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CHAPTER IIL
REQUIREMENTS OF MR. SHEI.F
Mr. Theodore Shelf wanted to drag
Cambel off there and then to his own
business room on the first floor to dis
cuss further this great project which
he had hi his head, but Cambel thought
3t to remain where he was. Mr. Shelf
nodded significantly toward the new
comers, as much as to hint that a third
person with them would be distinctly
in Inconvenient third. Cambel turned
to them, cue In hand, and proposed a
tame of snooker.
‘'That's precisely what wo came up
tor," said Arny Rivers promptly. "Ham
ilton, get out the balls. Mr. Cambel,
will you put the billiard balls away,
»o that they don’t get mixed?"
They played and talked merrily. Their
conversation turned on tho wretched
ihow at the recent Academy, which
they agreed was a disgrace to a civi
lised country, and Cambel made him
self Interesting over the art of paint
ing In Paris, mural, facial and on can
vas. When he chose, he could bo very
Interesting, this man f/ln.'lon had nick
named the great traveler, and he gen
trally chose, not being ill imtured.
Mr. Theodore Shelf left the billiard
room with u feeling beneath his waist
coat mi eh akin to seasickness. First
cf all that plain spoken Patrick Cam
bel had not over-politely hinted that
be was a canting hyprocrlto and had
ihowed cause for arriving at this con
clusion. Tills was true, hut that didn't
make It any tho more digestive. And,
lecondly, ho himself In a moment of
excitement had let drop to this same
pernicious Cainbel (who, after all, was
i comparative stiangcr) a proposal to
make the sum of £000.000 ut one coup.
True, he had not mentioned the means,
but Cambel had at onee concluded It
was to be gained by robbery, and he,
Theodore Shelf, had not denied the Im
peachment.
Plltl C1U1 liailMv H.fi- Uhr.lf IllSI.t /tlnnnf
ture galleries or political clubs. Before
they are bestowed a crown censor sat
isfies himself that one's financial con
dition Is broad and absolutely sound.
There are reasons connected with those
matters which block you further and
further fiom bring 'milady' every day.”
Mrs. Si.elf shrugged her shoulders
in utter unbelief. "Your pr. aching
tendencies cover you like a second
skin, Theodore. It seems as though you
never drop the conventicle and the
pleasure o'* pointing a moral at one.
Believe me, it isn’t a paying specu
lation, this cant of yours. At the most
they will only give you a trumpery
knighthood for it. But go your own
way and I'll go mine—you shall be
made In spite of yourself."
Mrs. Hnelf noticed that at this point
her husband's eyes were beginning to
glow with dull fury. She objected to
scenes, and dropping the subject re
verted once more to her present needs.
"However, let us drop this wrangle
and come to business. I wish you to
see to that impertinent circular from
the bank. I have several checks out
and unpresented. I absolutely must
draw others today for trifles which will i
add up to about a thousand. You must J
see that they are honored. It is all I
your own fault, this trumpery worry ;
about nothings. You should not try
to screw me down to such a niggardly
allowance."
Shelf stood up, and the dog on his
lap lcnptd hurriedly to the ground,
growling. "Woman,” he said passion
ately, "if you won’t believe me, if you
will go on in this extravagance, you
v/ill soon learn for yourself that I am
not lying, perhaps very soon perhaps
tomorrow. When a shameful bank
ruptcy does come, then you can play
your hand as you please. I shall not
bo here to hinder you any longer.
Whero I shall go to, how 1 shall lead
my new life, who will be my partner,
are matters which you will be
allowed no fingers In. So long as
things last hero I shall observe all the
conventionalities, and if you appreciate
those you will find It wise to recon
sider your present ways. I tell you can
didly that if the. firm does go down
not only England, but half the world
will ring with its transactions. Marina
duke, Rivers & Shelf,” lie went on With
scowling fury, "were honest, prosperous
trademen once, before their ways were
fouled to And money for your cursed
ambition."
There was a now look on the clean
shaven face which sho had never seen
before and an evil glint in the eyes
which scared her. Irresolutely she
moved toward the door and put her
lingers upon the handle. Then she
drew herself up and stared him up and
down with a look of forced contempt.
“You will be good enough,” she said
coldly, "to attend to the business which
to his own room, locked the door und
fortified his nerves wilh a liberal two
lingers of brandy. Then he munched a
Joffee bean In deference to the blue rib
ion on his coat lapel, replaced the
cognac bottle In tho Inner drawer of
his Inner safe and sat down to think.
If only ho had understood tlambel,
»nd, b“tter stilt, knew whether he
might trust him! There was a fortune
to be had. Yes, a fortune. And It was
wanted badly. The great firm of Marm
tduke Rivers A Shelf, which called It
relf “Agents to tho Oceanic Steam
Transport company," but which really
ran the line of steamers which traded
under tho flag, might work prosperous
to tho outer eye and might still rear
Its heal haughtily among the first
chipping firms of London port. Hut
the man who bragged aloud that ho
swned It all, from offices to engine oil,
knew otherwise. Ho had mortgages
tut In every direction, mortgages so
cunningly hidden that only ho himself
was aware of their vast total. Ho knew
that tho firm was rotten, lock, stock
»nd barrel. He knew that through any
sne of twenty channels a breakup
might come any day, and following on
the heels of that, a smash which would
be none the pleasanter because from
Its slxe and devastating effects It would
Jive down Into history.
He, Theodore Shelf, would assuredly
•not be In England to face It. Since his
commercial barometer had reached
“stormy" and still showed signs of
steady descent he had been transmit
ting carefully modulated doles to cer
tain South American banks and had
even gone so far as to purchase—under
a norti d'escroc a picturesquely sit
uated halcenda on the upper waters of
the Rio Paraguay.
There, in case the cyclone broke, the
extradition treaties would cease from
troubling, and the weary swindler
would be at well fed rest
But Mr. Theodore Shelf had no lust
for this tropical retirement. He liked
(the powers of his present pinnacle In
(the city, and he loved the halo which
the wore among tho improving young
-men. Ami. moreover, that howl of ex
• aeration from every class of society
. which would make up his paean of de
< feat was an opera which be very natur
iglly shrank from sitting through.
As he thought of these things he
hugged closer to him the wire haired
.fox terrier which Bat upon hts lap.
“George, old friend." said Mr. Shelf
“If things do go wrong. J believe you’re
»the only thlrg living In England which
-won’t turn against me.’
George slid out a red tongue and
‘•Jcked the angle of Mr. Shelf’s square
-chin. Then he retired within himself
tgaln and looked sulky. The door had
opened, and Mrs. Shelf stood on the
niat.-Ttiere was a profound mutual dis
like between George and Mrs. Theodore
Shelf.
"You alone, Theodore? I thought Mr.
Cambel was here. However, so much
the belter. I have wanted to speak
with you all the morning. Do turn
that nasty dog away.”
George was not evicted as Mr. Shelf
Inquired curtly what his wife was
pleased to want. She seldom Invaded
this business room of his, and when
she did It was 1 or a purpose which he
was beginning to abhor.
She came U> the point at once by
brought mo here. I am going now to
draw tlie chocks I spoke about."
Shelf looked at her very curiously.
"Go," ho sa.id, "and do as you please.
You aro a determined woman, and be
cause I am determined myself 1 ad
mire your strength of will; but, for all
that, I think I shall murder you before
I leave England."
Mrs. Shelf laughed derisively, but
with pale Ups, and then she opened the
door. The dog advanced toward her
slowly, stiff legged, muttering.
"What lire heroics!” she said. “But
thanks for seeing after my balance. It
Is a written thing that I must have that
money."
She passed through the door, closing
It gently behind her, and Shelf returned
to his armchair. “George," ho safd as
the fox terrier stood up against his
knee, “If that woman were only struck
dead today, there aro 2,000 families in
England who would rejoice madly if
they only knew one-tenth part of what
I know. Poor beggars, they have
trusted me to the hilt, and she makes
me behave to them like a devil. Yes,
little dog, she makes me, whether 1
wish It or not. For this at times I
raoro than hate her.
"At times when 1 clog this ferocious
ambition of hers she must almost hate
me. Yet I know something about wom
sn, and I believe that nearly always she
loves me. It's a curious mixture, Isn't
It, George? But It isn’t a comfortable
one. D’you know, my small anlfhal,
I wish very much just now an. earth
quake or a revolution or something
like that would occur to shuffle mat
ters up. Then If I got killed l should
bo spared a groat deal of worry, and If
I didn’t, why. I’ve got large hands, and
I liellevo I could grab enough In the
general scramble to suit even her.
“As It Is, however, with neither
earthquake nor revolution probable, I'm
a desperate man, ready to take any des
perate chanco of commercial salva
tion.”
CHAPTER IV.
BIMETALLISM.
It was late In the evening when Pat
rick Cambel again found himself en
tete-a-tete with his host. Thore had
been people In to dinner at the house in
Park lane, but these had gone, and Mrs.
Shelf and Amy Rivers followed them
to parties elsewhere. Mrs. Shelf had
wished to carry Cambel also in her
train, but that person stayed behind
by a request which ho could not very
well refuse. "You will favor me very
much by remaining here for the rest
of the evening. Mr. Cambel," Shelf had
said in his pompous way. "I have mat
ters of the greatest moment 1 wish to
discuss with you."
"I hardly know how to begin,” Shelf
confessed uneasily when they were
alone.
"Then let me make a suggestion,”
3ahl Cambel, with a laugh. "Come to
the point at once. Let's have the plot
without any Introductory chapters.
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ly in copper plate. Ho read It through
with brief, sour comment.
‘•H'm! Bank! Your private account
overdrawn. That’s the third time this
year, t-nura. Warning seems to be no
use. You ure determined to know
what rutn tastes like."
"Fluln, pshaw! You don’t put me oft
with that silly tale. To begin with, I
don’t believe it for an Instant, and even
If it were true I’d rather be ruined
than retrench. You an.i J can afford
to be candid between ourselves. Theo
dore. You know perfectly well that we
have Gained our position in society
purely and solely by purchase.”
’To my cost I do know It. But. hav
ing paid your entrance fee at least
eight times over. 1 think you might bo
lontcrit with an ordinary subscription.
That ball last night (or instance”—
"Was necessary. And I couldn’t af
ford to do the thing otherwise than
gorgeously."
"Gorgeously! Do you think I’m
Croesus. Laura, to pay for gearing one
>oom with red roses, and another with
pink and another room with Marshall
Niels for fools to llit In during one
short nightT This morning’s paper In
forms me that those llowers came by
speciil express from Nice and cost
£iDO.”
"And yet you twit me with extrava
gance! All the papers have got In that
paragraph, as t took car- they should,
and everybody will read it Yet the
flowers duly coat a paltry £300. so that
In credit l cm £200 to the good, be
cause 1 have clearly given the ball of
the secaon. Theodore, you are short
clgrhtcc’. Ycu arc a tool to your own
profit- By n ;."rt-:f I shall make you a
’union't this year, and if you had only
work d in y>ir own fntvrests half as
l ard as i a'Y t on* joa could have
;•{ BC 1 to *> foil a of U."ls.
•■'fill s 1,1 Sh If grimly, for peo
i It* of cur Hurl, are only given fer di
ivi. „us_ i_y in almshouses or pic
hand for turning my discovery into
currency, and you've rather hinted it’s
a dirty scheme. The only question is
how dirty. Thanks to pressure of cir
cumstances, I'm not an overparticular
person. But on points I’m very
squeamish, or, in other words, I draw
the line somewhere. Unless I'm very
vastly mistaken, your plan will Involve
one in downright knavery, which is a
thing all sensible men avoid if possi
ble. Now, in my ignorance 1 fancied
the find might be turned to account
without climbing down to that." »
"Oh," said Shelf eagerly, "then you
had a scheme In your head before you
came to me?"
The other shrugged his shoulders and
lit a cigar.
"Just a dim outline—nothing more.
You see the Interior of the Kverglades
is absolutely untouched by the white
man's weapons. It was vaguely sup
posed to he one vast lake, with oases
of slime and mangroves. The lake was
reported as too shallow for boats and
abounding with fevers, agues and mos
quitoes. Consequently it remained un
explored. and on the end of the Florida
peninsula today no white man, barring
myself and one or two others, has ever
got farther than five or eight miles in
from the coast.
' Now, as I've told you I was lucky
enough to lilt upon a fine deep ship
channel going in as tar as the center
'line, and l don't know-how.far^)"eTilna
Inside. There Is a good fertile country,
a healthy climate and the best game
; preserve on this earth. For the first
, omers that interior will be Just a
sportsman’s paradise.
"My Idea is twowlse. First sell the
cream off the sport. Some men will
give anything for shooting, and In this
case there will also be the glamour of
being pioneers. Each one will start de
termined to write a book of his opin
ions and doings when he gets back. By
chartering a steamer and treating them
well on board they would hn.ve sport
b;g de luxe. One ought to get five and
twenty chaps at 500 guineas apiece,
"That gives the first crop. For the
s ond buy up an enormous tract of
I lie land, which can be got for half
’ ni hlng- say, 10 or 15 cents an acre—■
boom It and resell it in lots to Jug
ginses. They'll fancy- they'll grow
oranges, as all Englishmen do who try
Florida. Perhaps ttiey may grow ’em,
who knows, if the y keep off whisky and
put in work? But that won’t he the
promoter’s concern. They don’t adver
tise that the land will produce oranges.
They only guarantee that it would if
it was given a chance, and that’s all
correct.
"Perhaps this Is rough on the Jug
ginses, but as they crowd the British
islands in droves, and are always on
the lookout for some one to shear them,
I don’t see why an Everglades company
shouldn't have their fleeces as well as
anybody else. They're mostly wasters
and wouldn’t do any good anywhere,
mid it’s a patriotic deed to cart them
over our boundary ditch away from
local mischief. Besides even if the
worst comes to the worst and the
orange Industry of Florida still refuses
lo n ake headway, the would-be grow
ers needn't starve. Nor need they even
do what thy’H probably hate more, and
that's work. There’s always sweet do
i.'iio s and mullet and lobacco to be
got, and if that diet doesn't cloy, a
man can have it there tor mighty little
exert ion.
"Come, now. That's the pemmican
of the pi n. What do you think of it?"
"Much capital would be needed."
Cambel shrugged his shoulders.
"Some, naturally, or f shouldn’t have
come to you. If I'd seen any way to
pouching all the plunder single handed,
you may bet your little life, Mr. Theo
dore Shelf, 1 shouldn’t have Invited
you into partnership."
"Returns, 100, would Vie very slow.”
"Not necessarily. Float the company
and then turn it over to another com
pany for cash down.”
“Moreover, when the—er—the young
men you spoke about found that the
erang ■ groves did riot produce at once
in paying quantities, they would write
home, and their parents would de
nounce me in the tapers as a swin
dler." '
"No, pet you, the other company—the
oil- you sold it to. Hut then apologists
would arise to show that the Jugginses
—don’t shy at the word, sir—were lazy
and ignorant, and also that they ab
sorbed the corn whisky of the country
in excessive quantities. And then that
company could smile smugly and pose
as a misunderstood benefactor. So its
profits wouldn't he smirched in the
least. Ciasp that?"
"Yes, yes, I dure say you have work
ed it all out to yourself and thought I
out the details so many times that tiie !
whole scheme seems entirely plausible.
IVut, looking at it fiom the view of a
business man, I cannot say that it ap
pears to he an enterprise I should care
to embark in. You see, it is so very
much beyond the scope of my general
operations that I—er—hesitate—er—
you understand I hesitate—’’
"Yes," said Patrick Cambel, quietly,
“you hesitate because you've got some
thing ten times more profitable up your
sleeve."
Shelf started and shivered slightly.
"You may as well be candid and open
with me," Cambel continued, "and tell
me what you are driving at. If It
suits me I'll say so, and if it doesn't
I'll let y*u know with surprising
promptness. And, again, if we don't
trade, you may rely on me not to
gossip about what you suggest. I'm
not the stone throwing variety of ani
mal. You see, I live In a sort of semi
green house myself.”
There was a minute’s pause, during
which Theodore Shelf shifted about as
though his chair was uneven rock be
neath him. Then he jerked out his
tale sentence by sentence*, squinting
sideways at his companion between
each period.
“You know, I'm a shipowner in a
large way of business?”
Cambel nodded.
"Ships are occasionally lost at sea—
steamers, even new steamers straight
off the builders’ slip and well found in
every particular.”
“So I've read in ihe newspapers."
“And every shipowner insures his
vessels to the full of tjheir value.”
"Except when he mis a foreboding
that they will come to grief on a voy
age. Then, so rumor says, he usually
lias the forethought to over-insure.”
Mr. Theodore Shelf passed a hand
kerchief over his forehead and started
what was apparently a new topic.
"There is a silver crisis on just now
lr. the United. States, and by this morn
ing's paper the dollar is down to CO
cents. American gold Is not to bo had.
English gold, is always worth Its face
value. What mere natural financial
operation could there be than to ship
out snvprf'ieTisi u.nri wtroflif hv ike
crepancy?”
(Continued Next Week.)
No Objection to Children.
From thd New York Weekly.
Fond Mother (accompanied by smai.
son)—“l see you take children at this
hotel?”
Summer Hotel Proprietor (glancing gen
ialTy at many little boarders)—“Oh, yes,
madaine; of course. How do you do, my
little man?”
Small Cherub—“None o’ your business.”
Fond Mother—“Oh, baby, you should
not speak so to the gentleman.”
Cherub—“I will.”
Fond Mother—“Bless his ’lttle heart,
don’t ee know ee shouldn't speak so to
mama? Say ’I'm very well’ to the nice
gentleman.”
Cherub—“I won’t.”
Fond Mother—“Mercy! Don’t throw
your ball that way. You’ll break a win
dow. Children are so innocent and joyful
that-”
Proprietor—“I beg your pardon, madame.
I said we took children, and we do; but
it is my duty to warn you that we have
measles, and whooping-cough, and chick
en-pox, and scarlet fever, and smallpox in
the hotel, and five children have some
thing that looks like Asiatic cholera—
Thank late, she's gone!”
Locking His Door.
A Philadelphia traveling man, on a
business trip through Alabama one night,
found himself stranded in a wretched lit
tle town with only one slipshod, miserable
hotel. His “room” for the night was the
end of a hall, with a sheet hung up to
screen him from view. In*the middle of
the night he woke up with his head hang
ing out over one end of his cot and his
feet over the other, while a violent draft
was blowing the hanging sheet in all di
rections.
He called for the housekeeper.
“What do you want with the housekeep
er?” came a voice from somewhere in the
darkness.
”1 want a paper of pins to lock my door
with."
A woman has a queer idea about any
one who wears false hair unless it’s
herself.
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4 MAXIMS ON WOMEN. 4
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4 Spanish—“Women and mules obey 4
4 better when caressed than coerced.” 4
4 Arabian—“When you want to get 4
4 even with a man give him a hand- 4
4 some wife, when you want revenge 4
4 on a woman give her a handsome 4
4 husband.” 4
4 Hindu—“The coquette is like your 4
4 shadow; chase her and she llees 4
4 from you, llee from her and she 4
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4 Chinese—“The tongue of a worn- 4
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out the cold and at the same time are
as heavy or as light as one desires.
Probably by the time the paper
suits have come into fashion, hats of
papier mache will also be worn. They
can be tinted shaped as readily as any
grade of straw and when trimmed will
serve the purpose every bit as well and
for so much loss money, that men will
begin to wonder why there ever was
so much talk about the extravagance
of women’s bonnets. They will be able
to save enough on their wives’ clothes
to buy farms to keep them comfortably
for most of their lives, and if the time
ever comes when paper cigars can be
made to take on the flavor and quali
ties of real tobacco along with the
paper cloths for women, the country
will be flooded with railroad magnatei
and millionaires.
SUMMER NECKWEAR.
One of the newest things in smart
neckwear is the butterfly bow of white
lawn. Thetfe bows are easily made, and
most effective, worn with* the em
broidered linen collar on a tailor made
shirtwaist. One great advantage is
that all sorts of odds and ends of
laces may be utilized to trim the bows.
It is always possible, too, to pick up
bargains in the way of bits of fine
embroidery on sheer material. These
are cut apart, according to design, and
tacked on the top of the strip of the
lawn to be used, the lawn being first
hemmed, and trimmed at the ends with
Valenciennes lace. Often the bows are
placed on the shield of a white cravat,
thus making them easy to adjust. Or
else they >are furnished with a loop of
white hat elastic, which can be fas
tened to the collar button.
Some of the bows are worked in
eyelet embroidery, with a scallop edge
done in button hole stitch. Others are
decorated with French dots. The black
FOR THE THIN GIRL.
Even when foods fail to produce flesh
there are a few exercises that can b«
depended upon to fill out hollows i)
they are followed regularly enough.
The thin girl’s chief ambition is to
have a pretty neck. Breathing exer
cises and some arm gymnastics will ds
more towards building the foundation
than all the creams and massages could
In years, in fact they do not pretend t<
do much more than soften the skin and
strengthen tissues.
The first exercise that effects tht
points of the shoulders as well as tin
hollows themselves is as follows!
Stretch the arms straight out at th<
sides on a level with the shoulders, tht
palms up, and then bend them at thi
elbows until they touch the shoulders
Crip the shoulders as tightly as pos.
sible and at the same time inhale. Pull
the elbows down at the sides as fai
as they will go still gripping the should
ers, hold the breath for a moment an<
A TIMELY HINT BY DAME FASHION.
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A LINGERIE WAIST.
An exceedingly pretty waist is here shown, made of any of the summer
materials. The above was a fine white swiss, made with a yoke in front and a
center back closing. The blouse is attached to the yoke, having tucks to give
fullness. The swiss insertion is brought over the shoulders and down the back
to give the suspender effect. A very neat design of eyelet embroidery in the
yoke and collar helps very much, but t his can be left out if desired. The
sleeves are very short and full, having cuffs of the insertion. A three-quarter
or long sleeve can be used.
or green dot Is effective on a piece of
white lawn shaped to stimulate a but
terfly.
Handmade jabots are much worn.
They are in all lengths, the lingerie
jabot extending from the neck to the
belt sometimes. They can be made of
Irish crochet. Cluny or Valenciennes
lace, all of which wash well. The strip
of insertion down the center should
be two or three inches wide; narrow
lace Is pleated or gathered on the edge,
and at the neck is a lace bow with a
knot of some light silk.
The little nine-inch square hand
kerchiefs with colored hemstitched bor
ders, which have been such a fad the
last year, make dainty neck bows. A
small piece must be cut out of these
for the knot;, and then the two ends are
pleated and sewn together.
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then exhale. Repeat the exercise sev
eral times each day.
The second which is for the chest and
upper arms is followed by clasping the
arms behind the body with the palms
up and the thumbs touching the back,
then turning the hands over until the
palms are down and, bending the body
swinging the clasped hands as far as
possible towards the head without
bending the elbows^
THE 1907 KIMONA.'
As nothing can probably ever be
found to quite take the place of the
kimona, fashion has permitted it ta
stay until that time when women no
longer care to lounge in comfort or
to take afternoon naps in loose clothes
and darkened rooms.
Though the lines of the kimona have
been changed frequently, sleeves modi
fied and yokes or collars added, they
have almost invariably gone back tc
i the original style which is so practical
; that it allows of little improvement
I But this season there has been one
; change that has made the kimona pos
sible for breakfast and morning wear,
! suitable for something more than just
, the privacy of the boudoir. The ever
I popular princess effect has been applied
j to the kimona transforming it from a
negligee to a house gown or wrapper.
j nine rows of shirring forming a girdle
around the waist to fit the figure.
This kimona is cut and made exact
ly as the kimona that has done service
! for so many years, but after it is fin
ished the dividing line of the waist is
marked off and a row of shirring run
in at that point. Four others are put
in above it and four below. These
are pulled up to suit the figure and a
piece of goods set underneath to hold
them in place. The flowing kimona
sleeve is cut off a little below the elbow
and gathered into a turned back cuff
to match the band that goes around the
neck and down the front.
Old kimonas can, with the slightest
alterations, be made into the princess
style, which allows of much more
usage and general wear and yet is not
nearly as cumbersome as the ordinary
tea gown.
The best material for the princess
kimona is challis. It does not wrinkle
and yet is soft and of about the most
satisfactory weight as it can be worn
in warm weather as well as on cooler
days.
Self control is not so much in sub
duing the faculties as in leading th*m
to serve as worthy ends.
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♦ "Perseverance is more prevail- ♦ j
Inc than violence." j
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CLOTHES MADE OF PAPER.
If the predictions of Herr Emil
Clazier, a Saxon inventor, are verified
twenty or thirty years from now there
will be none of the old trouble about
testing goods to find if they are all
wool or not, for everybody will be
wearing paper suits.
Of course at the mere mention ol
paper clothes one thinks of the flbei
chamois used some years ago to hold
out the sleeves, but the new Inventior
no more resembles that than cottor
sheeting does silk. In fact the new
paper suiting is so much like the re
gular linen and cotton goods that hun
dreds of towels made from it are now
being sold as linen and even the buyers
are never the wiser.
Tiny threads resembling wool, cottor
or even silk are made from paper anc
these are woven together ill every con
ceivable kind of weave and color in th<
same delicate tints used in the pun
material, and they are said to ever
take the coloring much better thar
even silk itself.
The cost of the paper goods is about
half the price of the goods it is madt
to represent and yet wears so rnucl
longer there is little doubt but that i
will be only a short time until it ii
taking the place of materials now oi
market. It Is also warmer, for th<
peculiar quality of the threads keej
A Horseman's Praise.
Senator Curtis of Kansas, the one
time horseman, was praising news
papers.
‘They are, taken all around,” he said,
"wonderful institutions, and most ol!
the complaints made against them ar«
to the initiate as groundless as the
complaint of a young lady I overheard
at a race meeting.
“‘Plague on the. old papers, they're
always behind the'times,’ she said.
" 'How so?’ asked her husband.
" 'Oh, take racing for instance. They
never print the winner's name till the
day after the race, when it’s too late to
bet.’ ”
Using the Privilege.
A Bavarian forester, a poor and humblo
man, received an official communication
from the town council partly printed, part
ly written. In the printed portion was
the introductory word Herr (Mr.) used In
the address. The town council thought
the forester not entitled to Herr, and
crossed it out. The indignant forester
went to see the town council about it, but
got no satisfaction. The mayor told him
that Herr was struck out because it was
superfluous. Then the forester sent a reply
to the official letter and addressed it to
“The soft-headed town council,” but drew
his pen through “soft headed” as “su<
jerflous.”
A Br.d Accident.
From the Chicago Daily News.
Chapleigli—I was all bwoke up ovah a
girl once, doncher know.
Miss Knox—Ah, I see! And some of tho
pieces were lost.
GORES AS BIG AG PENNIES.
Whole \eck nml Ileud Covered—llalr
All Came Oat—Cured i« Three
Weeks by Culicura.
“After having the measles my whole
head and neck were covered with scaly
sores about as large as a penny. They
were just as thick as they could be.
My hair all came out. I let the trouble
run along, taking the doctor’s blood
remedies and rubbing on salve, but it
did not seem to get any better. It
stayed that way for about six months;
then 1 got a set of the Cuticura Rem
edies, and in about a week I noticed a
big difference, and in three weeks it
was well entirely and I have not had
the trouble any more, and as this was
seven years I consider myself
cured. Mrs. Henry Porter, Albion,
Neb., Aug. 25, 1000.“ V
AN OLD YACHT’S HAPPY FATE
The Pilgrim, Once Aspirant for Cup
Honors, Given to Children.
From the Boston Post.
Of all the boats that have been built to
compete for the America’s cup, the blue
ribbon of the seas, none has come to a
finer end than the Pilgrim, which was
built by Boston yachtsmen to compete for
the honor of defending the old mug
against Lord Dunraven’s Valkyrie II in
1893.
The old America still floats, although out ^
of commission. The latest queen of tho /
seas, Reliance, is hauled out at City Isl
and, N. Y., probably to rot away from dis
use. And down through the years from
1851 to 1907, many fleet yachts have had
their names included in the yachting roll
of honor and disappeared—challengers and
defenders alike. Some have been sunk in
races or lost at sea. Some have rotted
away. Some have lost their glory and be
come coasters. Some are still afloat as
private yachts. But the Pilgrim gets the
most honored end of all.
For tho Pilgrim is to be part of Boston’9
floating hospital service. The boat that
bore Boston’s hopes for yatching honors
in 1893 will not help one of Boston’s worth
iest charities.
The Pilgrim is a steam yacht. A failure
as a sailing racer, she was converted into
a steamer after her defeat in the trial
races which the Vigilant won, and was
owned by L. G. Burnham, of Boston. Mr,
Burnham died a short time ago, and Mrs.
Burnham has given tho yacht to the Float
ing hospital as a memorial to Mr. Burn
ham.
The Pilgrim will be used to tow the hos
pital boat on its harbor trips. A consid
erable sum has been expended every yeai
for towboats. Most of this money can now
be saved and devoted to the comfort ol
the little ones on their trips during th«
summer.
CHILDREN SHOWED IT.
XfTeot vt Their Warm Orliik In the
Morninir.
“A year ago 1 was a wreck from cof
fee drinking and was on the point of
giving up my position in the school
room because of nervousness. cia
“! "'as telling a friend about It and
she said. ‘We drink nothing at meal
time hut I’ostum Food Coffee, and it is
such a comfort to have something va
can enjoy drinking with the children.’
"I was astonished that she would al
low the children to drink any kind of
coffee, hut she said Dostum was tho
most healthful drink in the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that tlie condition of both the children
flail adults showed that to he a fact.
"My tlrst trial was a failure. The
cook 1101 led it four or five miuutes and
it tasted so fiat that I was in despair
Iml determined to give it one more
trial. This time we followed the direc
tions and boiled it fifteen minutes af
ter the boiling began. It was a decided
success and 1 was completely won by
Its rich delicious fiavour. In a short
time I noticed a decided Improvement
in my condition and kept growing bet
ter and better month after month, until
now 1 am perfectly healthy, and do my
work In tlie school room with ease and
pleasure. I would not return to the
nerve--destroying regular coffee for any
money.”
“There's a Reason.” Read the fa
mous little "Health Classic,” "The
Road to Wellvllle,” in pkgs.
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