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LOSSES AND GAINS,
Though God has veiled His purpose
From our unseeing eyes,
He bids us hope unceasing—
The weakling as the wise,
He makes the glowing future
"To blossom from the Now;
Of ills He coineth blessings,
Although we know not how.
And in the flery furnace
Of sorrow and of loss,
His alchemy divorces
. True metal from the lross,
As who would scan the pleasure,
The verdant vale's delights,
Must first, with steps untiring,
Ascend the mountain heights,
Mayhap to struggle onward,
With bruised and bleeding feet,
Ere half the weary journey
Before him be complete,
8o rises Man, the pilgrim,
On lessons bought with pain,
And learns there is no losing
Without a greater gain.
—Frank Putnam, in Ohicago Times-Herald
MY TWO DUELS.
during the nine
ties of this nineteenth century. In
each I received some bodily hurt, The
first of my duels took place in a small
town of Southern France. I was a
resident there for the winter, had a
tiny bachelor vills, and (through for
mer acquaintance with the place) was
on pretty intimate terms with a good
many of my neighbors, There was an
English element in the place, but the
French of course predominated, and
it was with the Frenchmen I usually
found myself. The man with whom I
fought was a Provencal, born close by.
He was a big, straggling fellow,
lean, and with a bright bird’s eye that
was always glittering on you. He was
a gentleman undoubtedly, had been
educated in Marseilles, and had never
wandered fifty miles from the Riviera
coast. He'wasprobably the most nar
row-minded man that ever lived, and,
on diet of booksand Anglophobe news
papers, he had imbibed a blind and
poisonous batred for the British Na
tion that was unique in its complete
ness. His name was D’Arblay, and
he called himself my friend.
' This was the funny thing about the
man. He cultivated the society of
Englishmen, and individually (I think)
he liked them. ,He was eternally
running down perfide Albion, but no
body took much notice of that. The
Englishman who lives abroad is so en
tirely confident about the superiority
of his own island that he doesn’t often
break out in patriotic vein. It isn’t
his way. Besides, he finds that one
short pitying smile often serves his
purpose better than a whole volume
of talk.
Now, for two years I had endured
D’Arblay’s revilings of my native land
with no more forcible retort than a
series of these pitying smiles; and 1
think in the end he began to hate me,
for one day, without warning, he
started on a fresh topie which he must
have known was calculated to wound
me deeply. He commenced to talk
mild evil about some one I cared for
very much indeed, and that in a club
house before the ordinary mixed
gathering of other men.
I warned him once, twice, and the
third time; and he always said that
he meant no harm, and turned off
what Ibhad said with easy badinage
and continued his theme. But at last
I saw, or thought I saw, his motive,
and a hot anger boiled up in me.
“D’Arblay,” 1 said, “ig you want to
fight, say so like a man. But drop
talking about that girl or I shall throw
this inkstand at you head.”
“M’sien,” he retorted, “I dispute
your right to be the censor of my con
versation. The lady in question—"
I threw the inkstand.
The glass missed him, but the black
fluid spurted over his face, and the
techunical insult had been given and
received.
He bowed formally and left the club
house,l spoke to a couple of my friends
and followed his example. Later he
appointed two seconds, and they con
sulted with mine; and a time was
fixed for the wmeeting, and swords
were chosen as the weapons.
D’Arblay was anaverage swordsman.
I had seen him practise with a maitre
d'escrime, and has gauged his powers
pretty well. For myself I knew of
the art of fencing absolutely nothing
whatever; and, when everything
was snuzly arranged for the duel, I
thougnt of this fact with something
more than annoyance. I particularly
did not want to be killed, because—
well, because a certain lady had
promised to marry me within a short
ti and I—well, I did not want to
dimpoint her. And there was no
backing out of the duel. One could
afford to laugh at such a meeting in
England; but in France it is another
matter. Even the Enzlish winter res
idents would have looked askance at
me 1f 1 tried todisentangle myself.
Moreover, there was another thing,
more dangerous than wounds or death,
and that was ‘ridicule. A man may
put up with being kiiled, but he can
not endure being laughbed at. Sol
made up my mind that, if D'Arblay
did pot disable me first, I would leave
my mark on him in a way there was
no mistakinzg. Miad, I did not want
to kiil tke fellow, only I did not in
tend to be mixed up in an affair which
the wuewspapers coull define as
‘““another bloodness emcounter” and
dismiss with a jeering paragragh.
So, to sum up, I weat on the field
Getermined on forcing a serious fight,
and a zood deal fearing lest I myself
should be the one to suffexr. 7
We drove out to the place of meet
ing in the early morning, with a keen
minstrel blowing which chilled one to
the bone. The others arrived simul
taneously. There was quite a congre
gation of us; four seconds, two doe
tors, and the principals. Bat D’Arb
lay, being & Frenchman, liked the
crowd, and I had to bow to the eti
quette of the counntry..
No politeness could have been more
puactilious than ours, and none more
ilcy. We two principals stripped to
shirt and trousers. and I stood on the
frost rimmed grass in my stocking
feet. D’Arblay was opposite me,
smiling grimly. We saluted one an
other with the bare, Rlittering rapiers,
and a second took up position behind
each of us, standing ready with a
walking stick to knock up she blades
at the leas: sign of a foul stroke. At
least so I was warned. To myself I
was wondering what a “‘foul stroke”
might be, so ignorant was I of the very
elements of fencing. Bat I said noth
ing about this, and, when D’Arblay
UGH I am per
ps the least
marrelsome man
\ the world, it bas
sen my fate to
fight no less than
‘wo duels. One ]
wnfess .to have
~ught; the other
was thrust upon
@; both occurred
crossed blades with mine, I engaged
him with whirling fary.
The blue steei flashed and stabbed a
thousand circles in the chill morning
air, and a pang of fear gripped me by
the heart. I seemed to feel his blade
passing through me ‘in a hundred
places. Death appeared inevitable.
Every second I marvelled at finding
nayself alive.
To mysell I accepted a mortal wound
as inevitable; but I lusted to get my
own blade through D’Arblay’s body
before I was killed. 1 could hardly
see him. Our pauting breath hung
gray under the cold morning sun, so
that we fought in a clammy mist. I
lunged and passadoed, barely guard
ing at all, fighting on the offensive
only, through sheer greed of getting
in my blow before [ was hore de com
bat.
Then, before I knew what was hap
pening, the duel ended. I was con
scious of a feeling somewhere or other
of a sear as with a hot iron. I'under
stood that it meant I was wounded,
and dully wondered where, though
without being able to locate the hurt.
I saw the walking;sticks of the seconds
uprise to beat down our weapons, and
at the same moment I heard D’Arblay
utter a shriek of pain. A heavy cane
clashed down on my blade, and I drew
back nearly burst for want of breath.
These things take long to tell, but the
whole of them happened within one
tick of a clock.
The surgeons rushed up to us with
lint and bandages. Blood was run
ning from my fingers onto the rapier’s
hilt. D’Arblay had scored my right
forearm with a shallow gash a dozen
inches long. He himself wasin a worse
case; I had run him through the
shoulder.
My seconds tried to hold me back,
but I was too warmed up to care much
for the etiquette of the French duello
then. I went to where D’Arblay lay
in the surgeon’s hauds, with blood pat
tering from my fingers on to the grass.
““M’sien will apologize, I hope? 1
may mention that the lady is engaged
to me.”
“I dido’t know it,” said my oppo
nent. ““Why didn’t you tell me be
fore? My dear fellow, lam most
abominably sorry for having chattered.
You have given me a pig of a stab,
and that ought to settle accounts be
tween us. Will you come and break
fast with me when we're both tied up ?”
One of the seconds murmured at
this informality.
“‘Sir,” I said, ‘‘if you have anything
to complain of, may I hear 1t?”
““Monsieur,” he replied, “‘I think we
had better consider this affair as ended
now.”
The other duel in which I took part
was none of my seeking. It happened
last year in Florida, where my wile
and I were spending the winter, and
was thrust upon me in a manner little
short of murderous. :
The beginning was in this wise: I
detected a man cheating at cards. 1
was not playing myself, but thq cheat
ing was done to swindle a fellow who
was my friend, and, because I saw it,
beyond shadow of doubt, I called out
to him to stop play. Of course there
was a row, and if the sharper had not
been in a minority of one there might
well have been shooticg. Bat, as it
was, the thing was utterly flagrant;
indeed, the man himself did not at
tempt to deny it, and he went away
scattering nothing more dangerous
than venomous wordy thrests. We
were left trinmphant possessors of the
field, and I waxed pedantic to my
friend ovor the danger of playing
games of chance for the coin of the
realm with casual hotel acquaintances.
Three days later I went off into the
Everglades alligator shooting, and for
deer also, if I could come across any.
Now what the spot was like will not
be spoken of here in detail. Sufficient
to mention that among other things I
came upon an orchid which I imagined
to be new, and all thoughts of shoot
ing were for the time submerged be
neath the ardor of the collector. 1
laid down my rifle (a Remington .400)
against the stem of a magnolia tree
and began to feast my eyes upon the
trails of hanging blossoms.
I suppose I must have dawdled there
a full hour, sketching, measuring, tak
ing notes, culling specimens, when of
a sudden something went wisp past the
top of my head, and then, close to,
sounded the noisy crack of a heavy
rifle. By a sort of useless instinet, the
first thing I did was to start backward
and to duck my head; the next to
stare wiidly around me. A glance
showed beyond question where the
bullet had come from. Down a glade
of live oaks, not sixty yards away, a
man was busily engaged in slipping a
fresh cartridge into the breech of a
rifle, which had gray smoke wreaths
% still crawling slowly from its muzzle.
It was the fellow I had exposed for
cheating at cards.
~ As 1 gazed, he finished loading and
‘sharply raised his weapon. I turned
and ran like a frightened dog, zigzag
ging in my course to confuse his aim,
and making for the magnolia tree.
There I snatched up my own rifle, and
darted behind the trunk. I stopped
and listened. Not a sound was to be
heard which rose above the warm hum
of the insects and the other never
ceasing noises of the forest. 1 could
not doubt that the man was watching
me and waiting for his next opportun
ity to pick me off. My gorge rose at
the thought of him. Brute! If he
could fire a’sitting shot at an unsus
pecting man, I knew what I had to ex
pect, and what I must do if my own
life was to be saved. I bhad to depend
on myself. In that solitude the next
human creature might be twenty miles
away.
Thud!
A bullet had struck the tree, and the
noise of the shot came close upon Its
heels. I swung out from behind the
trunk and lifted my rifle, when an
other shot whistled out from beneath
the live oaks, and I was pcorer by the
loss of an ear lobe. My owa ballet
rattled harmlessly among the tree
twigs, and I strode back to shelter,
raging and bleeding.
The passion of murder burned in me
then like a torch. The heat of the day
seemed to have passed completely
away. The perspiration which stood
on my body turned cold as an ice
douche. Never before had my thoughts
gushed up with such clearness and
strength. It was a duel to the death
between me and the sharper, and he
had drawn first blood, and I had got
to win.
The words seemed floating in the
hot air before me—*'Kill! kill! kill I”
I had reloaded the Remington, and
stood with ears strained to catch the
slightest sound which told of my en
emy’s moving. Till that moment I
had supposed his rifle was a repeater.
Now another idea came to me. There
had been two reports; one short and
sharp, the other heavier and more
noisy. Of course, the thing was clear.
He had fired a revolver shot firss, to
draw me from my cover ; had dropped
the smaller weapon the moment he
pulled trigger; and had fired on me
with the rifle directly I emerged from
cover. The fiendish cunning of the
man made my hate for him glow in me
like a draught of raw spirits.
All idea of fairness (if indeed such
had ever occurred to me) was com
pletely swept away by that time. I
would fight im by his own methods.
The oply question was one of means.
As matters stood, I lay ensconsed be
hind the stem of the magnolis, and,
if I stepped out of its shelter, I should
have to take his fire before 1 could get
in my own. Asa snap shot I was very
conscious of my own deficiencies;
from observation I had a high estimate
of his skill.
But a brain working at the pressure
which mine was put to then yields up
uuexpected fruits; and when the idea
did at lastcome to me I could have
sung for very joy. But there wastoo
much danger -in it to increast the
risks uonecessarily. I slung my rifle
by its strap across my shoulder, and
tarned round and commenced to
climb the magnola.
The stem had been split by light
ning, or I could not have got up with
out my hands being seen round the
sides, and, as it was, the e¢limb to the
first branch was desperately hard ; but
I had the strength of ten men in me
then, and the silent wilyness of a
Seminole, and I gained the cover of
the foliage without having made a
slip or cracked a twig.
With the caution of a lynx I made
my way up the ladder of branches,
going higher and higber till there was
barely one layer of the dark green
shining leaves between me and the
burning sky above; and then Ilooked
about me till I found a steady seat;
and then I unslung the Remington
from my shoulders. I brushed the
rustling curtain of leaves softly aside
with the muzzle and peered out. M
enemy was on his old ground, stad
ing beneath the live oaks with hisrifle
at the ready. Some indefinable sus
picion must have got hold of him, for
at that moment he looked up.
The reports of the two rifles rang
up into the heated air simultaneously,
but mine was the better aim. His
bullet whistled through the 3ark green
leaves a foot from my head; mine
broke his right elbow joint. '
I reloaded and hailed him. There
was & pool of black water on the
nearer side of the live oaks, and the
snout and eyebrows of an alligater
showed upon the surfuce like two
knots of dead wood.
“Take your rifle,” I said, ‘‘and thut
revolver and throw them into the
water.”
He hesitated, nursing his wounded
#rm in the palm of his hand, and glar
ing at me like a fiend.
““Quick !” I said. *‘lf you take time
::lo think twice more I'll shoot you
ead.” ;
He picked up the weapons one by
one and then dropped them into the
water with sullen splashes. The rep
tiles in the pool, frightened by the
noise, sank down to the mud below,
where they lay.
“Now,"” I said, “‘go!” and he went,
and I watched until he was out of
sight among the tree trunks and the
SAW grass., - : :
Then I climbed down and gathered
my orchids and went home by another
way, keeping a very sharp lookout. I
trusted little to that man’s chivalry.
I have seen another fellow cheat at
cards since then, but that was in
South America, and I did not feel
called upon to interfere. Two duels
have been quite emough for me.—
Chambers's Journal.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
A pound of phosphorus heads 1,000,-
000 matches.
The latest application of asbestos in
electricity is called the electrotherm,
and is used in hospitals,’in place of the
old-fashioned hot-water bott}e.
It has been noted that there has
been no drought in Southern Cali
fornir in those distriects in which the
eucalyptus trees have been extensively
planted.
Permission has been asked the au
thorities of the City of Mexico to al
low the change from mule power to
electricity on the street raiiroads with
in the city.
On the gastern coast of Ireland it
rains on an average of 208 days in the
year, in England about 150 'days, at
Kazan about ninety days and in Si
beria only sixty days.
The elephant is commonly supposed
to be aslow, clumsy fellow, but when
excited or frightened can attain a
speed of twenty miles an hour and can
keep it up for a half a day.
No parental care ever falls to the
lot of a single member of the insect
tribe. In general, the eggs of an in
gect are destined to be hatched long
after the parents are dead.
A motor trioyole attracted much at
tention at a recent display of autocars
in London. The inventor is an Ameri
can. The car is seated for four per
gons and weighs only 400 pounds.
Compressed hot water is said to be
a remarkably cheap motive power,
and the New York Central authorities
are thinking of running fast trains
between New York and Albany by its
means,
Professor Charles Stewart told the
the British Royal Institution the other
day that there are 334,000 bhairs on
the buman body. He said that he
would not be particular to a hair or
two vne way or the other, but the
above number was the average, for he
had counted them.
Two English bacteriologists con
clude that an average of 1590 microbes
must be inhaled into the nose every
hour, while in London the number
must often reach 14,000. The crgan
isms are caught by the nose and passed
to the digestive organs, which in
health destroy them.
Long distance telephones have been
placed in the smallest Swiss villages,
making it possible to communicate
from one end to the other of the coun
try on instruments kept in perfect re
pair, and on which one can hear dis
tinctly. The fee varies from two to
eight cents a message. Electric light
ing from water power has been intro
dvced in even small places.
She Caught Him,
A young married woman was look
ing at a vacant house on Pacific ave
nue the other day with a view to rent
ing, when she heard a noise in one of
the upper rooms. She went up to see
what it was, and was almost sure that
she saw a man dodge into a closet and
close the door after him. Her first im
pulse was to run and scream, but see
ing the key in the door she walked
slowly across the room and turned the
key. Then she ran for a policernan.
It was in the morning and she could
find none, so went home to lunch and
forgot all about her prisoner till even
ing. Then she hunted up an officer
and went to the house.
When the [closet door was opened
the half suffocated owner of the house
tumbled out. He had gone to the
jouse to do some little chores, and
vlz“ changing his clothes when his
toilet was interrupted by the young
lady’s unexpeocted appearance, and he
was forced to seek a refuge in the
ocloset. —San Francisco Post.
A QUEEN’S KINDLY ACT.
A beautiful act of the Queen of Spaic
is being very favorably commented
upon through the entire Spantish press.
The Queen was riding in her carriage
with her brother, Archduke Eugene
of Austria, through the Pasco de Aren
eros, one of thefinest streetsof Madrid,
when they met a priest carrying the
holy sacrament to a dying girl. Both
the Queen and her brother stepped
out of the royal carriage, surrendered
their places to the priest and followed
the carriage on foot to Ganlee street,
where a young girl, Maria Louise
Fuentes, the daughter of the well
known actor of the same name, was in
the throes of death.
The Queen showed great interest in
the family and assisted at the ceremony
of administering the extreme unction
to the girl, who died soon afterward.
When the priest left the house the
Queen and her brother returned on
foot behind the royal ecarriage, in
which the priest rode to the church of
Nuestra Senora de los Dolores, where
the priest dismounted and thanked
the Queen for her kindness.
When the population of that quarter
of the city learned of the noble act of
their Queen regent, the emthusiastic
demonstration seemed never to end.
When the Queen had reached the
palace she sent one of her adjutants to
the house of the dead girl witha purse
containing a round sum of money to
defray the expense incurred by the
illness and death of the girl.
THE HAIR FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.
If the nuque, as the French call the
back of the neck, is long, white, and
delicate in modeling, and combined
with the gractful curvesr made by long
sloping shoulders, known in the ar
tist’s vocabulary as ‘‘beauty lines,”
the maid is ordered to dress the hair
high, that this perfection of form and
outline may give additional beauty to
the picture. If, on the other hand,
the neck is mucular or scrawny, and
there are broad, bare spaces back ot
the ears, the hair is arranged low,
brought well over the ears in creped
masses, and twisted in a loose coil on
the nape of the neck.
i Covering the ears with wavy tresses
is a fad with some artists, particularly
for profile pictures, where ti® ear, as
the central feature, is liable to appear
in strangely exaggerated form. For
the perfect, oval face the hair is
dressed a la Pompadour, and is guilt
less of curl or wave. Where tke oval
is less pronounced, but the forehead
is yet beautiful, the fluffy Pompadour
is advised. For the fuller face, the
artist forbids the fashionable roll and
saggests the smooth bandeaux in vogue
in our grandmothers’ youth. Where
the forehead is higher, the bandeaux
are waved and slightly drooped at the
square corners of the temples. Never
will the true artist allow the broad,
high forehead in its bland and unin
teresting entirety to be forced upon
the vision of a helpless posterity.
TLe delicately formed face, that is
sometimes patrician and sometimes
only thin, is in either case treated
with careful consideration. Fluffy
tresses are a prerequisite to becoming
hair-dressing- for the slender face.
Whether the hair is parted in the mid
dle, worn in myriads of curls at the
sides of the face, in the fashion of
1830, or parted over the left temple,
drawn back in waves to the crown of
the head and held in place by a jaun
tily set Spanish comb, a la Carmen, in
every instance there are waves or curls
in profusion and the ears are partly
hidden.—Demorest’s Magazine,
WOMEN OF THE STATES.
Miss Emma Guy is not the only
female librarian in the United States,
but she enjoys the distinction of being
the youngestand one of the most popu
iar. Sheisa native of Kentucky, and
owes most of her education to the
Masonic fraternity, of whichher father
was once a prominent member.
The very first Indian woman who
has graduated as a trained nurse is
Miss Nancy Cornelius. Alwaysa prom
ising pupil in the schcol on the Oneida
reservation, she bas quickly developed
into an unusual nurse, too gocd, she
declar:s herself, to be confined to
work in a narrow sphere. She prefers
to live in the East, where she can be
busy and learn more of her work and
support herself with better pay.
Mrs. Felton, of Georgia, will testify
that wives of Washington politicians
sometimes do more than merely shine
at afternoon teas. Mis, Felton is forty
years of age, bright, adroit and force
ful. Her husband}is ceventy and not
so energetic, and it is an open secret
that his wife prepares most ot bhis
papers, which are proncunced unusu
ally able and discriminating.
A pretty French Canadian girl is
making a great sensation 1n Lewiston,
Me., by ccbbling shoes. All the men
in town are bEringingjtheir old shoes,
which they fully intended, before she
set up business, to throw away, to be
mended. Her businessis rushing, and
many a passerby pauses to watch her
as she zits by her window plying her
awl with zeal and grace.
Miss Clara M. Stimson, of Houlton,
Me., announces proudly that she is a
sawmill owner by choice. She might
have made a living at_ trimming hats
or at planning dresses, but she pre
ferred to run a sawmiil not at arm’s
length or in deliberate fashion, but
with enthusiasm and rafe precision,
gupervising and personally directing
her own shingle mill.
To a woman belongs the honor of
having reduced the chances of Josing
life through suffocation to a minimum.
Mrs. John H. Miller, of Syracuse, N.
Y., has invented a wondertul fireman’s
cap, & cap which will enable a man to
grope about in a stifling atmosphere
for an hour. A silk sponge, through
which no smoke can enter, but which
permits the ingress of air in plentiful
quantities, fills an aperture for the
mouth, snd when properly adjusted,
the cap is so simple that its efficacy is
apparent at a glance.
Before ‘;0 was introgno%d into so
ciety at Newport an ashington,
H‘?z Helen Brice, the eldest daughter
of Senator Brice, had passed her en
trance examinations at the Harvard
Annex. Thus, besides being very
handsome and of an essentially Ameri
can type, she is also unusually clever
and serious.
GOSSIP,
Mies Bertha G. Lamme, of the West
inghouse works, in Pittsburg, Penn.,
is the only woman electrical engineer
in the country.
The Omaba (Neb.) Woman's Club
proposes to build, at a cost of $50.-
000, a permanent home. It will be a
three-story brick building.
Lady Tennyson socarcely ever went
into society when the poet laureate
was living, and is seen even less now.
She has been an invalid all her life.
It is not generally known that the
ex-Empress Eugene is partly an Irish
woman. On one side she was de
scended from an Irish soldier of for
tune, who made a name and place for
himself in the interminsble Spanish
WATS.,
The German Empress was exceed
ingly friendly toward Mrs. Uhl, wife
of the United States Ambassador, upon
the occasion of that lady's first
andience with Her Majesty. The Em
press conducted her conversation in
English.
= Queen Victoria seems to have gone
into the strawberry growing business,
An English exchange says that she
secured the Banksian medal at the
Royal Horticultural Society’s Show
the other day “‘for asplendid exhibit”
of the fruit.
The Michigan Agricultural Board
has adopted a four-year course of
study for women at the State Agri
cultural College. The course includes
pouliry raising, cooking, domestic
economy, languages, music, painting
and floral culture.
Anhie Jeuness Miller’s ambition is
to establish at tLe]National Capital an
institution for physical development
and the highest art of self-culture,
which shall be under the control of
able students of anatomy, chemistry
and physical science.
Frau Emile Kempin, Doctor at Law,
has opened a lawyer’s office in Unter
den Linden. She is the first woman
lawyer who has practiced in Berlin.
Frau Kempin used to lecture on Eng
lish and American law at Zurich Uni
versity. She first practiced law in
New York.
Miss Daisy Barbee, of Atchison,
Kan., was graduated last term with
the highest honors from the Law De
partment of Washington University,
at St. Louis, having captured the
thesis prize over thirty-eight competi
tors. She was the only young woman
in the class.
The Kentucky State Convention of
the Federation of Women’s Clubs has
elected Mrs, C. O. Hansford, of Har
rodsburg, President; Mrs. Jason
Walker, of Richmond, Vice-President ;
Miss Emma Campbell, of Maysville,
Secretary, and Mrs. Ellen Hoover, of
Nicholasville, Treasurer.
FASHION NOTES.
Navy blue challis make fine travel
ing costumes.
Bandana handkerchief blouses are in
great demand.
The all red hat has succeeded the
all purple one.
Perpendicular skirt trimming is
again coming Into vogue.
A Persian dimity trimmed with
black ribbon is very chiec.
The chie veil for big hats is white
maline, with large black velvet spots
wide apart.
Pompadour and lilac shades "are
very daintily combined in many sum
mer costumes.
Lemon colored gloves are the vogue
in London, and therefore {[can be* ex
pected here soon.
Quaint little sweet peas, the beau
ties of our grandmothers’ gardens, are
essentially a la mode.
Persian lawn negligees are seen in
the stores trimmed with nainsook em
broidery or Valenciennes lace.
Golfers who object tc wearing heavy
woolen stockings can now purchase
plaid hosiery in silk and cottor.
The bustle is again in evidence, and
some of the new dresses are quite heav
ily padded at the sides and back of
the skirt.
Summer jewelry is of a type distinet
from that worn in winter. It consists
largely of studs and sleeve links for
the favored shirt waist.
Tulle, that has been so popular, is
giving place to chiffon. The latter has
the enduring method of never cheap
ening, and 18 quite as beautiful ard
generally becoming.
Short, double breasted coats of
black, brown or green velvet, faced
on the revers and collar wita far, or
white cloth edged with fur, are one of
the novelties in outside garments,
Large fancy buttons decorate the
front. For more common wear there
are coats of similar style with strapped
seams and melon-shaped sleeves.
Preaching Stiil at Ninety-Une,
It is an unusual thing, indeed, for a
minister to be in active service at the
ripe old age of ninety-one, and it lis
a more unusual thing for a minister
to continue without salary as pastor
of one charge for fifty-five years with
still no d=finite time for retirement
therefrom to look forward to. There
is such a minister in Montgomery
County, however in the person of
Elder Jonathan Van Cleve, pastor of
the Indian Creek Baptist Cbhurech.
The wvenerable Jonathan Van Cleve
is the recognized patriarch of his de
nomination, and throughout the cen
tral States his name is a household
word in all Primitive Baptist families.
He has been a great traveling
preacher, always at his owa expense,
and while ‘‘every third Sunday” finds
him in his own pilpit, every other
Sunday finds him in some other pulpit,
perhaps hundreds ot miles from his
home.
Although ninety-one years old, his
form is erect, his eye clear and spark
ling, his voice resonant and ringing
and his mind and memory unimpaired.
He remembers with distinctness every
incident of his youth, and, what is
unusual with old men, he perfectly
remembers all incidents and circum
stances of his later years, He reasous
as he always reasoned, and in the
revolation of church and creed he
clings to the religious tenets of his
early ministry. He has the hearing
of a man of sixty, the tireless energy
of a youth of thirty.—lndianapolis
News.
Wonderful Changes in a Fish’s Color,
In" France they have a species of
trout called the ‘*black burn.” He is
almost pure black when taken from
the water, but changes color to suit
the receptacle in which he is put. In
a white jar the creature changes to a
pure albino in from two to three days,
but changes back to black when pat in
a dark vessel. Imn a common potiery
jar he becomes a brick color, and in a
glass globe he becomes so transparent
that he can scarcely be seen.
BLOWS,
The giant powder the blast
Is blowing up the boulders;
The maiden with pneumatic sleeves
Is blowing up her shoulders.
The baker to the kitchen maid
Is blowing up his crumpets;
The milkman in the lower hall
Is blowing up the trumpets.
The gentle zephyr from the South
Is blowing the narcissus;
The cook who thinks she knows it all
Is blowing up the ““missus.”
The father, down upon his knees,
Is blowing up the fires;
The daughter in her bloomer suit,
Is blowing up the tires.
—Yonkers Statesman.
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
Handsome is as bandsome does, and
handsome often does as handsome
pleases.
We may not be able to teach an old
dog new tricks, but lots of us learn a
great deal while trying.—Puck.
“*T is better tolaugh than be sighing™
In poetry sounds very nice;
Bat laughing will not pay the coalman
And so it won't cut any ice.
Don’t let your troubles blind you to
the fact that your neighbor’s sym
pathy is two-thirds curiosity.— Atchi
son Globe.
The wealth of our language is shown
by the fact that ‘“hang it up” and
‘‘chalk it down” mean precisely the
same tlgag.
Miss Huggins—‘‘My father is very
good at reading faces.” Mr. Kissam—
*“Then I had better not print any
kisses there.”
““One swallow may n>t make a sum
mer,” but it may have occurred to youn
that one grasshopper makes more than
a dozen springs.
The more delighted a girl is when a
young man calls on her, the longer
she stays up stairs to primp up hefore
she comes down.—The South-West.
A man doesn’t fully realize the re
sponsibilities of life until he is called
upon to open a can of salmon with a
pair of scissors.—The South-West.
Doctor—*‘lf you bind salt pork on
your face it will cure the toothache.”
Patient—*‘But, doctor, won’t it give
‘me pork chops?”—Detroit Free Press.
Asto some of our statesmen, it is
doubtful whether they lack the cour
age of their opinions, or the courage
to admit that they haven’t any
opinions.—Puack.
Jim Senn—‘“Why do they ecall
money the ‘long green?”” Joe Cose
—*Negatively, 1 suppose; because
without it you are short and blue.”-~
Philadelphia North American. ]
Proprietor—‘“Where is the book
keeper?”’ Office Boy—*“He isn’t in.
His wife seat him word that the baby
was asleep, and he’s gone home to see
what it looks like.,””— Standard.
‘““Where are you going, my pretty
maid?” “‘Going a-walking, kind sir,”
she said. “‘May I go with you, my
pretty maid?” ‘I don’t walk with a
stick, kind sir,” she said. Wrinkle.
Hoax—*““What! You buying a bi
cycle? I thought you detested them.
Joax—*‘So I do, but I've been run
over long enough. Now I'm going to
have my revenge.” Philadelphia
Record. -
He—*““When I am married I'll make
& practice of coming down to dinner
every evening in a dress suit.”” She—
“‘And after vou've been married awhile,
I’ve no doubt, you’ll come down to
breakfast in one.”—Truth. .
Invention Enthusiast—‘‘l under
stand that Keely has constructed a
cylinder that will stand a pressure of
3500 pounds to the square inch.”
Pretty Girl (who hasn’t been hugged
for a year)—‘“Huh! I don’t think
that’s much.”—New York Weekly.
““Your son, I believe, made some
experiments while at college?” “‘Yes,
he discovered what he calls his ‘scien
tific paradox.’” ‘“What is the nature
of it?” ‘‘He succeeded in demon
strating that debts are expanded by
contracting them.” Washington
Times.
President Rox—*‘But your account
is already overdrawn, so I don’t see
how we can honor your further de
mands.” She—*‘But I see lots of
people depositing ; why can’t you give
me some of theirs? They’ve already
paid in much more than I've drawn
out.”—Standard.
A Remarkable Counterfeiter,
Walter N. Owens, a farmer of Okla
homa, was sentenced on Friday, at
Wichita, Kan., to serve a term in the
penitentiary at Leavenworth for coun
terfeiting. The case, to some extent,
is s remarkable one. Previous to his
arrest he had always borne a good
reputation. Two years ago he was a
juror in the United. States Court here
and tried a counterfeiter. During the
progress of the trial counterfeiters’
tools were exhibited and evidence in
troduced showing how false moneys
were coined. Owens examined the
tools closely and listened to the evi
dence attentively. After the conclu
gion of the trial he went home and
made counterfeiting tools himself and
proceeded to work. Owing to his
good reputation he made and passed
& great deal of spurious money before
he was detected. —New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
A New Sidewalk Game,
A pew game has been originated by
the little girls of Brooklyn which
throws all the other sports of its kind
into the shade. It is called ““Playing
Statue,” and is all the rage. A num
ber of lassies get together, and, tak
ing their stand on the sidewalk, pro
ceed to pose in tragic or comic atti
tudes, according to the programme
called out to them by the little stage
manager. This important official oc
cupies a position on a neighboring
doorstep. The Delsarte craze is prob
akly responsible for this new juvenile
game, and the damsels who have been
acquiring poses at great expenditure
of ducats and muscle will have to look
to their laurels, as their small rivals
imitate them to perfection. Some big
girl’s little sister is, no doubt, re
sponsible for this charming sidewalk
novelty. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Royal Cat.
The most honored member ot the
King of Siam’s household is a cat—a
big, whitehaired cat, with a black face
and peculiar eyes and ears. This
grimalkin is supposed to be as royal
as any of the pompous folk attached
to the King’'s court.
Eleven hundred and thirty-one per
sons have enf¥red for the preliminary
examinations to Yale University; 728
of these are for the academic depart
ment and 403 for the Sheffield Scien
tific School.
Recent experiments show that glass
may be soldergd by an alloy of ninety
five parts of tin and five of zine. A
more expensive solder etaploys tin and
alluminum.
ARE YOU RUPTURED?
If so, we can cure you permanently, and almost painlessly, without surgical
operation or detention from business. .
Examination Free. No Cure, No Pay. Can Rupture by Cured? Yes.
Read the following statements, made by
physicians, who are using the Wilcox Sys.
tem, viz.:
. 1. EDWARDS, M, D., ot Jackson, Mich.,
says: “I have administered the treatment
over five hundred times and have never had
any bad results. I can cure any case of her
nia that can ve held in place during treat.
ment-” > = - -
S W.HOVER, M. D., formerly of Fayette,
Ohio, now of Toledo, says: “I have had good
success with the Wilcox system for treating
hernia. 1 have cured over two dozen cases
during the past four months.” * . =
DR J. M. HANGER of staunton, Va_, says:
“Jt will do tne work safely and certainiy. 1
have cured a number of cases.” .
DR.J.T. V. BLOCK=O of Wi'mington,
Del., says; “I am fully convinced that the
Wilcox treatment for hernia is safe and
sure.” * - - .
" DRS. MCNETT and SUTTON of Bath, N. Y.,
say: “We have cured a number of cases and
have never seen any unplieasant effect from
its use.” LR o
DR. J. M. SCOTTof Birmingham, Ala.,says:
“I have cured several cases and have never
had an unfavorable oe'mmmn." * -
DR. .M. WINSLOW of Cold Spring on the
Hudson, N. Y., says: “The treatment is not
Balnml and does not detain the patient from
is daily avoecation. It is a purcly scientifie
method and unatteaded with danger.”
IS THE CURE PERMANENT?
We answer, YES, and submit the follow
testimonials to corroberate out statement,
viz.: ! IR =
" Mr. A. E. Sweet,a merchant of Gibson,a..
in a recent letter says I was perfectly cured
of hernia by Dr. Wilcox in October, ISB,
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and have not worn a truss since. During
treatment I attended to mg utual business
without inconvenience. 1 believe ittobean
good thing and can recommend it.”
Mr.l. W. Evans of Berkshire N.Y, says*l
was cured of rupture by Dr. Wilcox in Au.
gust, 1843, and am well to.day.”
Mr. Henry K. MandevilleofNorwich, N.Y.,
says:“l commenced being treated for rup
ture by Dr. Wilcox in May, 1883, and atter s.xg
weeks' treatment I was able to piteh foun
teen acres of hay without a truss and have
not worn one since. lam a farwer by o&&
pation and worked all time during t
meng"
Mr. [ K. Buriison of Bainbridge, N.Y. says)
“My son Clinton, 6 years ofage, who "as beey
ruptured from the time he was 2 monthsold,
was cured by Dr. Wiicox in August, 1803."
Mri. Sarah J. Phillips of Chenango county
N. Y.Usays:*“l was troubled with n:mb‘.!lcd
hernia from intancy, but was eured in July,
18683, and have not worn a truss since.”
The Wilcox system is in succes-tul opera.
tion in a number of states and has a record
of several thousand cures. There has neve
been the loss of a single life as a result o:
the treatment. We are just getting fairly
started in New England,yet we already have
a nnmber of ‘mlicnls under treatment and
all doing well. If you are aMicted with
hemnia we invite you to caill. You will He
given every opportunity to investigate mate
ters fully.
The New England Hernia Cure Co.,
(WILCOX SYSTEM)
Main Office 86 Weybosset st., Providence.,
Studley Building.
Branch offices in all the leading New Eng.
land cities.
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It’s the Simple, g
> . .
Trivial Inventions g
That Yield Fortunes
—such as De Long's Hook
! and Eye, “See that Humcp.
“Sdet.ye'bln." “Pigs in Clo
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Almost every one conceives
& & bright idea at some time or
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