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THE STEWARD'S SON
old woman, who eyed him with an
expression that puzzled hint'; it Was
not exactly ono of suspicion, but
rather the concentrated look of a
person who lacks one of the five
souses and is endeavoring to mako
up for its loss by more than ordin-
ary oouleness of the remalnl.nk four.
"Is Mr, Berton at home?" asked
Cyril.
The woman nodded and, opening
the door wide enough for him to en -
tor, lot it go and it fell to with a
sharp clang. Then, with a slight
gesture, she beckoned Cyril to fol-
low, and, leading the way tip a path
whioh was lined on each side by
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hid the cottage, sho stopped before a
door and motioned to him to enter
instead of preceding him and an
flouncing him In the usual. my.
• CHAPTER VII.
Cyril Burne stood looking after
Norah and tho earl for some mom-
ents, then he went back to his easel.
Mkt he could not work. The beauty
of the scene which he had so reveled
in a short time ago had mysterious-
ly fled; tho sun was still shining, the
trees still in their summer beauty,
but the joyous light had somehow
disappeared at the moment Norah
had passed from sights
Ile sat and gazed absently at the
sketch, but he saw not it, but the
lovely face, with its expressive eyes
and tho wealth of golden -brown hair,
Re had been smitten by her beauty
on the preceding afternoon, but now
that he had talked with her, basked
in her smile, watched the thousand
expressions that flashed in the lovely
eyes and seemed to dance on the
sweet lips, his admiration had grown
into—what? That aching in tho
heart, a craving to see more of her,
to hear her, to be near her, which
we call love.
His face grew pale in the intensity
of his thoughts, and unconsciously
he murmured:
"Lord Arrowdale's daughter, and
I—am a poor painter! And it was
she whom I beard last night! I
knew it! Lord Arrowdeio's daughter!
Will he be angry with her for staying
to talk with me? For lotting me
paint her? Perhaps be will tell her
that she sinned against the fetishes,
Conventionality and Propriety—will
forbid her to recognize me when she
sees me again. And I must see heel
1 must! I must! Norah! I never
thought the ?name so beautiful be-
fore!" Oh, Jack, Jack, you didn't
call me a fool last night, but I de-
served that you should! Norah!
He murmured the name as if it
were the sweetest music in his ears;
then ho looked at her figure in the
sketch and, as if it cost him a tre-
mendous effort, he gently and softly
drew the wet brush ovor it and ef-
faced it.
"I stole that," he murmured. "It
was not fair. It was sacrilege! But
some day—"
Ile broke off suddenly, becoming,
conscious that he was not alone. At
the right of him among the trees
iltekered a patch of pink. It was a
woman's dress. Ho looked at it with
some surprise, and saw a tall, slim
girl, with black hair and dark, melt-
ing eyes, which were fixed on some-
thing in the distance. She had not
seen him, and he had sat too mo-
tionless and quiet for her to have
heard him. 13e wondered vaguely
what she was looking at until he
saw a waiting, impatient look.
A lover has no eyes fon any other
woman than the mistress of his
heart, but Cyril Burne was an artist
and he noticed that the girl was
more than pretty, and he watched
her as she stood tapping her small
foot on the ground and plucking at
the cheap but stoat lace on her dress
—watched her absent-mindedly.
Suddenly she turned her head, as
one instinctively dues when one is
watched, her dark face flushed and
she made a movement as if to con-
ceal herself behind the trees, but es
Cyril mechanically raised his hat she
stepped forward and stood tookiug
at him half -shyly, half-defontly.
"It is very warm," said Cyril, for
the sake of saying something, won-
dering whether site was a servant,
and inclined to decide that she was
a farmer's daughter.
Berea inclined her head,
"Yes," she said. "What are you
doing?" and her dark eyes wandered
curiously to the picture.
"Painting," he replied, chucking a.
smile.
$ho came up to him and looked at
tho sketch, and the thought crossed
Cyril's mind that he had quite a
grand private view that day.
"It's very pretty," she said; then,
as she looked at him again she made
a half curtsey and said, her face
crimson; "I—I beg your pardon, sir.
I-1 didn't know you wore a gentle-
man,"
'"Didn't you? Well, that's a mis-
take other people often make. And,
after ail., perhaps I'm not, But we
won't argue the question; you have
done nothing that requires my par-
don. Aro you waiting for soma one?'
"No," she said in a low voice. "I
was looking at the deer-"
7So nodded. Ile was sure that he
had ?tot seen her before, and yet
soon hew her voice seemed .familiar
to him. Suddenly there flashed upon
him the recolleetfon of the fragment
of conversation he had heard by the
horse pond last night, and he looked
at her with more interest.
Do you live near here?" he asked.
"In the village, sir,"
"WeII--I suppose I mustn't ask you
your name?'` he said, with the frank
smile fn hie oyes and about his lips
that was so characteristic and irro-
si9t.ib1e...
Oh, yes, sir; I'm Boma South."
"Bocce? That's short for Rebecca,
T suppose? Well, it's a pretty name,
and"—",you're a pretty girl" he
Was going to add, thoughtlessly, but
it struck hint at the moment that
It was scarcely a W180 thing, to add
to the vanity already existing be-
hind the pretty face—"and now I
must be going," he sald'instead, and
he began to pack up his things, In
doing so he 'dropped bis box of col-
ors, and Beets quite naturally Went
down on one knee 4e help In their
recovery.
"You are very kind atilt I ran very
rlanisy," -Ito Was saying, With a
!align, schen, as if from the ground,
11uildf rd Berton and hie block
horse
stead before them.
Avert uttered a cry end let drop;
'wh box, o and Civil, y Melting Mae t f
y ni: til, aha
tied he rAW, if nd '.fcae, it, look. d
recognition in her face, which had
grown suddenly peony -colored; but
Me. Guildford Merton glanced at her
in a cursory sort of way,
"Ah, Becca," he said carelessly.
She stood for a minute, her oyes
fixed upon the ground; then putting
the box on the edge of the easel,
turned and disappeared among the
trots,
Cyril expected Guildford Berson
either to ride on or to commence a
verbal, perhaps a physical, attack
upon him in continuation of that of
the morning, but ealmly went on ar-
ranging his painting tools.
But, to his surprise, Guildford Ber-
ton dismounted, and coming up to
him, said:
"Mr. Burne—for I have learned in
the village that that is your name—
I have come to offer you an apology
for my—discourtesy this morning. I
was engaged in deep thought when I
came upon you suddenly, and, being
quite unprepared for your presence, I
—I candidly admit—lost my temper.
I beg to tender you an apology."
"I accept it, Mr. Berton," he said.
"I fancy we both lost our tempers,
didn't we? At any rate, I am sure
I did. But, you see, I disliked being
disturbed at my work as much as
you did at your thinking, And, af-
ter all, it was 1 who was in the
Wrong, thought 1 am gind to find
that I was not quite such a criminal
as—wo1l, as I supposed.," he said,
good-naturedly, for ho was going to
say, "as you tried to make me
out."
"I hear that you are staying at
the rooms at The Chequers?"
"Yes," said Cyril, "and very jolly
little rooms they are."
"Yes. I am living in a small cot-
tage in the lane close by; any one
will show it to you. Perhaps it you
are not morn profitably or pleasant-
ly engaged you will come in and
smoke a cigar with me this evening?'
�
He gave the invitation almost
the same tone as that in which Ito.
had offered his apology, and Cyril•
would have liked to have declined,
but, thinking it would seem ungra-
cious, he accepted at once..
"I shall be very pleased," he re-
plied.
"Very well, then," said Guildford
Berton.
"I am going to the Court;" ho said'
slowly, "and shall see the earl. I
am sure that ho will permit me to
convey to you his permission to go
about the estate."
"Thanks very much," said Cyril.
It's very good of you. But t saw
the earl this afternoon and he was
kind enough to make me free of the
place."
"You saw the earl? I'm very glad.
Then—this evening?"
"Yes, about nine o'clock, if that's
not too early," and Guildford Ber-
ton rode oft slowly in the direction
of the Court.
Some feeling that he could not ex-
plain caused Cyril to glance track
after he had gone a few hundred
yards, and ho skid so in time to ace
the pink dress flit close up beside the
black horse, It was there only a
moment, for Cyril saw, or fancied ho
saw, Guildford Berton raise his hand
with a warning gesture and Berea
disappeared again.
CIiAPTI7R VIII,
Cyril worked at his sketch all the
afternoon with a keener delight than
he had ever before experienced; for,
though he had painted out Noroh's
figure, tho picture was so slosoly con-
nected with her that her presence ac-
tually seemed to be in the room as
he painted, and he paused now and
again to loan back and recall the
morning, which she had made so de-
licious a tame for him. Then. when
he had finished his dinner—a simple
affair of chops and a tart, but which
he enjoyed with the zest which
youth and a good appetite alone can
give—he lit a pi.ire and bethought
himself of Mr, Guildford Berton's in-
vitation.
If Cyril had followed his own in-
clination he would have avoided any
further acquaintanpe with the gen-
tleman who could- e offensive one
hour and conciliatory the next; but
he had accepted and intended going,
though there was something about
Guildford Berton which repelled
Cyril, For ono thing, he did not
like a man whose eyes so continually
sought tho ground instead of those t
of his fellowmen; and there was a 1
certain turn of'the lips and the chip s
which offended Cyril's artistic 50nse. c
Had the face been positively uglyit
he would have forgiven It, hub it o
was the expression which marred it
and of which lie complained to him-
self,
Just before vino ho put on his hat
and started in search of the cottage.
Follotving Mrs. Brown's directions,
he walked up the lane behind the
horse pond and presently clime upon
a doot in -a high wall, behind which
ho could see the upper windows and
chimneys of an old cittago.
As this was the only house in the
lane, Cyril concluded that it must
be Mr. Guildford Berton's abode, and
he watt as unfavorably impressed by
it as ho had been by its owner. One
expects a country cottage to be
Light and oheerful; Mr, Guildford
Berton's resembled a small lunatic
asylum, and had a 100050 and"' for-
bidding appearance, singularly out
of glade in the pretty green lane.
Ho tried to open the door but it
Woe locked apparently, and ale toadi-
ed a bell handle, whlclt hung high up
in the wall, above the roa:hof infan-
tile hands,
The bell dlanged harshly and quito
in keeping with the gloomy appear-
ance of the wall, and, after' a few
iniflrteh, rho door was opeued by an
Cyril found the door ajar, end
pushtug it, ouf•ered a sma11 1 1
The place was remarkably quiot
and after- waiting for a minute to
see if his host would come out from
some room to receive him, dyril
knocked at a door which he thought
might be that of a sitting room.
No response came, and, after an-
nother spell of waiting, he walked to
the front door and looked about for
the woman who had lot him in; but
the winding path, with its thick
shrubs, 'effectually hid everything
from view, and, not liking to shout'
out "Mr. Berton, where, aro you?" he
returned to the hall and gently open-
ed the door of the room at which
he had knocked.
It was a sitting room, as he had
suspected, but so 'dimly- lighted by a,
small petroleum lamp that at first
ho could scarcely distinguish any-
thing distinctly. Then suddenly, es
he grow accustomed to the light, he
was startled to see Guildford Ber-
ton's figure lying back in an arm-
chair. It was placed with its back
to the window, and Cyril, thinking
that he had fallen asleep, wondered
whether he had not better return es
quietly as possible and retrain from
waking les host, who had apparently
so completely forgotten his visitor.
But as ho turned to go, with a sense
of relief, something in the attitude of
the figure struck him, and he noise-
lessly Brow a little nearer.
Guildford 13erton, if he twexe
asleep, had fallen into slumber very
suddenly and in a very uncomforta-
ble position; his head lay all one
side of the chair and his legs were
stretched out with a peculiarly help -
loss expression about them.
As Cyril looked he experienced a
sudden shock, for the thought flesh-
ed, upon him that the man was
dead! The stillness of the place hung
over it like a pall, and, for the first
time, ho noticed a faint and peculiar
odor in tho room, that reminded him
of the smell hanging about a chem-
ist shop.
Ho went up to the motionless fig-
ure and bent over it. Tho eyes were
hall open, the lips tightly compress-
ed, but, whatever else was tho mat-
ter, Cyril saw by the slow and lab-
ored breathing that Guildford Berton
was not dead.
Considerably alarmed, he looked
round for a bell, but, not seeing any
sign of one, he wont to the door and
called to the woman, "Hi!
No response came, the stillness
was unbroken and, hurriedly return-
ing to the 1IJCansei0US man, 1)0
shook him gently by tho shoulder
and called him by' his name. This
failing of effect, he searched the room
for some water, and seizing a carafe
from a side table, pouredout some
of its contents into tho palms of his
lands and bathed Guildford Berton's
forehead.
After a few minutes, which seemed
years to Cyril, Berton opened his
eyes and heaved a long sigh; thin a
gleam of returning intelligence come
into his face and, making an effort
to sit up, he said, staring at lis
visitor:
"The bottle— Put it away!"
"What bottle?" Cyril asked anx-
iously. "I don't see any, What has
happened? Are you ill?"
"I—I beg your pardon," said Ber-
ton with an effort. "I'm very sorry,
The fact is—" ifis eyes wandered
from Cyril's face to the table, as if
seeking something, and a look .of re-
lief seethed to come into his face in
its absence. '".Phe fact is, I—well, I
suppose I have had a fit. '
fit!" said Cyril. "Arc you sub-
ject to thorn, then?"
"Well I've had one or two before,"
replied Guildford Merton, avoiding
his questioning and anxious gaze.
"But—but," said Cyril more grave-
ly still, "if that's so, is it wise to
live in such an out-of-the-way place
and so much alone? I've tried to
call your servant, the woman who
opened the door to 010 --but ail to
no purpose; and I'm afraid that if I
had not happened to come ie. it is
likely you might have lain hero un-
til—
"1 died? There was no foar of
that. It isn't fatal,"
Ho dropped back as he spoke, and
a shiver ran through him. Cyril,
eking it as a sign of a relapse,
ooked rotind the room for some re-
torativo• Behind the chair was a
upboard door, and, in the hope
hat ho might find Some brandy, ho
pened it. As ho did so rho pungent
odor ho had detected before came
out to meet him strongly and he saw
that tho cupboard contained a num-
ber of bottles such as aro used for
chemicals Ono—a small phial of
blue glass, with a medioino measure
beside it—stood at the extreme edge
of the shelf as if it hid been hastily,
place there..
(To be Continued,)
SCOTT'S EMULSION serval es a
hrldge to carry the weakened and
thieved eyStdm eking until it can find
11tro Support h ordlaar - food,
Sent foe rcee eatple,
sear? dr 110Vt1Z, Chomti71,
T.71.011110.Oalu4,
see, eel Veal all dreams.
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01 THE FRit
(111 HANDLING SMALL GItA1NS,
Cl/mummies about July 10, I be-
gin to cut wheat, using the self -
binder drawn by three horses
abreast. Tho bundles are tied with
ordinary biodor twine, and ado usual-
ly dropped in piles ready to sot up,
writes Mr. J. A. Jewett,
In the beginning I drive around
the field, going in the opposite direc-
tion to all later cutting's, thus tak-
ing caro of the .outside swath. A
little grail. is destroyed, but tile,
machine will pike up nearly all ex-
sept that pressed clown by the drive
wheel. The bundles aro removed and
the cutting continued in the opposite
direction until the field is finished.
More most farmers own their bin-
ders. A few Hire their grain cut,
the cost being v 1 to $$1.25 per acre.
Machines should be purchased and
the repairs mnclo before harvest
time. Preparation at an early date
is very important, Look over care-
fully and make the necessary repairs
on time. Know your machine thor-
oughly and know how to apply horse
sense in case of accident. The ex-
pert's services aro net necessary very
often, Study carefully your machin-
ery, that you may know best your-
self how to adjust for the different
varieties of grain. Not all grain cuts
alike, and it will be quite a while be-
fore spin can master the situations
succ0sslully,
TT1E TO CUT, SIIOCICING, ETC,
In cutting' wheat I start my ma-
chine when the straw begins to turn
brown and tho berry begins to ge
'hard or is just out of the dough.
is not necessary for the kernel to b
hard. Keep the slcktebar about 8
inches from the ground in ordinary
grain. Vary this to suit length o
straw, It will be better to cut high
enough so es not to c111) ori very
much of the seeding clover, as bun-
dles will cure out bettor without that
included,
Two sten can set up and shock as
fast as one machine can cut. There
are two ways of setting up grain—
the long of open shock and the round
or capped shock, The long shock is
made by setting two bundles leaning
toward each other, usually set nortl
and south. This permits sunshine
on both sides of the' shock, Oats ar
nearly always set in long shocks, a
it takes them longer to cure than
wheat or rye.
If there is much danger of rain, i
is better to build the round shock
and cap it. To do this, set from 12
to 14 bundles in a shock, and cap
with two sheaves placed on top in
such a way they will protect the
others from rain. lemaking the
cap sheaf, hold butts against body,
heads out, then with ono hand break
down about one -hall and the re-
mainder with the other. Divide the
straw and spread it out so as to
cover the top of shock. Breaking
it down 'helps to hold the sheaf in
place. It will also give slant to tho
straw so the water will run oft. The
heads should bo placed toward pre-
vailing winds, Two sheaves will pro-
tect tho shock from any ordinary
storm, and is much safer than open
shock, although it has to stand a
little longer to cure out. Grain can-
not be drawn when damp, and it
should stand in shock until thor-
oughly 'dry,
it . akesLess
Ceylon Tea to fravinake a satisfactory infusion
than any other tea on the contiira :nt.
SLACK, CK, EieiX D, or GREEN.
Sold only in Lead Packets. 40c, 50c, 60c, 6y all grocers,
Highest Award St. ►..ouis, 1804,
through is anything but evocable
for the hogs.
Remember that the temperature
down in the pea is not what your
thermometer shows on the shaded
side of a tree, 011, n0, Just get
down in the pen close to mother
earth, or the plank floor, and let the
sun warns your back a few minutes.
A great many pens aro made of
boards that form a barrier to the
breezes. Let the air circulate
through tho pens. Provide shade
with no sides: Tho hoghouse makes
a shade, to bo surd, but it may bo
anything but cool in there. Some
hog pastures need shade. A11 do
that have not got it already. Treat
your hogs right and they will do
better.
MGM COLLAR EVILS,
May be Cause of Some of Human-
ity's Troubles.
We have a stroug impression, says
t the British Medical Journal, that the
It average height of the masculine nock
o is greater now than it used to he.
Has the long neck produced the high
collar, or has tate neck adapted itself
f to the new environment of the high
collar? It is not within 0w' prov-
ince to discuss the high collar in its
aesthetic aspects. Front the sanitary
point of view it may perhaps be al-
lowed the merit of serving as a pro-
tection to the throat. If the are to
believe Dr. F. B. Brubaker, of St.
Louis, .howovor, the high collar limy
be a source of unpleasant symptoms
—such as a choking sensation, in-
creased rapidity of the, heart's ac-
s tion, followed by retardation, a sink -
Ing feeling over the precardial region,
sI nausea, vomiting, l!stlessttess and
depression—from pressure on the
pneumogastric nerve, Dr. Brubaker
t 1 has seen shelf symptoms in book-
keepers, writers, professional men,
and others whose callings n'equire
constant stooping and bending of tiro
neck, The Journal thinks that he
scarcely makes out his cast, but the
evidence which ho brings forward
may perhaps be considered sufficient
in certain aggravated' cases of high
collar to warrant some prima-facie
suspicion that it is an agent of tnis
thief,
CARING I'OR AND STACICING,
If grain Is to be put in barn it is
usually loaded onto wagons 25 to
30 shocks to the loath When slings
are used with the car and track,
the work is soon done, and the crop
is secured, In stacking build a bot-
torn
ottom of rails or boards up from
ground 6 or 8 inches. This will al-
low circulation of air and prevent.
tho drawing of moisture. To build
a stuck, begins in the center and keep
laying around until you reach the de-
sired size, then lay another tier,
keeping the grain in center as neat
level as possible. 1 keep the center a
little higher than at the outside of
stack, so as to cause bundles to
slant downward. Lay oach layer out
oven with one below until you get up
about 8 or 10 feet, then draw in
each layer, keeping, center quite full
all tho while. By placing a stick
or polo a or 8 feet long, sharpened
at both ends, 1)z top or stack, it will
bold bundles on, and wind will not
blow them off so easily. When possi-
ble build round stacks. If they sot-
tlo over, put a brace under and let
it settle back. Watch it a day or
two and ]seep in as good shape as
possible.
All grain sweats out in shock and
stack, and again in bins, so I usual-
ly leave my grain do the stack soy-
oral weeks before threshing, A few
thresh frotn field and save the cost
of handling twice.
Threshing is hero done by steam,
using a 16 to 20 -horse power engine,
with latest Improved soparaters, 5e1f-
4e0dors and wind stackers. Enough
men aro carried in the crew to do all
work with machine except to take
care of the grain. Women will tend
and carry it under ordinary condi-
tions when bins ale handy, Other-
wiso it is sacked and dlawn to gi;te-
ary or stored its elevators until
sold,
71ho straw is seldom, sold, Its
value on the farm for bedding and
manure is more than can be secured
for it if sold to balers, A few, how-
ever, sail. Prices vary with market
eondittbns. Ityo straw,eusnally se.ils
best, and is the fleet 'to be offered.
I do not think there Is any feed-
ing value to rye straw, of at least
not So much as wheat or oat.
a *Wheat
PROVIDE SHADE -FOR, HOGS.
bo you roaliao that it is thawing
on the south side. of the barn or
grove whore ,you have the hog house?
'A sheltered pinto like that is a very
Mee thing ht winter. Mos hoed
sumbine, Bun hin',toyofY it h n d
is
a limit, To be penned
there
but in a small
place on the sheltered side of a barn
lot Whore tho sun locus double duty,
and . Whore s breeze ecatt of page
ANTWERP'S AMBITION.
Plans to Become the Greatest Port
in the World.
Londoners aro at last aroused to
the fact that Belgium intends to
make hor port, /Outwore, the first in
the world if money and engineering
genius can accomplish it.
A deputation of members of the
Thames Conservancy has just paid
a visit to Antwerp for the purpose
of learning the details of the new
scheme, The Chairman of the Con-
! servaney, W. H. Grenfell, M. P., has
just returned to London, and he ad-
mits that Antwerp is making a great
effort for commercial supremacy,
"Already Antwerp is tho third port
in the world, and the Belgian au-
thorities arc proposing to spend be-
tween fifty awl sixty millions of dol-
lars in improving the clock and quay,
accommodation. .Nine onartncus
docks are planned, with a. depth of
thirty-nine feet; each will be nearly
4,000 feat long and 650 feet wide. If
completed, ilio scheme will give Ant-
werp thirty --seven miles of quays as
against fourteen miles now existing
or constructing. A ship at Antwerp
can be discharged in far leas time
than in London, because these deep
water quays are in theriver itself,
and there are not any Sleeks, no
locks to go through; also because the
discltnrging ceaues, etc., are power-
ful and up-to-date,"
' THE BI] A BTY BATH'.
To keep the. bods .0.100n is to ]coop
it healthy; Moro than that, it is to
keep the mind bright, as circulation
is stimulated, muscles massaged, and
the tissues he:Maned. The daily bath
is the finest beautifying moans known.
Ono thing you must strictly avoid Its
bathing—mover use hard water. It is
impossible to create a cleansing suds.
The addition of borax will remedy
this trouble, so always keep a little
china or tin -covered box with borax
in it on your bath stand. i:lvory
morning —if you take the ' Yemeni
SOME NOVEL CONTESTS
WHERE HUSBANDS ARE
AWARDED AS PRIZES.
Girls Who Make an Exhibition of
Themselves in Order to
Marry.
Kansas City was lately the scone
of a lottery, whereof the first prize
was an eligible young Virginian,
named Arnett, wino stood on the
Platform during the proceedings. Oa
rho winning number being called out
a Miss Knoche stopped forward amid
the plaudits of the crowd, "Do you
want to bo married hero now?" asks
ed tiro chairman, "It's for the lady
to say. Whatever she says goes.
I'm game," said the prize; but the
winner, while recognising her mar-
riage as assured, preferred !natters
to take a more leisure course.
The joint birthday of Icing Carlos
of Portugal and his consort was cel-
ebrated on September 28th last at
a village near Braga in a novel way.
A. handsome y oung fanner named
Coelho, for whoao several local beau-
ties had long sighed in vain, doter -
mined to sacrifice his freedom by of-
fering himself as a price to her who
should bo successful In a bullock
race.
Seven handsome peasant girls ap-
peared at the starting post, riding
barebacked on bullocks with decorat-
ed horns and tails. A capital start
was effected, but ere half the dis-
tance had boon traversed the favor-
ite was thrown, and discharged her
chagrin by seizing the tail of the
second bullocic is an endeavor to
impede
A RIVAL'S PROGRESS.
This resulted in an unpopular com-
petitor coning in first; whereat the
onloolccrs were so disgusted that
they ducked the judge 111 a pond.
Now Brunswick was the scone, four
years since, of a bicycle race, over
a course of two miles, between a
couple of girls who were rivals 10
the affections of an eligible swain.
The prize himself, with a parson by
his side, took his stand at the win-
ning post, and no sooner had the
winner, bliss Nellie Donnoly, passed
tho goal than the ceremony was per-
formed, and the newly -married couple
loft the ground amid the acclama-
tions of the large concourse that
had witnessed the contest.
To run to a point sono hundred
yards distant, there to change dress-
es for others laid in readiness on the
ground, and to return to tho start-
iug-point was tho trial undertaken
last year at Brussels, by somo hall-
dozeu women, to deride which should
wed a man who had offered himself
es prize to the winner. On the'word
being given, ono at once dropped to
rho roar, and joggled on quite uncon-
cernedly, for she was aware that the
sleeves of the dresses laid out for
hor rivals had beau sewn up. The
confusion consequent au this enabled
her to win the race and the prize,
who, it is more than likely, was well
aware of the ruse.
The keeper of a Havre restaurant,
some eight years back, offered him-
self as a prize to be run for in
AN OBSTACLE RACE
by ,young women. Here, too, ses-
picton pointed to the result having
been previously arranged, for the
last difficulty to be overcome con-
sisted of wriggling between two bars
so close together that note but the
slimmest could pass. Six out of
seven competitors were thus put out
of the race, which was won by a
wisp of a girl w1no, negotiating the
narrow space with little trouble, car-
ried off Boniface in accordance, pi0-
bably, with that wily man's latctt-
tion.
The first prize in a cookery cote-
petition hold at Vienna in the early
eighties was a young lean, the owner
of a pork butcher's ostoblishtnotit,
in whose declared opinion good house
hold management was an indispensa-
ble meessity !tt married life. Some
score or moro spinsters and widows t
displayed their culinary skill, that of
a.profcssioral cook being accounted
worthiest of the prize, who, howover,
stultified the decision of the judges.
by eloping with the prettiest of the
competitors.
Equally perfidious was the conduct
of a young- Liverpudlian who, some
years back, °tiered las hand and for -
tine as first prize for a sack race,
ever fifty ,yards, to bo competed for
by girls under twenty-five years of
ago, At the goal he stood ready to
urreiidcr himself to the winner, but
when he recognised in the loader a
aunt W0m0sn,01 notorious tsmper
is courage failed Kirit and he f1ec1,
1•he baulked woman threatened both
aw proceedings and personal char-
isetneet„ )out was at length mollified
)y sufficient money to set iter^up in
usiness.—London Tit -Bits,
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MIDSA'AtAibJt FASIIIOIIS.
Por slnipla curtains .tarred dimity
holds its 01w11 11th any Ot1101' cur-
tain malarial, They aro especially
good with Straight sill curtains of
flowered 01' Main colored chute.,
Tho old-fashioned snake bracelet
semis to Have renewed existence.
Some heavy gold ones incrusted with
a simple vine design aro noticed.
The laudable desire to get rid of
superfluous underwear has resulted hr
a vary wide adoption of coutbinat!on
garments, which aro fa't• from being
the hideous creation devised l)Y
early dress reformers. The new gar-
ments are of fine materials, and are
cut so skillfully that the size of ilia
wearer, if she is stout, is materially
decreased.
Narrow bands 'of loather -colored
silk embroidered in black and gold
thread aro to be had in sets and are
designed for trimming linen or pon-
gee sults, There aro also never sets
01 the same order,
Three-piece suits are ,always suit-
able for sightseeing. 'Thin sills
blouses thatching in color tho reel
of the costume aro convonlent, in
that they do .lot require constant
laundering, Worn with fine lingerie
sets, especially with the high culls
so rnuelf in vogpo, these hlousos are
very modish and hocoming,
A very elegant and dressy bell do -
signed for an elaborate linen suit i0
of blue suede with strappings of the
same tlater!al tacit outlined nidi tt
gold thread. Tito belt is in girdle el-
fect, very narrow and crushing sii ht -
1y, and is finished with a heavy gold
1)11(21110.
Otte of the newest 'devices in tho
way of lingerie is a silk flounce,
India or taffeta, to button a white
petticoat at the knee. The ad'ant-
age of the attached ruffle are, first. of
all, c0olutes, and trio lightness whirls
comes of dispensing will. the ono
potticoaL. The economy of tho lash
ion is another strong recommenda-
tion. (Inc may Have several match
iug flounces to ono petticoat.
Such a host of dainty, inexpensive
cotton stuffs as are displayed these
days! The counters etertwhere fair-
ly groan under their weight of good
things, and each pattern and ma-
terial is so much in fashion that the
most decided iniad nos d!fl)culty {u
making. a 01101ee.
Now that all wash goods are of-
fered for sale at very small pt tees; ,
the shopper is tempted to purchase
lengths of flowered organdie or d!nn-
'ity for bedroom curtains, A charm-
ing cottage bedroom, hung' tv!lit a
wall paper all huge yellow roses,
was made 'still 111000 charming t v
cat tains of organdie in which Lhe
yellow -rose design was repeated, but
iu rllueli paler tones. In fact. the ef-
fect was as if the roes on the walls
cast shadows on tee sheer wlilas
curtains. The idea is worth slndy-
ing and adapting to other Rome.
rooms,
LATEST IN BELTS.
A year ago the girdle craze began,
and ran its course—apparently. And,
by all.tho laws of change in dress, it
sliould Have been over and dune with
long before this. It's anything but
done with. Instead, you 11011 girdle
after girdle, bolt after belt and !costs
of 110w bu0k1rs eotting More and
more interesting and more and utero
popular all rho wi1±10.
Loather halts aro a revelation,
carves and combined with silk Into
wonderful effects, '.11to daintiest flow-
ered ribbons are given character by
the bands of leather which border
it and cover the buckle. A green
silk belt—strong "St. Patrick's"
green—lias tiny strips of white fell
stitched on it at close intervals,
when the belt crushes into its proper
lines 'only an occasional glimpse of
the green is to bo soon, fascinating,
by the very daring of,Lhe shiucte. An-
otlfer, like it in style, is radically
dilberent in effect—strips et the palest
of violet kid are stretched' on white
shit,
Among the odd, striking belts is
one of loather—white, with groat
round boles penciled through'. it, and
the whole thing mounted upon a silk
foundation of red or lilu0 or violet,
or perhaps white—the two materials
contrasting cltaruiinrslyp, lotting
great polka dots of tho color show
through.
Suede belts
arc
plainthe rich deep
ons exquisitely set o11• by the plain-
est of square, flat brass buckles—or
tricked out Into as stunning affairs,
carved in curious patterns; Witich the
soft nap of the suede makes as India -
Sometwilight does form,
Sonne of the French belts havo
lidos and buckles trimmed with rib -
ion embroidery—narrow, shaded t'ib-
hon5 gathered en one edge and form-
ed into flower designs,
in 'black patent leather makes the
most stunning bolts, but-- the soft
bltttk kid is mighty pretty, too; and
aR odd piece -bolt, made in two piscee
shaped ,above' and. below a. straight
tint, takes on the limes 111 the figure
in rho trimmest of will's,
Il or 50100 0f the. soft leatlhttO bolts
come harrow metas supports, which
run. up the back in three .places, aid
aro 'oe vol over so little to make
the girdle lino take the right tilt,
Linen bolts Have swept everything
before them; that is, linen ea' stand-
ing for the great, assortment of
washable belts which Last sumnn0r
tainted at'and this summer has de -
Clairol 1fa08011 "very much for,"
Japanese embroidered strips of silk,
finished with buckles covered with`
the artistimilly ugly figures' of the.
Vast, are "making l .story" almost
an fest ne 1111331' creators, And plain
white belting—the klicd that conies
for Ilardatl ace work'—inalCea the most
satlsfectoey tort of belts le Wear
with! Them, &hit'Ltraittt 4zit1004 tOlLe.
bath only once a week) sponge the
body with tepid water to'which a I
handful of salt and a tablespoonful'
of . borax have .been added. This last s
is the beautifying
hath, h tw -
y b &oil pie o
ng
man iirho is afflicted With pim�slos}end h
blackheads will do well to keep in h
mind that if the skin performs its •
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b.
functions properly, throwing off
Waste matter actively, there will be
a decided improvement In tine 0011 -
di t ioh
011difdon of the complexion, Bard
water will soon spoil the prettiest
Shia—so never use it if possible,
"Your little birdie has been very,
very .i11," she wrote to the .young
man. "It is some sort of nervous
trouble, and the doctors said I must
have perfect rust and gitlot, and that
1 must think of nothing. And all
the time, dear (fussy, T ihought con- t
scantly of you," The young man 11
read it over, end then read it )
through' very slowly, and pot it In i<
his pocket, anis Went eta under the e
Sile1!1 t#tars, and Icopt thinking, and d
thinking.,'Mut ,thfnktng; a
A scliooi-teacher wag trying to itn-
preSS upon a scholar's mind Lhet 00 -
lumbus discovered America 131'1402,
"Nota, John," lie said, "I will tell
you the date in rhyme so that you
Won't forget it, 'In fourteen hnn-
Ctrctl and n'nuty-two Cohnubus sailed
he ocean 1.1 tie. toot', ma you ro-
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