Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1906 — Page 3

HABITS OF SQUIRRELS.

IIIM11 1114 III ! GRAND DUKE WHO CAN SEW.

I For The Term of His Natural Life j t By MARCUS CLiRKB

CIIAPTEU XXVIII. Rufus Dawes sat in a new cell. Oa the third day North came. His manner was constrained and abrupt. His eyes wandered uneasily, and he seemed burdened with thoughts which he dared not utter. "I want you to thank her for nie,Mr. North," said Dawes. 'Thank whom?" "Mrs. Frere." The unhappy priest shuddered at hearIn? the name. 'I do not think you owe any thanks to hr. Your irons were removed by the commandant's order." "Bat by her persuasion. I feel sure of it. Ah, I was wrong to think she had forgotten me. Ask her for her forgiveness. "Forgiveness'." said North, rrgalling the scene in the prison. "What have jou done to need her forgiveness?' "I doubted her," said Kafus Dawes. "I thought her ungrateful and treacherous. I thought she delivered me again Into the bondage from whence I had escaped. I thought she had betrayed me betrayed me to the villain whose base life I saved for her sweet sake." "What do you mean?" asked North. "You never spoke to me of this." "No, I had vowed to bury the knowledge of it in my own breast; it is too bitter to speak." "Saved his life!" "Ay, and hers. I made the boat that carried her to freedom. I held her in my arms, and took the bread from my own lips to feed her." "She cannot know this," said North, In an undertone. "She has forgotten it, lerhaps. for She was but a child. - But you will remind her, will you not? You will do me justice in her eyes before I die? You will get her forgiveness for ne?" North" could not explain w ly such an Interview as the, convict desired was imposible, and so he promised. "She is going away in the schooner," eaid he. "i will see her before she goes, nd tell her." "God bless you, sir!" said poor Dawes. "Now, pray with me;" t.d the wretched priest mechanically repealed one of the formulae his church proscribes. The days passed swiftly, and Blunt's preparations for sea were completed. On the morning of the 19th of December, he declared himself ready to set sail, and ia the afternoon. ! Ruf us Dawes, gazing from his window upon the schooner that lay outside the reef, thought nothing of the fact that after the commandant's boat had taken away the comraandant's wife, another boat should put off with the chaplain. The hot afternoon passed away in a sultry sunset, and it was not until the ahades of evening had begun to fall that Rafus Dawes distinguished a boat detach itself from the sides of the schooner and glide through the oily water to the jetty. The chaplain was returning, and in a few hours, perhaps, would' be with him, to bring him the message of comfort for which his soul thirsted. lie stretched out his unshackled limbs, and throwing himself upon his stretcher, fell to recalling the past his boat building, .t i 0 . . . me ni ws oi eis lortune, nis love ana his elf-sacrifice. . North, however, was not returning to bring to the prisontr a message of comfort, but he was returning on purpose to see him, nevertheless. The unhappy man, torn ly remors?, had resolved upon a course of action which seemed to him a penance for his crime of deceit. He had determined to confess to Dawes that the message he brought was wholly fictitious, that he himself loved the wife of the commandant. "I am no hypocrite," he thought, in his exaltation. "This poor wretch, who looks up to me as an angel, shall know me for my true sei:." He had Ingeniously extracted from Elont the fact that he "didn't expect a wind before dark, but wanted all shipshape and aboard," and then, just as darkness fell, discovered that it was imperative for him to go ashore. Blunt said if the chaplain insisted upon going, there was no help for it. "There'll be a breeze in less than two hours," said he. "You've plenty of time, but if you're not back before the first puff I'll sail without you, as sure as you're born."v North assured him of his punctuality. "Don't wait for me, captain, u 1 m noc nere,' srid he, with the lightness of tone which men use to mask aaxicty. So the boat set off. Frere observed with some astonishment that the chaplain wrapped himself ia a boat cloak that lay ia the stern sheets. "Does the fellow want to smother hitaself In a night like thU?" was the remark. The truth was that, though h's hands and head were burning. North's teeth chattered with coM. Perhaps this was jhe reason why, when landed md out of eye ehot of the crew, he produced a pocket flask of rum and eagerly drank. The spirit gave him courage for the ordeal to which he had condemned himself, and, with steadied step, he reached the door of the old prison. - To his surprise, 2imblett refused him admission. "But I have come direct from the commandant," said North. . "I can't let jou in, yoar reverence," said Gimblett "I want to see the prisoner Dawes. I have a special message for him. I have come aähore on purwse." "Upon my honor, sir, I daren't," aaid Gimblett, who was not without his good points. "You know what authority is, sir, as well as I do." North was ia despair, but a bright thought struck him a thought that in his sober moments would never have entered his head he would buy admission. He produced the rum flask from beneath the sheltering cloak. "Come, don't tark nonsense to me, Gimblett. You don't suppose I would come here without au thority. Here, take a pull at this, and let me through." Gimblett's features relaxed into a smile. "Well, air, I suppose it's all right. If you say so," said he. And, clutching the rum bottle with one hand, he ooened the door of Dawes cell with the other. North entered, and as th aoor closed behind him, the prisoner, who had been lying apparently asleep upon his bed. leaped up and made s though to catch him by the throat. North, paralyzed no less by the suddenness of the attack, than by the words with which it was accompanied, let fall his - cloak, and stood trembling before the prophetic accusation of the man whose curses he had come to earn. "I was dreaming, said Ruf us Dawes "A terrible dream! 3ut it has passed now. The message you have brought me a message, have you not? Why, what ails you? You are pale your knees tremble. Did my violence " North recovered himself with a great effort. "It is nothing. Let us talk, for my time Is short. You have thought me a good man one blessed of God, one consecrated to a holy service; a man honest, pure and truthful. I have returned to tell you the truth. I am none of these things." Rufns Dawes sa$ star insr. unable to comprehend this madness. "I told you that the woman you loved for you do love her sent you a mes sage of forgiveness. I lied. "What?" "I never told her of your confession. I never mentioned your name to her. "And she will go wlmout knowing--l r X- . u 1. ...... vti 1rn?" Vsn, vir. ui tu, v ii a l jvi "Wrecked my own soul!" cried North, wildly, stung by the reproachful agony of the tone. "Do not .cling to me. My task is dons. You will hate me now. That b DJ Ttiih I merit It. Let ffo,

I say. I shall be too. late." 'Too late! For what?" He looked at the cloak through the open window came the voices of the men in the boat the memory of the rose, of the scene in the prison, flashed across him, and he understood it all. "Great heaven, you would follow her?" "Let me go," repeated North, in a hoarse voice. Ruf us Dawes stepped between him and the door. "No, madman, I will not let you go." North crouched bewildered against the wall. "I say you shall not go. Yuu love her So do I; and my love is mightier than yours, for it shall save her!" North lifted agonized eyes. "But I love her! Love her, do you hear? What do you know of love?" "Love!" cried Rufus Dawes, his pale face radiant. "Love! Oh. it is you who do not know it! Love is the sacrifice of self, the death of all desire that is not for another's good. Love is godlike! Listen, I will tell you a story. North, inthralled by the other's overmastering will, fell back trembling. "What do you mean?" "I will tell you the secret tf my life, the reason why I am here. ome closer."

CHAPTER XXIX. The house of her husband was duly placed at the disposal of Mrs. Richard Devine. It only remained that the lady should bo formally recognized by Lady Devine. The rest of the ingenious program would follow as a matter of course. John Rex was well aware of the position which, in his assumed personality, he occupied in society. He knew that by the world of servants, of waiters, of those to whom servants and waiters could babble; 'of such turfites and men about town as had reason to inquire concerning Mr. Richard's domestic affairs, no opinion could be expressed, save that "Devine's married somebody, I hear." He knew well that the really great vorld, the society, whose scandal would have been socially injurious, had long ceased to trouble itself with Mr. Richard Devine's doings in any particular. If it had been reported that the Leviathan ol the Turf had married his washerwoman, society would only have intimated that "it was just what might have been expected of him." To sa; the truth, however, Mr. Richard had rather hoped that Lady Devine would have nothing more to do- with him, and that the ordeal of presenting "his wife would not be necessary. Lady Devine, however, had resolved on a different line of conduct. The Intelligence concerning Mr. Richard Devine's threatened proceedings nerved her to the confession of the dislike wMch had been long growing in her mini; aided the formation of those doubts, the shadows of which had now snd then cast themselves upon her belief ia the identity of the man who called himself htr son. "His conduct, is brutal," said she to her brother. "I cannot understand it." "It is more than brutal; it is unnatural," returned Francis Wade, and stole a look at her. "Moreover, he is married." "Married!" cried Lady Devine. "So he says," continued the other, pro. ducing a letter sent to him by Rex at Sarah's dictation. "He writes to me stating that his wife, whom he married last year abroad, has come to England,' aud wishes us to receive her." "I will not receive her!" cried Lady Devine, rising and pacing the room. "But that would be a declaration o! war," said poor Francis, twistin; ai Italian onyx which adorned his irresoi lute hand; "I would not advise that." It was with some trepidation that Mr Richard, sitting with his wife, awaited the arrival of his mother. He had been very nervous and unstrung tor some days past, and the prospect of the com ing interview was, for some reason he could not explain to himself, weighty with fears. "What does she want to coine alone for? And what can she have to say?" he asked himself. "She cannot suspect envthinjr after all these years, surely?" He endeavored to reason witb himself, but m'viin; the knock at the door which annutod the arrival of his pretended mother made his heart jump. "I feel deuced haky, Sarah, he said "You are quite jure that you are ready with your story?" ne rose with affected heartiness. "My dear mother,' allow me to present to vou " He paused, for there was that in Lady Devine's face which confirmed his worst fears. "I wish to speak to you alone," she said, ignoring with steady eyes the woman whom she had ostensibly come to see. John Rex hesitated, but Sarah saw the danger, and hastened to confront it "A wife should be a husband's best friend, madam. Your son married me of his own free will, and even his mother can have nothing to say to him which is not my duty and privilege to hear. I am not a girl, as you can see, and I can bear wnatever news you bring, Lady Devine bit her pale lips. Sh saw at once that the woman before her was not gently born, but she also felt that she was a woman of higher mental caLber than herself. Prepared as she was for the worst, this sudden and open declaration of hostilities frightened her, as Sarah had calculated. She began to realize that if she vas to prove herself equal to the task she had set herself, she must not waste her strength In skir mishlng. Steadily refusing to look at Richard's wife, she addressed herself to Richard. "My brother will be-here In half an hour," she said, as though the mention of his name would better her position in come way. "But I begged him to allow me to come first, in order that I might speak to you privately. (To be continued.) Knew the Price. They bad all been to church, and the young minister was coming home to dine with them. While at dinner they were discussing the new stained glass window a member had given. "It Is a most beautiful piece of work manshlp," said one, "and must , have cost a great deal of money." "Do you have any idea how much?" "I really do not," replied the minister, "but far Into the hundreds, I should Imagine." "No it didn't, either," said little Har old. "I know how much It was. It cost $14.10." "Why, Harold, how do you know anything about It?" "Because, mamma, it said at the bot torn of the window : 'Job 14-10.' " New York World. One on Him. Redd I understand it takes more to keep that automobile of yours than it originally cost Greene That's right ' "Well, I don't want anything that takes more money to keep than It does to get." "Why? You've got a wife, haven' you?" Yonkers Statesman. Cime Oat Ahead. "How did you come out on that do nation party your congregation were arranging to give you?" " 'Way ahead." "Is that so?" "Yes ; they decided, not to give if Houston Chronicle, -

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The Destiny of Woman. Th first requirement In the ideal of a woman is that she shall be a satisfied woman, and that she does not at all wish to be anything but a woman. The creed of pessimism and despair is, "It were better not to be!" yet I would give no more for, "I would greatly have preferred to be something else!" Woman should not be satisfied to accept herself at this valuation, though that doubtless, Is better th.a to revolt agalns her fate; but she should ap praise herself, feel the high dignity of her position, recognize the 'advantages of life under the special form In which she receives it, and which, in nobility. Is equal to that bestowed upon man. In a word, 'woman should lu.ve th? courage and pide bf her sex. We often nieet young ladles who would like to be boys. In speaking among themselves of certain others of their set they say: "There is a girl whj ought to have been a boy; she Is a boy lost!" There Is no harm in this. Inasmuch as It is no more than a Joke and a fashion of speaking. It amounts to saying that certain young girls have aptitudes which ordinarily are characteristic of young boys. But these have never prevented a woman from being truly and gracefully womanly. What we wish to Indicate and stig matize here Is silly scorn of that which we already possess; a refusal to put It Into operation, to employ it, and the thi'igerous illusion which lies In thiukIrg that we should have done greater work In this world, If God had wished to make us something other than that which he has desired. Pastor Wagner, In Harper's Bazaar. Should Wives Hare Secret f As husband and wife are one, they should have no secrets one from anoth er. A life can never rightly and safe ly do anything which she would not like her husband to know. She may forget to tell him a thing, or It may seein to her too trivial , to be worth

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1. Gray and white voile, with red canvas trimmings, edged with white 2. Russian blouse costume of white and embroidery. 3. Talc pink organdie, with lace-trimmed coat.

speaking of, but she should have nothing lu her life which Is Intentionally hidden from him. The only secrets which she may rightly keep from him are other ieoples, but of these she should hear as few as possible. , Confidences thrust upon her without her consent she Is not bound to respect, and she should le very careful to whom she gives her word not to repeat anything whleh jnay be told her. It is a safe plan wbi'i Ssked to keep a Beeret to say: "Don't tall me If you would mind my telling my husband," and if the friend who wojld confide In her is a man, she shotdd do so as a matter of duty. 1 1 ott to Launder Linen. Many women who never did a bit of washing before In their lives are thl3 summer doing up their embroidered table linens and even their fine lingerie shirtwaists, the beauty of which. If sent to the laundry, Is often ruined." The laundering of these fine pieces Is an art In Itself, but one that any woman can master If she sets her mind to It. Before putting the articles to be washed Into the water they should be first examined for any siots or fruit stains. Ordinary spots should first be dipped in warm water, then rubbed with a lit of castlle or other white soap until the mark disappears. If there are fruit stains on the linen boiling water iwured on them within twenty-four hours usually takes them out. If there are rust siots, a weak solution of oxalic acid will remove all trace of lt. Boiling water should then be used on the spot after the acid bath until all signs of, the yellowness It causes have entirely disappeared, for, If not thoroughly rinsed the acid wli'. eat the threads and In a short time the material will fall to pieces; llnlr IUI ho it i:(loet(e. The tendency to overdo a fashion was never better exemplified than in the nay girls are overdoing the wearing of ribbon bows on their hair. When the large bows of bright ribbon first appeared the effect was pretty, especially on very young girls. Soon, however, the bow grew to two, and now to tttfne, with n diminution In the width. cX Mq

ribbon. The consequence Is, In the case of a girl with a small head, you can't see any hair at all and the bows might as well be a ribbon cap. Another caution. If a girl wears these big bows let her be sure that the ribbon Is fresh and crisp. Nothing looks more hopelessly dowdy than a soiled or crumpled ribbon. Very particular girls press out their hair ribbons each time after wearing. A Becoming Necessity.

Fine figured lawn, batiste and silk are jsed for the fashioning of the comfortable matinees so necessary at this season, when little Jackets and sacques take the place of the lounging robes which are worn during, the winter months. White lawn Is used In making the sacque Illustrated. The front Is tucked to yoke depth and hangs straight to five Inches below, the waistline, being finished' with eyelet Insertion and a wide gathered ruffle of the lfir-ü. The back Is tucked and finished w'tn a belt which runs only to the under am seams. The full, flowing sleeves

GOWNS WORN BY FASHIONABLE WOMEN.

are finished around the hand with the Insertion and rutlle of lawn, and a rutlle edges the rolling collar. If desired, the tucks In front of the Jacket can be extended to the waistline and soft ribbon be used for the belt and tied In a bow In the front. The dressing sacque has become an important factor in a woman's wardrobe to-day, but It Is a garment so easily made by the amateur and so satisfactory, even in the least costly materials, that no woman need want for a goodly supply. Women and Checks. Thousands of girls are sent out Into the world with wbat is called finished educations, who cannot even give a proper receipt for money, to say nothing of drawing a promissory note, a draft or a bill, or understanding the significance and Importance of business contracts. Such a woman presented a check for payment to the paying teller of her bank. He passed It back to her with the request that she be kind enough to indorse It The lady wrote on the back of the check, "I have done business with this bank for many years and I believe it to be all right Mrs. James B. Brown." Card Index Iteeelpta. One of the national schools of domestic arts and sciences is engaged In showing housekeepers how a card Index system can be used In the home. One of the uses of the system Is substituting for the old scrap receipt book and the big cook book itself a lx of Index cards. One of the advantages of the card receipts Is claimed to be the ease with which the housewife may replace a torn receipt It is bringing to the kitchen and receipts the same system the husband uses In his office to discover his letters and filings. How to Shirr hy Machine. With shirring occupying ho Important a position as It does at present on dresses and blouses and clothes of every description, a way to do It by machine is worth knowing. Of course it will never take the place of hand work nothing could. But at least It is a fairly good substitute for many things. GlitHes so manyt of theai require

row after row of shirring) and even Jre?s yokes and cuffs are especially good done on the machine. It Is all a trick of the ten3ion. Looser ILe lower tension, leaving the uppei tight, and stitch your rows exactly as if you were doing plain stitching. Wner it is all stitched pull the loose thread! underneath, drawing the material ui until It Is as full as you want it. Then fasten both ends of yout threads, and your shirring is done, only about ten minutes having been needed Instead of an hour or two. Bui don't try it on delicate stuffs the stitching is sure to show.

Simple Hospitality. One reason why we fall to take all t! comfort and enjoyment we might Troni our friends and neighbors Is that we are ambitious to make our social entertainments too elaborate. They soos become a burden and an expense to ill but the very well-to-do. There Is good sense In having a little something tc cat when a few friends visit you In the evening. Nobody has satisfactorily explained why the act of eating together promotes good fellowship, but we all know that It does. To secure this result, however, It Is not In th lesst necessary that what Is eaten b rare or expensive. Crackers and cheesy provided they are ood and dalnt'.ly served, will do quite as well as patj de fois graj or broiled mushrooms. The main thing is that what Is eaten be rel Ishable. A chafing dish Is a great Invention for neighborly sociability. Th moment the little comp-xny Is gathered about the little dining room table Interest centers in the manipulations of thi fa:r hostess. That is one of the moments when a woman looks most engaging. And when the plates are filled with the toothsome morsels, the spirit of neighborly friendliness and good cheer is at high tide. A little money will go a long way In pleasant entertaining, if we are sensible enough lo trald, make it very simple, and let good feeling largely take the place of money in the ordering of our hospitality. -Watchman. lied Hair Is Fashionable. If any one is heard to make fun of red hair, that Is a proof that the speaker Is decidedly old-fashioned. The present generation loves the warm beauty of red hair and gives It Just adm.ratlon. What did the red-haired girl use to do years ago? Blush for her misfortune with unhappy self-consciousness. But these things are of the past ; the red head Is having now. Its g.'orlous day. and aided with the undulating Iron and the pompadour roll, Is displayed In all Its wonder of high light and warm shadow. The red-haired girl In evening dress, with an aigrette of Mack or a wreath of green, Is a beauty io be envled. To Make Toilet Soap. To make toilet soap, dissolve one box of concentrated lye in half a gallon of rain water. Melt five pounds of clean lard or tallow. When about milk warm pour your cold lye In very slowly and stir It rapidly, says Woman's Life. Add one ounce of oil of sassafras or any other perfume you fancy. Tour Into a box a foot square, cover air tight, ard let It remain three or four days, tren cut Into cakes and It is ready for tue as toilet soap. Candlesticks. Do not stand the candlesticks on the stove to melt the grease ofT, as people so often do, for an easier and hotter plan Is to fill the:u with boiling water. Don't allow It to stand any time, but pour It off and rub the candlestick well with a dry cloth. KnamcJed candlesticks, as well as those of plain metal, should be treated thus. Tri mm I nu Is Attr-irtlvr, A charming form of. trfuini )g, and one which should appeal to the economically minded wmtiiin, is the piping with bands of satin or velvet. This form of decoration costs much more In time and skill than it does in money. Only 210 newspapers .no printed In the wholt continent of Africa,

How Little Animals of Forest S ar

rive Winter. While certain members of the squlr rel tribe store their winter supply of food in hollow trees, I think most of them hide It on the ground, under old roots, brush pilas and even beneath heaps of dead leaves. Their tracks In the winter woods seem to bear this out While It may be that the frequency of this track Indicates a scarcity of food and the traveling about a desire to find a supply, I believe In the main 'that these outings of the squirrels have a definite destination, because when you see them skip across the snow, stop short and scratch a hole down to the ground, bringing up a supply of nuts of cones placed there in the month of plenty, you are apt to attribute their luck more to a good memory than to any haphazard speculation. Of the squirrel family the most prominent in winter are the blacks. He seems to be flowing over all the time with pent-up energy, which keeps him in constant motion, and you sometimes feel that you would like him to be able to talk and tell you how pleasant It Is to have the joy which flows from a glad h?art. Now watch him Jump from limb to limb, rush headlong down the trunk, a id course across the snow In long graceful bounds, with no apparent purpose but to exhibit the happiness within him. Ills red cousin once In a while may be seen at the entrance of his home In the heights of some tree, but In him no sign of exultation. He looks around for spring to come and claar away the snow, and no amount of coaxing will cause him to utter a note of scolding or alarm. Not all the red squirrels, however, keeps to the trees. Many of them, through want of food, have to take to the earth, and their track In the deep snow Is a heavy floundering of labored bounds as they go from tree to tree in search of the scanty provisions hidden beneath the surface. Here and there we find the gummy scales of .the pine cones, the shells of the acorn, the seed cones of the birch and cedar scattered about on the snow, showing the food on which' they subsist In greater contrast to the delicacies Just named, often one will find during long and severe winters that the squirrels have attacked the hemlock trees by stripping them of their bitter Feeds. When one finds this It Is evidence of great want and a merciful act would be to bring 'some food and scatter It about to as suage the pangs of hunger which these little fellows are enduring. Recreation. WHEELING THE BABY. Opinions of a Yoang Lawyer Whs Trundled a Perambulator. A certain young lawyer, whose busN uess connections bring him much in totich with some corporation Interests, has not had his head swelled by his rapid rise In the last few years, and has tetoed some of his wife's ambitions to (limb the social ladder. He has s baby daughter to whom he U very much devoted and occasionally, on a Sunday afternoon, will take the youngster for an airing In her perambulator. A few Sundays ago the lawyer and his wife were out with the baby car riage when they met the head of one of the big concerns for which the law yer holds a retainer walking with a friend. 'I never was so mortified In my life!" exclaimed the wife, after the magnat had passed. "You must not wheel the baby car riage In public again!" "Nonsense," replied the husband. Uli further remarks were interrupted by his brother, who had been hurrying tc overtake him. "I heard a compliment to you Jusl now, Jim," said the brother. "You know Steele, the traction man?". "Just met him," said the lawyer. "So did I," said his brother. "lit was talking with his friend about you I heard him say, 'A very promising young lawyer must be a decent sorl of chap, too. He's making a lot ol money, but he Isn't too proud to push li!s own baby carriage. I'll have tc keep an ye on blm Pretty good, wasn't it?"The lawyer's wife hasn't had anything tc say about the family dlgn'.rj since- the incident New York Globe. The Hotel de Crlllon. No seignorial residence in Paris car rival the Hotel de Crillon, belonging t the ducal family of Crlllon-Polignac, lr the magnificence of Its exterior. One may say that Its location Is unique in the world. From "Its wid balcony, arranged as a terrace, and between the tall Corinthian columns ol the facade, one sees the whole of the Place de la Concorde, formerly th riace Louis XV., the largest square ol Paris, with its solemn lines of arrange ment, Its vistas broken by the nobl river which curves between two lines ol Ioplars, whence emerge the roofs ol the last palaces along the Qual d'Or say; then, farther off, the slender and lace-like spire of the Salnte Chapell and the violet towers, of Notre Dame. To the left there is a sea of verdure enameled with white statues the old royal park of the Tullerles. In front Is the heavy mass of the Palais Legislatlf, with its Greek front; then the old Hotel de Bourbon-Lassay, where the president of the Chamber of Deputlei resides, and beyond the Ministry ol Foreign Affairs, where the government of the republic lodges the sovereign! who come to visit Paris. Finally, to the right are the Champs Elysees, thai magnificent avenue which rises like an apotheosis to the Arch of Triumph--which is announced, moreover, directly In front of our building by the colossal groups from the hand of Coustou, which were brought from the Chateau de Marly at the time of the Itevolu tlon. Century. Her Dilemma. Young Matron Why so pensive, dear? Angelina I'm desperate! Will adores me In pale pink, while Max says I'm an angel in blue. I can't have but one gown, so you see my whole future depends on the color I select It Is sending rae crazy. London Tit-Bits. Last Chance, Maybe. "And why," asked the geren one, "do nil the friends of the author go to see the play on the first night?" "Because," answered the wise one, "they want to make sure of &-eing the play." Cleveland Leader. Making It Modest. Mrs. McSmlth The material for my new bathing suit will cost $3 a yard. Mr. ,McSmlth Well, take this quarter and buy more of It than you jlld last year. Cleveland Leader. Good Advice. If the average woman would spend 53 much time and thought In the selection of a husband as she does In selecting her trousseau there wouldn't be io many ClTorces. Judge,

A LITTLE LESSON IN ADVERSITY.

411 1 11 1 II I I l l l l l it 1 Probably no one who has enjoyed constant good health has a realization of the nature of constant 111 health as a handicap in the race for pre-eminence. It seems most strange that a man who accomplished for science the great work that did Charles Darwin should have been forced to overcome illness as did he. At the very outset of 1 h!s career be became almost an InCHARLES DARWIX. valid. No more patient-minded seeker for the truth of things ever lived than Darwin. Even those most at variance with the opinions set forth by him admired the man Intensely because of this determined power of Investigation for the right The mass of evidence that he gathered concerning the process of "natural selection," by which the evolution of higher from lower forms of life Is brought about Is proof sufficient of the prodigious amount of labor that he expended on his work. Darwin was always a most tireless worker. Another disadvantage, one less palpable, yet to one of his ialnd hardly the less deterrent, was that of the unbelief of even the scholars and scientists of his own time about the evidence he had gathered and the deductions he had made therefrom. There were some, however, who came to his assistance, financially and sympathetically. Their support meant much to the scientist at the time when It was proffered, but ihe hardest battles had long been over when he was able to announce his results. He had accomplished what he had sought to accomplish through his own work, and his ab-' solute determination to win. I EABNI1IG JUS COEtl DODGERS. The sturdy constitution that Abraham Lincoln inherited from five generations of pioneers was hardened by the toll and exposure to which, even more than most backwoods boys, says the author of "Lincoln, Master of Men," he was subjected from early childhood. '"Abraham, though very young, was large of his age, and had an ax put into his hands at once," wrote a neighbor, "and from that until his twenty-third year he was almost constantly handling the ax, though less, o? course, In plowing and harvesting seasons." The fifteen years of labor thus sum marily dlsposed-of constituted, for the most part, the physical discipline of Lincoln's life. How severe this was may be Inferred from the mere mention of what was required of him. As he became strong enough he cleared openings In the forest cut timber, rpllt rails, chopped wood, guided . .he cumbrous shovel-plow, hoed corn' and pulled fodder. When the grain wa ripe 'be harvested it with a sickle, '.nresbed It with a flail, cleaned It wjth a sheet and took it to the mill, wh ;re it was laboriously ground Into unbolted flour with equally primitive contrivances. Together with these "tasks of seedtime and harvest, be fetched and carried, carpentered and tinkered, In short earned his supper of corn dodgers and his shake-down of leaves In the loft many times over. Nevertheless, when the home work was done, Thomas Lincoln, who, whatever may have been his faults, cannot Justly be accused of erring on the side of Indulgence, hired him out as a day laborer among the neighbors.They, of course, did not spare the boy any more than'did his father. No chore was deemed too mean, no job too great for this good-natured young fellow, so that, all in all, heavy drafts must have been made tijon him. He met ihem, despite his dislike for manual labor, on demand, checking out fredy of his strength, while unconsciously acquiring, by way of exchange, more than the equivalent In virile selfreliance; and the perfect command over bis resources, In any emergency, that later became characteristic of him, should in large measure be credited to this pioneer accounting. In fact, of Lincoln maybe said what Fuller quaintly said of Drake, the "pains and patience in his ycuth knit the joints of his soul." For Fathers and Mothers. ' Miss Jane Addams of Hull Ilousa doesn't have spasms at the sight of a wife and mother as breadwinner, while father, "he sits round all day." She says : "Fathers have a function outside the supporting of the family. , I have in mind a case where the mother earned the living. The family got along pretty well, so long as the father stayed at home. He held the family together and controlled the boys. After the mother was all worn out, as she expressed It and sent him away she lost control. The children became unruly, and they did not get along as they had done with the father there. I do not know why we have the Idea that moral training Is exclusively the care of the mother. Perhaps it Is because we are in the habit of Judging the father only on his capacity of earning and the mother rn her capacity for holding the family together. It Is a mistake. We should not lose sight of the fact that it Is a partnership relation. It takes both to hold the family together." Trying- to Prove an Alibi. "Emerson," said the Boston mother sternly, "you've been In the pantry; I found your school looks there." "Mattr," replied the wise boy, "I'm surprised at your lack of acumen. You have frequently observed that I get as far away from my books as possibl? during recreation hours. Ergo, if my l.oks were In the pantry I must have been elsewhere." Philadelphia Press. Six Meal a Day, Germans eat six meals a day breakfast "second" and "third"' breakfast dinner (after which the men take their noonday nap), "vesper" and an early supper, often followed on their return home by a liter 'and more substantial meal. Hatred of the riyh Is not modern. Bemember the Bible story about Dives and Lazarus, and how the rich man was punished? However menial your work. If you do It well, It Is difficult to find a person who can take your place,

Men Who Are Sklllfal In Use of Thread and Xeedle. A flippant young man who was asked, by an inquirer into truth whether bis sex indulged in sewing answered that he hed only heard of their prowess in that way In connection with wild oats. But he was wrong, says the London Mall. Many men sew with the domestic needle and thread and sew well, too. It is u curious and undoubtedly ascertained ract that when men do embrace occupations In which women are suppos! exclusively to shine they excel iu them. Take, for instance, the man cook, whose skill in culinary matters is usually emphatic; consider th man nurse, whose gentleness and resource excel even the vaunted qualities of women In that direction: take the masculine designer of woman's dress, to whom no woman can hold a candle. Bun through the various arts and crafts which are deemed distinctly feminine and the same rule will be found to obtain. Sailors are clever wielders of the needle, and the Hungarian shepherds, while they tend their flocks, are skillful embroiders upon unbleached calico with red and blue Ingrained cotton. Many Scotsmen are capable knitters, and that there Is a distinct vogue among Englishmen at this present time for fancy needlework the authorities at the Boyal School of Art Needlework la South Kensington are ready to declare. For there they certainly sell work that Is already designed and begun to maio customers, and they have also had a man pupil In the school. In royal circles the Grand Duke of Hesse Is well known as a most sklllfal embroiderer. His grand ducal highness Is a good shot, but the pleasures of tho chase are less alluring to him than tna pursuit of music, of. which he is a devotee, and that of the needle. It often happens that when he has an Interesting piece of work on hand he will remain In his room at his . tapestry frame hard at work by the hour. A favorite time with him for his embroidery Is the early morning, and when he is engrossed in this pursuit he will even begin work before he dresses. Men embroiderers do iot play at work ; they do not hem a piece la hand as women who are not devoted to the craft do, with which they can dally iv hen the fancy seizes them, ad over which they can gossip In the drawing room after dinner anT before bridge begins. Victor Bowring-Hanbury, wha recently married Mrs. Hanbury, the widow f the minister of agriculture, and took her name In addition to his own, Is a most famous example cf tha exquisite skill men may attain In the gentle craft Before he was married Mr. BowrinIlanbury made beautiful embroidered cushion covers for his mother's draT-Ing-room.

Tobacco was legal tender in the American States when they were still colonies of Great Britain. Quails are becoming so scarce that both France and Germany have absolutely prohibited their killing. It has been figured out that the British Empire Is sixteen times larger than all the French dominion, and forty times greater , than the German Empire. In lo02, the first proposal to banish music from church services was made by the Council of Trent, on the grounds that the style of music had become too frivolous. The Vatican was the roughly cleaned lately and a quantity of repainting done. The work employed 5.700 peopi for six months. Merely in cleaning wall papers, 1,000 loaves of bread were uhI dally. The sea has no herbiforous inhabitants. Its population live on each otuvr, and the whole cf this Immense expanse cf water is one great slaughter house, where the strong for ever prey on the weak. Our game of golf, or gofT, as It was formerly called, was a popular sport in England and Scotland about the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was played by the -nobility, and was the favorite pastime of Prince Henry, son of James I. Golf sticks were then called "bauds," aud galf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers. The principle of the game was practically the same then ns it Is now. Recent studies of the skulls of the morvsaurus, the diplodocus and other species of the .extinct gigantic animals called tbe'sauropoda, have brought out the fact that In several of thoe creatures, although perhaps not In all species, there existed on the top of the skull a well defined tubular opening, smoothly lined with bone, and leading dlrctly down Into the cerebral cavity. Professoc Osborne regards It as probable that In this opening was lodged a large pineal, that is, cone shaped, eye, an organ the existence of which was left problematical by the researciies of the late Professor Marsh. In a recently restored skull of the moroaaurus the orbits are of enormous size. An Algerian farmer defied the police and barricaded his farmyard. Several rifle volleys were fired at his place In the hope of terrifying him. As this apparently had no effect, a three-Inch quick-firing field gun and melinite shell were brought Into use. In all eighteen bombs were fired. The flrt two flew wide, but the other sixteen reduced ail the farm buildings to heaps of rubbish, under which, when search was node, the farmer's body was found. He had evidently been killed by a rifle bullet on the preceding day, so that all the terrors of artillery and melinite had been wasted on a corpse. It is per-v haps the first time that the police liave tried heavy artillery on one lone man. A Judn-e's Advice. Recently a retired English judge was risked wbat was the most prominent conviction that remained with hiai after his long judicial experience, and he is said to have replied, "That every means should be tried for the settlement of a dispute before it be taken to the law courts." Explained. Nagsby You're naturally pessimistic. I don't think I ever saw you look cheerful. Carsby Ah, that's easily explained. Nagsby How so? Carsby Vou didn't know me before I was married. Illustrated Bits. Rejected. She Why, you know she has money to burn! He Yes. But she doesn't consider me the kind of a match she would like to burn It Yonkers Statesman ,