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mantle. They all recpti, re more elaborate
garniture,
To resume about the 611 le coats. The
lower portion is Plalted.'to the yoke awl
fastened down so that the folds eanoot
vome out It is plaited all around, and
the folds are fasteoed as in trout. The
sleeves are What is kuowit as, Paquin
shape, but Paquin nor any other man can
be said to have invented or designed
those sleeves, for sevOal, times in the
Many of the coats and wraps offered
for fall and winter are of a shape so uew
that we are obliged to notice them at
least, whether We exactly like them or
not. The most marked of all of these
styles are the three-quarter coats, and
they are cut plaiu and also so that they
are laid in folds from top to bottom, and
all the folds are stitched down fiat to
within about ten inches of the edge, and
that gives them a flare at the bottom
that is not at all ugly. But the most of
these long garments are quite tight
around the bottoui, and that is never a
graceful thing. Still, there is always a
slight flare, otherwise folks would be-
lieve that the wearer had put her broth-
er's coat on by mistake. Naturally these
long coats are of the best quality of ker-
sQ; and some others of the thickest of
the woolen stuffs. They are nearly all
made with double breasted effects and
have fancy pockets and turndown col-
lars and from 0 to 12 large smoke
pearl. buttons. All the seams are strap
stitched, and yokes are sometimes made
and sometimes simulated, and on every
part where such can be added one finds
THEF_E-FOURTHS WALKING COAT.
Et quantity of stitching. One long coat
had the back cut quite plain, like a box
coat,. and in the front there were two
folds, and these were so disposed that
they formed a very ornamental plastron,
and it was stitched as closely as possi-
ble. There was a yoke, but whether this
was only outlined by the stitching or real
no one could tell. The collar and revers
were also treated in the same way. This
coat is the type of many of the same
kind, the only difference being .that the
material or color differs from the others.
Inersey is the best style for these, and it
is expected that they will, with the addi-
tion of a fur collar or boa, be quite warm
enough for the coldest days. One thing
more should be mentioned, and that is
that these coats are finisbed OD thc inside
just like a man's coat, and fully half of
them are lined with mercerized-lustral,"11
material very like seteen, but very much
prettier and far more durable than silk.
I noticed one coat v,,as quilted oit. the lin-
ing down to the waist line, and I suspect
that something of the square effect on
the shoulders was due to a judicious use
of wadding, just as men's coats are made
to give the dear creatures such broad and
manly shoulders to lay one's bead down
on. Don't you tell that I said this, Inc I
should be blatned all around. The girls
would not thank me for destroying' such
a sweet illusion, and the men ,would not
like to have the girls know that they are
indebted to their tailors for more than
the inere clothes.
Peau de sole and other heavy black
silk and scumetimes satin and velvet nee
used to make another style of coat gar -
SATISFI E. P.
lave vole a threadbare dress of gray
And tolled upon the l'ond nil day.
LOYe wielded pick and earried. pack
And bent to heavy toes the beil•
Thongh meager fed and sorely tasked,
Only ono wage Lore' everasked--
A child's white faci, to kiss at night,
women's smile hy
--Xergaret Sangster in Lippincott's.
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ADEMOISELLE.
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Thule it is that,'Mwe, de' Goitville, the
wife Of Captain Roger de•Gouville, told
me what she knew of little Lieutenant
Yves Barnette de Pelven, \vhose chum
1 Lad been at St. Cyr and whom I had
never seen after we left the college.
It was in 1871. Our regiment was
then at the village of a few
miles from the provisloaal frontier.
'The' town lay"in the midst.of a forest
ancriutd been partly destroyed during
the war. We lived in wooden' barracks
that Lied .heen built by the .Germaias.
Notfar away was the line of black
and white posts -Unit =eked the pro-
visional frontier, and it Was one of our
pastimes to .ride out to theM. The
young ethcers dreamed ef•nethiug but
the chance of provoking a frontier con-
LATEST WALKING SHIT. •
history of dress just such have been WO=
with scarcely any difference. They are
bell shape arid have turued up cuffs and
undersleeves of the same, with little
lace or applique around them.
Many ladies will wear the short jacket
until the cold days shall make another
garment necessary, and these are short
in good earnest, as they reach scarcely to
the waist line at the back. and in most
cases they have a sort of tab in the front.
Some have the high collar and others the
flat one. After these and between these
and the three-quarter coat there is an-
other jacket, and this is short, yet long
enough to allow the garineut to be calla
ed a box. This style is often 'made to
match a suit, and the only trimming al-
lowed is a set of handsome but apparent-
ly plain buttons. In one the collar was
high and turned in a queer, careless
kind of flare. It is exactly box .shape,
but short, never reaching below the hips.
One had a velvet collar and revers, but
that is not necessary. I believe they call
these "ladies' double breasted reefer
suits," and the most I have seen were
made of homespun, cheviot, venetian and
all the other stout and durable woolens.
The rough cheviots and the flecked
zibelines and other rough stuffs are by
all means the best to use for full suits.
To sum up about the coats, there are
long, princess ehapes with hoods and red-
ingotes of several shapes, but mostly box,
for automobiling and driving. These 'are
in every color imaginable, and some that
seem rather light and delicate for riding
in the dust. Next come the golf capes of
double faced kersey and After
them are the circular •ca.pes, and there
are many of these. Some are quite
and others are embroidered and trimmed
more or less lavishly with ribbon sewed.
on as a garniture. ,Every shape, size and
style of cape except the ripple belongs to
the season now here. Every kind of ma-
terial front cloth or dress Material to the
richest brocade and velvet is seen, and,
one can easily and a choice. Some of the
dark colored velvet and velutina coats in
half and three-quarter lengths are rich
and fine. Fur, feathers and beads and
just plain stitching are all right. •
HANDSOME arte.etettner.
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,a0-1AorsQs or o'cluct: la the morn-
og. 800 1 to myself, ''a daeli
uni Stippoec that tileY will fight 01
nein..." a. his spot itly 00 the other elde
of the frontier, and experienee had
,aught tne that snch affairs •tisually
awe place there.
Toward 10 o'eloek the party return-
ed- Another conferenee took place in
uiy husbaud's study. I heard the
brusque yolee of St. Perle, the gentle
Yolee of, De Pelven; a bell 'yang; 0.
heard nay hashand call for grog, port'
adne and ice; then tlee hours passed,
and silience reigned.
I remained awake, very curious. At
2 1.10,01' ealL1O into my •1'00111 in r1111111.11-'
fOrIll and cleat>. I did 'dot que.stion
Lim, for I anew tbat he would not an-
sWer. When it was be that was about
to Light, lie would always' tell Inc
brusquely.. This had happened ,three
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FD E C0111)A N Y nate turned out fur everythin nut a ha
a • le rimed but death had obstinately rents-
od to girt it a ShOW. `there was a lot
STARTED OUT TO SHAKE THINGS of old folks With estimm and liver coin -
up IN jaRicHo. plaint and a lot of babies with wheon.
in,copgh and measles, but Done of 'Lea
Would elie. Reube used to go around
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The Jericho are company, W 'C00'
sisteci of 40 mein 10 pails, 2 axes and 0
ladder, and 'all painted red except the
wen, is na 'more ,on'eareli. It Was or-
ganized aears, 'ago and IltiVtif turned.
out to but one fire. Nobodi bad found
any fault' with It, 1.10WOVOr, Up ti.; two
Months ago, Wilt,l) Reube Holdfast
came into the- postottice opo day and
says to me:, '
times in -our tea mouths of „married, "Look Imre, Pap. this toWneof Jericho
life. Like a curious child, I peered 'Is deader'n.a doornail, and Unless sun -
from behind ,the blinas and saw tbem thin kin be done to rouse her the WOOS
start off. 'ther6 were St. Perle, Roger, au 'oar Lemke will be a foot long in an-
Pelven and the surgeon. "1"\ bo is to
fight?" I thought. -"It must be Pelven,
for St. Porte would not take an infe-
rior in rank CM. second." ,
Vinally I went to bed, nervous and
11'01Tirtl. Morning broke, I rose late,
feeling bereft of all my friends. I wan-
dered through the house. I' entered the
study, hung with ekins, oriental rugs,
panoplied with weapons. On the black- things a-goln red hot, ,lerieho will,
board I saw S01110 Balf erased sett- wake up andanash to the front till Chi-
tences. I opened eago won't be; la it. I'm gittin tiggerS
there, in the bitter atmosphere of cold
the curtain, and
together fur speech, Pape and you
tobacco smoke, in this almost,einistec ,joet lay low„fdr tbree or fan; days, and
other year."
"W'hat kin you do?" says le
"That's' what I'va. bin thinkin of fur
the last month. We can't git up dog
tights uor hoes races, and nobody will
go In fur a brass hand 'or a •catup meet -
The only thing I [do think of is to
resurrect the tire coamaue and boom
her fur all she's wuth. If we, kin ,git
filet. Some made targets of the point- disorder of a room where people have 5'011'11 bear 3.tinthin droP.."
ed helmets found and brought in by watchecl overnight, I tried to deciPher Before the week Was out eyerybody
the peasants, arrangeng matters so as the hall' obliterated marks. The in town Sidit'W tbat suntbin' was hp.
to be seen by the German sentinels; phrases seemed rhytinned. At length and one evening Rube shot off his
of verse: to the postollice crowd and
ethers galloped wildly across the line I tinished by maleing out these scraps speech
and hack again. made a big hit. Ile had the number of
Oue of them, however, Yves de Pen Won m'enterre 111:0S and the looses in theetnited States
ven de Itierdec, took no share In these fur the last fifty \tears aud be ehoesied
En satin blane
Comme un seigneur , ,
pleasantries, When he was asked to how a fire company kept-dtiwn taxes,
Et qu'on capitonne ma biere
he would shrug ills shoulders Toute de roses; reduced insurance and was the main -
join in,
softly and murmur, "011ildiehlieSe!" Cest ma Beta— spring of liberty . He pictured the town
suntan!) to squirt out a conflagration,
and when he went on to describe wide
„
Re was left to do As he pleased. No of Jericho In ashes fur [he 'want of
a•
one: cared. Only after awhile we dis-
Bury me
1n white satin
covered that he was accustomed to • As a lord
take long solitary rides at night and in and cover my bier
With roSea;
a direction tbat 010 not lead toelarancel it is tny flower.
,
We began to watch him more from cm- I wandered about all day, oppressed,
riosity thau from suspicion. , 1 My- feverish.
self, I confess, was drawn toward him . You know yourself that Pelven was
by this original and mysterious mode killed. Roger came back that night
of existence. alone and grieved.
He was then a slight, blond, pale Who was the adversary of De Pel -
youth, feminine of features, all nerve veil? An officer? Yes. Who? I will,
and muscle, tireless. fearless', silent. not tell you. Only a few knew, and
Re was liked by the men, although the secret has been well kept. The
they were a trifle jealous of that nude- reason of the duel? Nothing, they said
finable superiority which marked his —a trifile-ebut I have always suspected
breeding. Some of the old veterans of that sothebody had accused hin3 of
swarthy skin and voice loved him in passing too easily across the frontier
spite of his refinement: They called alone at night.
him "Mlle. de Pelven," or "the little The next Clay Pelven's aged father
mente, and these are extremely elegant
sued dressy. First there is a scalloped
yoke, and thie is trimmed with several
lines of fine silk soutacho braid and three
fine jet, buttons, according to the material
In the garment. If it ie of. Satin Cr silk,
the soutache docs not' ehow ap so well
Eta the featherhone cord, but in that ease
one doee not need so mach, as it is too
rich to bear more than two or at the ut-
most three !Mee of it. Velvet looks best
Itls nesse. but 11010 the pedal -
mademoiselle." came and took away the body. It
With five years of service to his cred- , seems that all the affairs of the lieu
-
It he had still the air of a young coin.'
I tenant were in perfect order. He must
script. His voice was gentle. I never have bad a presentiment that he was
beard him yell or Curse the Men or going to be killed, for the words on the,
horses. At 19 he had received' a deco- blackboard were in the nature of direc-
ration for distinguished .bravery at ale- tions for his own burial. And that
zonville„ was the end of the poor "little made- wEarr ROAD.
WHOOPING DOWN THE
.
. ders lookin Into the embers fur the
naoi
Re had his lodgings outside of town selle." husbands
. ,
in a solitary cottage, surrouatled by Two months passed. spring can3e. boues of their husbands and
shovelin Over hot coals in search of the
rosebushes, and cedars — he and his One day we all started on R drag party
dogs fainaud and Tigresse, a great in the woods on the road to Delle. " remains of wives and children even
.
' Joe Truelove was seen to wipe a tear
from his left eye. Fur once everybody
'
seemed to be agreed, and when Ileube
, ,
was named fur foren3an of the.compa-
ny nobody kicked. Before the rneetin
closed it was resolved to buy two tnore
pails and another ladder and that the
company should be uniformed.
achlu fur it, and he'd drop Into the
postOfilt,to occasionally to say to me:
"Pip, 11' sotne one would only die, I'd
turn out the boys in a way to jump
Jericho 100 years ahead. 'Them red
-
pails and axes and ladders W011111 jest
be an offset, to the mournin, and the
way the boys would stand around on
one be and look solemn would be a pic-
ture ilef11 1111' old master. How's
your heart disease, Pap?"
"Better, thank you."
"I was in hopes it was wuss. Thar's
Wuss men nor you, Pap Perkins, but if
you'll only die our fire company will
gin ye. a sendoff to make yer widder
proud fur the rest of her days."
ftenbe was 00 the watch day and
night fur a funeeal, and he'd almost
niade leis mind to turn out the COM-
imny Inc the 0111K1 00W that died of hol-
ler hove when a crisis come like•
flash. On In to his lame leg Lash [311-
lings hadn't j'ined the fire conipanY,
but be was an old and respected citi-,400.—
zen wbo could beat anybody in town
at a game of checkers, l'harfore whep
the news come that his we'll had caved
in on him and burietl Lim under ten
feet of alrth the fire bells rung and red
shirts went whoopin down the voatl.
Mrs. Billings did117T S00111 to care very
much whether they got Lasb's body or
not, bein it was already buried,:but
h t
they was deterrainetl to ev fur a 'K-
IP
funeral. They worked all the arter-
noon and all night, einei at intervals
[teethe had the bells toted fur the dead.
Nobody- in Jericho slept. well
kept envie in. and tbe firemen kept
woritin like heroes to clear it out. It
1V11S 8 o'clock nest mornin when they
found Lish's old hat. AS it was passed
el to Renbe he shed, tears and tinned
his bead away. ribiletus 'Johnson was
jest remarkin that Lish's loss was our
gain or 'Something of that eort and the
d iggers down in the well Lesi,sebrebilualoskeiinf ' •
fur arms and legs, when
appeared in the crowd. He seemed' to
be in good health and speeritS, and he
carelesely remarked to the fire compa-
ny that he was much obleeged fur sav-
ip him a week's work. Nuthin was
said fur about a mthit, but presently
Roube Holdfast wiped the tears from
his eyes and asked:
"Lish, wlmr you bin since yesterday
110.0,13p7"stairs in the.housb," says Lish.
"What was your objeck?"
"To boom Jericho by gettin up a fu-
neral. That's my old hat, and you kin
take it along and bury it in good
shape."
e called off his company, anti
they marched back to town with sol-
emn tread. They hadn't put away their
red water pails before folies was laugh -
in at 'em, and before sundown the
doom of the fire company was sealed.
Lish Billing,s bad thrown 'mei down,
and the public was guyinand ridiculin.
When the 7 o'clock mail had bin dis-
,
tribtuted, Eteube' stood up in the post -
office and said:
"Feller citizens, wbaras this
town of Jericho'clon't seem to named -
ate enterprisei.vigilance, heroism and
booms and wharas she'd ruther be at
the mercy of the fire fiend than to have
her disastrous COEItlagrations squirted
out. now tharfore resolved that this
band of heroes be disbanded. and Jeri-
cho kin go to thunder:" M. Queue.
Dane and a little striped bulldog. His little before luncheon I went strolling
horses were two long, slender. Anglo- in the forest With two or three friends.
Arabs. , Suddenly we saw a landettne drawn by
We gossiped not a little about the two beautiful horses, coming toward
lieutenant, his mode of life and his us along a deserted road. In the Ian -
character; we discussed bis fortuned deau was an old, pale woman and a
and the employment of his time out- I young girl. pretty, clad In black. We
side of the service, for, besides his reg- •were turning out for them whena dog
Jericho woke right up,. Real estate
Mar appearance twice a daY at iness, jumped from the carriage. We recog-
began to jump, Tom Bigelow put down
be took part in none of our entertain-, nized it at once. It was Tigresse, the
six rods of new sidewalle, and Homer
NEW JACKET.
Skirts are of steal shapes and kiwis,
but the "pedestrian' skirt, as it is „called,
is just now the new ±st end therefore the
best. The most of these arc just to the
boot tops and stitched until they set out
well from the feel. Some of them have
a ripple flounce at the tiottoin. Tbe Rus-
sian hi/else suits are deservedly popular
for all sorts of uses. oral they all! ex-
tteedingly stylish. The skirts are full"
ond flaring, and some have a nounee, but
the chief, thing -to admire ie that the
trent of the blouse is so orearnented,
nearly always with military collar and
doable breasted box fronts. All the
nicest of the woolen goads are medein-
to these suits. Nearly :ill of thc very
finest Of the isuits have a suspicion of a
military finiSh to them,a sort of com-
bination of all kinds mingled, with Ilts-
eian a trifle moreipronouneed.
I imagine that all 'women ,have their
fall millinery by nowu but if they have,
not and would like to see a couple of ele-
gant representative hate they may find
them here, 'The high erowned concern is
of lace over old rose velvet and wale a
few silver threads woven in. The full
drapery is of the same velvet, with an
aigret and a silver and steel bncltle in
front. The other is a toque of fluorescent
elite twisted into all sorte of shapes, and
In front are a buckle and a stiff wireg. The
Whole toque is of Silk, which is two
tones of brown. The third hat is a pearl
gray felt, bound-ewitli dark green velvet.
On the top are lYws ot green velvet and
black amazon ostrich plunaes, and a
pink velvet rose is fastened „under the
brine at the right side. There is ao set
way to trin-t any hat. All that is neces-
sary Is to have enough stuff to 10.1108 it
11.11 110 Wi11101.1f regard to cost,
wents. He was often seen alone, gal-
loping bis horses over the green ineti'd:-
ows of the Saone. He rode in ,some of
the impromptu races, winning often,
but without pride, without exultation,.
taking the things as part of the trade.
little taulldog--De Pelven's dog. While
he was springing at us, licking our
hands for joy, the landeau stopped,
and a great, gold braided valet stepped.
out and solemnly picked up the dog.
Lee repainted his baru and put uew
hinges on his gate. People whocame
over from Dobbs Ferry and witnessed
the speerit of enterprise went home
jealous of the town, and a lightnin rod
The little beast struggled. but in spite an said that the hastlin reminded
He never touched Cards, His 'horses, of yelpn3
s, howls and tugs the an prov- m
bim of the early days of Kansas City
his dogs, seemed his sole distraction. ed the stronger, and the bandeau pass- and Denver. It wasn't a week before
a week or ed
At times he disappeared for the Widder dot"s smokehouse got
so and me returning would say, "My Naturally we talked of the incident.
afire at midnight, and Peleg Scott
father was down to see 030." It, Was aaerhat a singular thing--Tigresse with
rung the alarm bell in a way to turn
those strangers—strangers' from over
the frontier tool The liveries are blue
known that be bad a father, an old
man living in Bretagne. Yves spoke
of him only on those days.
'The self isolation of the boy was
somewhat of a mystery to us, Each
one explained in his OW11 way the sin -
!Juliet. comrade. "the little mademoi-
selle." For soine Pelven was the son frontier. We questioned him about
of a Galician Princess and a Knight of the bandeau.
was notit "What, don't you know?" be ans\ver-
being the usage sittce the days of Lou- ed. is the Princess of Burgfeld,
is XIV to accord ,that title to French- wine her 'dame de compagnio.' She is
gillilemen having PmAraetPd a marital doing penance in her. ischloss' instead
alliance in Austria. In fact, AustIdan of dancing in -Paris, as she generallY
decorations bad been. seen in Luis room. does in the spriug. It is said that clur-
That, at least, was titIltened by some jag the v,rar 1,am
she ci a romiae, a de.,
of the in(liscreet ones win) had pene-
trated the groat chatober,\vhere he was
wont to "dig" on his strategy during
the warn) hours of day. A singular
room it was --al. once salon, 1110111y 1111
saddlery. the refuge of a thinker and
the handy 5130]) 01 0 soldier, but its in-
terior, hi spite of the weapons, was
entlan. feminine. and this struck the in-
ferior otlicers \vim were accustomed to
visit 11 with their reports!. There were,
alseitye freeli flowers in' his room, and
.one day, when 350100 inquisitive Spirit
.esplored the pockets ot', his "dolman,"
which he had cest off during a fencing
bout, they disc'evered a golden locket,
010 which sperkied a strange little die-
t/10nd wing, They did "not succeed In
opening IL
the. town bottom. side up in 'five
tninits. That fire company went at
and black—Prussian nobility." that conflagration to conker or die. and
Talking thus, we came back to the in
desIt7runiiiitouints rbeidntodrougutsieedd floauttn,esanodf
rendezvous. There we found Louis de bali
Rolk, one of 11-13" friends, whose castle, Jericho was safe. In a leetle speech
lthoneh, in France yet touches the which follered the fire Selmer' DanverS
said that Rome in her palmlest days
never equaled the occasion, and Phile-
tus Johnson declared that the thanks
of congress would be a poor reward fur
such heroism.
The day tl3e firemen got their 11111-•
fOrMS JO0iC110 got up 00 her hind leg:4
and howled. Tbere was side excite-
ment ill the town that soft soap was
Haloes romance, with a French haul:en- allowed to bail over, bread was burned
ant whose name I could never learn. up in the ovens, and most folks forgot
They had sworn eternal fidelity. I to feed their' hogs. Some idea of what
don't know what bas happened sinee, sort of a royal' jubilation it was kin be
gathered 'from the fact that one ,gro-
but she, now livea in solitude and will
enter a convent at Mannheim, on her eeryalone sold la lemons and 7 cocoa
twenty-fifth birthday unless elm gets nuts aerie ,the , 1t was, Renee
out of '• her sentimentalisms, which is Holdfast's idea that a firemen should
not'patriotta from the,reerman point of always be on clutynand he advised eun
vieav, for she is the dateghter of one of ery -member of the conipanv to wear
his uniform day and night. When the
first thunderstorm ,caine along, the,fire
bell rang, and the company turned ant
and stood readeato rush to the spot if
lightnin hit 'anythin, if there was a
dog fi,glit bn trent of the town hall, the
company come rushin ma, and if ftily-
bpdy's team ran away or a kitchen
stove. ,got red' hot there was a dash of
red shifted heroes, Jericho was boom -
the test genera:1s of the,empire." ,
Tie said no inore,'Mit hve .understood.
Poor Pelven! That was theexplana-
tion of those long nocturnarrides. -tak-
en at the risk of the sentinels' bullets;
that was the meaning of that seques-
trated life, of ,the golden locket, with
Its wing—symbol of his ethereal lone,
fitful and fragilegthat \vas the yeason
"He is a sentimentalist," Coalman- Incthat life of mystery, poetry and
dant St. 'Perle would sa1, .
y, and the lence, the roses in the cottage, the ada- I in, but Reebe wasn't satisfied with her
.
proof Is that When 0110 passes ills COn ale ef Beethoven and the duet, which ' phogress, He got Ms company out
thee, in the evening one hears MAD b3n00011 it all. HO was dreaming, "the and marched them to Stmday church
playing the adagio . of BeethOven'ti fittlernademoiselle„" And in that dream and to Thursday evenln arayer meete
sonata in A flat, file senate, ee monks lie died.—Frorn the French of Ad010110 In. There was a laWsuit over a cow
ails) prieets." ' dhenevievre For Chiang& 'Timeadfler- between Jim White and Aaron Tomp-
Jealonsy Among Monkeys.When, a monkey gives way to jeal-
ousy, it shows a degree of hatred for
the animal that has innocently aroused
its malice that makes it for the time a
monster of cruelty.
On a ship returning from one of her
tours In tropical lands was a monkey
which became a great friend of the
stewardess. One day she fed another
monkey, a pretty, gentle creat-ure. This
tritinig attention enraged the other
One morning my huSband„ the cap- aide
tain, came In very rental worried. I
questioned hini. No ansvver, He drove
away in Ids phaeton as soon as break-
fast was over with several other offi-
cers. He returned at 8 o'clock alOne,
having left the others at the club. Aft-
er dinner he held a conference with the
fencing master and the chief armorer;
then St. Perle; his friend, came and
Called bite below his window. I heard
him order the landeatil with the big
Onr itttlf,kfft11,,'
[tins, and the fire company was present
In eull uniform 010 Mrs: Hopkins was
tak n nd th d id sh
, e s5101), a o ,or sa e
Tbie tn.vera,ge annual total of water must go, and Renbe feat it his daty to
which' falls as rain or enow in the march' the company up to her house
United States Is 31,407 cubic miles. This and bid her a' last farewell. Her sick-
ttrootint of, rain would more than twieo nese; took a turn fur the better, and she
1)11 laize Ontario. To raise this venter begun to git well, and Rothe marched
to, the clouds froni -which It fell would the cotnpany up ag'in 'kb give her three
require the work of 500,000,00b horses cheers fur not dyln. ,
working ten hours a day throughout After about a month, there was only
the year. • one thing laekin, The fire company
n)onkey, which coaxed tbe little thing,
to its side and then, before the stew-
ardess had time to realize that mis-
chief was meant, took it by -the neck
and flung it overboard. ,
Of another monkey the sante person
tells that while:preparing dinner for a
grand party the cook was absent from
the kitchen for enminute. No sooner
had her back been turned than the
monkey slipped a kitten of which it
had always been jealous into the soul)
pot
Why n 'Minister iGnie Up Preaching.
A minister had his salary cut down
$100 a year or so ago (and this 011550 a
western church) because hie wife IllIrre
- •
"a banclsomer gown than some of the
prominent women in the congregation.
The reason was given openly. and tbe
amtter found its way arto public print,
4-
The fact that the svife:s weeltity inutVs
was the donor seemed to be of no coi1-
.
setnience. and the poor woman herself,
irritated and mortified at Ibe publicity
given to her private affairs, succeecleil
in persuading 13e1' husband to svitb-
draw from the rninislry.—"A Minister's
Wife" hi Ladies' Home Journal.
In Self i)ereaRe,
ninngligh..1.(icSsg'yuu tone p resolel abur111loud 11110 -
iri g your wn mask
oerits?" ed the very
01011)10 ed
"I am forced to do it," was the great
actor's answer. "I'm naturally nue of
the 100111 inodest men in the world, turd
I've got to keep praising myself for
feta rny sensitive nature will compel
me to go to the manager and tell him I
think I aui getting too much moneY."
Mount Etna, the largest volcano in
Europe and one of the largest In the
world, is 10,500 feet nigh aild 00 miles
in circumference at its base.
The man who sits down and \\mite
for fortune to come along and sm
bbe 00
him is apt to have need of a soft cush,
ion.—Chicago News.