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THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY.
CHAPTER XXV,-Continued, girl, he will forgive my husband, Do
"Conte here and sit down," she said,
seeing the change in his fee with a
small sad smile upon her lips, and he
obeyed her. meekly,
"Had she not always bean In the
right?" he said to .himself, and then
in some fashion he became all at once
eonvineed that even in this thing that
ehe told him to do she must also, of
necessity, be wiser than he was.
She allowed him to take her hand,
and he held it In both his own with
a reverent tenderness.
"Yes, Geoffrey," she said very quiet-
ly, and with all her old manner—the
manner of a sovereign to a subject—
which always had the same absolute
effect upon him. "Yes, you have guess-
ed rightly; your uncle has spoken to
me about it. 1Be wishes it no doubt
above all things, and his wishes are
entitled to a great deal of respect from
you; for your whole future career is
in his hands, and he is disposed to treat
you with a great deal of generosity
and liberality."
And for wordty advancement, you
would advise me--" he broke in em-
phatically.
She smiled and held up her finger.
"Please listen to me. Wordly ad-
vancement is not at all a contempti-
ble thing, let me tell you. When you
are a few years older you will under-
stand this better, no doubt, than you
do now. At present you are blinded
to the relative value of things. Your
love for me is but a madness—Hueht
do not interrupt me, I know all that
you would say. and I do not desire to
hear it. I tell you that it is a mad -
nem, and madness Is, no doubt, a
tangible and actual reality to persons
wbo are mad, as you—well, I own it, as
we are. We bare dreamt for one
brief moment an impossible dream of
such a degree of happiness as never.
never can be fulfilled upon earth. In-
stead of that delirium of a vain delight,
we have got something quite differ-
ent to do with our lives, you as well
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you pee? Do you understand? He
will give bim a free pardon; it will
be written, so that there will be no
mistake about it, and properly signed
and witnessed, Re will give this to
me the day that Angel Halliday
promises to be your wife. Her promise
will save me, will save my father; we
shall have no more of terrors by day
and by night, of secret journeyings
backwards and forwards, of guilty
fears, of horrible forebodings of eine-
er; there will be no more hidings in
dark corners, for Leon will be a free
man, the load of his sins will be taken
off bim, and the constant prayer of
the old man that he may be united to
hie son in peace and forgiveness ere
he die will be granted to him. 1)0 you
not see what all this will be to me?
and what your marriage will do for
me?"
She spoke hurriedly and feverishly
—almost hysterically. She was so
afraid of Herself, so afraid that ehe
might betray too much, and so fail
in that which she had set herself to
accomplish. In this picture which she
had drawn of pardon and reunion she
was fearful lest she should by word,
or even by a look, allow him to dis-
cover how far more terrible to her
would be the family life which would
be her inevitable fate than all the
terrors which she would have escaped
—the daily, hourly presence of the
creature whom she abhored, and who
was tied to her by a bond that nothing
could break or sever save death. If
Geoffrey were to guess at but a tenth
part of the strong loathing and die -
gust which filled her soul at the bare
thought of what lay before her, her
pleadings, she knew, would be all
thrown away. But Rose was a good
actress, .All women who hold their
own in this world of snares and pit-
falls are bound to be more so or less,
and a hard necessity with her had
fostered to the utmost this power of
concealment and pretence. In all that
as I, Geoffrey. I have my work, you she Put before him, of a life for her
know what it is, and where it lies, of passible peace and freedom from
and you have yours. There is, anxiety, Geoffrey saw no crape of that
if you would only believe be it, whieh she was most desirous to hide
a good and happy future from him, It only seemed to him she
before you; I don't say that the good-
was
herlsake him
osacrifido me his something
ecin
nese will be very apparent at first, or order to brie
that the happiness will be very ea- g Pease to hers. To a
travagant, but if you do that which nature such as Geoffrey's—chivalrous
is right, and turn your beak on that and highly strung—there could be
which is evil, both the goodness and but one answer to such an appeal.
the happiness will be revealed to you Long ago he had told her that his life
in time." was her to do with it as she willed.
"And you call it right to desert the He Had given himself—his "self" in
woman I love, and to trick an inno- its better and higher sense—absolutely
woman to whom I am absolutely to her, and Geoffrey" was of ton gen-
centindifeerent into a marriage that must erous a nature to take baok his gifts.
be to me an empty mockeryl" he cried. He certainly lived several hundreds of
"Your arguments do not convince me, years too late -this poor young hero
Rose." of mine. In the Nineteenth Century,
"I have not finished my arguments chivalry and self-sacrifice are some -
yet," she enswered quietly, with a what old fashioned and out of date.
little smile, and even as she spoke there We do not even respect these things
came back to her memory that scene over much nowadays, They are neck -
upon the river, the boat flashing by onad of 30 account, in this hurrying,
In the sun, with the girls in their white bustling practical life of ours, Rather
dresses, with the man she Iceed at are we inclined to laugh at that
their feet; and she knew, with that which our ancestors revered, and an
iunate knowledge of human nature action of self-denial which, in the days
which life had given to her, that, but of the "knights of old," would have
for herself, Geoffrey would have loved aroused a perfect storm of enthusiasm
Anger Halliday, and that "absolute in- and admiration, can gain no better
difference" was by no means the feel- tribute from us than a pitying smile,
ing in his mind towards her. 'listen no more exalted praise than that
to me a little Ionger. Angel Halliday demnatory word "Quixotic I" s
is a good girl, she is a beautiful girl, Geoffrey Dane should nave changed
and—she loves you." It cost her a places with a certain animator of bis
great deal to say this, but when one who flourished, in the days of Ring
1, working hard to cut away one's heart Edward the First, of glorious memory.
out of one's body, a few sharper thrusts Then he would have been a very
of the knife go for little. She meant Paladin of all knightly and heroin
to plead Angel's cause, and she pleaded virtues; now, he is only, I bear, a
it in the very hest manner that she foolish young man with an ex -
knew. To a man of Geoffrey's age and aggerated idea of the high -
temperament, it ie next to impossible er beadings of the soul, and an over -
that the conviction of the affection of weening and altogether unreasonable
a charming and lovely girl can bring sensitiveness to the lull meaning of
^no quickening of the pulses, no dawn- that oft -quoted, but little understood
ing sentiment of interest and of French proverb, which stands at the
gratification. She had calculated head of this chapter. And so, when
Tightly-. inhere arose a slight flush in he understood exactly what it was
Geoffrey's face, and his eyes sought that hie Queen asked of him, it no
the ground. The sigh that arose in longer occurred to this " preux cheva-
her heart as she watched him, died lier" of another generation to question
away ere it passed her lips. He never her decrees or to rebel against her
heard it. }lose de Brefour knew well orders. Thus and thus, be was to serve
that et seven -and -twenty a man has her, and thue truly, should she be
seldom seen the only love in his life. served.
It may never be quite the same a Since lria lady -love was held in bon -
second time, but he will certainly love dage by cruel and relentless chains
again if his first desire is doomed to which she was unable to burst, since
perish. It' was this thought that sus- she could not in truth and deed be his
tamed her chiefly, the thought that very own, as in his wild untutored
be would outlive the evil which she heart he had for one mad moment as -
had brought him and be happy in pired that she should be, then it only
time in another and more wholesome remained for him to turn hie life in
affection. "Well, then there is another such a way that he could best bright -
view of the subject which I have yet en and comfort hers, best prove his
to put before you," she continued. "Do own faith and truth to her.
you know that, if you marry this girl, More than an hour passed away af-
a very great and a very substantial ter that before he left her, an hour
benefit will accrue to me and to my in wbioh the sun went down, down be -
poor old father?" neeth gold -tinted Moeda into the
Re lifted hie eyes In pure astonish- blackness of tbe earth which he de-
ment. serted, and the sober dusk crept up,
'Yes, for Mr. Inane has discovered filling the garden with vague Delete
lately that my unhappy husband is and shadows,
still alive, and, mot perhaps altogether What they said during that sad
unreasonably, he thinks that be ought hour; what tears were shed, wbat last
to be brought to justice for bis old words were spoken, between these two
sin. You understand what that means, who parted in the darkening evening
Geoffrey? Publicity, exposure, die- as those who part for ever in this world
grape .and shame to usl All the old it boots not here to relate. Once more
miserable story of erime and fraud kneeling at her feet he was permitt-
dragged to light again and made the ed to draw her face down upon his tear-
subject of mamma talk in the daily stained cheek, to press Ins lips once
papers. they share in the concealment again upon hers; but le this kiss there
of the criminal would, no doubt, be was no gladness of fulfilled longing,
made much of; it is even possible also no rapture of earthly passion. It was
that that poor helpless old man might the kiss of an eternal farewell.
be dragged into a public court to tell. The damp dews of night were falling
all he knows against his own still loved thickly about them es he rose 'at last,
son. Ahl" she cried, striking her hands half delirious, from his knees, and
passionately together, whilst tears ot wrenched bit hands out of hers. There
an tiisL
a g nt the picture she had' eon- was no word spoken between them at
jured up filled her eyes, "'sooner than the last; no tender " good-bye," no
allow such a thing to take place, I Whispered ' good night." Ho only
Would diel sada an overpowering dis-
grace Would be the cruellest torture
that it would be possible to inflict up-
oie hfmi"
"It could act take place!" cried
Geoffrey excitedly. "Such an an-
psra toted cruoity and persecution
would be the vengeance not of a man,
but of a devil, My nada will never
do 11,e
"No," site answered with a sudden
Calmness, "'he will not, do it, Geoffrey,
because yob will save me item act awful
e eatastrophel'"
"T?" lee repeated blankly, Ile dpi not
;tot understand,
,'Tee, yottl becAnse if yeti marry r r
y y he
Lineable people who never fail to ful-
fil all the eame social obligations of
life which (Mtn and decorum demand
of so many of us in vain,
It wee as a matter of course, there -
tole, that being within so short a dis-
tenoe of tome, she should betake 1ier-
self to Cromwell toad to pay her re-
ePeots to tier aunt, Mrs. Matthew
Dane.
She oboe() the lunobeon hour for
her visit as offering a greater certain-
ty of finding her aunt at hums, and
fortune certainly befriended her that
day for her uncle also was in, having
been detained In his own house by a
slight touch of a foe whom not all his
cleverness could circumvent, and
which was apt at times to assert its
power over him in an autocratic fash-
ion.
This enemy was the gout.
Mr. Dane sat in an easy chair in
the dining -room, with Itis foot swath -
side him,
ed iu bandages upon a leg -rest ; n small
table with bis luncheon tray was be -
and be was in a very bad
temper.
11.0 held out two fingers to bis niece.
" Hullo 1 I'lorence is it t Dear me, who
would have thought of seeing you.
Come up to look out for a husband in
London, eh ?"
Florence's Dolour rose,
" Husbands are not muoh in my
line, uncle, she answered shortly.
Mr. Dane chuckled. He had a curi-
ous appreeiation of beauty and come-
liness, and a woman irbo was not pret-
ty received but scanty civility at his
hands.
Re looked his niece over expressively
from head to foot.
Humph 1—no ; I don't suppose they
are. The men will run after beauty
you know, my dear 1 You are of the
good, plain and useful sort," and then
he chuckled again.
Mrs. Dane endeavored to salve over
her husband's rudeness.
"Ste down here, Florence, my dear.
Won't you unfasten your jacket?
What will you have, a outlet or some
chicken curry? And how did you
leave your father and sisters?" Then,
as she helped her to some food, bring-
ing the plate round herself to set be-
fore her, she whispered: "Don't mind
what your Duple says my dear, he is
not qutte himself to -day; his foot is
so painful, it always makes bim cross."
And Florence made matters worse
for herself by immediately inquiring
after his gout."
"Oh1 you are very kind," he an-
swered sarcastically. "I am not go-
ing to die of it yet, thank you."
And he turned round and glared at
her fiercely, Fe that Florence did not
venture to address him again.
The luncheon progressed with some
embarrassment. Mrs, Dane looked
frightened and uncomfortable; it was
always a black -letter day to her wben,
by some evil chance, her tormentor did
not go Into the city—it gave her no
rest either by day or by night. If
she had been alone with Florence, she
could have got on well enough, but it
was difficult to make conversation
with that angry, scowling man sitting
by, watching every mouthful they ate,
and listeuing to every word that they
spoke.
A sort of desultory talk went on be-
tween the two ladies, however, by fit's
and starts. Florence told her aunt
where she was staying, and all about
her friend and her baby, gave her the
required information concerning the
health of her family, and volunteered
a good many somewhat uninteresting
details anent the parish and poor peo-
ple of Coddisham.
From the poor she progressed to the
rich, and made the usual complaint
that is invariably to be heard upon the
lips of all country folk, from whatso-
ever county of England they bail.
"But it is a very bad neighborhood,
aunt Jane. It doesn't muoh matter to
me, because I have so much work to
do, but when my younger sisters Dome
out, 1 am afraid they will find it very
dull There are very few tennis par-
ties in the summer, and fewer dinner
parties; and as to a ball, there has not
been such a thing known for two
years."
How is that?" enquired Mrs. Dane
politely. "I thought it was a hunting
county."
"Well, so it is; but we are at the
wrong side of it for any of the fun in
the winter, and of course in the sum-
mer it is a desert. There are no less
than six empty houses within four.
miles of Coddisham, without counting
a small house that bas sometimes been
tenanted by nine people in Coddiaham
ltseif,"
So far FIorence had progressed when
she was suddenly interrupted by a
question from her uncle.
"Have you seen your brother dime
you have been at Riverside?" he
asked.
"He has not been to see me," she re-
plied somewhat pointedly, "although I
certainly did get a glimpse of him two
—no it was three—days ago."
"What the devil bas become of him,
I want: to know?" cried the old man,
savagely, dashing his hand down vio-
lently upon his luncheon -table so that
the glasses and plates all jingled.
"Oh 1" gasped Florence, with a scared
look at the naughty word, "pray don't
use such expressions, uncle—"
"Rubbish! don't begin a sermon,
iirl! Answer my questions instead.
Where's your brotherbe hasn't been
to the office for three clays—wrote and
said he was ill—he isn't there to -day,
I've had a telegram from his fellow -
clerk, Triohet, this morning, to say so.
Where is he, I want to know? What
do you know of him?"
"I know nothing, uncle," faltered
Florence, fairly frightened by his
vehemence.
'You said you saw him?'
"Only for a minute."
"Where was it 1"
"A1 Riverside,,,
"Alai What did he say to you 1"
"Nothing."
"Nothing? Don't trifle with me,
girl -he must have said. something I"
walked dumbly away from her, stag- "indeed, uncle, he said nothing at
goring a little at the first as one think he div not speak to . was Z atdthe
he over saw mo. Zt the
station—he was $'e1Ling into the train.
I tried to stop him, but be would not
stop. Ha got into I.he train and Went
away. Ile looked agitated—he might
Imes been ill—perhaps he is ill noW "
Florence was very nearly in tears by
this time.
"I wish you would not look at me so
savagely, uncle Matthew. I am really
not aaengtatned to be eross-questioned
in this way."
He laughed gruffly, Something
made him feel mono amiable all at
CHAPTER XCS.k•VI. oriee, and he began to enjoy himself
Ti'ioren00 lane was one of those es- a little -it was evident that he could
who is dr (km With a mortal pain,
then by degrees steadier as he lamb-
ed the home, but still blinded and
dazed, with blanched face end wild
uneonstioes eyes, like a lost soul that
knows not whither it goes.
Is it any wonder that, 'numbing
against gA SIA.t h1A Don
sister upon the plat-
form, of the station, he passed herby
with a vacant, un0onseious stare, as
theugh bis eyes bad rested upon a
dratted ?
frighten this sturdy, plain-spoken lit-
tle niece of his. There was a grain
of fun to be got out of her, after all,
homely and countrified as she was.
Besides she bad told bim something be
Mid been wanting to know.
(To Be Continued.)
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Few lhnvtgrnpits Widen will oe F081141
liortlt heading.
In Pekin tile only stores that have
mak
glass erws. indows are those of the watch -
Sarno of the stylish residences now
to course of oonstruotion in New York
city aro to have gold plated plumb -
bag.
British India has the swiftest river
im the world. It is the $utlej, which
in 1811 miles has a descent of 15,000
feet
In Italy women are employed to
operate the switches at railroad arose -
lugs, because they rarely become in-
toxicated.
A legislator of Michigan favors a
law imposing an annual tax of five
dollars on every person who drinks in-
toxicants.
A now Iife boat, just approved by
the British Admiralty, parries three
metallic cylinders, into which 1,000,000
cubic feet of air can be compressed.
This amount of air will propel the
boat fifteen miles an hour for six
hours.
Au irreverent little mouse scamper-
ed down the aisle of a church in Ches-
ter, Pa., during a prayer meeting, and
the females and uproarious shouts
from the males paused a scene of great
disorder.
Some misohevious students in Win-
field, Kansas, amused themselves by
painting a farmer's pigs'a beautiful
seal brown, Then, after ornamenting
a goat with n red body and green
whiskers, tbey tied bim to a profes-
sor's bedroom door.
Poverty drove Michael Gerbriak to
the poor -house in Crawfordsville, Ind.,
and there he died. He had been mar-
ried several times, and was the father
of thirty-two living children, not one
of whom visited him during his illness,
nor attended his funeral.
Mrs. Isaac B. Mills, of Setauket, L.
I., was cleaning her gloves with gaso-
line, and they were on her hands. She
held her hands over the fire to dry the
gloves, and in an instant the gloves
were aflame, causing most painful
burns.
A business man of Stroudsburg, Pa.,
lost a pooketbook containing $800. It
was found and returned to him by the
little daughter of George Smith. The
generous -hearted owner rewarded her
with, one cent, to which he added this
advice: "Now run borne before you
lose i.t, as I did my pocketbook,"
A series ot revival meetings was in
progress in a Methodist church in
Sherman, N.Y., when the shocking dis-
covery was made that a skunk had
taken possession of a flue used for
ventilating purposes. Several plans
were tried to eject the visitor, but
without avail. Finally the animal Was
chloroformed and then removed.
A peculiar skull is possessed by
Harry Beno, aged twenty-nine, of Pen-
sacola, Fla. In the Cook County Hos-
pital, Chicago, he permitted the doc-
tors to drive an awl three-quarters of
an inch into the top of his skull. Then
he suspended a chair from the awl by
means of a handkerchief, and, bending
his head, swung the chair to and
fro.
A. curious offense caused the arrest
of Gen. Hoppe, the Swedish Minister
of War. Arrayed In military uniform,
he walked from his residence to the
palace in Stockholm, and when he
appeared before the council the King
and .his associates buret out laughing.
Instead of wearing a ooaked hat with
feathers, he had unwittingly topped
his uniform with a shiny plug bat.
While a quartette of colored vocal-
ists at Whitestone, N.J., were singing
the "Hallelujah Chorus" over the body
of John Stanton, a negro, who had
died in the Flushing Hospital, there
was a startling movement in the cof-
fin. The auditors fled in fright, some
of them leaping out of the windows.
The noise was caused by the dropping
of the wooden leg of the corpse, whjah
had been unevenly propped in the cof-
fin.
WORTH KNOWING.
A celebrated cake maker gives some
valuable suggestions on the art of cake
making: "First, I always use the best
of everything. I buy my eggs direct
from the fanner; my butter is fresh
and carefully washed and kept on ice
until I wan,'it, and flour, sugar, nuts,
flavoring, whatever I use, in fact, has
to be as good as can be found. I find
a dash of brandy, just as the cake
goes to the oven, helps Lo make it
light and also to bake more evenly. My
cakes are mixed in various ways accord-
ing to the sort I am making. The
eggs are always very cold when broken,
and whipped light in a cool place, 1
sift my flour two or three times until
it is like light snow. My idea of cake
and icing is that they should neverebe
sticky or clammy, yet always soft en-
ough to be eaten with, a. spoon,"
In cake making one should give as
much attention to baking as mixing.
After you place the cake in the oven
do not open the door for at least 18
minutes ana'then do so very cautiuue-
ly ;. a slam has caused the fall of many
a promising cake. Then, too, never let
a cake atand after it is mixed; the
oven should always be ready for bak-
ing before mixing the cake.
NOT INTENDED.
Pen -beaked says his mother-in-law
has done him a good turn at last.
Millie that?
Taken bis wife home to live With
her.
P,tY'S EGGS,
The fly lays four tinter each summer,
and 80 eggs each Unto. The decen-
dants of one female ftp in a single
50aaon may number 2,08(1,820,,
Earning a Living.
No doubt there aro in every large
city at least a thousand and probably
several thousand women who are strug-
gling along day by day, and week by
week, to keep up the ambiance) of com-
fortable respectability, while in their
pockets are purses so slender that the
ehopgirl can boast greater riches.
To go into shops and factories is an
impossibility for these ladies, because,
in the first plane shops and factories
seldom employ middle-aged women, and
secondly, the work ba too fatiguing for
those unaccustomed to it.
Now there are at leant a dozen dif-
ferent ways open to such women, and
if they will read carefully some that
are here suggested they may be able
to adapt and change thorn somewhat
to fit the circumstanoes of each indi-
vidual ease, so that not a living, but
also many of the old-time Iuxuries of
life may be obtained for her who is
willing to undertake the task of do-
ing something. Something wbioh will
be highly appreciated and well paid
for by the public at large.
The first thing that maws to a wo-
men when she finds herself thrown up-
on her own resources, is to start a
boarding house.
Now, despite the many disparagi
things enleioh are said about keeps
boarders it is really a lucrative e
ployment if one goes at it cleverl
There should be nothing haphaza
about it. Every step should be as car
fully planned before hand as thou
one were about to engage in any of
er business,
The first requisite of a good boar
Ing house is good table and good ro
service without the hiring 01 man
servants. To accomplish this, 0n
should endeavor to obtain boarders wh
ere willing to take their meals at,
about, the same hoar so that the wai
teas can attend to the table at oe
tain hours and then go about an
other work which is assigned to he
the cook can likewise double up in le
occupations, and oan perhaps do 11
laundry work for the house, providin
breakfast is entirely over by 9 o'oloc
Failing this, for one can not choos
one's boarders too olosely, there shoal
be a steam table Pox keeping food bo
—as in a hotel. It costs little.
In this way one avoids the expend
of hiring extra help. And the hour
old machinery in a smelt establish
went moves muoh more smoothly it al
an be done at one turning of th
wheel, rather than at several.
By making a few enquiries amen
nen friends and advertising economi
ally and judiciously, a boarding boos
may soon be started with a housebu
P boarders.
Next there comes the vexed questio
of buying, so as to make the table cora
Wain the limit of the sum set apar
or it, and unless the woman who pro
oses taking boarders is fairly sur
hat she le a close buyer, she wont
o wet. to put the question of boarder
ntirely aside, and turn her attentio
o something a little less difficult, an
vbich requires less experience and ie
xecutivo ability.
Starting a little fancy store in a ver
Me neighbourhood is one of the thing
highly to be recommended if a womu
handy with the needle. During he
Imre, when she is not engaged t
siting on customers, the sagacious
oman who has opened up leer littl
sop in an aristocratic neighbourhood
ay be engaged iu sewing and knit -
ng so as to add to her stock in trade.
ide from her rent, which must beut
aid in advance, the ofit for the fit-
s shop will not cost more than $100.
fast as things are sold, bringing in
eir profit, other and perhaps more
xpensive and dainty things may be
dded, until the womap, having gam -
d experience, as well as customers,
ealizes that she has established a busi-
ess which she can conduct all her life
en into the sere and yellow leaf.
Making very nice cakes, and selling
em in boxes, either to private eue-.
omers,, or .to first-class grocers, is a
ry profitable aouree of income when
e has become known. Very many
rallies would gladly leave a stand -
g order for oaks to be sent on certain
aye, and in the winter mince -pies,
ome-made crullers and New Year's
ekes may be added to the list. During
he
• second year of business the amu-
ur baker, having established enema
or doing things properly, will be re-
uested to put up the family preserves
bile her customers are out of town.
nd i1 she will pay Inc getting the
()ret of canned vegetables, ehe can
eke a great deal by putting up green
as, tomatoes, and succotash in glass
us for many people wine want eucb
ings and are willing to pay for therm.
Ah must be done. 01 first by adver-
ing and personal canvass among
e's friends, getting from them let -
re of introductioh or credentials to
hers. With never a failure to in -
rapt her success, the woman who
rause this course may find her road
easy and a satisfactory one.
Ono woman, of a most original turn
mind, found a profitable employ-
nt in embroidering night shirts for
0. The flight shirts were for Christ-
en and birthday gifts end were or -
red by the acquaintances of this ori -
nal woman. Her mode of procedure
to buy plain night shirts of good
ality, and then to embroider them
o elegance at the coat oe only &few
is in money and a few hours of
nether woman makes a specialty of
fumes, having obtained soulerocipes
first-class perfumery and sachet,,
'mien, She mattes them in great
entities and sells them in most at-
ctive form to her customers, Sachets
sewing in the lining of gowns, she
ken and tins up in, packages of half
dozen mole, and sells them for 51
package. A package constitutes a
and all of her oustomers being
I regulated women, require a net
each gown. She also makes wadded
toms for bureau drawers, end puts
her perfumes to such beautifully
bottles and jars that they sell at
hL•
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et all, things to engage in, and
that requires little outlay, is a
all oomlriiesion Mistimes, Selcat a.
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reading "Branch Dyeing Establish-
ment, adding, if possible, the name of
some firm that has a well-known repo-
Cation.
Of 0ourao, your ttltebul
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laundry work sad dyeing Must be sent
out to be done, but you can easily make
arrangements with some firm wbc
would gladly do the work for you and
allow you a very nice oommiseeon.
An express enemy may be combined
with this, and you must put in a tele -
Plume to insure prompt delivery, of
goods. Try to have your telephone
made a regular "pay station," and be
sure that you keep on band a fine
stook of postage stamps to draw trade.
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A NOTED VEGETARIAN.
Mme • Lehmann, the great prima
donna, several years ago was prostrat-
ed by a severe illness, and was off the
stage for a long time, She even des-
paired of regaining her health and of
being able to resume her career. At
that critical moment two of her friends
advised her to become a vegetarian.
She followed their advice, with most
benefiotat results. One advantage she
derives from it is theft on the days
when she sings she is not obliged to
change her diet. Here is something
that she has to say on the topic;
"The days on which I sing," said
Mme. Lehmann, "1 vary my mods of
life hardly a jot. For five years I
bays been a vegetarian. 'What a glor-
ious word for those who, like myself,
can utter 11 with such a feeling of ex-
ultation) My shattered nerves had kept
me for along time on a bed of illness.
It seemed impossible for me to recover
from attacks of heart palpitation, diz-
ziness and fainting spells,
"Finally Eugen d'Albert and Profes-
sor Rlindwoerth recommended me to
beooma a vegetarian. Though I had
a kind of mysterious repugnance to the
idea of giving up my rare beefsteak, to
which I had become accustomed, and
feared that 1 might be attacked with
weakness in consequence. I gathered
my energies together and began one
day to live only on vegetables and
fruit.
What happened? It agreed admir-
ably with me. Time. the first two
or three days T couldn't gat rid of the
idea that I didn't feel satisfied. But
by the fourth day 1 was accustomed
to it, and after a fortnight the attacks
of dizziness and fainting and heart
palpitation had ceased. I was a free
being, cured of all my troubles, which
had been playing me such bad tricks.
"In addition to this. I must not un-
derstiinate the satisfaction I feel in
knowing when 1 sit down to a, meal
that I am not eating my fellow crea-
tures, and that in order to satisfy my
appetite no harm has come to them,
and it has not been necessary to take
the lives of any of them.
Whether I sing or nut my diet re-
mains the same. 1 carry out the same
programme, and that suits me perfect-
ly. If 1 happen to be at home 1 rise
very early—at six or half -past seven
o'clock—go into my garden and work
there among my plants and flowers,
"If the weather is bad I write a
good deal. Ac half -pant; seven I drink
a glass of milk, oe.la little rye bread
and now and then some fruit.
"Usually I din, at noes, but when I
sing in the eve,uitige an hour later, I
take a plate of taiaiable or rioo soup,
then I eat a plate of vegetables. At
Cour o'clock I have a cup of milky and
at seven o'olock cat( some green- salad,
a couple of eggs or cheese. At odd in-
tervals during the day I have fruit,
Perhaps tweet:, a year I cat fish, but I
don't care for it much, and only take
it when I can find nothing else.
"With one plate of rice taken in the
afternoon I am strong enough to sing
Isolde and to stand the strain of all
the great roles which last until mid-
night.
I never touch aloobolio drinks,.
never am thirsty and I have a fine,
buoyant feeling when I am out walk-
ing. Every morning I go through
calisthenics,talk a swim when I can,
otherwise mild baths, work a great deal
in the garden and indoors. I no long-
er know what fatigue is since I've be -
ovine a vegetarian and can stead a
great deal
both!
and
bod ly,Thereforeleau 1ligLlylreoom-
mend ibis mode of life. Simple as it
is, its effect upon the soul is most
stimulating,"
USE FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS.
01d newepopers may be made to
serve as chest protectors.
Neatly cut to fit they may be worn
In the folds beneath the clothing and
the cold cannot penetrate them.
They may be sterilized by being
placed 13 an oven for a few momenta,
when they are ready for use.
Worn in the bottom of boots and
shoes they keep the feet warm and ab-
sorb moisture.
They may be utilized as leggings
placed beneath the stockings. This
style is recommended for the Klondike.
They aro aseptic and may be imme-
diately destroyed without cost or troll
bie.
Newspapers may be used as Dower-
ing by placing layers of them between
any fabric, however (sheap, and fatt-
ening Mena,by knotttn „cthrough
throe h
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A simpr,11 CODE.
Emily --Why are you waving Your
handkerchief?
,Angelina—Since papa has forbidden
Tom the house, we have arranged a
edit) of signals, g
Entity—What is it?
,Angelina—Whoa he waves his hand-
kerchief five times, that means, "7)o
you love me?" and whine I wave fran-
tieally 13 reply, it means, "Yes, dar-
ling,'
Emily --And how do you aslt other
questions?
,Angelina -Wo don't.. That's the
whole dodo.
FACTS ABOUT STOWAWAYS,
l'rrseux 11'120 meat 'their rwesi4e .lerexi'
2,h Annotto. elrenn,
"I Am not given to losing my tam-
per,' eald one captain to the writer,
"but I confess that when on one voy-
age we found no fewer than fourteen.
men had managed to etow themselves
away below, 1 felt inclined to give
them all a dunking, and said so." Tale
This was the captain of an Atlantic
liner, a man to whom the stowaway
is a perpetual nuisance..
Though the strictest watob is kept
to prevent his gelling on board, it lie
rare for trip to be made without one
or two specimens of Lhe dead. -head fra-
ternity being carried, willy nilly, free.
01 course, thio is not done entirely
without oonnivano0 on tbe part of
somebody on board the ship. The
stokers are not Infrequently the guitly
parties. With their or others' aid the
stowaway gets down into the hold and
finds a dark corner in which to secrete
himself until the vessel is at sea. If
then he is discovered, and set to work,
he does not mind. It is not work be
is afraid of, but the being without
work, and the bread that a0eompanies
it,
When it Is considered what an en-
ormous thing an Atlantic liner is, and
how many dark ,Maces there are In
her vast Interior, it is not surprising
to hear that scores of men during the
course. of a year get free passages
across the herring pond In one ship or
another—and this though the steamer
never leaves port without a search be-
ing made to ase that no unauthorized
person le on board. Many ars discov-
ered, in bunkers and other such places,
and., of course, carefully conducted
ashore., but not a few manage to elude
detection and. of course, once away
from land little is to bo feared from
discovery.
There is a curious notion prevalent
among some sailors. It is that a stow-
away is a lucky passenger to carry.
Asked once why it was, an old salt
answered that be never heard of a ship
being lost that had a stowaway on
board. 01 course, he had an instance
in point to relate. It was to the effect
that a stowaway was discovered in
hiding on an outgoing vessel at tbe
last moment and ejected. Shaking his
fist at the captain, the would-be voy-
ager cried: "I'm glad you've turned
me out of your rotten ship; neither
she nor you will live to see Christmas
day, while I shall." The prophecy
proved a true one. The yeses/ went
down within a week of calling, and
only the second offieer and a few men
were saved. •
CAUSE OF KIPLING'S POPULARITY.
Illi Iteu,arltai,le Faeallr of Appealing (e
•67) i lapses ofitt'adetx.
It has been generally suggested that
the workingman's enthusiasm for
Kipling is due to the omniscience 01
this writer of 84 years; that the soldier
reveres him for his knowledge of a
soldier's work, pleasures and woes;
that the railroad man swears by him
because he understands so well how
an engine is built; that the sailor and
the fisherman, the public school boy,
the city clerk, the meehanic, find the
fascination in his perfect acquaintance
with their life. No doubt this clinch-
es the charm, but certainly a broader
principle underlies the popularity
which the poet and fictionist pus won
with the masses. This Is that he ap-
peals to the emotional side of his read-
ers as well as to the intellectual.
A man like Matthew Arnold, be be
never so great, finds himself, perhope
with acme approval, cut off from all
but those readers in whom there is
some unusual degree" of ibtellectual
training and refinement. Kipling
masters such. readers, too, with his
Magnificent certainty of phrase and
healthful vigor, and wish his soul -
stirring dramatic faculty proceeds to
capture the rest of the world that
knows better how to feel than to think.
Doubtless, too, his brilliantly early
successes as a popular author is due
vary largely to hie choice of subjects;
to the vigorous launching of his genius
into the topic of the hour, the pres-
ent problem of the nation. Thus as
good a poem as "The White Man's Bur-
den" might easily have been unnoticed
by the world at large bad it none of
the tremendous public interest wbioh
has brought that noble utterance into
the mouths of millions of Americans.
Here Mr. Kipling has in his poetic
wont an advantage and a danger
analogous to those which are before
the lesser singers of stage topical
songs. A palpable hit is certain to
fetch the whole house; on the other
hand, the populace is expecting a hit
every time, and few performers can in-
variably meet its demands, ]lir. Rip.
ling seems to be such an inevitable
sort of a fellow that one is surprised
even to hear that he ever writes things
over twice before giving them to us,
But he assures Lbs rare and happy in.
terviewer that most of what he
writes goes into the wastebasket.
ROYAL SILVER WEDDING.
As many as three silver weddings
will be celebrated during 1899 by
reigning families of Europe. January
11, was the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the marriage of ehe Duke and
Duchess of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha.
On August 10-28,: Russian style, the
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1 has been
married for twenty-five years. a The
Grand Duchess, -neo Prinoess Marie
•P. aolovnu, eldest daughter of the Grand
Duke k'rodorick Francis IL, of Meck-
lenburg -Schwerin, was the first Prima
sea who did not/ obaage her religion
on marrying a Russian Grand
Duke, The third celubretion, which
takes pleas ob April 20, will be that of
Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, the
famous oculist, and Princess Marla
Josephs of Brnganza.
WILL SOON STRIKE TERRA FIRMA
Tho inexperienoed=--?1a says ,he oan
hardly restrain himself from falling
down and worshiping her,
Tho Rejected—Tall hint not to got
nervous; she'll theow bim down 50018
though,