Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 September 1908 — Page 3

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HThe AT hi ted Oepulchre X The VV Tale of O Pelee

By Will Levigton Comfort!

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Copyright. 19)6, y Win Copyrizht, Vfl. ky J. B. LirrrfCCVT CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) "I corfesa I cannot understand you, dear," she said. "What consideration is due a gentleman who Is rendered speeehI33 by the accusation of a newspaper? What depth is there to his feeling for your welfare wien he rushes away blindly and remains throughout the day, while you are here at the foot of a burst in? volcano, as he pointed out. You will find that I am right, Lara. Mr. Constable is cot even a worthy accomplice to the talented Stembridge. He U without speech or valor. What remains when a roan is neither brain nor brvo':" Her voice had not been raised, and Mrs. Stansbury left the library before Lara formed an anwer. Tie torturing hours crawled by. The gray afternoon turned to dusk, and the dusk to night. The north was reddened by Peke's firelit cone, which the thick vapor dimmed and blurred. The rumblings were constant. Lara was suffering to fight out her buttle alone. She asked no more than this. A thousand times she paced across her room ; scores of visit3 she made to Constable's window, straining her eyes northward, along the road through the day arJ darkness, to the end of all things the mountain! Uncle Joey came to plead with her, but she bested him to go away. Her brain was a livid track of flying, utile agonies. In the evening the intermittent rumblings gave way to a growling, constant and in.cessant. It was a if a steady stream of heavy vehicles was pounding over a wooden bridge. There was a pan; in each phase of the mons;er, since the man had gone np ir.to that red roar. It was nearly miduigl t when the girl in the upper room hear a step upon the veranda. "Uncle Joey," she called At the planter's door, "make haste ; there is somebody below! The moments of waiting assailed the very roots of her reason. The voice that she heard at last wa3 Bjeea's. "I beg thai you'll forgive me, Mr. Wall, for arousing you at this hour, but it is necessary for me to have a few words with Miss Stansbury." "Sir," the planter replied, "anything which concerns yourself is of no momert to Miss Stansbury. If your message if from Mr. Constable, you may tell him to come himself or send a native." I dislike to appear insistent, Mr. Wall, Breen replied, without irritation, "but I cannot count my errand accomplished until I have heard from Miss Stansbury. If she should refusj to see me "I am coming down, Mr. Breen," Lara called over the baluster. "Uncle Joey, show Mr. Breen to a t-eat. I'll be there in a moment. - She turned to re-enter her room for a garment, ner mother's figure barred the open doorway. CHAPTER X. Constable had been physically unhurt la bis thirty years, and the exertions of the past four days bad worn little more than the polish from his vitality. Instead of relaxing in the crisis of the newspaper revelation, hfs body rioted under the whip of pride, and be strode down Into the city as one who has slipped a burden. He had been beaten in a battle with a woman. Blucher had come to Mrs. Stansbury 's aid at the last moment, la the shape of newspapers from the north. From Lara, however, and not the mother, had come the most crippling blow of all. It was Lara who had handed him the newspaper. She did not wait, nor ask. Around this item, Constable built a gloom-structure of baronial proportions. His attitude toward Breen was very simple. He would not betray his gifest for all the newspapers and police in Christendom. Having wa'.ved Breen's .offer to detail the particulars of his past, during the first night of acquaintance, Constable certainly could not reproach the other for misrepresenting himself. It was ten-thirty in the morning when he sent a messpge out to Captain Xegley, countermanding sailing orderj, and enclosing a cheerful note to Crusoe, containing a draft for the stipulated amount. At the bank he also left a second sum for Father Damlen, and procured considerable current paper for his own uses. His mind moved in a light, irresponsible fashion. It was as if ha were obses d at quick Intervals, one after another, by mad kings who d:red anything:, and whom no one dared refuse. His brain kept the great 60rrow in the background, and occupied itself with striking artifices. While aware that in losing Miss Stansbury and the privilege of protecting her, the meaning and direct.on of his life was gone, still Constable did not yet sense the fullness of the visitation. Iiis was not a wound to heal by first intention; and in bad hurts pain assumes command leisurely and in order. He plunged into a crowd in ftie market place, and began to talk to the natives whimsically, but to the purpose of start ing them toward Fort de France, adding that Father Damien would care for them generously there. "I do not say that this is the last day of Shint Pierre," he ex claimed in French, "but I declare to you that if ever a planet looked as if she were about to spring a leak, Mother Earth has the symptoms localized In Pelee!" Constable's eyes had fixed upon a car riage passing along the edge of the crowd. Now he moved toward It quick ly and seized the bridle. Despite the pro testations of the dr?ver, he led the vehicle Into the good view of fill. His face was red with the heat and ahine with laugh ter and perspiration. Alarm and merri ment mingled in the native throng. All eyes followed the towering figure of the American, now lowed before the swinging door of the carriage and 41. Mondet. "This, dear friends," Constable resumed, as one would produce a rabbit from a silk hat "this, you all perceive, is your little editor of Les Colonies. Is he not bright and cieac and pretty? He is very fond of American bumor. See how thi little editor laughs ; The Frenchman was ready afraid. His mile was yellowish-gray a-.d of sickly contour. His article relative to the Amer lean appealed to him now, entirely stripped of the humor with which if was fraught yesterday, as he composed It rn the inner of innr offices.- This demon of crackling French and restless hands would stop at nothing. M. Mondet pictured Limself being picked up for dead presently. As the blow did not fall in stantaneously, he amended the pictare with the sorry thought that he was to clayed with before being dispatched. This is the little man who tells you that Saint Pierre is iu no danger who acoCs at those who have already gone. Constable informed his hearers, now hold in un the Frenchman's arm, as a referei " . . . r- 1 i UDraises the whip oi a winning nguirr. "He says there la no more peril from Pelee than from an old man shaking ashes out of his pipe. Yesterday I proposed to wazr my shiD asrainst M: Mondet s roiieu top desk that he was wrong, but there was a difficult? in the way. Do you not Koe. dear friend, that if I won the wager, I should not be able to distinguish be tween M. Mondet rolled-top desk and M. Mondet's cigarette case in the ruins of Saint Pierre? You would not think that such a small white person could contain so much poison." There had been a steady grorlin.; from the mountafu. "AM" Constable suddenly exclaimed,

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Coumr. AU rights reserved ".Pelee speaks again! I"gl, got in there !" Constable's irritation against the entire tribe of editorial opinion breeders must have found au instant vent at last. M. Mondet was chucked like a large soft bundle into the seat of his carriage and the door slammed forcibly, corking the vials of his wrath. In any of the redblooded zones, a stranger who performed such antics at the expense of a portly and respected citizen would have encountered a quietus quick and blasting, but the people of Martinique are not swift to anger nor forward at reprisals. "Come !" Constable jelled, in a voiee which jerked up his hearers. "Who has use for my offer? Who goes to Fort do France?" A few came forward, perhaps a difn in all, out of the fifty or sixty who ha J listened. Half in anger, half in admiration, which he did not seek to understand, he ran his eye a last time over the dusty, haggard, stifled crowd which he Lad failed to move. From their eyes, sullen, startled Rnd pitiful, he glanced beyond to the place where' old Vulcan lay, muttering his ngonies. The sight completed the circuit of rending voltage, made him think of Lara. With furious zeal he grappled the work at hand, forced his way out of the crowd, crossed the Iloxelane and hurried toward the Hotel des Palms. His physical energy was imperious, but the numbness of his scalp was a pregnant warning against the perils of heat. The city was silent enough to act like a vast sounding board. Voices reached him from far behind, from the harbor front to the left, from shut shops and houses everywhere. At the hotel, after much difficulty, he procured guides and a small outfit for the journey to the summit of the mountain. It was after mid-day when the party role into Morne Rouge. The ash-hung valley was behind, and Constable drank deeply of the clean east wind from the Atlantic. There Mas a rush of bitterness, too, because Lara was not sharing the priceless volumes of sun-lit vitality. All the impetus of his mad enterprise wa3 needed now to turn the point of bereavement, and force it into the background again. The party pushed through Ajoupa IlouilJion.to the gorge of the Falaisc, the northward bank of which marked the chosen trail to the summit. And now they moved upward in the mid-t of the old glory of Martinique. The brisk Trades blowing evenly in the heights wiped the eastern slope of the mountain clear of stone-dust and whipped the blast of sulphur down into the valley toward the shore. Creen lakes of cane filled the valleys behind, and groves of cocoa-palas, so distant and so orderly that they looked like a city garden set with hen and chickens. Northward, through the rifts, glistened the sea. steel-blue and cool. Before them arose the huge, green-clad mass of the mountain, its corona dim with smoke and lashed by storm. Down in the southwest lay the ghastly pall, the hidden, tortured city, tranced under the cobra-head of the monster and already laved in its poison. The trail became very steep at two thousand feet, and this fact, together with the back-thresh of the summit disturb ance, forced Constable to abandon the animals. It transpired that four of the seven natives felt it their duty, at this point, to stay behind with the mules. A little later, when the growling from the prone upturned face of the g.eat boast suddenly arose to a roar that twisted the flesh and outraged the senses of man, the American looked back and found that only one native was faltering behind, iustead of three. Fascination for the dying Thing took hold of him now, and drew him on. Constable was conscious of no fear for. his life, but of a fixed terror lest he should prove physically unable to go on to the end. lie found himself tearing up a handkerchief and stuffing the shreds in his ears, to deaden the horrid vibrations. Willi the linen remaining, he Oiled his mouth, shutting his jaws together upon it, 83 the wheels of a wagon are blocked on an incline. The titanic disorder placated his o.vn. He revelled in it, unconscious of passin? time. He did not realize that he was alone, but knew well from thi contour of the slope, learned intimately in past visits, that he was neariug the Lac de Palmists, which marked the summit low!. Yet changes, violent changes, wero every whets evidenced. The Shoulder of th mountain was smeared with a crust of ash and seamed withvfr?sh senrs. The crust was made by the dry whirling winds playing upon the paste formed of stone dist and condensed steam. The clicking whir, like the clap of wings, hoard at intervals, accounted for the scars. Bomb of rock were being hurled from the great tubes. That he was in the range of a raking volcano fire did not impress this ant clinging to the beard of a giant. Up, knees and hands, he crawled up over th throbbing chin, to the black pounded lip of the monster. Out of the old lake coiled the furious tower of steam and rock-dust which mushroomed in high air, like the primal nehulie from which the world. were made. Pockets of gas exploded in the heights, nnding the periphery as the veil of the temple was rent. Only this to see, but sounds not meant for the can of man, sounds which seemed to saw hi skull in twain the thundering engines of the planet. The rockr rim of the lake was hot to his hands and knees, but he could not gc back. A thought in his brain held hire there with thrilling bands the. sain thought which Hayden Breen evolved as he stood at the edge of the Brooklyn pier. But it was only a nlay thing of mind the vagary of altitude and immensity. "Did ever a man clog a live volcano? Did ever suicidal genius con ceive of corrupting such majesty of forci with his pygmy purpose?" Th Irreverent query righted the balances. There he lay, sprawled at the edge ol the universal mystery, at the secret en trance to the chamber of earth's dyna mos. The edge of the pit shook with the frightful work going on below, yet he wat not slain. The torrent burst past -and upward, clean as a missing bullet. Th bombs of rock canted out from sheet weight and fell behind him. That whicb he compreehnded although his eyes saw only the gray thundering cataclysm wa never before imagined in the mind oi man. The gray blackened. The roar dwin died, and his senses reeled. With a rust of saliva the linen dropped from hU oyer. mouth. Constable was sure that tuert was a gaping cleft in his skull, for h? could feel the air blowing in and out, cold and colder. He tried to lift has hand to cover the archive wound, but thej groped in vain for his head. With tin icy draughts of air, he seemed to hear, faintly, his name falling upon the bared ganglion. "Peter! Peter Constable!" He strained his face toward ihn sound The lower part of his body would nol move. He was uncoupled, like a beast whose spine is broken. "Peter! Ob. Peter Constable!" he heard again. (T be continue!.) American ;lass Is growing In fav nil nrar tho tvl71 or

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BTJSSIA'S CUSTOMS SERVICE.

All BaKicase of Every Paenicei Gone Through Systematically. The ordeal of the- Russian customs can only be described as fearful and wonderful from any ioint of view, says the Loudon Standard. A score of oflioials and twice as many special por ters went systematically through every Ioce of luggage, large or small, ot every passenger. Three olnelals ana he Hrters were the average eomposi tion of the small parties that proceeded solemnly all around the great hall or the other side of the counter on which all our luggage was displayed, with iw expectant or anxious passengers be fore It. "Have you anything?" "No, nothug." "Have you anything new?" Tc which the natural reply was: "Well what do you think? We came straight from Ixmdoii." From every passenger' luggage something or other was chosen at random and borne off in triumph tc the assessor's table. So far ns could be seen, everything was carefully weighed and handed back to the own er en production of passports, without charge. But the officials certainly earn ed their pay, whatever it might be, 11 only by the exquisite acting of their ungrateful parts. Getting the passports was anoth-M lesson In Russian officialdom. As the train entered the station all dors wer locked and no one was permitted to de scend until a gendarme with a couple of satellites had proceeded through all the compartments and extracted a pas port from each person. These wer being dealt with in a separate room while we underwent the ordeal of thcustoms inspection. After alout an hour t, little ticket window opened and we rushed tumultucusly around It shouting out out names, a trying thing foi an English man to do In a public place. As bad luck would have it, quite three-fourths of the passengers wero non-Russians Half a dozen Britishers, the same num her of Frenchmen and perhaps a dozer Russians, the rest, quite half a hun dred, had names which were either der ma n or Jewish, and often both. Passjort.s were handed out with ex traordinary freedom, and many a mat: returned the paper he received with "Xot mine" In various language. Foi the distributor was a half-literate and not wholly solvr gendarme, ruby nosed and truculent, whose struggles with th babel of names all written one way and pronounced quite another necefr sltated the intervention of an officer who made a better hand of it, but not inueli. Finally the non-Russian pass Iorts went from hand to hnnd till thj found the right owner. Among the few Russian names called Dut was the magic one of Count Tolstoy and in its recipient I recognized th gentleman who, half an hour before, had helped a couple of English girls out of trouble with the customs. They were evidently "song and dance" profession als on their way to Moscow for the first time, and had all their stage wardrok with them. As most of It was silk, and they could not speak a word of any thing hut English, the customs icople were disposed to make a haul, under the Impression, apparently, that thej had to do with French milliners smug gllng trade goods. Count Tolstoy happened to notice the dilemma, went to the aid of the girls and a couple of words to the chief soor. set them free from all trouble. COIFFURE EXTRAORDINARY. This extraordinary coiffure Is com raon in the country of the Ovambos, ic German Southwest Africa. The hail VIS" ltKAl) DRESS OF OV.VMÜO WOMEN. braids are re-enforced with strands ol tow until they hang to the knees and frequently below. On top of the head the hair Is delicately treated In mud to make It stay In place. Aon fur J nek. President Sa.nuel P. Colt of the United States Rubber Company was dls cussing In New York, says the Sun, the amicable trade agreement that has been made between this firm and the International Rubber Company. "It-Is best," he said, "for competitors to agree to be fair and honest with one another, and this agreement of ours Is a fair and honest one. It Is not like those wherein two rivals, while pretending to be fair, yet knife one another continually In the back. Such hypocritical agreements remind me of two children, two little boys I know. "They were lunching, Billy and Jack, and when the butler brought on the dessert It was seen that there w is only one orange in the fruit basket. Instantly Bill, the larger boy, set up a loud bawling. '".Vow, what's the matter?1 said th governess. "What are you crying about, Billy?' "'I'm erjluV Billy answered, 'be, I'ause there's no oraugo for Jack.' " - Slow Mental Hlpeulnjt. Not Infrequently those mentalities that ripen the slowest last the longest md often the hlstorj' of these great iwA: has been persistent neglect and worldly olduess until forty or more years have passed before their greatness has been conceded ly their contemporaries Truly "the life history of a great gen ius is almost .invariably one of a sad and somber tone, a walk apart from the leateii path." Such are the words of on who should know what the "doeri of deeds" must endure. Be this as it may, it is now recognized that many of the finest achievements In business, statesmanship, literature and in all activities have been wrought by men long past sixty. Writes one, "No strong man will accept sixty as the arbitrary limit of his ambition and working ability." W. A. Newman Dorla mi in Century. She Wfl at the Seaahor. He dreamed a dream, then woke up And laughed, for It was funny; He dreamed his wifa bad written him And did not tak for moot,

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Wumau'a 3IistnLci Ambition, J auc mam iionuiu wiiu jicvi'itr iu jru?ral, and the greatest cause of uahapplnes3 and crime, is lack of sense. People do not get life in its proper focus ; they see things wrongly. They are incapable of the trust Imposed upon them that of doing the best they can with the fciven means. Men have not sense enough to sec that in making their wives happy they make themselves happy, and women's minds can not grasp the fact that In improving their own minds and characters they are insuring themselves a truer satisfaction than iu. trying to keep up with the .stylo of the neighbors. I am a strong believer in the doctrine that we get what we go after iu the world, if we go after it in the right way. Women have been going after their "rights" In the wrong way. There Is not, and can not be, anywhere. In any sphere of life, a better or happier position for a woman than to be the wife of a good, sensible, kind man. That such' men do not grow upon trees It is needless to state, and unfortunately the few who are assessed of fine character are often joined to lightminded women Incapable of appreciating them. - I am, generally spiking, opposed to women in business. I think her presence there is a detriment to society. . Her natural sphere is In the home. And it is iu the home that she Is so badly needed. There is jut now a crying need for the old-fashioned home atmosphere that was part of the early civilization of our country. Women need to turn back to the domestic pursuits that made their grandmothers such a power in the land. They need to give up the frivolous turn they have lately taken. The highest ambition of a majority of our women at present is to be regular society women. This is a very poor and low Ideal, but It chimes In with our modern doctrine of cutting a figure In the world. This is the most mistaken idea that was ever drilled into the heads of young people by enthusiastic, but misguided 'pareuts and teachers. That we should make a big splash in the world, do something of renown, get our names in the papers and be iersons of consequence. How much wiser and better if we might be simply contented and happy people, shielded from the critical publie eye, and mercifully gran teil the blessing of a peaceful and quiet home with all of home's toatltudes alout us. Why women are seeking the hard path of public life I can not Imagine, but the motive is certainly not a high one. It Is wonuiu's mistaken ambition that Is taking her Into the crowded avenues of trade, or is it the growing hardness of our social conditions that Is driving her from the home nest to take a handeln the d:iy's work that was never intended for her? Juliet V. Strauss. An To Length of Skirt. Skirts are longer. For all but the typical walking suits they are very long and sweeping, while the street suits have taken on another Inch and just escape the ground. This rule will apply to the wash materials, and wash materials are going to prevail to an ex tent not known for many seasons. Frocks of this order will be made up in the same seml-tallored style rs rules other fabrics at present. If anything, the skirts will bo more elaborately trimmed, but always In such a way as to lose none of that semi-tailored appearance. For this reasou frills are tabooed, or when used are flattened by cross strips and bandings. For linen suits which will hold first place among washable materials, colored trimmings will Ik popular. The Tactful Doctor. A physician In a small town in Northern Michigan got himself, into n serious predicament by his inability to remember names and people. One day, while making out a patient's receipt, his visitor's name escaped him. Not wishing to appear o forgetful, and thinking to get a clew, he asked her whether she spelled her name with an e or I. The lady smilingly replied: "Why, doctor, my name is Hill." Success Magazine. One French gown of black chiffon in entirely lined with pompadour silk, with a black background and the roses showing with elusive color through the outer folds of the chiffon make the dress beautiful iu the extreme. Venetian bend necklaces are having a great vogue, the delicate colors and combinations serving to enhance any costume to which they are allied. Smaller beads, worked after the old-world style Into chains and necklaces, are also in great request. Many of the mot costly summer wraps are lined with gauze, which is shirred and quilled and made quite separate from the outside, caught only at the edges. The edges of fucU a wrap

were all scalloped and have a rim of the gau:e lining extending like a little frill lieyond the silk of the outside. A black taffeta mantle is lined with raspberry colored silk. No more useful garment could be included in a trousseau for debutante or bride than a princess slip of poiupadour silk. It Is charming when worn under lingerie gowns in summer or under crepe and chlfTou in winter. Dainty aprons and matinees are" made from alternate strips of wash ribbon and val. lace. For the girl who wears flannel prettier than a ruffle cf wash silk and lace, which, by the way, does not cling to the form as flannel does. There is t long coat effect about many of the tunics of fashionable tailor mades. The appearance is the result of the running of the short lines of the bodices into the long lines of the skirts. In the majority of cases' the princess "cut makes this easi'y accomplished, but AvhenWlice and skirt are separate the same effect is very frequently given.

1 liarnctc and Tollt. Your everyday toilet is a part of your character. A girl who looks like a "fury" or a sloven in the morning Is not to be trusted, however finely she may look In the evening. No matter how humble your room may be, there are eight things it should contain, viz.: A mirror, washstaud, soap, towel, Cond, hair, nail and tooth . brushes. These are just. as essential as your breakfast, before which you should make good and free use of them. Oilluar Shoe. Leather is composed of a' mass of tiny fibers. Interlaced and interlocked, one with the other, very Intimately. If they are In good, live condition they will lve very pliable and elastic and stand a great amount of stretching, but if hard a ml dry, when strain Is placed upon them they will break Instead of yieldSOME BECOMIIIO SHADE HATS. lug. Good leather oils are offered for sale at most slue stores, but if one prefers to make his own mixture he can do so by melting together slowly one Iirt of beef tallow and two parts of pure neatsfoot oil. Apply this mixture warm to the shoee, rub Iu well, and the life of the shoe will be doubled. New t'nderelothen. Combination underclothes are becoming more and more the rage. Almost all the corset covers and petticoats that one sees for sale are fastened together around the waistline. Roth bodice and skirt are made on the circv.iar pattern, so that there is as Utile fullness as possible around the waist and hips, and they are Joined together by beading through which ribbon is run. It Is a very attractive looking garment for negligee, but it is far more trouble to keep them both clean and fresh than it is to care for only one piece at a time. The reason for the innovation was, of course, the return of the Empire gown, but the Princess siip of lace and nainsook is a far more becoming gown to the figure than is the combination. A mrr Coiffure. c - n -jt ws- ! The Small, Thlu Woiuaii. The first suggestion is to preserve the height and also maintain breadth. As short skirts tend to take away the height, skirts should be as long as possible. Slender women should wear princess and empire models, an height Is reckoned by the length from the waist line. For street wear the plaited skirt untrimmed is very much the best choice. With this the coat must be either short or very long, as a three-quarter length will not be becoming. Mack hats should not be worn, for when a black hat is worn the height seems to stop at tho face. This may be avoided by wearing a touch of white on the hat, so that the eye may be carried beyond the face. Trimming on her dresses should be arranged lengthwise when it is of contrasting figure. A stylish arrangement by which the hips of the slight woman are brought into prominence is to eonuneuce the trim mi 115 below the hips. The large hat will seriously detract from the height of the small woman and she should for this reason select a small or medium-sized one. A Hurried Supper Dlah. For a little supper dish whipped up in a hurry, cook half a pint of tomatoes or three good-sized ones until they are reduced to a tender pu'p. Season with two teaspoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper, and stir in three eggs. When the mixture is creamy serve without delay.

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FASHIONABLE BUFF AND WHITE.

Buff lineu embroidered with white is so exceedingly dainty and cool in effect that it makes an altogether desirable frock for warm weather wear. This one is made In simple shirt waist style and Is charmingly girlish as well as.practlcal and useful while the band embroidery gives a touch of elegance that nothing else quite affords. The model is an available one, however, and can be made from gingham or from chambray, or from one of the still simpler wash fabrjes if Just a plain morning dress Is wanted, or it can be mado from white linen or blue or from rose color or brown. And, if hand embroidery is more work than it seems advisable to uudertake, some little applied trimming can be make to take its place or the band at the front and the cuffs can be cut from allover embroidery. The blouse is just a simple one, made novel by the wide box plain beneath which the closing is effected, while the sleeves can be finished either with rollover or plain cuffs. The skirt is straight and laid in plaits; In addition to its other advantages it launders successfully and Is well adapted to bordered materials. For a girl of sixteen years of age will be required, for the blouse 32 yards of material 21, 3 yards 32 or 2 yards 41 Inches wide with 2 yards of ribbon; for the skirt G yards 21, 5 yards 32 or 4"i yards 41 inches wide. The Clever Woman. A clever woman, as a wife, is a worn an who is skilled in the conduct of life, in the control of the household, and, alve all, in the management of her husband, says William T. Stead in the Delineator. A woman who could neither read nor write would be a bad wife for any ordinary man in a civilized community; but such an illiterate woman. If she were clever in all tho arts of domestic economy, in the rearing of children, and iu being at once the inspiration and comfort of her husband, would be clever enough for the cleverest man In existence, and infinitely preferable to the cleverest woman In book-learning that has ever been turned out by university. Apple Chutney. Chop and mix together twelve peeled apples, two green peppers, one cup of seeded - raisins and one large onion. Into this mixture stir a pint of vinegar, the Juice of three lemons, two cups of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of ginger. Scald all together, pack into jars and seal. Women anil Cxerclce. Women, there is no doubt, run easily Into excess as fur as exercise is concerned. Tuey will either take no exercise at all and sit huddled over a book or piece of fancy work, or they will suddenly start to walk, and continue walking until they alniast drop. Exercise, to do good, should be gentle and regulfli. straw and WIiik, Here Is a type of hat sure to appeal to the well groomed woman; It has a certain air of dlgulty which one cannot help(but admire. A will be noticed, the hat of white straw has a high crown and sharply turned brim on one side, and the simple but elegant decoration U a blacli liberty satin scarf draped around th crown and two beautiful black breasts and wings on left side. To Get Rid ot I'lean. To get rid of fleas in the house sprinkle carpets well with salt Leave the salt undisturbed for an hour, then sweep it up ; there will be no more fleas in that carpet. Salt may be eprlnkled wherever there are fleas and they will disappear iu a short time.

RECORD-BREAKING CLIMB.

Woman Scale Ills-heat Mountain t m Htlght of 25,000 Feet. Annie S. Peck is the mst persistent mountain climber of her sex and no ne who knows the history of her strug gles a gainst ill-for tune and realizes her 1 n d o m i tabl pluck will fall to feel a sense of personal satisfaction at the success of her latest venture. It Is reported from Lima, Feru, that Miss Teck his ascended Huasraran to the height of 2o,000 feet, th amie s. pi;ck. highest point ever attained by man or womanMiss Peck had previously gone tc South America twice to climb thli mountain. On an .earlier trial she was compelled to give up the attempt after reaching a height of 17,500 feet, owing to the cowardice of her guides. By reaching an altitude of 25,000 feet Mist Peck has ascended higher than any ather person, man or woman, in th world. The previous record was held by W. W. Graham, who reached a height of 23,800 feet in the- Himalayas. Miss Teck began her mountain climb ing in 1805, when she scaled the Mat terhorn. She .ascended Mount Sorata, In Bolivia, reaching a height of 20,500 feet. Huascaran, or Huascan, towers above a notable group of volcanic summits in the south of Tern to the westward of the great plateau In which Lake Titecaea lies. Miss Peck has surmounted almost Impossible obstacles, chief among them the lack of means. Miss Peck was at one time professor in a Western college, but for, many years she has beer occupied as a lecturer and has cllmbt-6 many mountains for the purpose of obtaining material for her lectures. It has been her ambition to climb Huascaran, reputed the highest mountain in the world, which all tho cllmbero of the world had failed to ascend. She has had the greatest difficulty in raising funds for her trips, but she has persisted la the face of constant di couragement and has started on hei mission each time with barely enough money to take her through her sched ule, with no allowance for accident and with but scanty equipment. Scientifically her equipment has always been of the best and np doubt she will bring back some valuable observations. Her past two trips have been made with native guides who proved almost worse than useless. This time she had with her two Swiss guides and it Is doabt less to their experience and hardiness that she owes ber success. Utlca Globe. tavention In some countries, notably In te Russian provinces north of the Cau casus, the sunflower serves other pur poses besides ornamenting gardens with Its huge golden bosses. The seeds are used to make oil, which Is employed both In the manufacture of soap and in cooking. The stems and leaves are burned and the ashes used to makt potash. Last year the sunflower faC' tories of the Caucasus produced 15,000 tons of potash. There are something over 6,000 varie ties of orchids recognized and described by the authorities In the botanical gar dens of Klo de Janiero. A very large portion of this list of plants is composed of varieties which have little ot no value from any standpoint. Some varieties are very common, while a great many of thera are rare enough.tc command from $15 to $30 In Brazil. Other varieties are .very rare and th value of specimens is mostiy fixed by what collectors will pay for them, varying greaily from time to time. Trobably three-fourths of the orchid-exporting business, in value, is in less than a dozen varieties of the plant. Major Ilodder Is an Englishman whe nas been wondering why the Barbadoes, alone of the Antilles, are free from malaria, lie thinks it must be because the Barbadoes, alone of the Antilles, are free from gnats. But why no gnats? Because of the wild and beneficent profusion of fish called "millions." The millions eat the gnats while they're still larvse. Acting on Major Hodder theory, the Jamaicans, the people of Colon and the colonists of British Guiana Imported millions and the gnats vanished. In Africa, where rage the most deadly swamp fevers, millions are employed with immense success. The same means has been adopted by the Italian government to rid the Roman Campagna of its insect foes. Thtise who love experimentation may try the following method of making a cheap banmeter, practiced in France. Take 8 grams of pulverized camphor, I grams of pulverized nitrate of potassium, 2 grams of pulverized nitrate of ammonia, and dissolve In 60 grams of alcohol. Put the whole iu a long, slender bottle closed at the top with n piece of bladder containing a pin-holo to admit the air. When rain Is coming, the solid particles will tend gradually to mount, little star crystals forming la the liquid', which otherwise remains clear; if high winds are approaching, the liquid will become thick, as if fermenting, while a film of solid particles forms on the surface; during fair weather the liquid will remain clear and the solid particles will rest at the bottom. Since the colliery explosions at Oourrieres, in France, and the more recent disasters in the United States and elsewhere, a public demand has been awakened in Europe for some kind of organized rescue work in connection with mines. In Austria and France provision of rescue apparatus in mines Is made compulsory. In Germany it Is optional, but has been voluntarily adopted. In Russia where over fifty men are employed in one mine it is provided that "every colliery must have a rescue corps trained to work iu lrresplrable gases," that "tho numlier of men in each corps must be equivalent to 4 per cent of those engaged in the largest pit or snaftwork" and "that the number of completely equipped seta of breaking apparatus at each colliery must not be less than three." Same Thins. "Miss Bloomer seems to keep hex youth still," remarked Miss Goode. "Well," replied Miss Chellus, "she keeps her age quiet" Philadelphia Press. So far, all that the building of airships has accomplished Is to furnish help for the worit of Old Man Death.

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Pattern Department UP-TO-DATE DESIQNS FOR THE HOME DRESSMAKER lllontte with Over-AValat. The over waist in all its variations continues a first favorite of fashion, but this öne can le made available for treatment of so many sorts that it is especially to be desired. Iu the illus tration it is shown with the over waist and sleeves of one material, the chmls?tte portion being of ;iet, but lh9 sleeves could be made to match the I'ATTLBX NO. u002. Chetnlsettte, so giving more of the gnimpe effect if desired. Iu either casi there is the low narrow opening at the neck, which Is one of latest and prettb est form of the chemisette. -and the trimming i arranged on entirely distinctive and novel lines, while there is a faney lelt that finishes the lower edge.. Almost all the seasonable materials are appropriate for the design, aud it is equally appropriate for the gown and for the odd waist. The Ikivc pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. 8endll orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Pc sure to give both the number and size of rattern wanted, aud write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. R02. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Freneb them lue. The simple French chemise is one if great demand. It can be finished sia ply with a hand-seal loped edge and witS button holes t'i rough which ribbon Ir threaded; it can be more elaborated eiumroidered by hand or it can t trimmed with lace or embroidery cj plied over it. Again, it can be won over or under the corsets, aud this on TA1TEBX SO. C052. is laid ia Inverted plaits ut the back which give fulness in the skirt portion while the garment is plain above. Xo. 0Q5 The above pattern will le mailed te your address on receipt of Hi tvnta Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paier. !' eure to give both the number and size of patterl wanted, and write very plainly. Foi convenience, write your order on th followitg coupon: Order Coupon. No. CCC.' sizi: NAME ADDIi TACTS W03JTH KNOWING. Canada last year increased , Its gor ernment's debt by $7,Sro,SS6, makinf the total debt $2G0,."45,r.,7. In the manufacture of cotton goodi Germany holds third place, being ex: ceedeil only by Great Britain and the United States. The Supreme Court of New York hat decided that the Interborough Kapi4 Transit Company may engage In the business of selling power. Out of a total of 007,157 workers U closing factories la Great Britain 107,S20 are women, the female tailors nam bering 40,072, to 13,034 men. For a time Pennsylvania produce more natural gas than she could znaki use of, but now it is necessary to draw upon the supply of West Virginia. Saskatchewan, Canada, will some dtj le the greatest wheatgrowlng countrj In the world, owing to the pecuiiarlj advantageous conditions of its soil. The gunner usually kills more Um than game. Two new electrical journals appearct recently about the same time bearljjj the same name. One comes from New York and the other from Chicago. Unlike New York, Berlin and many other German cities have not noted al Increase in the supply of domestic ßerfl ants in consequence of financial depression. The use of the gas engine on the farm is growing more popular every year In the last two years W),000 of then motors were purchased by farmers 0 the demand this year has every Indl cation of being greater.

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