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STYLISH TRAVELING GOWN. This one of the nattiest things seen thns season. It is of sage green linen, with thread of lighter color forming the .plaid. The skirt is made with yoke and the front of skirt isin one piece, with two stitched hands and circular ruffle. The corsage is made with box pleat3, the collar, cuff and belt being of all over embroidery. Fashion Notes from Pouris. Paris letter: Among the striking in novations of the season is the advent of short skirts at tho races. Many of the most smartly dressed women are wearing skirts of ankle length ,or a trifle longer, made the same all around. They are cut and hang with infinite particularity and finished with the pop ular (shaped flounce. Of course the short Bkirt has In no way displaced the long skirt, but it has demonstrated its right to acceptance by even tho smartest dressers. Many costumes do sport are made with a view to being worn as short walking suits. Ths meet all the de mand for a dress which can be worn with equal appropriateness for moun taineering, golfing, automobillng, bicy cling or at the races. Quite a favorite material for these gowns is Irish frieze in the oatmeal shade. A favorite cut for the skirt is quite plain with a decid ed swirl from the knees down. The seams are over-laid with cloth of the same color, stitched down. The coat of a new cycling costume is a trim little affair in basque effect behind, with a narrow belt above, passing un der the loose fronts. A small revers collar is faced with modore brown vel vet. One side of the coat is finished off with gold buttons with gold loops fastened over on the other. Bands of stitched cloth around the cuffs finish the sleeves. Another garment for the wheel la In red serge. The top of the skirt is made with a yoke. From this depends the lower part which is made in small tucks, extending to the knee. The coat has a spade front, under which passes a belt of red velvet, the revers being faced in black and white checked satin. Pantaloon of either alpaca, surah or satin de chine are adjuncts of both these costumes. Yachting costumes are generally made in duck, pique or linen, those for such affairs as the Henley regatta and other Important events being general ly of the more dressy materials. A chic yachting suit illustrated Is of navy blue French canvas over taffeta of the Bame color. The skirt Is In nine gores, trimmed with biaa bands of taf feta. Under the bands the silk is In scollops. The coat Is long and loose, with turnover collar and revers feed With silk. The loose sleeve Is finished With turn-back ruff trimmed with silk. A Yeddo straw hat with blue trimming and a white veil are worn with this tilt. Another yachting costume sketched Is In white flannel with a sailor collar. The skirt is trimmed with ,ed silk bands and applique ornama'- rt. The tie is of red silk. The vest is of white flannel stitched with red. A full piece Is let into the sleeve and red buttons are used. The strapped seams are stitched with red ornaments of stitched flannel and red buttons. The corres ponding hat Is of white Tuscan braid trimmed with red velvet. A yachting suit in Turkey red, mad with Louis IV. jacket and trimmed with heavy white braid made for one of Eng "land's sporting duchesses" "has " bec much admired. A very neat boating costume Is in blue alpaca dotted with white. It la made with a plain skirt, the jacket hav ing long flaps In the back. The revers in front are faced with coarse-grained white pique. The jacket opens over a vest of dotted muslin and the stiff white linen collar finished oil with a sailor's tie of blue and white. The golf costume illustrated is of white linen. The waist is tucked on the shoulder with embroidered front, the skirt being drawn with stitched tucks. A boxplaits effect with stitching forms the yoke, and the collar is edged with black, tie and belt being In the same color. The golf skirt shown is of light weight plaid cloth and is worn with a white linen shirt waist, tucked from the shoulder In one Inch tucks. Ordinary gowns of serge, cloth, linen and foulard, for general morning wear for walking and for golf, are made with the short skirt varying in length to suit the purpose for which they are In tended. For all dressy gowns the long skirt, of course, prevails, but there are some very smart gowns of checked taffeta silk made with plaited skirt just touch ing the ground. They may be made with side tucks or boxplaits, widening toward the hem, with blouse to match, but the trimming must be absolutely of its own material with a possible touch of silk braid or stitched band in contrasting color In the finish of the bodice. Some of these dainty frocks are sim plicity itself. One dainty effect is cov ered with pale blue forget-me-nots, the skirt being trimmed with four bands of black velvet ribbon. The waist is a tucked yoke crossed with bands of lace applique and the lace cape which edges it is threaded with black velvet ribbon, caught at the front with buckles of blue enamel. Additional black ribbon velvet is threaded through the lace cuffs and a black velvet belt is worn. The hat is of massed forget-me-nots with these blue chrysanthemums at the front. Another Is strewn with voileta and trimmed with ecru lace, which is used for the yoke and Is put on in two bands of Insertion on the skirt. The sash is of deep violet velvet with lines of vollet on the cuffs. A white rose hat is worn with big black velvet bow on the crown and a Hu Barry veil gracefully draped about the brim. 1 illustrate a lovely new traveling cos tume of sage green linen with thread of lighter color forming a plaid. The skirt Is made with a yoke and the front of the skirt In one piece. There are two stitched bands below this and a circular ruffle. The corsage Is made with plaits, the sailor collar, belt and cuffs being of all over embroidery. The accompanying hat is of green eatin straw with green trimming. As a consequence of the adsorption of the Plaint Railway system, now fully accomplished, the Atlantic Coast line will have a total authorized capitaliza tion In first mortgage bonds, certificates of Indebtedness and capital stock of $147,000,000. As now constituted, the system will extend from Washintgon, li. C, to Tampa and Punta Gorda, Fla., with Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville as the sea port outlets, and Atlanta and Montgom ery as the gateways to the West. WHITE LINEN GOLF COSTUME. h k Sb. ! T TM , S &2 A EOMANCE OF MANY LIVES' ERRORS. BY ERNEST DE LANCEY PIERSON. Author "A Slave of Curcumstances," "A Bargain in Souls," "The Black Ball," "The Cruel City," "A Worn an's Will," "At the World's Mercy," "Tha Scarlet Cypher, "The Secret of the Marionettes." &e. (Copyright, 1902, by De Lancey Picrson) CHAPTER XII. The inuat f Mile noreltr enows a vary pretty embroidered front effect, with tucking on the ihouldere. Th skirt la made with stitched tuck and box pleat affect, stitching forming tha yoke. Tha collar la edged with black, a black and belt fcainf worn. James Elliaon was not the sort of a man who is easily moved or surprised, but the sight o Hendricks standing there, calm and smiling the very per son he had been discussing with his agent for a moment disconcerted him. He began to experience a certain dread of a man who seemed to be so utterly careless of his own safety. So he stood for a moment starting at his visitor in puzzled amazement. He observed that Job had trimmed his beard, was better for a moment staring at his visitor in short, he was in general appearance a very different looking man than when they had met before. "Well, I suppose you are too busy to see me?" said Hendricks, who seemed to enjoy the other's discomfiture. "Certainly. I shall be glad to hear what you have to say," replied Ellison, Quick to recover from his temporary torpor, wishing at the same time that bis visitor was in a place not mentioned in polite society. "lie pleased to walk in, Mr. Hen dricks," as, with a bow and a courtly gesture of his right hand, he motioned toward the open door. Job bowed gravely and strode past him into the room, where he selected the most com fortable chair, dropped into it with a high of relief and waited for the other to speak. He saw that his host, as he closed the door, was still disturbed in mind and that he was struggling to ap pear at. least as cool and collected as his guest, who certainly did not display the slightest embarrassment. Ellison did not sit down, for he seem ed to feel too nervous and continued to walk up and down the room, twisting his gray mustache with hia thin, white fingers and occasionally casting a curi ous glance at his visitor. "Didn't - expect - me, - did you?" said Job Hendricks, after a pause. "I happened up to visit you the other day at Extern, and found that you had de parted bag and baggage and had left no address." "I left one, of course for my friends ' began Ellison, who had now recovered some of his sang froid. "Then you don't want me among your friends ' "1 can't say I do." "You will find that I stick closer to you than a brother not to say a tnend, until I have had my way," replied Job calmly. The speech seemed to waken Ellison out of his lethargy and he came close to the place where Job was seated and glared at him with flashing eyes. "Do you mean to threaten me?" he blustered. "Not at all." "I know you you are certain things have, happened sine we last met. I know now that I have nothing to fear from you." "Then why so excited?" and Job cov ered his mouth with a red hand as if to conceal a smile. "You know all about me, eh? I suppose you learned it from the sneaking gentleman who just came out of your room? Strange that a man of your apparent good sense should put any confidence in the maunderlngs of a hang-dog-looking fellow like that! Don't you see, man, that he would not hesitate to lie if he thought ho could support hiH position and have a claim on your purse?" Ellison began to think that he had been going ahead too rapidly. Job did not seem to bo afraid of anything he spoke confidently. "If you think that I was running away through fear of you, you are very much mistaken," he said after a moment's pause. "As for the information I have received, I believe It is true." He was surprised when Hendricks leaned back in his chair and burst out laughing. His laugh was so hearty that for a moment tho other seemed discon certed and strolled away to tho window to try and collect his thoughts by star ing out on tho street. "I should very much like to know what, your secret bureau (and I have reason to know that you have one) thinks about me. Any information on the subject cheerfully received, as they say when they advertise for missing heirs." And Hendricks laughed again. His manner, his mocking tone, seem ed to anger Ellison more than anything else, for ho started away from the win dow, and, shaking a warning finger at bis visitor, said: "You are an escaped convict, and as such amenable to the law. What la there to prevent me from opening the window and dinner an officer and giv ing you In charge?" Job shrugged his shoulder and laugh ed softly. "I don't see why you should consult me if you want to do a foolish action. Ey all means, if It pleases, call out of the window or from the house top for any one you please." Ellison for a moment eyed him In amazement. Could the story he had heard about this man be true, or had he been deceived? Certainly Job did not behave like a man who was afraid of being arrested, or of anything else. The banker found himself confronted by an enigma that with all his knowledge of men and things he was at a loss how to solve. "You were saying something about poking your head out of the winnow and calling for a policeman," said Job, who seemed to enjoy the other's discomfiture. "Why didn't you think of it a few minutes earlier, when that young jailbird was closeted with you?" Ellison did not reply at once for fear he might make a misstep, but bit his lips to hide his chagrin and turning on his heel walked away from the smiling face of the man he hi thought he had no further reason to fear. "The young man is still confined in jail, and witnout bail. I will give you the credit, Ellison, of having done what you could to set him free," said Job, pursuing another subject. "I ought to be very much obliged." and the banker bowed with an ai.- of grim irony. "Certainly you deserve the compli ment, and it is not in me to withhold it from you." "I thank you again." "And your daughter, what of her?" asked Job after a moment's silence. "What business have you " began Elison. but the other checked him by a simple gesture. "You are not talking to the gallery, my dear sir." Then in a more decided tone: "James Ellison, why will you persist in running your head against a rock? It won't hurt the rock, but it might do damage to your cranial de velopment I know the tremendous se cret about mo that you probably learn ed from that hang-dog-looking fellow you seem to take into your confidence. He said that I was an ex-convict or rather an escaped convict, and a great deal more, probably, to lend truth to his story. Several times Ellison opened his lips to speak, but not a word came from them. "That was what you wanted to tell me, was it not, and yet somehow the words stuck? Well, that is all there is of it. You should thank me for hav ing relieved your mind." Ellison was nonplussed at the cool ness of the statement. Surely the whole story must have been a lie or this man would not have carried it off with such a brave air. "I ask you how your daughter is?" said Job. "She is well, thank you, replied the other feebly, and he dropped into a chair from sheer fatigue, consent that he had played his best card and lost. "I am glad to hear it, for she must have suffered greatly through this terri ble affair. Once the young man Is free and he will be free, won't he, Ellison?" "Oh, I suppose so," carelessly. "You don't seem to take much inter est In the case, my esteemed and moral friend," and for a moment the black eyes of the little man flashed. "Per haps It might be necessary for me to refresh your memory and stir up a bit of enthusiasm. You remember that when I met you first I stated that I was in possession of a paper showing that vou had adopted the daughter of Mar tin Frale in order to keep the fortune in the family, In case of the death of your wife." "Yes yes," and Ellison roused him- self and began to take a keen interest In the conversation. "I have that paper which today might deprive you of every cent you now call your own. So I am, not without rea son, demanding that what I ask you to do shall be done." Ellison winced at what seemed to him such an Insolent speech, but presently he rallied and said with a laugh: "All that you tell mo Is very Inter estinglike a page from one of Monte pin's novels. I should very much like to see this document of which you speak," and ho leaned over tho tabic, his face all eagerness, while Job at that moment seemed suddenly over come; with a cough that caused him to turn his head. After he had settled the paroxsym ho turned around facing the banker and snld pleasantly: "And so you shall so you shall. Of course, I have no reason to make a demnnd on you unless I have the papers to back my statement up." Ellison's eyes brightened, for, looking past this visitor's head he saw a door open afew inches at the farther end of the room and part of a face appear. He made some signs, and while Job was fumbling in the pockets of bis vest a man entered noiselessly and stepped be hind the curtains of a closet against which the table was placed where the two were seated. Ellison, keeping his eyes steadily fixed on the little man, saw that he was still trying to get at the paper, which he had evidently concealed with extra ordinary precaution. He finally extracted what he was looking for, and opening the document, which seemed to be old and time stained, stood up, and held K In on hand, while with the other extended he seemed to be guarding his posession. "Here is the document in the case," he said. "You may look, but you mustn't touch," waving Ellison back. "See and read. There is no reason why you should take it in your hands." Ellison read trie paper over, which, from the signatures and the wording left no doubt in its genuineness. He sat back in his chair and sighed, say ing, after a pause: "Y'es, there is no doubt that you hold me in the hollow of your hand with the document that I signed with Martin Frale nearly 17 years ago. Come closer and listen. I want you to hear some thing that perhaps should be whispered, for a hotel is all ears, as one might say." i Job leaned forward to hear what this revelation was, leaving the precious document on the table. He had hardly moved when a hand reached out from behind the portiere over the closet and took the paper quickly, substituting an other in its place; then a man emerged from his hiding and slipped out of the room without bein: heard by theothers, deep in whispered conversation. It was only after he had gone that Ellison sud denly arose and, changing the calm tone in which he had been speaking, brought his fist down on the table with a bang. "It's no use, Mr. What's-your-name, your attempting to bully me. I don't believe in the existence of the copy of the agreement." eyes?" 'T never say anything of the kind." "But you just saw it before your "I laid it out before you. Here it Is," and reaching over he picked up the paper that had been placed there and opened it, while Ellison seemed to en joy his surprise. "That terrifying document! Where is it?" he exclaimed, displaying a wild hilarity as Job opened the paper he had 1. '"ked up and showed that it was blank. "Now, then." harshly, "what do you mean to do, you scoundrel? You threaten me with your pieces of blank paper!" Job had retreated to the door. He showed evidence of fear at the other's vehemence. "It was not a blank piece of paper, that I showed you, ?fr. Ellison; it was merely a copy of the original, which your confederate gathered in, and which he is privileged to keep! " and then with a laugh he opened the door quickly and went out. (To be continued.) AN AMERICAN POMPEII. California Has a Buried City, Skele tons and All. This Is a recently expressed opinion of Congressman Llttlefleld of Maine: "If It were not for tho newspapers tho jobs which would go through congress are terrible to contemplate. If there were no newspapers at all I don't be lieve I would be willing to trust my self alone In the house of representa tives for IS minutes." Dr. Dunn, who has been selected to fill the chair of Cetlc language at the Catholic university at Washington, Is now at Yale university, and will spend the summer and autumn In the west of Ireland, among the Irish-speaking peoyle of that locality. A small boy went to church alone last Sunday and heard a sermon on the character and cieeds of the strong man of Israel, He came home much dis gusted. "I didn't like the sermon for a cent," he said. "It was nil about Samson, not a word about Dewey or Roosevelt or Funston or Dob Evans or any of the othor fellows." King Edward has once more shown his preference for American artists by asking Robert Lee Keeling, the Wash ington painter, to come to England and paint a miniature of himself. Last summer he painted a miniature of Queen Alexandra. Edgar Cox, a miner, has reached Redding, Cal., after a hard trip across the country from Lassen Buttes, 40 miles east of that place, bringing a story of strange discoveries of even deeper interest than the great crater and the springs and caves of the lava fields. The discoveries are of bones and implements Jenoting a people and a state of civilization existing there many centuries ago. It is believed a second Pompeii may be hidden be neath the lava and igneous rock which was belched In a far remote neriod from the mouth of the grim old crater. A party of timber surveyors inves tigating their way over the rough country south of Nooles pass found within four feet of the surface human bones half petrified. They evidently had lain at much greater depth, but erosion had thinned the crust of earth above them. The skeletons were In various pos tures, as though death had come sud denly upon the ancients, striking them down as they were engaged in the daily routine of life. Next the searchers came upon rude spoons and bowls. They were apparently of stone, but they bore no resemblence to the Indian relics which the travel er sees often in that region. Instruments which perhaps were used as hammers and chisels were found. They, too, were totally un like the known implements of the In dians. Some of the stone articles were of such design that they could not be classified at all. The survey ors became convinced that they had chanced upon relics of a race that antedated the known Indians so far as to have little in common with them. , It was the conviction of the party that the ruins of a settlement or city, possibly ingulfed with its inhabltanta by an eruption of the long extinct volcano, lie beneath the lava and can be reached with comparative ease from certain points where little lava remains. Baltimore Sun, Warrensburg, Mo., has three licensed saloons, each of which pays 2,200 annu ally Into the treasury. They comply with all the law's requirements and aid In Its enforcement, keeping out jolntlsts and bootleggers of all kinds, Warrens burg believes Its asylum to be as near the Ideal as any that can be successfully enforced, The clectrograph of Professor Lan cetta Is now at work In several Italian observatories. It consists of an elevat ed wire or antenna connected to earth) through a coherer, which Is affected by electric disturbances In the air and acts upon a recording appratus. A lightning flash, for example, causes the coherer to ring a bell and make a pencil mark upon a revolving clock dial. With an antenna 40 feet high on an elevation without surrounding obstacles, a thun derstorm can be detected more than CO miles away, and the apparatus Is ex pected to do valuable work In signaling the hailstorms to much dreaded by Ital ian vlne-growera.