Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 May 1905 — Page 3

CHAPTER XIXNight came, and found us but midway between Temple and Launceston; for, tho my comrade stepp'd briskly beside me, 'twas useless to put Molly beyond a walk; and, besides, the mare was new from her day's journey. Billy engaged that by sunrise we should be in sight of the King's troops. By daybreak we stood on a ridge aboTe a hollow vale into which the sun did not yet pierce, but passing over to a high conical hill beyond, smote level on line after line of white tents the prettiest sight! 'Twas the enemy there encamped on t! top and some way down the sides, the smoke of their trampled watch fires still curling among the gorse bushes. Looking down into valley at our feet, at first I saw t ign of our own troops only the root ! a little town. But here I heard the cl .rch bells clashing and a drain beating, and presently spied a gleam of arms down among the trees, and then a regiment of foot moving westward along the base tf the hilL It was evident the battle was at hand and we quickened our pace down into the street. It lay on the slope, and oaidway down we passed some watch fires burned out, and then a soldier or two running and fastening their straps; and last a little child, who seemed wild with the joy of iiving amid great events, but led us pretty straight to the sign of "The Tree," which indeed was the only tavern. It stood some way back from the street, with a great elm before the porch, where, by a stable, sat two men with a small company of grooms and soldiers standing around. Both men were more than ordinarily tall and soldier like, only the bigger wore a scarlet cioak very richly laced and was shouting orders to his men, while the other dressed in plain buff suit and jack boots, had a map spread before him, which ha studied very attentively. "What a plague have we here?" cries the big man as we drew up. "Recruits if it please you, sir, said I, dismounting and pulling off my hat, though his insolent tone offended me. "Slid! The boy speaks as 11 he were a regiment!" growls he half aloud. "Can'st fight?" "That, with your leave, sir, is what 1 act come to try." lie turned on Billy. "And this rascal?" Billy heard not a word, of course, yet answered readily: "Why, since your honor is so pleasantly minded, let it be cider." . Now the first effect of this, delivered with all force of lung, was to make the i-ig man sit bolt upright and staring. All tiüs while the man in bul had scarce lifted his eyes off the map. But now he looks up and I saw at the first glance that the two men hated each other. "I think," said he quietly, "my Lord Mohun has forgot to ask the gentleman's name." "My name is Marvel, sir John Marvel," I answer'd him with a bow. "II ey!" and he starts up and grasps my hand. "Then 'tis you I have never thanked for His Gracious Majesty's letter.' "The General Hopton?" cried I. "Even so, sir. My lord," he went on, still holding my hand and turning to his companion, "let me present to you the gentleman that in January sav'd your house of Bocconnoc from burning at the hands of the rebels." His lordship bowed, exceedingly sulkily. But I did not value his rage, being hot with joy to be so beprais'd by the first captain on the royal side. Who now, not without a sly triumph, folding up his may, address'd me again: "Master Marvel, the fight to-day will lie out nine Miui me uurse or so x uupe. You will do well, if your wish be to serve us best, to leave your mare behind. The troop which my Lord Mohun and I command together is belov.. But Sir Bevill Grenville, who has seen and is interested in you, has the first claim; and I would not deny you the delight to fight your first battle under so good a mister. His men are, with Sir John Berkeley's troop, a little to the westward; and if you are ready I will go some distance with you, and put you in the way to find him. My lord, may we look for you presently?" The Lord Mohun nodded, surly enough; so, Molly given over to an ostler, we set out down the hill together, Billy shouldering a - pike and walking after with the groom that led Sir Ralph's horse. Be sure the General's courtly manner of speech set my blood tingling. I seem'd to grow a full two inches taller; and when, in the vale, we parted, he directing me to the left, where through a gap I could see Sir Beviil's troop forming at some five hundred paces distance, I felt a very desperate warrior indeed: and set off at a run, with Billy bftiind me. CHAPTER XX. ;Twoul(: be tedious to tell the whole this long fight, which, beginning 60on sunrise, ended not tin four in the I .noon, or thereabouts; and indeed of hole my recollection is but a con- .? advance and repulse, t at 3 o'clock, we, L.iving been for Sxth time beaten back, were panting r cover of a hedge, and Sir John keley, near by, was writing on a -mhead some message to the camp, , .en there comes a young man on horseback, his face smear'd with dirt and dust, and rides up to him and Sir Bevill. Twas to say that the powder was all spent but a barrel or two; but this only the captains knew at the time. "Very well, then," cries Sir Berill, leaping up gayly. "Come along, boys e must do it this time." And the troop ming, once more the trumpets sound- . Yhe charge, and up we went. Away along the slope we heard the other trumpeters sounding in answer. Billy Pottery was ranged on my right, in the first .rank, and next to me, on the othe? side,' a giant, near seven feet high, who, said his name was Anthony Payne, ',lls business to act as body servant tw .jir Bevill. And he it was that struck up a mighty curious song in the Cornish tongue, which the rest took up with a wilL Twas incredible how it put fire into them all; and Sir Bevill toss'd his hat into the air; and after him like schoolboys were pelted, straight for the nasses ahead. Po r now over the rampart care a a con- . y of red musketeers, and two of rus--clad pikemen, charging down, on us. . Kioment, and we were crushed back; .her, and the chant row again. We , grappling, hand t hand, in the milkst of ;heir files. Taiicg breath, I saw, the en&jiy melting oft the suminit like a man's breath off a pane. And Sir Bevill caught my hand and pointed across to where, on the north side, a white standard embroidered with gold griflns was mounting. 44 'Tis dear Nick Claiming!" he cried; "God be praised the day is ours for certain r The rest of the signal victory (in which 1.7C0 prisoners were taken, besides the Uajsr General Chudlcirh; and ail the vz-'JJ u:j. cca czl xlztzill T

leave historians to teli. For very soon after the rout was assured (the plain below full of men screaming and running, and Colonel John Digby's dragoons after them, chasing, cutting and killing), a wet muzzle was thrust Into my hand, and turning, I found Molly behind me, with the groom to whom I had given het in the morning. The rogue had counted on a crown for his readiness. I determin'd to see the end of it, and paying the fellow, climb'd into the saddle. Billy Pottery strode at my stirrup, munching at a bistcuit he had found in the rebels camp. We turned into a lane, which gradually led us to westward, out of the main line of the rout, and past a hamlet, where every door was shut and all silent. And at last a slice of the sea fronted us, between two steeply shelving hills. On the crest of the road, before it plunged down toward the coast, was a wagon lying against the hedge, with the horses gone; and beside It, stretch'd across the road, an old woman. Stopping, we found her dead, with a sword-thrust through the left breast; and inside the wagon a young man lying, with his jaw bound up dead also. And how this sad spectacle happen'd here, so far from the battlefie.d, was more than we could guess. I was moving away, when Billy, that was kneeling in the road, chanced to cast his eyes up toward the sea, :ind dropping the dead woman's hand, scrambled on his feet and stood looking, with a puzzled face. Following his gaze, I saw a small sloop moving under shorten'd canvas, about two miles from the land. She made a pleasant sight, with the last rays of sunlight flaming on her sails; but for Billy's perturbation I could not account, so turn'd an inquiring glance to him. "Suthin i' the wind out yonder," was his answer. "What's a sloop doing on that.ratch so close in by the point. There she goes again" as the little vessel swung off a point or two further from

the breeze, that was breathing softly up cannel. "Time to sup, lad, for the both of us," he broke off shortly. Indeed, I was faint with hunger by this time, yet had no stomach to eat thus close to the dead. So turning into a gate on our left hand, we cross'd two or three fields, and sat down to sup off Billy's biscuits, the mare standing quietly beside us, and cropping the short grass. The field where we now found ourselves ran out along the top of a small promontory, and ended at the cliffs edge. As I sat looking southward, I could only observe the sloop by turning my head; but Billy, who squatted over against me, hardly took his eyes off her, and between this and his meal was too busy to speak a word. I stretch'd myself out, and found it very pleasant to lie still; nor, when Billy stood up and sauntered off toward the far end of the headland, did I stir more than to turn my head and lazily watch him. He was gone half an hour at the least. and the sky by -this time was oO dark that I had lost sight of him, when, rising on my elbow to look around, I noted a curious red glow at a point where the turf broke off, not three hundred yards behind me, and a thin smoke curling up in it, as it seem'd, from the very face of the cliff below. In a minute or so the smoke ceased almost; but ' the ' shine against the sky continued steady, tho' not very strong. "Billy has lit a fire," I guessed, and was preparing to go and look, when I spied a black form crawling toward me, and presently saw 'twas Billy himself. Coming close, he halted, put a finger to his lip and beckoned; then began to lead the way back as he had come. Thought I, "these are queer doings;" but left Molly to browse, and crept aftei him on hands and" knees. He turn'd his head once to make sure I was following. Once more he pull'd up, and after considering for a second, began to move again; only now he worked a little to the right. And soon I saw the intention of this; for just here the cliff's lip was cleft by a fissure that ran back into the field and shelved out gently at the top, so that a man might easily scramble some waj down it And 'twas from this fissure that the glow came. Along the right lip of this Billy led me, skirting it by a couple of yards, and wriggling like a blind worm. Crawling closer now, I stopp'd beside him and strove to quiet the violence of my breathing. Then, after a minute's pause, together we pulled ourselves to the edge and peer'd over. The descent of the gully was broken, some eight feet below us, by a small ledge, sloping outward about six feet, and screen'd by branches of the wild tamarisk. At the back, in an angle of the solid rock, was now set a pan pierced with holes, and full of burning charcoal: and over this a man in the rebels' uniform was stooping. He had a small paper parcel in his lefl hand, and was blowing at the charcoal with all his might. Holding my breath, I heard him clearly, but could see nothing of his face, for his back was toward us, all sable against the glow. The char coal fumes as they rose chok'd me so thai I was very near a fit of coughing, when Billy laid one hand on my shoulder, and with the other pointed out to seaward. Looking that way, I saw a small light shining on the sea, pretty close in. 'Twai a lantern hung out from the sloop, as 1 concluded on the instant; and now I began to have an inkling of what was toward. But looking down again at the max with the charcoal pan I saw a black head of hair lifted, and then a pair of red puTd cheeks, and a pimpled' nose with a scar across the bridge of it all shlninf in the glare of the pan. " 'Tis that bloody villain, Luke Settle!1 I gasped. And springing to my feet, I took jump over the edge and came springinj on top of him. The scoundrel was stooping with his nose close to the pan. I lit with a thud on his shoulders, flattening him on the ledge and nearly sending his face on top of the live coal. 'Twai so sudden that, before he could so much as think, my fingers were about hin windpipe, and the both of us struggling flat oc the bring of the precipice. Just as he had almost twisted his neck free, I heard a stone or two break awaj above us, and down came Billy Potterj flying atop of us, and pinned us to tht ledge. 'Twas short work now. With.u a minute, Captain Luke Settle was turned or his back, his eyes fairly starting witl Billy's clutch on his throat, his mouth wide open and gasping; till I slipp'd thi nozzle of my pistol between his teeth; and with that he had no more chance, bul gave In, and like a lamb submitted tc have his arms truss'd behind him with Billy's leathern belt, and his legs witl his own. "Now," said I, standing over him, and putting the pistol against his temple, "you and I, Master Turncoat Settle, hav some accounts that 'twould bs well t square. So first tell me, what do yon here, and whera is llistrcra Delia K1U gretrf Cli ts czzzzzzU

Break the Encasement. Tbere are few of us who do not admire and applaud the girl who is constant and truer-no matter what the circumstances may be to the man who wins her heart's affections. We delight to read the stories of poets and romancers, which tell of a girl's constancy how by remaining true to her "Prince Charming," she helped to overcome all obstacles to their union, and perhaps won back her lover's affections, when he was inclined to desert her for the charms and fascinations of .another girl. And should we becou.e acquainted with such a girl in real life we hold up her constancy as an example for all members of her sex to follow. It may sound rank heresy to say , but it is the greatest pity in the world that constancy of this character Is so extolled. Not that the girl who refuses to be shaken in her allegiance to the man she loves, and ultimately leads him to a happy life by her trueheartedness, is undeserving of admiration and praise. The fault lies in the fact that "oy holding up such a case as a splendid example to their sex, many girls get exaggerated notions and ideas as to how far constancy should be practiced in love affairs. The result Is that they are very often foolishly constant They do not temper their love with common sense. The reader may smile, and say that love is blind and ousts common sense from the average girl's mind. But In many cases this is only because she possesses false, romantic and sentimental ideas as to what a girl's duty is to the man she loves. Many a girl has mined her life's happiness by remaining true to a man quite unworthy of her affections, through a mistaken sense of duty. Then, again, there are girls who, having betrothed themselves to a man, persist hi marrying him, although they are fully aware that, to a certain extent, their affections have been alienated from him by another man. Such an act cannot possibly be regarded as constancy, although some girls may think it is the embodiment of that virtue. Rather is it the duty of the girl under such circumstanced to break her promise and pledge. An honorable girl must see that to keep a promise to marry a man after the love that sanctioned the pledge has partly or wholly gone, is to commit a grievous and irreparable sin. Better a thousand times a broken promise than two mined and broken lives. Home Monthly. Daubing Bit of Millinery. There Is a chic and a dash to this charming hat in a coarse straw of a faint blue shade. The crown sets comfortably to the head, with a deep bandeau to lift the left side, where the brim takes a jaunty curve. The crown Is encircled with a soft drapery of India mousseline In a creamy white. Tho bunch of violets is set into a rosette of violet and the plumes that drape the dashing upturned right side are in pale blue, shaded to lilac at the tip. , It heads the list of "swell hats." Little Women Hate Ilucely. That the dainty little Japanese women are capable of cherishing' a deep hatred Is. shown by their attitude toward Russians. From the Empress down to the wife of a cooly, it is said, they are united against the government and the individuals of the Russian nation. T. Funabushi, a student at the Boston University Theological school, In a recent lecture on "The Patriotism of Japanese Women," declared that "men are inclined to put all the blame on the Russian government, and to give a charitable construction to whatever is done by an Individual Russian subject But the women remember all the atrocities committed by the Russians on the defenseless and weak Asiatics for the last ten years." Work-a-Day Clothe. For business women nothing is smarter than dainty blouses of white China silk. These wash better than blouses made of ordinary wash fabrics and always look pretty and fresh. The color goes with anything else, and the fact that they have constantly to Be laundered prevents any gathering of unhealthy microbes; for a business woman must travel on crowded cars and her clothing, more than that of any other woman, should be of a kind that may be frequently and readily cleaned. The popular way in. which to make these China silk waists is with a lot of little tucks cr else with four large ones on each side the front and back. Large tucks are smartest when cUtchcd siown a fourth of an inch from

the edges and great care should be taken In marking tucks on blouses to see that they turn outward instead of Inward. In the latter case one is sure to come to grief, for, In some unaccountable manner, blouses Immediately wear out or "grin" under or about the armholes when tucks are turned inward. Gown f Chine Taffeta. Gown of chine taffeta, pompadourrose design on white ground. Full skirt bordered with snow-drop lace insertion framed in double frills of plain white taffeta. Same finish on threequarter length sleeve. Shaped yoke of tucked mousseline de soie surrounded by the lace galon. Draped blouse with front of the lace and jabot pale green; satin liberty girdle. A Mother's Obligations. The mother can do much to Influence the appearance and the mental and moral status of the unborn. This has been proved over and over again. The prospective mother should think beautiful thoughts, should surround herself with lovely pictures. Her heart should warm with gladness and joyful anticipations. To indulge in anger, grief, fear, anxiety, to treasure rebellious thoughts against existing conditions, Is to rob the coming child of a proper birthright and is a form of selfishness whose record will be written upon a human being. Often the physique shows these prenatal impressions in plainness of feature, lack of vitality or, hiddeu deeper in the recesses of the braiu, of contrary impulses and thoughts, which will develop with the growth of the child,, to bring sorrow and reproach upon the parents later in life. Delineator. Beauty and Amiability. The woman who can control herself under the most trying circumstances is the woman who holds the strongest power over men. And amiability Is not only power, it is mental progression and health and happiness and long life to one's self and to one's friends an,d family. The assertion from a woman that she has a bad temper, and is proud of it, has kept more than one worthy man from asking her to share his future as his wife. No matter how beautiful and brainy and fascinating the bad tempered woman may be, or how lengthy her bank account, her power is infinitesimal compared with that of her amiable sister. The average man prizes permanent peace and content above the happiness of possessing a beautiful, attractive creature for a wife, and he knows that a bad-tempered woman and peace go not together. Are You Too Plump? How to become slender! Let the maiden inclined to embonpoint follow this advice and her form should become as willowy as she could wish: Rise early and take a cold bath, rubbing vigorously afterward with a coarse, towel or flesh brush. Take a cupful of water before breakfast. Take one small cup of tea at breakfast, some dry toast, boiled fish or a small cutlet, and a baked apple or a little fruit At dinner, which should be at midday, take white fish or. meat, dry toast or stale bread, vegetables or fruit (either fresh or stewed); for supper, toast, salad, fruit and six ounces of wMe or water. Hot water with lemon Juice in it is also good for supper. When you have followed all these rules and find yourself fairylike in proportion then you may begin to contemplate smart clothes such as only the slender can wear. FASHION NOTES. Ii iL. Two " rows of tiny buttons around one scalloped and frilled example. As ever the plain all-over lace parasol is good style for fine occasions. Japanese silk blouses are thin and cool-looking, and are said to wear well. Long branches of oak leaves halfcurled by frost make a lovely trimming for a larga hat "Favement gray" is heralded from London as one of the best ind newest colors for cloth gowns. Mode, which is a kind of cold champagne color, promises to be a favorita for spring In all its shades. Many of the new-old revivals in -ribbons would match to a i4T" the strings of some very ancient bonnets. Wonderful effects are attained in the shaded girdles. The prettiest is a soft

gray silk, beginning in pale pearl and shading up to deep smoke gray at the top. The modes offer an excellent opportunity for using up scraps of lace, velvet, brocade and fancy buttons.

The latest and smartest is a stunningly plain sunshade of heavy white linen. It is bordered in broderie Anglalse effect, the embroidery being done on the material. It costs $10. Mr. Cleveland on Woman's Clubs. Grover Cleveland has contributed an article to the May Ladies' Home Journal on "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs." The former President looks with little favor upon woman's clubs. His ideal of a good wife is summed up in the homely definition: "A woman who loves her husband and her country with no desire to run either." He does not object to women associating or co-openiting in charitable, benevolent and religious work local In activities and purposes. He even seems willing a woman should belong to one or perhaps even two clubs. He fears, however, that, if she Join one club she will be tempted to join more, and will finally get to neglecting her home. He regards home making and child rearing as the highest missions of woman, and he believes "there are woman's clubs whose objects and intents are not only harmful but harmful in a way that directly menaces the integrity of our homes and the benign disposition of our wifehood and motherhood." Mr. Cleveland thinks the rapid growth of woman's clubs is partly due to "the widespread and contagious fever for change or rearrangement which seems to leave no phase of our people's life untouched." He regards it as also in some measure a retaliation upon American husbands for surrendering themselves to business and the pursuit of wealth and neglecting their wives. Left to follow their own devices, women have taken up club life as a lefuge from loneliness and monotony. He denounces man's neglect of woman as a "dastardly offense," but thinks women who forsake their homes for clubs only make their situation and their children's far worse. Chicago Tribune. Russia's Oldest Inhabitant. The cut is from a recent photograph of Maria Bakoff, of Perm, Russia, who is the Czar's 'oldest subject. She has lately celebrated her one hundred and twelfth birthday, and is in excellent health and spirits. Maria is an ardent advocate of the simple life and attributes her remarkable longevity and freedom from sickness to ab MAKIA BAKOFF. stemiousness and constant exercise in the open air. She has worked In the fields all her long life, an- even now cannot endure the close atmosphere of the Russian farmer's house. Girls Should Not Neglect the usages of polite society when at home. Go off on trips which are not mentioned to parents. Show to the men how fond they are of cash and dress. Indulge in "rough house" play when the boys are present Forget that there is a time limit on youth's attractiveness. Make the home of a friend more congenial than their own. Make a point of attracting the notice of men in public places. Lend their aid toward making a brother selfish in his home life. Fall Into the habit of frowning at mother when she speaks to them. Waist of Irish Linen. Waist of Irish-linen, with Gibson tf feet over shoulder and gathered in front below a shaped and stitched band, which leaves an oval opening at the neck. Narrow stitched straps of thi linen cross the chemisette of broderie anglaise and deep cuffs of the same; finish of small pearl buttons. Mounted Army Nurses. India has a staff of mounted army nurses. The Indian government allows these women of the Indian nursing service 30 rupees a month for the upkei? of their horses and free conveyance of their animals to and from active service. The corps of nurses are all women of good social position and have to undergo three years' training In a general hospital before qualifying. Anyhow, She Says So, A married woman finds consolation In the knowledge that she has the beet husband in .the world. It pays to adverted In this paper.

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mm The projected Danish laboratory at Disko Island, North Greenland, is expected to include an Arctic botanical garden the first of its kind for jStudying plant growth in cold. Curdled milk of a special kind, prepared only on a Bulgarian recipe, is now supposed to be a remedy against growing old. The substance is called "yaghurt," and it is said to be death to all the inimical bacteria in the intestines, while not harming the friendly microbes. The substance looks like ordinary cream cheese turned bad and tastes much like it The solid portion is mixed with a white, thin liquid which is exceedingly sour. In the year 1S90, when influenza wa3 epidemic throughout Europe, many workmen contracted the disease in three watch factories at Madretsch, Germany, and a number died. At one factory at Madretsch, however, the disease did not appear. Investigations showed that oil of turpentine was used in the turning of the metals used for watchcases. The oil became warm and evaporated and the workmen inhaled the air laden with it This seemed to protect them against the disease. Since I then oil of turpentine has been always j evaporated in that factory upon a stove and not a case of influenza has ever occurred there. Prof. Edward B. Rosa, in a recent address on scientific standards of measurement, collected interesting i facts about the foot, the most widely used measure of length in both ancient and modern times. It is derived from the length of the human foot, but apparently has varied more than that portion of the skeleton can possibly have done in historic times. The ancient Welsh foot, for instance, was nine inches long, whereas the Tiedmont was twenty inches. In modern times It has varied from the Spanish foot, of less than eleven inches, to the ; Venice foot of more than thirteen j inches. Almost every country has use! ! a foot measure of a dKYerent length, j It was this confusion which led the j French to devise the metric system', j According to a scientist, the immedi ate cause of death, in all but very exceptional cases, such as accident is the poisoning of the nervous centers by carbonic acid, which accumulates in the blood, owing to the failure of the j arrangements for Its removal. "This gas is an anaesthetic." he explains, "and has, indeed, been employed as such, both locally and otherwise. This property of carbonic acid may be termed a merciful provision of nature. Normal death is a painless occurrence, usually preceded by gradual loss of consciousness entailing no more suffering than going to sleep. The accumulation of this merciful gas often Induces muscular contraction or spasms, which are preceded by loss of consciousness, but which may have suggested to uncritical observers that their moribund subject was in agony. To place agriculture among the exact sciences is the hope of certain French enthusiasts, and as a first step it is proposed to establish A system of exact measurements of the fertility of the soil. A pioneer of this art of "cuphorimetry," as It is called, has been M. Varembey. He has made many experiments, and has recommended a euphorimetric scale ranging from one to ten degrees, each degree to represent the fertility produced by one thousand kilograms of farm-yard manure on one hectare of land. He has shown that every degree of fertility in the soil yields thirty-five liters of wheat per hectare, or thirty-five liters of rye, or forty-two liters of barley, or fifty-eight liters of oats. The effects of other manures can be determined according to this standard, the present fertility of any soil can be estimated from the last crop and the exhaustion j experience has shown to be caused by such crop, and the probable yield of ; any one of the cereals can be calcu- ! lated from the present fertility. While irregularties of temperature and moisture must affect crops, it is believed that theoretical results for normal conditions can be worked out with much accuracy. THE VALUE OF PORCHES. Xtoafing on Piazza Will Do Wonders for the Overworked. There's an old doctor in New York who is famous for repairing people with a rather odd prescription. Overworked men and nerve-wrecked women, all out of sorts with life, come to him in an ever-lengthening line and beg to be set aright He looks them very closely In the eye for perhaps a minute, and then says, leisurely, with great genial heartiness that in Itself is almost a cure on the spot: "Well well I wouldn't lie awake nights worrying very much about it if I were you. You're all right every bit. only you've gone a trifle stale, as the boys say in college athletics. What you need more than anything else is to do a little judicious loafing. Something in the way of a sun bath daily. In fact the very best thing I can rec'ommend for you is a piazza in the Berkshires. Just sit there for a month or two and watch the world go by. Read a little, dream a little and listen to the birds, but don't you dare do a single useful thing. And the longer you sit there the surer the cure." A piazza In the Berkshires. The old doctor knew what he was talking about Only, of course, it doesn't literally have to be in the Berkshires. A piazza anywhere will do, even yours or mine, and the bigger and sunnier and more enticing It Is the better. And if, by any unpardonable oversight of fate, or the architect's, you haven't a piazza, build one at once, I beg of the you. Build a new one, enlarge the old one, make a fine one finer. ' But a piazza of some sort you must have, for that way joy lies. It's rather a pity we don't make more of our piazzas. They beat us badly at this sort of thing over In southern Europe, along the shores of the blue Mediterranean. Even the poorest Italian and Spanish peasant ther? knows enough to have his little vinx arbor, and to bask in It when the ca is high in the summer skies.

As for the villas of the better endowed, they would as soon be without s;ich a thing as they would be lacking fruit to eat or wine to drink. All the way from Barcelona to Capri, and especially along the Riviera, every one has pergolas or balconies overlooking the ea, on which they sit at all possible Lours and watch the wave roll in, and the flowers blcom, and listen to the music of the strolling players. They are wise enough to know how necessary both to mind and body, daily repose is; wise enough to know that life should not be turned into merely a business affair. If we could only, here in strenuous America, do a little of the same sort We're such awful grubs, with our coses forever in the dirt after the dol lars. And the longer we bury ourselves in the commercial tombs of the slaving cities the worse we get. Nerves come and digestion goes, until presently we find ourselves disgruntled old parties, with our skies always overcast and our bones always aching. And then, when it Is too late, we sijrh for a sight of the green things out in God's country. Which would never have happened, you know, if we'd only done a little Judicious loafing on some piazza, as the years were slipping away. Men and Women.

WIFE WAS ELECTROCUTED. First Husband of Martha Place Re -reals the 8tory of Iiis Life. A sequel to the electrocution of Martha Place at Sing Sing in March. 1902, for the killing of her 15-year-old step daughter and htr husband with an ax, was brought to light at Seattle when Wesley I. May, a real estate broker, appeared in the Superior Court and petitioned that the name he bore be legalized. Tho broker said that his real name was net May, and that he was rightly Wesley WESLEY L. MAY. L. Savacool. the first husband of Mrs. riace. In 1SS2, in New Jersey, Savacool, then a boy, became infatuated with a beautiful woman some years his senior. A few weeks after the marriage the woman discovered that lie had no money; she had been told that his parents were wealthy and she had married him from mercenary motives. When she found that he was a poor grocer she told him with brutal frankness that she cared nothing for him, wrecked the little store and concluded with an attempt on his life. Soon thereafter he left the State, assuming the name which he has ever since borne, and went to Pennsylvania. He began life over, and, when he heard his former wife had divorced him, married again, a few years later, locating in Washington. After securing her divorce the first wife went to New York, where she married Robert Place, whose 15-year-old daughter had recently been left motherless. Place had had his dreams, too, of happiness with the beautiful woman, but his hopes soon turned to fear. Because her second husband hesitated to give his consent, one day, to her request that her own son, by Wesley Savacool, come and live with them in their New York home, she flew into a rage and threatened to kill him and his daughter. The threat she made good that night For this crime Martha Place was three years later electrocuted, the first woman In tLe world to be so punched.' SAMPLE OF ORIENTAL COURTESY How a Chinaman Relieved American Woman's Kmbarrassuient. Miss Anna Dickinson traveled everywhere independently and saw human nature in all cf its lairs. Writing to a woman friend once, says the Detroit Free Press, she described a reception given bjT wealthy Chinamen in a restaurant kept by a Chi Lung in San Francisco, and she was the guest of honor. She said she saw a servant coming toward her with a box divided into many compartments, with differ-, ent kinds of nuts and candies in the, smaller trays. She picked out half a. dozen or more and laid them on the arm of the chair, which served as a table. As the attendant passed on to others she saw that each took only one bonbon and she was much enibar-' rassed. But when the servant approached the chief Chinaman, the one who had originated the reception, he took sl, large handful and those after him did, the same and then Miss Dickinson felt relieved. She wrote: "Afterward I learned that I must have shocked all of those educated, cultured Chinamen as mnch as you or I should have been shocked if we had invited a Chinaman who we respected to dine with us and he had taken a whole fried chicken" and trn it limb from limb at our table, in ueh an event would you or I have had the tact and courtesy to have taken other chickens and thus dismembered them?" A Little Lower. ' The late Archbishop Temple, who Is popularly believed to have been unequivocally brusque and cutting of tongue, had a sense of humor which enabled him to be suave upon occasion. When he was head of Rugby school a woman of high position, with a handsome son of whom she was inordinately fond, went to Dr. Temple In great Indignation. Her son's house master, she said, had described him In a letter to her as an impostor. "My boy never deserved such an epithet!" she said, with deep feeling. "My dear madam," said Cr. Temple, "I feel sure that what the house master meant was that your son could not possibly be the angel he looked." Bridget's Trifling Mistake. Lady For goodness sakes, Bridget, what kind of greens are the;se? Bridget The spinage was fed to the cow by mistake, ma'am, so I cooked up one o' them par'or palms. The guests won't know the difference. Detroit Free Press. . When a man brags about himself, it Is a sign other people don't bra J about tia.