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t -THE-nY5T( .IHNaBlfeii ^ -.Author of"_u7he Mouse [Copyright, lfiSr, by I CHAPTER XI. 1 Continued. The worst of it was that the sentimental little old inaid, under the pretext of curing her protege of her unfortunate attachment, by diverting her Thoughts to a more appropriate cnanael, took Jem Stick?ls in hand herself, promised hiin every assistance with Nell if he would promise to reform ind encouraged the fisherman to persecute Nell more than ever. It was she who persuaded Jem to woo with a less arrogant air, with offers to "turn over a new leaf" for her sake, and other similar blandishments. And although Nell guessed who It was that had inspired this alteration, the girl was obliged to take a different attitude to her unwelcome wooer in l consequence. It is easy to be haughty nnd studiously frigid to a presumptuous person; but when that person becomes meek and almost servile in his endeavors to make himself useful, even in the humblest capacity, when he insists upon chopping your wood and carrying your water, then it is difficult to maintain a properly freezing attitude. The climax came one afternoon when Nell "was invited to tea by Miss . Bostal, and was let in on her arrival by the detested Jem. Nell looked quite shocked when, on entering the house, she learned from the young man's lips that he had been Invited, too. The young girl turned to the door of the dining-room, where a small lire . / burned in honor of the occasion, to go in search of her hostess. Jem, who was in his Sunday clothes, in which he presented a stronger contrast than ever to the refined, delicat?-handed girl, said awkwardly that Miss Bostal would be down directly. As Nell, taking ho notice of this intimation, was about to leave the room, he suddenly found courage to place himself before I ho rTnnr. ' "It's done a-purpose; she done it apurpose," he explained, growing more rustic than usual in his speech under pressure of his excitement, "so I might have a chance of speaking to you." Nell looked angry and anxious; but ?be looked him in the Tace with an expression which daunted him a little. "She don't know what I want to say * to you," he went on in a hoarse whisper. "She thinks I want to ask you to marry me, as if I should be such a precious fool! No, what I want to say is, that the chap Hemming is still banging about; he's staying at the Bell it Stroau, and he's offered me a live' pound not if I'll tell him what I told you, and I've refused. There!" And, fairly overwhelmed by the con- j temptation or his own greatness or _ soul, Jem slapped bis chest and made his eyes round. Xell listened, with tear and repulsion struggling in her breast. Should she brave the man, with the knowledge which she knew that he possessed, or should she conquer her own loathing and temporize? Miss Bostal had advised her to brave him; but, then. Miss Bostal did not know what she knew. m Nell shivered as the man came a step * toward her. "I don't understand you," she said at last. "What do you want?" "I want you to give me a kiss." The girl started and made a gesture of abhorreuce. "Come," persisted Jem; "it isn't much, considering, 'specially as I could take one myself if I had a mind." And as he spoke he took another step, threatening to fulfill this menace. But Nell was too quick for him; she was at the other side of the table hefore the words were well out of his mouth. * "Miss Bostal," she said, quietly, as if his proposition had been unworthy of remark, "advises me to let you make what use of your information you please. She says no one would believe " you." "Aad do you think that?" he asked, with an indescribably cunning leer. The sudden anxiety which overspread her face at the question showed ' him his opportunity. "Look here," he went on, in a tone which was meant to be persuasive, but which was to Nell repellant in its coarse assumption of familiarity, "I don't want to rush you into anything. You know what I have to seil, and you know what the price is. If you don't care to pay it. well, you know how I can pay myself in coin of the realm. Now I'll give you till to-morrow night. If you'll see me to-morrow, dowu at your own garden-fence, where you'll be quite sate, mind, for I mean quite fair and above board, and if you'll speak to me fair and be civil, I'll hold * my tongue, and wild horsed nor all the j tecs in Lon'ou shouldn't make me peach; but if you don't choose to do this, and it's a precious small thing to make such a fuss about, why. then, I'll go oft" to Hemming and get the rive pounds, and you can guess what'il happen. if you don't know." As the man looked at her. with bloodshot, inllamed eyes, enjoying in anticipation the kiss which he felt she was bouud to give. Nell's heart sank. He would not surely speak in this tone to her, if the proofs of whfch he had spoken were not very strong ones. "You must give me time to think," she faltered, turning her head away to escape the gaze of the lustful eyes, but keeping a sharp eye on his movements alf the time. She felt keen resentment against Miss Theodora, wiio, in her amiable folly, bat! exposed her to tins persecution. Luckily that lady herself appeared a few seconds later, and then Nell at once made The excuse of go'ng to fetch the tea-things to get out of ! the room. Once outside the door, however, ?he ran through the passage to the back of the house, slipped out into the garut-n, and ran home across the fields as fast * V ' if 2RT-op.TflC ^^rop~ /ardent on ftiQ Aa.rsh^'ei'c. obert Bonner's Sons. J as her fleet little feet could carry hsr. "Since she likes his society so much, she may enjoy a tete-a-tete with him!" she said to herself, not without a bitter feeling that her old friend and protectress had betrayed her in her eagerness to reclaim the prodigal. Before she reached the Blue Lion, Nell had made up her mind what to do. She felt that she must have some advice of a more solid, more worldly kind than that of kindly, sentimental, narrow-minded Miss Theodora. So she wrote a little note, the first she had ever .sent him, to Clifford King, and sent it by a safe hand to Stroan to catch the night mail. Her note was very short, containing as it did, only the following words: "Dear Mr. King: "If it would not be too inconvenient to you to come down to Stroan to-morrow*, I should be very glad of tbe opportunity of asking your advice upon a matter in which I do not dare trust my own judgment, and do not dare to consult my uncle. "With apologies for my audacity in asking such a great favor, "Believe me, yours sincerely, "NELL CLARIS." Then she passed a sleepless night, torturing herself by wondering what Jem Stickels would do, ana wnetner Clifford would come?this she did not greatly doubt?and how she should tell him if he came. And on the following evening, just when she had given up all hope of seeing him, and just when the time appointed by Jem Stickels for her to meet him was approaching, she saw Clifford, from her seat by the open I door of the sitting-room, walk into the bar. I Nell sprang up with a little cry, and [ Clifford, catching sight of her, flushed a deeper red than his walk had given him, and going quickly through the bar and along the passage, pushed open the door of the little sitting-room, and stood before her. The. girl had been so anxious for his coming that all her little maidenly arts of affected surprise, of indifference, of reserve, were in abeyance; and he saw before him the girl he loved, with love confessed in her blue eyes. For one moment he stood looking at her, a little awe-struck, as a lover ought to be, at discovering how much more beautiful she was than he remembered her. Then, not unnaturally taking her summons for just a little more than it was intended to be, caught her in his itrms, and pressing her against his breast, covered her face with kisses. Nell uttered a little cry; she thought it expressed consternation, alarm; but Clifford read the ' sound differently, and kissed her again. "Oh, Mr. King'" panted the girl, as soon as she could draw back her head enough to speak, "you don't understand T cont fnr vnii tn .irtvifip mp. that's all. I " "I quite understood," replied Clifford, calmly, not letting her go very far. "And I am longing to put my professional knowledge at your service. But first He stopped short, arrested in the middle of his speech by a violent start on the part of Nell, who was looking with eyes full of alarm at the door which led into the garden. The upper part of this door was of glass, and she had suddenly perceived that a face was pressed to the outer side. "Who is it?" asked Clifford, as 600n as he saw what had arrested her attention. And without waiting for an answer, he sprang across the little room, toward the glass door. Nell sprang after him, and clutched at his sleeve. "Never mind. Don't go." she whisnuro/l onnvoVioncivolT' "Tt is nnlv Jem l/v ? ^ Stickels. Don't open the door." But as Clifford stopped, under the pressure of her earnest entreaty, the sound of a hoarsely uttered curse reached their ears; the face was quickly withdrawn, and the next moment, with a loud crash of broken glass, Jem's fist came through the upper part of the door, and struck Clifford full in the chest. Nell 6aw, even before the blow was dealt, that there was an open knife in the fisherman's hand. But, although she threw herself upon her lover, trying to drag him back from I the danger, she was not In time. With I a howl of savage delight, Jem drew ! back his knife, covered with blood. CHAPTER XII. Clifford was so eutii ?iy taken by surprise that he hardly oalized in the first moment that he uas hurt. The next, he dashed open the door at one blow, and finding Jem outside coolly wiping his knife on the ivy which grew on this side of the house, he j seized the fisherman by the tiiroat with one liaud. snatched his knife from him and Hung it away with the other, and then hurled the man from him with such violence that the latter fell, and striking his head upon the stone ledge of a window lay motionless on the ground. n'h.in emlilnnk' nvnvrnmo lvu a ing of dizziness, the result of his wound Clifford staggered hack against the broken door and into Nell's arms, i "Oh, it is my fault?my fault: I | ought not to have asked you to come!" j moaned she, not attempting to hide her affectionate concern from the people who. startled by the noise of the affray, now pressed into the room. George Claris was among the first to enter, and he frowned angrily on seeing Clifford, of whose arrival he had not jet heard. "So it's you. is it, Mr. King!" he exclaimed surlily, on recognizing the man whom he looked upon as the oriI gin of all his trouble. "And what have I you been up to now, eh?" "Oh, uncle, uncle, can't you see that I he's hurt, badly hurt?" implored Nell. 1 "Send for a doctor?oh, some one pray I _ j i. V.1^/%/4 go lor a uocior, 01 uc wm uic^-u iu i ^ death!" But George Claris hardly concealed j the fact that that event would give him satisfaction rather than annoy- c ance; he did not dare to interfere, | liowever, when Nell gave orders to one v of the men who had crowded in, to go to Stroau for a doctor. "Who did it?" somebod/, not the , landlord, presently asked. Clifford was by this time hardly conscioue. lie had been laid on the sofa, . while Nell herself, keeping enough ^ presence of mind to be of use and to sts what the danger was, held her own fingers to the wound to check the flow of blood. She heard the question and answered it. "It was Jem Stickels. lie struck him through the glass." This replj? led to further investiga- 1 tions, and Jem was quickly discov erca ana prougm imu mc iuuiu n uci? his victim lay. Unconscious though 6 he was, having been stunned severely, * Jem, of course, got no pity from Nell. And when some of the men suggested ? carrying him to the cottage where lie lodged, which was within a stone's 1 throw of the inn, Nell made no sugges- * tion that he should remain where be 1 was, being unaffectedly glad to have 1 him taken out of her sight. 1 Buxom Meg exchanged many a nod r and wink and grin with the customers v from the bar, inspired by the utter ab- E sorption Nell showed in her lover and s his danger. * "All my fault?my fault!" the girl 1 kept murmuring, as she hung over ^ Clifford, watching his face, which had I grown pale, with straining eyes, and s listening anxiously to the breathing, * which told her that he was alive. * Then Meg became abruptly con- o scious that there was something in this simple grief, this maidenly affec- 1 tion, too sacred for the gaze of tho t rough, though sympathetic, group, c cho hnn/llori thpm all. with lame, t wide-sweeping gestures as of a gigan- 1 tic hen, back into the bar. And Nell t and her lover and her uncle were left 1; together. f George Claris, though he. too, was somewhat touched, was uneasy and c suspicious. t "What was he doing down here?" T he began, inquisitorially, when they ^ were left alone. "And what was he 2 up to that made Jem Stickels knife t him? No good, I'll be bound," gruin- 3 bled he. e "lie loves me. uncle. He has asked v me, weeks ago, to be his wife, but I hadn't even promised; no, not a word, e but when he came to-day?" h "Ah, what made him come to-day?" 'T Nell hesitated, and then confessed, s in a low voice: "I sent for him." t George Claris mumbled his dissatis- P faction. a "And what made Jem Stickels knife Sl him? Come, now, I should have j t thought you were above having any- i e thing to do with a- chap like him. j t< But I've seen him loafing about more'n j h usual lately." i "It was not fault, of course," said ti Nell, simply. "And of course he had o no right to?to " j b "To be jealous? So I should ha' s thought. Still, he was jealous, eh?" n "I suppose so." There was a short silence; then q George Claris spoke again: m "Well, lass, it's no use talking to ti women, 'cause they've got their own : v way o' doing things, whatever you say ' fi to 'em. But you've brew'd yourself a i ti peck o' trouble between them two j si chaps, and neither me nor anybody ; -w but yourself can help you out of it. a 4 ?? t n?an'f pott TM1 hnvft this . U\LI iiilllu, X >Y KJL1 t DUJ A A* I4M t v . ?v chap turned out of the house, though j ti I've a good mind to. But if the doc- I ri tor says he's to be laid up here, I'll not ' e have j*ou hangin' 'round. You'll just gi go away sharp to my sister in London, j B< Do you hear? I'll have him properly ri nursed, that I'll promise, but it'll not j 6, be by you. Do you hear?" I y Nell assented meekly. ' As long as j (] Clifford was not made to suffer she i j| felt that there was nothing for it but ! j to submit. Uncle and niece exchanged no more ; words until the arrival of the doctor, j when George Claris told his niece to j 11 put on hor hat and to go to Miss Bos- ^ tal's, where she was to remain until he * sent hor luggage to her there, when she was to start without delay for a London. a To be Continued. a t? Chief Justice Marshall. ^ In 1775 Marshall was about six feet a high, straight, and rathe.1 t ender, of 6i <lnvie pomnlexion. showing little if any j tl rosy red, yet good health, the outline j of the face nearly a circle, and within j " that, eyes dark to blackness, strong | and penetrating, beaming with Intel- j a ligence and good nature; au upright e forehead, rather low. was terminated | ^ in a horizontal line by a mass of rav- I ^ en-black hair, of unusual thickness and j strength, says James Bradley Thayer, i " in the Atlantic. The features of the j face were in harmony with this out- J 61 line and the temples fully developed, j The result of this combination was | "i interesting and very agreeable. The | body and limbs indicated agility rath- I er than strength, in which, however, \ 0 he was by no means deficient. He j wore a purple or pale blue hunting j shirt, and trousers of the same ma- ! r^ tei'ial fringed with white. A round i black hat, mounted with, the buck's 1 tail for a cockade, crowned the figure j K and the man. lie went through the j $ manual exercise by word and motion, | ? deliberately pronounced ond performed j q. in the presence of the company, before j J he required the men to imitate him; j j. a IK! men proceeutMj iu uxurcisL* uieiu : with the most perfect temper. Never { v did a man possess a temper more hap- | py. or, if otherwise, more subdued or ! ;1 better .disciplined. j, I How to I'se a MucUtonc. | In Central Ohio a number of peopie-j h have been bitten by mad dojjs, and i q the madstone is haviug all it can do. j :i Xliis is the met nod of treatment: A Q small incision is made in lb? skiu of S( the patient, preferably on the hand. Then the -tone, which is about the size p of the end of a man's thumb, and I i translucent, is placed upon the cut II u ir sticks there the Dntlent is Infected. If it does not there Is no fear of hydro- jj phobia. Such is the popular belief, fl If the stone sticks It io allowed to 0 stay there until it is filled with the j, poison of the disease, which iuakes the stone turn paie green in color. < EACLES WHIP A BEAR. fovcl Fight Over the PoB?eRBlon of a Piece of SturceoB. A fight to a finish between a pair >f er.gles and a bear few persons have ;een, and the sportiest sport on the urf would hardly know on which to let in such a combat. Hans Larsen, l Norwegian fisherman, who has ieen fishing for salmon in the Colum)ia near Eagle Cliff this season, saw l desperate ngm ociwetu iwu uuu >ald eagles that had their nest not ar from his camp and a half-grown iear. The eagles worn A huge sturgeon had been washed ip on the river bank, and the eagles vere using it to feed theiryoung. One norning Jhe eagles were serving jreakfast to their young, and one of hem .had flown up to the nest with a ot of pieces of sturgeon and the other vas tearing away at the huge fish, vlien the bear came crashing through he brush to find the sturgeon he had rented. Bruin walked straight up o the fish. But the eagle was not icared and he flapped his wings and itood on the defensive. Big, fat sturgeon do not come ashore ilong the Columbia so frequently as hey used to, and the carcass of this ine was a prize, and it rightfully bconged to the eagles as the original liscoverors. The bear paused a monent and then rushed at the eagle, vhich gracefully eluded him. and, ioaring a short distance In the air, icreamed bloody murder as a signal o his mate. She came swoonincr lowu from the nest and joined forces vlth her mate in an attack on the )ear, which was so busy tearing the iturgeon that he paid no attention to he royal birds till they landed like hunderbolts on his neck and rump md sank their talons in his flesh. The talons of the full-grown eagle ire not to be sneezed at even by a >ear, and the howl of rage bruin let iut showed that he had been both mined and hurt. He reared up on lis haunches and clawed savagely at he birds, which whirled agilely about lim. One would make a dash at his ace and eyes and the other would lit him in the back of the neck like a atapault. For ten minutes or so the tear stood up to the "scratch,"' and yhen lie had scratching enough he legan to show signs of wanting to et away. He did not exactly show he white feather, for the eagles had 11 the white feathers, but he began dging off toward the brush, which ras fifty feei distant. A o fann no V? a t*r n r? nn oil "f V?/* QKJSJLl UO lie n ao VU Ull 1UUIO VUV agles were on him, and he would ave to get on his haunches to use his aws effectively. The blood was treaming down his face and showed i spots all over his glossy hide, but he great object of the' eagles apeared to be to get at bruin's eyes, nd he seemed to be aware of this, nd was very anxious to get under he protection of the brush. The agles were evidently Just as anxious :> prevent this. When bruin turned is head toward the bushes they fould plump down on his head and ry to sink their talons in his eyes, r to dig them out with their sharp cak and drum his ears with their trong pinions until the poor bear did ot know "where he was at." All this time Larsen was sitting uietly in his boat watching what he uys was the most savage and enterlining fight he had ever seen. It ,'as, he judges, nearly half an hour rom the time the bear came out of be brush till he was able to drag himelf back under its friendly cover, 'here the eagles could not get at him, nd he was the most dilapidated joking bear imaginable. The eagles e<v up on a tree and smoothed their ufiied plumage and congratulated rich other on the outcome of the ; truggle. Then, as their eaglets were ( rjuawking for more breakfast, they | L'sumed their work of carving and j 2rving their sturgeon, and until It | ras all used up, which took several : ays, no anmiai buitw. io upi?u<ieu i , in the daytime at least.?Portland \ lorning Ore^onian. Woes of the Poet. The poet has to stand more tramp- j ng on his toes, more knocks and ! angs, than the majority of men. ; 'ossibly he is so sensitive that he j 2ols them more; anyhow, he suffers j nd endures, and is always expecting i solar-plexus blow. He had a worn- j n friend whom he admired and es?emed a lot. She was intensely par- ! cular, however, but she liked him I d always had something kindly to j ly. The other evening she began j liking about his book of verse. "I borrowed it from a friend," she j edared, "ana started to reaa 11. i i *ould pick it up before breakfast or fter supper, but do you know that i-ery time I was trying my best to ade through it some of the children 1 the house would call me for someiing, and I never did plow through le volume." The poet had grinned broadly when lie began on the subject of his book, I ut the words "wade through it," ! plow through it." foiled his spirit to ic dust. That girl was worse than ic woman who wrote a poet a note f thanks for a gift of his book and ?t him find it on her parlor tabic "ivli the leaves uncut. ? Louisville imes. It is Itose-y-veH. Xo name in America is so commonly j ilspionounced as tiiar of our Presieut. It is Roosefelt, Rozveldt, RooL?yfrh". or Rozzyvclt. whichever way iie turns. These anxious to be right uiz the newspapers or write to i-iends or to Washington. President Roosevelt, move than two ' ears ago. detc-rn. inert the correct pro- | uneiation of his name for ilie gener- j 1 public, in an interview published i i the 'limes-Herald. Cn June 23,! &?y, he was en route to Las Vegas, j 'e\v .Mexico, to attend a reunion of j is regiment of Rough Riders. Some ! uestios came up on his special train ! s to how his name should be pro j ounced. if pronounced correctly. He j ettied the dispute by saying: ; "Pronounce it as if it were spelt tos-y-velt. a vrord of three syllables, 'hat is the only way to pronounce He pronounces the first syllable as ' . It were spelt "nose," and having I Liat the rest is very simple. This 1 ught to settle all questions about the ronunciation and cure those who inst on saying "Ro.s-ee-velt." |and Wk New York City?Norfolk jackets are Inherently smart and jaunty and are In the height of present styles. Corduroy, velveteen, cheviot, clotb and - ^ "*a \r f NORFOLK JACKET. all similar materials are so made and are ideal for walking, shopping, business, golf and all out-door occupations. The original, from which the drawing was made, is of black camel's hair cheviot,, with smoked pearl buttons, and makes part of a costume, but the design is suited to separate wraps also. The back is snug fitting and includes a centre seam that is curved to the figure; the fronts are fitted by darts which are concealed under the applied pleats. The pleats are graduated in width, so producing a tapering effect at the waist and are applied over the jacket. The belt, which Is merely an A MODISH FA J ornamental feature, passes under ] those at the back and terminates iu ] pointed ends over those at the i'ront ] and can be omitted when the jacket is preferred plain. The yoke is pointed and the neck Is finished with a regulation collar 1 +Vin+ ivVlle avat* with tlio frnntM tn form lapels. The sleeves, in coat style, 1 have llaring pointed cuffs that open < at the back. . 1 To cut this jacket for a woman of 1 medium size five and one-half years i of material twenty inches wide, two 1 and three-eight yards forty-four inches i wide or two yards fifty inches wide will be required. 1 Woman's Fancy Waist. Fancy waists are in great demand , both for odd bodices and entire cos- j tumes designed for indoor wear. The , very pretty May Manton model shown t in the large drawing is adapted to ( both purposes equally well and admits . ??*??? />nmV^I?o + lAna Thn nHrrlnnl VJi. U1U11J V.UUJ UlUUkiUiiU< AWU ns*. I is made -of pale pink Sapho satin, with bolero and deep cuffs of cream lace over white and bands of black panne satin; but all white, white with coloi', or any color banded with the same shade in velvet would be effective, in addition to which the bolero and cuffs could be made of panne or Persian brocade in place of lace. The lining includes double darts, under arm gores and side-backs, and fits snugly and smoothly. On it are . arranged the several portions of the waist and the iwo closc together at the back beneath the centre box pleat. The yoke is simply banded with folds, but the lower portions of back n*ni ova lni/1 in rmrrnw hnv rilo.nts that extend from its lower edge, beneath the bolero to the belt. The bolero cun be made entirely separate and the waist worn with or without or caught at the upper edge and included in the arm's-eye seams. The sleeves are novel and becoming. The lower portions are covered smoothly to form cuffs that flare over the hands, while the pieats of the upper portions fall free to form putt's at the elbows. When desired low nt'ck and with elbow sleeves the yoke and cuffs can be omitted. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size three and a quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, two and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven inches wide, one and three-fourth yards forty-four incbes wide or one and five-eighth yards fifiy Inches wide with one anu one-fourth j-ards of all-over lace for bolero and sleeve facings will be required. Modish Handkerchief!. f Colored handkerchiefs show a ratber tl wide hem, perhaps Bometliiag over v * , %smSsmSB. half an inch, the outside edge of the color finishing in an inverted scallop just inside the hemstitching. Other handkerchiefs have a round circle of color inside the hem. This is not as pretty, as, being printed, it is not quite alike on both sides. There is comparatively little difference, however, for the handkerchiefs are very sheer, and the color shows through. The girl who carries a colored handkerchief Is apt to wear a little turnover of the same color with her stock. Prettily Trimmed. Very pretty In a gown of fine white net was the introduction for trimming of tucked batiste in narrow bands set into the skirt some distance from the edge. The front of the skirt around the lower edge was slashed up at intervals, lapels were turned back from these slashings and formed of the tucking. 0 The New Storni Collar*. The new storm collars are more becoming than those high, outstanding shapes which ruffled the hair and the temper, too. Never were collars so uncomfortable, but the newer shapes are more like a man's turndown collar when it is turned up in bad weather and are, moreover, of a reasonable height. The Reign of the Kose. , From the sizes of the blossoms ot nature from which they are copied to very enormously magnified sizes, I the roses for this season are made of j light, thin silk, satin and velvet?in j some cases of a combination of these > materials?in both natural and con- j ventionalized colorings, and mounted ! most frequently without foliage? ICY WAIST. leaves in silk or velvet generally -appearing if leaves are seen in the garland or cluster. Girl's Doable-Breasted Coat. Long coats are always becoming to little girls. The admirable May Manton model given has the advantage ! being equally good style with or with- j out the caps and hood, and is suited | to many materials, besides being in | the height of style. As shown it is : made of kersey cloth in tobacco j brown, the hood lined with figured I silk, but covert cloth, broadcloth and ! velvet are all correct. The cape and i hood may also be made as a separate j garment. The coat proper is half j [itting at the back, but loose at the I front and includes regulation coat j sleeves and pockets finished with over- I aps. The cape is circular fitted with , single darts at the shoulders and is ! { i becoming feature. The hood falls j i jver the shoulders in graceful folds j ind finishes in double points at the j j sack. At the neck is a collar that j ; :*an be made in roll-over or ordinary j style as preferred. To cut this coat for a girl of eight j , pears of age four and one-half yards | I >f material twenty-seven Inches wide, j wo and seven-eighth yards forty- j ! 'our inches wide or two and one-fourth i rards fifty-four inches wide with one- 1 ialf yard of silk to line hoed will be f equired when cape and hood are used; hree and one-half yards twenty-seven COAT TOK A GIRL. ? v iches wide, two and one-half yards s orty-four inches wide or one and 1 t>ree-fourth yards fifty-four inches * ride when coat is made plain. j, LXIjJ.'" ; ^ . q ' I-': mmm??mm?mimmmmrwamammm THE GREAT DESTEOYEB "?? ** SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem: The Modern Gulliver and the I1U - - ? llpatian Habits?Curee of the cmia ? , How the Beer Affects the Toun* In England. There was once a young man whose com* panions in life ^ Were intemperance, idleness, worry and strife, <. :%f< And the whole of the reat of the LHipuft bandDissipation their leader?who roam . through the land, And who by their grimaces, cajoling and wiles, And their limited pleasures, invidious smiles, , '< Bind young men in a web of contempt to the earth, And then make their misfortunes a tar* get for mirth. ?&? - m Said this fearless young man to the Lili* puts bold, "Ho, there, ho! you can't trouble me?I - am too old, Bo keep on, Uncle Worry, and tie your' ~ cord tieht, And you, too, cigarette, you may pull with your might; Also billiards and whisky, and you, little pool, , Must conjecture that I have become quit? a fool." ' With a leer of false pride, he exultingly; , said: "I can break through your mesh when it enters my head." ,. * But the years sned along, and the Liliputs wound rheft- fine threads into ropes, and com* pletelv they bound, FTand anr? fnnt to the roadwav of utter' despair. The -weak Gulliver -who their encroach- ' ment did dare; But as soon as he woke, with a look of surprise, He discovered that he was unable to rise. Then the Liliputa laughed, as such elf* only can, For they knew they had ruined the life of a man! , 'jZ ?Felix G. Pryme, pn Success. A Pitiful Episode. Elizabeth L. Banks, an American wdmin, who is a London correspondent of the Chicago Evening Post, says: On a reccnt promenade in the vicinity of Victoria station, London, within an? hour and a half I counted forty-8evea; 1-' 1 JJ .11 J XL- iwJwA :nnuren, an uuucr iuc ay<-- vi ?nUtc,. - _ loing to and coming from the public onuses with jugs. I stopped a number I of them and chatted with them, winning- ' B cheir confidence and following some to. I their homes by pretending I was in,J I iearch of a charwoman to do houaeclean-; fl ing and they telling me that their moth* fl ers or grandmothers or big sisters did ,' B that sort of work. * fl Beer! Beer! Beer! Their homes.t fl nnelled of it?reeked with it. 'Many of B :he children themselves seemed saturated I with it. . ,'MM "Excuse me, ma'am. My little girl fl jays you want a charwoman. Do' yon al- . B low beer?" fy'J/j-fegfl This from a young woman of perhaps.. fl twenty-eight or thirty, with one baby in fl aer arms, one hanging to her Ekirts and ''^ fl the little tot with the pitcher near her. fl spreading.' a bare table in the "front fl room" with bread and cheese and beer fl for the mid-morning refreshment that is fl known as "levenses. - fl "What do you mean by 'allowing , fl beer?'" I asked. B "Beer for levenses, dinner and sunper, fl ma'am, while I'm doin' the 'ousework!'* . fl "I do not allow beer,""I answered, look- ' fl Ing her sharply in the face, "but I am' fl willing to pay three shillings a day for. s. fl food charwoman. That, you know, is lixpence more' than the regular price." '^Vell, ma'am, that bein' so, Lean moiV H than provide mv own beer out of the ">fl lextra sixpence! S "No; I cannot agree to that. I neither provide beer myseif nor allow my char- H n'oraan to provide it. I find beer makes I >ne sleepy and dazed, and when a serv- fl int or charwoman has beer during the iay she does not do the work so. rapidly, fl ind she seems to get to knocking the. flj food furniture about. But as I don't fvant any one to think I keep back the H jeer on account of the price 1 pay three ihillings instead of two shillings sixpence i day. The extra sixpence is exactly, rwice the amount you would expect to H >ay for the beer, you know." The young woman drew herself up, af- H Ser placing her baby on the table, put H ler hands akimbo on her hips and said:f 'You won't suit me, ma'am. I refuse jour situation!" M Ai I walked away, feeling rather aroused >ver over the failure of my attempt at nissionary work, I hoard the woman say- . ng to a neighbor who had just dropped: . n: "There goes Laidy 'Ennery Somerset. [ s'pose she thought I didn't reckognize er temp'rance laiayahip!" That put me in better humor, and Iv aughed to myself, for I had never been , fiven reason to suspect that in the slightist degree I resembled that noted temperance reformer and brilliant woman, jady Henry Somerset. ? i Don't Let It Be Forgotten. Wfe need scarcely remind you that the iquor traffic, which is sought to be legal- j' zed by the license section, is one that } leeply concerns not only the honor of i this great State, but also the material, J noral and social interests of all the peo >1p. There is not a home or hamlet in? j she State that is beyond its influence. . [te evils are widespread and far-reacbing. Consider what the consequences will be f the license section carries: First, we irill legalize this great wron$, we will five the sanction of the Constitution and ihe laws of this great, free and intelligent State to this most degrading-' and uinous of all human pursuits, so that :he men who are spreading ruin and ieath may say to all protesters: "Stand tside; my business has received the sacred lanction of the law, and is therefore leeal ind right." Can we afford thus legally, (0 sanction a great wrong? Second, by legalizing this traffic w? tgree to share with the liquor seller the esponsibilities and evils of his business. * ?? "A?o Monrico Kprnmpi l/Veiy man \> uu ?wto iwi ? if necessity" a partner to the liauor raffic and all its consequences.?Willam McKinley, July 10, 1874. Mu?t Have Sober Men. The hard-headed, brainy master-minda if the great railroad corporations know : hat for the efficient service that means noney making and success they must have ober men! Therefore they demand and o a very large degree have sobriety ,mons their employes. The Crusade in Brief. ITo^v many of the medical profession io'd not oniv that alcohol is contra-indiaicd as a therapeutic remedy in phthis? ea! cases. The State liquor license law of South Dakota prohibits the sale of liquor to ha? vin'ofrtr nf lnxo icinp; liable for damages incurred by the irunkurd while intoxicated. That public houses are necessary is not lenied, but that they cannot be mainained without the profits of this vile raflic is a false and misleading: assumpion. Break un the -traffic and publiciousc keeping, like every other business, rill soon find its level. We have men of the highest authority i medicine and surgery who do not use timulants in their practice. Ex-Senator Merriman, of North Caroina, 6aye: "I have never meddled with iquor. I have never drunk it, have hard<f kept it as a medicine in my family, and et it has meddled with me, lias made my oy a wandering vagabond and has broken ;iy wuc a uirari; Hfl Saloonists are objecting to the extension H| f the rural free deliver; system. Taking DB he farmer's mail to his door daily' ob- Bf| iates the necessity of his coming to town o often and hence, of cours?, "enjoying H| he privilege" of visiting the booze disfjenary as often as he otherwise could, with' BH ut going especially for that purpose. Pubic-apirited ieilowe these siloomsU arel. |B I