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If the red squirrel is lnrllncd to de
stroy moth nests he can perhaps be
made a 'powerful ally In the work.
The Record this week secured what
seems to be confirmation of this dis
covery by a case on High street where
two red squirrels have their home.
Last year only seven nests were found
on the trees in the vicinity of th
borne of these squirrels, and this year
when the nests are twenty times as
thick In other places, only four are
found In the same trees. It would be
desirable for all who have opportunity
to observe the habits of red squirrels
to note what they have done In other
places In clearing trees of browntail
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CURED OF DROPSY,
Another Victor? (or Dona's Kldnar
Till.
J. M. Houston, 417 So. Fifth St.,
Hoopeston, 111., says: "I had been in
a critical condition
for two years. My
back was so sore and
painful I could not
turn In bed. I had
chills and hot flashes
and became so dizzy
I scarcely dare walk.
My feet and ankles
were so badly swoll
en I could not wear
my shoes nor leave the house. My
kidneys were in very bad shape, and
I had great trouble with the secre
tions. I thought my time had come.
Doan's Kidney Pills, however, cured
me and the cure has been perma
nent." Remember the name Doan'a.
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a
box.' Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. T.
"If he's not drowned or kidnaped or
devoured by animals, the shock will
kill him separated from us all! My
Joey, my " and then Mrs. Benson
became Incoherent.
Indeed, the thought of the agony
the four-year-old child must be endur
ing was harrowing. Of course, eVery
l)dy not actually In hysterica expected
the child would be found; but even
Uncle Ned was disturbed at the pic
ture of that tender little fellow, alone
In all these acres of park, lout from
all his relatives.
Finally, on tho strength of a rumor
that a "lost kid" had been carried to
the Btation house in the park, Undo
Ned hurried there, lit? found little
Joey In the most pathetic of all roles,
that of the Lost Child.
"Where have you hi en all the time?"
asked Joey, win u finally lie recognized
the existence of hln unci.;. Seated com
fortably on tho kneo of a bis polico
man, Joey was busy with a plump
' banana. Two mure bin. ' blue-coated
mi l), just' reeoverln;; ' from roars of
laughter at some remark of the Lost
Child; stood ready with more bananas
and randy.
"What did you get lusted for, mam
ma 'n everybody?" demanded Joey,
reaching for candy and Kindly sparing
time for one mildly rebuking glance
at his relative. "If you hadn't got
losted 'wfty f'om me, I'd'a" brought you
here wlv me, where all the p'llcemana
live."
Trials eC a Lecturer,
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pense. "I was," she says, "on a tour through
the provinces, and one night as I ap
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the chairman introduced me to my au
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tieard of Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old
Man. Let. mo now Introduce to you
the grand old woman.' This was In
ttcded as a sincere compliment.
'On another occasion a bluff old
farmer who boasted of his ability to
look on all sides of a question an
nounced me as follows: 'This lady's
come here to talk about her rights.
She's hired the hall herself, and to
aho's got a rl to be here, nnd if
any of you don't like what she's got
to say you've got an equal right to
wall.- cut In t middle on't.' "
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CHATTER VIII. (Continued.)
The limcstono r'ke was the same,
nd the creek wns still rushing noisily
over the stones In Us bed, as, Tom re
marked, gratefully. Hut the heaviest
of tho buffets came when the barrier
hills were passed nnd the surrey hors.'S
mndo no motion to turn In at the gate
of the old onk-BbliiKl'd house beyond
tho Iron-works.
"llol.l on!" nald Tom. "Doesn't tho
driver know where wo live?"
"That's the superintendent's office and
lab'ratory now, son. It was getting to
be tolerably noisy down here for your
mammy, so nlh to the plant. And we
allowed to s'priso you. We've been
bulldln' us a new house up on the
knoll Just this side o' Major palmcy's."
It was the crudest of the changes
the ono hardest to bear; and It drove
the boy back Into the dumb reticence
which was a part of his birthright. Had
they left him nothing by which to re
member the old days days which were
already beginning to take on the
glamour of unutterable happiness past?
Tom saw well-kept lawns, park-like
groves and pretentious country villas
where he had once trailed Nance Jane
through the "dark woods," and his
father told him the names and circum
stance of the owners ns they drove up
the pike. There was Rockwood, the
summer home of tho Stanleys, and The
Dell, owned, and Inhabited at intervals,
by Mr. Young-Dickson, of the South
Tredegar potteries. Farther along
there was Falrmount, whoso owner was
a wealthy cotton-seea ouyer; noun.
Hill, which Tom remembered as the
ancient roostlnc ground of the migra
tory winter crows; and Farnsworth
Park, ruralizing the name of its build
er. On the most commanding or irie
hillsides was a pile of rough-cut Ten
nessee marble with turrets and many
gables, rejoicing in the classic name of
Warwick Lodge. This, Tom was tobl
was the country home of Mr. Farley
himself, and the house alone had coat
a fortune.
At the turn In the pike where you
lost sight finally of tho Iron-works,
there was a new church, a miniature In
native stone of good old Stephen
Hawker's church of Morwenstow. Tom
gasped at the sight of it, and scowled
when he saw tho gilded cross on the
tower.
"Catholic!" he said. "And right here
In our valley!"
"No," said the father; "It's 'Plscopal
lan. Colonel Farley Is one o' the ves
tries, or whatever you call 'em, of St
Michael's yonder In town. I reckon he
wanted to get his own kind o' people
round him out here, so he built this
church, and they run It as a sort of a
side-show to the big church. Your
mammy always looks tho other way
when we come by."
Tom looked the other way, too,
watching anxiously for the first sight
of the now home. They reached It ,n
good time, by a graveled driveway
leading up from tho white pike between
rows of forest trees; and thero was a
second negro waiting to take tho team.
when they ullghted nt tho veranda
steps.
Tho new house was a two-storied
brick, ornate and palpably assertive,
with no suggestion of the homely coin
fort of the old. Yet, when his mother
hail wept over him In the wide hall,
and thero was tlmu to go about, taking
It all In like a cat exploring a strange
garret, It wan not no bad.
lint thero were coinpeusatlons, and
Tom discovered one of them on the
first Wednesday evening after his ar
rival. The new home was within easy
wollvlng distance of l.lttle Zour, and he
went with his mother to the prayer
nieetlng. The upper end of the pll;e waa un
ehMiigrd. and tho little, weather-beaten
church stood In Its groving of "piles,
tho same yesterday, to-day nnd for
ever. Hotter Still, the congregation, the
small Wednesday-night gathering at
ast, held the familiar faces of the
country folk. The minister was a
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oung missionary, zealously earnest,
nd lacking as yet the quality of hard-
ess and doctrinal precision which had
ieen the boy's dally bread and moat at
tho sectarian school. What wonder,
then, that when when the call for testi
mony was made, the old pounding and
heart-hammering set in, nnd duty,
duty, duty, wrote Itself In flaming let
ters on tho dingy walls?
Tom set his teeth nnd swallow vl
hard, and let a dozen of the others rls-J
and speak and sit again, lie could fed
the beating of his mother's heart, and
he knew' she was praying silently for
him, praying that he would not deny
his Master. For her sa'ke, then
but not yet; there was still time enough
after the next hymn after the next
testimony when the minister should
give another Invitation. He was chain
ed to the bench and could not rise; his
tongue clave to the roof of his mouth
and his lips were llko dry leaves. The
silences grew longer; all. or nearly all.
hud spoken. He was stifling.
Whosoever therefore shall confess
me before men, him will I confess alio
before my Father which Is In heuven.
Hut whosoever shall deny me before
men, him will I also deny before mv
Father which Is In heaven." It was th
solemn voice of the yning minister, and
Tom staggered to his feet with the
lamps whirling In giddy circles.
"1 feel to say that the Lord Is pre
clous to my soul to-night. Fray for
me, that 1 may ever be found fulth
fuL-
II struggling through the words of
the familiar form gaspingly and sat
down. A burst of triumphant song
arose:
"O happy day, that fixed my choice
On Thee, my Saviour and my God!"
nd the ecstatic aftermath came. Tru
ly, It was better to be a doorkeeper In
the house of tlod than to dwell In thu
tents or wickedness. What bliss was
there to be compared with this heart
melting, soul-lifting hlcHMing for duty
Vone?
It went with him a good part of tho
way Home, und Martha Gordon respect
ed his silence, knowing well what
heights and depths were engulfing tin
young spirit.
Hut afterward -alas and alas; th
there should always be an "after
ward"! When Tom had kissed hi
mother good-night and was alone In
bis upper room, tho reuctiou set In
What hud he done? Were the word
the outpouring of a full heart? 1)1
they really mean anything to him, or
to those who heard them? He grasped
despairingly at the Ust-fudlng glories
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of the vision, dropping on his knees at
the bedside. "O God, let me see Thee
and touch Thee, and bo sure, sure!"
he prayed, over and over again; and
so finally sleep found him still on his
knees with his face burled in the bed
clothes. CHATTER IX.
For the first few vacation days Tom
rose with the sun and lived with the
Industries, marking all tho later expan
sive strides nnd sorrowing keenly that
he had not been present to see them
taken In detail.
One morning he ran plump Into
tho Major, stalking grandly along the
tile-paved walk and smoking a war
time cheroot of preposterous length.
The despot of Taradlse, despot now
only by the courtesy of the triumphant
genius of modernity, put on his eye
glasses and stared Thomas Into re
spectful rigidity.
Why, bless my soul! If it isn't Cap
tain Gordon's boy! Well, well, you
young limb! If you didn't faveh youh
good fatheh In eve'y line and lineament
of youh face, I should neveh have
known you you've grown so.. Bhake
hands, suh!"
Tom did It awkwardly. It is a gift
to be able to Bhake hands easily; a
gift withheld from most girls and ill
boys up to tho soulful age. But there
was worse to follow. Ardea was some
where on the peopled verandas, and the
Major, more terrible in his hospitality
than he had ever appeared in the old-
time rage-fits, dragged his hapless vic
tim up and down and around and about
In search of her. "Not say 'Howdy' to
Ardea? Why, you young cub, where
are youh mannchs, suh?" Thus the
Major, when the victim would have
broken away.
It was a fiery trial for Tom a way
picking anions; red-hot plowshares of
embarrassment. How the well-bred
folk smiled, and the grand ladles drew
their Immaculate skirts asldo to make
passing-room for his dusty feot! How
one of them wondered, quite audibly.
where In tho world Major Dabney had
unearthed that young native! Tom
was conscious of every fleck of dust on
his clothes and shoes; of the skllless
knot In his necktie; of the school-desk
droop in his shoulders; of the utter
Buperfluousness of his big hands.
And when, at the long last, Ardea
was discovered sitting beside a gor
geously attired Queen of Sheba, who
also smiled and examined him minute
ly through a pair of eye-glasses fas
tened on the end of a gold-mounted
stick, the place of torment, wherever
and whatever It might be, held no
deeper pit for him. What he had
climbed the mountain to find was a
little girl In a school frock, who had
sat on the yellowing grass with one
arm around the neck of a great dog,
tooklng fearlessly up at him and tell
ing him she was sorry he was golnj
away. What ho had found was a very
stuttircsque llttlo lady, clad In fluffy
summer white, with the other Ardca'H
slate-bluo eyes und soft voice, to be
sure, but with no other reminder of the
lost avatar.
From llrst to last, from the moment
she made room for him, dusty cloth. .a
nnd nil, on the settee between herself
and the Queen of heba, Tom was con
scious of but one tii aiiy-dollue 1
thought an overmastering desire to
fj;et away to no tree nt any cost. . i: I
the way of escape would not dk-aio:i--Itself,
:o he sat in stammering ml.s-ry,
answering Arden'a questions about th-.'
sectarian school in, bluntest monosyl
lables, and heating with his other ear
terrible Major tell the Queen oi' Hlie
i all about tho rnilroad invasion, and
ow lie loin i iornon nan run to find
punk match to tire a cannon in tli-j
1 labncy cause.
lie escaped finally from till) entan-
lenicnts of Major Dabney'a hospital
ity. On the way down tho cliff path
tho fire burned nnd the revival zeal was
Indled anew. There had been times,
In the, last year, especially, when he
had thought coldly of tho fllsciplo'3
ailing and wns minded to break away
nd be a skilled craftsman, like Ills
fallier. Now ho was ngliast to think
that he had ever been so near the brink
f apostasy. With the river of the
Water of Llfa springing crystal clear
t his feet, should ho turn away and
drink from the bitter pools in the wll
derness of this world? With prophet
ic eye he saw himself as another Hoan-
rges, lifting, with all the lnsplrln
loquence of tho son of thunder, the
Baptist's soul-shaking cry. Repent ye:
for the kingdom of heaven Is at hand!
The thought thrilled him, and tho
fierce glow of enthusiasm became an
Intoxicating ecstasy. The tinkling drip
if falling water broke Into the noonday
silence of the forest like tho low-voiced
all of a sacred bell. For tho first time
since leaving the mountain top he took
note or his surrounuings. lie was
standing beside the great, cubical boul
der under the cedars the high altar In
nature's mountain tabernacle.
Thomas Jefferson had the deep peace
of the fully committed when he rose
from his knees and went to drink t.t
the spouting rock Up. It was decided
now, this thing he hud been holding
half-heartedly in abeyance. There
would be no more dallying with temo-
tatlon, no more rebellion, no more lr
reverent stumblings In the dark valley
of doubtful questions. More especially
he would be vigilant to guard against
those backslldlngs that came so swiftly
on the heels of each spiritual quicken
ing. Ills heart was fixed, so lrrevoca
bly, so surely, that he could almost
wish that Satan would try him there
ind then. But the enemy of souls waa
nowhere to be seen In the leafy arches
of the wood, and Tom bent again to
take a second draft at the spouting
rock Up. ,
Ho was bending over the sunken bar
rel A shadow, not his own, blurred the
water mirror. Ho looked up quickly
"Nan!" he cried.
She was standing on the opposite
side of the barrel basin, looking down
on htm with good-natured mockery la
the dark eyes.
I 'lowed maybe you wouldn't have
such a back load of religion after you'd
been off to the school a spell,' she said
pointedly. And then: "lines It always
make you right dry an' thirsty to say
your prayers, Tommy-Jerry.
Tom sat tack on his heels and re
garded her thoughtfully. His first Im
pulse was out of the natural heart,
rasjeful, wounded vanity spurring It on,
It was like her heathenism lmprtl
nence to look on at such a time, and
then to taunt him about It afterward.
Ttut slowly ss he looked s curious
Toange runio over him. She was the
same Nan T.ryerson, bareheaded, bare
legged, with the same tousled mat of
dark hair, and the same childish In
difference to a whole frock. And yet
she was not tho same. The subtle dif
ference, whatever It was, made him get
up and offer to shake hands with her
and he thought It wns the newly-made
vows constraining him, and took cred
it therefor.
"You can revile me as much as you
like now, Nan," he said, with prldetul
humility. "You can't make me mad
any more, like you used to. I'm older
now, and and better, I hope. I shall
never forget that you have a precious
soul to save." '
Her response to thin was a scoffing
laugh, shrill and challenging. Yet he
could not help thinking that It made
her look prettier than before.
"You can laugh as much as you want
to; but I mean It," he insisted. "And,
besides, Nan of all the things that
I've been wanting to come back to,
you're the only one that Isn't changed."
And again he thought it was righteous
guile that was making him kind to her.
"D'ye reckon you shorely mean that,
Tom Gordon?" she said; and the lips
which lent themselves so easily to
scorn were tremulous. She was Just
his age, nnd womanhood was only a
step across the threshold for her.
"Of course I do. Let me carry your
bucket for you."
She had hung the little wooden plg
gln under the drip of the spring and
It was full and running over. But
when he had lifted It out for her, she
rinsed and emptied It.
"I Just set It there to cool some," she
explained. "I'm goln up to Sunday
Hock afte' huckleberries. Come and
go 'long with me, Tom."
He assented with a willingness as
eager as It was unaccountable. If she
bad asked him to do a much less rea
sonable thing, he was not sure that he
could have refused.
And as they went together through
the wood, spicy with the June fra
grances, questions like those of the
boyhood time thronged on him, and he
welcomed them as a return of at least
one of the vanished thrills and was
grateful to her.
When they were fairly under iho
overhanging cliff face of Sunday Rock,
she darted away, laughing at him over
her shoulder, and daring him to follow
her along a dizzy shelf half-way up
the crag; a narrow ledge, perilous for
a mountain goat.
This, as he remembered later, wns
the turning-point In he mood. In Im
agination he saw her try It and full;
saw her lithe, shapely beauty lying
broken and mangled at the cliff's foot;
and In three bounds he had her fast
locked In his restraining arms. Shu
strove with him at first, like a wres-.
tllng boy, laughing and taunting him
with being afraid for himself. Then
Tom Gordon, clean-hearted as yet,
did not know precisely what happened.
Suddenly she stopped struggling ani
lay panting In his arms, and quite as
suddenly he released her.
"Nan!" he said. In a swiftly sub
merging wave of tenderness, "I didn't
go to hurt you!"
She sank down on a stone at nls
feet and covered her face with her
hands. But she was up again and
turning from him with eyes downcast
before be could comfort her.
(To be continued.)
THE FAT MAN.
Mcena lletter a n tl la More Cheerful
Than Lena Brother.
Despite the fact that Julius Caesar,
through his authoritative spokesman,
Shakespeare, expressed a preference
for men of flesh, "sleek-headed men,
and such na sleep o' nights," succeed
ing degenerate ages have showx a dis
position to admire the lean and poke
un at the fat man.
Women are not to be considered.
Forever inscrutable, while the prevail
ing fashion of 1 heir dress would serin
to indicate their admiration of Men-
moss in their own sex, il by no
nouns follows that they are attracted
to the beanpole type of man. Simi
larly, when sex is considered, man
himself Is of various taste; a Turki. h
woman who I.-! not absolutely fat is a
Turkish woman drsti'utc of charm.
Tho subject is a broad one, w ith m:;ny
md historical aspects, from the time
when Prslnnun, :is we read in Deuter
onomy, "waxed fat and kicked."
Just now It is given n serious and
very Interest In- discussion by Dr.
George M. Niles, In the Journal of tho
American Medical Association. Every
ono is awaro of the value of fat as a
source of energy for the development
of heat. That phase of the fat man's
condition may be passed by. Another
one ; of larger Importance. Says Dr,
Mies:
"It has been commonly known from
the earliest antiquity that fat people
are more contented, more optimistic,
than lean ones, and that their view
point of life In general Is largely gov
erned by this prosaic attribute. Now, I
might compare the supply of fat to the
ample bank account of a busy and
provident man. That he possesses this
surplus does not prevent him from
diligently following his usual avoca
tion (sic), but the knowledge of its
presence lends a mental satisfaction
that would he absent were he living
right up to his dally income."
This may be true; who can say? It
Is so easy to generalize and, as a mat
ter of fact, so Impossible to be certain
about such things. One might particu
larize through a column or two and
arrive at no definite conclusion. Napo
leon was a fat little man nnd Infinitely
greater than the lean Wellington; Dr.
Johnson and Gibbon were grossly fat,
but Emerson and Carlyle were bare to
the bone. Asd so forth.
One thing, at least, seems clear; the
fat man may not be as spry on hts
feet as his lean brother; ho may not,
as a rule, be as agile of mind, but ho
eats a better meal and enjoys a
sounder sleep. He is more cheerful;
his laugh Is heartier. In fact, some
of him have laughed and grown fat.
And then, again and finally, it is prob
ably easier to be fat and get lean thnn
to be lean and get fat. Philadelphia
Press.
t'hanllt'lrrlaut la (inngsnsn.p.
Hank Stubbs Stme Hadley tar
moved all bis henhouses an' chicken
coops Into his front yard an' onto his
front plazzy.
Uige Miller Yes. Slmo thought ei
how it would make a great hit with
folks looking for summer board. Bos
ton Herald.
A IMnTrrene.
Patience What reason had she for
marrying him?
Patrice Why, he had money .
"That is not a reason; that is an i
cuss.'' Gateway Magaxlne.
QDffitSflRP
Neptune takes moro than 160 years
to make the complete revolution round
the sun.
More than 400,000 persons emigrated
from this country during tho year
1907. This Is a much smaller number
than shown by the previous year.
The Union Taclflc Railroad Company
Is conducting extensive experiments
with the hope of making wireless teleg
raphy available for the operation of
rains.
From estimates and actual figures it
Is computed that in the history of thla
country the total number of foreign
ers arriving on our shores amounts to
,111,850.
Wine production in Chile Is Increas
ing. The acreage in vineyards is 14.",
Sf'4, of which 47,103 acres are Irrigated.
There is great demand for American
oak Btavcs.
xThe Siamese language Is a great
mixture of nearly nil the dialects and
languages of the far east, namely, Chi
nese, Malay, Mon, Cambodian, Sanskrit,
Pali, and others.
It is announced in the French press
that the historic house occupied by
Napoleon on the Isle of Elba, known
as the Villa San Martlno a Porto Fer-
rajo, is to be sold at auction. With the
house are to go the furniture and oth
er souvenirs of the Emperor. The
newspapers urge that the friends and
admirers of Napoleon take steps to
prevent the dispersal of the historic
objects.
A subway amusement pier, consist
ing of an under-water chamber, with
collapsible entrance and exit tubes, is
proposed for one of the Atlantic ooast
resorts. The amusement seekers will
enter the chamber through the tube
leading from the shore, and leave it
through th tube rising to the pier
above the chamber. Portholes around
the sides of the chamber will give a
view of the bottom of the sea.
Mrs. Margaiet Stlmson has just com
pleted her forty-fifth year of service at
the Institute of Technology, Boston
She was appointed in 1865 by Presl
dent Rogers to take charge of the
chemical apparatus used by students
Is still in active service and is said to
remember the names and personality
f more men who have attended class
es in the Institute of Technology than
any other person connected with the
Institution.
In 1993 India rubber sold for 88
rents a pound. Recent special cable
dispatches told how London Is going
mad in gambling in stocks of rubber
companies, the stuff itself having risen
In price to $3.08 a pound. This in
crease gives additional interest to the
processes of regeneration of waste rub
ber and of the manufacture of substi
tutes. The regeneration of vulcanized
India rubber consists in removing the
aulphur, which was added in the proc
ess of vulcanization.
CLOTHES OF ODD MATERIALS.
b luer nt I llaiiientonv Stone, Iron
Cloth and I.luieatone Wool.
The Russians manufacture a fabric
from the libre of a filamentous Btone
from the Siberian mines, which is said
to be of so durable a nature that it is
practically imiistrtictible, liarpe
Weekly say 3. The material Is soft to
tho touch and pliable in the extreme
and when soiled has only to lie placed
in a lire to bj made absolutely dean
liou doth Is laiyely used to-day by
la'.iuis everywhere lor the purpose of
iiKilxiiiii the collars of coats set proi
(iiy. This cloth is manufactured li'oii
sieci wool aim nas uie appeal auce o
having been woven from horsehair.
nuui iiul i no prouuet oi siu cp is :ie
ins utilized abroad for tho making o
men s ciuining. 11113 id Known as
"limrstono wool" and is made in an
electric furnace. Powdered limeston
mixed with certain chemicals.
throwu into the furnace and after puss
Ing through a furious air blast it is
tossed out as fluffy white wool. When
It comes from the furnace the wool I
dyed and made into lengths like cloth
A pair of trousers or a coat made o
this material cannot, it is claimed, be
burned or damaged by grease, and 1
as flexible as cloth made of sheep
wool.
An English manufacturer has suc
ceeded in making a fabric from old
ropes. He obtained A quantity of old
rope and cordage, unraveled it and
wove it by a secret process Into a kind
of rough cloth. The resultant mate
rial he dyed a dark brown. A suit
of clothes made from this queer stuff
was worn by the manufacturer him
self, and it is said that he has a large
trade In this line in the British col
onies. A novelty In dress material for wom
en Is spun-glass cloth, which, it Is
said, can be had in white, green, lilac,
pink and yellow shades. The inventor
of this fabric was an Austrian, and
his invention is said to have resulted
In the production of a material as
bright and flexible as silk. The first
lady to wear a gown of this material
was of royal rank. It was of a very
delicate shade of pale lavender shot
with pink, and its peculiar sheen rt
Utlnded her admirers of the sparkle
of diamond dust.
Paper clothes were worn by the Jap
anese troops, who found them very
serviceable and much warmer than
those of cloth. Paper dressing gowns,
bathrobes and similar articles of at
tire are now being turned out by me
carload in England, France, Germany
and other European countries. The
paper whereof they are made Is of the
"blotting" variety, and after being
treated by a new process is dyed in va
rious colors or printed with a pretty
floral design.
Even gloves are made of paper these
days, the principal claim of advantage
being that they are susceptible of be
ing cleaned many times.
THE COMETS.
Goaalp A boat These Eoeenlrle Waa
drrera la Npaee.
Halley's comet Is only one of many.
So far astronomers have located 200 of
these in our solar system and they
come and go at irregular Intervals.
As early as Caesar's death, 44 B. C,
a comet waa seen that came nearer the
sun than any other save one and
which was the most brilliant of any
ever discovered. It reappeared in the
reign of Justinian, 053 A. D., and
again in 1105. It was again located by
Newton In 1680. The comet of 1843
was the only one which got closer to
the sun than tho one Newton tracked.
Cevnets differ from planets In travel
ing through space. The planets re
volve In a zone of no great breadth on
either side of the ecliptic; but tho
paths of the comets cut the ecliptic In
every direction. The orbits of the
former nre nearly circular; those of
the comets are of varying degrees of
eccentricity.
Halley's, in K,82, affirmed that the
striking comet which appeared that
year was identical with those which
had been seen in 1607, 1531 and 1456,
and that It traveled around the sun in
period occupying some 76 years.
IMela's comet, discovered In 1826, re
volved around the sun in six years and
three-quarters. It returned promptly
In 1832, 1839, 1845 and 1852, since
when It has not been seen. Lexall's
comet In 1770 was traveling In an
elliptical orb round the sun, taking
about five and a half years for the en
circling. Again In 1876 it circled the
sun and then went out Into space and
disappeared. This Is known as tho
lost comet, though several have d'.s
appeared since scientific observations
have been In vogue.
Donatl's comet, visible In 1858, was
noted for Its brilliancy. Its distance
from the sun being 15 billion miles.
The comet Is something of a travel
cr. This one which Is due this month
has been rushing through space at
BOO miles a minute and by May 18 will
be going at 2,000 miles a minute. Jun3
3 It wjll be nearest the earth. Some
astronomers believe it will touch the
ground.
The tall of the comet Is worth eon
slderlng. It Is of vast size, more than
the mind can ccmprehend. Some of
them are 400,000,000 miles long and
are composed of gaseous matter. Com'
ets are supposed to consist of vapor
ized carbon or hydro-carbon gases.
While a manufacturer was creosot
ing blocks pursuant to a contract, an
Inspector was appointed by the pur
chaser, whose duty was to examine
and inspect the process. The Inspector
and the engineer In charge were fre
quently Involved in broils bordering
on blows. Hearing of this, the man
ager forbade the bellicose persons to
enter the vat rooms unless accompa
nied by a third party. Eventually an
encounter transpired in wheh guns fig
ured freely. The inspector was struck
with a pistol on the head and his up
raised arms, his assailant assuring him
that his conduct was due to his anxie
ty to get even on old scores mora than
anything else, and that it was an ex
clusively personal transaction. In
Cressy vs. Rep. Cr. Co., 122 Northwest
ern Reporter, 484, the Minnesota Su
preme Court allowed a recovery from
the manufacturer for damages arising
from the chastisement, remarking thai
when the master, as In this case, hai
notice of the proclivity of the servan
to do harm, ho Is responsible.
The Alabama Constitution providoi
that when a prisoner is taken froir
jail and killed, owing to the neglect
of the sheriff, the officer may be; im
peached. A ticio confined In a jail
fur murder waa quietly taken out and
killed by a few masked men, who over
came tho deputies on guard. For L'C
yours tho sheriff had been an officer
of unusual bravery and devotion tc
duty. The excitement which usually
precedes u lynching was absent. Ie
State vs. Cazalas, 50 Southern Report
er, 36, the Alabama Supremo Court
held that tho sheriff's conduct merited
his removal from office. Ho could not
presume that those who desire to in
vado tho premises will inform him ol
the fact, or make such a demonstra
tion on the streets as to advertise
their intentions. When a crime of pe
culiar enormity has been committed,
exciting public indignation, and sug
gestions are made that the prisoner be
lynched, it is a sheriff's duty to take
precautions that will effectually thwart
an unauthorized entry of the Jail.
A Mnvulnr Marriage Custom,
The Kurds have a very curious and
somewhat dangerous marriage cus
tom, which one would think would
be more honored in the breach than
in the observance. The husband, sur
rounded by a bodyguard of twenty or
thirty young men, carries his wife
home on his back in a scarlet cloth
and Is desperately assaulted the whole
way by a number of girls. Sticks and
stones are hurled at the bridegroom,
who in the coming home with hid
bride can hardly be considered a very
happy man, for the Irate amazous
often lnfllst on him marks which he
carries to the grave. It may bo that
among the lady pursuers are some
of the bridegroom's former "flames,"
who turn the mock attack Into down
right earnest to avenge slighted love.
Sot a Modern Custom.
in a certain church In Phldadelphla
the custom has prevailed of presenting
to each scholar cf the Sunday school
an egg during the exercises at the cele
bration of Easter. On an occasion of
the kind the assistant clergyman arose
and made this announcement, "Hymn
419, 'Begin, My Soul. th? Exalted Lay,"
after which the eggs will bo dlstrib
uted." Llpplncott's.
Politic.
Mrs. Xocash Mercy! You lee your
girl off every afternoon!
Neighbor Yes, Indeed, it is sucli a
saving. The more she is away the
fewer dishes she breaks Illustrated
Bits.
Matrd Ilia Life.
"Don't chide me for carrying a ie
volvur. This little gun saved my life
once."
"How exciting! Tell me about it."
"I was starving, and I pawned it."
Cleveland Leader.
Talk wtUt any little man ions
enough, and ht will remind you that
Napoleon was of small stature.
J LEGAL INFORMATION j
Prnfeaalonal I'rlde,
In a Chrlst:r.a.i Miry pl.iy In Tart
set of dominoes was represented
men wearing on their backs board
marked with the different number.
One day, a writer in Le Figaro state,
ft "iiiper" gave In his resignation, and',
told the manager he must find a Bute-
(t'tute.
"Why, what's the trouble?" asked
the manager. "Don't you get flfteei
sous a night, like the ot tiers;
"It Isn't the sous at all," said tht
"super," haughtily. "I am one of th
oldest artists belonging to the theater,
and I think you ought to have mads
mo double six; Instead I am the low
est number double might."
Probablr Safe from Them.
BJornatJerna BJornson had just been
christened.
"We're a little curious to know,"
said his parents, "what ths spelling
reformers will do when they tackle that
name."
Thus far, however, his distinguished
name has escaped mutilation.
DR. MARTEL'S FEMALE FILLS.
Seventeea Years the Standard.
Prescribed and recommended for
Women's Ailments. A scientifically
prepared remedy of proven worth.
The result from their use is quick and
permanent. For sale at all Drug
Stores.
FASHION HINTS
There's lots of character to this suit of
plain and striped ponree.
The stripe is sort of sn old blue, the
same as the deep cuffs, and it tones so
well with the natural color pongee.
The knife oUated collar of net its
new feature.
The I'lllnofoole.
Little Elsie, whose mother was vis
iting her neighbor, was doing the five
finger exercises.
Thump! Rattle! Bang, bang! Rat
tle! Thump!
"Great Heavens!" cried the neighbor
starting up. "What on earth Is your
daughter trying to play now?"
"It's an exercise," said little Elsie'
mother, beaming with maternal pride,
"from 'First Steps in Music.' "
" 'First Steps in Music'?" repeated
the harassed neighbor. "Well, dear,
Is there nothing she can play with her
hands?" Answers. O-V
A DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE,
IeuWe Mot Needed in This Cass.
It is hard to convince some people
that coffee does them an injury! They
lay their bad feelings to almost every
cause but the true and unsuspected
one.
But the doctor knows. His wide ex-'
perience has provr to htm that, to
some systems, coffef Is an Insidious
poison that undermints the health.
Ask the doctor if coffee is the cause
of constipation, stomach and nervous
troubles.
"I have been a coffee drinker all
my life. I am now 42 years old and
fthc'st taken sick two years ago with
nervcHs prostration, the doctor said
that my nervous system was broken
down au1 that I would have to' gJva
up coffee.
"I got sor weak and shaky I ccmld
not work, ami reading your advertise
ment of Postum, I asked my grocer if
he had any of It, He said, 'Yes,' and
that he used it in his family and it
was all it claimed to be.
"So I quit coffMp and commenced to
ttfj Postum steadily and found In
aiout two weeks' time I could sleep
roundly at night a&d get up In the
morning feeling frsl. In about two
months I began to gtiln flesh. I weigh
ed only 140 pounds wi.en I commenced
on Postum and now I weigh 167 and
feel better than I diifi at 20 years of
age.
"I am working every ifay and sleep
well at night. My two children were
great coffee drinkers, but they have
not drank any since Postum came Into
tbe bouse, and are far mora healthy
than they were before."
Read "The Road to Wenvllle."
found In pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above Tetter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full af
human Intern'
