A SIMPLE RUSE
EORGE SCHOYLEK belonged
to an old New York family.
Helen Ganzevoort also belonged
to an ola New York family. George's
branch of the Schuyler family was
poor. Helen's branch of the Gauze-
Toort family was rich.
The parents of both these young people
ple had been the staunches : kind of
friends since they had been old enough
to know what friendship meant , and
friends had the ancestors been for gen
erations back to the time of the stump-
legged Peter. George SchuyKTis :
five years older than Helen Ganze
voort. There was enough of the. same
Dutch idea left in George to make him
a dutiful son as them was enough
of the same Dutch in Helen to make
her a dutiful daughter. George Schuy-
ler had been brought up to believe
that one day he must marry Helen
Ganzevoort. and Helen Ganzevoort
had been brought up to believe that
one day she must marry George
Bchuyler.
The Schuylers were not rich , as lias
been said , and when George was 10 ,
Instead of being sent to college he
was shipped west , to see if he could
pick up a fortune. Helen was at that
time 11 years old , and she did not
feel keenly at all the p.irting with her
prospective husband , and it must bo
confessed that George didn't shed
many tears when he ? nid good-by to
this plain little girl with her hair in
pigtails.
George Schuyler went to San Fran
cisco , and there in the course of nine
years he did manage to pick up what
the farmer calls a * "tidy bit of money. "
George went east twice during his San
Francisco stay , but both times Helen
Ganzevoort was abroad. Thcv wrote
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HE SAW A COUXTHY GIRL IN A CALICO
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to each other once every three months ,
and while there wasn't a line of affec
tion in the letters on either side , there
was enough in them to show that each
felt that the old marriage arrange
ment made by the parents still stood.
George Schuyler was lie years old.
His income now was large enough to
justify him in marrying , and in feel-
hug that he wouldn't have to go to the
bureau drawer every morning to find
his wife's purse. George was going
back to take a bride that he hadn't
seen in nine years , and it's just barely
possible that he didn't feel overly com
fortable at the prospect. As a mat
ter of fact , George Schuyler liked
bachelorhood. Xo woman ever as yet
had stirred his pulse. His gun and his
rod were more to him than all the
women In the world. But George had
been getting letters from his aged
parents , who said that it was time he
came east and went to wooing in earn
est He wrote that he would start
In a week , but that on his way he
was to stop for a few days' fishing
with an old friend on the Beaverkill ,
that ideal trout stream which tumbles
down the southern slope of the Catskills -
kills on its way to Delaware.
George Schuyler took his fly book
and his split bamboo rod on the first
morning after his arrival at his
friend's wilderness lodge and started
out to whip the stream for the
l <
speckled beauties. He was in wading
boots hip high , and down the tttrcam
he went dropping his "coachman" lure
to the surface of every pool where
It looked as though a trout might lurk.
Luck was only fair and the sun was
getting high. Trout don't like the
glare of the midday sun and they keep
away from the surface , no matter how
f tempting the morsel offered for con
I.
sumption. George Schuyler was think
I.i ing about reeling in and going back
i ; to the lodge , when suddenly at a place
where the Beaverskill broadened he
saw a country girl , in a calico dress
and sunbonnet , sitting at the water's
edge. She was listening to the song
of a brown thrasher that , tilting on a
low tree top , was pouring forth its
medley for the benefit of his sunbon-
neted friend.
George Schuyler stopped in mid
stream. He did not wish to disturb
the bird's solo , upon which the listenIng -
Ing girl seemed so intent. He stopped ,
but slipped on a round stone and
splashed the water , which was calm
and still just there. The thrasher went
Into the thicket like a Hash and the
girl turned her head just as quickly.
George Schuyler saw a face under
the shadow of the huge country bon
net that was much more than pretty
ami which had in it that which men
rightly call character. George's fish
erman's cap was off in an instant
' Gojd morn.nus" are allowable in the
wilderness without the formality of
nu i
"I am just about to stop fishing and
go bak to the lodge of my friend ,
Mr. Payson. Can you tell me if there
Is a shorter path than the stream it-
selfV"
The girl nodded brightly. "Yes , "
5 = he said. " 3-011 can take the trail
through the tamaracks. It begins just
here. " Then the girl turned her at
tention once more to the brown thrash-
fr , who gave symptoms of being will
ing lo start his solo once more.
Schuyler thanked the girl courteous
ly and after reeling in his line started
along the trail indicated. When he
reached his friend James Payson's
kdge the first thing he said was : "Jim ,
in the name of all that's lovely , who
is your sunbouneted neighbor with a
voice like a bubbling spring and eyes
fiko those of the girls in old Her-
rick's poems ? "
Jim Paysou laughed. "You must
have run across old Cheney's daughter.
He has 400 or 500 rocky acres with a
little house on them. Mary is his only
daughter , and he put her through Vas-
ar and made quite a lady of her. She
is a beauty and no mistake. Hit jou
first time , eh , old man ? "
Schuyler colored a little and said :
"Well , not exactly hit , Jim. I must
not be hit , you know , but the girl is
attractive and no mistake. "
That evening Jim Payson asked his
7upst if he wouldn't like to go over
and call on old Cheney. There was no
hesitancy in falling in with the pro
posal. They found old Cheney on the
porch smoking his pipe. He was a
white-haired old fellow of the farmer
type , and while he admitted it was
hard wringing crops from the stony
Catskill slope , yet he said he wouldn't
give up his mountainside with its air
and scenery for the best valley land on
the continent. Then George Schuyler
met Mary Cheney. James Payson did
the introducing. Schuyler found his
mountain floAver all that he had ex
pected from the glimpse that he had
caught of its beauty in the morning.
The girl was refinement itself , and as
Schuyler looked at the old fellow
sitting in the porch cornr puffing
contentedly at his corncob pipe he
wondered how this slip could have
come from such a parent stem.
Well , it's better to make it short ,
George ochuyler stayed n Aveek and
then lingered for t\\o more. He wrote
to Xew York that he was enjoying the
fishing. So he was for about an hour
every morning. One day he brought
himself up with a round turn. He
thought of his duty to Helen ( Jauze-
Aroort
He knew in his heart that J.e loved
this girl of the mountainside who had
a voice like one of the veeries that
sing every day at sunset.
That night he went to Mary Cheney
and told her all. He knew somehoAv
that the girl had grown to love him
as he had grown to love her. They
stood on the porch looking down onto
the far-off valley. It AV S twilight and
the veeries and the vesper sparrows
were singing everywhere. He told
tier of his childhood engagement to
Helen Ganzevoort. "I have not seen
her since she was 11 years old , " he
.said. "She cares nothing for me ; she
cannot She doesn't even know me.
The whole thing AA'as a bit of parental
foolishness , but nevertheless there is
the question of my duty. I shall leave
for New Yorl > the day after to-morroAv.
I will see Helen , and upon what she
says and does depends all. I may
have done wrong , Mary , in lingering
here , but I loved you , and let that
fact plead for me. " He left her stand
ing there , just as the last bird voices
of the day were hushed and the whippoorwill -
poorwill took up his nightly chant
Two days later George Schuyler
stood in a FJfth avenue draAving-room
Avaiting for the coming of Helen
Ganzevoort. The lights were bright
On the wall hung a picture of Helen
as he had last known her nine years
before as a child. The eyes seemed
to look at him reproachfully.
There AA'as a light step behind him.
He turned quickly. For a moment
he felt frozen , then the blood went
through him like a torrent In front
of him in evening dress stood the girl
whom but 48 hours before he had left
on the mountainside. "Mary , " he said.
Something like a smile came into the
girl's face. "Not Mary , George , " she
said , "but Helen. " George Schuyler's
mind AA\IS befogged. "I don't under
stand , " he stammered.
"It's easily understood , George , " she
laughed. "You didn't suppose for a
moment , did you , that I wished to
marry a man I never had seen and
Avho I knew was to marry me from
sheer force of duty ? Your mother
told me you were going to stop at the
Beaverkill to fish , and Mr. Payson ,
who is an old family friend , and Giles ,
who is an old family servant and who ,
by the way , made a good farmer , did
the rest"
"Helen , what do you think of me ? "
"I think , George , that you fell In
love with me for what I am , and"
smiling "I think I shall have to take
you for what you are. " Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Quito a Famtly Help.
Newlywed Do you think you can
help me to economize ? "
Mrs. Newlywed Oh , John , I never
told you before. I can do my own
manicuring ! New York Sun.
As a rule , when man has phenome
nal nerve , there Ifl nothing elsp to him.
MACHINE TO BLOW GLASS.
One of the Most Iflarvelons Contriv
ances in the World of Industry.
Glass has at last been successfully
blown by machinery and , as has gen
erally been the case when mechanical
means supersede hand methods , all
1 feats of hand-blowing have been out-
, done.
I The secret of the remarkable inven- .
' ; on is still hidden , but specimens of
the work done have been shown. The
} t-ylinders are of immense size , the larg-
j o. t being thirty inches in diameter and
i ineteen feet long.
The neAV machine is the invention of
John A. Lubbers , a glassblower of Al
legheny , Pa. It has been built at the
Alexandria , Ind. , branch of the Ameri
can Window Glass Company's plant
The process of blowing AA-indoAv glass
is simple in theory , but difficult in
practice. On the end of a long tube
a mass of molten glass is collected.
This is then heated in a furnace and
gradually distended by blowing into a
large tube Avith straight sides.
To accomplish this Avithout the pecu
liar tAAristing and manipulation employ
ed by the human glassblower has puz
zled many clever inventors , and the
Lubbers machine was made successful
only after a great many experiments.
Lubbers has invented several labor-
saA'ing deA'ices and this latest triumph
is likely to make him many times a
millionaire when it is generally in
stalled.
Skilled mechanics from the Westinghouse -
house factories in Pittsburg have been
working behind barred gates and high
walls for months in t\e erection and
installation of the machines , Avhich no
man other than old and skilled em
ployes of the company Avas allOAved to
see.
see.Patents
Patents have not yet been granted
on certain parts of the machines and
therefore the secrecy.
So confident is the company of the
merits of the machine that it is pre
paring to spend thousands of dollars
in its installation in all of the forty-
one plants controlled by it in ATarious
parts of the country.
It Is expected that the device Avill
do nway Avith hand bloAAxrs altogether.
So confided arc the men that this will
be the case that many are getting out
of the business. The better class of
bloAA-ers earn from $ -ioO to $000 a
mouth. NCAV York World.
Modern Antiquities.
The quest for things antique has
led to systematic forgery and imita
tion on the part of d < alers. Paris la
the great center of this deceitful in
dustry , says the Nation. There has
been discovered in tbe suburbs a thriA'-
ing factory for the fabrication of Egyp
tian mummies , cases and all. These
are shipped to Egypt , and in due time
return as properly antiquated discov-
erks.
A funny story is UOAV current aboutt
a collector of medieval things. A cer
tain clever workman in stone made to
the order of a dealer ir medieval an
tiquities a Venetian chimneypiece of
the fifteenth century , and received for
his work some tAvo or three thousand
francs. The dealer shipped the chim
neypiece to Italy , and had it set up
in a palace near Venice , bringing back
to Paris photographs of the palace and
of the chimneypiece iu situ. By means
of these photographs he aroused the
interest of a rich collector , Avho sent
his secretarj- Venice to make sure
that the photographs did not lie. and
on his favorable report , bought the
thing for fifty thousand francs. On
the arrival of the article at his house
in Paris he sent for some Avorkrnen
to open the cases. One of them appear
ed to him to go about the Avork rather
Ciirelpsslj * , and he remonstrated with
the man , Avho answered , "Have no
fear , sir. I know just how it needs
to be opened , for I packed It when it
left Paris. "
Good Supply.
During the early years of his ca
reer as an evangelist the late D. L ,
Moody Avas not quite the practical
man of affairs Avhich he became as he
grew older and his judgment ripened.
A characteristic incident of this pe
riod of his life is A'ouched for by a
correspondent He Avas holding a se
ries of meetings in a small toAAn in
central Illinois , AA'here , Avith his wife ,
he enjoyed the hospitality of a prom
inent citizen. At dinner one day his
fancy was particularly taken with
some cucumber pickles.
"I am very fond of pickles , " he said ,
"and these are certainly the finest I
ever tasted. I Avish I could get some
like them in our market at home. "
"I can give you all you want to take
home AA'ith you , Mr. Moody , " said his
generous hostess.
"But I don't Avant them as a gift I
would like to buy them. "
"Well , of course , if you would rather
have them that way I can pickle a lot
of them from our garden and the
neighbors' , and my husband can send
them to you. What quantity would
you want ? "
"I think a barrel would be enough. "
said Mr. Moody , without a moment's
hesitation. "Send me a barrel of
them. "
But here his more practical Avife in
terfered , and the order was cut
to a small keg.
A Good Gue s.
"John Jones , the patient Avho came
In a little while ago , " said the attend
ant in the out-patient department
"didn't give his occupation. "
"What AAas the nature of his trou
ble ? " asked the resident physician.
"Injury at the base of the spine. "
"Put him doAvn as a book agent"
Philadelphia Press.
When a woman reads her husband's
old love letters , a certain expression
gets Into her eyes , and she says , dis
dainfully : "My , how he has changed , "
TfilM ON TlilAMINKS. ?
ELABORATIONS ON WINTER EVEN-
JNQ GOWNS ARE NUMEROUS.
Simplicity Set nt Xnnnhi br "fy.
Dr ? * * er8 No Plaiiiiie * In
J5e cripUon of Some l r 33C3 tfcat Arc
Not .Extraordinarily Rr p i > * l\-- .
Tor * correspondence :
ANY new enrich
ment. * arc appear-
hi Tor winter
l veiling K o u r. s.
and o a out of more
familiar one. hold |
c 'er with more or j
less of
tion. And the use
of these fancies i *
po Iari. < h .tad the
trick of combining
two 01 more of
them in one dress
Is so oftcMi seen in
model go vim , that
- ' elaborateness is as
oppressive aa ever. Entirely new crim-
mings are made of circles or buttons of
cloth caught together with thread m < * sh ,
and such applications are to be had in
considerable variv of design. Unhap
pily there is little variety in the prices
of the various sort * , for all are high ,
combining AS they do outright newness
with a deal of painstaking hand work.
Akin to this trimming is another where-
cost ol the completed product , is hand
work. Verily , great is hand work ! Em
broidery is by no means the whole story ,
nor do the erstwhile faggotting , couchiny
and kindred tricks tell half the rest The
liking for this general sort of trimming
is so pronounced among stylish dresseni
that any sort of it is voted an addition *
and consequently dressmakers for fash- *
tollable women are busy at it. It is ex
pensive trifling in any form , and when it
i * remembered that it usually is added
to yowns of costly material otherwisa
richb trimmed , it will be understood
chat the whole foots up an alarming
total.
total.To
To do without all these extravagances ,
and yet to rival the attire in which they
figure Is a diUlcult problem. It calls for
much study of what is available , and
then for excellent judgment iu selecting
and iii planning. Some can. others must ,
do without such finery. Those who want
to get in line with it have ahead an
amount of looking about in the shops
thxt is likely to become tedious , but the
case i n't hopeless. To-day's pictures
are from grades of gowns that aren't
ot the wholly unattainable class , and are
but very few of a great many. The first
three pictured models were in the simple
wjiy , "simple" being taken in its current
sense fo/ dressy attire. The first gown
was pale blue gauze over blue silk , its
fancy light blue passementerie finished
with gold brads. Next see a blue soft
silk depending for novelty on its yoke of
criss-crossed blue velvet ribbon. Beside
this is a white moussplline de soie trim
med with made-up ruffles headed by
white silk ribbon flowers , an embellish
ment that the artist has repeated in the
headdress , as is a fashionable trick.
SIMPLE ACCORDING TO CURRENT STANDARDS.
iii the cut-out pieces are silk. In case
of the latter the meshing is complex , and
the central pieces , if sizeable , are made
to bear ornamentation on their own ac
count. This is , in effect , putting trim
ming on trimming , and it hardly need be
pointed that that doesu't spell simplicity.
This is only one of many straws that
show the current stylish dressers have
set. It's no plainness for theirs this
winter.
By the one item of laces the composite
iress-up gown of the winter , if such a
t-omposite could he got at accurately ,
would be kept out of the plain or even
at the simple classification. The lace
.nedalHon craze is past , though even this
Two lace trimmed gowns appear in tha
remaining picture ; a white plain and
fancy figured tulle combined and trim *
med with black chantilly.
Substitution must be a resort of tha
copiers who would reproduce evening
models cheaply. Gowns prepared for dis'
play as expressions of new fashions rud
to costly stuffs and trimmings , much or
which is wholly beyond the means of tli4
average shopper , but by accepting less
expensive goods or trimming , or both ,
there often yes. usually may be s&-
cured a gown that will reflect strongly
aud faithfully the original's beauty at a
snail fraction of its cost. In laces aloni
these show window evening gowns ard
SAMPLE LACE EMBELLISHMENTS.
embellishment is not altogether left be-
uiiid. It msiy not Avith entire safety con-
titute the dominating feature of a
Down's trimming , but in a modest Avay ,
is an accessory to other perhaps more
-rriking trimming , it still is seen in good
ompaiiy. lint in flouncings , edgings ,
tands and falls it is used very freely ,
aid Avith an ingenuity of treatment that
produces many pleasing surprises. Pas-
omenteries are used quite as freely and
ith equal degree of novelty hi applica-
' .on. Being in vast variety , many of the
.imls exceedingly rich , they are produc-
ive of fine results by themselves , but
rhen combined Avith laces and elabora-
lens , as they so often are , the complet-
d goAvus are more than likely to convey
n impression in which complexity niid
cnnty join. In addition to these two
-eneral forms of embellishment , and add-
-e mud' both fo the bean * " fln'1 to the
enough to dishearten most women -who
study them. P.ut there are all sorts of
laces , and Avlui- the very cheapest won't
serve , something far less costly that the
newest excruciation will do nicely. The
same is true of passementeries- herg
the skimper's course is easier , for many
of the inexpensive passementeries are
perfect beauties , and Avhat is best in the
passementerie trimmed gown often is the
manner in which the trimming is arrang
ed. So copying the arrangement in the
cheaper trimming is a comparatively
easy way of securing a satisfactory re
sult
There is a renewed craze for gold and
silver tissues as a foundation for even
ing toilets.
Accordion-plaited skirts will contimn
in favor.
THE SHRINKING OF WU.
Ife "Was n Great Mnn Here , bat I *
China It's liiffercnt.
Wu Ting-fang has shrunk. He Is no
longer "it. " lie is now reduced , in his
own land , to his own level , here Wu
Ting-fang has a job.
Here , the affable , clever , talkative ,
humorous Chinaman was supposed to
bo the biggest and finest representa
tive of his race who has ever existed.
In Washington he was a show. Next
to the President , he monopolized pub
lic attention at the capital. In Kansas
City he was the whole of the show
about a year and a half ago , when th
Commercial Club gave a banquet and
had him as its guest. No one herd
will ever forget the incidents of thai
affair the wild ride across the United
States Iii a private car , when engine
were ordered as one would call fed
hard-boiled eggs , and the record-break *
ing special pulled in just in time ta
give \Vu a place at the waiting board.
Xo one will ever allow to fade from
his mind the gorgeous robes worn by 1
him at the reception to the wora n
next day ; Interminable questions , e
barrassing and racy often ; his persis ;
tent ogling of the fair women , and hia
disgruntled exclamation when they
were ill-favored ; his erratic emotional
stunt ? , and his ride home , when ha
turned himself into a human interro
gation point and became to his escortd
the human "Why ? "
After seeing him , one could fancy
him at home , bossing the Dowage *
Empress or telling the weak-kneed boy
Emperor what was what. Yes. sir ,
there wasn't a doubt that in Chintf
Wu must be as big a. man as Marfei
Ilanna , and maybe as big as Morgan *
And in fancy one could see tha
crowds hurrahing for Wu and beating
cymbals and burning red fire , whila
the Peking Silver Cornet Band played
what sounded like the strains thai
come from the pig-killing section at
the stock yards and take the place ot
"See , the Conquering Hero Comes , " i
China.
Well , all were wrong. Xot one itenj
of the dream was based on fact.
When Mr. Wu got home the band
didn't play and there was no pnradeJ
His job is so small that it is doubt *
ful if it even gives him license to chat
with the ottice stenographer during thd
lunch hour.
Evidently the United States waa
gold-bricked in the urbane Mr. Wu.
There is a proverb somewhere that
reminds one that if one wants to know"
just how much ice a man really cut
and discover the facts about a wonn
an's disposition. See them at home.- ' '
Kansas City Journal.
Mount Coins Tunnel.
The gradients are very severe in th&
Mont Ceuis tunnel , and trains coming
from France , with an incline of end
In forty against them for several milea
at a stretch , when followed by a cur *
rent of air in the same direction , pro
duce what might almost be described ]
as an Inferno. For here , as in ali
other steep tunnels , engines drawing
heavy loads steam along with theis
regulators wide open , emitting hugs
volumes of smoke and steam , and with
an atmosphere of , say , 00 degrees Fah
renheit the discomfort of the custodi
ans of the tunnel may be imagined fai
better than it can be described.
At regular intervals of a kilometei
in the tunnel there is a refuge , 01
"grande chamber , ' ' for the workmen.
This refuge is supplied with compress
ed air , fresh water , a telephone in eaci
direction , a medicine chest , barometei
and thermometer. As it is the practice
of these custodians to go in pairs , If
one man succumbs to the lack of oxy
gen or dense smoke his companion can
render assistance or telephone for fur
ther help. If a man can manage to
drag his swooning com ade inside ona
of these chambers he has merely ta
close the door , turn on the store ol
compressed air , and wait either for tha
tunnel to clear or for a locomotive ta
come to their rescue. Strand Maga
une.
AY orld's Output orMinerals.
The total amount of coal produce *
in the world in 1001 was 789,000,001
tons , of which the United States yield
ed rather more and the whole Britisl
Empire rather less lhan a third. Ger-
many's output was almost one-fifth ,
The United States , the British Empiri
and Germany , taken together , pro
duced six-sevenths of the world's sup
ply. Of the total output of mineral !
the British Empire yielded about one
third of the coal , one-ninth of the cop
per , one-half of the gold , one-eighth ol
the iron , one-fifth of the lead , one-sev
entieth of the petroleum
, one-quartej
Df the salt , one-ninth of the silver , five
eighths of the tin , and one-fiftieth oj
the zinc. More than 4,500,000 person *
are engaged In mines and quarries thf
w rid over. One-fifth
- of them are em
ployed in the United Kingdom and one
third in the British Empire.
Tfce Bone or Contention.
"One government insists on pullini
me one way , " said the Sultan , gloom
ily. "and the next is tugging in thi
opposite direction. "
The eminent counsellor bowed hij
head as an indorsement of the opinion
"Well , what I want to know is this
What am I in this Turkey the wial
bone ? " Washington Star.
Oldest Map of Ro"nTe.
The oldest map of Rome which a
preserved Is the Forum of Urbls cul
In 140 pieces of marble.
American Shoes Tot Britons.
pairs of shoes to British sub
Jects.
When the average woman is ill , sh
Lt ° T ofJmPr * ing it upon peopl ,
that her Illness
TOS brought on bi
" J
"
"over-doing.