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A STORY OF CHAPTER V. (Continued.) The appalled Frances shrank back from between her brother and lover, as the whole truth glanced over her mind. "But the pickets the party at the Plains? added Dunwoodie, turning pale. VI passed them, too. in disguise. I made use of this pass, for which I paid; end, as it bears the name of Washington, I presume is forged." Dunwoodie caught the paper from his band, eagerly, and stood gazing on the signature for some time in silence, when he turned to the prisoner, with a searching look, as he asked: "Captain Wharton, whence did you procure this paper?" That is a question, I conceive. Major Dunwoodie has no right to ask." This name s no counterfeit," said the dragoon in a low voice; "is treason yet annng us undiscovered? The confidence k 9 W e c in nr rY Vila Kaan a f . tkn fictitious name is in a different band from the pass. Captain Wharton, my. duty wi'.l not suffer me to grant you a parole; you must accompany me to the Highlands. "I did not expect otherwise, Major Dunwoodie." Dunwoodie turned slowly toward the sisters, when the figure of Frances once more arrested his gaze. She had risen from her seat, and stood with her hands clziped before him in an attitude of petition; feeling himself unable to contend longer with his feelings, he made a hurried excuse for a temporary absence, and left the room. Francs followed him. "Major Dunwoodie," she said, in a voice barely audible, her cheek flushed 'with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance "I have already acknowledged to you my esteem. Believe me, Ilenry is innocent of everything but imprudence. Our country can sustain no wrong." She paused, almost gasped for breath, and added hastily, in an undertone, I have promised, Dunwoodie,, when peace shall be restored to our country, to become your wife; give to my brother his liberty oa parole, and I will this day go -with you to the altar, follow you to the camp, and, in becoming a soldier's bride, learn to endure a soldier's privations." Dunwoodie seized the land which the blushing girl, in her ardor, had extended toward him. and pressed it for a moment sound away, lads1 to his bosom: then rising from his seat, he paced the room in excessive agitation. "Frances, say no more, I conjure you, unless you wish to brea"k my heart." "You then reject my offered band?" she said, rising with dignity. "Iteject it ! Have I not sought it with entreaties with tears? Has it not been the goal of all my earthly wishes? But to take it under such conditions would be to dishonor both. We will hope for bef er things. Hecry must be acquitted; perv : : , : - shall be wanting. Frances, I am not without favor with Washington." "That very paper, that abuse of his confidence to which jou allude, will steel him to my b rotter's case. If threats or entreaties could D.ove his stern sense of justice, would Andre have suffered?" As Frances uttered these words, she Ced from the room la despair. Dunwoodie remained for a minute nearly stupefied. On entering the hall he war met by a small ragged boy, who looked one moment at his dress, and placing a piece of paper in his hands, immediately vanished. The soldier turned his eyes to the subject of the note. It was written on a piece of torn and soiled paper, and In a hand barely legible, and be was able to make out as follows; "The riglar are at and, horse and foot." Dunwoodi started ; aDd, forgetting everything but the duties of a soldier, precipitately left the house.- While walking rapidly toward the troops, he noticed on a distant hill a vedette rldiag with speed ; several pistols were fired ; and the next Instant the trumpets of the corps rang in his ears. By the time he had reached the ground occupied by his squadron, the major saw that every man was in active motion. Law ton was already in the saddle, and crying to the musicians, 'in tones but little lower than their own : "Sound away, my lads, and let tl-ese Englishmen know that the Virginia Ilorse are between them and the end of thiir journey." It cannot be supposed that these preparations were made unheeded by the Inmates of the cottage ; on the contrary, every feeling which can agitate the human breast was actively alive. Mr. Wharton alone saw no hopes to himself in the termination of the conflict. If the British hould prevail, his son would be liberated; but what then would be his own fate? He had hitherto preserved his neutral character in the midst of trying circumstances. The fact of his having a son in the royaj army had very nearly brought his estates to the hammer. Should his son now be rescued, he would, in the public mind, be united with him as a plotter against the freedom of the States; and should he remain a captive and undergo the impending trial, the consequences might be Rtill more dreadful. Ci A IT FR VI. PunwCO'iie's men bid often tried thfir prowess against the ei.emy, and they now sat panting to be led once more against foes who they seldon charged in vain. Their wishes were to be gratified; for a body of the enemy ioon came sweeping round the base of the hill which intersected the view to the south. A fw minutes enabled the major to distinguish their character. In one troop he saw the green coats of the Cowboy, and in tha other the leathern hclmt.s and wooden saddles of tho yagers. Their numbers were about equal to the body under his immediate order?. On reaching th open space near the cottage of Harvey Birch, the enemy halte 1 and drew up his men in iine. At this noment a column of foot appeared la the vale, and pressed forward. Major Dunwoodie at 'once saw his advantage. The column he led began slowly to retire from tho field, when the yon.'i:ful German, who commanded the enr-iiy's horse, fearful of missing an easy conquest, gave the word to charge. Few troopers were more hardy than the Cowboy ; they sprang eagerly forward in the pursuit, with a conSdence created by the retiring foe and the column in their rear; the Hessians followed more slowly, but in belter order. The trumpets of the Virginians now sounded long and lively; they were answered by a strain from a party in ambush that went to the heart

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of their enemies. The column of Dunwoodie wheeled in perfect order, opened, and, as the word charge was given, the troops of Lawton emerged from their cover. The charge threatened too much for the refugee troop. They scattered in every direction, flying from the field as fast as their horses could Carry them. Only a few were hurt ; but such as did meet the Jl.Tns of their avenging countrymen never survived the blow. It was upon the Kor vassals of the German tyrant that the shock fell. Disciplined to the most exact obedience, these ill-fated men met the charge bravely, but they were swept before the mettled horss and nervous arms of inei" antagonists like chaff before the w'nd. Many of them were literally ridder dowa, and Dunwoodie soon saw the field without an opposing foe. The lawn in front of the Locusts was bidden from the view of the road by a close line of shrubbery, and the horses of the two dragoons had been left, linked together, under its shelter. Two Cowboys, who had been cut off from a retreat to their own party, rode furiously through the g.te, with an intention of escaping to the open wood in the rear of the cottage. The victorious Americans pressed the retreating Germans until they had driven them under the protection of the fire of the infantry; and feeling themselves, in the privacy of the lawn, relieved from any immediate danger, the predatory warriors made toward their intended prizes, by an almost spontaneous movement. Tney were busily engaged in separating the . fastenings of the horses when the trooper on the piazza discharged his pistol, and rushed, sword in band, to the rescie. Tlie entrance of Caesar !nto the parlor had induced the wary dragoon within to turn his attention more closely on his prisoner; but this new interruption drew him again to the window. He threw his body out of the building, and endeavored by his threats and appearance to frighten the marauders from their prey. The moment was enticing. Three hundred of his comrades were within a mile of the cottage ; unridden horses were running at large in every direction, and Henry Wharton seized the unconscious sentinel by the legs and threw him headlong into the lawn. Caesar vanished from the room, and drew a bolt of the outer door. The fall of the soldier was not great, and recovtging hu feet, he turned his fury for a moment on his prisoner. To scale. the window in the face of such an enemy was, however, impossible, and on trial he found the main entrance barred. Iiis comrade now called loudly on him for aid, and forgetful of everything else, the discomfited trooper rushed to his assistance. 'One horse was instantly liberated, but the other was already fastened to the saddle of a Cowboy, and the four retired behind the building, cutting furiously at each other with their sabres. Caesar threw the outer door open, and pointing to the remaining 'horse, exclaimed I . ... "Rnn now run Massa Henry, run." "Yes," cried the youth, as he vaulted into the saddle, "now, indeed, my honest fellow, is the time to run." He beckoned hastily to his father, who" stood at the window in speechless anxiety, with his hands extended toward his child In the attitude of benediction, and dashed through the gate with the rapidity of lightning. His horse was o the best blood of Virginia, and carried him with the swiftness of the wind along the vaKey ; and the heart of the youth was already beating tumultuously with pleasure at his deliverance when a well-known voice reached his startled ear, crying aloud: "Bravely done, captain t , Don't spare the whip, and turn to your left before you cross tie brook." Wharton turned his head in surprise, and saw, sitting, on , the point of a jutting rock that commanded a bird's-eye view of the valley, Iiis' former guide, Harvey BircV His pac!c, much diminished in sue. lay -at the ifeet of the peddler. The English captain took, the advice of the mysterious being, and finding a good road, was soon oppsite to his friends. The next minute bo crossed the bridge and stopped his cLarger before his old acquaintance. Colonel Weliniere. , "Captain Wharton I" exclaimed the astonished commander of the English troops, "and mounted on a rebel dragoon horse 1" Thank God !" cried the youth, recovering his breath. "I am safe, and have escaped from the hands of my enemies; but five minutes since and I was a prisoner, and threatened with the gallows." ' "The gallows. Captain Wharton! Surely those traitors to the king would never dare to commit another murder in cold blood;4 is it not 'enough tht they took the life of Andre? Wherefore did they threaten you with a similar fate?" "Under the pretense of a similar offense," said the captain, briefly explaining the manner, of his capture, the grounds of bis personal apprehensions, and the method of his escape. During this conversation, which was h?ld in full view of the American, Dunwoodie had been collecting his scattereJ troops, securing his few prisoners, and r-'tiring to the ground where he had been posted at the first appearance of his enemy. Satiefied with the success he had already obtained, and, believing the English too wary to give him! an opportunity of harassing them farther, he was about to seek a favorable place for taking up his quarters for the night. Captain Law1ton was reluctantly listening to the reasoning of his commander, and had brought out his favorite glass to see if no opening could be found for an advantageous attack, when he suddenly exclaimed: "How's this? a blue coat among those scarlet gentry!" As I hope to live to see old Virginia, it is my masquerading friend of the COth, the handsome Captain Wharton, escaped from two of my best men !" This intelligence made an entire change in the views of Major Dunwoodie. He saw at once that his own reputation was involved in the escape of his prisoner. He now joined his second in command, watching, as eagerly as the impetuous Lawton himself, for some opening to assail his foe to advantage. But two hours before, and Dunwoodie had felt the chance which made Ilenry Wharton his captive, as the severest blow he had ever ru rained. Now ho panted for an opportunity in which, by risking bis own life, he might recapture his friend. All other considerations were lost in the goadings of a wounded spirit. "There. crifd the delighted captain, as he pointed out the movement with his fitgr, there comos John Bull into the mousetrap, and with eyes wide open." "Surely," said Dunwoodie, ea?orly, "he will not display his column in that flat. Wharton must tell him of the ambush. But if he docs- " "We will not leave him a dozen sound ekins in his battalion," interrupted the other, springing into his saddle. "Prepare to mount mount!" cried Dunwoodie. As the British line advanced slowly .ind in exact order, the guides opened a gilling fire. It began to annoy that part of the royal troops which was nearest to them. Wellmere listened to the advice of the veteran who was next to him in rank, and ordered two companies to dislodge the American foot from their hiding place. The movement created a- slight confusion, and Dunwoodie seized the opportunity to charge. .Wlioieret who was on the left

of his line, was overthrown by the impetuous fury of his assailants. Dunwoodie was in time to save him from the impending Mow of one of his men, and raised him from the ground, had him placed on a horse, and delivered to the cusvtod of his orderl-. The left of the British line was outflanked by the Americans, who doubled in their recr, and thus made the rout in that quarter total. But the second in command, perceiving how the battle went, promptly wheeled his party ar.d threw in a heavy fire on the dragoons; with this party was ilenry Wharton; a ball struck his bridle arm, and compelled him to change hands. As the dragoons dashed by them, rending the air with their shouts, and with trumpets sounding a lively strain, the charger ridden by the youth became ungovernable he plunged, reared and his rider being unable, with his wounded arm, to manage the impatient animal, Henry Wharton found himself, in less than a minute, unwillingly riding by the side of Captain Lawton. The dragoon comprehended at a glancs the ludicrous situation, but bad only time to cry aloud, before they plunged into the Knglish line : "The horse knows the righteous cause better than his ridjr. Captain Wharton. 70U are welcome to the ranks of freedom." No time was lost, however, by Lawton, after the charge was completed, in-securing the prisoner again; and, perceiving him to be hurt, he directed him to be conveyed to the rear. (To be continued.)

INTELLIGENCE OF THE BEE. Transported to California, She Ceases to Deserve Xame of Bnr. It would be easy without appealing to any prehistoric event to bring together a number of facts that would show that the faculty of adaptation and intelligent progress is not reserved exclusively for the human race. Transiwrted to Australia or California, our black bee .completely alters her habits. After one or two years, finding that summer Is perpetual and flowers forever abundant, she will live from day to day, content to( gather the honey and pollen indispensable for the day's consumption, and hWr recent and thoughtful observation triumphing over hereditary experience she will ceae to make provision for her winter. Büchner mentions an analogous fact, which also proves the bees4 adaptation to circumstances, not slow, secular, unconscious and. fatal, ' but Immediate anl intelligent; in Barbadoes the beei. whose hives are in the midst of the refineries, where they find sugar In plenty during the whole year, will entirely abandon their visits to the flowers. Let us lastly recall the amusing contradiction which the bees gave to two learned entomologists, Klrby . and Spence: "Show u .' said these, "a single case in which-ud3r stress of UrcunVötancca the bees have had the idea of substituting clay or mortar for wax and propolis and we will admit their reasoning facilities. Hardly had they expressed this somewhat arbitrary wish when another naturalist. Andrew Knl?ht. having coatel the bark of certain trees with a sort of cement niado of wax and turpentine, observed that his bees entirely ceased to gather propolis and used only this new and unknown sr.bsiance, which they found prepared for them in abundance in the neighborhood of their !,home. Moreover, in the practice of arlculture when pollen Is scarce the beekeeper has but to place at their disposal a few pinches of flour for them, to understand at once that this can serve the same purpose and be turned to the same use as the dust, of the anthers, although its tate, smell' and color are absolutely different. Maurice Maeterlinck In Harper's. RELICS OF ITS DISASTERS. Port Royal, . Jamaica, Contain! Mounted FJaureheads of Wrecks. There are many curious relics of little value, but mueu cherished, nevertheless, to be found In Port Itoyal, Jamaica. Ever since the ancient town was swaliowel up by an earthquake and a tidal wave three centuries ago and only one mrm survived, he having been thrown out of thi. earth and Into tbe ea by the second quake following close on the first, the town has been visited by a series of disasters and epidemics. Each one has left Its traces and its relics. ' Among these are several figurehead from ships which have been wrecked or abandoned in the harbor. These quaint ornaments have been arranged In a square of the park near the dockyard. There Is a figurehead In each corner of the siuare, placed so that it faces outward. One Is an old reproduction of Adxiral Lord Nelson. Thf-n there are the "Imaum" and the "Megora." ! These odd-looking wooden figures are painted Just as they were when they formed the decorative features of ships. They are carved with dates and names and are much weather beaten. Surrounding them are tall palm trees. One of the figureheads guards the officers' mess, another gua'-iLs the hospital, while their two mates look always toward the harbor, as If watching the Incoming and outgoing ships. Close by Is the hulk of an old troopship, the Urgent, which is a fine model of a vessel built in the somewhat distant past. This hulk of a once-proud ship still boasts of a commander and a small staff of officers and shows the broad pennant of the commodore in command in Jamaica, whose quarters are in the admiralty house within the king's yard. Her crew Is made up of artificers of the yard, with a few seamen and marines. Ills Brand. The man from the "Circle-bar" ranch listened with apathy to the 2iew En glander's . account of the choice entertainments to be enjoyed in his native city. "We have everything that's really worth money out our way, I guess," he said, indifferently. "Why, on January 12th we had the world-reuowneä bell ringer; January 20th. Hal Urowu, the greatest coruetlst In the world; and January 31st, grand production of WIN liam Shakespeare's 'Lewis the Cross Eye I tell you that was great!" "What did you say was the name of tho play?'' asked the New Eng'a ruler. "Here, see for yourself." said tho man from the ranch,- and he passed out a program headed, "Grand prluction of -Louis XI." Maater Stroke In Cotirtuhlp. "You knew," she said, "I am not much of a conversationalist." This seemed to him the opportunity for which he had been waiting. "Well," he returned, "if I do the preliminary talking your conversational ability will bo sufljclent to enable you to say 'Yes won't it?" After all, In courtship there Is nothing like getting your answer before yoo ask the question. , .

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Sennelrnv Smnrt Women. Among the mot aggravating things ro deal with In life is the talented or smart woman who has very little coniaion sense. There is the young girl, in dire need Jf money, but with a clever talent for making sketches that would make her independent. A friend, after Infinit. trouble, gets her an order from a leading caterer for dinner cards, that might have been the beginning of an artistic career and would have kept the wolf from the door at the start, but the young woman turns up her nose at the very suggestion. liiere is the little dressmaker, with the fingers of an artist, struggling along, unknown and unpatronized. A good samaritan of a woman induces a society .friend whose work alone means a fortune, to try her, but the senseless dressmaker does not keep her first engagement and loses her opportunity. .Lucre is liie iieeuy wuiuuu iui uwi 1 dozens of ioonle have moved heaven and earth to get her a position, and when she took it put on such top lofty airs and discoursed so continually on her past splendors and patronized h?r employers so until she made herself unendurable and lost her place. Everybody has had experiences of like character and knows that the most impossible and hopeless and discouraging and hoart-breaklng thing in. the world Is to attempt to try to help these smart women without sense. If you are worrying along with any of these types of senseless smart .women drop them like hotcakes, .'or you can never hope to see any improvement in them. Exchange. Woman and Man. Trof. Chamberlain, of Clarke University, Worcester, has promulgated the following findings concerning woman as compared with man : She has greater tact. She has more acute taste. Her hearing Is more acute. Her intuitions are Ivrtter. . Her sympathy Ls greater. Her Imagination Is greater. She bears pain more heroically. Her perceptions are more rapid. She has greater religious devotion. Her. Instinct for sacrifice is "eater. She U noticeably better In' adaptability. She more commonly has executive ability. She Is much more charitable In money matters. y She has more fluency In the lower forms of speech. Under reasonable opportunities she is more gifted in diplomacy. ' As an actor she has greater ability and more frequently snows it A Dime Social. This entertainment was given by a young people's society. The admission. was a dime, and various refreshments were arranged at the price of a dime each, and then, for amusement, each person was provided with a paper with "To be found on a dime" written at the top and the following questions: 1 Fruit of a tropical tree. (Date.) 2 What the Siamese twins were. (United.) 3 What a lazy man seldom gets. (Ahead.) 4 The division of a country (Ftate.) 5 Th cradle of liberty. (America.) Q Something a schoolboy makes (Figures.) , 7 A part of the human body. (Ear.) 8 A figure. (One.) 9 What makes the forest green. (Follase.) 10 Something a bootblack' gives. (Shine.) The prize offered was a dime. Simmer Belt. The above cut shows a number of belts for wear with" summer sowns. White and light tau kid Is a favored combination for white dresses. Whit? and delicate shades of silk are made Into attractive girdles und trimmed with fancy buttons and tiny buckles. The white and black elastic belts the oopular leaders are studded with steI beads and nail heads. Women of Veno. The women of the Island of Yezzo, whence it is supposed came the original inhabitants of Japan, have a very peculiar custom of making up their faces to look as though they ha.e mustaches. These women are called :Unus, and upon the upper lip of each Ainu belle is tattooed something tha: resembles a long, flowing mustache. To possess an artistically tattooed ornament of this kind marks a woman as specially attractive and her chances" 5f making a good matrimonial alliance are very small if she Is not thus ndorn ?d. As a matter of fact, the men of the island choose their spouses more for the beauty of this tattooed design than the grace of form or charm of feature. A Tip for Mamnia. A sensible writer says: There Is a jreat deal In teaching n child to look pon its mother's presence as a gracious .oiideKceiision.. Naturally n good motli?r will not carry this attitude to an ?xeess. One cannot help thinking, how;ver, that the average pood mother 's too good. Very soon she is so utterly devoted to her children ns to neglect herself. And, sad to relate, the little jiies grow up to consider her their slave, or, at any rate, to act ns if they Jo. It is most unwise to permit such a state of affairs. Women Declared I -my. A woman writing in a Chicago paper says that women do not make pod traveling salesmen. She says that there is room for at least J0,(KJO women who could make a good living for different firms, but that women rely too much upon their sex, do not work hard enough, and don't learn their business

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as they o-ht to. The woman herself travels far a paint manufacturing firm, and she says she learned the business from beginning to end, taking six months to do it, lfore she started on the road, and she finds that a woman who does know her business and works as she ought to can get trade wherever a man can get it. The bolero has a dangerous rival In a jaunty little coat which is cut away over the hips and has a walstcot. This coat is particularly effective trimmed with brid in the stiyle dubbed military. A stylish hat to accompany a tailor suit is of rough straw In royal blue, trlmmtd with a parrot with a fine tall and tw. "arrnh" quills. The drapery of brick red silk matches the color of the bird's tail. Gloves are attached to the sleeve invisibly by jeweled knobs, which fasten to a buttonhole on the glove Itself. Some of these ars lfi tortoiseshell, with a diamond trefoil In the center;- some of smoked pearl, with gold fleur-de-lis; some in amethyst and pearl. - One of the marked features of We advanced season's fashions Is the height of the collars. Whether one wears a stiff embroidered linen collar or has the stock built 011 the dress, it must, above all things, be high. The stocks on lingerie waists and fancy costumes of all sorts are invariably irauspareat and are boned with tine tfeatherbone sfrips to support them. Omber taffeta or liberty Is artistically fsed for the foundation pf sheer frocks. A skirt of gauze or chiffon, for example, is mr.de over a colored silkbarely tinted at the waist, but shading to a much deeier hue at the sklri bottom. Women with good figures still like tbs corselet skirt. A smart suit recently seen was in hop-green chiffon broadclJth, worn with a wide-sleeved bolero, embroidered and applied wfth stitched strappings. With It was worn a chemisette of Alencon and Irish lace. Little taffeta boleros In emerald recn, Havana brown, suede gray, etc., are much worn by Parisians over their batistes, voiles, etc. The little coats are very short and fitted, trimmed in tiny ruches -of the silk and buttoning with one large button at the bust line. The craze for every cue of the khaki shades exceeds all expectations. They laise out of the golden brown, the golden brown out of the nut brown into a gamut or scale that ends up in the ralest biscuit tones which make for full-dress occasions. Figured or plain silks, If in Rajahs, of the natural silk color (which is cne of the shades iu vogue), are to be the traveling costumes most In demanü. The development of green silk gingham In a Jumper suit Is worthy of mention. The drrss was made In two separate pieces, waist and skirt, and the waist was outlined with a band of .white silk about one inch wide. It was sleeveless with a surplice front, the fullness being drawn In under white shoulder straps. The gulmpe was of soft, thin lace. The skirt of nine gores looked neat In wide plaits, which were stitched only r. short distance from the waist, enough to give a smooth effect over the hips. 4,833,030 American Women Worker The census bureau has issued a report on women workers, based on the returns In 10CO. showing that out of a total female population of 2o,4S5,!3.7., 4.S.'i3.(r0 were working at gainful filling. The number had more than doubled In twenty years, and there was a notable Increase In the number of married women at work. Women were represented In all but nine of the ?X)3 bread-winning occupations. Woman nn Tempera lure. Woman Is like a flower and nmls gentle warmth and congenial surroundings to bring out her bet oint. Man. like (ho oak, may be hardened and temjKreJ by the cold winds of adversity though not all men can stand this very severe test; but undoubtedly warmth, physical and sentimental. Is wanted to allow the fair sex to blossom forth In all Its delicate beauties of mind, body and spirit. A WUe's. Xecdn. She needs a good temier, a cheerful disjiositlon and a knowledge of how her husband should be treated. She needa capability of looking on the right side of life and refusing to be worried by small things. She needs a secure grasp of such subjects as are of in-

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terest to men, and should not be above studying even politics In order to understand should her. husband speak of them. She needs a sympathetic nature, in order that, should sorrow fall upon them, she may be able to give comfort to her husband. She needs to understand something of sick-nursing. A wife with no notion of what to do in the case of illness ls but a useless thing. She needs considerable tact and patience the one to enable her to know when to remain silent and vice versa, and the other to put up with him when his temper is ruffled. Fickle Woman. James Ilazen Hyde, who has traveled a good deal in the East, was talking about the way the Mohammedans treat their wives. "They certainly can't trust their wives," said he. "No wife can appear on the street unless swathed from top to toe In loose draperies that give her the look of a walking feather bed. An Arab of prominence in Bagdad, on his return from the daily constitutional, said to his chief eunuch: 'Did all go well?' "All went well, sir the eunnch gravely answered, 'but for Fatmah, your recent bride you remember her, a fattish little Mozablte. She twice showed a little of her chin ' " 'Drown her at once, roared the husband. And he added, bitterly: These married flirts make me tired V" Woman Who Charm. Of all the women bom into an ungrateful and unappreciatlve world, none can compare to the really charming one, says IInconnu. We may admire the beauty and gaze in awe at the bluestocking, hug the "dear things of out acquaintance," and thump the "good sort" on the back, but In the presence of a personality which "charms" ua we remain in speechless and almost breathless fascination. Truly of every woman it can be said what was said by St Simon of one of the most fascinating . women of his time, that she walks "like a goddess on the clouds." , , Many factors enter into the stream I of causes which make up the greal ocean of needlessly sacrificed baby livej; of which the chief are irhaps ignoi i'nee and poverty. The ignorance of nvny mothers I am almost tempted to pay the average mother! Is most appalling, says a writer In the Craftsman. To hear a group of Settlement workers, visiting nurses and physicians relating their experiences and enumerating the many deleterious things given to young babies, ls a tragic exIerience. Babies a few weeks old given tea, beer, vegetables, bread, fish, candy, ice cream, pickles the awful list might be extended almost Indefinitely. Undoubtedly, Ignorant feeding is a prime factor in the problem of Infantile mor tality. Jumper Waiili of Ribbon. For the first of thes.? waists narrow flowered ribbon is used, laced and strap;ea with black ribbon velvet. Equally attractive Is the other jumper, made of soft wide sash ribbon of the flowered sort, gathered In to narrower width at the shoulder, and also laced with narrow black velvet ribbon. Why Women Grovr Fat. An Eastern fashion editor advises the woman of "40" not to become "sloppy," and declares that the desire to be "comfortable" in b'adly fitting garments Is just pure laziness on her part, which is pretty certain to induce "fat" Well, when is a woman privileged to dress comfortably? Tht savings banks of Italy contain over CGO.OOO.OOO.

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THE BATTLE-FIELDS.

OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER ARMY EXPERIENCES. The Bine and the Gray Reriew lad" dents of the Late War, and In a Graphic and Interesting Manner Tell of Camp, March and Battle. "Tragedies In our own camps outside of battles were more common than the public knows," said a distinguished soldier In attendance upon a recent reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. "The shooting of Maj. Gen. Nelson at Louisville by Brig. Gen. Jeff C. Davis, because Nelson in a fit of anger nad called Davis a long string of hard names, is one of the few that came to the surface. You wouldn't think It, probably, but I myself was once so close to a tragedy that It makes my gray hair rise up as I recall It "While a number of officers of the regiment were in the major's tent I said something that a captain took exceptions to, and -a war of words followed. , When he plumped out, 'You are a liar!' I struck out with my right and set him to bleeding. He came back at me like a tiger-cat. We clinched, and. for three or four minutes had it hot and sharp; then the others separated us. lie made all sorts of threats. I was adjutant ' He ranked me, and I confess that for a time I did fear that he would make me trouble in the way of a court-martial, but the matter seemed to blow over. "One fall afternoon the .captain invited me to take a walk 'with him. Thinking that our troubles had completely healed, I consented. On the way back to camp we passed througl an orchard. I climbed a tree to get some apples. Just as I reached for an apple I saw the captain reach for his revolver and glare at me like a very fiend. Instantly I loosed my hold and dropped to the ground. Seizing a stake, I took my place by his side and said : 'Now,' you cowardly dog, put up that gun or I'll brain you.' This time he was kept on a hot griddle for a month, though I made no threats and had no thought of reporting his attempt to assassinate me. "The next fight we got Into we made up for good and all, and remained fast friends until the final round-up, when Gen. Joe Johnston had his men throw down their guns and go home to 'make a crop.' It happened in this way: The colonel had given the order to fcrm line of battle. As adjutant. It was my duty to see that each captain carried out the order. When I reached the would-be assassin and had performed my duty and started to go away, he called out, 'Adjutant, come back. When I complied he took my band, looked me squarely la the eye and said: 'Lieutenant, can you forgive me for all of my meanness to you? I hope so. I have never had a good hour since that Incident In the orchard.' ."'With all my heart, captain. No one but you and myself knows anything about that little affair. "As I said, nothing else came up to separate us while In the army. We never met after being mustered out He died a few years ago. Of course I could have sent him out of the army in disgrace and placed him in the penitentiary after, he was out, but I've always been glad I did not . He wa9 a good soldier In battle, as brave as they made them, but a bulldog in camp. . He left the army a major. Ills name? Never mind that It Is a true 6tory. I wish it were not, for I cannot forget that at one time in my life I was In a fair way to be murdered." A captain on the staff of a division commander at the battle of Gettysburg, who afterward became a general and commanded a division himself for a time, once told me that If he had It he would -willingly give a million dollars if he could forget and never recall a Gettysburg tragedy. "We needed every man in line," said the general. "Orders had been given to let no well or unwounded man go to the rear. Our general had told the whole staff that If we" couldn't stop stragglers any other wax to sIko them down. As soon as the firing began a certain class of men fled from the front and the staff flew at them on their horses and pushed them' back Into the ranks. .It was always a Job I hated. It made me, mad to see a fellow run away from his comrades when, they were In trouble, and I used to be rougher with them than I wanted to be with any class of God's creatures. The enemy was pressing our line very hard. A break was greatly feared. ttack came another cluster of stragglers, big, hearty fellows, who uever stay under, fire a second longer than they are forced to stay. I made direct for three of them with my drawn sword. Two of them went back to duty. The third told me to go where It was hotter than It wa3 that hottest day at Gettysburg, and said he was going back no matter If the whole staff stood in the way. 'Go back to your place instantly,' I demanded. At that he cocked his rifle and was lifting the, barrel so that I would get its contents. Down went my sword to the ground and out came my revolver. Quicker than I can tell you it cracked and the man fell dead. Yes, It was a case of shoot him or be shot. I only wanted to disable him, but that was no time to hunt for a good place to disable without killing. A second more and he would have killed me." "Then why do you say you would give a million dollars to forget the Incident?" "It !s an awful thing to kill a human being. I can see Just how that man fell back with an oath on his lips. I don't like it. You wouldn't I have commanded companies, a regiment, a brigade ami a tllvision to do wholesale killing in battle. That was what we enlisted to do. That Is different from shooting a man, one of your own soldiers, at your side. I shall always repret that it became my duty to have a hand in that army tragedy." "Report to your headquarters under irrest, sir." Tho colonel of a western regiment hissed that remark to his lieutenant colonel as he dismissed the parade one evening In December, 1SG4, a few miles back of Petersburg. "I refuse to o, d you," was the reply. "Adjutant, see that Lieutenant Colcr.el Blank goes to his quarters at 2uce," fc-ald the angry colonel, who was in the right, for the lieutenant colonel, who had been drinking, had disobeyed orders. The adjutant knew both officers well and that It would not do for them to come together that night He had a merry time of it keeping them apart. The lieutenant colonel would Jump ip

and start for the cabin door with a threat to go to the colonel's quarter??

and cut him down with his sword. H was a powerful man, able to carry ou his threat unless the colonel should get the drop. Once the arrested officer, got away and was half-way to the col onel's cabin with sword drawn. 'Stpi mar' said the adjutant "Would you blot jour Beeord of three years by com milting murder? Think of that Tbiak of your wife and children. Come back to your quarters. You shall not go 3 step farther In that direction until yoa have killed me." "I don'c want to kill you, but I'm gcinp to kill the colonel.". "All right, kill him, but wait until to-morrow until It is light Don'l shoot a man In the dark. That is ni way for a brave man to do." He went back to his bunk and slept until mora. Ing. "How can I get out of this scrape, adjutant?" "Write the colonel an apology." lie wrote it and the adjutant took It to the colonel, who read It laughed and said, "Bring Colonel Blank to my quarters." They met like a pair of brothers, and to this day the adjutant believes that he prevented an army tragedy, and I guess he did. J. A.' Watrous, In Chicago Herald. Reminlw of A ndmonrlllek I have been readine at different times articles written by different comradea with regard to the Wirz monument. Nov.- I would like to have my say. In ISC3, I. with several of my friends, was making a tour of the South, no altogether for our health, but to &?e the country as well. We had a very pleasant and enjoyable time until w got down in Georgia. Here we became involved In a difficulty with some of the citizens there. If I remember aright several shots were fired. However, my friends with myself were ar rested for disturbing the peace nncl taktn to Anderson vllle for trial. During the time we were waiting for out case to be ealled we boarded at the hotel where Capt Wirz was manager. At first, we supposed he was the owne, but afterwards learned that It belonged to a company at Hichmoud, Va. A man by the name of Davis was president I have forgotten who the directors were. Mr. Wirz was not a handsome man by any means, but somehow, I at first formed an attachment for him. I understood he was a Demoerat, and, one of my grandfathers having been one, had a tendency to make me a dir. ire blm. Of course, I was but 10, and had never voted for anyone. I had uot been a guest but a few days in his hoslelry until I began to ob serv? that he was not-running his hotel on the European plan, or as we ha'J seen them run up North. But thinking it was a Southern Idea, and as r were unavoidably detained, we would ruiftke the best of it that we could.' Dur ing the seven months that I had tho idea sure of enjoying his hospitality I learned to detest him instead of admiring him. At the end of seven months my case was dlposed of, and I returned to inv Northern home, where I expect to remain until grim death says, rl!ir twill. VhMl T h'ff V'lr-r'a ITrM my appearance wus much like a friend of mine in NortL- Carolina, who says he resembled an oll-iashioned two-tinel dinner fork. Nov;. If nothing but a I :ionument will do, put me down for HO cents, payable when I get my $12 pension, with the understanding that I snaa do permiireu 10 write nis cpuapn. William Batterson, Co. G, 7th Ohio, Hebron, Ky., in National Tribune . The General Kicked. It Is never well to talk too much at n ea nip fire about battles and looses and tragedies of war, and the story told at one of the annual reunions of the Seventy-sixth, by Dr. Elmer E. Clapp, who was Introduced as "the eighty-six pound lad" who went with the regiment through the siege of Vleksburg "burning for glory," will bo read with appreciation by those who have "been there." ' . Somewhere on one of the marches under command of Gen. Crocker, strict orders had been issued against foraging. But one day Clapp and a comrade named JJerry capture and killed a fat pig, and, they were Just taking it tj camp when up rode the commanding general. The tern quntion caaie "What are you doing?" "Nothing, Just now." 'replfed CIap "What have you there?" "A pig." ' ' "Didn't you know there was an order against foraging?" "Yes, sir." "Young man, you must report at my headquarters In the morning." "All right." "Next morning," said Dr. Clnpp, I w(nt up to the general's tent and asked if the general was In. The orderly a!i he was, and wanted to know whit I wanted. I said I wanted to see the general, and at that moment the gineral came to thv tent door and a.ked me what I wanted. "An Inspiration came to me, and I tmswered: I want my pig.' The cencral looked at me a moment and then, told the orderly to get the pig for me. 'Young man,' said the general, turning to me, 'Don't let this happen again, for if I ever have to carry a pig nine miles for you again there will be trouble Chicago Journal. Wortk Redlm. Great. Britain Imports $900,000,000 of farm products a year. . The Germans give worn out horses a tonic of roasted coffee beans mlied with honey. "Steam ox" and "steam earner aro the names given to automobiles by the natives of German Southwest Africa. The King of Greece is the greatest linguist among monarchs. He reads twelve languages and speaks most of them. 1 There is an agitation la Glasgow, Scotland, to have umbrella stands prov'del on the platform of tho electric street cars. 7I'irdcrs and homicides decreased mor:; than 2.000 in the United States In the last ten years. 'Lynchings decreased one-half. Kins Edward is turn'ng his attention to beautifying Windsor l'ark, which, since the death of tb prince cousort in JSG1, has been sadly neglected. Thomas Clark, aged TS, a Mexican war veteran, recently daur-cd a Eanca shire clog at the machinists' benelit minstrel show la IJcllefqntaine, Ohio. Booker T. Washington, tho founder of the Tuskegee school. Is opposed to colored people having their own newspapers. He says: "I fear that our newspapers are at fault because they hold up our difficulties. People read-' ing them see too many accounts of negro oppression, and we do npt want our race ?ured by such accounts,"