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he CTTAPTER XX. Mr. Mallett did not get much sleep while awaiting Senor Castellan's return. His mind was too busy digesting what he had just heard. Puttirg two and two together, bearing In mintf the fact that the senor s description ot his beautiful customer tallied exactly with that given -of the so-called rauline Mailing by Jack Dornton, and that the photograph taken by Castellan was afterward found in that lady's possession, his belief in the imposture was naturally strengthened, and his impatience to visit the grave and sea for himself the evidence of his niece's death increased every moment. At last lie heard the convent bell strike six, and, with a feeling of relief, he rose and went downstairs. He found the senor waiting below, looking triumphant, but cautious. There were several loungers about, and Mr. Mallett and Castellan passed through the room and out of the house without exchanging a word. But, once safely outside, the senor, who was brimming over with pleasart self-importance, rapidly unfolded tlie plana which the servant and he had c ncocted for Mr. Mallett's admittance to the convent burying ground. "I hall point out the gate by which monsieur will enter; after that, the rest must depend on monsieur's sagacity and on the exactness with which he carries out my directions. The servant would have nothing to do wiCi you directly; but he will arrange matters so that you can enter the cemetery by yourself and obtain a view of the tomb. But monsieur tv 111 envelop himself ia my accomplice's cloak, and if he is seen from the chapel windows, they will conclude it U but one of the sisters crossing the graveyard to gather herbs from the garden which lie beyond." Then followed a list of directions, to which Mr. Mallett paid the closest attention; and, as the old Spaniard concludd, they came within sight of the ConTent of the Holy Assumption. A subetantial stone wall eight feet high inclosed it on all sides, and on the east front were massive iron gates boarded high above the line of sight to shield the sacred precincts from the vulgar gaze. Further on, on the west side, was a very small wicket, almost hidden under the masses of ivy that hung half way to the ground. This door was the one used by the lay sisters when doing their errands, and a covered way led from it into the main entrance hall. The main gate was never opened except for funerals of the village. The bells were still ringing for vespers as Mr. Mallett reached this half hidden little gate, and, according to directions from Castellan who was lurking among the brushwood he gave a low, quick, triple knock three times over. And then waited with his eyes on his watch until five minutes haI passed. The bells ceased ringing. This was the moment agreed on. and he pushed the doer gently; it yielded, snd the next moment he found himself in the dim light of a long, larrow pasage. lie stooped and lifted a snuff colored garment that lay at his feet. It was a huge cloak, like a sister's. He wrappod himself in the capacious garment, cat?fulJy drawing the hood well over his head. Having taken off his boots, he went stealthily along the passage, across a large stone flagged entrance hall, and passed out of what he had been told was the main entrance into the inclosure beyond, lie paused here a moment and looked about him attentively. In a line with him stood tlte chapel oa the extreme right, the door of which was open; and he saw the backs of the sisters as they knelt at their devotions. lie caught a gleam of gorgeous color as the clear evening light feil through the east window ui on the vestments of the priests at the i igh altar, and a faint odor of incense crept cut upon the air. He drew the hood still closer over his beard and crossed the open space to the other sida of the chapel. Here he had to pass a whole line of windows, and the profiles of the nuns were turned toward him. ixe now shortened his stride and drooped his shoulders the better to perform the part he was assuming, and passed on without a glance to the right or to the left. As soon as the windows were passed he raised his head and looked round again. 3e was at the edge of the burying ground, and over in the extreme corner under the walk he saw the stone he had come in search of. lie recognized U by the semi-circular top there was not another like it in the Inclosure and his heart quickened a little as he picked his way across the graves. The sunset sky had changed from crim son to saffron, from saffron to a clear pearly gray, and still the brown cloak stood motionless before the headstone in the far corner of the convent graveyard. Mr. Mallett had received a shock that entirely banished hi3 preconceived ideas; and the new beliefs that crowded upon him were so connecting and confusing that for a time he was overwhelmed with perplexity. -Pauline Telling. Died May 29. IS." He read the simple inscription over -and over again; the more he pondered It the less he understood how It wa3 that he had been decoyed by fate Into this fruitless journey. Why should his niece, Pauline Mail ing, have a picture of the grave of Pan line Telling in her possession? for he no longer doubted that the lady reign Ing at Mallingford Park was his niece. and concluded that this was the grave of some other person jresumably the wife of his friend. Captain Pelling. He remembered the captain's impressive lit tie story of his unhappy marriage and its premature denouement; and Mr. Mallett tad no doubt whatever that he was now landing by the grave of that gentleman's Wife. Still the question kept repeating Itself: Why should his niece of the same Christian name, too treasure up this picture of Mrs. PelLng s grave? He miled to himself at the freak of fortune that ordained the ohliteratnon of Just the first two letters of the surname, and wondered at the insignificance of the trifle that had drawn him from England on such a wild goose chase! The servant, to all appearance busy over her stewpans in the kitchen, was working herself into a fever of fright. She expected the exhortation to finish directly, and then the sisters would wander all about the grounds, and her mysterious visitor would be discovered. She quaked with fear as tha consequences of hex conduct presented themselves to her imagination. She had seen the brown -cloak flit noiselessly past the half closed kitchen door a quarter of an hour before; but she was sure it had not yet gone back. At list, unable to bear the anxiety any longer, ah "decided that she. must at ail risks go ar d warn the man away 1efore harm cime of his dilatoriness. fetching up a basket, and muttering a gw words about garnishing to the other Clay sisters, she started for the grsve4 'xd- She harried along, keeping well t4 i of sight cf the sisters at their devoi ms, ntil she reached t'je corner. "Come away at once! Ton will be i covered!" 2Ir. Mallett was stvtled for a moTon tho woman who nipea vxsI fc-i t tdmit mar

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H now, or we shall all be ruined!" There was no mistaking the terror in the poor woman's face; and he started at once. They walked quickly over the grass; but for all his hurry, Mr. Mallett managed to ask two questions and get two replies berore they reached the small door by which he had entered. What sort of a person was that Pauline Pelling, who lies buried there?" he asked. She was a mere babe, only three months old. She was born In the hospital of this town, long since abandoned." "Merciful heaven!" exclaimed Mr. Mallett, gazing at her in blank astonishment. The woman was hurrying him along the narrow passage, for every moment now might lead to discovery. 44 And its mother?" he gasped. "Was the beautiful fair lady for whom Senor Castellan took the view of the grave just before she set out for England." And before Mr. Mallett had recovered from his last surprise be found himself outside the door, with his boot3 on the path beside him, his brain in a whirl of conflicting thoughts. "Pelling has by some means jumped to the conclusion, or been led to it Intentionally, perhaps, that his wife died in this convent and is buried here, while in truth it is his child's grave, and his wife is still living;, and, according to the present aspect of affairs, Pelling's wife and Pauline Mailing are evidently one! And she, Pauline Mailing, or Telling, or whatever she Is, is going to be married to Dornton to-morrow morning, and she has one husband still living ! I wonder if she knows that he is still alive? After all, if this turns out true and it looks very like it I shall resume my rightful positian at Mallingford, for this ;rirl has disobeyed the clause in Taul's will about marrying without Summers' consent. And that provides the motive for her conduct. She knew, if her husband found her, she would be compelled to resign the estate. Well, she has played a successful game so far; it is my inning now." And that evening Mr. Mallett, who had not been across a horse for nearly twenty years, rode the twelve miles of execrable road that lay between Villa Silentio and Bassilia, and prepared and delivered personally several telegrams to be dispatched directly the office opened ia the morning. CHAPTER XXI. The eighteenth of September was a damp, comfortless morning, and Mailingford Park looked particularly desolate. The sky was of a dull gray, and the rain drizzled steadily all the day through. Babette was busy in Miss Mailing's dressing room. It was half past nine o'clock, and she had just returned from feeing her mistress off by train. None of the fsis "were astir yet, and the house was unusually silent, as it was likely to be for son.e hors. The ball of the previous night bad been exceedingly spirited, and was not concluded until nearly G o'clock, so that the visitors would not be likely to be astir very early. Babette was to join her mistress at Charing Cross station with the luggage at half past 2, and, though her mind was full of tormenting doubts as to the day's events, she went about her business as methodically as though nothing unusual had happened. Tenderly and carefully she folded up the elaborate gown of cream-colored srain, with its draperies of thick costly lace, and its superb bou quets of deep crimson blossoms, in which Miss Mailing delighted the eyes of her admirers at the ball. Very circumspectly she placed the magnificent diamonds and rubies, with which her mistress had adorned her jhapely throat and arms, in their cases, and then packed them in a small oaken box with steel clamps. Then she went round the room with her keys and locked and strapped the traveling trunks one after another. That done, she sat down to wait, she knew not for what. Captain Pelling received a telegram at a quarter to 11 that morning which filled him with surprise and curiosity. It ran: "At all risks get to Dishopsgate church in time to see a wedding fixed for this morning, and obtain a good view of the bride's face." The telegram had been dispatched from Bassillia, and he remembered the name as that of the nearest railway station to the convent where he had f ot nd his wife's grave. Without knowing why, he felt that he must obey the telegn.ni, and he was just ia time to catch the 11 o'clock express for Waterloo. On arriving at Lis destination. Captain Pelling ran hi eyes rapidly down the cab rank within the station, picked out the smartest looking horse, sprang Into the cab. and callrrd through the trap to the driver:' "A sovereign if you reach Bishopsgate church by twenty minutes to 'i'JV The hcrse justified his good opinion, and the drive was accomplished in good time. The church doors were open, and a four-wheeled cab was waiting outside. He crept in very quietly, and walked up the aisle, not vishing to disturb the service, for he did not know what he was there for save to see the bride's face. He judged rightly that his future conduct was to be gulled by that inspection. The enure.': was cold and gloomy this miserable mw.ning. and a few persons were scattered aere and there among the seats, attracted possibly more by curiosity than iitrrest. As Pelling advanced, he was struck by the subdued richness of the bride's costume, and he was not a little surprised at the absence of the usual attendants for the old lady standing behind the bride evidently filled the oGce of pew opener. The bride and bridegroom were a Sn couple, the man being quite six feet high, while the lady was also well proportioned. Pelling went quietly along the chancel until he reached the end nearest to the altar, and then he waited for the bride to turn htr face toward him. The clergyman's voice went on with the service: "Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honor and keep him in sickness and !n health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only onto him, so long as ye both shall live?" Then, for the first time, she turned toward Ptlling. ner expression was one of unmixed rapture as she raised her eyes to the bridegroom's, and her lips were unclosed to speak. the words "I will," when she became aware of Pelling's fixed stare of horror. His gaze attracted her involuntarily, and she looked instinctively over Jack's shoulder in his direction. Jack, wondering what was the matter and fearing she was going to faint, prompted her with the short answer. She did not speak, bat continued to gaze over his shoulder at the man who had io unaccountably riveted her attention. Her under Jaw dropped spasmodically, her eyes became as fixed as those she was gazing into, and every restlge of life and color left her face. The next thing Jack seemed to realize was that a gentleman wearing a lsflit overcoat was speaking quietly to the astonished clergyman and suggesting that the lady should be taken to the restry, as she was evidently very 111, The scattered congregation looked at eacli ether in wondering curlcdtr cj th brlTol psrty. Crzeared. Vtytr!

awhile until the old pew opener returned and begged them to depart, as she desired to close the church. Pauline, with dull, dazed despair In her eyes, sat in the vestry, listening to, without understanding, the conversation of the three men grouped around her. "I am extremely sorry," Pelling said, in answer to the clergyman's request for an explanation; "but it would have been criminal to allow the matter to go further, for the lady Is my wife." "Your wife?" echoed Jack, incredo-i lously. "Yes, sir, my wife!" Pelling rephVl. with the least touch of hauteur. "I have believed her to be dead for the last six years in fact, I believed it so thor-J oughly that I should not have believed my eyes this morning if her own conduct had not betrayed her. It is possible that she thought I was dead, as I have beeni in Central Africa for several years; and lj understand the expedition of which I was a member has been three or four times reported in the newspapers a3 completely exterminated." j And how came you to present yotrr-j

self so opportunely this morning?" asked. the clergyman. That is more than I understand my self at present; but I think It is due to! accidental discoveries made in Spain by a friend i of mine who has gone hltherj on business of his own. How it happens that I have been led to believe in myt wife's death all these years and never found out my mistake before I cannot understand." 1 "Mis Mailing took her mother's name when she inherited the estate; perhaps that may explain matters," put In Jack.' "What estate?" asked Pelling sharply. "It is all too long to discuss now," Jack answered: "but no doubt the change of name accounts for your ignorance of your wife's existence." (To be continued.) HOUSEBOATS IN SUMMER. Citizens of Seattle Who Live All Year in Floating Mansion. Seattle people, although they have no legitimate excuse for leaving town in summer as people who live in hot cities have, nevertheless prefer to spice their lives with that variety which keeps existence from becoming flat, and so they build houseboats and go to the lake and various points on the sound to live on the water that they can see from almost every street in town, says the Seattle Times. Lake Washington has the largest collection of houseboats. Lying along the beach from above Madison Park to Leschl there are a great number of pretty water dwellings of many different designs. With the trees of the shore for a background and the waters of the lake for one's front yard, It is hard to imagine n more delightful location for a summer home. One of the most artistic and comfortable of the Lake Washington houseboats Is the low, preen bungalow owned by Mrs. C. II. Pomeroy. It floats well out into the water, is roomy and comfortable, and ha3 n sloping shingled roof stained preen. There is a very wide veranda In front and at the sides, with a boxed-ln rail and porch gardens and is easily one of the most satisfying places to pass si summer evening that could be imagined. Its advantages are well appreciated, for Mrs. Pomeroy has leased it this season to a number of young bachelors, who combine the joys of outdoor living with the necessary attention to business downtown. There are two canoos slung up under the eaves and many other evidences of an enjoyable time Indoors and out. The Pomeroy houseboat is more elaborately furnished than are most summer places of the kind and resembles a permanent home In the city, with its rugs, good pictures, books and library furniture. There is a huge fireplace of gray storo also, which suggests winter comfort. Mr3. Pomeroy uses her houseboat for her winter residence when s.he is in town, finding the winters on thj lake as delightful in many ways as are the summers. W. A. Malloy has a comfortable houseboat, convenient to the car line, a double-decker, with the porch upstairs. Mr. Malloy's summer home Is also his all-the-year home, for ha and his family are others of the winter devotees of the lake. J. E. Cbilberg's beautiful houseboat at Eagle harbor solves the problem of comfort, convenience and elegance combined with a life that is not only as free as air, bdt is in the air itself. His luxurious summer home is the most elaborate of its type in these waters and lifts the development of the houseboat several notches. It was built this year and lies behind Wing point, at Eagle harbor. The first floor ia built like any house and is ceiled with Washington wood. But the whole of the second floor Is open to the sun andjair and is protected when occasion ßquires by striped awnings. It is hung with baskets cf growing vines and with gay Japaneso lanterns and from a tall flagstaff floats the stars and stripes. Must Have Fads. "If a woman hasn't a fad, there's something wrong with her," remarked an observer of mankind. "She's in love, or out of it, or her liver is out of order. "American girls are the greatest for taking up new cults. Now, an English girl settles down to doing one thing, and sticks to it, and nothing short of an earthquake or a dynamite explosion will turn her out of the way of iL "But you Just suggest to an American girl that some new physical exercise will give her a plump neck, or reduce her hips or any other old thing, and she will bo nothing else for well, until the novelty wears off or something else turns up. "Just now it's boxing. Eery boxing master In town is rushed to death with applications for Instruction from girls. Boxing, you know, is warranted to do the Impossible; consequently they all want it "But, then, after all, I suppose it's Just that variety and unexpectedness about the girls over here which makes them so attractive. You Eever know where they're going to break cut next" Size or Atlantic Wares. The size of the Atlantic waves has been carefully measured for the W shlngton hydrographic bureau. In height the waves usually average about CO feet, but in rough weather they attain from 40 to 4S feet During storms they are often from 500 to coo feet long, and last 10 or 11 seconds, while the longest yet known measured half a mile and did not spend Itself for 23 seconds. He'd Had Hi.. Bleeker Cheer up, old man; there's a good time coming. Meeker Not for me. My wife is coming back from the country to-mor-row. ; ' Wililns to Double Up. "Yon are certainly a most singular girl," cald th young man. "YTcpT replied, "Iff not xay

Secret ot Slurried Happlnes. J There is ho doubt that there is far too great a tendency on tho part of women to let marriage be the end, instead of only the beginning, of a new chapter in the book of personal experience.A man of 45 or 50 Is a very different being from tho same man at 23. He has a very much wider outlook upon life, different, ideas, thoughts and ambitions. An ordinary woman has quite as much Intellectual ability, power of observation, and deduction from the facts of life (especially with a husband's more logical Judgment to aid in forming her own), and a far greater amount of insight and intuitive perception, and there is absolutely no reason why she should not grow and expand mentally as well as physically, in the same interval of time as much as the man, or almost as much; yet nothing surprises one more than the number of middle-aged matrons who, mentally, ceased growing when they entered upon married life ! They have acquired a certain amount of knowledge and housewifely skill, founded on experience and practice, which they did not possess when they married, but practically their minds, intellects, interests and ideas are not more mature, no deeper, no wider than were those of the girl of 20 or thereabouts who blithely embarked upon a lifelong comradeship with the man she loved! Is it any wonder that In the course of years, with the difference between them ever widening and widening, they should drift apart? There is one universal truth which women are far too apt to forget or ignore (at any rate when young afterward, when they have realized the truth of this, it is in nine cases out of ten too late to be of any use!), but which is the very keynote of happiness in married life. It is that comradeship is the only foundation for a happy marriage; and how can two iecplo remain Colnrades the mind of one of whom remains stationary while that of the other evolves and develops through years of life, experience, thought and contact with other minds? A Wife's 13 at le. When a woman marries she undertakes certain duties and should fill tbem to the very best of her abilities. Marriage was never intended to be one-sided, though this fact seems oftentimes to be overlooked, but It takes two to make a contract. On her part she should try and spend her husband's funds to the very best advantage. Xever to get luto debt. To see that the home is always clean and well ordered. To make the servants do their duty to the man who pays them. To bring up the children properly. To keep them well fed, well clothed and above all healthy In body and mind. -ever to allow any waste in the housekeeping department. To see that all food is of good quality, well cooked and set before the family in the most appetizing form possible. Always to be clothed becomingly and according to her station. In fact, to be the real head of the home with wisdom far above rubies. Curing for all, advising and directly all. Xot to forget the poor dumb beasts, but to see that they also have their meat and drink and shelter. That the children uo not misuse them. Never to peruit any neglect, cruelty, waste or excess of cny kind. To think more of things than peo ple and to avoid gossip and criticism of her acquaintances. Fu?iIonabIe Eton Coat. The woman of fashion could not better start the new year than by addiug to her wardrobe one of these snmrt new Eton jackets. They are Jaunty to the highest degree, and look best developed In one of the smooth-faced cloths. A very light shade of blue Is used for this design, trimmed with bands of black moire and buttons covered with the same cloth. These bands are stitched upon the front and sleeves and form also the collar and cuffs. How to Keep Yonnjf. Wrinkles are the principal witnesses to age. A person may have hair nearly or inite white, but if the skin is fair and smooth they will look what they are, prematurely gray. But you do not hear of people being prematurely wrinkled, although many truly are, yet they are spoken of as looking old. Many young people have a disagreeable habit of frowning and scowling and as they grow older the creases formed will become fixed. Profound meditation, iitZi wrinkles, and mostly in the up

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per part of the face. Of course, we know that a face without any lines would be expressionless, but there is little danger of any effort on our part erasing too many enough will remain if we do all we can to obliterate them. The skin in youth is not only firm but elastic, and hence the momentary expressions, oven if frequently repeated, disappear; but in later years the elasticity is lost, and expressions oft repeated form permanent folds in the skin. , Heavy Linen Waist.

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Since It is the fashion to wear wash shirt-waists all winter, the shops are showing the daintiest imaginable designs in heavy linen, handsomely trimmed with embroidery. A trailing pattern Is worked uikhi this model, with the figures standing out boldly, while the yoke and sleeves are stitched with fancy braid and embroidered polka dots. Health and Beauty Hints. For tender eyes make an infusion of one handful of cornflowers in a pint of hot water. Let It stand one hour. Strain and use either tepid or cold. If you wish to do your hair very smartly, braid it and put It up coronet fashion. This is "the thing" for the fresh young face crowned by abundant locks. Don't cut the cuticle or any part of the flesh around the nails. Don't polish tbe nalis too highly; they should have only a natural gloss. Don't cut the nails in ioints, but carefully arch. Boiling vinegar as hot as can be borne to the gum and cavity of an aching tooth will allay the pain. Use a bit of absorbent cotton to pack the tooth cavity and apply until relief Is ob tained. Don't wash the hands oftener than necessary; dry them thoroughly after every washing. Don't wear gloves that are a size too small or that fasten too tightly. This prevents free circulation and makes the hands red. For Itching of the skin many skin doctors recommend lotions of bromide of potassium. The strength may be one part of the salt In sixty parts of water. It is not a poisonous preparation, and may be tried without fear. To Test "Wool anil Linea. It often happens that woolen goods will be doctored with cotton. To discover this there are several tests that can be made. One is tho match test. By applying a lighted match to a sample of the goods, tbe manner in which it burns will be evidence of its genuineness. Wool will burn slowly, while cotton will go like a train of gunpowder. Another test is to unravel the threads, and the cotton can then easily be detected. To the experienced buyer the "feel" of linen is a suifleient indication of the quality, but for those who lack this knowledge there is an old-fashioned test which our grandmothers used which Is unfailing to show if there is cotton in the wool. Dampen the finger and apply to the surface of the linen fabric. If the moisture is seen on the other side you may know at once it is linen. If it is slow in coming through, without doubt there is an admixture of cotton. Another method is to unravel the threads, as in the wool test What Hinders ProponaU. The timidity of a girl during a man's proposal is apt to discourage him, and in his flutter he is inclined to believe the maiden does not appreciate him as he wou d like. Especially so if the proposal Is a somewhat premature one, and he has not had ample opportunity of learning for himself the dictates of her heart. This has sometimes an unhappy effect, and the proposal may be withdrawn, conversation drifting into a differe"t channel. Undue embarrassment in a girl at so critical a moment also tends to flurry the lover, so that he experiences extreme difficulty in making a satisfactory proposal. A girl of this sort never assists the proposal, and all for the want of a little self-possession. A labored declaration Is sometimes delayed for a great length of time, to the displeasure of both. Mme. Duse has always had a strong aversion to being Interviewed. Lady Donoughmore, formerly Miss Grace of New York, is known as "the children's angel" In Ireland. Sarah Bernhardt has an almost superstitious affection for a necklace of gold nr.ggets given her by California miners. When Helen Gould Is sufficiently In-, terested to help any person or laatitu-

tion she personally visits that person

or institution. Miss Helen Keller's book is being translated into a dozen tongues, including Russian, Bohemian, Roumanian, Finnish, Swedish and Japanese. The late Mary A. Llvermore was once called "the Daniel Webster of American women," because of her ma jestic mien, solidity of character, Doric simplicity of thought and weight of utterance. Mrs. R. A. Howard, of Clear L.ake, Iowa, has lived in one house for fortyeight years. The staircase was made of black walnut cut from the virgin forest Her husband was killed in the Civil War. Doylns a Mattress. The housewife who starts out to buy mattresses will of course go to the most reliable place she knows, for no piece of house furnishing offers such temptations to unworthy dealers. Nothing is easier than to give a hair mattress a coating of superior hair while the Inside Is of the worst quality, knowing well that until the bed Is made over the fraud will not be discovered. Having found her honest maker, the buyer will then be confronted with the question as to what quality of hair she desires. The white, she will be assured, is the best (and most expensive), then comes the gray and then best black, and black. Now, as a matter of fact, the white hair is not the best for wear. It looks very attractive, but one does not gaze on the interior of one's mattresses. It is softer and "mats" much more quickly than does the black or even tho gray hair. While many of us have learned this fact from experience, we may not all know the reason for it, which is that the white hair is black hair bleached, and that the bleaching process tikes much of the spring out of the hair. The "best black" hair, which should mean all long mane and tail hair, will be found the most satisfactory in the long run. Have the mattress neither too heavy nor too light If the former, bedmaking becomes a burden. If the latter, the mattress will have to be made over very frequently. Harper's Razar. A ArlItlngr Dress. Princesse skirt extending to short bolero. Clusters of tucks extending well down to the knees. Mind How Yon LnuKli Isn't this a curious thing, that laughing may spoil your features? If you laugh with the sides of your face, the skin will work loose in time, and wrinkles will form in exact accordance with the kind of laugh you have. A person who is accustomed to suppressing his feelings generally has a deep line running from each side of his nose to the upper corner of his mouth, which, in tfme, extends to the chin, forming the shape of a half-moon. The scholar's wringle forms on his brow, while a schemer's wrinkles come around his eyes. The man who always wears a smirk will have a series of semicircular wrinkles covering his cheeks. Iteni'.Mly for Bedbugs. Take a cake of white soap or a piece of tallow and with a knife scrape as much as needed, then add an ounce of powdered corrosive sublimate, making a smooth paste. After washing the bedstead with cold salt water,, wipe dry and apply the paste to every crevice. This will not evaporate or soak into the wood as liquids do, but will prove a ready and deadly feast for all partakers. When Hanerlnsr Ont Clothe. When hanging clothes to dry remember that the thickest part of tbe garment must be hung higher, for were the thinnest part uppermost the water would run into the thick part and thus tho drying would be greatly prolonged. Next hang up everything Inside out for then any accidental soil Is likely to come on the Inside of the garment, where Its presence will generally not matter very much. Good Foot Preparation. Rathe the feet with this preparation night and morning: Glycerin, one ounce; perchloride of iron, three ounces; essence of bergamot, ten drops. Apply with brush and afterward dust with a powder made from two and a half grams of burnt alum, one and a quarter of salicylic acid, seven and a half of starch and twenty-five of violet talcum powder. EffK and Milk. This dish should be prepared as foV lows to avoid 8limlness: Heat the milk, separate the yolk and white of the egg. beat the former well and the latter to a stiff froth. Add sugar to the yolk, pour In the heated milk, stir In the white lightly and serve at once. This is the most digestible way In which an egg can be served. The new musketry regulations of the German army prescribe firing at human figure targets only, and these are to be colored gray. For kneeling and prone firing portable rests are used.

HOW SHE LEARNED.

Lesson Came Through the Leading Touch of m Little Child. "Margaret where have you learned the patience and the wisdom? Who taught you how to be a beautiful mother?" They were sitting side by side before a blazing fire the girl-mother and the girl who had not married renewing the comradeship of schooldays, with the added tenderness of a friendship that had been growing, in spite of separation, through a half-dozen years. "I have noticed it ever since I came," Mary Coman went on. "The way you manage Rrother-boy, especially. You are firm, and yet you are so fair with him. And you're different, dear. You're more loving and forgiving, more ready to see the other person's point of view." The young mother leaned forward, and taking the miniature of a little girl from the table, laid it in Mary Coman's hands. "She taught me all I have learned," she said, softly. "And she is teaching me every day. I love to feel that she is here yet, Mary. That is one reason we go on calling Philip 'Rrother-boy,' even since he is the only one we have left. I haven't talked about it with you, Mary, except in the letters, and there was one" thing that I never could write. 1 I wasn't patient and wise with Eleanor. No, don't say it, I wasn't. She was the first one, you know, and she seemed to be mine, as a matter of course. I simply required sweetnss and obedience from her without much thought about the model she saw in me, and jou know how my temper used to get the better of me sometimes, dear. "The very night before she was taken ill I was tired and nervous, and when she spilled a glass of milk all over my new gown, I lost control of myself completely. I think I gave her a little shake. I know I scalded like a cross child, not like a mother. Rut she stood and looked up at me with big, wondering eyes, and all she said when I stopped was, Is munner naughty now ?' "It wasn't saucy, she was just a baby! Rut she knew I was lehaving as she did when I called her naughty. "Then the next morning she was ill, and it was only one week, Mary. Such suffering all the time, and such patience and gentleness! She wanted to keep her little hand In mine, anil the last night, as I was sitting there, I told her how sorry I was that I hadn't always been good and sweet and asked her to forgive me for the times I had been cross. She was almost too weak to answer, but she patted my hand and whispered, El'nor knows. Munner was on'y tired!"' The mother's voice broke, and the only answer that came was a long pressure of the hand. Rut a sweet unconscious influence had widened by one more ripple. Another soul had felt the leading touch of that littla child. Youth's Companion. I THROUGH THE KAPIDS. Two young women, canoeing in the upper Gatiueau, Canada, encounter 3d a situation of extreme danger for which they were entirely unprepared. In the Cosmopolitan one of them tells the story: We were two in the canoe, and we had passed the rapids on our way up the week before, but did not recognize them, now that we approached from the opposite direction. Then we had "portaged" round them, carrying the canoe on our shoulders, over trunks of fallen trees and through the matted branches of the brushwood. We were going at a ten-mile-an-hour gait before I realized our position and that the time to land had passed. There was no turning back against a ten-mile current, no making for either side, where the broken ripples on the surface showed jagged rocks only a few inches below. Down the middle of the channel lay our only course. Quickly I changed places with my companion, crawling cautiously over the camping outfit stowed in the bottom, while she crept as carefully backward. In rapids the bowsman guides the canoe, and I was the more experienced. With all our strength in our paddles, we lifted the light bark canoe over the water, and Just as the farthest rock grated our side we swung into the channel and boiled down between the boulders, the current sweeping us on at a rate of fully fifteen miles an hour. Rut as we swung, my maple paddle snapped. It had caught in a fissure of the rock where I had jabbed it to keep from striking. In impotent despair I looked round at my companion. Until the present trip she had never been in a canoe, and her only knowledge in the management of one had been gained by my coaching and by less than two weeks of practice. Rut plainly the river and the forest were now in her veins, and the craft of the paddle had come by inspiration. The hesitation of the city-born was dispelled, and with skillful stroke, scarce noting my discomfiture, with eyes fixed on the winding channel ahead of us, she steered safe through the boiling waters of the second pitch. With a whirl of spray at the finish, we brought up in the eddy below, gasping from our effort, yet thrilling with the joy of iL There were three inches of water in the canoe when we reached the foot of the rapids, which had come in over the sides as we bowled through the last big pitch. The Ker to the Situation. Mark Twain has told many good stories of himself, and the circumstances make it likely that he was the original teller of th following. His sense of humor would give the Incident Its full value. While at his summer residence he prepared one evening to take a drive, and expecting to remain out late, told his hostler 'that he need not wait for him. He Instructed the man, however, when he had finished his work to lock the stable and place the key under a stone, the location of which Mr. Clemens described with much exactness. When the humorist reached home after his drive, he was surprised to find that the key was not in tho place selected. He was obliged to rouse the hostler, who explained, as, he started for the missing key, "Mr. Clemens, I found a better place to hide it" That'll Be All High I. "And after we're married, Charlie, shall we have an automobile?" "Yes, dear, if your father Is willing " "Why, of course, he'll be willing " "To buy It" Cleveland Leads

President Roosevelt's message toi Congress transmitting the annual reports of the Isthmian Canal Commission will be received with gratification throughout the country. It will da much to allay recently circulated stories as to the way in which the great work of canal construction is leing conducted. These stories, while frequently vague in detail?, have been sufficiently numerous to create an Impression. There have boon rumors of extravagant waste in salaries and the letting of contracts. Progress toward the actual construction of tne canal has been represented as slow and characterized by .inefficient management That the President finds it io;sible to deny these various charges sweepingly and unreservedly is highly reasurring. As to the charges of incompetency or extravagance, he says he has examined every one of them and found that in every instance they were "without foundation in any shape or form." On the contrary, he declares, the work on the isthmus "is being admirably done t-r.d great progress has been made during the nine months." Tho incohanic.il equipment necessary for the canal-digging operations is being rapidly installed. The work of sanitation is progressing well and an effective organisation of the administrative forces has been made. On the whole the President feels justified in saying that the canal will be dug in shorter time and at lower expense than had been anticipated. This highly optimistic report gives cause for increased confidence m the men in charge of the enterprise :md in their methods, though it would be a mistake to accept it as a reason for relaxing vigilance. The essential thin. now that a good ü-tart has been made, is that there be no remission of the watchfulness which Ins kept the work up to a high standard. A series of .? bills was turned out at the bureau of engraving and printing a few days ago. Why those "except ionally uniiue" bank and treasury notes were printed is not known, though about of them were run u" before it was discoveml that .such f. deviation from the regular denomination of the "long green" would cause much consternation. At the bureau, wnen the "error" was discovered, it was explained that an uninitiated ;ni!ye, presumably one of the helpers, mislaid a stack of partly printed 1 bills on a similarly treated stack of tho .." denomination. When the $0 printers ot to work they, it is said, picked up the stack of partly printed 1 bills and run them through the !?."" dies. When th-y came out for inspection it v:is discovered that they were -. bilN. tlm stamp being on one side and tho $1 stamp on the other side." T1kv were expended in the lire-box of one of the big furnaces, but it required : affidavit from Director Meredith, the foreman of tho dieroom, and the superintendent of the paper room, to explain what disposition was made of $100 worth of $1 bills. Sentiment may lind special interest in tLe current report of the Postmaster General, for we are celebrating the two hundredth anniversary ot the birth of Franklin, who was Deputy Postmaster General of the I'.ritisli colonies in America. At the time of Franklin's death, 170O, there were seventy-five postollices in this country. To-day there are sixty-eight thousand. Then the receipts wore less than forty thousand dollars. Last year they wcro a hundred and fifty million. The number of people employed by the postoffice department is nearly three hundred thousand equal to the working population of a great city and the number of employes and of all agents and means for distributing mail mounts faster in proportion than the receipts. The Postmaster General touches on many sugsesded improvements, such as the reduction of certain rates of postage, the parcels post and postal savings depositories, but he recommends that attention be paid not SO much to possible additions to tho service as to the improvement of tho kinds of service already established, The annual report of Commit sloner of Corporations James R. Garfield emphasizes the administration's position, namely, that the great interstate cor-' porations have gone beyond tho possibility of proper control by State authorities, and says that Congress should so legislate as to afford an opportunity to present to the Supreme Court the question whether insurance, is interstate commerce. He tells of extensive inquiries that hive boon made into the beef, oil and steel industries, and promises a special report soon on oil. The isthmian canal commission met at Washington and requested Chief Engineer Stevens to furnish a working plan for the excavation and disposal of materials for a canal on an 85foot level above low tide. This indicated that the commission had decided in favor of a lock canal, with threo locks on eicn side of the divide. It was also decided to experiment with laborers from the north of Spain. When Congress reassembled after the holidays Chairman Hepburn of the House Committee cn Interstate and Foreign Commerce introduced his railroad rate regulation bill, which is understood to represent the views of the administration and to be used as the basis of the measure which the House commission the right to establish a maximum rate within thirty days without interruption from court appeals pending the decision of the courts on the appeals. Miss Alice Roosevelt will be the sixth of the White House brides. Her predecessors were Miss Maria Monroe, Miss Elizabeth Tyler, Miss Nellie Grant, a niece of Presideutllayes, and Miss Frances Folsom. Mr. Cleveland is the only President married in the executive mansion. The Nelson statue in Trafalgar Square, London, is already decaying. It Is found that the only stone that resists the foggy atmosphere in .London Is Portland limestone, of which St. Paul's Cathedral is built.