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OR,
THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY.
,Angel was somewhat impressed by
the intelligen0e and culture of this
quiet young with the expreseive brown
eyes. She could not help owning to
herself that Horace Lassiter, whom she
loved, was unable to talk as Mr. GOoe-
frey Dane talked to her. She would
not have admitted this to Dulcie for
the whole world ; but she was conscious
of it, as a foot, all the same.
You must have read a great deal,
lifer. bane," she said to him.
Into Geoffrey's eyes there stole a ten-
der, far -away look and a little smile.
I never read anything at all till
six weeks ago, Miss Halliday,"
"Really ? Well, yuu have made up
for it since, You must have devoured a
whole library full in tthose six weeks 1"
Not quite -only one box of books-
whioh arrived at my door, mysterious -
1y, one This evening."
Had you ordered them?"
o, 1 imagine they were a pree-
ent..' i.
' u Anci you do not know from whom.?
This is really romantic I You interest
mo wonderfully. Did you have no letter
to explain their arrival?"
" Not a word. The box arrived, ad-
dressed to me, and that was all."
"Are you sure it was not old Mr.
Dane? Papa has told us wonderful
tales about his eccentricities."
Geoffrey laughed outright. "No. I
am quite sure they did not come from
may uncle." •
And the books -what were they 0"
" A delightful selection -Bacon, and
Montaigne's Essays --Horace Walpole's
lettere-Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and
Carlyle—and nearly every English poet
from Chaucer dawn to Tennyson. I
have lived upon them ever sines. I
shall live upon them all my life. I
want no other books -ever l" He spoke
the last words with a little glow of
enthusiasm.
Angel's feminine instincts told her
that something more than a mere book -
love's devotion underlay the kindling
fire that rang in his voice and seen
1n his eyes.
As to Geoffrey, he could not have
told why he had epoken of this thing
to this girl, who was a stranger to
him. There was, perhaps, some vagus
attraction of sympathy of nature be-
tween them -something that had forc-
ed. him to speak of it.
That box -full of books was the Iink
that bound him to the one page of
romance of his life -a page which, it
'Merced to him, was turned over, for
h ever, and yet which, even in turning,
had left its indelible traces upon him,
He had known, of course, from what
source it was that this wonderful and
prodigal gift had come to him. But,
although he had written to her to
thank her for the gift in the warmest
terms, yet leis letter had remained un-
answered and unacknowledged ; and he
had been forced to recollect with sor-
row, that although she bad promised
to remember him, she had, at the same
time, peremptorily declined to encour-
age him in any hopes of further aa-
gleam:Imes with her. To the very let-
ter, Rose de Brefour had fulfilled her
own terms with biro.
Yet there are some loves -like the
bright -flowered stone -crops, that flour-
ish best upon the scanty soil of crumb-
ling walls -that thrive and grow apace
in starvation and in absence, Had his
intercourse with Madame de Brafour
been prosaic and common -place he na-
ture -had he met her frequently and
known her, as young men get to know
the ordinary acquaintances of life -it
is possible that she would have made no
lasting impression upon him. There
was, indeed, everything about her -
from a common-sense point of view -
to warn him of the folly of fixing his
Miley upon her. Beautiful as she was,
she was several years older then him-
self. She had been married already ;
she was a Catholic; her surroundings
were of a strange and un -English na-
ture. All this, under ordinary circum-
stances, Geoffrey Dane, who was young
and bad his way to make in the world
-and that way remotely depending up-
on the good -will of friends and rata -
tions -would, no doubt, have Borne in
mind, but of all this, as a fact, he re-
membered nothing. 33e only saw her
through the glamour of his one inter-
view with her -.and her beauty of per- ,
son -and still more, her culture of
mind -only returned again and again;
to him t:irougb the dazzling mirage off
the silence and mystery that surround- 1
ed her, Her strange reticence -the half- ,
attraotion which she had evidently
found ie him -coupled with the firm -
11083 of her purpose in keeping hint at
a distance from her, all heightened
and intensified the fascination whioh
she had unconsciously flung over him.
He thought of her by day, he dreamt
of her by night. He bad not told him-
self, ley any means, that he loved her;
but he had told blmself, very distinet-
ly, that be should know neither rest
nor peace until he had seen her and
spoken to her again.
Under these conditions, it was not,
perhaps, very wonderful that Angel
and Dulcte Halliday -charming and at-
tractive as these two 030.1d002 undoubt-
edly were -did not altogether present
themselves to his imagination under
the aspect whioh his uncle and their
own father wets anxious that they
should do,
A man who 15 true-bearted and
faithful by nature is 3101 sae
fly diverted by other faces, however,
fair, from the one that be has en-
shrined in the very depth of his soul,
And Geoffrey was --all unconsciously to
himself -encased ie proof armour
against the charms and the bright eyes
of all eller women. •
The "rapprochement" which he ex-
perienced towards Angel Halliday was,
therefore, no more then the vioarious,
attraction whicha woman who faint-
ly resembles hie dol may exereis°, for
a few tnomenle, over a man's imagin-
ation, He felt es if he could almost
have spoken of Rose de Brefour to her,
8e sweet and 25 w0mnn-like was she to
him -and the long, bey day, spent In s
such sympal.betie s00iotY, woe thor-
oughly grettful end enjoyable to hire.
Fla told himself that evening, as he
dressed himself otteefully for dinner,
that in old Toe Haliidny's daught.ars ho
had, unexpectedly, come across two wo-
men who would be good friends to
him for life, and whom he, desired 1.o
ane often) and much.
Aftea. a somewhat berried dinner, at
an early hear, Horace Lassiter ar-
rived at the Grange, duly armed with
a bull's-eye lantern. He had come toor
escort the girls down to the lee. The
rest of the party from the Hall were
to join them below -for the big house
lay on the further side of the sweep
or frozen meadow land.
"You needn't have come," said Dun
Mc, somewhat ungraciously, to him, as
they walked down In couples towards
the ice -Geoffrey end Angel being on
in front. "We have Mr. Dane to look
after us. It was quite out of your
way, you know."
" I don't suppose I should have cont 3,
if I had not wanted to. Man is a see
fish animal," answered the young man
simply.
The night was lovely. There was as
yet no 33:10011; but the heavens were a
n
wideespagied sheet of stars, The Ice
lay greyly white, like a vast lake, be-
low them, and, already, at a far -away
corner, beyond the willows, alegion of
moving lights, coming onwards in clus-
ters and in couples betokened the ap-
proach of the party from the Hall,
A crowd of villagers and farmers had
got wind of the proposed entertain-
ment, and had gathered about the
banks. Those who could skate were in-
vited tb join in the fun; and, as many
of them carried lanterns, they rondo
a considerable addition to the festive,
ties. Soon the wide sheet of ice was
alive with dark gliding figures and
the twinkle of many lights, whilst the
still, frozen air rang with shouts of
laughter and merry cries of excite-
ment and delight. The little party
from the Grange soon glided 800088,
and was merged into the crowd of the
larger party from the Hall.
' You will make all these women Lear
out their eyes and their hair, with envy,
when they sea how you and your sister
can skate," whispered Captain Lessi-
ter to his companion.
"I will try and bear it with forti-
tude," replied Dulcie, with the happy
laugh of a woman who knows where
she can excel, and is prepared to show
it,
Lady Lessiter, a tiny figure muffled
up in sable furs, came rapturously up
tb greet the two girls.
"Such a delightful original idea 1 So
clever of you to think of it. I never
was so delighted with any notion in
my life before," she cried enthusiasti-
cally, for Venetia was always enthu-
siastic; it was positively enchanting
of you two girls to suggest it ;
sve'll do it every night -every single
night, I tell Sir George."
"Luckily, Miss Halliday, the frost
isn't likely to last lung," growled Sir
George at her elbow, for Sir George
loved his cigar and bis evening pa-
per, and was only half pleased to be
turned out after dinner upon the froz-
en meadowis; " and even if the frost
lasts, well, we all know bow brief are
Venetia's vagaries, don't wel'
" We must have a Sixteen Lancers,"
cried Venetia to Angel.
"And a Sir Roger de Coverly," Bug,
gestod somebody else.
"But, first, of course, there must be
the procession up and down as fan
and as fast as we can go," said Dulcie{
seriously, "tient Ls always de rigueur,
you know and there is nothing so dent
ligbtful and so effective."
In the dim, starlit darkness of the
night, faces and figures were lame
tinct the lanterns threw little circles
of light round themselves, but their
subdued gleam only served to render
the owls' -light beyond their influence
more vague end shadowy. Tbere was
a general shuffle for partners, and
much langbter and confusion amongst
those who found a difficulty in sort-
ing themselves aright with the parti-
eular person upon whom each had set
his or her desires.
Geoffrey Dane, being a stranger,
stuck to Angel with patient persisten-
cy, and soon found himself skimming
rapidly away with her along the whole
length of the surface of the ice.
"It's very good of you to let me he
your partner," he said to her grateful-
ly. "1 was dreadfully afraid your
lively little friend would have drafted
mw
0 off with some unknon young woe
man, for whom I should have been
forced to cudgel my poor brains for
small talk."
Angel murmured nn unintelligible
answer. Presently he made some furs
ther remnrk, concerning harmony of
the night's silence combined with the
poetry of motion, the sort of speech
which Angel's dreamy nature would,
he felt sure, appreciate and respond to,
but, to his surprise, thin little venture
was received Willa absolute silence, and
Geoffrey, looking curiously at his come
pinion, began to perceive that she was
net thinking about him or listening to
him at all,
It is one thing to be pleasant and
sympathetic to a good-looking and in-
telligent man who is your guest dur-
ing the whole day, but quite another
10 resign yourself cheerfully to a tete-
n-tete under the sears with a person
Ln whom you don't take the faintest
interest, whilst somebody else m
e0mewhel•e behind will somebody elsel
Angel experienced that sensation of
stele disappointment which Comes so
often to young women who are in love,
and yet whom the small trammels of
an artifieial society encase about so
completely, (hat they are unable to
override them for their own benefit.
It is at such .moments that remele.
things experience exasperation at the
helplessness 0f their own sex.
"We seem to hays outstripped every-
body else, she said presently, in a
strained, 'nervous voice, not in the
least like her usual sweet and genial
manner; "don't you think we had
bei ter turn rouurl and join some of thea
ors?
'Chen Geoffrey, whose perceptions
were tolerably acute, became aware of
the fact. that Miss Halliday was prob-
ably henkering for some other seemlynye his own.
"Egotistical fool that 1 am 1" be
thought, "Of course, there is a lucky
he somewhere '1' and aimed he seed ;
Let us turn then. Ali I here is your
sister behind us, end Captain Lessi-
ter l" : 1 •
7'lian, somehow, .Horace found himself
by Angel's side, end Delete skated
rapidly awayafter a passing couple of
friends, and. Geoffrey, left
himself off, with perfect
and an amused sense of s
his desertion, on a long
the grey vLstae of dark',
the far -away end of the lc
couples end gleazuing tan
not.
Presently be found hi
plelely isolated from the
party, be was not, petite
devoted to the pastime of s
who lova hunting and sbo
are -but all active extents
itself more or toss to a bets
vigorous young Engtishma
twenty, and, for lack of
to skim along on a delight
eut'face, breasting the kae
under the great dark arch
flecked heavens was a sen
was not devoid of a certai
its own, The keen swish
strides went with him into
of the night, the little len
erl to his wrist swayed to
be moved, a. falling star s
of him -all bis life long, Ge
remembered it with a a
distinctness.
A11 at ones he became co
somebody was in front of h
ice; there was the faint ea
before trim, quite distinct
far -way sounds of the ga
hind, but, at first, he
nothing.
Then out of the darkness
grew and grew in clear
slowly but surely gained
soon bo was able to see 1
a woman. '
She went along slowly
timidly, as though not alto
to h0 pastime. Perhap
Geoffrey, she heed crept in
self to teat her own power
herself in solitude. A Ion
wrapped loosely about he
from head to foot, for the
was drawn up over her he
wring ; now and then she st.
one arm to balance herself,
hand she carried a stick
she helped herself alone,
When Geoffrey's long
strides came rapidly up beh
lady in the long cloak ma
ment as though to turn an
es she did so, she tottered,
Mom fallen had he not swif
out his hand and saved her.
"Allow me to help you," h
ing his bat insein0tirely, a
could not see the face that ti
the hood. "If you would no
ing my arm, I shall be able
more quickly to the rest of
it is a long way for you t
alone,"
She murmured something
intelligible, but she did no
Diamond cut Diamond,
decline his offer, for she
band beneath the arm he
slander band, brown -gloved
fingered -a hand whose lig
ing touch In some mysteri
drove the bot blood. to his
heart and set every nerve
tingling with a rapturous d
"Madame de Brefour I" he
strange, altered voice. "Ie
"Ah I bow is it you knob
answered a little wildly -
cannot see me ?"
"If I were blind, and d
deaf," be cried, with a re
passionate outburst which o
away in spite of himself,
would stall know you out
world, and would beat its la
the touch of your hand."
She bent her head and ens
nothing. ---
CHAPTER VII.
For some moments neibba
spoke. Rose de Brefour had
ready in which to answer
Geoffrey was struggling ha
trol his emotion.
"Row did you come here?'
her at length.
"Here? to HariIford, do
Lady Lessiter is an old frim
she persuaded me to pay h
I had business in town, or I
have come. I shall go awe
row." Then, finding that b
speak, she added softly-.
'I saw you when you cam
ice -the light of your banter
00 your face -so I came out
"You ran away tem me, y
he said a little bitterly.
"'Well -yes, if you like to
she answorocl with a half la
"fs my presence Leen so ut
ful to you?"
"Oh, no, no! pray do not
stand me."
"And yet you avoid me I"
n. gentler voice. "Why did yi
slyer 1ny letter? Wily, afte
Inc the books, hive you never
any other token of your gbc
"It wns all I could do for
murmured.
All ? Oh, if you only kne'
you could do for mal I le
you would troll inc. Madame d
you would tell nee to do as
done -to learn to love literate
my scut with the noble 527in
ere, to live to improve and t
my mind, to create a world o
for myself, and content my
my own creation -as you h
Thnt is your weed -it is a
theory "
"Nayit is more than a
is a Mei," she broke in quid
"Granted then, it. 1s a fam
than you can live for your m
But: man is not all made of
woman either, for the mattes
Where in your scheme of emit
our heart's best afferitione 1t
Can all the wisdom of the Iv'.
that was ever written give
of real happiness to the soul
must know yourself that it
"Foolish boy, did T ever tel]
it could? She raised her
looked up at him; some far
from the pale starlight fell
beanby, upon the smile with
eyes mot his. "3 did not p.
0000d to you its a Panacea ft
evils of life, only as a 1681104
Lion when other things ha
one.
To BO Continued.
It's wonderful, tend the
man, simply marvellous 1Rev
to see that: fortune -totter ag
Don't you think meet of tiro
aro ntiinented by puroly mere
(sees? This one isn't. Just thl
being willing to go on tel
tunes at a dotter apiece, when
give Himself a ftp on a hors
ti lottery drawing and get
ingly rich Mabee of twenty -to
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of the star,
stilton, that
t rapture of
of his long
the silence
tarn fasten',
and fro as
hot in front
offrey DnnO
vivid
mimes that
upon the
of skates
from thtee
r crowd he-
could see
a dim form
less as
it, and
hat it was
a little
gather used
though'
y Y
to perfect
cloak was
literally
hood of ib
as a cove
retched out
and in her
with which
swinging
.nd her, the
de a move,
1 face him,;•
and would
t1y reached
a said, lifter
Ithough bel
vas beneath
Co take you
the Party,
o get back
almost un-
t evidently
slipped
PP a
1 -a
ht, flutter-
fashion
throbbing
within him
slight.
cried in a
e you?"
"since you
umb and
Melees and
trmed oy heart
t throb theof all at
werad him
1
r of them
no words
bine, and
rd to con-
' he. asked
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10 a visit;
Mould not
y to -mor-
e did not
on to the
n fell up;
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ne mean?" '
pub it so,"
hate-
misunder-
he said in
1u not ane
r sending
given nee
eclwill?"
you," she
v all that
2010 what.
5 Brefour,
you have
ire, to fill
gs of 0th-
cultivate
f shadows .neve:
self with
done•
heauiifui
theory, it
dy
t -a tett;
ind
mind,
C oftitle
en that I
hence are
1 be fedi
West book
one thrill
' Oh, you
cannot.'
you thnt
Mae, and
ni. gleam
upon her
vhtch her
reach 107
rr all the
console-
re failed
are<lulous
you been
tin? Yes,
a0 people
rxiQ-
trdrawings
ole of his
ling for-
he could
1 race or
beeriest-
ea' hours,
DRESSMAKERS OF JAPAN
boldlyornamental. Of the ornamen-
" tat sitches done with gaily colored
silks there is simply en infinite variety
for a capable s0ametrees wilt often in,
vent them us she goes along. icor ex-
ample, on a blue and white mutton
crepe kimono the sleeve seam will be
run up an the outside with inch -long
stitches done elth six or ten scarlet
silk threads, all put at once through
the big eye of a very fat noodle. Where
OVer the needle enter the goods by a
dexterous
n d at ent a end;not is of the tseed in
jaunty tassel of silk finishes thea job.
Just -as often as not the dressmaker
will use two needles and two separate
execthreute einaul caoioa l n snitoheami. and
would till an embroidery machine ,villitrain.
envy, and then, if it is wiehei, she will
fanoifnlly embroider the whole cos-
tomo with stItches that are as finish-
ed one side of the goods as on the
other, and that show no knots or
ragged ends.
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THE ENGLISH PILOT'S LIFE
"'
HE 'IS PRETTY WELL PAID FOE HIS
DANGERROUb WORE
elle Government Looks Atter Him Snavely
-itlt7t"'`'"( {"tnsws er 'lUeIi ewes anti
Their A'ertlei{111r ReerleCN.
"Tho pilot is a chapter in surprises
when you come to investigate him,"
says Leonard W, Li1l1ngston, writing
on "" The English Pilot," in Good Words,
"Elie home isnot the rolling deep; he
spends as much time in the railway
And the men at the top of the
Profession, make as much as $1,000 a
year,
.A pilot, who is a pilot, is so by exam-
enation, the writer internee us. It 'Ls
true that the unlicensed bruin or bob-
bler plies in underhand ways for hire,
but he has no recognized standing-
more, he end thecae who em. him are
liable to prosecution. Broadly, a vessel
enteringasaid,
port mush have a pilot, and
the pilot must have earned the right,
in the London district, to wear the
metal button of Trinity House.
Trinity House, the writer explains,
is the nautical college or bureau of
navigation, founded in the time of
Henry VIII., and having in °barge the
lighting of the coast and the regulation
of pilots,
The classification of the pilot is a
little intricate There are inward p11-
ots and outward pilots, North Chan-
nel and South Channel pilots, exempt
pilots and choice ,lots.
THE CHOICE PILOT
is at the top of the profession, and if
lucky mny make his $4,000 a year. He
is chosen by Lhegreat steamship °one-
p3
Ponies to take charge of their vessels
only. From exceptional skill or 0th-
0r personal reasons, he thus gets all
the best work, that is the biggest vas-
gs
sets and the longest distances -the
charges are regulated by the draught
of the vessel and the distance. The
chief reason for the existence of the
choice pilot is time saving. An ocean
greyhound cannot afford to lie to at
the pilot station till a man is avail-
able to take her in. So the choice
pilot trains to' Plymouth or Falmouth,
where the vessel touches to land malls
or passengers, goes on board, and she
can then steam into port without stop-
ping. For pilotage, with a few exoep
tion, is compulsory. Before 1880 thea
choice pilot could take one vessel out
and bring ',ocher beak; and there were
men among them earning more than
$0,000, a year. This state of things
wile so obviously unfair to the ordin-
ary pilot that a regulation was made
inhibiting men from asking charge on
"outward" and "inward vase
vela. Tbere are choice pilots at most
of the important ports.
The " exempt" pilot takes vessels ex-
empted from compulsory pilotage. Thep
are chiefly boats engaged in the North
Channel coasting trade, and must have
on board a captain or mate with epi]-
certificate, which, however, ap-
pears to be no guarantee of efficiency,
or there would bo no need for the "ex-
empt." North andGouthChannei pilots
take out and bring in vessels on the
North and South Roads respectively.
Orfordnees is the pilot station on the
north const, Dungeness on the south,
THE INWARD PILOT
starts from either of these Pointe and
goes as far as Gravesend, the outward
pilot starts from Gravesend. Leach neon
returns by train to his staring point.
Prom Gravesend to London Bridge es
the domain of the river pilot.
The heat eni w1101 the pilot goes out
to seek 1118 customers varies a.ccord-
ing to the needs of the °oast and thea
demand for his services. The steam
cutters which ply cif Dungeness are
the best type, the cobles o£ bhe Tyne
the worst. They? ble is only twenty
feet long by fifeet wide. It has
no deck, so that those on board are
exposed to all the fury of the weather,
The Liverpool sahoonars are fine .sea-
worthy vessels. The largest ports are
served chiefly by cutters. 'At holy-
head and on the Clyde they have lug-
sailed boats, while at Greenock and
Hartlepool they have tugs.
There are rather more than 9,000 pit-
ots on active service; each man is well
known to the authorities. The conler-
ment of a ;loans° involves the regis-
tration of the moet intimate details
as to height, complexion; weight and
general appearance.
The headquarters for the port of
London are at Gravesend, Sometimes
400 vessels pass there in a month, and
sixty will at one time be waiting to
come le,
pilot
The vessel. a lotflies ajack
at the foremast during the day, end
burns a blue light at night. The pilot
flag is blue and white, though on
some parts of the toast each man car-
risa in addition a distinctive firm of
his • own, Men on the station can tell
the name of a vesseltop
BY ITS WBTSTIr,
Ono has a note of plainl:iva melancholy,
a fonxth yaps like a dog, 811 and so on.
The pilot is in some sense a govern-
ment: official fez Trinity House is not
the irrosponsiblo authority lb svasonco,
hilt ie mysteriously related to the board
of trade, Should war break out the
Trinity Howse man's service8 can be
and. have been, requisttionod, The
Channel Squadron is supposed to know
its way about, and (0 not allowed to
talte pilots on board. Foreign man -of-
may enter English porta without
a pilot, /remover, they may have the
standees of a pilot if they want one,
and they often do,
. It is a venturesome coiling, end to
follow it one a spirit must be townie
0d with the joy of the flowing sen and
the wind that: follows fast. The intro- in
duotion of steam, with the increase of
and speed and in the slam of
the vesaeis, lane added greatly bo t:ha
risks. The pilot boats must Iso to on
the truck of the vessels to be of any
service, and collisions are only avert,
by continual vi fiance, Boarding
g ng
and � landing are equally 1arSlnuv,
1
foardL�g a yOsseI in ,a gale bf wind'
bus often to be faead. Lending in a
heavy tea is still more dangerous, for
pilot must often take his 01lnnee
of ally boat, seaworthy or not, ivloh spoke
veiI1 take thorn to shore. 8o
I'UNNIGAA14IS.
Proaohlaiglr-1)b you think 1 exhaust.
ed the subject in my sermon 4 Peach -
IMO -Well -or -I don't see bow it
could have eaaap0d,
Mrs. Ncwed-.-Was I nervous, dear,.
during the ceremony? Het' Friend-,
Well, a trifle at first, darling, but not
after William had said "yes"
He -He that courts and runs away,
wilt live to court another day. Sim-
But he that c0u1'18 and does not wed
may find himself in court instead.
eVbat is the brink of tear, pa? The
brink of war Well, it is the feeling
which emus to exist all the time be-
twee', Bridget and your mother.
Drawing the Line, - I asked the
tramp why he never took a bath.
What did he say? Said he was 'Lop
proud to beg for soap.
A servant girl in a Birininglinm
family was taken to Lack for over+
sleeping herself. (Well, ma'am, she
very slow, and g St takes
T losleng
me a Jong time to get ma night's rasa,
De T. -How startling are statistics;
we drank seventy million gallons of
whiskey last year: Mrs. De T. -Speak -
for yourself, please; you know, I neve)
touched a drop of it.
Mrs. Youngish -0b, Bob, what shall
I do? Baby is crying because I won't
let trim pull all the fur off my ne44.
muff. Mr. Youngish -Well, that's all
right, Give him the eat!
The Effects of War. -Johnny, undex•
Heath -I've got ernuff I Let me up, will
yer1 Eddie, on top -If yer'll gimme
Jacky, 1 an ten marbles far as
iperndemnity,
indemnSty, T'll declare peace.
. Mallaby-Bragleigh boasts that nt'
living man could forge bis name sue,
easefully to a ehebk and get it casbbd,
Has he such a very peculiar an'L an
Hmm�ns-Na. Slut be hasn't any.
honk amount,
Mrs. O'Rourke -They say the McFad,
dens is puttee' on p ilea of airs lately,
IVlrs. Nolan -Yrs, they are gittin' into
high society. Their boy olfe has been:
bireddby wan of them golfers for a
caddy,
Wasted. -This is not the ordinal
campaign, cigar, Dennis. These are
ten -centers, straight. Take ahandful,.
Thanky, Mr, Outfort, I'd vote fur you
if T voted fur anybody, but I fuof
to register.
The ;Art of Silence -How queer 1
Somebody has written a book on How
to Listen to Musio. 'What's queer
about that? \Thy, what the world
neods is a bnok on How to Get Othex
People Listen to mune,
HSs Wife -Why don't you go to the
doctor and find out just what you
ought to eat and what you ought to
avoid ? Dyspepbio--Oh I know all that
now. I ought to eat everything 1 don't
like and aroid everything I do.
Cook, said Mrs. Hotess, solemnly, at
the eleventh hour., we have forgot. ten
all about the entrees. i And cook, in
her excitement, res pnnd°d with: Loi',
fublundei headed idiots, may Invso we have 1 It we ain't a er
Dab to meth a thing, said Uncle Eben,
09 too much fo'sigbt, Soma folks gits
ter figgerin' so h:ihd on what might
happen year aft uh Hex' dal day lets de
fire go out and catches dah def o'cold
right wham day sits.
Far Worse.-Sniggloton-l'm in Lrou-
ble-My landlady told me I'd have to
settle up or leave, Giggleton- Why,
you're in luck, old fallow, I'm In a
worse fix than that. My landlady told
me I'd have to settle up before I could
leave.
Two of a Kind. -Husband, ab the
breakfast -table -Oh, for soma of the bis -
Quits my mother used to make Wife,
sweetly -Pm sorry you haven't got
them, dear. They would bo just about
stale enough by this time to go well
with that remark.
Dere Green. --1 hear that Sarah Jun -
eon is going to get a divorce from her
husband, Mrs. Brown -Yes; and Idon't:
blame her one mite. He's a monster.
Would you believe it, he actually used
one of her golf sleeks for a poker the
other morning?
Chance to Get a Best. - Timmins
do you lrnow anything about literu-
lure? No. Rnow anything about ort?
Nothing, Know anything about:
music'? Not a rap, ixootll Como over I.c
my room, pith out a pie, and let's on -
joy oure0lves..
Williamson -I hear Tagman was se
drunk last night hot sev0ral of you
fellows bad to take him home on a
shutter, Did his wife think ho was
dead 0 Henderson -Ste° must. have. She
was certainly laying him out when we
left,
In Path -la -Chaise, Paris,there is a
tombstone bearingat the the tn-
ecrrption; Adele Ronald, 1840. I await
you. Underneath is, Louis Ronald.
1881. Isere 1 m, Some youngster lin'
scribbled at the bottom the the cent•
pithy
,°ism, He Look his time.
Mrs Fowler So u
you hove been Lo
sit up with tt sick .man, chi? John
Fowler, can you look me in the fnae
and say that? Tvl;r.:I Pwler-1V1) of
course t csan, Nettie. Whin do you
take Inc for -for oat an ordinary ,
etnaLeur liar0 J y
!Utterly Obtuse, -- That there city
husbands of Minnie's, said, the Innocent
olcl man with the,
n c erewhgoers, is nay of
the plebattnlu•>L fellers got'. ,1213 I
hadn't been e:el.lin' ahattin' in his of-
fico with 'lm more 'u a quarter hour
"turas 11e, told en0 three time to come
and see 'ins again,
ROmaa;knbl0 Coincidence..- So mellow
len awfully stupid t.omight, remark-
ed y00ng Bcu•une, languidly, the other
eveeing.. lrideed you aro, retorted
Miss Cutting, somewhat iinpuisive.ly„
Dee you renll 7 mean
y y (lint? arch the
you', more in surpriao• I merely s.
g only just
dorsad your remarks; didn't you juin
now itemert that you were stupsid? she
queried, Yee, but. 1 only said 10 ill( )i-
out thinking. And op to the thee you
of St, she recited, 'i only thought
wibbotiti saying it.
There aro ladies' tailors in Japan,
but they arm chiefly patronized by the
I giddy Geisha girls, for wonesu of any
I srxiittl etancUng wbttsoever place the
destinies of their wardrobes exclusive
ly in the bands of aeamstressee who
oome to the house The Japanese sew-
ing woman, however, bears fortunate-
I ly no resemblanc0 in her methods to
� those cold-blooded butchers of time and
� good material who are known mad
feared in this country. One and all
the little •jobbing seamstresses are
modest artiste in their way, and near
ly every ono is the graduate o£ a
sewing 80hool of good standing.
The memarq of Japan hardly extends
back to a time when there were not
excellent sowing schools in the country
but of recent years only have the wo-
men learned to use thimbles and know
the delights of razor-edged shears usploy
manufactured in and exported from
Europe or America. When sewin 6
machines were first introduced from
the states they made a vast flutter in
the sewing schools and in private fam-
Wee. The little Japanese women
even now are rather timid about us-
flim them, and a lady who dresses real-
lY well will simply refuse to have bar
pretty frocks made other than by
hand..
The machines are well enough if you
intend to wear European clothes, and
ten years ago the Japanese women
welcomed the tight, heavy Europeanabout
dress with an enthusiasm that threat-
enod to make the kimono a retie of the
past. This fad for 'Western fashions
is every year losing ite hold on the
feminine mind in Japan, and the win
men are very wisely going back to
their own simple, comfortable and
beaetifui mode of dress.
When you want a sewing woman in
Japan you do not advertise for her or
look out for a sign on house wails.
She is found by requesting her address
of a friend. The briend is sure to
know of an expert who will come to
p
your house with all her utensils and
sew from sunrise to sunset for 25o. The
25c is asked for making cotton dresses,
mended for sewing on silk. Among
the tools of her profession the seams-
tress carries a book of fashion plates,
whioh 1s just as explicit in details of
cut and color combinations as the
plates published In Paris or New
York. From an artistic standpoint
these Japanese fashion plates are far
ahead of anything one sees even 1n
Prance, just as the designs on their
cotton crepes are little masterpieces,
and their dyes are absolutely clear af-
ter the fabrio has been washed and
worn to rags.
Contrary to our custom, there is no
=tolling of samples in Japan. When
the seamstress comes she spreads out
her fashion book to its fullest extent
and then when a selection is made
somebody goes off and shops, for cot-
ton thread, sewing silk and the like,
and the sewing woman measures her
eer ere forgownsw ns by means of a
qut
Cul ting out goes on on the floor, and
it takes from one to three days tootege
make a gown. One fitting is only ex-
acted, and in ,japan there are rarely
any scraps left over. It requires ex-
nutty twelve yards of 19 inch wide
goods to m
make a lady a complete suit,
so with exquisite thrift the manufee-
turer of fabrics outs his cloth into
dress patterns to just that amount,
and by using straight lengths teary
dressmaker contrives not to waste an
leach.
This sensible arrangement, ofcoiuse,
would be impossible, if, as with us, the
nut of garments varied every season.
In Japan no such -fickle and foolish ex-
travagaece is countenanced. The shape
of women's garments scarcely varies
by e. hair's breadth from year to year,
but the patterns used in decorating
cotton and silk goods changes with
nearly every bolt. After a few dress
lengths have been printed off in the
factory, a new design is made, a new
combination of colors brought about,
and in cottsegteence of her spring and
fall dressmaking any woman has act-
ually hundreds of exquisite designs to
choose from without the least fear of
wearing the same pattern as that ebbs-
on by a dozen other feminine friends.
The same rule holds good with re-
gond to the embroidered silks and
crepes, and, moreover, there is an op-
portunity to display a deal of good
taste and knowledge of etiquette in
your choice of a pattern, Designs fn
Japan aro made and especially ap-
proved for the sole benefit of
and unmarried woman, and young
y
means co oo theyesume 10 (appear ti in
decor
warmed women or for elder; r Young
Y
Go subtle aro these distinctions in
patterns that: foreigners rarely or
nave: learn all the .ramifications of
of all
i dross but
etiquettestones.
the fact is, neverLholosa, that actors
beret presume
laymfolk, adopt tGs sums girls
adopt especially ornamant0d fabrics as.
their own. As nearly as it is noes[-
ble to define the iffeeeees, it can
bo safely asstimod that ver Y yOnnQ
ladies don't pretend to wear stripes
and dots. Gay flower patterns are
made for LheSr use, while on the actor's
robes appear whole scenes, animals,
tableaux and landscapes. The Get.
she, wear flowered dresses, too, but the
distribution and colors of the blooms
aa•e quite tliffermnt from the same
blossoms on a young lady's gown. Eld-
erly persons generally effect solid col-
ors, unrelieved by printed or embroid-
ored frivolities, and In Japan the mostwar
important factor in good dressmaking
is the stitching.
The little seamstress, who curls up
comfortably on the floor in the midst
of 1100 work, Is ,just as faithful a dia.
55minater of gossip as her Canadian
prototype, her needle is an unusually
long steel affair, with a round, 618 Ln
the end, and her etitches are not sotraffic
varied as Ours, She does not fill,
backstitch, or overhand, Because of
the exceeding looseness of the iambi-
ins ggermente in Japan, close, strong
etitsbing is not necessary, for no
strain toile oh any of the seams, and
running and hemming a long and
rabbet loose stitch is taken,
?Mete coarse thread Le used in all
general sowing, and the object is 10
Med1)
make stLtehee almost Mediate on the
exteethe of it garment or to male theme
THE RETIRED BUAGLAA'
len llilncnitten on Once ,tore miming trip
tae Ordtnery ways er etre.
""For a long time after I had giv-
en up business," said the retired burg-
lar, "I had great diffioulty •in mom-
modating myself to the ordinary con-
ditions of life. Settee to me T told you
mace something about that, how I
couldn't got into the habit of eating
and sleeping at the hours of Mbar pec-
ple, and I had difficulty in getting
back in o't.her ways, too, so strong is the
force of habit.
"There were some curious things
this that might never occur to
You at alt. For instance, in those days,
if I came home tale at night, that is,
at the hour at which formerly 1 had
gone into other people's houses, Inev-
er went in at my front door; I need
tb go in at a cellar window. This was
bad; it was like a man who had aesoly-
ed to quit drinking taking a drink 00-
oasionally ; he is in constant danger
of falling back into old habits; but
it didn't seem to me that I could break
off all at once. And then I made at
easy for myself, too, When I locked
up the cellar nights I used to leave a
cellar window unfastened so that it
was perfeatly easy for me to get In.
But one night,• ur one morning ra-
ther, about 2 o'clock, when I got exound
to that window, I found it fastened,
and 1 knew well enough what had
happened. My wife lia.d a perfect her -
ror of burglars, and 1 knew she mustg
have been around the cellar alter me
and seen the window unfastened and
turned the buttons. Bat that was no
Impediment tto nee ; it made me laugh
to myself to think how easy it was,
and 1 opened the window and slid in
as usual.
"Besides having a horror of burg-
tars my wife was great on pickles and
preserves end jellies and that sorb of
thing, wheen. she used to put up her-
self and Nem down cellar on a hang-
i hsus suspended side apieoes 311.00 bnnil-
plankboth
ed to the floor beams overhead. I don't
know how I did S1 -as a general thing
we never do know how eve come to
do things -but when T slid in that
I ivthis �n denot ier of falrned in ling, and and I threw so
g
self
and my hand arm hell the end oto save fthat
shelf -I'd often said it was too near
the window and the first thing she
knew somebody'd came along and clean
it allalAsenough
over the board. And the It
f it that I naked that sport
cwan y
the shelf free from its support and
pulled it down, and the bottles and
ars went slam -scattering down on
J g
the sellar bottom -noel I went down
among 'em, ,
"Somehow I managed to cut myself
up pretty bad on the broken glass,
and I was pretty well used up other-
wise. The upshot of thea experience
wee that I stayed in the house six
weeks to repair damages, and as a
mutter oe fact that did mora to bring
me beak to the ways of other. people
than anything else. I was half help-
less at first, and I gradually became
accustomed to the }habits of the house.
By the time 1 wee able to go out again,
indeed, 1 bad quite fallen into the or-
denary ways and hmtes,of living, I got
up ween other people did anal came
iii coaly nights, and came in with a
night key instead of a jimmy, just as
natural as could be"
' IT IS A 1I,EAL FORTRESS.
The monastery of Solovetsk, in Arch-
angel, Russia, is inclosed on every side
by a wall of granite bowlders, measur-
Sng nearly a rade in circumference, and
is the best protected in lice world. The
monastery itself is very strongly for-
tilled, being supported by round and
square towers about 80 feat in height,
with walls 20 feet ie thickness. The
monastery oonsiets in realityof ellewanting
churches, which are eon/Amen, filled
with statues of all kinds and precious
Upon the walls and the towers
surrounding these oleurohes are mount-
ed huge guns, which in the tine° of the
ttrimean liar ex dietee d lignin 1
the British White Sea Squadron. T.he
monks who inhabited (110 monastery at
that time mnrohed in procession on
the granite wails while the shells were
flying over their heads, to prove how
the faured the attack it theg
y
Brinell fleet, Ten thousand pilgrims
come annually to Solovetsk from II
rind the relics, 'hey are convoyed in
parts of Russia to view the churches
steamers commanded and manned sole-
ly by monks.
1 11t1PE GtTN"S ,CHANGING FACE.
For many, yours careful .,drawings
of the shifting spots seen on the face
of the sun have been made at Kew
Observatory near London. This year
it liar been decided to ktSsatntinue
these streb0bes which were made by
bend, on lm000unt of elle great pro-
gross recently acoograpI a in Solar
pliotogrmphy. PHotograpls of the sun,
whial are taken every fair day, at ver-
lone observatories, prosect rt more
complete record of old, Sol's changes
c h ed
tan the moat careful
f wi me (mild
swin s ecoid 80,
dx g
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Tenenrizing-Culler, by Way tit
et -
troduetion, briskly -1 am a bill collect- the
or•• -Mr, Ten Weeklybones-.Ah I -is it a'
mania with you, er merely It fade,,