Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 December 1902 — Page 3

(== » . e | (P i 2 1 The Zigenier Bannel =5 ; LIGONIER; . = = INDIANA WHERE SHE HAS NEVER BEEN. She's been in France ard Germany, She journeyed up the Nile; - She -lived in England for a yeéar - In alimost regal style; She’s. been in Florida and crossed The broafl'}?ac‘gic. too, The wondrous canyons of the West Have spread beneath her view. £he's been to London and Berlin, To Venice, Paris, Rome, > But not a square away from where - -She sits at ease at home A poor sick child: is dving in . A room that’s small and bare; It might be made more cheerful—but She never has been there. —S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Heraldk

Every Kick Helps

By HELEN MATHERS.

‘ES,” said Jim Seton, then paused Y to pull thoughtfully at his pipe. “}olforth has been kicked all the way along. Whenever he sat down some one kicked him up; and look where he is now! . And look at us. We'll own up to it frankly that not one personina thousand relishes sustained effort—that we have to be kicked, and kicked hard, if we are to do great things.

“Be kicked yourself!” grunted Grimswold; “I don't mean tobe.” - “Now, there was thut_turtoise"flllow,” went on Seton. “Of course ome never knows the real inside of things; but probably his wife went, too, and taunted him all the way through with hare’s speed, and his own steady power of drudgery did the rest. That’s where most men fail—that they won’t drudge it out. Bless you, the world’s a mine of untapped genius, because their owners wont stigk to by

“I hate muggers,” struck in Grimswold. “I don’t deny that the beggar will have done his day’s charing when he dies; but I dont’ see anything in him to get an Elizabeth Morrison.”

“Can’t you? But she can. The man has developed up all the way. Where other men have grown fat, or died, undelivered of their message. or delivered it too soon, because they hadn’t drudged out its meaning.”

. “What are we to do?” said Grimswold., testily.’ : “The worst turn fate can do aman is to let him alone,” went on Seton, ignoring the question. “Now, she bestowed her closest, unkindest attention on Holforth from childhood; then one day stopped to look-at him—looked and admired, but went on kicking, for th'e man was too precious to be allowed to sit down. She has just dumped you and me down in arm chairs—when ‘we're not killing scmething.” “I didn’t know this world was meant to be a penitentiary or a school,” said Grimswold. : : ; “Nor yet a rose garden.” said seton. “Personally. I prefer a dahlia bed. it revresents the autumb of a life effort,

7 G e = : 4 AP\ e =2 Ny, f‘ Al s SRI e e ] <_EB || / / "‘f\iw , iy _U{ //////*f" T //3-: GRS BN P U R SR B 3 ST v i ;;7 44 4 %'x \’, l \ ) ,": / I T R ) e b G T s TS RSN S St |\ Y RSI Bl B %é} : Y Y e "IT'S JUST HIS €U RSED OBSTINACY. and the colors are glorious and last longer; and Holforth will get the dahlias, my boy. while we get rose stalks.” “And I prefer the velvet feel and perfume of a rose to all the-chilly, duty stricken dahlias on earth.” caid Grimswold.. “And T find failure much easier than success, except”—he paused, and his weather beaten cheek flushed angrily. ' “With ]‘l]‘i?,abet_h~just SO, you see—you haven’'t earned her.” “Been kicked into an heroic position that appealed to her, you mean,” grunted the other man. : *Possibly, but remember that some men are kicked down—the repeated kicks stun them—or some Samaritan drags them out of the highway into shameful harbor; upcn such caresses cruel fate casts a contemptuous glance, and goes her way, ig.earching for better sport.” “It’s just his cursed obstinacy,” said Grimswold. “Look at his Jjaw!” “His father had it before him probably—the grit’s his own—you see he never knew when he was beaten, It isn’t till every prop has been kicked away from under a man that he finds himselfs—is his own backbone; just as no woman’'s virtue is proven till she has fought temperament, opportunity, the man himself—and all alone, off her own bat, beaten the three.” Grimswold sat with an unlighted cigar gripped between his teeth, and looked ahead with gloomy eyes. .IHe was beginning to realize that you can’t have your cake and eat it, that “YWhat will you have? Pay for it and take it,” says God works out with relentless accuracy in every relation of life, that you can’t work and play, too, that play gives you ephemeral joys—effort, the things that last, the things that really matter. “To strive,” said Seton, cheerfully, “that’s the verb we're set to conjugate here below—to put our back unto things; if we don’t we're but . dead branches on the tree of life; and bles: you, the women have found it ouf—and keep éfieir ‘homage for fighters like Luke Holforth, and their tolerance and pit'y'f_or lazy, self-indulgent brutes like you and me.. Andl’drather see 2 woman’s eyes blaze for pride in me than for love, any day. I believe there’s a special corner of hades reserved for those who have died leaving no record—save

5 of digging a hole in which to bury their talents—having wasted their every opportunity.” _ But Grimswold had flung out of the room, and, left alone, Seton’s face saddened. : : “And it’s Betty with me, too,” he said, half aloud, as he, too, passed out. Elizabeth Morrison represented a type to which the heart of man goes out with eternal freshness. For most of all he loathes a critic at hearth and bed and board; while the womanly woman, who is dimpled, and soft. and kind. creating for him an atmosphere of home and rest—who cannot argue all about it, but who “loves him still and knows not why,” will ever be the deeply lloved, the fondly cherished, alike by‘ the Holforths, the Grimswolds and the Setons of this life. Some women's hearts stay at home, swept and garnished, but if the right man does not knock, they remain forever untenanted, but without -'Luke Holforth ever calling to her {for he was a stern man, with stern ideas of honor), she had turned away from her other lovers to. watch this strong swimmer breasting the currents of life. so handicapped from the first that to sink was almost a foregone conclusion, and her heart had gone out tc him and staid. ~ We hear of ships that pass in the night, but what of those that pass ip the day. near enoungh for us to see the tears of -our best beloved as they are carried by life's strong current, each moment farther and farther from us? We may not even have dared to’lift a hand in greeting, yet our eyes have spoken. our message has sped, the password of “Courage!” has been exchanged, and some day, in some signal instances, the gods intervene, setting a momentary gangway between the two passing vessels, by which one soul steps across to another. . . . Thus had it been with Luke and Elizabeth, and now, while those other men talked of them, these two leaned their heads together, and were in port at last. - Elizabeth was not young; there were no roses injher cheeks, only dimples, but she was lovely yet. And as they sat together, sharers of the intensest bliss of which human beings are capable, that none ever know the lack of until they have found their true life mate, he said (and was itan instinctive offering- to the gods to avert disasy terdy: : ‘ “Has Grimswold been here lately?” She laughed and answered nothing, knowing the ways of men; and, indeedif Grimswold had staid away, this moment would not have been quite so sweet to Holforth. = ; “Brains, good looks, great wealth—what might not Grimswold have done, with the world to ‘kick and Betty to reward him?” he said. -‘ Betty looked doubtful. Not the least of her charms was the dwarfing of all other men’s claims to greatness by- measurement with Luke's; -while she was equally incapable of seeing both sides of his character, it was only the-side towards her, his fighting and staying qualities! that mattered. So, by way of answer, she did one of those little feminine things, despised of cleverer women, but infinitely dear to a man’s heart. She lifted his lean brown hand to her soft cheek, the hand that had striven and fought. while into her own had come the little hollow made by years of fasting for love—the hollow you will find in the hands of the women who desire love most. who hdve starved for it, and whose youth has passed while waiting for it, but she had not waited in vain. When presently they came back to rational conversation she said: “I like people who.do things.” : “I'don’t know.,” he hesitated. “After all, the man who goes on hitting nail after nail on the head, driving .every one of them home, is a bit of a carpenter, and may get as bored at last as the one who hits his own fingers every time instead of the nail. I oftén think how hateful the quiet. subjective order of people must find the active human persons who go up and down, perpetually sweeping the world; what torture they must suffer from those harsh noises intruding on their peaceful eénjoyments.” . ' | Elizabeth made a movement of dissent, but he went on. “I can imagine them watching with pity the marionettes jumping about in the crowd—the sages all abhorred energy, preached—peace—" “And I have always felt o sorry for their livers and their wives,” cried Elizabeth, with spirit. “Listen. ‘The night cometh when no man can work,’ that’s death—and a long, long night it is. ‘Work while ye have the light,’ that’s day—and a short one at best—not omne moment may be wasted out of the bit left over to us when we have slept, and eaten. and submitted to the importunities of our best friends who thieve our time as if it were dirt, instead of gold!” : : : “As I mean to thieve yours” he said. “He who has thriven may lie till seven,” she said, slyly. “It’s the early rising in your youth that enables you to take your ease when you are old. Not that you are that,” she added proudiy, “it is only women who grow old.” Ige sprang up, throwing back “his shoulders with a gesture as if he loosed a pack from them; and all the lean years of the past flashed before him; but in that moment he saw life ag from a mountain top, as the Greeks and Romans saw it, clear and whole, birth and death as vestibule, and door of exit, inevitable accidents, e"ver'ns,‘ convulsions, between, none alarming to a courageous soul, that snatches its pleasure from befween lulls of the storm, and with the one thing it loves beside it. looks forward with a fine serenity, even curiosity, to the tremendous moment of death, that divides life from nothing, or life from new forms and -splendor of life. Suddenly Holforth snatched her to him . . . with -that past behind him, that future before, the man who had been kicked all the way along in that moment came at last gloriously into his kingdom, yet he only said: - “Poor Grimswold!” being but a man, and human.—Chicago Tribune. » Ought to Be a Good Climber. . She—Yoy ought to be a good mountain climber. - He—Why? . - “You are so used to bluffs.”—Detlroit Free Press. S : ‘ e e , The self-made man is always call ing attention to his style of architer s, i

; \§\ \\ \'Q “\-4 'fi‘f i ~_/ = EPENRIALE vnar N £ o C3t (N Sorn paY %/f 3 @ O}‘R; % TARIPF wuus&' 2 W s paeeeeos 2 = r" "f‘r."« Au%n—gm.gav/' - 5 AN Wikt B % R 20T A e BTOREDD) - -\"@s SOMB DAY %== Fg S T DRVAR- STATS = A el o-e%gsam = i ; ' AAL SO mvg /&R B Kan napuesieas SNk Y e o ,V"\ A PARIT womAL, QUIT 7/ /) \* ) = SSilmy e = z-!/a& S .l y O 5 )\ G TN e W T — /Q-'} 0 < 5 2, 2 TIN WORKERS’ WAGES. Pet v‘llulustry of Protectionists Fails to Keep Up the Pay for Labor. © The tin plate industry is one of the special pets of the protectionists. They glaim to have created that industry by the McKinley tariff, ignoring the fact that it grew and prospered more than any other industry under the socalled Wilson tariff, which was about half the McKinley -tariff, says the Chicago .Chronicle. 2 They hasten to restore the McKinley rate in the: Dingley law upon the false pretense that the Wilson tariff was destroying the industry. The claim for the tin plate duty was the usual one that it wasall for the benefit of labor. The duty was giving employment at high wages to American labor. It happens that most of the labor at first was imported under an exception to the general provisions of the contract labor law. Butlet that pass. ' o The point of interest just now is that the tinworkers have just agreed to accept a general reduction of three per cent. in wages. Most workers in tin factories have mnever received princely wages, and now they have beéen brought to agree to a reduction. The tariff does not serve them. The reduction is the end of a discussion which has been in progress for Mive or six months. The employers wanted the men to submit to a reduction of 25 per cent. on the orders to fill the “*‘drawback trade,” and the general reduction of three per cent. is the counter-proposition of the men. What is meant by the “drawback trade” is this: American exporters of canned goods can import the tin, paying the duty, and get a drawback equal. to the duty when they export the cans containing the goods. To induce the exporters to buy American cans the manufacturers have to make special prices for that trade, and to enable them to do this without loss the workers were asked to submit to a reduction, . | . - Ainerican consumers have to pay high prices for their canned goods to enable the manufacturers to pay reasonable wages, and the men have to submit 1o a reduction to secure the export trade. That is how protection works both ways. . o

OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

—— -('ungn\rssman Moody is right in saying that the duty on anthracite coal was a mistalkte, It was a great mistake in more ways than one, af almost all the republican managers are ready to admit, to-day.—Bostor Advertiser (Rep.). : —— President Roosevelt has changed sides in the Delaware fight by the ap pointment of Byrne, an Addicks man as United -States district attorney. This is an entire reversal of the sup: posed high ideals of the Roosevelt administration, and is an indorsement of the rotten politics for which Addicks is noted. ' ' —Mr. Addicks, the gas man, has been invested by the administration with the bossship of Delaware, and the federal offices will be parceled out to his political strikers. President Roosevelt certainly is making some quéer deals for acivil service reformer, 1f he does mot look cut, while making friends of the gas trust, he will lose the support of those who would naturally be for him. o . ——lf Mr. Roosevelt really had any anxiety to.curb ménopoly he would avail himself jof the laws already at hand and he ‘é'ould join with those isolated members of his party who urge the withdrawal of tariff protection to the great combinations of monopoly which. under the shelter of the Dingley schedules. rob the American consumer while invading foreign markets and underselling all competitors.—Johnstown Democrat. _

——\When the republican leaders discuss tariff revision they elaborate fine phrases which on analysis are found to mean nothing. What Mr. Roosevelt may say in his message on the subject is a matter of present curiosity. but nobody expects him to propose anything radical. He sets the pace on no such public.question, but conforms to the opinions of those he thinks can do him the most good in the next republican convention.—Buffalo Courier. 2

+—Congressman Roberts, of Massachusetts, in a speech delivered at Boston, said: “It is gsafe to assume that at least 70 members of the present congress are in favor of free hides.” As Mr. Roberts was eviGently talking of republican congressmen, free hides would seem to be assured if less than half of the 70 are independent enough to vote with the democrats. But these congressmen who favor' free hides must remember that free coal, free beef, free steel, and other trust produgts: are even more important than free hides,

—"“Our matchless diplomacy” does not seem to have its axles well greased lately. The Roumanian Jew note to the powers has been received with silence, and bas certainly not helped. the oppressed Israelites. The Cuban negotiations for reciprocity are-in a chaotic condition. The treaty with Colombia for the Panama ecanal concession is hung up for repairs, and in the Samoan arbitration we have been thrown down with a thump that the Hay state machine will feel for its whole existence. These amateur statesmen of the Hay type should be discarded or more disasters will follow,

CONGRESS IN SESSION. Needed Ref;),rms Will Hardly Recelve Due Attention by the Party S - in Power. . The last session.of the Fifty-sev-enth congress having begun, the general expectation that it will be unfruitful of important legislation is not likely to be disappointed, says the New York World. The regulation of trusts with a view to suppressing monopolies is the subject of first importance. In his message a year ago and in his speeches on the stump last summer, President Roosevelt insisted upon the need of a constitutional amendment’ to confer upon congress the power to leal adequately with -monopolies. But in his speech at Philadelphia on November 22, he said: “It is idle to tell the people that we have not the power to solve such a problem as that of exercising .adequate supervision over the great industrial combinations of to=cay. We have the power and we shall find out the way.” And in the same speech he strongly indorsed the remedy proposed by Attorney General Knox, which is, in substance, enforced publicity for the affairs of all corporations doing an interstate business, for which he contended there is already ample authority of law. Whether a stringent law of this character can get by the trust agents in the senaté is very doubtful. What effect mere publicity would have in curing the worst evil of the trusts — their tariff-chartered privilege of putting monopoly prices upon their products—nobody has yet attempted to. explain. : The subjeet of next importance is the revision of the tariff and the related question of reciprocity. It is evident from all that the president has said that he is not in favor of attempting a revision of even the most oppressive tariff schedules—llike those on coal, meat, lumber and hides—at this time. The most that he is likely to do is to recommend a tariff commission to. “examine and report’—a favorite method of sidetracking the issue. But even if the president were an advocate of necessary and reasonable tariff. reform there would not be the slightest chance of securing action by this ‘congress. The speaker, the chairman of the ways and means committee and nearly all the influential members of the majority have expressed themselves since the elections as opposed even to taking the subject up at this session. They allege a’ lack of time—though they onece passed in three days a bill imposing more than $100,000,000 of internal revenue taxes, and it is beyond question that the majority can pass in short ‘order under its ironclad rules any bill which it decided to. put through. Tt is the will, not the time, that is lacking.. Yet even if the house were to pass a measure of relief it would be Killed in the senate. Every republican of influence in the upper house is inflexibly opposed to any tariff changes. : So that the main work of the session is likely to be the passing of the appropriation bills, and perhaps the ratification of some sort of reciprocity treaty with Cuba-—though even this is doubtful.” Needed reforms must wait until the people see fit to put in power a party that believes-in them: <= e WILL NOT REFORM TARIFF. The Trusts Sitill in the Saddle Riding the Republican Party to > Its Undoing.

1t is practically settled thaf there will be no tariff tinkering by the present congress. The organization of the present representatives of the pegple is in the hands of the protectionists, who are of the Hanna “stand pat” stripe. The trusts are therefore secure in their extortion. at least until 1904, and can continue to sell their products to foreigners for from 20 to 50 per cent. less than they compel the people' of the: United States to pay. How long the voters will coutinue to condone this diserimination against themselves is a question that is postponed for two more years. At the presidential election in 1904 they will have another opportunity to decide the’ question, and with further enlightenment they may reverse their decision of this vear. :

The trust question and reciprocity are forced to the front by the president in his annual message to corgress with the evident intention of inspiring the people with hope of relief ‘and = relieving the republican party of the more important tarift question, on which it is so sorely divided.

As the president has not, by any means, exhausted the power to punish bad-<trusts which ”the law already gives him, especially the criminal section of the Sherman law, which he has never invoked, it is hardly fair to shoulder upon corngress all the ills that the trusts have brought upon us., As the trusts and corporations are quite willing to have members of congress, knowing that they hayez a friendly majority which will manage, at least, to do nothing to seriously’ cripple them, the outlook for the people is dark indeed. By the time the national election takes place the voters will have fuither proof that no relief can be expected from the trust and corpora-tion-controlled party which they have intrusted with power, and they will be moré than willing to give the democratic party an opportunity to enforce the criminal section of the Sherman law, to amend the interstate commerce law to prevent dis¢rimination, and to reform the tariff law by placing trust productions on the free list. .

——Tariff reform must be made a part of the republican programme. If it is not, then the faith upon which recent republican success was founded will vanish and the republican party will transfer the opportunity to its political enemies. Tariff reform is a vital issue with the people and it must be made so with any party which hopes for permanent success.—Denver Post.

——What is"tv?ecom'ero'f this blessed country now &hat a protectionist administration has actually had a gunboat built for us in Japan?—Louisville Courier-Journal.

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PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

All over Mexico President Diaz is pushing vast works of public. im: provement. Railroads especially are being extended and it is expected that ere long Chicago and the City of ‘Mexico will be but four days apart. Gen. Diaz is now 72 year‘s old, but never rests from his self-im-posed task of modernizing the sister republic. !

It is not generally known that exGov. Frank S. Black is a former newspaper man. - After graduating from Amherest he went to Troy. N. Y., where he became a reporter on the cld Whig and also the Budget. In his spare moments he studied law with ex-District Attorney Sam IFoster, who took a Ifking to the lad and gave him a room in his house. After being admitted to the bar his success was steady and in recent years rapid. Col. Piper, deputy commissioner of police in New: York, was on a Haroun Alraschid tour, of inspection the other evening when he found a policeman leaning against a wall half asleep. “Why are youn not patroling your beat, : officer?! he asked.. “Gwan, now,” said the policemfln, for I may take a motion to fan you if you get funny. Can’t you see I'm holding up this wall? You’d better go home, if yvou've got a home to go to.” ‘I am not going home yet,” said Col. Piper. “I -am going to police headquarters, and would like to have you call there in the morning.” Then he opened his coat, showed -his commissioner’s badge and walked away. By that time the officer ceased to hold up the wall. Instead the wall was holding him up.

THE TOMB OF ABRAHAM.

Failure of a Harvard Graduate to Gain Permission to Excavate - ¢Tel Ibrahim.”

No surnrise. was manifested at the University of Pennsylvania at thie information received from Constantinople that the sultan of Turkey had again- refused a <“firmin” or permission to an American named Banks to excavate “Tel Ibrahim,” a mountain about nine hours' ride northeast of the ruins of Babylon, where a tradition of the country has it that the tomb of Abraham is, situated, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. ’

There are two: of these so-called “Tombs of Abraham” in this region, the one Mr. Banks desired to excavate and the other southwest of Babylon, where tradition says the Tower of Babel was situated. Interest is attached to both places owing to the ruins of buildings of an ancient people and to the traditions invested in them by the Arabs and Turks, but archaeologists do ndt believe that either is the site of the tomb of Abraham, locating the last resting place of the patriarch of’ the children of Israel in the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron, in Palestine, where Abraham buried his wife Sarah:

Two years ago Mr. Banks, who is a graduate from Harvard, made efforts to secure permission from the sultan of Turkey to excavate the Ur or City of Chaldees on the western bank of the Mesopotamia. i

It is said'that John D. Rockefeller contributed $12,000 to the fund which Mr. Banks raised to defray the expenses of the expedition he was organizing. He returned to Constantinople and as the representative of several American universities, including, it is said, Harvard, he applied to the porte for permission to excavatd® Refusal was made by the sultan owing, it is said, to the religious associations of the so-called tomb of Abraham, many of the Mohammedans believing that the mountain, which is the place mentioned as Cuthal in Second Kings in the Bible, is really the site of the burying place of Abraham. In addition to the question of offending the religious beliefs of the natives of the country, it is said that while Mr. Baiks was consul at the City of Bagdad he incurred the displeasure of the vorte. & It was declared at the university that it is problematical whether Banks will ever secure permission to excavate in any part of the Ottoman empire, although the sultan has always been cordial toward exploring expeditions, especially those from America, and at present a party of German scientists are at work not far from where Banks desired to excavate. . a 3

WIT AND WISDOM.

" In 1952.—He—*Ts she a good cook?” She—Lovely! She puts just the right amount of hot water on the prepared food.”—N. Y. Sun.

Difficulties are God’s errands; and when we are .sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God’s confidence.—H. W. Beecher.

One Kind of an Egotist.—“ What is an egotist?” *“An egotist is a man who minds his own business with such persistent earnestness that. it annoys you.”—Chicago Post. Servant—“ There’s a gentléeman at the door who says he knew; you when you were a boy.” Master—" Tell him he was very kind to call. Should I ever happen to be a boy again I'll let him know!”—Dßoston Transecript. Ready to Hand.—First Capitalist—“l have a great scheme. What do you say to organizing a merger in mushrooms, with $30,000,000 capital?” Second .Z'apitalist — “Why mushrooms?"” First Capitalist—" Man alive! It is, the chance of the century. Mushrooms are 90 per cent water."— Baltimore American,

“So you are convinced that your Loy is going to be a musical inventor?” “I am, indeed.” “And swhat leads you to that conclusion?” fSWell, merely the trifling incident that I caught, him yesterday pouring a pitcher of water into the piano to produce the liquid notes he had read hboui."—];‘u]timore News. ‘ 4

MOTHER AND PRISONER SON. Pathetic Episode of n Convict's Temporary Removal from Sing Sing Prison, New York. An old, whiteshairéd woman wandered timidly about the corridors of the eriminal courts building the other day, anxiously looking about, but venturing to ask no one for information. Distriect Attorney’s Clerk Henneberry watched her for some time and then asked her if he could be of assistance to her, relates the New York Sun. ' “0, dear,” said she, “I am trying to get a glimpse of my son, whom I haven’tseen in eight years, and I don’t know where to look for him.” “Where do you eéxpect to find him?”’ asked Mr. Henneberry. “I don’t just rightly know,” replied the old woman, “but he's to be a witness in some court. There are so many courts and they all look so much alike that I hardly know where 1 have been.” ‘ B

~ “But don’t. you® know the case he is to testify in?” asked Mr. Hennebérry. )

l The old woman’s eyes sank. Finally she answered in a low voice: " “He is to testify in the murder trial of Duncan Young, and he’'s been in Sing Sing prison for eight years. He has two more years yet to serve, and I read in one of the papers that he was to be here to-day. ' ; *“So I thought that 1 would come here and maybe they would let me in the courtroom so that I could see him, even if from afar, while he was testifying. Or, if they wouldn’t do that, perhaps I could see#¢him as he was being led across the corridor on his way to the courtroom from the ‘Tombs. “He was convicted of burglary; but I'm sure he was led away. He was a good boy. “Eight years is such a long time, and when he gets out I may not be alive. I'm an old woman and I haven’t been feeling very strong of late.” ) Mr. Henneberry took her to his office and made her comfortable while he set about to locate her son. He soon found that the man would not leave the Tombs at all that day, but would testify the next. ~ He made out a pasc to the Tombs !and sent for a Tombs keeper, to ~whose care he intrusted the old woman. He said nothing to her as to his intentions, but told her to follow the officer.

The officer took her over the bridge of sighs and into the mew prison. She was trembling as she was led along the row of cells, for she began to get a glimmering of where she was not only to see her son, butalso to talk to him again. - *“These poor old, bent mothers, they haunt these courts and are heartbroken over their erring sons,” said 1\;1' Henneberry, after the old woman had gone away. “I think they are the saddest of all sights ir this dismal building.” :

REVI?J OF THE FASHIONS., Latest at Models—Fancy Suitings— Pretty Bodices—Millinery Finery, Etc.

Among -the latest hat models from Paris are those of black Lyons velvet, trimmed with draperies of Black Chantilly. lace, black velvet rosettes and black enamel buckles set with sparkling French ' brilliants, reports the New York Post. :

-Tailors and dressmakers are using buttons to ‘decorate : skirt seams; bodices and coats. A choice set of buttons, which have a practical use assigned to them, add to-the appearance of any gown or jacket, but few decorations are in worse taste than buttons for which there is no-real use. land painted buttons from Freneh. and particularly those of Louis XIV. design are muech sought after just mow and command a very high price. ) Flecked materials. are among the season’s fancy sajtings: A black:wool costume is dotted ‘with silky white and green flecks. A blue frieze shot with green forms another costume. A smart gown of blue serge is made with a plain, gracefully hung skirt and a three-quarters military -coat frogged with braid, the .collar faced with a rare shade of deep red velvet. The French sailor' hat, en suite, is of a soft red felt trimmed with dark blue quill feathers and ‘blue velvet draperies and choux, *.° . R

« Many bodices are made 'so -as to give a cape-like effect, and the trimming carried round the figure below the shoulder points produees . the slant which is new fashionable. A pretty sleeve used frequently -with these waists is made . with a short, full puff at the shoulder. The material is somewhat closely gauged to near the elbow, and, theré being released, forms a rathér short frill which covers the point. Fancy undersleeves may be added, or close-fit-ting ones of what the dressmakers term “self” fabric. Yokes to other bodices grow deeper; indeed, not a few divide the corsage in half—a fashion to be strictly avoided by women with short-waisted figures. Some of the adjustable yokes fall low on the top of the arm, like a sleeve cap, and this style in lace, net, silk, or other textile is known as the “dip yoke.” - : Basques to jacket bodices- aré increased in length, and if -they do not meet in front folds of soft silk confine the waist. Lines of featherbone are set beneath these folds to keep them in place, and a handsome buckle measuring three or four inchés in length confines théem on the left side ~of the figure. . - Birds® breasts and wings are con‘spicuous on tlie latest French-hats: “Some very picturesque hats of large size are to be seen—a. number in ‘beaver, but the. majority of fine French felt or draped silk. Very long full ostrich plumes trim ‘them “effectively. Soft neutral colors are preferred for such hats, dove gray for example, also pale tan, biscuit, or ecru color, with velvet and feath-

ers in golden ' brown, - sable, dark green-or wine shades.. Many of the flat hats of dark colored straw are almost covered with leaves in autumn colorings, intermingfed with velvet folinge in dark brown, russet, and various beautiful shades of green. To look well such a hat requires a costume strictly in harmony with it.

i/ SHE WANTED TO KNOW.

John's Wife Demanded Assurance That He Was Familiar with % His Lesson. :

Ile was very tired and he had just dropped off to sleep when his wife nudged him. ) . S “What is it 2" he growled. ’ “John, do you remember that story you told me about Mrs. Brown, when you came home from .the club night before ldst?” she asked, relates Elliott Flower, in Puck: “For heaven's:-sake—" ' ' “Do. you remember it?” she interrupted. - i

“The. one her husband told you?” “Yes.” - . ' ' “The one you waked me up-to tell me?” e T

“Yes.” v ‘ ) “Well, I was too sleejgy fo appreciate' it then, but it's’ really funny. 1 just thought I'd tell you.” “Hang it all, Jennie—" » But now she seemed to be sleeping peacefully. EENE ' ' A little later he felt the ~nudge again. o _

“John,” she said, “do you remember that clever political speech you heard last week?” “Confound it, Jennie—" “Do-you remember it?” “Of course- 1 remember-it.”

“Well, when you waked me up that night I don’t believe I quite grasped the point of it, but 1 do now. IS was an excruciatingly good grind on the other candidate, wasn't it? - I can’t help laughing.” - . .. . “Blithering blinkers, Jernnie—"

But she was laughilig and did not seem to hear him, so he saved his breath and went to sleep again. Presently he felt the nudge once moreé. S ' g

“John,” she said, “there were some awfully clever things in that burlesque you went té see.” -

“Howling dervishes, * Jennie! I'm sleepy,” he protested. : ' “So was I when you woke me up to tell me about it. Do you suppose you can remember that next time you bring home late something amusing?” » . i : I,

. No answer. [ et ' “John, deo. you know your lesson?” No answer, ' A T “John, do you know your lesson so that you won't Torget it?” “I do,” he growled. - : And he did. L

Baked Apple Pudding.

Six large apples (grated), three tablespoonfuls of butter, one-quarter pound sugar, two eggs (whites and yolks beaten separately), juice of one lemon and half the grated rind pastry. Beat the butter and sugarinto a cream, stir in the yolks, the lemon, the grated apple, and, lastly, the whites of the eggs. Live dish with pastry, pour in the mixture -and bake till nicely browned. This is best ecold.—Detroit Free Press. ARPESEER e SR

PERSIAN RUGS ARE 'SCARCE. An Importer Teils Why There Is & Scarcity in This Countryx of i Snperl'or Weaves. <The Persian government is soon to pass‘a law imposing a heavy duty om all rugs imported from Persia which are colored with aniline dyes. The use of aniline dyes had seriously in~ - jured the rug trade in Persia, and as this is the chief industry of a poor country the government has at last awakened to the fact that it must be - protected, says the Upholsterer. There is soon to be a considerable advance in the price of nearly all varieties of Persian and Turkish rugs, to last for a year or tweat least. For this there are several reasons. The cutpusd of .the Pérsian looms has been very small the last year. and in some cases the entire supply has been exhaustedwithout in the least satisfying the Ameriean demand. Usually rainy weather has caused deep floods in Persia. The rug Wweavers there set up,. their looms and work in tRe open air. When it rains work is impossible. and when the floods come the looms cannot ‘even be set up. Also it has been almost impossible to transport rugs from sections’ of the country where the roads have been washed-away and 4 made ixhpa“ible for the caravans. . - FurthernGre. the market is seeking - a healthier price level. For several years the market has been unreasonably low. Rugs'fhioh were bought in Constantinople for £l5 to £lB with-: in the_ last two of three years have been selling for £4l;, or £5. Turkish exporting houses have many of them failed, dnd the rest have been getting on the anxious seat. In Persia the loom operatives have lost heavily through wunscrupulous speculators. The fact that many retail buyers for department stores, etc., are now. purchasing abroad has also helped to raise theiprice, since the orientals capp comprehend no difference hetween the wholesale importer and the retail importer, :

‘Fine Kermans have jumped 60 pér cent., and the supply is almost exhausted. Bokharas are almost entirely out of the market. The best Afghans are 25 per cent. higher. The higher grade rugs of almost all varieties aé geting rare.. Antiques have gone up and there is hardly a fine rug to be found in Constapti’nople. As soon as good things appear in the market they are gobbled up. though there is plenty of rubbish to be found at

ctheap prices. ) In-the past the foreign buyers and the Turkish exporting houses have beaten down the native loom weavers in their prices. The natural result has been that the native produced an inferior rug® for the smaller payment, and a large portion of the rugs manufaetured steadily deteriorated in quality. Recently, however, certain European and American business men have.gained control-of a large number of looms in Persia. These are chiefly native looms with native workmen, ii'itil-litlr()pean and American businéss and financial supervision. As a resylt of this movement the Pabriz rugs ::"e improving wonderfully. The designs are good; the hideous orange reds have been left out; curling up at the corners has been done away with; enly vegetable dyés are used. and the rugs aré much finer and softer. . The importer believes that the mnative workmen were never more capa‘ble or had better facilities, and that if they were paid sufficiently could make as beautiful rugs as were made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

PRAISE OF THE PUMPKIN.

This Dissertation Gives That Noble _ Vegetable the Commendation .| It Truly Deserves. In the memories of men and women who have lived their threescore and ten. years the- chronicle of the noble pumpkin has been cherished, _ says the Indianapolis Journal. 2 In pioneer times peaches and pears were unheard of; apple trees had to be grown, and the principal fruit of that.period was the faithful pump- - kin. The time when pumpkins ripened was a time of general rejoicing. The crop of pumpkins was always to be relied on; every country loft con- . tained a-wagonload of pumpkins, and - every village househglder bought them by the dozen. - They did not freeze in log houses. Pumpkins, as elderly women can testify and as the old cookbooks show, were as popular a gastronomic dependence then as the splendid apple is now. Stewed puntpkin was an evervday dish, fried pumpkin also; pumpkin Dbutter, pumpkin jam and pumpkin preserves - were always made. Pumpkin bread was a notable pioneer delicacy, and a New England cook book gives a recipe for Boston brown bread into which. a cupful of cold stewed pumpkin was to be stirred. Pumpkin pies were perhaps more toothsome then - than now, and pumpkin pudding was also much relished. Dried pumpkin was universal. One elderly Indiana man recalls that he could hardly find _ his way to bed in the fall, so thickly hung the strings of drying pumpkin_ in the loft of his father{s house. It was cut in strips and threaded, then hung behind stoves, near the fire- . places or from the .roof beams all over the house. S

Children had rare sport when pumpkins were plenty. Jack-o™-lan-terns were made and put in queer places to scare other children, candles being cheap and: plenty, too. Sometimes a row of-jack-o-lanterns would suddenly gleam out along the top of the log house or on a shed. To whitewash pumpkins on the vines in the field was also considered the essence of exquisite humor. Whitewashed pumpkins hid in a hayoock were called “a mare's nest.” . 'Good Advice. “I shall never permit myself to become a household drudge,” said the bride, with the honors of a university career still fresh upon her. “I shall ‘endeavor to improve my mind.” “That is a good idea,” answered her mother, “but don’t let your literary pursuits monopolize you. Remember there are times when currant jelly appeals to a man a great deal more than current science.”— Detroit News. ; . No Enemies. “Bellows never seems to have amy enemies in his circle.” - o ~ “No; he just won't loan money.”-— N Y. Sun : o e