Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 March 1906 — Page 3

I For the Term of By MARCUS CHAPTER V. In the prison of the 'tween-decks reigned a darkness pregnant with murmur?. The sentry at the entrance to the hatchway was supposed to "prevent the prisoners from making a noise," but Che put a Tery liberal interpretation upon the clause, and so Ions the the prisoners refrained from shouting, yelling and fighting he did not disturb them. To one coming in from the upper air, the place would hare seemed in pitchy darkness; but the convict eye, accustomed to the sinister twilight, was enabled to discern surrounding objects with tolerable distinctness. The prison was about fifty feet long and fifty feet wide, and ran the full height of the 'tween-decks. The barricade was loopholed here and there, and the planks were in some places wide enough to admit a musket barrel. On th3 aft side, next the soldiers berths, was n trap door, like the stoke-hole of a furnace. At first sifjht this appeared to be contrived for the humane purpose of ventilation, but a second glance dispelled this weak conclusion. The opening was just large enough to admit th muzzle of a small howitzer, secured on the deck below. In case of a mutiny, the soldtere couM sweep the prison from end to end with grapesliot. Such fresh air as there was, filtered through the loopholes, and came, in somewhat larger quantity, through a wind-sail passed iry to the prison from the hatchway. But the wind-sail being necessarily at one end only of the place, the air it brought was pretty well absorbed by the twenty or thirty lucky fellows near it, and the other hundred and fifty did not come so well off .The scuttles were open, but as the row of bunks had been built against them, the air they brought was' the peculiar property of such men as occupied the berths into which tbey penetrated. These ' berth were twentyMght in number, each containing six men. They ran in a double tier round three sides of the prison, twenty at each side, and eight aöxed to that portion of the forward barricade opposite the door. Each berth was presumed to be five feet ix inches square, but the necessities of stowage had deprived them of six inches, and even under that pressure twelve men wtre compelled to sleep on deck. . When Frere had come down, an hoar before, the prisoners were all snngly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their .old positions, to all appearances sound ;asleep. Groups of men. in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting or pacing op and down. Old men, young men and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area sneaks. The forger occupied the same berth with the body snatcher. The man of education .learned strange secrets of house breakers craft, and the vulgar ruffian took lessons of self-control from the keener intellect of the professional swindler. The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. (The smuggler's stories of lucky adventuresand successful runs were capped by the footpad's reminiscences of foggy nights and stolen watches. The poacher, grimly thinking of his sick wifa and orphaned children, would start as the night-house ruffian clapped him on the shoulder and bid him to take good heart and "be a man-". The shop boy, whose love of fine company and high living had brought him to this, pass, had shaken off the first shame that was on him, and listened eagerly to the narratives of successful vice that fell so glibly from j 4V. Iin. . rt lila . 1 . 1 o ! rr m r ' nmna T r be transported seemed no such uncommon fate. The old fellows laughed, and .wagged their gray hads with all the glee of past experience, and listening youth longed for the time when it might do likewise. Society was the common foe, and magistrates, jailers and parsons were the natural prey of all noteworthy mankind. Only fools were honest, only cowards kissed the rod, and failed to meditate revenge on that world of respectability which had wronged them. Each newcomer was ore more recruit to the ranks of ruffianism, and not a man penned in that reeking den of infamy but 'became a sworn hater of law, . order and "freemen." What he might have been before mattered not- He was now a prisoner, and be lost his self-respect, and became what his jaiters took him to be a wild beast to be leaked under bolts and bars, lest be sl.ould break out and tear them. The conversation ran upon the sudden departure of the four. What could they want with them at that hour? "I tell yon there's something up on deck,' says one to the grou pnearest him. "Don't yoa hear all that rumbling and rolling?" "What did they lower boats for? I heard the dip o the oars.' "Ain't a cove to get no sleep?" cried a grufT voice. "My blood, if I have to turn out. I'll knock some of your empty heads together." It seemed that the speaker was a man ct mark, for the noise ceased instantly. "Wot's the matter?" roared the silencer of the riot, jumping from his berth and scattering the Cror f.nd his companions right and left. Just then there came a groan from the man in the opposite bunk. "Well, I'm blessed!" said the giant. "Ilere's a pretty go! All the blessed chickens ha got the croup! Sentry, here's a man sick." But the prudent sentry answered never a word, until the ship's bell warned him of the approach of the relief guard; and then honest old Pine, coming with anxioi's face to inquire .after his charge, received the intelligence that, there was another prisoner sick. He had the door unlocked and the man outside in an instant. One look at the flushed, anxious face was enough. "Who's that moaning in there?", he asked. It was the man who had tried to call for the sentry an hour back, and Tine had him out also, convict ism beginning to wonder a little. "Take 'em both aft to the hospital." he said; "and, Jenkins, if there are any more men taken sick, let thecti pass the word for me at once. I shall be on deck." The guards stared in aeh other's faces with some alarm, but said nothing, thinking more of the burning ship, which now flamed furiously across the placid watex, than of peril nearer home; but as Tine went up the hatchway he met Blunt. "We've got the fever aboard! Head like a fire-ball, and tongue like a strip of leather. Don't I know it?" and Pine grinned, mournfully. "I've got him moved into the hospital. Hospital! As dark as a wolfs mouth. I've seen dogkennels I liked better." Blunt nodded toward the volume of lurid smoke that rolled up out of the glow. "Suppose there is a shipload there? I car? t refuse to take 'em In." "No," says Pine, gloomily. "I suppose yoa can't. If they come, I must stowem somewhere. We'll have to run for the Cape, with the first breeze, if they do come; that is all I can see for It" And he turned away to watch the burning vessel. : In the meanwhile the two boats made straight for the red column that uprose like a gigantic torch over the silent sea. The pull was a hng and a weary one. Once fahJy away from the protecting Cdes of tie vesser that had bora them Cu3 far on tfcei diaaal Jouraeyt tie

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CLARKE adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere. The immensity of the ocean over which they slowly moved revealed itself for the first time. The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violet mist of lower ether. The heavens were emptied of sound, and each dip of the oars was re-echoed in space by a succession of subtle harmonies. As the blades struck the dark water, it flashed fire, and the tracks, of the boats resembled two sea snakes writhing with silent undulations through a lake of quicksilver. At last the foremost boat came to a sudden pause. Best gave a cheery shout rnd passed her, steering straight iuto the broad track of crimson that already reeked on the sea ahead. "What is it?" he cried. But he heard only a smothered growl from Frere. It was. in fact, notlunsr of consequence only a prisoner "giving in." "What's the matter with you?" says Frere. "Oh. you, is it? Dawes! Of course. Dawes. I never expected anything better from such a skulking hound. Come, this sort of nonsense won't do with me. It isn't as nice ns lollopin;; about the hatchways. I dare say, but you'll have to go on. my fine fellow." "He seens sick," sir," said a compassionate bow. "Sick! Not he. Shamming. Come, give way, now! Put your backs into it!" And the convict having picked up his oar, the boat shot forward again. But, for all Mr. Frere's urging, he could not recover the way he had lost, and Best was the first to run in under the black clond that hung, over the crimsoned water. "Keep wide," h said. "If there are many fellows yet aboard, they'll swamp us; and I think there must be, as we hare i't met the boats," and then raising his vjice. as the exhausted crew lay on their oars, he hailed the burning ship. She was a huge, clumsily built vessel, with great breadth of beam, and a lofty deck. Strangely enough, though they had so lately seen the fire, she was already a wreck, and appeared to be completely deserted. The chief hold of the fire was amidships, and the lower deck was one mass of flame. The fire roared like a cataract, and huge volumes of flame-flecked smoke poured up out of the hold, and rolled away in a low-lying black cbud over the sea. As Frere's boat pulled slowly round her stern, he hailed the deck again and again. Still there was no answer: and though the flood of light that dyed the water blood-red struck out every rope and spar distinct and clear, his straining eyes could see no living soul aboard. As they came nearer, they could distinguish the gilded letters of her name. "What Is it, men?" cried Frere, his voice almost drowned amidst the roar of the flames. "Can you see?" Rufus Dawes, impelled, it would seem, by some strong impulse of curiosity, stood erect, and shaded his eyes with his hand. "The Hydaspes!" Frere gasped. The nydaspes! The ship In which his cousin Richard Devine had sailed! . The ship for which those in England might now look in vain! The Hydaspes, which Something he had heard during the speculations as to this missing cousin flashed across him, "Back water, men! Round with her! Pull for your lives. The nydaspes! I know her. She is bound for Calcutta, and she has five tons of powder aboard!" There was no need for more words. The single sentence explained the whole mystery of her desertion. The crew had taken to the boats on the first alarm. and had left their death-fraught vessel to her fate. They were miles off by this time, The boats tore through the water. Eager as the men had been to come, they were more eager to depart. For ten minutes or more not a word was spoken. With straining arms and laboring chests, the rowkers tugged at the oars, their eyes fixed on the lurid mass they were leaving. Frere and Best, with their faces turned back to the terror they fled from, "ged the men to greater efforts. Already the flames had lapped the flag: already the outlines of the stern-carvings were blurred by the fire. Another moment and all would be over. Ah! it had come at last! A uull rumbling sound; the burning ship parted asunder; a pillar of fire, flecked with black masses that were beams and planks, rose up out of the ocean; there was a terrific crash, as though sea and sky were coming together; and then a mighty mountain of water rose, advanced, caught, and passed them, and they were alone deafened, stun ned and breathless, in a sudden horror of thickest darkness, and a silence like that of the tomb. The splashing of the falling fragments awoke them from their stupor, and then the blue light of the Malabar struck out a bright pathway across the sea, and they knew that they i were sale. j On board the Malabar two men paced the deck waiting for the dawn. It came at last. The sky lightened, the mist melted away, and then a long, low, faroff streak of pale yellow light floated on the eastern horizon. By and by the water sparkled, and the sea changed color, turning from black to yellow, and from yellow to lucid green. The man at the mainmast hailed the deck. The boats were in sight, and as they came toward the ship, the bright water flashing from the laboring oars, a crowd of spectators hanging over the bulwarks cheered and waved their hats. "Not a soul!" cried Blunt. "No one but themselves. Well, I'm glad they're safe anyway." llie boats drew alongside, and in a few seconds Frere was upon deck. "No use," cried Frere, shivering. "We only just had time to get away. The nearest thing in Jhe world, sir. They must have taken to the boats." ."Then they can't be far off," cried Blunt, sweeping the horizon with his glass. "They must have pulled all the way, for there hasn't been enough wind to fill a hollow tooth with." "Perhaps they pulled in the wrong direction," said Frere. "They had a good four hours start of us, you know." Then Best came up and told the story to a crowd of eager listeners. The sailors having hoisted and secured the boats were hurried off to the forecastle, andthe four convicts were taken in charge and locked below again. "You had better go and turn in, Frere." said Pine, gruffly. "It's no use whistling for a wind here all day." Pine took a couple of turns up and down the deck, and then, catching B'unt's eye, stopped in front of Vickers. "You may think it a hard thing to s ay. Captain Vickers, but it's just as well if we don't find these poor fellows. We have quite enough on our hands as it is. The fever has broken out." Vickers raised his brows. He had no experience of such things; and though the Intelligence was startling, the crowded condition of the prison rendered it easy to be understood, and he apprehended no danger to himself. "It is only in the prison, as yet," says Pine, with a prim emphasis on the word; "but there is no saying how long It may stop there. I have got three men dwn as it is." "Well, sir, all authority in the matter is in your hands. Any suggestions you make I Till, of course, do my best to carry outr" "Thank ye. I must have more room in the hospital, to begin with. The soldltn most lid a little clos;r. And you

had bette keep your wife and the little girl as much on deck as possible.". Vickers turned pale at the mention of his child. "Do you think there is any danger?" "There isf of course, danger to all of us; but with care we may escape it. There's that maid, too. Tell her to keep to herself ä little more. She has a trick of roaming about the ship I don't like. Infection is easily spread, and children always sicken soouer than grown-up people." Blunt, hitherto silently listening, put in a word for the defense of the absent woman. "She is right enough. Tine," said he. "What's the matter with her?" "Yes, she's all right, I've no doubt. She's less likely to take It than any of us. You can see her vitality in her face as many lives as a cat. But she'd bring infection quicker. than anybody." "I'll I'll go at once," cried poor Vickers, turning round. (To ia continued.)

CHANCE FOR LION HUNTERS. Co a am Multiplying Too Rapidly la YelloTMtoue National Park. Mountain lions have Increased so rapidly in Yellowstone Park of late that they threaten the extinction of deer, elk and other wild animals that live In this great government game preserve. So numerous have the cougar become that the government, through President Roosevelt's recommendation, has given John and Homer Goff, celebrated guides and hunters at Meeker, Col., a contract to clear the lions out of Yellowstone Park. John GofT is the guide who won fame taking President Roosevelt on his successful cougar-hunting trip to Colorado. The work of hunting lions In Yellowstone Fark will, it la estimated, take several seasons, and In the meantime there is a demand for lion hunters in Colorado, Wyoming and other cattle states, where stockmen are sutferln great losses from those predatory animals. Cougars are said to be on the Increase in the Rocky Mountains. Owing to the enormous number of mountain lions hi Yellowstone Fark the government will not have to pay a large bounty to the GofT brothers. The hunters will receive a bounty of $T on each mountain lion they kill, in addition to a salary of $75 a month each for their work. Most of the work will e done between the spring and fall, for the winters are very severe In Yellowstone Fark, the climatic conditions being almost arctic, owing to the moisture generated by many geysers. The Goff brothers have the largest and finest pack of cougar hounds In tho world. For son reason the mountain lion" prefers the flesh of a colt to that of any other animal, and cougars have become the terror of horse raisers In the Rocky Mountain states. It Is estimated that as a result of the ravages of mountain lions in the last year not fifty colts are left alive on the ranges between Phoenix and Frescott San Francisco Bulletin. . t Working: a Dalkr Horse. A balky horse is hard enough to handle when driven by himself on the road, but is a decided nuisance when working with another horse. One of the best ways to handle such a horso in the latter case is to take a stout rope, If the horse works on the left, fasten one end to the left side of the hame ring, pass it around just, below the breeching, and hitch it to the riu; In the hame of the other horse on the inside. Draw up most of the slack, start the horses, and if the one horse goes along all right the other horse will follow as SJ:on as he discovers that if he does not he is likely to lose the hair on his hide. It Is always best, in the case of a balky horse, to use soie appliance rather than to attempt to coerce him openly.- If he does not think the driver has a hand in the urging he is much more likely to get a move on, and the more mysterious the source of the thing which moves him, the more quickly the balky habit will be broken. Quite the Contrary. Tess I certainly was surprised to hoar that Maud was married. Jess Yes, it was rather unexpected. Tess Her family's quite Incensed, I hear. They say her husband Is a man of absolutely no family. Jess That's all wrong. He was a TYidwcr with four children. Philadelphia Press. Kind to the DentUt. New Dentist (in Frozen Dog Will you take gas? -Bronco Bill Will it hurt much If I don't? Dentist It will. Bronco Bill Then, stranger, fer your sake I think I'd better take itLife. Rose of a Dorglar. In order that they might not be disturbed by early arriving employes, some burglars In Berlin put upon the doer of a store they were robbing a placard reading: "Closed on account of sudden death." The ruse was successful. Information Wanted. ' Skipper You want to send that case of freight to Baltimore? It'll cost you 8 cents a foot. Lady My! How many feet is from here to Baltimore? Philadelphia Press. A Vleflectlon Amplified. "All the world's a stage." quoted the melancholy man. "Yes," answered Storiningtou Barnes, "and the average lifetime isn't long enough to provide a good rehearsal, let alone a first-class performance."Washington Star. Profit and Los. "I'm afraid," said the doctor, "yoa did not profit by my advice." "Of course I didn't." growled the sick man. "That's where you come In, with your charge of $2 for giving IL" His Proposition. She I will become enjaged to yoa for two weeks. He Make it a week. I don't thin!: my money will last !onv'?r than that. Judge. Curdling- Aü'air. Mandy Yeou don't use those colored supplements around your milk bottles any more, do you. Cynthia? Cynthia Goodness, no! The news was so sensational It curdled the milk. Startling Rumor. "I hear," said the sarcastic friend, "that you are engaged." "Dear me!" exclaimed Miss ElderIeigh, excitedly. "Is it to any one I know?" Successful Marriages. Silllcus Do you believe that love is blind? Cynicus Yes, If the girl is rich. Philadelphia Record. One German wjman in ahnnt aver I twenty-toven works in a factory,

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Hasty Marriages. A popular picture represents a mudbespattered coachman sitting in the tap-room of an English inn, telling to a group of bis fellow servants the story of the eloping lovers who sit on the other sfde of the partition. The popularity of the picture doubtless represents the attitude of the general public toward the young man and the young woman who have determined to marry in spite of opposition. It Is the old story of all mankind loving a lover, and if any further evidence were needed it could be found in the prominence of news of elopements, and In the repressed editorial chuckle with which certain places are called the Gretna Greens of America. All this manifestation of sympathy may spring from a wholesome sentiment, but it is ill considered. The parents of these young people have clothed and fed and educated and cared for them, only to be made a. laughing stock when they seek to advise their son or their daughter in the most serious event of life. Tbe'r labors and their sacrifices are entitled to more consideration than this. Most of the hasty and clandestine marriages are performed by Justices of the peace or other civil servants; but not a few are solemnized by clergymen, who thereby sacrifice their own dignity and lower the standard Avhich the church ought everywhere to maintain. Is it any wonder that divorces are common when a youth who is earning hardly enough to support himself can find some one willing, without question, to marry him to a schoolgirl in short dresses? The young people themselves may not be deterred by any advice which could be offered, but If the Companion might be permitted to address a word to them it would be this: Consider first of all whether haste be necessary; whether anything will be lost by waiting. Then think a little of the father and mother who will have to nurse their wound In silence. la it worth the price ?-Youth's Companion. The latest offering of the ultra-smart tailors in the way of long coats. The design, which is built "of chestnut brown face cloth, is plaited both In the bodice and below the girdle of chiffon velvet, and Insertions of heavy lace are let In between the plaits front and back: A flat collar of the velvet vies vlth an embroidered vest in the beauty imparted to the coat. ' The sleeves are quite plain, but are stitched in odd effect, with narrow bands of soutache Uiiid and finished with a touch of the velvet at the wrist-bands. Advice to Girl. Do the little things, and then. If you have the time, dream of the great things. Be natural. " Remember there are others as lovely as you are. Have many friends. A chum usually Is disappointing and leaves a sore spot which might have been avoided. Be conservative. Your acquaintances do not want your confidences. At all times me womanly. A masculine girl does not retain admiration. Be careful not to grieve over the wickedness of others; watch yourself, "lest you grow a few sprigs of ungodliness." Be quick to believe good. Believe the good until the evil is evident. Be pleasant at all times. A smile does more good in this world than all the preachings. Think beautiful thoughts. "Beautiful thoughts are angels bright.' Remember that you are Judged by your actions. "Do noble things, don't dream them all day long.' Henry Labouchere's beautiful daughter, the Marchesa dl Rudlnl, will soon visit this country. As a girl she wat4 the toast of London. Miss Margaret Putnam, of Westfleld. Mass., .was the only woman who had the honor of passing the examination for admission to the bar of that State out of a mixed class of 23.". Mrs. Heyburn, wife of Senator Heyburn of Idaho, Is a portrait painter of ability. One of her works is the portrait of the late Thomas F. Bayard, which adorns the State house at Wilmington, Del. It is said that Princess Ena, who is betrothed to the king of Spain, writes dally to her ruler sweetheart on a picture post card la Spanish, and with similar regularity King Alfonso writes a few words in English upon a similar card to the princess. Mme. Pattl believes that the pleasures of the table are not for the singly. She follows a sovere regimen of

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BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE COSTUME.

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The accompanying picture shows the use of fur upon a magnificent empire coat of the very latest vogue, carried out in copper brown chiffons, velours, a color that is new, lovely and assured of a distinguished future. Garnished with ruffles, ns the picture reveals, here is another fashion that 190G holds In store for us, for flounces are to be our portion to a considerable extent; flounces of velvet of the most supple type, flounces of lace, flounces of taffetas, flounces of satin, flounces, too. of cLdh, Just sparingly full and permissible only when the cloth is pliant and graceful in texture. The fur used Is 6able; this Is perfection of beauty in its soft brown, coloring np the growing copper background and the buttons are great copper ones rimmed with green enamel, for a reason now to be explained. It Is simply this, that each flounce is piped with green satin, a subtle introduction of a little emphasis of color that throws Into relief the beautiful b:owns and brings Into harmony the coat and the millinery worn, for while that piece of headgear Is made of copper velvet, pinched up In the center like a man's Homburg hat, the feathers are green ones to be precise, a tint of olive, that is immensely effective with copper, and also immensely smart. Floating about the hat Is a pale brown net veil, and loosely knotted round the threat is a green taffeta cravat which has first of all been threaded through emerald and diamond slides and arranged round the throat like a stock beneath a little lace and cambric collar. Something uncommon, something bewltchlngly smart, characterizes this costume and its coloring.

plainly cooked meat and toast When she has to sing at night, she dines off beef, potatoes and baked apples In tlw afternoon, fasting after that until she has sung. . Health and Deantr Hints. Powdered rice applied on lint will stop a bleeding wound. Celery is good for nervousness, being considered a nerve stimulant . "Drink all the water you want between meals, but none with your food," is the latest cure for obesity. Grapes and raisins are nourishing ai.d fattening and apples eaten dally Insure clear, bright complexions. Rose water, eight ounces, and tincture of benzoin, two drams, make one of the best skin tonics and whlteners. The orange stick is the only nail cleaner necessary. The stick properly pointed will not injure the enamel or the cuticle, around the nail. Vaseline will darken and increase the growth of the eyelashes and eyebrows. It should be heated a little Did applied with a small camel's hair brush. The War To Entertain. How shall we entertain? asks a writer. Joyously! Pleasure is contagious. Remember, hostess, every house has its climate; some are in the torrid, some In lue temperate, some in the frigid rone. Remember, moreover, that you create the climate of your house. More important than the. style of your dress, the ordering of your banquet the setting of your table, is the mood in which the appointed hour of entertainment finds you. When the door bell peals to the ring of the first arrival put aside all thoughts of how you look, how your drawing room looks, how good, bad, or Indifferent the dinner may prove; banish every care, meet your guest with nothing on your mind save the anticipation of passing and helping him to pass a delightful hour. If you can do this the battle Is already half won. Fashion Notes. The shoulders of all new gowns are broad In effect. Neapolitan and milan straws are both In evidence. Italian braid, closer woven than the Japanese, is very smart Embroidered roses In pink, green and silver decorate a white tulle hat Japanese straw, something like the tea box coverings, is new and dashing. French buttons, with the tone of the cloth In their center, are beautiful and In the best of favor. To trim chiffon with cloth is a popular fad, and the contrast of the two materials Is certainly most effective. Little capcK reaching onjy to the elbow are likely to be good style for the spring costume that has a prlnceless skirt The new short chemise consists of a chemise ending exactly at the hips and is worn under the corset in place of a shirt. Very smart is a stiff hat with crown of red Japanese straw, brim of mixed red and white, and trimming of red wings. A very great use of ribbon Is made on evening gowns, on some falling in long pointed ends from the belt all around the skirt. Among the simple but attractive ! white silk muslins, one has around the bottom a ruffle of thin, glossy taffeta, four Inches wide, bavin a nar

row quarter-inch lace for edging on both aides. A novel celnture Is made of three soft strips of ribbon, blue green and lavender, twlstei together in a rainbow effect and fastened with a fancy buckle. To meet the new blouse demands there are collars of embroidery edged with lace, with a long strip down the front, that is tucked in at the waist. There Is variety of design for these. The tendency of evening dress is toward the lighter, almost Invisible fabrics, such as chiffon, meteor and chiffon cloth, made up first over chiffon as a lining, with the colored silk under that Circular skirts are here and they are here to stay, but more for house dresses than for street suits. When the circular skirt is used for a walking seit It is laid in panels, so as to keep It from sagging. The flash and sparkle of the empire are seen in ail the trimmings of all the suits and all the dresses and can be obtained by the use of silver or gold tissue, gilt buttons, tinsel braids and even yellow cloths. ' Smart Mid-Season Millinery. Cnt Flowers. The best time to cut flowers to keep well is In the early morning before the sun's rays have reached them. A knife or a pair of scissors should always be used to clip them off, as they should be cut smooth and clean from the stem, and never broken off. Flowers that are not fully developed will keep the longest, but they should reach their maturity of color and siz& before being cut Hint to Women. No woman Is so beaatiful as our halfsatisfied image of her, and I look forward to the day when some stage princess wiser than her sister shall win a matchless reputation for mysterious beauty by never allowing herself quite to be seen. To Darken a Iloom. Dark green glazed calico, if ;,t.ut slightly narrower and shorter than a bedroom window blind and pinned behind It, will darken the room, and cannot be seen from outside. Many people are unable to sleep well In a room with light blinds only. The Clothes Cloet. In a clothes closet place a lump of fresh charcoal, for it will prevent the unpleasant smell which clothes have when they have been stored away, and this specially applies to woolen goods. Old papers for sale at this office.

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Dorn a Llentenant-Colonel and Proud of It, but Could Not Drill. At an election before the nnion Dick Martin was opposed by Giles Eyre of Eyrecourt, a territorial magnate and thorough sportsman, renowned alike for his reckless extravagance and daredevil bravery, says Blackwood's Maga zine. He was, however, totally illiter ate, a circumstance less regarded then than at the present time. .The hustings in those days used to be erected in Eyre square, In Galway, sufficiently close to each other to enable the rival candidates for popular favor to exchange banter and other sallies of wit Advancing to the front of his booth with a folded paper In his hand Dick Martin exclaimed: . "I declare solemnly, before all here assembled, that I am willing this moment to retire from this contest and to allow Col. Eyre to return unopposed if he will only sign this declaration which I hold In my hand." This, however, it was not possible for Giles Eyre to do not from any dissent to the views set forth in the document in question, but because, as Dick Martin' was well aware, he was totally unable to write his own name. Lord Clanricarde was at that tiTUCColonel of the Galway militia, and Giles Eyre filled the post of LieutenantColonel. He had, however, not much more acquaintance with drill than he had with reading and writing. A general officer having on one occasion come down from Dublin on a tour of Inspection, Giles Eyre had to put the regiment through Its facings before him. In 5 minutes he had reduced the regiment to absolute chaos, no man knowing which was his front nor In which direction he was expected to advance. "Devil take you, sir T roared tb Inspecting officer, black with fury. Who made you a lieutenant-colonel?" "No one made me a lieutenant-colonel,' Giles Eyre returned, haughtily. "I should not allow myself to be made a lieutenant-colonel by any one. ' I was born so. Nor was this an Idle boast for children were frequently appointed to high military posts while still In their cra dles. A Xew Use for Squirrels. "One of the uses of education," said young Mr. Qulmby, when he settled down on his newly acquired farm to put his agricultural studies into prac tice, "is the ability to turn everything to account" Having delivered himself of that wisdom, he procured a board and painted a sign upon it and nailed it on one of his pear-trees, where all might read: "These trees and pears are infested with Sclurus Hudsonius. ' "The owner considers that this notice frees him from responsibility for the fate of any persons who disregard the warning." AH that year luclous pears hung unguarded from Mr. Qulmby's orchard boughs Sheldons, Bartletts' Clapp's Favorites, and otlasr choice varieties. Hungry boys stood Just outside the fence and eyed them, but none Intruded. - "What are 'skurrus hudsonnlcusses'?" they asked Mr. Quimby, fearfully. "Little red things that eat Into the pears and devour the seeds. They are fearfully destructive,' said lfr. Qulmby, in his most learned tone. "One cannot be eaten and live." ' Later, when the pears had all been picked and sold, one of the small boys mustered courage to put the question to the school teacher, who looked it op In the dictionary. "They are red squirrels," she anaöunced, authoritatively. ITelplnir Ulm Out. One of the many amusing stories told of old Squire Latham, a Plymouth County attorney of a quarter of a century ego, has found its way to the Boston Herald: For many years Squire Latham was a resident of Bridgewater, and it was while he was living there that the incident occurred which Is related below. It Illustrates his habitual coolness and whimsical temper. He was awakened one night by his wife, who told him she thought there were burglars' in the house. The squire put on his dressing gown and went downstairs. In the back hall he found a rough-looking man trying to open a door that led into the back yard. The burglar had unlocked the door, and was pulling it with all his might "It don't open that way, you idiot!" shouted the squire, taking In the man's predicament Instantly. "It slides ba;kJ" ' Why He Wanted Tench XXeat. Dr. L. L. Taylor, the Brooklyn clergyman whose sermons arb now transmitted to invalid and deaf parishioners by telephone, has an apt way of bringing out a point with an anecdote. The New York Tribune gives an example. At a men's meeting he said recently: "Fathers ought to consider their hlldren and look out for them more than they do. Men, do you always see to it that each little mouth gets all the steak It wants? Over in Brooklyn the other day a boy entered a butcher's and said, 'Gimme a pound o steak, rump or round, and let it be good and tough. The butcher was amused. He laughed. 'What do you want it tough for?' he asked. 'Cause, If It's tender,' said the boy, 'father eats It all up himself, but If It's tough us children gets a whack at It " Insurance Policies Aaralast War. There is not much tht a man can not insure against In Et gland. During the discussion over the future of Morocco in the early part of the controversy quite a few policies were written at Lloyds on the risk of there being a European war. Insurance of thU character, classed as "peace policies," was first taken for about 5 per cent ihat covering the Insured against a conflict occurring between any of the great nations of Europe within the ensuing year. Later when the Franco-German dispute grew more heated the rates advanced to 10H per cent Some business was done on that basis. Boston Herald. That Convenient Weakness. "Then you think the hlgh:salaried president of your Insurance company is a good man for the place?" "Sure. He's the best forgetter In the business." Cleveland Plain Dealer. It sometimes happens that deference Is shown a man not In recognition of his greatness, but because he will be cranky If it Isn't Ask any woman what kind of a time she had at a party and she will begin to tell what they had to eat It is noticeable that a man who is a good mimic Is usually a poor work er.

George Ade, the author, will shortly Co to Egypt feeling tLat he needs. tZZL further rest A New York paper conplalna thai the air in the Astor library is impura. It does not have reference to the literary atmosphere. The friends of Miss Mary JohnstcSr who have been alarmed at her lllnera, will be glad of the news that the you3 novelist seems to have and t hold fcer own. Vice President Brown, of the Ncvr York Central, is a great admirer of George Ade, and as he owns a new townon the Indiana Harbor Railroad in Indiana, he has decided to call ths town Ade. This Is no fable. Mrs. Nansen, the wife of th explorer. Is a s'nger of note. Her father wsa ' a well-known zoologist, her mother a sister of the Norwegian poet Wellliaven, and her brother, Ernest Sars, Ls a professor of history la the UuiventltT of Christiana. Tho authoress of the novel, "Lay Down Your Arms," received the Nc!xl peace1 prize on the ground that her story ' had great Influence with ti: Czar. Perhaps Togo had more-Iza-ence than the talented Baroness Vc3 Stttner though, if the truth wer known. Apropos of the popularity of Croci ett's latest novel, "The Cherry Elbband," bearing the imprint of A. ß. Barne & Co., In America, It may be cf Interest to hear that the author's first title for the book was, "Peden tha Prophet" which the English publisher adopted. But the American firm suggested "The Cherry Ribband," and th first name was immediately discards! for the new. . In connection with Myra Kelly "Little Citizens," two interesting facts Ixava been noted lately la the book shops. One Is that the book has been sei lie j better than ever, anä the other that It has been selling very largely to Jewa. Perhaps this latter fact may be attriiild In part to the present pereccutica of Russian Jews, since the children cf Russia are the children described the book little exiles being ma da lnt "little citizens." H. Rider Haggard was sent cut tj the British government to lnvestijta the workings and results of the experiment of the Salvation Array In th!j , country In establishing farm coTcr.lrv the object being o ascertain whether those results would Justify the goveromeut In undertaking similar experiments in trtnrferring to different pirta af tho British empire the congested population cf the cities of Great Rriiain. The report made and Issued ia a governmental "blue book" has been reproduced with government sanctica fca a volume published by Loners ' Green & Co- New York, with the t!tA The Poor and the Land." Conirel sloner Haggard was favorably lmprce ed with what he saw and learned znJ strongly recommended the adoptica cf a similar plan under the auspices cf British government The drawtaceea as well as the ueecsse arc pleJelj stated, and although these drawback fctve been serious, leaving a balacca on the wrong aide of the balance sheer, this Is shown to have been due to racial condition not likely to be repeated, for tome time at least and to tbs Inexperience Incident to the first years of all new experiments. Mr. IIasir3 says the charge that the tettleinecta are financially a failure Is totally inaccurate, and that the success other than financial which has been obtained was very cheaply bought The value of tha report has been already shown by arrangements entered !nto with tha C2 nadian and Australian governments fer the planting of tettleinents of the British poor on governn?ent lands In tbcej colonies. ' Didn't Sesm to Fit. The other day a. counsel, engaged la a case in which property of varices descriptions was Involved, mada & long and rabbling speech referring t each kind in tare. H'.s monotonous livery had tzzt nearly every one to sleep, whea La suddenly startled them all by abrrptl7 changing bis voice as he exclalmd to' the Judge: -My lord, I will not address myteif to the furniture." "Yon have bcVn doing that for torz time, I think. Mr. Wells." remarked the Judge, sweetly, amid universal tittering'. - Now, there was another Judge wht heard ttds anecdote, and thought cf storing it up for . some future occasion. At the court, n. afterward, bL opportunity seemed to have arrived." He was trying a case In which th circumstances were somewhat similar, but the property involved was lira stock. In due course one of the counsel said: "My lord, I will now address myself to the donkey." "You have been doing that for soma time," was . the prompt respentav whereupon a regular roar of laughter followed, which highly gratified tha Judge until Its true reason dawned ca him. London Tit Blts. Too CKmb. An Omaha mai who claims he caa live on 9 cents a day las received hundreds of letters from women who want to marry him. This seems t prove the statement that there are a great many women In this country who would be glad to marry If they could afford to support a busbaud. Many cf these women presumably earn almost enough to warrant them In securing one of these luxurlea, and a man who can be fed for C3 cents n week, or something like $2.X) a luontb, strongly appeals to them. At the same time a O-ccnt-a-day mm seems to be too much of a bargain t be really attractive to the careful pz ctaser. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Talks of Herself. Tess Miss Cadley boasts that tla never gossips. Jess Yes. Tess Yes, she seems to think the she's better than everybody else. Jes Yes, and that's why she docsat gossip. To gossip means to talk of ethers and their affairs. Philadelphia Press. ' The Anti-Cud Chewers Is a society which should be organised, to be eel) up of rople Mho will resolve agziei thinklnj up bitter things and cttrmlly chwin5 on theza, j