Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 August 1908 — Page 3

HThe W 7hited Cepulchre X The V V Talc of O Pelee

By Will Levington Comfort Copyrirfit. by Will Lerinfton Comfort Copyright. 1907. toy 1. B. Lifhucott CoKPA.fr. AU rifhta reserved

CHAPTER III. (Continued.) They had reached the highway. Constable was thinking that he would have journeyed across the world to study a laboring monster, like Pelee in his present stress, but the Idea of the girl being la the shadow of danger took all the relish from the work. "I should prefer to hear you discuss the treachery of volcanoes outside of the fire one.- she said, shivering. "It's like listening to ghost stories in a haunted Louse." "I'll ten you the best way out of It" ha declared. "I don't say that Pelee is about to rise and rend Saint Pierre, but I want to take you all oat to sea for a few days. The Madame will behave her prettiest with you on board." I can't imagine Ay thing finer, but yon know mother is not a graceful taller." "Unfortunately, any effort of mine to prevail upon her might spoil matters," Constable said. "Ob, I don't think that, she replied; "but it will be something of a conquest for any one to shake her trust in Pelee. SÜ1I, I'll do what I can." "And I'll begin work to-night upon Uncle Joey. By the way. Miss Stansbary," he added in a lowered voice, "donl yon think that if I chose to stay here in ant Pierre, your mother might consent more willingly to try a few days on the Madame? You know Pelee is mots than ever interesting to me now." "That would bo entirely unthinkable ah replied hastily. Pelee ru tabled again, and the girl's fingt rs tightened upon his arm. The heavy wooden shutters of the plantation house rattled In the windless night; the ground upon which they stood seemed to wince at the monster's pain. The man was conscious of the fragrance of roses and magnolia blooms above the acrid taint of the air. It was as if, through some strange freak of the atmosphere, a pressure was exerted upon the flowers, forcing a sudden expulsion of perfume. The young moon was a ellow, formless blotch in the fouled sky. A sigh, like the whimpering of a sick child was audible from the servants' cabins behind the big bouse. "You'll plead with your mother tonight?" he whispered, as they walked back. Mrs. Stansbury was on the porch. Her nicely modulated voice, as she spoke to her daughter, struck Constable with a cold force. The women went indoors. Breen and Uncle Joey were in conversation. Constable drew his chair to the north end of the porch, and faced the mountain a vast black beast couchant under the dim stars. Since he had gazed In that direction from the ship the night before, the whole purpose of his life had changed. Then he had asked no sweeter favor of the Fates than to be permitted to observe the giant's struggle to contain the fury of his fluids. Now his thoughts were magnetized by a new substance the substance of fear. Self, the tribune of all his reckonings heretofore, had been lifted from his brain, as a familiar volume is lifted from its case. "I knew it," he muttered. "I knew It five years a;o that I should come back her tome day, look upon that girl, and become a rayer like other men. To think that I could stay away from her a year at a time!" He regarded the double chain of lights out in the harbor the Madame pulling at her moorings among the lesser craft, like a lustrous empress in the midst of dusky maid-servants. Between the black mountain and the illumined ship stretched a battle. It was his own particular battle. His name was called from the lists. To win was to run away. The old mastering complication was his at last. Yesterday a splendid contribution to the imperfect records ol seismology, such as was now within his grasp, was identified with his jighest ambition. To-day the safety of the woman towered abore it, as the dome of St. Peter's above the head of a tourist. He was afraid of Pelee. Breen drew over to him and sat iown upon the railing. ' "What's on your mind. Peter?" "A moatain," said Constable. Rain did not fall in the night, and Constable was abroad with the dawn, regarding the white world and the source of the phenomenon, with the sketchy tints of earliest morning upon the huge astern slope. He had slept little, and that with his face turned to the north. He would scarcely close his eyes before t cortege of volcanoes would pass before him, as la a dream ali the destroyers f history, each with a vMd Individuality, like the types of faces of all nations the story of each, and the smear It had Bade of men and the works of men. Mdst of them, had given warning. Pete was warning now. His warning was ritten upon the veins of every leaf, paint d upon the curve of erery blade of grass, sheeted evenly white upon the tiles of every roof. Gray dust blown by steam from the bursting quarries of the mountain, clogging the gutters of the city, an J the throats of men! It was a moving white cloud in the riv.rs. a chalky shading that marked the highest reach of the harbor tide. It setthd in the hair of the children, and complicated the toil of the bees in the nectar-cups of the roses. With league-long cerements, and in a voice that caused to tremble his dwarfed cohorts, the hills and morn es, great Pelee hr.d proclaimed his warning in the night. Constable was standing in the garden. "Good old Vulcan, to wait for her!" he murmired. "Sit tight for another day, and keep a stiff bridle-arm for one more day r "It Isn't really ash, you know," he found himself saying at breakfast, "but rock ground as fine as neat and shot out by steam through Pelee's valves." "How intensely graphic!" Mrs. Stansbury observed. "It's a graphic morning," said Breen, "and Peter is virile from a night of meditation. I believe he has made a covenant with the mountain." Constable had mrt the eyes of the daughter, and found no hope there. Ho had taken his uncle apart and charge 3 him to labor for the cause of flight. "Ursula," .he planter began gravely, addressing Mrs. Stansbury. "Peter has asked us to spend a few days with him in the Caribbean, on board the Madame. I confess that I don't like the way Pelee is acting, and the heat is telling op vh ell. The prospect of a refreshing breath of the Trades is a mighty pleasant one to me. Doesn't it sound so to you?" "As a specialist in volcanoes, I should think Mr. Constable would find it impossible to leare at such a time," the elder woman answered smoothly. "The mountain needs his doctor more than evrr now." "I have not jet attained unto such a scientific passion that I can forget my friends entirely," Constable said earnestly. "For my part," the girl haste.ied to ay, "Mr. Constable's invitation is immensely alluring." Mrs. Stansbury's eyelil contracted ever so little, and she lingered upon the words of her ultimatum, as if there were ft tang of pleasure in the utterance. "The Panther arrives day" after to-morrow morning, with the New York mail. 1 would not under any condition think of leaving Saint Pierre before receiving Mr. Stansbury's letters." Constable stared at th face of the laughter, tie read there terror of th? rrwtiir, and pit for himself. He arose,

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not daring to trust himself to speak again. Breen found him in his room a few minutes later. "Peter," he said -softly, "has it ever occurred to you that the map of Europe and the history of France might greatly have been altered if our beloved Josephine had been gifted with a will like that?" CHAPTER IV. In the Rue. de Rivoli there was a little stone fruit shop. The street was short, narrow, crooked and ill paved a cleft in Saint Pierre's terrace work. Just across from the vault-like entrance to the shop, the white, scarred cliff arose to another flight of the city. Between the shop anJ the living rooms behind there v-as a little court, shaded by mango-trees. Dwarfed banana shrubs flourished in tLe shade of the mangoes, and singing birds were caged In the lower foliage. Since the sun could find no entrance, the fchop was dark as a cave, and as cool. One window, If an aperture like the clean wound of a thirteen-inch gun could be called a window, opened to the north; and from it, by the grace of a crook In the Rue de Rivoli, might be seen the nighty calibered cone of Pelee. Pere Rabeaut's fruit was very good, and some of it was very cheap. The service was much as you made it, for if you were known you were permitted to help yourself. In this world there was no one of station too lofty to go to Pierre Rabeaut's ; you would meet no one there to whom it was not a privilege to say "Bon Jour." "Come and see my birds," the crafty Rabeaut would say, if he approved of you. "Where do you live?" you might ask, being a stranger. "In the coolest hovel of Saint Pierre." was the invariable answer. And presently. If you were truly alive, you would find yourself in the little stone shop, listening to the birds. In due course Soronia would appear in the shadowy doorway and it would seem that the bird songs were hushed as she crossed the court. If the little stone shop were transplanted in New Yoik, artists would find It and have difficulty in getting In and out, for the crowd o' nights. Thither Constable and Breen made their way on this burning morning which Mrs. Stansbury darkened with her decision. The pair sat down in the cherished coolness. Constable at the little window, so that he could look at the mountain. "Breen, I dare not leave them here for forty-eight hours, until the Panther comes," Constable said, i "Do you really think Pelee can't hold out that long?" Constale shook his head impatiently. "I'm not a monomaniac at least, not yet, Breen," he said, and his voice suggested the world of pent savagery in Lis brain. "The ways of volcanoes are past the previsions of men. I do not say that Pelee will blow his head off this week, or this millennium. I say I'm afraid for this girl. I say there are vaults of explosives in that monster, the smallest of which could make this city look like a lepwr's corpse upon the beach. I say that the internal fires are burning high ; that they are already fingering the vital cap ; that Pelee sprung a leak last night, and that the name force which lifted this cheerful archipelago from the depths of the sea is pressing against the leak at this instant. I say that Vesuvius' warned before he broke; that Krakatoa warned and then struck ; that down the ages these safety valves scattered over the face ( of earth have trembled before giving way. Pelee is trembling now. and there is a woman here whose safety is important to me. She is two miles away this moment, and I am as powerless as a man in a street fight, with his lady's arms about him. What shall I do?" "Peter, there is a short cut," Breen sali. Tell me !" Constable urged. ' Are you zealous and strong-sou led?" "Try me." At this juncture Soronia entered the shop 'from the little court of the song birds, filling the eyes of the Americans. A dark, ardent, alluring face; flesh like dull gold, made wonderful by the faintest tints of ripe fruit; eyes that could melt and burn and laugh ; a fragile figure, but 1 raaianny aoioom. ana as wortnuy draped as a young palm in a vine richly blossoming. Such, vaguely, was Soronia. She made one think of a strange, regal flower, an experiment of Nature, wrought in the most sumptuous shadow of a tropic garden. She was gone. Breen's face bore a drained look. "An orchid?" he whispered. "Will the visitation be repeated? Do I wake or sleep?' "Old Pere Rabeaut married a French woman," Constable observed. "Some Daphne of the islands, she must have beeu, since Pere Rabeaut does not seem designed io father a sunrise," Breen added, his eyes lost in the shadows of the court, from whence the bird songs came. Pere Rabeaut was a worthy soldier of France, I have heard," said Constable. "I have never seen the mother, but every year I have seen Soronia for a moment like this. She was but a child when I came first five years ago but a radiant child even then." "Five years ago," Breen mused. "Five years ago I had not ceased to paint. I should have put her on canvas." There was a moment of silence, then Constable said in a low voice, "I must go back. Tell me the shorter way." "Peter, you are a man, and she a woman. Forgive me, but I know what has sprung into your heart la the past twentyfour hours from the seeds that have been there five years. Tell her tell her all about those five years and the one day what they have meant to you, and your dream of the future. If you tell her mightily enough, she will follow you to the Madame, and cast no longing look behind ! I shall stay here for an hour or two." Constable left the shop. He was very miserable, full of undirected wrath. Never in his life before had there been a time when a stiff shoulder, dollars, an athletic mind, or all three, had failed entirely to move an obstacle in his way. Here he was fround by impotence absolute. The suggestion of Breen entailed such a deep and vital thing that he dared not think of it, here In the glaring day, with the panting crowd about him. It was against the very structure of his mind to act precipitately In this, -of all matters, most delicats. It is true that he meant now to win Lara Stansbury, if such a stately citadel lay within range of a man of his caliber; but he had vouchsafed to strike only after a flawless investment were laid. Breen did not return for luncheon, and the name of Pelee was not heard. In his room, afterward. Constable fell asleep, with his face to the north. He awoke out of a horrid dream, in which black fingers were tightening, like a garrote, upon his throat. It was the ash and sulphur fumes again. Pelee was obscured by the fresh fog. Instantly, upon awakening, the old thoughts and dreads resumed their hateful swing in his brain. The sight of the Madame, lying out in the harbor, her needle-boom pointed like a black, fleshless finger across the smoky sunset, whipped him again to the sense of action which had no means of expression. Thoughts of the night the locitd

doors, the stm halls, the wail of children from the native cabins, sleeplessness without hope, vigilance without meaning, and this new master-romance shining far and bright and alone, like a brave star above wind-hurled clouds out of these were moulded thoughts of little mercy, as the shadows grew long upon the whitening lawn. Pelee's moods were variable thai afternoon. The twilight brought ease again, and with the old freshness of evening came a glad hour of reaction. There was a rippling wave of merriment from the darky quarters, and a score of chil.len went blithely forth to bathe in the sea. Never before was the volatile tropic poul so imperiously evidenced simple hearts which glow at little things, whose swift tragedies come and go like blighting winds, which slay but leave no wound. Constable was ashamed for the moment. Throughout the day his eyes had fixed in stubborn gloom upon a cataclysm. Up the stairway, airily as laughter, came a bright melody from the piano. He was thrilled, and held, and his mind was stirred with tenderness. She was like her island people, quick to enter the groves of serenity when the black cloul had blown by. Could Breen be tight? he thought. The suggestion appealed tj him now in a new high-light. Were thre not some words which had never jet found the ears of woman from the lips of man some key to instant supremacy in the undiscovered country of a lovely woman's nature? (To be continued.) AGATES FOUND IN OREGON.

More Valuable Thau Tlioae Which Come from Germany or Alexleo. Walter II. Whltteu of Newberg was in the city recently displaying a portion of his wonderful collection of agates, says the Pot Hand (Ore.) correspondent of the New York Herald. Whltten has been tolling away for twenty years, accumulating agates off the Oregon coast, principally near Newport, and it Is doubtful If there is a larger or finer collection anywhere In the world than is possessed; by this man. Whltten stated that he is Installing machinery i:vd equipment In his lapidary at hörnt so that he can grind and polish the rough agate, no matter of how great size, obviating the necessity of shipping the raw stone to Germany and shipping the finished agate back again, on which the duty must be paid both ways. "The finest rough agates In the world are found right on the Oregon coast at Newport," said Mr. Whltten, "and I will enter them against the finest and rarest found In Arizona, Mexico or in Germany. For more than twenty years I have been gathering them, until now it has become a second nature to ine, and I am now negotiating for the installation of sufficient modern machinery to handle the whole output of the United States right here at Newberg, where I live,; saving the cost of shipment abroad, a well as the duty both ways. "Every kind of agate known is found in the silica deposits at Newport the carnellan, the cloudy, the moss, the coral, the moonstone, the Jasper and so on. The winter is the best time to find them, for during this season the ocean current changes Its direction and washes away the surface sand clear to the gravel, in which deposits the rough agates of all kinds may be found. Sometimes the agate 'season lasts but a couple of weeks, depending entirely upon the inexplicable caprices of the sea, the winds, the tide and currents. "The pure grayish white silica gives us the soft warm-tinted coral agates, the dark silica with oxides of manganese are the base of the cloudy and the moss, while the red silica with Its Iron gives us the came. Ian and the jasper, and where both Iron and manganese occur wc have the moonstone. "The coral and the cloudy are the finest and most delicate of tint and suggest purity, while the carnellan and the Jasper are the warm, rich, glowing stones, perhaps the most valuable and most eagerly sought. "As soon äs I get my lapidary In shape I shall reach out beyond the local market and enter active competition against the German and other imported varieties. The agate-making is a home Industry entirely overlooked and one In which we can not only ex cel the foreigners in the reality of the raw material, but iu the variety and supply." Men'e Maids. "Men's maids, yes," said an employment agent. "There aro more of them than of inen'a men or valets. Visit the fashionable hotels of California, Florida, the Riviera. Egypt, and as you pass open bedroom doors of a morning or an afternoon, what do you see? Maids changing the studs in evening shirts, pressing trousers with patent alcohol irons, brushing coats and putting fresh laces in boots. The average well-to-do couple the couple that can afford the best winter and summer resorts travel with a maid, but not with a maid and a valet, for, after all, a valet Is very expensive, and his duties occupy only a few hours a day, anl a maid can get through nil of them Just as well , as not. So the average lady's maid Is a man's maid as well maid to the wife, valet to the husband. She likes vher latter duties. They are, you sec, simple and easy, and they draw forth the most generous tips." New York Press. Hlffht la It. Wiswell Charley Isn't a bad fellow socially, but he's a dead failure in money matters. Why, I actually believe he owes everybody in town? Wrightly And you call that a dead failure? I should say that Charley Is :i Napoleon of finance. Boston Transcript. Vmm o Hook. Yon manly breast, O maid, on which you lean. Though it may harbor nothing base or mean. Ah, lean upon it lightly, for who knows What frail cigars may nestle there unseen. Puck. Amblaaona. "I would like to see more moving verse from your pen," said the admirer. "Do you mean something pathetic," asked the poet, "or something about springtime moves?" Kansas City Times. For Its Very 0rn. There's one thing that teems to me funny, When Cue state of a bank becomes runny, You're supposed to go back And sit down. It's a fact They get mad If you ask for your money. Ijppincott's. The other day a steamship towed into San Francisco harbor from the Columbia River a' raft containing Q 000,000 cubic feet of plies. It la asserted that the drum was the first musical instrument used by human beings.

For Anburn Hair. Henna tea has a tendency to turn the hair auburn. It is made by steeping an ounce of the leaves, finely broken, in a pint of boiling water for twenty-four hours. At the end of that time it is strained, and the hair is shampooed and dried thoroughly. It is then wet evenly with the tea, letting it dry hi the sun. Another washing In clear water Is required, again drying In the sun. The shade is affected by the strength of the tea. The Lingerie Mo! Cap. The girls of the summer are going In heavily for the elaborate Charlotte Corday hat. The sketch shows one built of white dttcd net, the crown surrounded by a soft blue taffeta ribbon. The bunches o rosebuds are of pale pink, which Is a good color to put with pale blue this season. For Health and Beauty. A good rule to acquire a graceful way of sitting Is to be careful that the hips are never farther forward than the shoulders. To keep erect sit so the end of the spine touches the back of the chair. This gives a graceful, swaying motion. To get a good color, wash the face GUIMPE with very hot water, after first having removed the dust from the pores with cleansing cream, then rub the cheeks with small pieces of Ice iuclosed In a towel or crcsli washrag. A color thus given will last one through an evening. Bathing the eyis In weak salt water is an excellent strengthener. Where there Is Inflammation, however, weak boracic acid and water will generally relieve It and can not do harm. Hot Water mm m Remedy. ' Headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. A towel folded, dipied In hot water, wrung out quickly and applied over the stomach acts like magic In cases of colic. A towel folded several times and dipped In hot water, quickly wrung out and applied ouiekly over the seat of pain will in most cases promptly relieve tootlMChtt and neuralgia. A strip of tlannel or towel folded several times lengthwise and dipped In hot water, then slightly wrung out and npplled nlout the neck of a child suffering with an acute attack of croup will usually relieve the sufferer in the course of ten minutes If the flannel is kept hot. Hot water. If taken freely a half hour before bedtime. Is one of the best possible cathartics In severe cases of constipation, whlie it has a soothing effect uion the stomach and lwvels. TLe Ilrtdal Cheat. Every fall bride will want a box to hold the articles of her trousseau as they are gathered together. Beautiful boxes of cedar may le purchased for little, and are made in a very convenient way. ( Instead of the lid lifting up, as did the box of grent-grandma so long ago. the front may 1h dropped down, revealing two drawers to hold the thing. The box lodes securely and the effect is very neat. Iark cedar loxes ar ornamented with the bride's Initials In German letters of solid brass placed on the false lid. Chlnrne Women's Feel. Women all over the world will rejoice for tin sake of their sex I j hear that foot-binding iu China is a thing of the past. Minister Wu says that to-day one walks the streets of Chinese cities and never sees a girl under 10 years old with bound rect, and ladies of middle age whose extremities have been 1 craciDcd for a score of years deem it

a patriotic duty to release themselves from their bondage. This change In public sentiment can be measured by likening it to a sudden determination on the part cf American women to abandon the corset and aereafter to allow the body to be free. For many years before the corset was thought of, women of China had their feet bound and crippled, and their resolution now to submit no longer to that custom marks the rise of a spirit of lemiume independence that Is remarkable. Probably the origin of the foot-binding fashion is to be sought in the selfishness and vanity of men, who wanted to make sure that their women could not escape from the captivity in which they existed. If that is so, Chinese men also are becoming more liberal and enlightened. Sir. Wu seems to be right in saying that China has awakened at last. Avoid Wrinkles. Frequently wrinkles are the result of bad .habits, such as repeated contracting of the eyebrows, which forms small Hues sometimes one deep one between the brows; the lifting of the eyebrows, which results In transverse lines on the forehead. A stereot3"ped smile frequently Imprints a heavy furrow from nose to corner of mouth, on either side. Little lines nbout the mouth are usually the result of much laughter; these, to my mind, are not objectionable; good humor and gayety being more conducive to beauty than lines are to ugliness.

Six Million Women at Worlc The census bureau has brought out one fact that will amaze the country. Iu the United States . 0.000,000 women work for their living, outside of the home. Does this seem possible In what we like to think Is the most highly civilised as well as the richest nation on earth? Half of the single women are selfsupiorting. In New York City 400.000 DRESSES. earn their dally bread and "lodging, and 40,000 more are looking for work and cannot find It. Chicago has at least two-thirds as many. There are 303 vocations of life, as listed by the census bureau, and women are found in all but nine. Women have sprung Into competition with men only within the past quarter of a century, and the number increases so fast that in the future it seems likely that the tex barrier in the world of labor will be entirely broken down. But If that happens, what will become of the family and the home? Will the world live in vast boarding houses and send the children to State institutions to Im? reared? To Vrruvrv the Sight. The projter readh.g distance is twelve to fourteen Inches from the eye. Always turn your back to the source of light when reading, or let the light fall over the left shoulder, so that the light may fall on the book or paper instead of coming Into the eyes. Always lean back when reading, or if this is not possible, rest your book on the table In such a manner that top and bottom of page are equally far away from your eyes. Never read, or permit your children to read, with an imperfect light. Short Bight Is often produced in this way, especially in young people. Never read In railroad trains when they are in motion. If necessary to do so, It Is some help to hold a card under each line, moving the card down as you read. Never read when the body if ex hausted. and read but little when recovering from, an illness. Do not sleep In a bed so placed that the eyes are opposite to"a window, ami never read when lying in bed. Indies should avoid the use of very thick or jotted veils, and they should not do needlework with dark material by artificial light. America' Ilualneaa Women. A Frenchman who was going through a model department store with Mrs. Itlcltfrdson, a writer in the Woman's Homo Companion, said: "Your working girls they are wonderful. See, they are ladies! Such wellkept hands, such beautifully coifed heads, such smart shoes! They must spend much time to make themselves ready for work. Nowhere elso in the world will you see such girls earning their living." "The' self-supporting woman In America has won au enviable reputation for zood taste in dress," says Mrs.

Richardson. "Not even In Paris, where every woman Is supposed to be chic and to have an 'air, do the self-supporting girls bear the stamp of gentility in clothes that you can note In any large city or factory town in the United States."

Dainty Xesllgee. The question of neck finish is a vlta one in connection with the selection o! a summer sacque or wrapper, but to4 many women overlook this problem entirely, requiring only that the neck shall be low and cool. As a result many a woman looks a fright even in a dainty negligee. This one is Ideal in Its simplicity. It Is made from the much-used cretonne in a delightfully fine quality and dainty design. , Note the little fan insets on each side of front. The Reason Why Women Talk. Many attempts have been made by scientists to explain why itr is that women the world over are more talkative than men. One recent theory, we recall, was that talk, through mouth and throat, does not tire women as It does men. A man wearies after discoursing for awhile, but a 'woman can chatter all day long and be as fresh as when she started. However that may be, the reason why women wish to talk more than men wish to do so is stated by Father Bernard Vaughn of London' to be that women must have many safety vajves and outlets for her temperament. Sho Is so high-strung and emotional that If she did not talk she might be .expected to burst. Nature has provided the relief she needs, has made her like to talk, has made it easy for her. Therefore, she talks, and It were vain to expect to stop her, as It would obviously be unwise and contrary to the great scheme of things. For the most extraordinary phenomena in the world there is underneath valid cause. If we can but find it. Chicago Journal. Flrat White Bridal Gown. The first bride to wear a white silk wedding gown was Mary Queen of Scots, who Introduced the fashion in 105S, when she married Francis II of France.' Her dress was. of white brocade, but over it she wore a court mantle of Persian blue velvet, which was held up by two pages. For some time the white wedding dress was fovored only by brides of high rank, and it was not till the end of the seventeenth century that it became general at weddings. At the close of the middle ages scarlet was worn by brides on their wedding day, and scarlet is still the bridal color In China. IVeceaaary Precautions. A little Southern girl was sent to a boarding school In New York. When taken for a walk she seemed to be much interested in watching the automobiles. After a while she pointed to the extra tires on the passing machines and timidly inquired: "Why do they carry life-preservers?" narper's. Peacock Coloring a Fad. Peacock colorings make striking evening get-ups. A blue chiffon, silk voile seen lately veils green chiffon, and Is elaborate with embroidery done in glass beads in all the shades of peacock blues and greens,, with here and there a big emerald cabochon introduced. Plncnahlon Ik Uaefnl. At first glance the pincushion invented by a Tennessee man does not appear to be a very important addi tion to the thousands of labor and time - saving devices, but second thought will show that It has its uses and that they are not so Insignificant after all. It Is a horseshoeshaped affair, with rixcusmox. a bowed clamping spring arranged inside, and It fastens on the arm of a sewing machine wherever It is needed. The operator can thus have a cushion full of pins right at her hand, where she can get them without stopping the machine or delaying the work for an Instant. Only a woman who docs a great deal of sewing can appreciate the time and trouble that will be saved by this little device. i A Shampoo. Once iu three weeks the hair should be washed. Always after washing ihe scalp should be rinsed in cold water to contract the pores. A good shampoo is made of a raw egg, beaten in half a gill of lime water. This is well rubU'd over the head beTore washing In clear water. Every other night the scalp may be massaged with a mixture of boracic acid and alcohol, a dram of the former to three ounces of the latter. Attractive coats for traveling are made of black pongee and trimmed with taffeta in black and white stripes. These are sometimes finished at either side with three pockets, one on top of tlie other, . . ; : ,

A Woman'a Courage. "My God, Colonel, we're surrounded! Morgan's men are on us!" It was in 18C3, at the time when John Morgan and his famous band of guerrillas were raiding the country, pillaging, burning and striking terror to all the country round about, that a little band of Union men, about 500, a detachment of General Lew Wallace's division, who had been left to protect supplies at a point in Kentucky near the Ohio line, were surprised and surrounded by Ellsworth's division of Morgan's men. . A sergeant dashed without ceremony into' headquarters . with the startling news. There was no time for delay. The outposts had reported the simultaneous appearance of lines of mounted men springing like ghosts from all points of the compass. "Morgan's devils? That means trouble," cried the Colonel. "Here, Crawford, wire Cincinnati, for reinforcements.'' Frank Crawford, an aid to General Wallace, and detailed as telegraph operator, grasped the key of the ticker and flashed an appeal over the wire. Back came the answer:" "Special train, 2,000 men.' south bound, pass you In an hour. Stop them." , Preparations for defense were useless. The guerrillas began to close in and the bluecoats found themselves outnumbered five to one. But there appeared to be no Intention on the part of the raiders to press a fight. They amused themselves by slowly riding around the camp and setting slow fires to the supports of railroad bridges over the river near the camp. This gave the Union boys no little alarm. Some one must get through the lines and flag the train. "Who will volunteer to run the gauntlet?" asked the commander. He looked at the circle of brave men around him. There was a pause. It meant almost certain death. 'I will go," cried one. "What, you, Crawford?" "Yes. Here, give me the flag." Frank Crawford was no coward, but in a tent adjoining headquarters lay a handsome brown-eyed woman, his wife, and by her side a bright littlo baby boy, born under the old flag but four days before. Near by an old colored nurse was comforting a 3-year-old lad who was frightened by the7 noise without. The husband arid father choked back the emotions which threatened to shake his brave purpose, and after a hasty embrace and parting kiss rushed out of the tent. The guerrillas were riding around outside, keeping close watch over every movement In camp. Stealthily Crawford moved along, watching for an unguarded point at an opportune moment Mrs.. Crawford was as brave os her husband. Rising from her bed, shi staggered to the door of the tent just in time to see him captured. Her heart Btood still for a momen; then, quick as a flash, she turned, pressed her babe to her bosom for an Instant, then glided out and across the camp between the tents, like a white robed specter. Heedless of danger, she hurried on, the excitement giving her strength. The soldiers stood aghast as the woman rushed past them. Ahead were the bridges, and clouds of smoke were slowly rolling skyward from the rebel fires beneath. "Halt!" The order rang out above the din. The determined woman paid no attention to the command. "Fire!" A cloud of bullets fell on all sides. She heeded them not, but ran on, her long black hair flying about her shoulders and her loose gown and bare feet giving her the appearance of an Insane woman. She reached the bridge and leaped from tie to tie in safety. Beyond was a second bridge. Could she make it? It was burnlLg underneath. She could seo the flames leaping up around the beams. She grew dizzy. She dared not look down. Everything was getting black. With superhuman strength she gathered herself for the final effort. Another beam was reached, another, one more. ThaLk God, she was over. Her foot had scarcely left the last beam when, crash! the whole structure collapsed. Horrified and stunned by the effect of her narrow escape, for a moment she was powerless to move. Then she heard the whistle of. the locomotive as It rounded the curve. Springing forward, followed by the angry and disappointed cries of her pursuers, and grasping the little red skirt of her baby, which she had picked up from the floor of the tent as she left, she raised it, and, summoning all her remaining strength, waved it frantically above her head. A rifle shot rang out, and the brave woman fell, pierced by a rebel bullet. The signal was seen. The train with Its precious freight was stopped almost at the brink of the ravine. On the side track In front of the engine lay she who had risked her life to save soldiers. White and still was :he upturned face, as though death had aid his hand upon her. Tenderly the dient figure was carried Into a car and aid upon a hastily constructed cot, and -entle hands ministered to her needs. Meanwhile a dramatic scene was bell g enacted not far away. General Ellsworth had ridden up to the top of t knoll above the camp where he could command a view of all that passed beiow. Crawford, the operator, had been strapped to the back of a horse and was being carried, surrounded by a srowd of soldiers, to their chief. The lawlessness of Morgan's men had aused a general order from Union aeadquarters to be posted all over the country announcing that any one caught devastating property would be shot on sight. Captain Crawford, afterward brevetted colonel, was detailed to post the notices, thereby gaining the hatred of the raiders, who only wanted an opportunity to vent their revenge on him. The opportunity now presented Itself, and as they drew near the general removed his fieldglass from his eyes and surveyed the prisoner. "Who Is he?" A corporal advanced and saluted. "A Union soldier, sir." "Where did you get him?" "Caught attempting to run through the lines with a flag. I think he wanted to flag some train." "Lieutenant, detail ten men and have him shot." As the lieutenant turned to obey the order something familiar about the prisoner attracted the attention of the general. "Say, fellow, what's your name?" he Inquired,

Crawford," came the answer. The general started. "What did you say? Crawford? Your first name, man, quick!" "Frank." The general looked again Into the prisoner's face. "My God, Frank, Is It you?" he said, and as the situation dawned on him he continued : "This Is too bad." Crawfcjrd, In surprise, surveyed his captor for a moment and recognized an old school chum and companion. "Why, Ellsworth, I didn't know you!" he exclaimed. "Here, lieutenant, take good care of this man. I'll attend to his case later," said the general as he hastily turned away and resumed his Inspection of the scene below. Scarcely had he put his glass to his eyes when he beheld the fleeting figure fall before the halting train. This was the signal for action among the rebels. With a few sharp commands the troops formed In retreating order and were soon lost to view in a cloud of dust. ! a a a a a a a a flours passed and the little woman, once more In camp, showed signs of returning life. Suddenly she opened her eyes. "What Is that?" she gasped. "Be quiet," replied the nurse. "It is nothing. You have been ill and must remain quiet." "No, no; it is calling me." she persisted, raising herself with much difficulty upon her arm. I must go and see what he wants." "She must be out of her mind," thought the nurse as she gently tried to persuade the sick woman to remain still. "There it is again, calling, calling." "What is calling?" "The telegraph instrument You must take me to lt( It is my husband's private call. There, don't yoa hear It?" In an adjoining tent on an improvised desk the telegraph ticker merrily clicked away its dots and dashes. Thinking only to humor her, the nurse called a couple of stalwart soldiers and the cot with its precious burdetf was carried close to the Instrument Tremblingly her fingers sought the key. Her husband had taught her Its use and glv'en her a peculiar call by which she could always recognize him.' It was this call, the presence of his thought, that had called her spirit back to earth. "Who Is It?" she ticked. "Friend foe friend foe," came the answer." . "What do you want?" "Mrs. Crawford." "This is she. What Is Itr "I, Qeneral Ellsworth, saw your brave deed from the - hill where I stood." came the message, 'and, although I had previously commanded that your husband be shot, you need have no fear. I will spare his life for your sake. Goodby!" She sank back on the cot exhausted, tears filled her eyes and a faint "Thank God" escaped her lips as she was carried back to her tent The guerrillas had made a hasty retreat taking Crawford with them, and were now twenty miles away, camping for the night The hatred against Crawford was so bitter that General Ellsworth could not pardon him. but that night under the cover of darkness and In charge of a secretly Instructed officer, Crawford was mounted on the fleetest horse in camp, with the Instructions from the general to "rkie like h 1 !" He evidently obeyed, for he was not seen again by the rebel soldiers. Nino days after he joined his wife and babies at Union headquarters. It was a happy reunion, and as soon as Mrs. Crawford was able there was an elaborate reception given by the officers In their honor, at the Burnett House, In Cincinnati. By a Strang? coincidence, that was the very day Morgan and his men were captured, and the prisoners were made to pass In review before the hotel en route to prison. Detroit News.

- Tit for Tat. It is satisfying to the soul occasionally to return a favor in the same coin. In the following Incident, told by Mr. Putnam !n his "History of the 25th Massachusetts Regiment," such an exchange took place, the Yankee's "guessing" getting the better of the Southerner's "reckoning." Trlvate Anderson i a tall Yankee' recruit. On one occasion he wu, taken prisoner In a thick fog. It was his habit to carry a small hatchet In his belt, and one of the first things bis captors said to him was : "Well, Yank, I reckon we'll take that hatchet" "I suppose you will, Johnny," said Anderson, giving up the weapon. Aa Anderson was being inarched off In order to join the captors' company, he noticed that they had completely lost ttelr way In the fog. "Look here. Johnnies," he remarked, coolly. "I was over this ground th!s very morning. I know- where we are and where your men are. I'll show you. Come on !" and he led off. The Confederates followed and la less than two minutes Anderson . had led them into the hands of the Federals. They saw the joke, but did not enjoy it "Now, Johnny," said Anderson. I guess I'll take the hatchet" Youth ol Quaatrell, the Raider. As a boy Quantrell, the guerrilla hud good morals, was Jovial and not quarrelsome. He was of slight build and agile in every move. At 10 years of age he taught In the Canal Dover schools, and at 17 went to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he took up the study of civil engineering, which he pursued one yeqr. From there he went to Illinois, where he taught one winter and the summer following worked In' a lumber yard at Mendota, III. In 1857 he itturr.ed to Ohio and resumed school te.-ichlng. Iüler he went west. Joined John Brown's raiders and when th war broke out became a guerrilla la the Confederate service. It. S. Woodward has computed that assuming the average density of the earth's crust to bo 2.75, the density at the center is 10.74. and at 100 mile depth It Is 3.0C 1 An alloy of CO parts copier, one part tin and 39 parts of zinc is found to offer great resistance to the action of sea water, and has been largely used In naval construction. It is said that n growth of Ivy absorbs the moisture froae a stone wall rather thtn Imparting It as is popularly surpowd. ..