Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 April 1905 — Page 3

CITAPTER XVII. I rang again, and a third time; and now at last came the sound of footsteps shuffling across the court within. The shutter of the grating was slipp'd back and a voice, crack'd as the bell, asked my business. "To see Master Hanibal Tingcomb," answered I. "Thy name?" "He shall hear it in time. Say that I come on business concerning the estate. The voice mutter'd something, and the footsteps went back. I had been kicking my heels there for twenty minutes or more when they returned, and the voice repeated the question ".Thy name?" Being by this time angered, I did a foolish thing; which was to clap the muzzle of my pistol again the grating, close to the fellow's nos Singular to ay, the trick serv'd me. A bolt was slipp'd hastily back and the wicket door opened stealthily. "I want," said I, "room for my horse to pass." Thereupon more grumbling follow'd, and a prodigious creaking of bolts and chains; after which the big gate swung stiffly back. "Sure, you must be worth a deal," I aid, "that shut yourself In so careful." Before me stood a strange fellow extraordinarily old and bent, with a wizen'd face, one eye only, and a chin that almost touched his nose. He wore a dirty suit of livery, that once had ben canary . yellow; and shook with the palsy. "Master 'fingconib will set the young man," he queak'd, nodding his head; "but is a-reading just now his Bible." He led the way across the court, well pared but chok'd with weeds, toward the stable. I found it a spacious buildiEg, and counted sixteen stalls there, but all were empty save two, where stood the horses I had seen in Bodmin the day before. Having stabled Molly, I left the place and followed the old servant into the house. He tottered into a stone corridor, I after him. Along this he hurried, muttering all the way, and halted before a door at the end. Without knocking, he pushed it open, and motioning me to enter, hastened back as he had come. "Come in," said a voice that seemed familiar to me. Though 'twas still high day, in the room where now I found myself was every appearance of ni?ht; the shutters being closed and six lighted candles standing on the tablet Behind them sat the venerable gentleman whom I had seen in the coach, now wearing a plain suit of black and reading in a great book that lay open on the table. I guessed it 'to be the Bible, but noted that the candles had shades about them, so disposed as to throw the light, not on the page, but on the doorway where I stood. "I speak, I believe, to Master Hannibal Tingcomb, steward to Sir Deakin Killigrew?" "Yes, young sir, that is my name steward to the late Sir Deakin Killi grew. "The know late?" I cried. "Then you "Surely I know that Sir Deakin is dead, else should I be but an unworthy steward." "And his son also?" "Also his son. Anthony, a headstrong boy, I fear me. "And his daughter, Mistress Delia V "Alas!" aud he fetched a deep sigh. "Do you mean, sir, that she, too, Is dead?" "Why, to be sure but let ns talk on less painful matters.' "Ia one moment, sir; but first tell me where she did die, and when?" For my heart stood still, and I was fain to clutch the table between as to keep me from falling. I think this did not escape him, for he gave me a sharp look, and then spoke re" quiet and hush'd. "She was cruelly killec by highwaymen, at the Three Cups' inn, some miles out of Hungerford. The date given me is the 3d of December last.' With this a great rush of joy came over me, and I blurted out, delighted: "There, sir, you are wrong! Her father was kiird on the night of which you speak cruelly enough, as joi say; but Mistress Delia Killigrew escaped, and af ter the most incredible adventures I was expecting him to start up with Joy at my announcement; but instead of this, he gaz'd at me very sorrowfully and shook his head; whicf brought me to a stand. "Sir," I said, changing my tone, "I peak but what I know; for 'twas I had the hatpy fortune to help her to escape, and, under God's hand, to bring her safe to Cornwall." "Then, where is she now?" Now, this was just what I could not tell. So, standing before him, I gave him my name and a history of all my adventures in my dear comrade's company, from the hour when I saw her first in the Inn at Hungerford. He heard me to the end. attentively, but with a curling of the' lips toward the close, such as I did not like. And I had done, to my maze he spoke out sharply, and as if to wlpiTd schoolboy: "Tis a cock-an'-bull story, sir, of which I could hope to make you ashamed. You were at that inn, and on that night, with her murderers. Boy, I have eridu-nce that, taken vith you? confeslion, would weave you a halter; and am a justice of the peace. Be thankful, then, that I am a merciful man; yet be sbash'd." Abash'd, indeed, I was; or at least taken aback, to see this holy indignation and the flush on his waxen cheek. Like a fool I stood staggered, and wondered dimly where I had heard that thin roice before. In the confusion of my senses I heard it ssy solemnly: "The sins of her fathers have overtaken her, as the Book of Exodus proclaim'd; therefore is her inheritance wasted, and given to the satyr and the wild ass." "And which of the twain be you, sir?" I cannot tell what forced this violent rudeness from me, for he seemed an honest, good man; but my heart was boiling. As for him, he had risen, and was moving with dginity to the door to show me out, as I guess. When suddenly I, that had been staring stupidly, leaped upon him and hurled him back into his chair. For I had marked his left foot trailing, and, by the token, knew him for the white-haired man of the bowling green. "Master Hannibal Tingcomb," I spoke faj his ear,' dog and murderer! What did you in Oxford last November? And how -of Captain Lucius Higgs, otherwise Captain Luke Settle, otherwise Mr. X? Speak, before I serve you as the dog was served that night!" I dream yet, in my sick nights, of the change that came over the vile, hypoCritical knave at these wrds of mine. To see his pale venerable face turn green nd livid, his eyeballs start, his hands clutch at air it frightened me. And the next moment he had slipped from my grasp, and was wallowing In o Ct ca the Cscr, gnashing at ns all the 119 and fcarafcj at the month. Pres

ently he ceased to writhe and bite; and lifting, I set him in his chair, where he lay, a mere limp bundle, staring and clinking. So I sat down facing him, and waited his recovery. "Dear young sir," he began at length feebly, his fingers searchiug the Bible before him, from force of habit. "Kind young sir I am an old, dying man, and my sins have found me out. Only yesterday, the physician at Bodmin told me that my days are numbered. This is the second attack, and the third will kill me. "Well?" said I. "If if Mistress Delia be alive I will make restitution I will confess only tell me what to do, that I may die in peace, Indeed he looked pitiable, sitting there and stammering; but I hardened my heart to say: "I must have a confession, then, written before I leave the room." "But, dear youn-.' friend, you will not use it if I give up all? You will not seek my life? that already is worthless, as you Bee." "Why, 'tis what you deserve. But Delia shall say when I find heir as Ij shall go straight to seek her. If she be lost, I shall use it never fear; if she be found, it shall be hers to say what mercy she can discover in her heart, but I promise you I shall advise none." The tears by this time were coursing down his shrunken cheeks, but I observed him watch me narrowly, as though to find out how much I knew. So I pulled out my pistol and, setting pen and paper before him, obtained at the end of an hour a very pretty confession of his sins, which lies among my papers to this day. When it was written and signed, in a weak, rambling hand, I read it through, folded it, placed it inside my coat and prepared to take my leave. But he called only an order to the old servant to saddle my mare and stood softly praying and beseeching me in the courtyard till the last moment. Nor when I was mounted would anything serve but he must follow at my stirrup to the gate. But when I had briefly taken leave I heard a voice calling after me down the road: "Dear young fir! Dear friend! I had forgotten somewhat!" Returning, I found the gate fastened and the iron shutter slipped back. "Well?" I asked, leaning toward it. "Dear young friend, I pity thee, foi thy paper is worthless. To-day, by my advices, the army of our most Christian Parliament, more than twenty thousand strong, under the Earl of Stamford, have overtaken thy friends, the malignant gentry, near Stratton Heath, In the northeast They are more than two to one. By this hour to-morrow the Papists all will be running like conies to their burrows, and the little chance wilt thou have to seek Delia Killigrew, much less to find her. And remember, I know enough of thy late services to hang thee; mercy, then, will lie in my friends hands, but be sure I shall advise none." And with a mocking laugh he clapped to the grating in my face. CHAPTER XVIII. Joan .was not in the kitchen when I arrived at the cottage nor about the buildings; nor yet could I spy her anywhere moving on the hills. So, after calling to her once or twice, I stabled the mare, and set off up the tor side to seek her.

But to-day as I climb'd past the spot, something very bright flash'd in my eyes and dazzled me. I finally found her sitting behind a slab of granite with her back to me. In the left hand she was holding up the mirror that caught the rays of the now sinking sun, while with her right she tried to twist into some form of knot her tresses black, and coarse as a horse's mane that already she t:.d roughly braided. A pail of water stood beside her; and around lay scatterM a score or more of long thorns, cut to the shape of hairpins. Tis probable that after a minute's watching I let some laughter escape me. At any rat Joan turned, spied me, and scrambled up, with an angry red on her cheek. Then I saw that her bodice was neater lae'd than usual, and a bow of yellow ribbon stuck in the bosom. But the strangest thing was to note the effect of this new tidiness upon her; for she took a step forward as if to cuff me by the ear. and then stopp'd, very shy and hesitating. "Why, Joan," said I. "don't be anger'd. It suits you choicely it does indeed." "Art scoffing, I doubt." She stood looking heavily and askance at me. "On my faith, no. Thou art certainly a handsome girl." She looked up in my face dear heaven, that I Mould have to write it! with eyes brimful, sick with love; tried to speak, but could only nod, and broke into a wild fit of tears. I was standing there when I heard the clear notes of a bugle blown, away on the road to Launceston. Looking that way, I saw a great company of horses coming down over the crest, the sun shining level on their arms and a green standard that they bore in their midst. Joan spied them the same instant, and checked her sobs. Without a word we fluHg ourselves down full length on the turf to watch. They were mors than a thousand, as I guessed, and came winding down the road very orderly till, being full of them, it seemed a long serpent writhing with shiny scales. The tramp of hoofs and jingling of bits were pretty to hear. "Rebels!" whispered L. There were three regiments In all, whereof the first was of dragoons. So clear was the air I could almost read the legend on their standard, and the calls of their captains were borne up to us extremely distinct. As they rode leisurely past I thought of Master Tingcomb's threat, and wondered what this array cousi intend. Nor, turning it over, could I find any explanation, for the Earl of Stamford's gathering, he had said, was in the northeast, and I knew such troops as the Cornish generals had to be quartered at Launceston. Yet here; on the near side of Launceston, was a large body of rebel horses marching quietly to the sou'west Where was the head or tail to it? Turning my head as the last rider disappeared on the way to Bodmin, I spied a squat, oddly shaped man striding down the hill very briskly; yet he looked about him often and kept to the hollows of the ground; and was crossing below us, as it appeared, straight for Joan's cottage. Cried I: "There is but one man in the world with such a gait and that's Billy Pottery!" And Jumping to my feet I caught up a great stone and sent it bowling down, the slope. Bounce it went past him, missing his legs by a foot or less. The man turned, and catching siit of me as I stood waving, mads his way up the hilL Twas indeed Captain Billy; and ccmisj up, the tc-cct f tllow tlncrt hugged me for joy. "Was asking thts, JtcV t tawlri; "kirzzl from C;r EtC1 v-lirra Iild I nil.'JLi ri tits. Lcr: Lb lzlz-2 ct

Launceston this morning, and trudged ivery foot o' the wayi A thirsty land, Jack neither horse's meat nor man's meat therein, nor a chair to sit down on." "Joan," said I, "this is Billy Pottery, a good mariner and friend of mine; and as deaf as a haddock." Billy made a leg; and as I pointed to the road where the cavalry had lust disappeared, went on with a nod: "That's so; old G'arge Cudleigh's troop o' horse sent off to Bodmin to seize the high sheriff and his posse there. Two hour agone I spied 'em, and ha been ever since playin' spy." "Then where be the King's forces?" I made shift to inquire by signs. "Marched out o Launceston to-dty. lad an but a biscuit a man between em, poor dears for Stratton Heath, i the norsast, where the rebels be encamped. Heard by scouts o' these gentry bein' sent to Bodmin, and were minded to fight the Earl o' Stamford whiles his dragooners was away. And here's the long an' short o't: thou'rt wanted, lad, to bear a hand wi' us up yonder an thf goad lady here can spare thee." Joan put her hand in mine. "To fight, lad?" I nodded my head. "Then go," rbe said without a shade in her voice; and as I made no answer, went on "Shali a woman hinder when there's fighting toward? Only come back when the wars be over, for I shall miss thee. Jack." And dropping my hand she led the way down to the cottage. Now, Billy, of course, had not heard a word of this; but perhaps he gathered some import. Any way, he pulled up short midway on the slope, scratched his head, and thundered: "What a good lass!" Joan, some paces ahead, turned at this

and smiled; whereat, having no idea he'd J spoken above a whisper, Billy blushed j red as any peony. Twas but a short half hour when, the mare being saddled and Billy fed, we took our leave of Joan. Billy walked beside one stirrup, and the girl on the other side, to see us a few yards on our way. At length she halted. "No leave takings. Jack, but 'Church and King! Only do thy best and not disgrace me." And "Church and King!" she called thrice after us, standing in the road. For me, as I rode up out of that valley, the drums seemed beating and the bugles calling to a new life ahead. The last light of day was on the tors, the air blowing fresher as we mounted; and with Molly's every step the past fiie months appear'd to dissolve and fall away from me as a dream. On the crest I turn'd in the saddle. Joan was yet standing there, a black speck on the road. She waved her hand once. Billy had turn'd, too, and, uncovering, shouted so that the hilltops echoed "A good lass a good lass! But what' become o t'other one?" (To be continued. A year passed asa prisoner In a small city bedroom never risited by the sun, and making up in noise what It lacked in light, would be a severe punishment for most women. But a woman who had gone through a long imprisonment in her home, made necessary by a fall, and had come out again Into active life, surprised a prosperous friend by saying, "Oh, I enJoyed myself all those months." "Enjoyed yourself! What, do you mean?" asked her friend. "I enjoyed myself," answered th convalescent "I had little else to glvo me pleasure, and so I Just studied my own resources. I did not know I had so many of them. Most of them I owe to my mother, who taught me so many occupations when I was a child. I knitted and I netted and I made tatting. I crocheted and I embroidered, and I drew very badly the trees and clouds outside my window. I repeat ed poetry and the Bible. I worked out charades and enigmas. Best of all. I read and read and read. It seemed rather hard at the time that I could not have all the books I wanted. But now I know that I relished tho more' those I did have, and I read them until I knew them almost by heart. So it was a good year, after all." The multiplication of resources is a wonderful defense against many of the trials which life holds for a womanEach new power of mind and of hand is a new weapon against weariness, and a new guaranty that the possessor shall be capable under all circumstances of enjoying herself. Proved! an Alibi. Fred I understand Miss Elderleigh brought suit for damages against young Sapley for casting reflections upon her. Joe So she did; but she lost her case. Fred She did, eh? What kind of a defense did Sapley put up? Joe He proved to the satisfaction of the Jury that he wasn't bright enough to cast a reflection. Car MagnatePays Faro. H. H. Vreeland, president of the New York Street Railway Company, never uses a pass on his line, but invariably pays his fare. Should an unluciy conductor orerlook him on his collecting tour, as conductors frequently do with others In the rush hours, he would probably hear from the president's office the next day. Bad Bill. "Qosewood must be sick. I see the doctor la calling." "How many tinxa do you think be will calir "About one hundred times. "Goodness 1 You don't mean to say ho is that sick?" "Well, the doctor will call twice for medical services and the rest for the bill.' In After Years. Husband When we were married you confessed entire faith in my veracity, but now you don't seem to be-' lieve a word I say. Wife Yes, but this Is a progressive age, yon know, and even a confession of faith needs to be revised occasionally. explanation. "She married a man twenty years her Junior.' "I didn't think she was worth as much money as all that' Illinois Ctata Journal. . Tis Ileiatlre Value of Foods. The banana produces to the aero fcrty-fcur times more food tLan tho rct?, crd ICO times mere th?.a Triebt

The Happy Wife. You ask me why I'm happy when so many wives complain, And say their husbands only live to give them endless pain? My secret you demand to know; you've seen my happy nook, And you quiz me not a little, but remember I can cook. When other wives are envious and tell my husband dear, My gowns are very out of date and at my wardrobe sneer, I have no fear, I only smile, I care not how I look! I know I've but to whisper, "Dear, remember I can cook!" My love has often said to me, "My dear, I know you're plain. But married life with you, my sweet, has brought me naught but gain. Let other women sing and dance, or even write a book, Yet you're above them all in charm remember you can cook!" And always, when I'm begged by girls to tell them by what art I captured such a handsome man, and won quite all his heart, I merely say, "My dears, I'm sure that all the pains I took Was asking him to dinner for remember I can cook!" And all you modern women who are anxious to be wed, Be wise, throw up your arts and crafts and learn to bake your bread For be certain that no husband will forget the vows he took. If his wife wijl only please him by remembering how to cook. Home Monthly. Frock for a Girl. Frock of old-blue mohair with full skirt tucked at top, shaped flounces at bottom, with stitched band of same for a finish. Blouse waist square in the neck, with stitched shaped band and stole tabs; puffed sleeve with tucks and doable flounce reaching below the elbow; also at top, forming epaulette effect. To Make Children Trnthfnl. The best means of encouraging truthfulness in children is a problem which taxes the Judgment of the best among us. The road to truthfulness can only be found through mutual sympathy a sympathy which enables the mother to know what demands she can and ought to make upon her child's obedience tc her higher will, and which teaches the child uncomplainingly to accept her wishes as law. To win this trust, a mother's correction should never outrun her love, and she may well make it a golden maxim never to let the sun go down upsn her wrath. If a child once feels that the day has gone by with a loss or lessening of the mother's love, the influence of the mother for good is dangerously weakened; a link is snapped in the chain of truthfulness, and a precious idol is In danger of being hopelessly shattered. Undue hArshness is one of those irreparable errors we are sure to regret; mothers should, therefore, temper their reproofs with love. The responsibilities of motherhood are indeed heavy, bet they are not beyond their powers, and It Is within a mother's scope to control, far more fully than she may be ready to acknowledge, the environments of her children, and to weld their characters for good or evil. A- Woman's Chance. Every woman has the signs which tell the experienced whether she will live to be very old. Here are some of the supposed signs of longevity. The woman who appears taller in proportion when sitting down than when standing has a good chance of long life. If the body Is long In prcportion to the limbs, the heart, lungs and digestive organs are large. The pulse should beat with a full and normal stroke. Limbs and Joints should be large and well formed. Those who resemble their mothers may expect to live longest, and the first-born is longer lived than the other children.,. Out if a million persons 225 women reach the age of 100 years. Only S2 men in the same number are privileged to see a century of life. One of the secrets of long life Is to; have plenty of sleep, and other rules are; To sleep on the right side, keep the bedroom window open all night, take a bath of the same temperature as the body every morning, don't have pets In th living reoms, take Caily exercisa in the open air, watch

the three D's drinking water, dampness and drains; limit your ambitions, keep your temper, .worry less, work more, ride less,' walk more, eat less, chew more, preach less, practice more.

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It Is to be a great season for the mohair family. Plain white silk parasols are for the girl In white. Skirt tucks are larger and In groups of two or three. The black-and-white check promises to be ubiquitous. f . Pique coat revers and cuffs come for half a dollar a set. Creamy pink and white carnations are new in millinery. Trimness and a plain look generally are the distinguishing points. An edging of tiny balls is the smartest embellishment for net or luce. Dainty little lace-trimmed slips of colored silk are to be had ready-made. Gloves of vivid green or red. as yon choose, come in the double-tipped silk sort. The three-quarter length loose circular coat, with enormous sleeves, is most admired for evening. Did you know you could get hand embroidered China silk slip skirts for wear under sheer gowns? Dead roses were never so pretty as the artistically crumpled and withered brown roses on the new hats. Clue and green and lavender roses may wound one's sense of the fitness of things, but they are lovely, Just the same. Tüe downward droop In the front of some girdles might be termed exaggerated, but for the most part it is kept within the bounds of moderation. Fashion is lenient; the tall woman can have her redingote, the little one her bolero, the stout one her plain skirt and the slender one her frock full gathered. The latest innovation of the dressmaker is a slightly draped effect across the top of the front skirt breadth just below the girdle and seeming to continue that article. Smpll checks in blue and green, brown and blue, blue and black and green and black are made up into some of the jauntiest spring suits. The matecial Is mohair, panama cloth or silk. Hilles for the Maid. The rule of "a place for everything and everything in its place" must be enforced. The maid must keep her kitchen cupboards in as good order as her china closets, and if she does in a little while she will become so familiar with the location of each utensil and each piece of china or glass that she could find it In the dark. There should be no liberty allowed of keeping a thing in one place at one time and In another some other time. This may seem a trifle, but all these trifles do their part In creating an orderly and systematic habit of mind. Do not permit the maid to leave the dishes standing around alter they have been washed, but teach her that it is as essential to put these away as soon as they are clean as it is for her to wash her dish towels and hang them out to dry once a day. Try to cultivate system in your maid in other ways. Impress it upon her that she must let you know as soon as the supply of any article is exhausted and not wait until there is need for it again before she discloses to you the fact that it Is wanted. To help her in this hang in your kitchen a small pad of paper and a pencil and instruct her that as soon as she uses the last of any provision she is to write the name of this on the slip that it may serve as a memorandum when you go to market If your maid's memory is poor, encourage her to make notes of the items of the work she has to perform. In a way this may not develop her memory so well as charging her mind with the details, but there are mr" of us whose remembrances need a crutch now and then. Harper's Bazar. Rate for Girls. Don't frown. Don't get angry. Don't speak untruthfully. Don't' withhold the kind word. Don't forget that wealth of character is far above all riches. Don't depend upon others to make you happy, but try to make others happy. Don't fail to see the happiness in the lives of toilers with whom you come in contact. Dcn't fall to make new resolutions when old ones form themselves into bad habits. Don't let a day pass without adding at least one stone to the building of your character. On receiving an invitation to a dinner, luncheon, card or theater party, it should be answered immediately. This is imperative as it is always necessary for the hostess to know for how many she must provide. In laying the table at each plats the forks are placed on the left and the knives und spoons on the right, the

edge of the knives toward the plate Jules Verne, though he took pains tz and the forks and spoons with the disavow the credit in favor of an Italright sides up. A well set table is oneian inventor whose fame has not surot the first requisites of a successful vived. But his Imaginative creations dinner. blazed the way for various realizations

After a bereavement in the home of a friend or acquaintance a call is made either b2fore or after the funeral, un less a very intimate friend do not ask for any member of the family; but the calling card may be 'left "With sympathy" written upon it. At a large formal dinner it is well

to have at each plate a place card wlthoften it is a(iVice they need and not the guest's name written upon it Thismedicine. The physician whose forct will avoid any confusion and relieve and character make his advice sought

the hostess of the necessity of desig-after and followed is the one who acnating the places. She may direct in complishes the most. He can not a general way, saying: "Mrs. Blank, I ignore drugs,, but his success depends believe you will fiud your sea$ on this on the extent to which ne can dominside," etc. ate his patients and correct the omisWhen calling a woman leaves hersions, errors and excesses cf theii own cards for only the ladies of the lives, declares the Vermont Medical household; as the card represents the Monthly. person and ladies do not call upon men, the card is never left for the men Game of basketball at Smith Col:f the household; if the caller is a lege having resulted in a broken colmarried woman she may leave two of lar-bone for the "star freshman playher husband's cards one for the mis-er," parents of the girls at the coltress aud one for the master of thtlege have petitioned for the abolition

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The implements of the sartorial art- jng just the music the public wants. 1st have beim very largely augmented i recommend no one to enter such a during the past few years, the ancient profession unless he or she loves mutape measure being no longer the sole sic to such a degree that the drudgery mechanical assistant of the cutter and is a pleasure." litter. In the feminine world one ot the greatest difficulties of the fitter is Can it be possible that while med!to secure an even cut of the bottom cal science has been striding ahead at of the skirt, it being difficult to calcu an amazing pace during the last five late with any degree of accuracy the or six decades, while sanitation and at-tual length, owing to the curvature surgery and the treatment of all phyof the fitted form and the take-up due sical diseases have been revolutionto the introduction of trimminj ized, there has been comparatively littie progress in ministering to disabled

DRESSMAKERS REVOLVING STAÄD. schemes of one kind and another. The gage and marker for garments illustrated herewith is not the first attempt that has been made to solve the prob- . , . . , ,t ' ,. lern in a mechanical way, as it should be done, but the introduction of the platform, that makes its use so much more convenient, is a decided step in advance. The measuring bar revolves around the central stand support, and the guide arm, with its scale, is adjustable with great accuracy. The marker may constat of only a steel indicator. or it may carry a piece of chalk to leave a graphic record of the finished measurements. Strange to relate, the invention is the work of two New York men. One would have expected some bright, adaptive woman would have hit upon the Idea. Waist of Paria MnlL. Waist of Paris mull, surplice with tucks over shoulder, trimming on front edging of Valenciennes lace. Puffed three-quarter length sleeves with band - In th. VnlonMpnn !nPrHnn nd

hat. ' is positively dreadful. Kaiiing a Girl in the WrongWay. "Oh, it's peifectly outrageous," An Atchison girl of fifteen gets up agreed the weman in the Persian lamb in the morning, eats breakfast -which Coat her mother has prepared, goes upstairs And sbe Tented her indignation by and takes care of her room and then givn:g a street urchin, who had jostled goes downtown, sometimes taking two her a crack sent him whimperhours, to buy a spool of thread. She lng on Ws way. Louisville Cocriereats dinner which her mother has pre- j0urnai. pared, wears clothes her mother has made, spends the afternoon reading Medicine, like law, Is only applicastory books or gadding with her Dle to transgressors. Those who live friends, eats supper her mother has correct lives require neither law ncr prepared and spends the evening with medicine, says Medical Talk. her girl friends. She has done noth- . - lng wicked all day,' and her mother Is The Royal Palace t Belgrade, Sersatisfied that she Is bringing her up Tia called the Konak, has been right But 13 she? - Atchison Globe, tirely refurnished by King Peter.

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Farmers who believe that of all the world of industrial humanity they are the only ones who should exhaust their energies in production, to have their products priced and taken without being consulted, are unworthy of the high calling that God honored uy introducing it into the world and commanding that it be followed. The original conception of the submarine boat is commonly attributed to in the field of invention. Fact excelled the Verne fiction in one particular in a unique way when Nellie Bly raced around the world for the New York World on a schedule faster by nearly eight days than Phineas Fogg's. Patients will take medicine when they will not take advice, and too of the sport, says the New York Evening World. If the presidents ol women colleges will only take the occasion to make monitory remarks on the "dangerous tendencies and demoralizing: influence of feminine will -ppear to have reached the status of ofLcial recognition they now enjoy at men's universities. "Unless a man is rich he ought to be regarded as a criminal if he permits his sons or daughters to become musicians," says an authority in the Lonc'on Saturday Review, wlio pro ce;ds: "In the musical profession there are a few prizes, but for the largest number of artists the life i? one of drudgery the drudgery ot learning, the drudgery of pushing one's self into notice, and after all tne continual drudgery of playing or sing minds, "says the Washington Post. Such would seem to be the opinion ot Dr. Stephen Smith, formerly a member of the Lunacy Commission of New York. In a paper contributed to Leslie's Magazine, Dr. Smith censoriously criticises the popular conception o! what constitutes lunacy and the prevailing method of treatment, regarding which he asserts that "custody and not cure of the insane has long been the chief concern of both physicians and managers of asylums." Assuming that to be true ai assumption that The Post will avoid it would constitute a terrific indictment of hundreds, if not thousands, of physicians in charge of and employed at asylums and hospitals for the insane. In one person, however, should one beware of becoming unduly interested; namely, one's self, says the Christian Register. The moment one dis covers that he is dwelling much uiH3n ... . Ä self, especially if he falls to pitying himself, he is in danger, and must rouse himself to resist. Self-pity is a corroding, weakening feeling. To every one come sometimes downcast mnmante rcVior CO Cm C little TVnft H ... . . , whlIe ? g on lS:lTJl tS! ems hardly worth the candl . Th moo?f is y TlLZ exfIon' n ilTLt! J anecdote. The pessimist sajs. ha, s fe usfe f "ff1!' are L?? f V lieu i uiecL my aicuuu, uxj uauc is going to be Wellington." That Is the right spirit. No matter what has happened, we are not to lay down our arms, but to go on with the fight as bravely and cheerfully as may be. The Lowest Mountain on the Map. There has always been more or less dispute about which is tfc highest mountain in the world, but the lowest mountain does not appear to have interested the geographers to a great extent. Yet there is a lowest mountain, at least in the United States, and it is Mount Cornenia. This little mountain, only sixty-three feet high, is located on Fort George Island at . the mouth of the St. John River, Florida, and is the highest point of land cn the coast between Cape Hatteras and Key West. A light was established on it at one time, but at last accounts it tad been discontinued. Traveller in New York Sun. A Street Scene. The teamster was not beating his horefs- but he was using pretty v,s uus w!U6ua6,1 A , , "This Cruelty tO animals. declared the woman with three birds cm her

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