia senatorship does not express the will of the honest masses of the republican party in that state or in any other. It could not have happened at all except as a result of the bargain-and-sale system under which senatorships are auctioned off to anyone who will bid highest for the vote of a halance of power in a party caucus.—N. Y. World. ; : - ——Gov. McKinley isinot saying a word while the subject of supplying a ‘treasury deficit is agitating the nation. As a financier, the little major has shown a wonderful ability for getting a jgreat state into debt, but when it cimos 16 paylig ohe 1s simply ot to be counted in.—,kDe_t.roit/Free Press.

- FASHION LETTER. : - Bkirt Stiffenings, While Fashionable, Are in Disfavor with Many of the BestDressed Women — The Modistes’ Cempromise — Popularity of Waists — The Fashionable Sleeves. : o ‘ [Special New York Correspondence.] Skirt stffenings are still used by fashionable modistes, but in ordering new gowns very many of the bestdressed women in society have forbidden the use of any sort of stiff interlining, considering that it spoiled the natural grace and sweep of the skirt. Other fashionable women however, think that an interlined skirt impartsa certain cachet, and smart, erisp look that makes an unlined one look limp and old-fashioned beside it. Very many dressmakers, as a sort of compromise, 1 suggest the silk-covered petticoat: of moreen, as this skirt, gored on the front and sides, and finished with organ | plaits in the back, impartsa very graceful effect to the hang and general appearance of the outside skirt. Perforated velvets and silk vel‘veteens are now rivaling the perforated & . cloths in fa\L\ ioyor.. The Jat : “?"’M ter materials A s form stylish and elegant e « gowns made ‘;m! By >up over silk or & 5 &g‘ %/(# mojre linings e N S of a contrast- . *w‘:ﬁ;’é} . ing coler, . R \ ‘ib'\\ They are not ag\ SEIR\ . likely, how(o% 72/ ever, to be-. 4{2: A% 5’%,’ come very (et oR\ gemorally L ZBRN worn on acA A ",; 'iﬁél\ % count of their i 7 e prohibitive bGB 7 & .J" &) price. Effect- . .:2:":“ 4“'? / 5:7;,"‘ "’;: /% t’e I i d a 3 ?;,,3; 0\ /. Hive use ismade TR BT of Dblack and 2 * dark-colored eloth bands and points that are perforated in pretty palm patterns, diampond, ivy leaf and other devices, the edges finished in eyelet stitches in embroidery silk. They are laid over white or pale-tinted silk when they are applied to the gown or fancy waist, which is this season a picturesque and vrominent feature of dress. : An up-town modiste of celebrity regently stated that inder season’s work ghe had averaged- " ' six waists toevery - s skirt order she SoWs ‘had filled. The L ) styles and vari- RO~ ‘eties of these chic ¢ V\\ ™\ T little garments are [y, /'6“;/, %/ < *Z’; endless, and the 4 ¥ % w » materials used in' Y g;‘ Uergdy their creation V2L Ao o\ range from serge N 4 Q to satin, from lace . ./& A ’ to Lyons velvet. i } Even light India P , silk waists are still SAR - worn, for they are QZ £ 1 made comfortable {fl’“ : ~-:\ by a closely-fitted SE#N "‘l‘ lining of flannel- £ﬁ%<&%’%’% ette that renders "T'gwm%ﬁ»th/k the waist suffi- L@Wyﬂ ‘ciently warm for —oelilgegmnsTE even ' midwinter wear. -+ Among the

dainty ‘‘dress” waists pearl color shot with pink and flowered with rose color, or mignonette green, with an old rose and plain gold background are fashionable mixtures, dark ruby velvet being frequently used for stock collar and girdle. Wide velvet ribbon is laid upon silk blouses and sleeve puffs to form stripes often with a jetted gimp in the center of the ribbon, or a narrower line of jet placed on both edges. Many are the fancies in new sleeves for evening toilets. 'The snort ‘‘rose” sleeve is made variously of pink, yellow, white and damask red silk or chiffon, and the sleeve is, of course, made to represent a full-blown rose. The petals are formed by a looped arrangement of the fabric. The ‘‘melon” sleeve shows the puff going perpendicularly from shoulder to elbow. The bodice this season is very often made of one fabrie, the skirt of another, the sleeves of a third and trimW mings of a 2 b/ fourth and R fifth (like fur *}g and lace.) Sl This, as a rule, SR is too suggest/t{’ﬂ:’, W 7 ive of the remMﬂ[ﬁ' .: # mnant counter (R s Y. 257 to be altogeti- . "R:Ez, “-' er attractive. i O A Nevertheless , GNP the skillful oA "}\‘p - modiste has g 7 RN proven her fi¥ ’*\f’\‘ ability to comy A Y},\ _ bat this. objec&y f\ A\, tionable fea'i ’r /f;ﬁ.‘% ture, and to | Mot "#,mlv,‘ bring artistie g Gﬁw%ﬁ{’ »,sﬂ tractive order TR T out of a chaos of rich, dainty and delicate odds and: ends. 7 : : ‘

Green velvet - waists with Paquin skirts of violet cloth are among novel French caprices in the season’s gowns. A tiny roll of rich fur borders the skirt hem, and an intermingled garniture of lace and insertion of heavy guipure and narrow fur, decorates the bodice. Sets, consisting of collarette and muff to match, are greatly favored, and for afternoon calls, receptions and matinees, when heavy furs are too warm, are very dressy and comfortable. Seal, otter and Alaska sable sets are most worn. o KAaTeE Dunaaw

RELIGION AND REFORM. THE latest statistics report 15,050 Lutheran and Reforméd ministers in Germany. : EieHTEEN Swedish and Norwegian missionaries are at work on the east coast.of Africa. ~ i

Tae Lutheran church owns educational institutions in the United States ‘villued at $4,889,550. e THE non-Christian population of the world is 1,000,304,000; the Christian 'population is 492,865,000. ' I 1 is stated on good anthority that 17 of the great banking institutions of New York have chosen Presbyterians for their presidents. : IN the Congregational union which recently met in Sydney, New South’ Wales, there were 284 delegates, of whom 19 were women. ; It is said that Rev. Russell H. Conwell, pastor of Grace Baptist church, Philadelphia, preaches to the largest Protestant congregation in America.’ | IN London there is a manufactory in, which every kind of rare or ancient coins are made; and a collector need nqtiso out of the. place if he wants to. fill his cabinet with numismatic treasnres. oosor KHIEa T S e s vk

THE DIFFERENCE. - } When the winds of winterbeat - = ' Little Bunny’s hollow tree, = .. | For a blanket round his feet : i Close his bushy tail tucks he. e Never mind how loud the storm, e, ' Sound he sleeps and snug and warm. .~ - ‘When the little honey-bees ' See the snow come powdering down On their roof beneath the trees. e In their pleasant Beehive Town, : Then away to bed they creep, ¥ i ~All the winter long they sleep. -~ = . " But when little busy Ned e : ~Hears the noisy north wind blow, Out he rushes with his sled, . - % ¢ For he loves the whirling snow. .Bees and bunnies, sleepy things! - Lose the fun that winter brings: 4 S ; —Youth's Companion. - ' GALLANT BOY HERO. ; How Edward, Prince of Wales, Won the sobriquet of Black Prince. : In the summer of the year 1346 Edward 111, crossed the English channel with 80,000 men to invade France.. At Crecy, not far from the Seine, he was met on the 26th of August by King Phillip with 130,000 men. . The English army was formed in three lines and occupied a small eminence. After the soldiers had been:confessed, Edward -rode up and down the ranks, bidding each man to fight for St. George ‘and the dragon, "and ‘‘so, sweetly and with' so good countenance and merry cheer did he speak, that all tock courage on hearSHF hhn.? - [ i gl While the French were coming on in great disorder, there was a total eclipse of the sun, accompanied by a terrible storm, after which the sun came out brightly, shining directly .in the. faces of the French, but on the backs of the English. The first charge was made by 15,000 Genoese bowmen, who came forward with a ‘shout as though to scare the English. The latter, who had been ordered to lie flat on the ground, now arosé, stepped forward a pace, and let go their arrows so.fast that they seemed like blinding snow: The Genoese fled and the French king ordered them to be cut down |so -that they would not hinder the rest of the army. In the meantime Edward, the prince of Wales, who was in command of one division, was surrounded by French knights, who, recognizing his rank, determined to capture or kil)

¥ . St ML oy & \Qw\.r-‘% B = ,; o :; 5 / . “.._;,, s Jﬂ‘iﬁ% W 1 e B 122 D SR R e 1 /AR ‘ _ ‘A,,.‘iéx (5 > > /4 40 \ *‘/ /AR ¢ ' : % PN/ 1 59‘; e, | o 2 Ly @)Jé'j =5 £ r@“ f"" ‘ﬁ:}“\:"_m ‘.‘ :.' ﬂ_ ' - ;@il ”ﬁ:\?\ ”‘c '. e Q ‘ AT ONE TIME HE WAS UNHORSED AND . STRUCK TO THE GROUND. him. A méssage was sent to the king telling him that the prince was hard pressed. “Is my son dead or hurt or on the¢arth felled?” he asked. ‘‘No, sire,” was the reply. ‘‘Well, then,” said the king, ‘‘returh to them that sent you and tell them to send no more tome as long as my son is alive. I command them to suffer the child to win his spurs, for this day should be his.” The young prince was indeéd in great danger. At one time he was unhorsed and struck to the ground, but one of his loving Welsh knights, who carried the great dragon standard, threw it over him as he lay and stood upon it till the enemy was foreed back.

Soon as the tide of battle had' turned for the English, Edward came down from a high hill overlooking the field and took his son in his arms and kissed him. ‘“You are my true son.] Right loyally have you acquitted yourself and shown yourself to -be a sovereign.” Young Edward on this occasion-wore a suit of black armor, which so con‘{:rasted with his crimson and gold surcoat and the brilliantly fair complexion of his round, boyish face that he was called from that time the Black Prince. —St. Louis Republic. Sl

"THE AFRICAN GECKO.

He’s a Queer Little Animal Whom the Ignorant Natives Fear.

The gecko is an odd little creature. His hame is seldom heard and his forin is seldom seen, for he lives in warmer countries than this. * His home is in Africa and the southern countries of Europe. . ; ; This little gecko has so many strange little ways and there is something so uncanny in his appearance ‘that the people of the countries where he lives are rather afraid of ‘him, believing his bite to be poisonous, although this is denied by naturalists. S He is a li*:le creature with a broad, flat head’l' <e a snalke, and a long body, with a narrow tail, with odd-shaped bits of skin arranged like scallops alohg the sides of it. ' He has short legs and gueer cat-like claws, which enable him to easily climb the old walls and roclks upon which he lives, catching the insects of various sorts which make his dinner.: e !

'~ He is a nocturnal animal, walking abroad at night and sleeping in the ~daytime. He moves with sudden ‘rushes and without any noise whatever. His odd name was given him{ fromn the queer noise he makes, which is something like the noise you would make to start a horse with. The male gecko is of a gray color, so near the ~shade of the old walls and rocks among' which he makes his home that he can barely be seen.—N. Y. World. ' ‘

i A Conclusive Argument. Here is a sample of American humor which might any day be paralleled, for ‘the same incident' might happen over and jover among people born with a funny bone. Beoda : i Two men met in the country road, perhaps on the wiy to and from market; “How are you, old Ben Russell?” .ecalled one. s o % “Come, now,” said the other, “I’ll bet you I ain’t any older'n you! Tell me what’s the earliest recollection you can. put your finger on.” e o - “Well,” said the other, thinking a moment intently, ‘‘the very fust ‘thing I can remember is hearing people say, ‘when you went by: ‘There goes old Ben Russell!”” e e ! . Not Much Satisfaction, - Little Dick—l wish' I was a Quaker. ~ Aunt—What a notion! Why? Little Diclk—When Iﬁfﬁﬁﬁw Wméwwgﬁv 5 to be 'shamed, and when I fight a ‘bigger boy I get licked.—Good News.

ACCIDENTS TO BIRDS.

Misadventures Are Frequently Due to a ; Lack of Piscretion.

A strange accident is recorded in the story of a fish-hawk, which sunk its talons so deep into a huge fish that it~ could not withdraw them, and, despite - its struggle,’ was drawn beneath the water and drowned. Indeed the mis-* adventures that befall birds are not infrequently due to lack of discretion in the choice of food. On several occa~ sions starved pelicans have been found with dead catfish in their pouches. Qn being caught, the fish had erected their - sharp, spiny fins and pierced the pouches of their captors, which™ then could neither swallow nor eject the un= welcome prey. : g i A singular instance is recorded of a chipping sparrow, which, in swallowing a grasshopper, | swallowed also the blade of grass on which the insect was resting, and the bird was found thus tied to the ground. e ~Birds that use long hairs or stringsin ‘ the construction of their nests not. infrequently become entangled in them, . and are sometimes found hanging dead ‘at theéir own thresholds. An unusual case of accidental hanging was once ob~served by the writer at Englewood, N. J. Passing beneath a chestnut tree one September morning he saw a small “bird swinging to and fro overhead without any visible means of support. It proved to be a ruby-crowned kinglet suspended in midair by a single strand ' of a spider’s silk which was entwined about the longer feathers of one wing. The strand, with others, supported the spider’s. cocoon, which evidently accounted for its surprising. strength. The young spiders were just appearing from their silken cradle, and a wasp was capturing them as they appeared, - doubtless to convey them as food to his, own young.-—~Qur Animal Friends. -

THE ARAB’S HORSE.

An Equine Friend "Whose Praises Are .- Still Sung by Eastern Poets. »

It is'a horse’s nature to make friends among his kind, and not, like the dog, to attach himself to persons. There are exceptions to this rule, however, where horses have shown devotion to their. masters quite as great asthat of any dog. “Among others is this one, which is_ often told in the tents in the desert, for the Arabs tell their stories and so hand them down to their children, instead of reading them out of books and newspa~ pers. ot b : i

‘There was' war -between two tribes, and, after a bloody battle, the chief ofone of them was taken captive. His men had been killed. His horse, the thing he valued above everything else in the worid, had been taken away from him, and he-lay bound hand and foot on the bare ground. He suffered dreadfully from'thirst and loss of blood, and {he pain from his wounds was very great; but what hurt him more than all was the thought of his dear horse. i » Suddenly "he heard a familiar neigh., Turning his head, with great difficulty, he looked around and. saw his horse tethered quite near: How glad he was to see him! And he said; ‘‘Poor friend, what will you .do amjng the Turks? You will be shut up within four walls, under a roof—you who have been used to the free air of the desert. No child will feed you from its hand any more. They will not care for you or nnderstand you. lam afraid they will even beat you sometimes. If Tam to bea slave you at least may be free. Go back to our tent and tell my wife that your master will die. Put your head again under the folds of our tent and lick the hands of my dear children.” : The chief dragged himself with pain and difficulty to’ where his horse was tied. -He could ‘only wriggle himself over-the ground like a worm, .and he

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was so weak that it took him a long time to go a little way, but he man aged it finally, and when he reached the place he eontrived to untie the rope with his teeth, for his hands were bound so tight- that he could not use themat 411, . ! : “The rope dropped to. the ground and the horse was free, but he did not think so. Ie never thought of leaving his master and going off by himdelf. He stood perfectly still for a . little while, his head bent over the wounded, helpless man before him, considering what he should’do. It was plain that his master could not get on his. back, and equally plan that he could not leave him. He must contrive some way to get him home. So %te just picked him up by taking his clothes between his teeth and started off -at full gallop. ~ Whata load that was! A heavy man to-carry in such a novel way. And the road was long, and the good horse’s heart sometimes failed' him, but he kept on, and somehow he got there. He laid his master down at his wife's feet, and then he dropped dead with fatigue. . The whole tribe mopirned for him, and Arab poets still sing{i:g” praise.—N. Y. World:: 022 el !

Little Dot Had Great T.uck.

Little Dot—l'm just the luckiest girl that ever was. . SR Aunt—Why so? . S Little Dot—When I was out walkin® my foot began to hurt so I had to ait: right down and take off my:shoe; and ‘what do you think it was that hurt? It was a button-hook that had got in my Aunt—But where was the luck? ’ - Little Dot—Why, don't yon-see? I had the button-hook to put on my shoe again.—Good News. = : a 2 NBhe Waq ¥ull of Glory: : : ~ “O,mamma,” cried five-year-old Doro~ thy, “I'm just as full of glory as I can bell. 2 T “What do you mean?” inquired her mother, with natural surprise. " “Why-ee,” said Dorothy, ‘‘there wasa sunbeam right on my spoon, and I swallowed it with my oatmesl, mamMBS i i s it o vlling a 1 he knowh ™ “Ye, I notioed that last night. T was alone with him nearly five minutes."— e e