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CHAPTER XXYIL (Continued.) 11 was well beyond the Woodlawa dinner-hour before he could muster up tho courage to cross the lawns to Deer Trace. Ko word had passed between film and Ardea since the September afternoon when he had overtaken her t the church door counting as nothln? the effort she had make to speak to turn on the night of vengeance, She was sitting at the piano In the otherwise deserted music-room when he entered; and she broke a chord in th middle to cive him both of her hands, and to say. with eyes shining, as if the rescue were a thing of yes terday: "O Tom! I knew you had it ia you! ft was fine!""Hold on,- he said, a bit unsteadily. "There must be do more misunder

standings. "What happened that night - : three weeks ago. had to happs.; and

ave minutes before it happened I was

I t wondering if 1 could aim straight

; I enough in the light from the slag-pot to hit him. And I fully meant to do

If "I I was afraid.- she faltered. "1

; j knew, you know Japheth had told me, I in In justice to you. That was why I v - an across the lawn and called to you."

Looking It all over, I don't see that there is much to choose between m and the men I've been hunting down. They went after the things they needed, without much compunction for oher people; and so did L On the night of the on the night when you called to me and I wouldn't answer. I us going down to rub It in; to tell them they were in the hole and that 1 bad put them there. I met a man at the gate who told me what Japheth told you. It made a demon o me, Ardea. Z took the man's gun and followed i Vincent around the vard. I meant to ' kill himi "The provocation was very reaC ' ' she said, evenly. -Why didn't you do

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"Nowt you've cornered me: I don't know why I didn't I had only to walk away and let him alone when the time came. The slag-spilling would have settled him. But I couldn't do If "Of course you couldn'f she agreed.

I I convincingly. "God wouldn't let you." 5 "He lets other men commit murder; one a day, or such x matter." f . -Not one of those who have named ! ; His name. Tom as you have." i -Now that It's all over, the taste of : It is like, sawdust In the mouth: HI i admit that much. I'm free; 'free amorv? I the dead, like the slain that lie In the f crave as David put It when he had jf ' Jjpuaded all the depths. Is that being A. - - lorry." J, "No I don't know.- she confessed. -You think I ought to go back to , flret principles: get down on my knees and agonize over It? Sometimes I t wish I could be a boy long enough to rt ' Jut that thing, Ardea. But I can.t. -Ths mill won't grind with the water ; i that has passed.j .V -But the stream Isn't dry,- i.he a- : serted, taking up his figure. -What ; wlll you do now? That Is the quesItlon: the cyly one that Is ever worth J asking." -They took to the woods, the wast palaces, the deaerta those men of old I who didn't understand. Some of them .went blind and crazy and died there; 4 s and some of them had their eyes opent 1 ed and came back to make the world a little better for their having liven In I ; It. Tm minded to try It." f ? "You are going away?"t - -Tea; out to the 'beyond In Northern Arizona. There is a new Iron field out , there to be prospected, and Mr. Clark -' ion wants m j go and report on It 'And that brings us back to business. '- ' May I talk business cold money busi'ness to you for a minute or two?" T f vnn m m i nanu f

2 think the other kind of talk Is more i, profitable." It -l -A curious thing has come to pass ? , suite a miraculous thing, in fact Chlar,'.Vassee v. ill pay the better part of Its j yaebta and and redeem its stock; or (''some of it at least" He rose 'and I stood beside her. "Isn't It a thousand I pities that Colone! Duxbury couldn't tVhave held on to his shares Just a little x:onger? TTcs; he 13 an old man and a broken s 'pne. cow." There ar a sob in her : volc. or he thought there was. But It aras only the great heart of compaa- , r lon that missed no object of pity, j -True; but the nest best thing a to jiave the young woman who marries nto the family bring It back with her, ; Jon't you think? Here i3 a check for . jvhat Mr. Farley's stock would have .old for before the troubles began, it's "V "nade payable to you because well, for I' ibvlous reasons: as I have said, he lost t ; -You zr st;!! the hoadlon?. Impulsive

y Ky. ar?r. i .r.- sa.a, not. alto- ) his ott ti' rt i ou are paj ing money." '

t v - ,i i,r just restl- ; .utlop. or it is r t In cither case, I J 'a?frxt be j cur en. between." i i "Now look here." he argued; -you've ;:ot to be sensible about this. There'll r e four of you. and at lea, two incomi setents; and you've got to have money 4. o live on. I made Colonel Duxbury 1 1 bse It and " . I -Not another word. iZ you please. I

S -T '.'jM't do your errand in this, and I Touldnt If I could." "You think I ought to be generous w nd give It to hfm, anyway,' do you?" j 1 "I don't presume to say," was the j ool rejoinder. -When you have come ully to your rlsht mind, you will know 4 yhat to do. and how to go about If H He crumpled the check, thrusting It .to ni3 pocKet, a na maae two turns I bout the room before he said: "111 see rhem both handed first!" I "Very wi 11; that is your own affair." He fell to walking again, and for a I "Jill minute the silence was broken on7y y the murmur, of men's voices In ths V ,-brary adjoining: The Major had comany. it seemed. ! -This Is 'good-by Ardea; Tm goini '-j-morrow. Can't we part friends?" he i iid, when the silence had begun to inkle unbearably. -You've hurt me," she declared turni ' ig again to me wmaow. ' -You've hurt me, more thauonce." e retorted, raising his voice more than e meant to; and she faced about ulck'y. holding up a warning finger. -Mr, Hennlkr and Mr. Young-Dickon are In tne library with grandpa, hey will hear you.7 -I don't care. I came here to-night 1th a heart full of what few good lings there are left in me. and you ja are so wrapped up In that beggar . jat aiau. t inn

Vf-Hush!" she commanded, Impen1 cly- "Grandfather has not heard: -'- knows nothing, and he must

J !TUe murmur of voices In the adjoing room had suddenly become a storm. 1th the smooth tones of Mr. Hennlker ilnly trying to allay It In the thick , . it the door of communication flew Wt and a white-haired, flerce-mous-c1ed figure of wrath appeared on th rsshold. For a moment Tom's boyf. h awe of the old autocrat, of Deer rare came uDDemdst and he was n.'mptel to run. away. But the wrath if

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n u n by FrencU Lynda n was not directed at him. Indeed, the Major seemed not to see him. -What's ail this I'm hearing now fcr the ve'y first time about these heah low-down, schemin scoundrels that want to mix thel-uh white-nlggeh blood with ouhs?" he roared at Ardea, quite beside himself with passioa "Wasn't it enough that they should use my name and rob my good friend Ca leb? That snivelin younj houn'-dug must pay his cou't to you Vhile The Major's face had beci growing redder, and he choked in sheer poverty of speech. Moreover, Tom had come between; had taken Ardea In his arms protectlngly and was fronting the fire brand Dafcney like a man. -That's enough. Major," he said, de fiantly. "You mustn't say things you'll be sorry for after yoa cool down a bit Miss Ardea is like the king: she can do no wrong." There was a gasping pause, the sound of a big man breathing hard, followed by the slamming of the door, and they were alone together again. Ardea crying softly, with hr face hidden on the shoulder of shielding. -Oh. Isn't it terrible?" she sobbed; and Tom held her the c'oser. -Never mind," he comforted,. "You know he will be heartbroken when he comes to himself. You are his one ewd Iamb, Ardea." I know," she faltered; -but O Tom! it was so unnecessary; so wretchedly unnecessary! It's It's more than two whole months since since Vincent Farley broke the engagement and He held her at arm's length to look at her, but she hid her face in Uer hands. "Broke the engagement!" he exclaim ed, almost roughly. -Why did he do that?" She stood before him with her hands clasped and the clear-welled eyes moot ing his bravely. "Because I told him I v told him I could not marry him without first telling him that r loved you. Tom; that 1 had been loving you always and In spite of eves'thlng." she said. CHAPTER XVIIL -Tom. Isn't this the same foot-i.-i? you made me walk that day when you were trying to convince me that vnn tere the meanest boy that ever breath ed?" asked Ardea. gathering her skirts preparatory to the. stream crossing. -It is. iiui you aiaii walk It - you may remember; you fell off. Walt a second and give me those azaleas. I'll go first and take your hand." Tom Gordon, lately home from nii half-year spent In the unfettered soli tudes of the carnso iron Re ds, tn k m v W married first and afterward tt up with Caleb for superintendent the idle Chlawassee plant as a test and exDerimental shop for American in,,.. duct was indemnifying himself for the long exile. , . On this Saturday evening a th ti ers' month of June he had walked Ardea around and about through the fragrant summer wood of the upper creek valley, retracing, in part the footsteps of .the boy whose fishing had bjen Dolled and the little girl who be bullied Into submission; and po rambling they had come at length to the old moss-grown foot-log which had been a newly-felled tree In the former time. Tom went first across the rustle bridge, holding the hand of ecstatic tnrullngs. and pausing in mid-passage that he might have excuse for holdlns It the longer. It was during the mld-passacre nauas. and while she was looking down on tho swirling waters sometime of terrifying. that Miss Dabney said: How deep is It Tom? Would I real ly have drowned If you and Hector had not pulld me wu;r "It's a thankless thing to spoil an idyl, but you could have waded out" She made the adorable" little grimace which was one of the survivals of tho yesterdays, and suffered him to lead her across--And I have always believed that I owed my life to you and Hector!" she said, .reproachfully. "You owe me much more than thaf he affirmed broadly, when they had sat down to rest they had often to do thij, lest the way should prove shorter than the happy afternoon on the end of the bridge log. "Money?" flippantly. -No; love. If It hadn't been for me. you might r ever have knovn what love is." "It is a hh:h gift", he said, soberly; "the highest of all r a woman. Onco I thought I should live and die without kno; ag it as many women do. I wish I might give you something as great" "I am already overpaid." he asserted. "For a man there Is nothing so great, no influence so nearly omnipotent as the love of a good woman. It Is the lever that moves the world what littlo it does move up the hill to the high planes." : Silence while shs gathered the sweetsmelling tangle in her lap Into some more portable arrangement And afterward, when they were drifting slow ly homeward In the lengthening shadows, a rmail asking. f "Mr. Morelock is coming out to-morrow to hold service In St John's, and I shall go to play for him. Will you uo with me, Tom?" He smiled out of the gold and sapphire depths of a lover's reverie. 'One week from the day after the day after to-morrow and it will be the longest week-and-two-days of my life, dearest your grandfather will , take you to church, and I shall bring you away! Won't that be enough ?" She took him quite seriously. "I shall never be a Fellclta YoungDickscn, and drag you," she promised. "But, O Tom! I wish " -I know" he said, eently. "You are thinking of the days to come; when the paths may diverge yours and mine ever so little; when there may bo children to choose between their mother's faith and their father's indifference. But I am not indifferent So far from It I m only anxious now to prove what I was once so bent on disproving." "You yourself are the strongest proof," she interposed. - "You will see it, some day." "Shall I? I hope so; and that is an earnest hope. And really and truly, I think I have come up a Tiit out of the wilderness, you know. I am w.'llng to admit that this Is the b;st of all possible worlds v and I want to do my part ' making it a little better because I have lived In It Also. Td like, to believe In something bigger and better than protoplasm." Her smile was of the kind which stands half-way in the path to tears. I ut she spoke bravely to the doubt in his reply. "You do believe, Tom, dear; you have never seen the moment when you did not It was the doubt that was unreal. When the supreme test came. It was God's hand that restrained you; you know It now you knew It at the time. And afterward It was His grace that enabled you to do what was just and right Haven't you tidmltted all this to yourself?"

The; had crossed the white pike to the manor-house gates and were turning aside from the driveway Into the winding lawn path when he said: To myself, and to one other." Then, very softly: "I sat at my mother's knee last night Ardea, and told her all thre was to tell." Ardea's eyes wre shining. "What did she say, Tom. dear or is it more than I should ask?" v "There is nothing you may not ask. She raid It wasn't altogether true, I'm afraid but she put her arms around my neck and cried and said: 'For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was los, and Is found.' " She slipped her arm in his, and there was a little sob of pure Joy at tho catching of her breath. The moon wu Just rising above the Lebanon clhTline, and the beauty of the glorious night-dawn possessed her utterly. Ah, it was a good world and a generous, bringing rich gifts to the steadfast! Instinctively she felt that Tom's little confession did not require an answe; that ho was battling his way to the heights which must be taken alone. So them came in the sacred hush of the young night to a great tulip-tree on the lawn, and where a curionsly water-worn limestone boulder served as a rustic seat wide enough for two r.hose hearts are one they sat down together, still in the companionship that needs no speech. It was Tom who first broke the silence. -I have been trying ever since that night last winter to feel my way out," he said, slowly. But what Is to come of it? I can't go back to the boyhood yesterdays; in a way I have hopelessly outgrown them. Let us autnit that re ligion has become real again; but Ardea, girl. Is Isn't Uncle Silas religion. or or my mother's, or even yours. And I don't know any other, "It Is all right dear; there Is only the one religion In all Christendom perhaps In all the world, or In God's part of It The difference is in peo pie." "But this thing that has been slowly happening to me this thing I . try ing to call convlncement: shall I wake up some day and find it gone, with ail the old doubts In the saddle again? he asked it almost wistfully. -Who can . tell?" she said, gently. But it will makc.no difference; the Im mutable fact will be there just tho same, whether you are asleep or wak ing. We can't always stand on the Mount of Certainty, any of us; and to some, perhaps, it is never given. But when one saves his enemy's life and forgives and forgets O Tom, deAri "n't you understand?" But now his eyes are love-blinded, and the white-gowned figure beslda him fills all horizons. "J can't see past you, Ardea. Never thcless, I'm going to believe that I fe-l the good old pike solid underfoot tnd they say that the House 1 rautlful is somewhere at the mountain end of IV. If you will hold my hand. I believe I can make out to walk In It; blindfolded, if I have to and without thinking too much of the yesterdays." "Ah, the yesterdays!" she said, ten derly. "They are precious, too; for ut of them, out of their hindrances no less than their helpings, comes to-day. KUs me, twice, Tom; and then I must 50 in and read to Major Grandpa." (Tho end.) FACTS ABOUT THE NAVY. Oae-Fonrth of United States Fleet I'rartlcallr Worthle. The statement Is widely printed that the United States Is now tho "second naval power of the world." This assertion may please patriotic pride. The difficulty is that it Is not strictly true. ' Any real comparison of naval strength must primarily, rest, not on the total number of vcaaeU built or building, nor on the entire tonnage of such craft. It depends on the ships which are effective Judged by exacting modern standards. ThU3 within the next three years England will have seventeen armorclads of the Dread nought or ' "super-Dreadnought" type. Germany will have thirteen. ThU country will have ten. The balk of the German navy Is composed of ships constructed at a later date than our own. The kaiser's fleet has comparatively few vessels that will need to be sent to the scrapheap In tho near future. Not fewer than one-fourth -possibly one-third of the large naval craft under the American flag are regarded by competent observers as practically worthless for fighting purposes to-day. Most of them were excellent when they were built But marine architecture m-jves with gigantic strides in the twentieth century. It is believed that one float ing fortress like the lately launched Florida could whip three or four of our older battleships. It Is the very big and very powerful ship that counts. This republic Is gradually creating a respectable array of these. Its proportionate rank is far higher than it was even half a dozen years ago. But there 13 small use or sense in boastful proclamations which do not accord w.'th the facts. Hott Wrule Carry Kcsr. According to the Scotsman, a weasel was recently surprised crossing the public highway leading from Jedburgh Into Oxnam Water. It was observed to be carrying something under Its chin and pressed against Its slender neck, and when a collie dog belonging to one of the onlookers made a dash at the little creature It dropped its bur dena hen's egg and, gliding under the roadside hedge, disappeared In the woodland. On being picked up the .S waj found to be without a crack. a nearest poultry run is about 300 yard3 distant from the place where the weasel was intercepted. Enclnnd's Fatal Saturday. Authorities on things supernatural may be able to explain why Saturday ! has been a fatal day to the rulers of England. William III. died on Saturday, March 8, 1702; Queen Anne on Saturday, August 1, 1714; Georgs II. on Saturday, ; October 25, 17C0: George III. on Saturday, January 29, 1820, and George IV. on Saturday, June 26, 1S30. Georga L Just mLssed Saturday by two hoir3, dying at 2 a. m. on Sunday, and the late King Edward breathed his last Just a quarter of an hour before midnight, Friday night. May C. 8coad Ckolce. 1 The woman was lightly clad and e?Idently not too well off. "Have you no heart?' -None." The man's gruff, almost harsh. she asked, answer .was "None whatever?" -Absolutely none." "Then I guess you may give mt pound of liver." Tlt-Blts. Uer Great Roast. -Did you have a good time on your boat trip?" "A good time? I should say I dldl I was the only one permitted to tat at the captain's table." Detroit Free Press. Descriptive. "Is he broke?" -Broke! Why, his as3ets rattle around In hl3 liabilities like a pea in a coal bucket." St Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Tine Office C

By TEMPLE BAILEY

Copyright. 1910, by The judge had always looked' upon Mi3s Staley a3 a machine. Every morning she took his dictation for an hour and later she brought the letters to be signed. That was the beginning and the end of their intercourse. The judge was a very busy man, and it was only when some one Interrupted his routine that he gave exasperated attention. Expertness was the price of indlfTerence. Hence the first time he saw the human side ot Miss Staley it came as something of a shock. She was feeding the office cat Taat forlorn feline, a3 far back as tne Judge could remember, had been a thin-bodied reproach to the com munity. There Was a tradition that she lived by catching rats. But such living wa3 evidently precarious, for fehe had always gone about lean and lank, and somewhat plaintive. On warm days she tcok her airings In a restr'cted back court, but iu cold weather she curled herself, apologet ically, near a radiator in a corner of the hall, subject always to tho moods of the janitor. looay, however, things were changed. There was a bottle of mlUc on Miss Staley's desk and her sponge cup had been converted Into a feed iig dish, from which the cat ate rav enously while the little lady watched her with a tender smile on her llos and a tiredf relaxing of her slender figure which made her seem, for the first time, to the judge's eyes ex quisitely feminine. The judge's post of observation was his window, which looked across an alrshaft into Miss Staley's small The Cat Ate Ravenously. room, where a typewriter and a great oak desk hobnobbed with a pot of pansies on the sill. Moved by a sudden impulse, he raised his window and motioned, and the girl came blushing to hers. "I couldn't help it," she confessed, across the space; "she Is such a poor Uttbi creature." "Why didn't some of us men think of It?" the Judge demanded. Ve are selfish" "Oh, but men are so busy," wa3 her defense. "Wc aren't much busier than you." "No, but a woman oh, it's a woman's privilege to do such things, isn't nr The Judge liked that. So many women of his own world seemed to have forgotten the claims of compassion, and at times the Judge, remembering his own mother and her gracious personality, bad yearned for somo evidence of brooding tenderness. Ho had certainly not expected to find It In his ofSce girl. Yet here was Miss Staley looking after a distressed animal as his own ladymother would have done, feeding it and making a bed for it In a paper box; and saying, v that dear woman would havo said, that "men were too busy" and that this was "a woman's Privilegs." He thought about it so much after he left the office that the next day Miss Staley was surprised by a largo parcel, upoi. the delivery of which the judge came over to uake explanations. . "It's a basket for tbe cat. That old box doesn't look In keeping with tho rest of the furniture." He had chosen It of tober brown v.icker, and there were two linen covers tor the cushion, to bo washed weekly. "Oh, Pussykin, Pussykln." Miss Staley rejoiced, "you won't quite know what to do with such mangniflcence." But her eyes were shining as she thanked him. Now sho can keep her white fur. It is hard for her, poor thing, when there aro so many ashes." The screen made such an effective hldtig. piaco that ,p one but the judge and Miss Stal-.y knew of the good fortuno that had come- to the cflco cat. It furnished them, too, with a littlo secret and delightful inChildren's Answers. Children's answers to historical questions are sometimes illuminating. The 12-year-old boy who wrote "The conquest of Ireland began in 1170- and Is still going on" wa3 evidently a precocious political genius. And the girl who, when asked for a character of Queen Mary, replied: "She was willful as a girl and crued as a woman; rut what can you expect from a perion who had five stepmothers?" show;'l v. logical mind. Sometimes tha7 "v. their patriotic feelings unduly .0 bias them. Th3 was the case with n American toy who, called upon to rame the first man, answered: "Washington." When reminded of Adam, he protested: "Oh, we den't count for- . Inors." London Chronicle. Yeliow on the Walls. In the course of an entertaining article on "Color Harmony" in Suburban Life, Lois L. Ho wo says: "A dingy city house in a dark street with little lun was renovated by using yellow . roughout. There 13 no color which r'ts of so many shades being used her harmoniously as yellow. i

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Associated Literary Press terest, and brought into the judge's somewhat staid bachelor life a freshness which was a relief from the stale excitements of late suppers and showgirls which seemed to satisfy hl3 clubfellows. Reverence for women had been Instilled Into the judge by his mother, but he had found few who had Justified it. It was a real joy to discover the depths of Miss Staley's nature! He had to go about it slowly, for she permitted no cessation of their strict business relations. The only subject which he dared to discuss with her in formally was the office cat. Never did a feline acquire Importance more suddenly. It became a daily occurrence for the judge to step in and say good morning to "Pussykin." He put her milk on the office expense account, experimented 'with prepared foods, and furnished fresh and dried supplies of catnip, until at last, when the one-time starvling took her place beside the pot of pansies on Miss Staley's window, she was a joy to behold. Thuj all went well until one cold morning, when Miss Staley came in for dictation. The judge saw that her usual self-possession had forsaken her. Ho gave her three letters before she broke down, and then she wrung her hands and said, wistfully, Hko'a child: "Oh, I've lost my cat" "How," the judge cat up. "you don't mean ?" "Yes, I do. I haven't seen her for two days. The Janitor has ' had It in for me ever since I told him that if I heard him beating his boy again I would report him to the police." "Well." the Judge stated, "he will find out that I" The janitor, after much compulsion, admitted that he had carthe cat to the edge of the city, and had dropped her near the ash dump. "Sho was mine," was his defense. "I will get you another cat," was the way the judge tried to comfort ML33 Staley. But Miss Staley shook her head. "Oh, no, you mustn't I think the reason I liked this one was because she was alone, and nobody seemed to care for her, and since I came here among strangers I know how it feels." Then, lest she should seem to claim Ms sympathy, she turned it off with r. little lauglr. "But I have enough to eat" "As if that sufficed." the judge soliloquized, when she had left him. "Why what she need3 is love " The suddenness of the revelation brought him up with a jerk. "Oh, look here," he admonished himself, "you mustn't think of such a thing, you know." But ho did think of It, and the outcome was an invitation to Miss Staley to go with him that afternoon in his car to hunt for the office cat. Under stress of circumstances, Miss Stanley consented. They did not find the cat, but the judge found out where Miss Staley lived. During a second search, the Judge discovered that Miss Staley's name was Margaret, and on the third trip he- had the joy of buying her a bunch of violets. t The fourth day Miss Staley . declined to go with him. "I am busy, and I am afraid it's of no use to look further," she said. The Judge wasted the next day In meditation, and having come to a decision, he went back late to his office to look over a case that was coming up the next day. Thus it happened that,' at midnight, he heard in the hall an unmistakable "mew." He was out of his room like a shot to find before MIs3 Staley's closed portal a shivering, foot-sore creature who dragged herself to hin over the stoue floor. ' "Wliy, Pussyiin, Pussykin," he said, tnd petted her and carried her back to his office, and made her comfortabio besido his radiator. Then he telephoned to tho corner lunchroom for a bottle of milk and a box of fried oysters, and they had their late supper together, happily. The rapture of Miss Staley the next morning was his reward. Hut he was not content to let It end there. "We've got to plan It out," he said, firmly. and shut the door of Miss Staley's sanctum and sat down ind faced her, whllo the regenerated Pussykin purred at their feet "That cat can't stay here it Isn't really businesslike you know " "I know." Miss Staley's tone was deprecating. But I live In a board ing house, and " "I don't," said the judge. "You mean," her glance m2t his, "that you want her?" "I want both of you," the Judge clared, bluntly; my house is empty, and my heart is empty Mar garet" When they planned tr.cir wedding journey the judgo suggested England In general, and Cheshire In particu lar. "Because of the checao?" was MIs3 Staley's demand. "Because of ti;e cats," was the whimsical response. So away they went, and they were not missed greatly by Pussykin, who was ' absorbed in raising a snowy family in unparaiened ease and opulence. this instance, the hall wallpaper had a white ground with green leaves and yellow flowers, and the rooms varied frora plain yellow and mode color through figured papers of all sort3, according to their uses, but yollow was alwaj-s the dominant tone." His Erroneous Impression. Gilbert I thought there was a si lent partner in tho firm of Goodsell & Co.? Brewster No, tue only partner is Coodsell'a wife. Daily Spectacle. Griggs I sup.voso you're going- out to Atlantic to see the aviating? Brigg No; it's nothing new to me My wife's up In th air most of the time. Still Hurting. "How do you find your breakfast, Mr. Starboarder?" - "I haven't found it yet, Mrs. Hasher; all I've found is a dab of breakfast food and a cauple of cakes."

STRONG DRINK IS RUINOUS Men Pre-eminent for Intellectual Attainments All On Side of Temperance. Such brilliant lights as Burns and Poo have been cited to prove that strong drink Is an fncentlve to fire the imagination to lofty heights of fancy impossible to be reached in sober moments. Both Burns and Poe were victims of the drink habit and both geniuses, but their cases so far from supporting the claim of alcohol to usefulness argues against it. If Burns and Poe, God-gifted as they were, had kept their faculties cleat nnd their reasons undimmed, what might they not have done? The former might have become the Hornet of the Eastern and the latter the Dante of the Western World. As it was, these twin stars of the firmament of literature scintillated fitfully for only a few years. They simply reeled through life until they came to the verge of premature graves and tottered into them ere half their time on earth was spent, writes Madison C. Peters in an exchange. The age of Johnson may be termed the golden age of English literature. Its. sky was studded with brilliancy, but how long did the light last? Men of such transcendant gifts as Goldsmith, Savage and Shenstone did not know the meaning of life. Their brief careers were spent I nriotous living. Charles Lever, prince of Irish novelists, represented the Irish squires and gentlemen as hard-headed, hard-drinking, rollicking fellows, whose chief amusements were fox hunting, lovemaking, and breaking one another's heads. For the most part this portrayal was true, but there were some notable exceptions to Lever's creations among the gentry of Ireland. The men who did the most for Ireland, who reflected an undying glory on her cause, were, if not teetotalers at least temperate. Grattan, Flood', Wolfe, Tone, Fitzgerald and Emmet were temperate. O'Connell seldom drank a glass of wine. The Duke of Wellington was an abstemious man. Parnell in the heyday of his fame could not be Induced to touch liquor. His head was always clear in the house, and this was the secret of his political foresight, which enabled him to accomplish so much. The great leaders of English politics, both In the past and present centuries, have been strictly temperate men. uiaustone only touched light wines on rare occasions.. Morley, aBl four. Spencer, Harcourt, Salisbury. Chamberlain, all early took their places beneath the temperance banner. At royal receptions and ambassadors' balls none of these men could bo Induced to take liquor in any form. The well known literary men of England ia our t'me have almost to a man been temperate. Dickens, though he drank a glass of ale betimes, never exceeded discretion. Beade, Be,sant, Paine, Buchanan, Tennyson and Browning were all on the side of temperance. . The same cm be said of the leading statesmen and writers of Germany, France, Italy and other European countries at the present day. y The same is notably true of eminent Americans. Have any of our great Inventors been drunkards? They havo spent thMr days and nights in ceaseless activity, perfecting their designs with clear brains and steady hands, only desisting to obey the call of exhausted nature. Edison, tho wizard of electricity, never . touches intoxicating liquors. Could the Wrights and Curtlss, Zeppelin and Blerlot have conquered the air with rum-drenched brains and jangling nerves? Our great scientists and medical men, knowing well the dangers that lurk in the sparkling glass, shun It as they would deadly poison. Kelvin. Crookes, Roentgen and Koch have all been total abstainers. Drink saps the vital organs and dulls the brain. It has stripped the crown from the brow of manhood and engirdled it with a crimson band of shame; it has plucked the flowers from the garden of success and in th'ir place has strewn the weeds of failure. It has wrenched the sword of victory from the hands of conquerors, turned it into a scourge and driven them from the arena of fame Into the darkness of obscurity; from royal brows It has taken Imperial crowns and dashed them Into fragments on the stone of defeat and lgnomy. The men who made America were, with some notable Ysxceptlons, of abstemious habits and austere lives. Liquor never adds, but always subtracts. So far from being a stimulant, it is an anaesthetic; it deadens I instead ox quickens. Science ' has classed it as a sporific or narcotic. Instead of bellpng man up It draga him down; instead of placing him on the sun-crowned heights of success and honor it places him in the gutter of ftlluro and shame. Temperance in Ireland. Increased taxes on whisky have had a tendency to decrease Its consumption in Ireland. It is shown that with tho decrease of consumption there has been 3 corresponding decrease In the number of arrests for drunkenness. So great' has been the improvement that Mr. Lloyd George has not hesitated to say "that It would be criminal on the part of any government to reduce the Impost which had produced such immedlato and satisfactory result In the Improvement of the habits of the people. In other words, the los3 to tho national exchequer is more than recouped by the Increased prosperity to the nation and tho consequent improvement la Its ability to meet the calls of tho tax payer. Hear, Hear. When a man says, "I can hear a noise!" it probably never occurs to him that there is nothing in this wide world that anybody can hear but a noise. Purple Cow. Drunkenness In London. There was so much drunkenness in London about 17S9 that the hackney coachmen carried on quite a lucrative business driving through the streets at night to pick up men who had trouble to find their way home or who had dropped down in the streets. There are now 13 licensed reformatories and 22 inebriates' retreats in England. Women constituted the larger number of tkes sentenced last year to these places. Intemperance among women there is increasing.

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GOWNS FOR STREET MOST SENSIBLE SIDE OF FASHION HERE SHOWN. Autumn Styles Are Considerably Varied This Year Selection to Suit Different Tastes Is Therefore Made Easy. Tailored suits and evening wraps are among the first reliable things that appear with . autumn, and as usual the useful street frocks display only the most sensible side of fashion. The short, tight-skirt gets a reasonable touch with these practical garments, and though sometimes one encounters the hobble band it Is so modiBed and tricked out between plaitings frs scarcely to be discernible. Favorite models for these walking skirts are plain gored affairs, with a deep band at the bottom, with which a limp, narrow coat single or double breasted, with shawl or coat collar and tight sleeves, goes to perfection. Other skirts will show a little lengthwise plaiting, this in panel3 at the sides, or starting la below a tight hip portion, or the skirt may have a close upper part and a kilted flounce 12 inches or more deep, put on unler a hobble band. But it is not posible to describe all the models, they, ire so numerous, so varied. The two things necessary seem to be shortness nnd a fair amount of closeness, tnd when these are obtained 6hops ind tailors may run riot with lndivldlal touches. The coats that accompany these ikirts manifest the new vogue ini a iumber of ways, but all things said md done, the sack coat is pretty much the same as Is also the Russian blouse, for this jacket model is seen Ugain, and is, indeed, much exploited by French makers. Upon the .practical suits for both women and misses little trimming will be used, a contrar.Ung color on the collar and handfame buttons being considered enough. Hut If the suit i3 a fino one rich trimmings may appear in panels on the loose coat, or a Rusian blouse will turn back over a gay embroidered vest while a very dressy suit here and there may be trimmed on the skirt as well as on the Jacket. But for the most pan the taitor skirt is without bther decking than that which would to made by the plaited material and a few handsome buttons. The materials used are manifold, but Interest ha3 been revived in velvet, corduroy and velveteen, so Tery likely there will be a number of sach suits for the dressier wear, with the jacket trimmings suitably; handsome. Wool, smooth, rough lightweight and heavy, is used for the everyday garment, the many serges, cloths, men's suitings and 'cheviot employed responding admirably to a touch of gayer color on the jacket In fact, it Is quite the thing to have the suit ma'-e-rial Very somber and the coat touches very gay, and so, with a hat and other accessories suitably smart. It is possible to get both dressy and practical wear out of a well made tailor suit of quite a simple nature. In the Illustration I3 shown the sort of street gown th&fc will be approved for misses. It has the w:elltred restraint that is desirable for young girls, and no matter how plain tho gowns, if they are fitted welL and carefully finished, with proper accessories, they would bo quite goo:? enough for dress ups. MARY DEAN Way to Select Partners. " A clever way to ask the men to select partners at an evening party is to get each girl to bring the earliest picture of herself obtainable. The pictures are numbered, the hostess having a list of each name opposite the number so when the time comes for making revelations she can do it quickly and with certainty. Just before time for the game or refreshments for which partners are necessary pass a basket or tray with the pictures turned face down; ask each r-ian-to draw one and find the original. Colored Eyelet. A new touch in trimming Is colored English eyelet embroidery worked on white and Introduced at the Qeck and sleeves of the new gowns. It Is seen also in many of the midday and Byron collars now so fashionable. The white fabrlcv need not be Ilten; this effect is seen also on unwashablo materials in dress frocks, and It gives a very pretty touch when used as a white silk chemisette (for instance) embroidered in eyelet in the color of the gown. ,

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SUITABLE FOR YOUNG GIRL Two Costumes That Would Make Up Well In Many Kinds of Popu- . lar Material. The first costume would Icok vrell in navy serge. The skirt is & fire" gored ehape. trimmed down center of front and round foot by Russia braid, which is sewn on In a Grek key design. The coat is semi-fitting, and ha. wrapped seams down sides of front and back. It 5s trimmed with braid to match skirt. The plain coat 6leeves are the same. An embroidered lawn collar finishes the neck. Navy bluo Tagal hat trimmed with a wreath of deep pink roses. Materials required: 5& yards wrga 46 inches wide, about 4 dozen yard braid, 4 yards silk for lining coat The second is a smart style, mad up in auricula faco cloth. THE LATEST IN HANDBAGS Novel and Varied Are the Desljn That Are Now Being Shown fn the Shops. Here are some of the very newest things in the handbag. line. A fitted bag for week-en is is of seal leather, with . an overhanging bo frame ten inches wide. It is equipped with a leather pocketbook and revon toilet and manicure articles. The lln? ing is of red leather and the frame 14 In rose or green gold, with burnished metal pieces. A very exclusive and luxurious litt: bag is of blue cross-grain safSaal leather with a frame of imitation ivoryi and a lining of blue moire. It has duplicate strap handles and an equip-, ment of change purse, card case anoV combined powder-puff pocket andj bevel mirror. v There is a novelty unbreakable clasp. . Still gmaHer, for afternoon use, is green cros3-graln saffian; leather bag five and one-half by six Inches. It has a gold-plated frame concealed be-j tween two flaps and flanked on ach, side by pockets. Duplicate strap handles are again used here, and there! come with the bag, in pockets be neath the outer front Cap, a mirror. Ai kid-lined powder-puJf pocket and & slate with a gold pencIL Another bag of dark green moroc-' co, nine inches wide, has a motherof pearl frame,' held on by green bands. The lining is gray calfskin, with a change purse, a powder-puff pocket and a mirror. Tho handle is so made as to. fall flat against the bs when folded down. A bag with an overlapping box frame of German silver, one-half entering Into the other like a box and its lid, is of black walrus with black bag lining, and there are a vanity accessory and a coin purse. Red and blue cross-grain saßan leather, suede, walrus and uiottled or beaver calf are all in all the best choice for handbags this season. Teilet Economy. The particular hostess now uses individual pieces of soap in her guest room and gives to each new guest a frenh piece. Where much entertaiaina is done this moans numerous odds and ends of fino soap. One woman has hit upon the plan c using this for the children in a wir soap shaker such as are found fof dishwashing. The tiniest pieces can be thus utilized. A basin is filled; with warm water and the shaker agt tated until a thick lather is formed.' Another way to use up small ptecei . of fine soap Is to put them into small) cheesecloth bags and use as one would a bran or almond meal bag. , Novelty Vanity Box. So wedded is the modern girl to her powder puff that it is concealed everywhere. Hatpin tops, lockets, ornaments for the chatelaine, compartments in the opera bag and chain, purse, cardcases, all reveal the useful toilet adjunct at the touch of a spring. One of the latest places of concealment for a vanity box is as a plaque on top of a bracelet. The bracelet itself is of thinly plaited gold wires, and the plaque Is the size of a smalLi open-face watch. It is enameled la vivid Chantecler coloring arounl aa ovar central space for the owner's sonogram. At a touch tho lid lift.1 ' owing a tiny puff and nowder Crib Cover. A pretty crib cover may be raada from a yard each of white and pal blue or pink flannel. On the colored1 flannel embroider a flower and bowknot design; on the white a conven-, tlonal border and a large central monogram. Bind the two together by means of a wide satin ribbon and put a bow or rosette in one corner, with the colored 6lde considered as tho The Newest In Cellars. Byron and 'Dutch collars both continue In favor. Jabots are especially popular in the lacy varieties. . The new collars are often of changeable silk with Persian satin -or, cf'plalq satin trimmed with a plaited quilling of Persian silk. Wearing Jewelry. This is not to bo a lecture on. tho -poor taste of wearing diamonds with shirtwaists and rare jewels on the field. The woman who Is not ceo vinccd by this time that such thlrj are bad form will never learn.

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