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PINETREE SIDING. » » ■ ICKETY, tick, tick, . rattles the sounder r in the little box like structure which \l. serves as water and r coaling station as ! well as dispatcher's office, midway bc ‘ *H tween the towns of Blueflelds and Port - au Diable, on the '** =**«"'• S. F. &L. railroad. Overhead the sun pours down in piti less glare, making the air quiver and swirl in a wavering sort of dance over the straight stretch of track on either side of the station. Upstairs, in his glass-inclosed cage, the operator sits In his shirt sleeves, mopping the perspiration from his face and neck and gazing moodily at an open letter on the desk in front of him. It is a short letter, on the company’s paper, and signed by the division su perintendent, but its few typewritten lines have had a wonderful effect on the operator. Only a sharp, busine33- I ke letter, written by a busy man who cannot afford to waste time on trifles: “Dear Sir: Certain details of your previous history, which you thought fit to conceal when you entered the em ploy of this company, having come to the knowledge of the writer, your serv ices will not be required after Thurs day, July 31, when you will receive your pay in full to that date. “Your successor will arrive on the tpecial following No. 6. Very truly lours, J. M. L , “Division Superintendent.” The 31st! That is to-day, and he has only received the letter an hour ago! So he w’as to be turned out on the world at a moment’s notice, without a chance to prepare himself for the next step in the struggle for existence! To be dogged all his life by that one black act of his youth, which he had hoped buried forever. It was always the same old story; like Banquo’s ghost, it would not down, but, spreading its grisly arms, effectually barred his en trance into the paths of honest com petition for what many claim as a right, and which he only asked to be allowed to work for a livelihood. His ears are ringing and his head burns as though a thousand devils were making a cast of it in molten steel. Even the clatter of the telegraph in strument, which during the long, lone ly hours spent in his glass cage, had become like the voice of an old friend, as the train orders and message flashed through the little station, now seem to mock and jeer at him with its ceaseless rattle and tick. And above all that great dazzling orb continues to blaze down upon the shrinking earth until the verdure on the hillside aJbove and below the sta tion withers and curls, and the glass cage is like an oven. The operator’s head seems to be on fire and his brain throbs so violently that he cannot think at all clearly. There is but one idea around which his mental forces rally and to which his nerves respond—retaliation! And this idea grows upon him irresistibly. Shall he tamely kis3 the foot which kicks him out of a position in which he has ever tried to best subserve the interests of his employers, and which he now loses through the malice (so he tells himself) of one of the superior subordinates of the company for which they both work, and who uses as a means of satisfying his spite an error committed and expatiated twenty years ago! What claim had such a cur on life which should be respected by the rest of humanity? Would he not be doing the human race a favor by rid ding the world of such a travesty on man? The human race! Bah! What lid he owe the human race? Had r.ot START BACK IN HORROR, the hand of his fellow-man been against him for twenty years? Was he not a pariah, one cut off from social communication from his fellows, liv ing, traveling, working under an as sumed name, ever endeavoring to ob literate and dispel the old shadow! He had striven to live a life which should be blameless from the world’s point of view and those few with whom he had teen thrown in contact, and who knew naught of his previous history, could cast no aspersions against his charac ter. But to what avail? It was his fate. Surely It had been that every man’s hand should be against him. So be it I —his own hand should be raised against the unforgiving race of Phari sees. And the operator knows that Mb present position, albeit his tenure of it is but short, Is such as to render such a wholesale declaration of war doubly effective. Hotter and hotter blazes the sun , from an almost white sky, and wilder and wilder glare the eyes of the opera tor at Plnetreo Siding, Suddenly they happen to rest on a * A wire running close to the glass in front I of tho station, and light up with a wild er gleam than ever, while his working features distort themselves into a raa v ijcious grin. I'. The towns of Illueflelds and Port an | ■ are lighted by electric light, the 3 j.l being situated at D.ucfldda. Promptly at 5:30 every evening tbs dynamos a.e started up, running until 6:30 the next morning. The wires con necting the two points run directly in front of and close to the station at Pinetree Siding, and it is one of these wires which has caught the attention of the operator. It is now 2:45 in the afternoon, and not a cloud has crossed the face of that hanging ball of fire which threatens to shrivel and scorch to a cinder every thing on which its beams rest. The operator goes over to the window and attaches to the electric-light wire, from a portion of which he carefully removes the insulation, the end of an other piece which he holds in his hand. When this is secure he carries the other end o: ar his desk, and kneeling down, spends some minutes in arranging it in some manner below; bringing two free ends up through a hole in the top of the table. This done, he takes from a closet several round and greasy-look ing sticks about a foot long, and, de scending the stairs, places them at reg ular intervals along the railroad track, connecting them all together with wires, which he afterward brings up stairs and Joins to the arrangement underneath the table. Then he returns to his seat, and save for his trembling hands and the peculiar glare of his eyes, performs his routine duties in the usual manner. Tick tick, tlckety tick. It is the call for Pinetree Siding. The operator opens his key and answers promptly. It is a message from headquarters announcing that the special following No. 6, and carrying the divison superintendent and the new operator for Pinetree Sid ing is due at 5:50, Just three minutes after No. 6’s schedule time. The oper ator’s eyes flash; it is as he has anti cipated. He wires the track clear and waits. Promptly at 5:47 No. 6, the vestibuled limited express for the east, dashes past the siding with a rattle and crash that causes the operator, whose nerves are tense to the breaking point, to spring to his feet in alarm, fearing that the destruction meant for the special has overtaken her predecessor. But the express whirls safely by and the oper ator has the satisfaction of seeing his innocent looking messengers of death lying untouched but waiting his will to fulfill their devilish mission. And now the operator’s breath comes short and sharp and his eyes glisten and glare as though the fires of hell were lighted behind; his lips are drawn back over his teeth and his long fingers work nervously, as if longing to execute the finishing touch which shalf culmin ate the awful catastrophe he has planned. Gold help the poor men on the train so swiftly rushing to their doom, and God help their waiting fam ilies, for the operator at Pinetree Sid ing who holds their lives in his hands is no longer a man but a demon. Suddenly ihe whistle of the approach ing special is heard and the operator bounds from his chair and rushes to the window, eager to feast his eyes for a moment on the sight of his nearing vic tims. Everything is complete. He has but to press together those two tiny bits of wire and the entire telegraph line will be transformed into a hissing, blazing serpent, carrying death and de struction to the poor operators along its path and wrecking the instruments, thus stopping telegraphic communica tion all over the line; while at Pinetree Siding only a scattered tangle of wood, iron and human flesh would mark the annihilation of both the special with her human freight and the operator as well. For he is quite willing to sacri fice himself to achieve his end, and counts the cost but little if with the forfeit of his life he may encompass the revenge he has so cunningly plot ted. But thora is no time to lose; already the special is slowing up in front of the station, and, leaping to the table like a wolf upon his prey, he presses the two wires together. But no boom or roar of the expected explosion follows, nothing but the escape of steam as the air brakes of the special bring her to a stop, and the operator, realizing that his scheme has miscarried, flings him self upon the wires, biting them togeth er with his teeth, cursing, praying, blaspheming and shrieking aloud in his mad rage and disappointment. But all to no purpose; and as the division superintendent and the new dispatcher enter the room they start back in hor ror at sight of the body of the operator, as with black and twisted features he lies across the table, still grasping in his hand the wires by which he had hoped to avenge himself for a life of and onmity. A glance reveals the whole plot, and with cheeks paler than usual they cut the wires and re store everything to its original state, As the new operator brings in the dy namite which he has carefully removed from tho track, and looks over at his predecessor lying straightened out on tile floor by the window, he shudders so that the division superintendent jumps forward to catch the 3tuff, thinking he is about to drop it. Next morning the Bluefields Exposi tor calls the attention of the citizens to the wonderful mercy of providence, which by permitting a fuse at the elec tric light plant to blow out, so cutting off the current just before the special following No. G was duo at Pinetree Siding, had saved the lives of several prominent railway officials, besides a large amount of damage to railway property. And when the coroner gave to the public the verdict that the oper ator at Pinetree Siding had come to his death from the effects of the in tense heat of the previous day no men tion was made of the letter found by the division superintendent on the ta ble besido him. While in England potatoes are grown almost entirely as an esculent, auout 4,000,000 tone are annually used in France in the manufacture of starch and alcohol. WOULD HUitT INSTEADOF HELP How Freo Coinage Would Injure the Farmers. The chief strength of the 16 to 1 agi tation lies in the belief that it would benefit the agricultural classes. This is a serious error. The facts of all human experience show conclusively that free silver would cause widespread and prolonged injury to the faimers of this country. The mere threat of free coinage would greatly injure the farmers by causing an immediate calling in of all loans through the natural desire of lenders to get back money worth as much as they lent. Hundreds of thousands ef farmers would be unable to pay their mort gages, and their farms would be sold at a sacrifice. No new loan 3 would be forthcoming, as the owners of capital would not invest so long as there was any danger that by a change in the money standard the value of loans would be cut in two. As the chief com plaint of the farmers now is that inter est is too high and capital is too scarce, the effect of a policy which would make capital scarcer and dearer can be fig ured out by each farmer for himself. A second way in which free coinage would hurt agriculture would be by the financial panic which would inevitably follow the overthrow of our present sound financial system and the adop tion of the unstable cheap silver stand ard. With the millions of bank de positors demanding their savings the machinery of credits, by which so large a part of the country’s business is done, would be suddenly stopped. Merchants would be unable to buy goods for !ack of credit; manufacturing industries would be closed down, as in 1893, end millions of workers would be idle. Men out of employment do not buy as much farm products as when they are at work, and the farmers who now complain of the lack of markets for their produce would find them3elve3 with a large part of their crops un sold. Would not this be a serious In jury to agriculture? Another evil which free coinage would bring to American farmers would be the unsettlement of their trade relation with the great gold standard commercial nations, which purchase each year $600,000,000 worth of our surplus farm products. The adoption of the silver standard, with its constantly fluctuating scale of prices, would prove the same barrier to commerce between this and other countries that it has to trade between gold standard Europe and India, China, and Japan. Do the farmers want to curtail and unsettle our foreign trails? These are some of the ways in which free coinage at 16 to 1 would hurt the farmers. No advocate of 53-cent dol lars has ever been able to show a single way in which it would help them. FREE SILVER AND PRICE OF COTTON. Populist Statistics Which Prove Sound Money Statements. The Arena, a populist magazine, pub lishes a series of pictures intended to show the great decrease in the purchas ing power of a bale of cotton, owing to the alleged “demonetization” of silver. The money value of the first bale is given as $416.90 in 1865. Tho next in the saL>e series is for 1870, when the money value had shrunk to $110.1)0. Other pictures give the varying values down to 1894, the conclusion from the whole being that the lack of free sil ver has caused the fall in tho price of cotton. How false this argument is can be seen by looking at the figures quoted. Between 1865 and IS7O the price of cot ton fell from 53.38 cents per pound to 23.98 cents. By 1873, the year of the “crime,” tho price had gone down to 18.80 cents. In other words, the money value of a bale of cotton shrank from $416.90 in 1865 to $94, a difference of $322.90, while the country had free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. Since that (Money value of 500 pounds in 1865 at $0.83.38 per pound, $416.90.) (Money value of 500 pounds in 1573 at SO.IS.SO per pound, $94.) (Money value of 500 pounds in 1895* at $0.07.80 per pound, $39.) time the fall in price has teen much less, having been only from $94 in IS7S to $39 In 1896 at the prtsent quota tions of 7.80 cents per pound. The history of cotton prices 3hows. therefore, that under free silver the price of a bale of cotton declined $322.90, or 64.58 cents per pound, in eight years. Under the present flrutn -*ia 1 system the price has only fallen $55 per bale, of 11 cents per pound in 23 years. In face of theso oltlolal figures how can any intelligent man pretend that it was the change in .uir currency laws In 1373 which has re duced the money value of cotton? The advocates of free silver may at tempt to answer this exposure of their low price for cotton argument by show ing that thero was a great increase in the cotton crop between 1863 and 1573. This is 'true, but there has also been a far greater quantity of cotton produced ►very year cineo 1873 than ever before, the crop for 1892 reaching 9,035,379 bales as compared with 3,930,508 bales in 1873, the largest crop during the period from 1565 to 1573, so that if In creased production caused the great decline in prices in one case it is sure ly fair to credit it, and not the stop page of free esilver coinage, with the lower prices of the past 23 years. A Trails Jonrnal’s Sninmarr. To a man who has no money there are several ways to get it—namely; (a) Beg it. (b) Steal it. (c) Borrow it. (d) Secure it by gift. (e) Trade something for it. If we are to beg for it, we might just as well do the best we can. There fore a dollar based on a gold standard is better than a 16-to-l silver dollar, which to-day is worth about 53 cents intrinsically. If we are to steal it, we want the best. A thief who would steal a sil ver dollar in preference to a gold dol lar would be acquitted on the ground that he was insane. If we borrow it, we want that kind of money which will go farthest, for so we can get along with a smaller loan. Therefore a gold dollar is better to borrow than a 16-to-l silver dollar. If we are to secure it by gift, cer tainly we should not depreciate that which we are about to receive. This brings us to e, which is the way most money i 3 obtained. A perti nent question for each of us to ask at this time is, Y’hat have I got to trade for money wh.„h I want? It may be labor; It may be a horse or cow; it may be lumber cr shingles; it may be a saw-mill. At the present time we can trade any of the above and get a gold dollar for every dollar’s worth of value, as may be agreed upon between buyer and seller. We can get a dollar which is worth a dollar anywhere and every where. Now’, your labor or horse or cow’ cr lumber or machinery will be worth just an much, or nearly as much, next year as it i 3 this, but if we have free coin age at 16 to 1 will the dollar which you get in trade be worth as much as the dollar you can get now? What will that be worth? Can you tell? It may be worth 53 cents or more or less. One day this, one day that, but can any one tell? These are all pertinent questions, and, when carefully considered, must guide us in voting at the next election in November, and do not lose sight of the fact that if all the silver in the world is coined into money you cannot get a cent of it except by a, b, c, d or e, above referred to. —Lumber Trade Journal. (■nvfrnmont Onnertlilp of Silver Mine*. Why is It that both the populists and the democrats failed to put a plank in their platforms demanding that the government own and control the silver mines of this country, so that the profit which would be made from free coinage would go to our government and thus indirectly be a benefit to the whole people? Why should this profit go to a few individuals who own the silver mines and who are already enormously rich? Is not this building up one of the most dangerous trusts that the country has ever seen? Think of a few men having under their contrtn all the silver of this coun try and tt-s government compelled to turn it lr,t»’ dollars as fast as they produce it! Suppose that these silver men combine to shut down work on their mines when they want to produce a stringency in the money market, then open thorn again when they want to make money abundant. Would not this put the whole business of the country at their mercy? l>oubl« Stnmlnnl M»pl* Sugar. The Mohawk valley waa settled by the Dutch, as your readers know. When the country was new Yankee peddlers came through the settlements and pur chased the crop of maple sugar. On one occasion a green Dutchman sold a Yankee his maple sugar far below the market price and his neighbor teased him for being deceived. He said in re ply: “You vait and I will vix him next year.” The next spring he sold his crop of sugar to the same Yankee at the same price. When his neigh bors railed him he said: “I am no fool. 1 made the sap that sugar was made from of half spring water.” The green Dutch farmer had just as much com mon sense as those cranks who assert that 50 cents’ worth of silver and an equal amount of water will make a dol lar worth 100 cents In gold at the pres ent standard. —F. G. in New York Sun. An Eminent lllmetxlllaV* Opinion. Professor Edouard Suess, the leading bimetallist of Austria, states briefly but with great force the objections to free coinage by this country alone. The result would be, he says, “the loss of all your (our) gold, and the obliga tion to buy in England the gold neces sary to meet your (our) obligations in foreign countries.” He declares that “one nation alonn is too weak to take such a step, which must lead to a financial and perhaps an economical crisis.” Sober I>IS"ii»«lon. This must be a campaign of educa tion. We advise men to study, talk and read all they can about this great ques tion, but do not get mad at your neigh bor who doed not think as you do. Re member he Is entitled to his opinion and to respect. All the facts are not on one side. There are plausible things in favor of free silver, but there are more plausible ones in favor of our present standard. RlchmondvlUe (N. Y.) Phoenix. Cheap money means dear goods. If you want to pay double prices for what you buy and take slim chances of wtting mors wages, vote for the 16 to 1 scheme. A LESSON FROM EGYPT. Shotting Hour that Country Fulled to Maintain the Katin. The ancient Egyptians had a cur rency based on cats and onions, ooth of which were sacred objects worship ed by the people. As there was some difficulty in storing the cats, and as the onion was liable to decay, a circulating medium was provided of papyrus strips, representing a certain number of cats and onions at a ratio of 16 to 1. This was a true double standard system and is believed to have been the origin of modern paper currency. For a time the cat-onion money circulated at par, but the historian Faque Hur records that about 963 B. C. a serious difficulty arose. New colonies had been estab lished in the region of the upper Nile, and the savage Nubians had been taught the art of agriculture. The rich, black soil of the valley which they inhabited was especially suited to the growth of onions, and the production of those perfumed bulbs was soon enormously increased. Meanwhile the cat crop had only grown in the usual ratio, and the result was that, with the demand for sacred animals in the new colonies, at least 30 onions would be given for one cat. This brought the papyrus currency into disfavor, and the ruling pharaoh. Ham Bunkshus 111., issued a royal order that cats should be the sole standard of value, and that onions should be issued only to the extent that they could be kept at par with the “caterwaulers,” as the unit of value was termed. This did not suit the onion growers, who at once started an agitation for the free and unlimited coinage of al! onions at the good old ratio of their daddies. After passing 3,187,642 resolu tions denouncing the horrible crime of 963 the onionites marched in a body to the palace of their pharaoh and de manded that the unju6t law enacted at the Instance of the catbugs should be repealed and the bicatallis standard Ram Bunkshus listenod to them patiently and answered: “Great, no doubt, was the wisdom of our an cestors. But lam in the wisdom busi ness myself to some extent. When the ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted, that was the true ratio of the cats and onions. Now, owing to a great increase In the quantity of onions, tho ratio is 30 to 1. All powerful as I am, I cannot make onions worth more than their market value. The present standard stays. As for you, O foolish onionites, your leaders shall feed the sacred crocodiles. The rest of you will return to your farms and hustle. I have remarked.” Thus ended the first and only cur rency agitation In Egypt.—Whldden Graham in Puck. One Neglected Detail. “No, sir,” said the man who waa chewing a long straw, “I ain't satisfied yet. I don’t think ary one o’ them con ventions went fur enough.” "I thought you regarded the future very hopefully.” “I did fur a time. But in the excite ment we overlooked things thet orter ’a’ been done. It never occurred ter me at the time, but we made a big mis take by not havin’ a plank put inter the platform makin’ it ag'in’ the law fur it ter rain on a man’s hay when he’s gone ter town ter ’tend a p'litical meetin’."—Washington Star. "We don’t want any 53-cent dollars In this town,” was the emphatic greet ing of a workman to the presidential candidate of the populists and sllverltes as he passed through Huntingdon, Pa. If the American workingmen are wise they will see to it that every town and city in the United States gives the same answer to the free coinage appeals for votes. “More money” is the delusive cry of the silverites in their campaign for cheap dollars. But they do not attempt to show how a 16 to 1 free coinage law, which would put our $690,000,000 gold at a premium of nearly 100 per cent, and drive It all out of circulation, could possibly give us more money than we have now. “Gold Is the speculator’s dollar” say the advocates of the silver standard. How about the cheap money period from 1861 to 1873? Did not specula tion of all kinds flourish then, and were not the gamblers in bonds, slocks or farm products greatly aided by the depreciated and fluctuating currency? It the fact that some farmers are poor is used to justify the confiscation of the property of creditors, would not the poverty of tho Coxey armies of tramps and unemployed workers justi fy them in demanding a share of thf property owned by the farmers? The new tenant visits the family cr, the tloor below. After a few compli mentary remarks the lady says: ’’Shall I call my daughter to play something for you on the piano? You haven’t heard her yet.” Oh, yes 1 hav; ; a id, to tell the truth, the landlord let mo have the apartments a third cheapo on that account"—-Texas Sifting... ME SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON Xlll—SET. 27—A REVIEW OF DAVID’S LIFE. (lolden Test: “The Name of the Lord Is a Strong Towor. The Righteous Runneth Into It and Are Safe”—Tro verbs 18:10. * flam ll* a wi two elder sisters, « whose names are -S given, - Zerulah —. an< r Abigail U Chron. 2: 16). Natural Endow ments. These were of a h l gji order. He had physical strength. beau*h iUtleß of tract Iveneas. He ha.t t»W»l" a high order and great \ a y ’ Qr mu _ business man, statesman, com ..clan and poet. “There was a|»re co btnatlon In him of all tha p xa i t ed tender and mild, with the ™ ‘ , iations , enthusiasm, the most n°ble P most the most generous sentimen • dar _ manly deportment, the most ’nrowess, ing and the most Invincible l^owess. joined to Invariable consid Others, open-heartedness, hum entire absence of all pretension. Early Training. David’s early training was exactly the best for the wo . ug to do In life,—ln a country home. ,ro and intelligent, with sufficient wa9 fully but not overwhelming till h , o ned grown, amid daily duties tha aml(1 him physically as well as me ■ med _ the influences of nature, of musu. itatlon. . .. _ The victory over Goliath, in The of Elah, when 20 or -1 y ear * \ of fruit of previous training and c ■ good, and the means to larger <■ ' h .. Scripture. “To him that overcometh. “I will make a pillar In the te "' pl^s’ r f God”; “and I will give him the morning 91 Nine Years of Training and Trial. !" the court of Saul for about two .« David learned many lessons of c of self-restraint, of resistance to worldly ness, of soldierly conduct am . f of use of arms, the blessing and 1 true friendship. ag Then for seven years more he learning necessary lessons in exil • learned the character and needs ofthe people, and their grievances. He learned men and how to govern men. „ t in privation and humility counteracUd the dangers of his court Mfe * a knowledge of the country. He gathered around him choice and heroic P preparation for his defense and con **'illustration. The mahogany tree. ln low and damp soils, is of very rapid growtn. but the most valuable trees grow slow amidst rocks and on sterile soil, and stem to gather compactness and beauty of gtan and texture from the very difficulties with which they have to struggle for existence Just as in human life affliction and tii develop the loveliest traits of human character. In the Bahama Islands, spring ing up on rocky hillsides in places almost destitute of soil, and crowding its con torted roots into crevices among the rocks I speak now of a time long past tt formed that much esteemed and curiously veined variety of wood known and valued so highly in Europe as “Madeira wood. David becomes king of Judah lor seven and a half years at Hebron. This was his preparation for the larger kingdqni. Scripture. Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things (Matt. 25: 21). David Becomes King Over All Israel. He became king as all men attain their best life work,—(l) by the guiding provi dence of God, (2) by some kind of choice of the people. (3) by a right heart and persevering will. 1. David enlarged the kingdom. 2. He subdued the enemies that at tacked him. 3. He organized the government. 4. He organized the army. 5. He arranged the services of religion. G. He enlarged commerce, business and material prosperity. David’s sin marks a sad era in his life. His repentance changed the very at mosphere of his later life. There were two streams flowing side by side: one from his sin, culminating in Absalom’s rebellion, hut felt to the end of his life and beyond: the other from his changed character, his penitence and the new phase of his religious life. This stream gradually widened as the evil stream grew less. David spent much of his later years in preparing materials for the temple which his son was to build. Death urd Burial of David. David died at the age of seventy, “full of days, riches and honor” (1 Chron. 29 : 28). He was buried at Jerusalem, In the tombs of the kings cut in the rooks under Mount Zion. Review of David’s Character. David was a noble, brave, loving man, with strong passions, a warm heart and a ready, generous hand; a devoted friend, attractive, bright, joyous, poetic, deeply religious and devotional, strong in faith, unselllsh and sincerely good. He fell into someofthe vice* of the age; hecommltteda great crime: he was too easy In his fam ily government; but his repentance and public confession prove him to be at heart a true and godly man, one of the great est and best men that ever lived. He was a great general, a great statesman, a great poet, a great organizer, a great man. Time. Seventy years, the whole life of David, B. C. 1085 to 1015. Place. The land of Palestine, Beth lehem, Valley of Klah, Gibeah, where Saul held his court, Hebron, Jerusalem. Contemporaries. The prophet Samuel lived till David was 20 years old or more. Na'han amt Gad were also prophets dur ing his reign. Saul was king till David was 30 years old. Secular History. During David’s reign and Solomon’s the great kingdoms of Egypt and of Assyria were sufferiug an eclipse. lionet in Btr»w Hat*. A couple of horses wearing straw hats were seen attached to a handeomo landau in London the other day. It Is said that horses suffer from the heat \*lien their heads are exposed to the sun. FOR LADIES ONLY. Side combs are as stylish as ever, but are not so conspicuously worn as formerly. The plain skirt remains the favorite style, and when well made is generally becoming. The most stylish garniture for travel ing hats consists of garlands of autumn leaves and berries. Stockings with small pockets or: the outer side, just above the knee, are shown 'a thz shops.