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The Southern Sentinel ssI-COFI A, a: :OS. WINUI ELD. : : LOUISIANA. A FORTUNATE FAILURE to Wr b Danzr say rey Ye. oCA Y HER manner she evidently meant what she had spoken. "No, I shall never marry a man who gambles, be it cards or stocks," she re peated. Joel wondered at her attitude, but re solved that she should never be the wiser in regard to his recent scheming on the market. "Persaps that is why you did not at tend the last progressive euchre party at the De Laneys." "You guessed right; it was in con vict with my principle, hence I declined to attend." He began to suspect that his path in the wooing of Marie would not be as smooth as his sanguine expectations had pictured it "It is very exciting," he ventured. "And very exhilarating when you lose, I presume." "To lose is not necessary for our health and happineEs, besides it is fine sport to win." "I hope you are not speaking for your self; if you are we can never be the best of friends, I am sure." He gazed through the window down the broad avenue and, although it was nine o'clock at night, he readily recog nised -the face of Williams, his most hated adversary on exchange, passing In his automobile. His wife and daugh tar were with him, evidently out for an evening spin., and for a moment Joel realized that he was planning their ruin. A moment later she continued: "I am at present writing a magazine ar ticle upon the evils of stock gambling. I shall use the most telling arguments in favor of government control of the market." He suddenly came to the conclusion that there was only one way open to him and that was to win her before his corner of eggs was announced. She stepped to the piano and he obediently followed. Posseesing a fine baritone roe be w, as he so .otten had done before, poured out his love in song.. le laid sach stress upon each recurrence of any reference to the delicate passion that ahe could not help but understand. She seemed engeossed in the manipula ties of the keyboard, but he recognised by th bowie oe heead hat his ped tg i., song was not in vain, Between the lull In theausehe woela whisper wht he left uags and the r. m n as mo or later was to be expected, themt masgasemt would be announoei ft the eairfwtte. Upea l la he added: "Let a hope th foyear tmagma article will be ap meated bytr your readers." nd ehneskled tn hblse1f while steppingr aToud th eema toa h resMdenee. Tie eant moraiasng be awoke with the Jrm eonvatonm that life was one .lang, sweet seea Not that he onubted this' bie.re, but he began to realie that the pror tasahe had been inearias wheilte iskpt eof haisbrd*st he lace over the arnm ng paper, n the .etatl aetuma there was naturally 'metc e Iamt lb . and withai stanmc ,;; .j ise M. nted a peanlse t .matig as t his rlatlonas with the markdet. His earner is bu.l-nigh eoi Santd bie i , rerogasaed ma genius W R It s ains tIed oat he t1 stSdoe s s fortaSe. Iathe v ° = a alwais dsIeadin ýstaiensrrri: es dme edanselg b - s seemhis 4riatsints we ahiesag V Veear of a msemle 1(diaed I hdas eriise voreti thl am Jay the heast y g e s . hie.U Is aehj ate ma -MC34It w them·i~ aH kissed her upturned face tenderty, murmuring the while softly: "My own, my darlihg own. The pa pers have grossly exaggerated the mat ter. Cannot the love we bear each other mold this slight diferece o0r?" "Mold it over! Oh, how miserable I am! For my sake stop the daily. gam ble. I will die if you do not!" Joel's heart was, touched deeply. For a moment he entertained the thought that he would drop the game. But, what would his friends, they who ex pected so much of him, think? Human nature is passionately fond of a show and if in its self-complacency it can ap pear above its fellows the hardest toil will be as play. The pinnacle of fame, in its glitter, is sufficiently enchanting to enthrall us in its glory; but the greed for wealth entirely circumvents our better nature and leaves us but a vestige of our real selves. Such was the situation with Joel. He was winning in a desperate game. He die not require additional wealth to exist better. He could not live in bet ter comfort with any number of millions added to his already vast store. But deep in his nature there lrked the germ of greed. It found food upon contem plating another's succes. Failures were not noticed. An opening presented it self for a cornor and the germ, the trifling blaze at the bottom of his na ture, fanned into an uncontrollable con flagration. He departed that evening sorely pained at heart. He did not value riches above Marie, but he positively I could not.understand why both together I should be an impossible attainment. Marie's last words--"Oh, had the seeds of my love fallen upon better I soil"-bewildered him and the day that I began so bright ended in chaos. The afternoon of the next day saw Marie shopping and Joel in his office deeply engrossed in the fluctuations of prices caused by rumors of fresh ship ments from the west. His partners on exchange kept him constantly informed by a private wire of the turn of the 1 cards. The news became more and more disquieting and the corner of the mar ket became doubtful. Was he losing? , With the birth of the thcnght he.dashed = E. With the birth of the thought he.dashed NI i ! i t r " S .. I to the produce exchange. Veer aread a eorner he suddenly came upon 1 t r he luid fBut Mare, more composed, reaied: a I"ood even, Joel Th certainly vry unexpected." e "Yes, I-have--m-yes-I am In a nrest hurry." His eonfusioa betrayed his excitement and Marie was not slow in uerstaadi.g A moment later Se added: "AM I easeuabley Wi cell ithis even-1 ins as usual." S"Job, are yo smll at R after all my oentreatiest A Jough you did not say it, I took it for guated that you would b ve rt up for n p Scte."e Jed gave heem-ye sn look, then a rwhet down the st leav her maet bhurrs" home convmulse with a u rtt.r imeno. She queur de-a isalo tat air aa.iesý w amesnt sowd b la ndsmaa lr Aor aomt h ientrd v t a dred l : a abmoest ealigt 1 ."Oa ato . athlg to . .n" py " a - A are, I nelsenteid-- a S"t. e t.hi? ewIratlee and ayr Seestie rea d theo o y lowu g otshead It, Itd 'olelltande. lad. His corter rhe nd eon are again witthi reach. al na eatire fortue dis ppeara." . a ThIe heauin was hom clent lAbowi a s she tn sL teat hel uil. e - se pheo amle. wer.amiaEael ur ahu and t ne they reld aarry after all. a :.S et beolnght sett-uqism os nt a. at rset eke felt .song, n jmtlan toharse sboreiat Jtl es apon al . Al sat trek resouhre hin enin- . .10ib at ed the With is Seate f arobae. iip he ta se u Itm teungbs belrilt elleplon 53 a ýI. a 4- ; Y, WOMEN CAN'T DO THE WORK I- The Place of "Credit Man" Is One t .Which They Are Not Fitted to Pill. S 'T"here's one walk in business life where woman has made a flat, miserable. unmistakable failure," said a business t man who employs a large number of young women in his store and office, ac _ cording to the Chicago Tribune. "No in woman, as far as I can find out, has ever w been a successful 'credit man.' p "'I don't say this as any reproach ill against the sex," he went on, "because n I have a great respect for the American to business woman. But just for my own )r satisfaction I must say that I'm glad er to know one plf.e at least where a man sr stands no show of being shoved aside to make room for his energetic sister. A Ie true woman may rightly be proud of le being a poor credit man, however, be to cause it merely shows that she has too t- much faith in mankind, and can't pre ss vent herself from being affected by a ut good hard luck story. She doesn't have m to believe it to be carried away by it, a- for hei heart gets the better of her head re In spite of hcr.self. The result is that she t- extends a long line of credit to customers ie that aren't a safe risk, and the house suf s- fers for it a- "I was reminded of this noted point of weakness in the feminine business ly equipment by seeing that the Federal 0e bank, which has just failed in New York, ly had a woman to pass upon its credits Ir and discounts for the last four years. don't wonder that there was a smashup. 0e From my experience and observation I Ir have found this job is beyond the nat it ural powers of a woman just as much as frqight handling and other work re w quiring a man's physique. It doesn't e matter what kind of a woman she is, )f either. It's just the same whether she )- has been tested by years of experience in n confidential commercial affairs, or : whether she has been merely a cog in the t I bookkeeping machinery of the firm. I e Many men have stenographers who have been with them for so long that almost all the inner secrets of the house are d necessarily known to them. And I think 1 the fact that this knowledge is sacredly guarded should do a great deal to kill the old superstition about a woman's inability to keep a secret. It is women 1 who mount guard in the outer offcices of i John D. Rockefeller and H. H. Rogers, and decide what is important enough to go into the inner sanctum. Just think of the responsibility of a position like that and of the fortunes that could be made by betraying some of the knowl edge that accompanies it. "When a man finds a woman employe t that he can trust to the same degree as Mr. Rockefeller trusts his private see retary, he is naturally inclined to think that she can fill any confidential position in the house. But in 999 cases out of a thousand her heart is liable to bte influ encial in directing her course. For beu Ieas is business, am you may have heard, and the heart has little place in it A credit man need not be harsh and cruel In fact, he should not be so, and he should at all times be ready to help a worthy customer albng with easy terms and kind treatment. But it takes judg meat to tell what a worthy customer is, s and to keep an unworthy and dishonest fi I one from imposing upon the firm by his t Singenious and pitiful tales of woe. I i1 - know a woman who caused heshouse a ? dead loss of several thousand dollars g siyply because a man who was deliber- a ately defrauding the firm used to bring his little girl down with him when he a came to see her about getting an exten- e Ssioan of his credit. The child was a nice a 1 little girl with plenty of golden curls, I and she innocently succeeded in making a r the wholesale house carry her father's business for three tyears, until inevita ble and disastrous bankruptcy ended the Same. "There are fe branches of businse in which It ean be said that women have been failures," concluded the speaker, "becauae they are not apt to venture forth independently upon untried felds. Unlees they are pretty sure that they can succeed they won't start In. If they take up a new line of work It is usually their emploper who Inspires the step and fur nlshes the necessary courage for Its ao eompldshment. No one doubts that woman hap permanently won her place In the busines sworid, and that her field et ation Is steadily Increasing In width. But lami afid that her heart will limit her activities In certala directions, Just as her physial weakness and her lack of nitlative does in others." ri Tselegraphy at sea. snea the experiments at Prof. Elisha I Gray, three yes asop the system of sabmarine soun telegraphy has been I coiderably Improved, and It Is now a pratical aume on steamships plytng e I tween New York sad Boston. The sounds transmitted are those of a bell I )et down into the water about M feet elbriw tseh of the Pollock Blp light ship. Thee sounds are easil heard In oggy or stormy weather on ships as I mch as seven miles distant. -eesound I ecelvers eomlst of two metal cylinders, i Sited with water, and clamped to the I Iannr side of the iron hall o the ship s bewv the sea-level, one on each aside A I asltse paratus cosnected with the 0 einaders transmits the sounds received v by them to the plot hoase. The two I qcidera may be likened to a pasr 'of -af an t iy istening alternately wit I tha L tie pilot can tell the direction I btem whtch the sounds come through d the sse.--Toth'$ Companion. - . vb the iaeaem seesr g o ar. I A llt Datas or I sat I S1 o D p p .a LITTLE ESSAY FOR GIRLS. Woman Writer Tells How Any Aver age Young Woman Can Win a Good Husband. It is quite possible that there are some girls who possess none of the faults mentioned hereafter. A perusal of my little essay, however, will do them no harm. In fact, it might possibly help them to guard against developing habits which are as unbecoming to them as they are distasteful to friend or ad mirer or lover or bridegroom. To become a faultless girl is, of course, an impossible task. But every girl who wishes to appear at her best and what girl is there who does not? .must approach as near to that ideal as she possibly can. It is not true, as some would have us believe, that a girl with faults will keep them to the end of her days. They can be remedied by steady perseverance by any girl who take# a pride in herself and her manners. "We are seven." I may speak as one having authority. One of the most common failings among girls is that of making them selves distasteful to man's eye. Either they try to improve whatever beauty nature has bestowed upon them by ex travagant artificial means, or,. through envy of the appearance of other girls, and because itis the fashion, dress them selves in all manner of fantastic hats and costumes, without giving the least thought as to whether the costume suits their stature and faab and figure or not. It is quite true that men like a well groomed, well-dressed woman, but a woman is not well dressed who does not use a little discretion in the choice of her clothes. Neither is she likely to earn a man's appreciation by resorting to all the wiles and arts of a complexion specialist and hair-dye artist. These only produce an illusion of beauty, which is quickly sen through. My experience is that a man likes to see a girl dress neatly, quietly and be comingly, no matter if her apparel be not of the latest fashion. He uncon sciously to himself admires the suitable color and "style" which shows off a girl to the best advantage. He hates to see a girl make a positive scarecrow of her self, simply beqause of her desire to be in the fashion, as much as he hates to see her make a liberal use of paint and pow- I der to heighten the color of her complex- i ion.-Chicago American. WHAT TO ASK THE BUTCHER Valuable Hints for Housekeepers Who Have to uperintmnd Their Own arketing. Now that meat is the most expensive food Item every one should know how to talk to the butcher intelligently. The illustration will give you some ideas. No. 1 shows the loin where the best steak, the porter-house sirloin and the selected rib roasts are cut Two. the ramp, makes good boiling I meat or pot roasts, and when properly cooked is as nutritious and delicious as any more expensive cut. Three is the round, which is a cheaper 4 steak, but generally tough. It serves for I 0* ii DIAGRAM OF A BEEF. Hamburg steak or can be made tender by much chopping; or may be roiled with a stning Inside, steamed and t browned as the dank is usually prepared. I.uar is the lank. Five, the shank, is the cheaper boil lng meat; I, the shoulder roast; 7, c the short ribs, for roasting make a good I and very inexpensve roast. A pound I of short ribs will make better soup stock I ads go fd ther than two pounds of sahina, Night is the shin; 9 the neck; and 10.4 the brlaet, usually cored. Health Ends o the Brain. To et all sohsb of health fads on the I bran Is dimae in itelt. It s a very u prevalet disease, too With a few t foolish rules to observe, a whole lot of c ygienc quirks to adjust to and a 'I schedule of superstitlou sanitary no- t tins diligently followed by day san a dreamed of by night, is a malady a which begin as a mental derangement c and eads In a complete physical fs le. No room left for a spontaneous life, ao plan for free oyous lberty. Not a isapte's peae for free rollicking drr. Everything fied, every s inute' disposed of, ntrspections witheat ummber. oasebodltn., mis -svp heuiSg vagrely about the mind, like Loom of carriesa 0ew. --h a Insh s ent worth livla& One might a theeaad times better go back te the relnss regime of a rough Mmlr.-MspsaI Talk. . - Ta Mse wn kindof l I the ete r FINEST PALACE IN PARIS. It Was Planned by Count Badi Cas tellane and Built with His Wife's Money. Count De Castellane may not be a great statesman, but he is decidedly a man of cultivated mind and refined taste. And these elements of discern ment and true elegance, backed by un told millions, enabled him to set up a place the equal of any in the world and far more consistent in the way of combining lofty architecture with con genial furnishings than any royal resi dence of this or other days. The great house rises at the junc tion of two broad avenues near the Bois de Boulogne, standing entirely by itself, one of the main charms of a really beautiful edifice, and Count Cas tellane, who by his marriage to the former Miss Anna Gould, of New York, gained control of a vast fortune, spent a king's ransom to rear this palace, which, like that of many a majesty, remains unfinished for want of funds. writes a foreign correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. The Castellanes own the finest grand staircase in France, the land of great structures of that kind. It is of bright red marble having white veins, and the loftiness and elegant swing of its several landings is unexcelled in ar chitecture. The structure is said to be an imi tation of the great stairs of Trianon, COUNTESM DE CASTELLAXE. the building of which contributed so much to poor Marie Antoinette's un 4oing, the most extravagant stories about its cost being noised about among the starving. It does resemble the Trianon example in outline, but eonveys a more dignified impression by the richness of the material em ployed. Ye, who have millions, look at the railings of gilded bronze. Each foot, nay inch, tells a story, and tells it admirably. There is a decided odor of royalty pbout the rooms. Almost every pieoe of tarniture, including the wall hangings, dates from some royal palace or other. Several years ago a great deal of fun was poked at Count Boni on the supposition that he had allowed himself to be duped by curl osity dealers into buying imitations In his house all Is real, all is valuable, alh is history. There are collectors priding them selves upon their maps full of written antographs. Count Castellane filled his hundred-room house with auto graph furniture. Each mantelpiece and taboutet, each chair, table, desk, sofa or music stand bears the signet of some maker of the eighteenth cen tury, who worked for kings and princes only. giving each customer a unique article that he would not think of duplicating for some one else, no matter what price was offered. In those days artisans had character and lndividuality and a rleh art lover was able to secure pieces that hi. netlhbo could not. There was joy in collecting then and It creating no machinery to turn out works of sculpturing; wood carvers had it all their own way and originality counted with jewelers no less than with earpenters and black smiths. These unique pieces o turn ture Ina the Castellane palace are works of art, everyone of them. One might go curlosity-hunting for yearu before nding a single duplieate. Countess Anna's boudoir is the quin tessence of rened eighteenth century taste. No prlnces at the blood con temporary to the magnieent LoIas boasted of a more splendid and more elegant apartment A room like that one Involuntarily associates with Le Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Princess lambaele and other great and smart ladles e that pltaresqe period. The counts bathroom is another gem. The walls are covered with drawing and water colors by French masters of the igahteeth century. To .asm up, the Castelkse place legitt4ately represents the power of t monue esd to create speendor wedded to art. Despite its lavishmne I am certain there is not a franc wasted. The Catellane bougsht the best and the riehest that money can buy, but f good taste and the sense of the Itnese f things outweigh mere monetary t considerations, or peason for display. t setul Mint lr Hostamess A few drops ol t lavender in a silver bowl or ornamental dish of some kind, half-itled rith very hot water, ad set In the dtnlat-room just' before dinnaer is served, give a delgh ful and Intangible reehnaes to the-at omsphere at the apartment. Host ess oten put a small vess aIn the parlor nd dressing rooms when ar ranats the house far a eatsity. The e hastess I a, small apar me t hisch sqetnme tIn the bstle ofre anti- aeate ta essssas se ~ st , bh-a,! - a e- setan with VIO Another club woman, Haule, of Edgerton, Wis.., how she was cured of ties and uterine trouble, pains and backache, by the of Lydia E. Pinkham's V " Dati Ms. Pnxx.x:-A ago my health began to fail female troubles. The doctor 4 helpme. I remembered thatm hd used Lydia E. P Vegetable Compound on casions for irregularities and troubles, and I felt sure that it not harm me at any rate to trial. " I was certainly glad to within a week I felt much terrible pains in the back were begining to cease, nd time of menstruation I did aos nearly as serious a time as he SI continued its use for two d and at the end at the end of that time I a new woman. I really have felt better in my life, have a.t sick headache sinee, and ounds mor than I ever did, etaet iy recommend dya einme."- as. MAY HAUrz, Wis. Pres. Household -od00 "bfrit if wtsiof 8fe ammasIes esmnt s Nreas l The Third Division. A Southern planter employe gro to work some of his land the last year on sharea. On of the high price of cotton gro's half of the proceeds to $1,100. The planter knew would rain any AfroAmeriecma: such a sum of money, and that half of it would be further reflection the con upon him that $800 would negro in the world, so he cut in half again, and plling four shining silver dollars on his for the negro and brother, that he was ready to settle. fairly gasped at the amount eof In. sight. "Fq (bawd, boss," he said, money all ours?' . "Yes.". "Well, den, divide in in t.a and you take y.uah half and mlne."-Minneapolls Tribu.e. Harud Lua Biddy Malone was in a of excitement when she 'America direct from the old Her certtBificate ofat character lost on shipboard, and what do? To heir great happgines olation, Tim Mulligan sad wrote a beautiful as follows: 'This is to certify that lone had a good character left the old country, but lost it board comaig over."-Tidbits. May Come to This. Mrs. Upperfoor-I have heard the latest order the has promulgaged? Mrs. Firststory-About dolls wonder why? Mrs. Upperloor-He says the dolls the neighbors' here look so much like they are apt to give the hatel' same.-Bostow Transcript. A Domestic DiMeelty "Is that the new girl?" "Yes." "How long is she going to wWell, I'm going to try to until the dessert comes on, afraid shell quit after the course."-Cleveland Plain BOT JAWS SHOT tal a Dseconsi uinessM A man who had both jaws had trouble eatinag ordinary found a food-drink that nutriment needed. He says: "I have been an invalid slege of Vicksbarg, in 1866, where wounded by a Minie ball through my head and eusing tire loss my Jaws. I was a bw and at the time was leading nigh line, carrying a gun. time I have been awarded the honor from the Congress of the States for gallantry on the field. "The eoseqneaces aof my were dyspepsia n its moseet orm aud I finally proved ee was very bard on my tried Poetum and got better. tried eommoa coffee again an worse. I did this several inally as Postum helped me time I continued to use it, and often I think that if the had issued Postm to us in the bow much better it would have for the soldier boys than cofee. "Coes constipates me and does not; eoee makes me spit food, Postum does not; coffee k awake nihts, Postam does not. Is . o doubt couee is too much sttialant for most people and cause at early anll the coasti 'This is my experience and at liberty to ue my name" givhn )y Postom C., Battle Lock In ach >b for t0e flahook, "The ROeu to WellvillA(