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Health will be found ' to be the chief topic of conversation at one, bridge at another, stocks at another, and the menu at yet another A Joke is rare; it is rarer still that one hears any remark worth remem bertog, and no one ever appears to be. thoroughly determined to have a good time. High spirits are certainly at a. discount; the joy of living does not appear to be understood. And yet in good hotels and boarding houses visl- ' tors are represented by all classes of society that count What shall we do to be gay? One reason why stamps in the fu ture will- bear the names of the cities whence they, are issued is the difficul ty thus put in the way of stamp thieves. At present stamps consti tute one of the most readily negotiable forms of plunder obtainable owing, of course, to the universal use of postage stamps and the consequent difficulty of tracing ownership. Even when nearly $100,000 worth of stamps were stolen from the Chicago post office it was impossible to get clews for detect ing the criminal. The United States is not the irst country to place the names of the cities of issue on the stamps. Mexico has done it for years, Liberia has the names of five princi pal towns on the stamps designed for their respective use. But no nation hitherto has entered upon the plan to the extent proposed at Washington. Fully 6.000 cities will be provided with distinctive stamps. In the case of 26 of the largest cities the name of the respective city and state will be engraved as a part of the basic design of the stamp, whereas in the case of the thousands of smaller cities the name wfll in each instance be printed across the faces of the stamps after they have been impressed in the regu lar color. The Kaiser's imperial garage is now pretty fine, having recently been add ed to in a most sumptuous manner, says a Berlin correspondent The new motors are all electric and fitted in the most luxurious manner possible, .besides being models of practical equipment Pale turquoise is the color of the rich upholstery in silk brocade, the walls and four seats of each car being covered with this ma terial. Small letdown tables, wall cupboards, clock and book rests in natural wood and ivory complete the fittings of the imperial carriages. His electromobiles are painted ivory white on the Inside, with touches of blue and gold, and doors and back panels of the vehicles bear the motto, a par ticularly appropriate one for motor ists, "Gott mit uns," above the impe rial crown. The chauffeur's seat is to pale blue leather. It is interesting to note how rapidly the members of the English royal fam ily are dividing up the spoils of Eu rope. An English princess is on the throne of Norway; another, Princess Margaret of Connaught, will some day wear the Swedish crown. The daugh ter of the late Princess Alice, King George's sister, is now the Czarina, the son of the Duke of Albany is Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh is Crown Princess of Roumania, the Crown Princess of Greece is a daugh ter of King Edward's eldest sister, 'while a daughter of Princess Henry of Battenberg is on the Spanish throne. The agent of a Canadian railway ar rived to St Petersburg not long ago, seeking laborers who were wanted to construct a new transcontinental line. He did not get them, the authorities .being of the opinion that it was not desirable that Russian workmen should be brought into close contact with American workmen. The British Royal Commission says -that milk gives you tuberculosis, and Prof. Wiley says whisky coagulates yoar protoplasm. The other iagredl eats of the milk punch probably cor rugate your diaphragm, so what's the use? A real service -has been rendered by the scientific sharp who discovered that "a $2 gold piece has an odor dis tinctly Its own." Few have been ac quainted with one long enough to find it oat for themselves. Excessive use of cigarettes is of fered as the extenuating plea of a St Louis youth arrested for making love over the telephone. Slace the Thaw" trial began pathological excuses have the fashion for every sort of A amall table that had been many years, to an alms house at Bristol, eat recently with other furniture to an auction it was recognised as a Chippendale and sold for $3C7.5t. - - v fa Tfc t j ntannuw anuuan) hkJ "BmammW m K nammBmBmamnv m aV. ' mmmmmmmamumfU- HUS f BBBBw' bA . 5UBUBUnnk UUBUBUBUUBUBUBUBUUUn. Ifiyr S BnmmmBx0BmBmmBf ammmmmBmBv THE DELUGE UMDGOAiVMVtJMIJPS,A&aHrc'ySFCQSn CHAPTER XXJC Continued. "I have only contempt for a woman who tries to hold a man when he wishes' to go," said Anita, with quiet but energetic bitterness. "Besides" she hesitated an instant before, going on "Gladys deserves her fate. She doesn't really care for him. She's only jealous of him.- She never did love him." "How do you know?" said I sharp ly,, trying to persuade myself it was not an ugly suspicion in me that lifted its head and shot out that ques tion. "Because he never loved her," she replied. "The feeling a woman has for a man or a man for a woman, without any response, isn't love, isn't worthy the name of love. It's a sort of baffled covetousness. Love means generosity, not greediness." Then "Why do you not ask me whether what she said is true?" The change In her tone with the last sentence, the strange, ominous note in it startled me. "Because," replied I, "as I said to her, to ask my wife such a question would be to insult her. If you were riding with him, it was an accident" As if my rude- repulse of her over tures and my keeping away from her ever since would not have justified her in almost anything. She flushed the dark red of shame, but her gaze held steady and unflinch ing upon mine. "It was not altogether by accident" she said. And I think site expected me to kill her. When a man admits and respects a woman's rights where he is him self concerned, he either is no longer interested in her or has begun to love her so well that he can control the savage and selfish instincts of pas sion. If Mowbray Langdon had been there, I might have killed them both; but he was not there, and she, facing me without fear, was not the woman to be suspected of the stealthy and traitorous. "It was he that you meant when you warned me you cared for another man?" said I, so quietly that I won dered at myself; wondered what bad become of the "Black Matt" who had used his fists almost as much as' his brains in fighting his way up. "Yes," she said, her head down now. A long pause. "You wish to be free?" I asked, and my tone must have been gentle. "Irtish to free you,"-she replied slowly and deliberately. There was a long silence. Then I said: "I must think it all out 1 once told you how I felt about these matters. I've greatly changed "my mind since our talk that night in the Willoughby; but my prejudices, are still with me. Perhaps you will not be surprised at that you whose pre judices have cost me so dear." I thought she was going to speak. Instead she turned away, so that 1 could no longer see her face. "Our marriage was a miserable mistake," I went on, struggling to be just and judicial, and "to seem calm. "I admit it now. Fortunately, we are both still young you very young. Mistakes in youth are never fatal. But, Anita, do not blunder out of one mistake into another. You are no longer a child, as you were when 1 married you. You will be careful not to let judgments formed of him long ago decide you for him as they de cided you against me." "I wish to be free," she said, each word coming with an effort, "as much on your account as on my own." Then, and it seemed to me merely a truly feminine attempt to shirk re sponsibility, she added, "I am glad my going will be a relief to you." "Yes, it will be a relief," I con fessed. "Our situation has become intolerable." I had reached my limit of self-control. I put out my hand. "Good-by," I said. If she had wept it might have modi fled my conviction that everything was at an end between us. But she did not weep. "Can you ever forgive me?" she asked. "Let's not talk of forgiveness," said I, and I fear my voice and maimer were gruff, as I strove not to break down. "Let's try to forget" And 1 touched her hand and hastened away. When two human beings set out to misunderstand each other, how fast and far they go! How shut-in we are from each other, with only halting means of communication that breakJ down under the slightest strain! As I was leaving the house next morning, I gave Sanders, this note for her: "I have gone to live at the Down town hotel. When you have decided what course to take, let me know. If my 'rights' ever had any substance, they have starved away to such weak things that they collapse even as 1 try to set them up. t I hope your' freedom, will give you happiness and me peace." . "You are ill, sir?" asked my old servant, my old friend, as he took the note. "Stay with her, Sanders, as long as she wishes." said I, ignoring his ques tion. "Then come to me." His look made me shake hands with him. As I did it we both re membered the last time we had shaken hands when he had the roses for my home-coming with soy bride. It seemed to me I could smell those roses. XXXI. COMES TO LANGDON THE SUR. FACE. I shall not estimate the Tast.sums It cost the Roebuck-Laagdon clique to saaintato the prices of National Coal, and so give plausibility to the fiction that the public' was buying eagerly. In the third week of my campaign. Melville was so deeply involved that he had to let the two others take the whole burden upon themselves. In the fourth week, Langdon came to me. The interval between his card and himself gave me, a chance to recover from my amazement When he car tered, he found me busily writing. L Though I had nerved myself; it" wan several seconds before I ventured to lookout him. There he stood, prob ably as handsome, as fascinating as ever, certainly as self-assured. But I could now, beneath that manner I had once envied, see the puny soul, with its brassy glitter of the vanity of luxury and show. I had been some what afraid of myself afraid the sight of .him would stir up in me a tempest of jealousy and hate; W I looked, I realized that I did not know my own nature. "She does not love this man," I thought "If she did or could, she would not be the woman I love. He deceived her inexperience as he deceived mine." "What can I do for you?" said Iito him politely, much as if he were a 'stranger making an untimely inter ruption. My look had disconcerted him; my tone threw him into confusion. "You keep out of the way, now that you've become famous." he began, with a halting but heroic attempt at his cus tomary easy superiority. "Are you 'FOR MONEY- -JUST FOR MONEY! AND MAN!" living up in Connecticut, too? Sam Ellersly tells me your wife is stopping there with old Howard Forrester. Sam wants me to use my good offices in making it up between you two and her family. I was completely taken aback by this cool ignoring of the real situation between him and me. Impudence or ignorance? I could not decide. It seemed impossible that Anita had not told him; yet it seemed impossible, too, that he would come to me if she had told him. "Have you' any busi ness with me?" said I. His eyelids twitched nervously, and he adjusted his lips several times be fore he was able to say: "You and your wife don't care to make it up' with the Ellershys? 1 fancied so, and told Sain ycu'd simply think me meddlesome. The other matter is the Travelers' club. I've smoothed things out there. I'm going to put you, up and rush you through." "No, thanks," said I. It seemed incredible to me that I had ever cared about that club and the things it rep resented, as I could remember I un doubtedly' did care. It was like look ing at an outgrown toy and trying to feel again .the emotions it once ex cited. "-' "I assure you, Matt,,there won! be the slightest' difficulty ," ' His manner was that of a man playing the trump card in a desperate game he feels it, can not lose, yet the stake la so big that he can not but be a little ner vous. "I do -not care to join the Travelers' club," said I, rising. "I must aak you to .excuse me. I am exceediagly busy." A flush-appeared in his cheeks and- deepened and spread until Jus whole body must nave beesf afire. He seat ed himself. "You know what I've come for." he said sullenly, and h My, too; All his life he had upon his wealth. Without realism; It he bad claimed and had received deference aoMvbecaase he was rich. He had thought himself, to his own person, most superior; now, he found that like a-ailly child he had. been standing on a chair aad crying: "See how tall I am." And the airs, the cynicism, tha. graceful condescension, which had been so becoming to him, were now as out of place as crown and robes on a king taking a swim ming lesson. r , 'What are your 'terms, Blackjack? Don't be too hard on an old friend," said he, trying to carry of his frank plea for mercy with a smile. I should have thought he would cut bis throat and- jump off the Battery wall before he would get on his knees to any man for any reason. And he was doing. it for mere money to'ry to save, not his fortune, but only an imperiled part of it "If Anita could see him now!" I thought To hint I said, the more coldly be cause I did not wish to add to his humiliation by showing, him that I pitied him: "I can only repeat, Mr. Langdon, you will have to excuse me. I have given you all the time I can spare." His eyes were' shifting and his hands trembling as he said: "I will transfer control of. the Coal combine to you." His tones, shameful as the offer they carried, made me ashamed for bi- For money just for money! And I had thought him a man. If he had been a self-deceiving hypocrite like Roebuck, or a frank believer in the right of might like Updegraff, I might possibly, in the circumstances, have tried to- release him from my net But hehad never for an instant deceived himself as to the real nature of the enterprises he plotted, pro moted and profited by; he thought it "smart" to be bad. and he delighted in making, the most cynical epigrams on the black deeds of himself and his associates. "Better sell out to Roebuck," I sug gested. "I control all the Coal stock I need." "I don't -care, to have anything further to do with Roebuck," Langdon answered. "I've broken with him." "When a man lies to me," said I, "he gives me the chance to see just I HAD THOUGHT HIM A how much of a fool he thinks I am, and also the chance to see just how much of a fool he is. I hesitate to think so poorly of you as your at tempt to fool me seems to compel." But he was unconvinced. "I've found he Intends to abandon the ship and leave me to go down with it" he persisted. "He believes he can escape and denounce me as the arch rascal who planned the combine, and can convince people that I foozled him into it" Ingenious; but I happened to know that it" was false. "Pardon me, Mr. Langdon," said I with stiff courtesy. "I repeat, I can do nothing for you. Good morning." And I went at my work as if he were already gone. Had I been vindictive, I would have led him out to humiliate himself, more deeply, if greater depths of humiliation there are than those to which he voluntarily descended. But I wished, to spare him; I let him see the uselessness of his mission. - He looked. ..at me ,in silence the look of hate that can come only from a crea ture weak as well as wicked. I think it was ail his keen sense of humor could do. to save him. from a melo dramatic outbreak. He slipped into Perforated Sails Beneficial Although the assertion recently madeby an Italian sea captain that the power of sails was increased by their being perforated was ridiculed, it has just been proved that he was right, His theory was that the force of the wind cannot -fairly take effect on an inflated 'sail because of the cash ion of immovable air that ills up the hallows. To prevent the creation and presence of that cushion, he pierced his sail with many holes, through which the wind blew, the balance of the air pressure striking against the ate habitual pos, rase aad withdrew wltheut anotherrwerd. An that fright aat groveling and'treachery for plun der the loss of 'which would not Im pair his fortuneplunder " he had stolen ,wtth many- a jest aad gibe at his helpless victims. Like moat of oar debonair dollars chasers, he was a good sportsman only when the game was with him. -That afternoeahe threw his Coal hoMtogs on the market in great f blocks.' His treachery took Roebuck completely by. surprise for. Roebuck believed in this fair-weather, "gentle man." foul-weather , coward, aad neg lected to allow for that quicksand that Is always 'under the foundation of the man who has-inherited, not earned, his wealth. But for the blundering credulity of rascals, would honest men ever get their dues. Roebuck's brokers had bought maay thousands of Langdon's shares at the high arti ficial price before Roebuck grasped the situation that it was not my fol lowers recklessly gambling to break the prices, but Langdon unloading on his "pal." As soon as he saw, he abruptly withdrew from the market When the Stock Exchange closed, Na tional Coal securities were offered at prices ranging from 11 for the bonds to two for the common and three for the preferred offered, and no takers. "Well, you've done it" said Joe, coming with the news that Thomley, of the Discount and Deposit bank, had been appointed receiver. "I've made a beginning," replied I. I had decided to concentrate upon Roebuck, because he was the richest and most powerful of "The Seven." For, in my pictures of the three main phases of "finance" the industrial, the life insurance and the banking he, as arch plotter In every kind of respectable skulduggery, was neces sarily in the foreground. My original intention was to demolish the Power Trust or, at least, to compel him to buy back all of its stock which he had worked off on the public. I had col lected many interesting facts about it, facts typical of the conditions that "finance" has established in so many of our industries. For instance, I was prepared to show that the actual earnings of the Power Trust was two and half times what its reports to stockholders al leged; that the concealed profits were diverted into the pockets of Roebuck, his sons, 11 other relatives and four of "The Seven," the lion's share go ing, of course, to the lion. Like al most all the great industrial .enter prises, too strong for the law and too remote for the supervision of their stockholders, it gathered in enormous revenues to disburse them chiefly in salaries and commissions and rake offs on contracts to favorites. I bad proof that in one year it had "written off" 12 millions of profit and loss, lv millions of which had found its way to Roebuck's pocket. Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane. To dislodge him was the di rect way to collapse it I was about to set to work when Langdon, feel ing that he ought to have a large sup ply of cash in the troublous times I was. creating, increased the capital stock of his already enormously over capitalized Textile Trust and offered the new issue to the public. As the Textile Trust was even better bul warked, politically, than the Power Trust it was easily able to declare tempting dividends out of its lootings. So the new stock could 'not be at tacked in the one way that would make the public instantly shun it I could not truthfully charge that it would not pay the promised divi dends. Yet attack I must for that issue was, in effect, a bold challenge of my charges against "The Seven." From all parts of the country in quiries poured in upon me: "What do you think of the new Textile is sue? Shall we invest? Is the Textile) company sound?" I had no choice. I must turn aside from Roebuck; I must first show that while Textile was, in a sense, sound just at that time, it had been unsound, and would be unsound again as soon as Langdon had gathered in a suffi cient number of lambs to make a battue worth the while of a man deal ing in nothing less than seven figures. I proceeded to do so. The market yielded slowly. Under my first day's attack Textile preferred fell six points. Textile common three. While I was in the midst of dictating my letter for the second day's attack, I suddenly came to a full stop. I found across my way this thought: "Isn't it strange that Langdon, after humbling himself to you, should make this bold, challenge? It's' a trap!" "No more at present," said, I, to my stenographer. "And don't write out what I've, already dictated." 1 shut myself in and busied myself at the telephone. Half an hour after I set my secret machinery in motion, a messenger brought me an envolope, the address type-written. It con tained a sheet of paper on which ap peared, in type-writing, these words, and nothing more: "He is heavily short of Textiles." It was indeed a trap. The new is sue was a blind. He had challenged me to attacic his stock, and as soon as 'I did, he had begun secerUy to sell it for a fall. I worked at thi3 new sit uation until midnight, trying to get together the proofs. -At that hour for I could delay no longer, and my proofs were not quite complete I sent my newspapers two sentences: "To-morrow I shall make a dis closure that will send Textiles up. Do not sell Textiles!" (To be Continued.) canvas and exercising its full ef fect Several experiments have been made on these lines, and the results are declared to have been eminently satisfactory. The Top ef Cotorade. In high mountains there is no state to compare with Colorado. She can claim 407 peaks of an altitude of than 19.000 feet, 395 of more ll.OOO. 223 of more than 12,M9. 14 of more than 13,000, and 33 or than 14.000. FULLING TOGETHER Lttfkmav UFBiiutUT IXTMII f L TRONIZE EACH OTHER. KEEP B0UAR GOWG 'ROUND Da Nat Lt It Cmim fev ily-tending It to the. City tot an Example to Others. The community that will pull to gether, that will work as one man for the general interests, will find an abundance of prosperity. And working together means the spending of the dollars of the com munity within the community. Nor does it mean only that the farmer, the mechanic, the doctor, the preacher, the editor must spead their money at home, hut it means also that ihe merchant must do the same thing. It means that you, Mr. Dry Goods Mer chant must patronize your neighbor, Mr. Furniture Dealer, when you want furniture. It means, that you, Mr. Furniture Dealer, must patronize your neighbor, Mr. Dry Goods Merchant, when you want dry goods. It means that the groceryman must patronise the home implement dealer when he wants a new wagon, and the imple ment dealer must buy his groceries in the home town. It means that whether Mr. Butcher, Mr. Grocery man, Mr. Dry Goods Merchant, Mr. Furniture Dealer, Mr. Hardware Man, or whoever it may oe, that Intends to erect a new building they should buy WA Jr J&kAxn$r. 0-"r ,lTrflgVlfImr rFr bV The keen blade of trade reciprocity will divide the dollars of the com munity among the home people. Keeping the dollars at home will butts' saving accounts at the bank and mak e for general prosperity. Sending them to the city mail-order house wi II bring bankruptcy and ruin to all except the city. the material for that building at home of their neighbor, Mr. Building Material Man. And let us speak a word for Mr. Printer Man also. He Is a part of this community; he contributes to its prosperity; he advertises it, and he is entitled to his place in the circle through which the community's dol lars are to circulate. When you, Mr. Merchant want printing or any kind, give the job to the home printer. The dollar that you spend with him he will again spend with you. and both will make a profit on it. It is but fair that he have this, his legiti mate portion of the home trade. He is as much a part of the community as yourself, and as much entitled to your support as you are entitled to the support of the farmer, the me chanic, the preacher, the doctor. The battle against the mail-order octupus can never be a successful one unless all interests are. actively engaged in it. It can never be suc cessful so long as the merchant wants it preached but does not want to prac tice it himself. The merchant who sends his saving account to the city bank for safe keeping is not entitled to the support of the community whose money he takes from it. The merchant who will not patronize his brother merchants, who makes his visits to the city an excuse for buy ing his own household supplies, sup plies that are not carried on his own shelves, of the city merchants, is not entitled to the support of the com munity. Such a merchant wants to preach but not practice home trade. He wants to do with the community's dollars just what he condemns in others send them away from the community. He would bankrupt the community for selfish interests. There are few, if any, such mer chants as this in this or other com munities, but if there are any here it is not for their benefit that this pa per is preaching home trade to its readers. We hear much of the strength of trusts and combinations. In what does their strength lie? To a large extent in the fact that they control tho trade in the commodities in which they are dealing. They make every dollar they spend an interest earn ing dollar. Let us form a little trust of eur own. Let all of us, merchant, farmer, doctor, mechanic, ' preacher, editor, spend our dollars at home, keep them at home, and we have or ganized a trust of our own that will bring to each of us our share of earn ings on the capital invested. This is not a hard problem to figure out for ourselves. The farmer, let us say, wants a dollar's worth of sugar. He buys it of the home gro ceryman. and the groceryman makes a profit. The grocerymaa buys a dol lar's worth of dry goods, aad the dry goods merchant makes a profit. Tho dry' goods merchant patronises tho dentist and the dentist makes a profit and the dentist buys butter and produce from the farmer aad tho farmer makes a profit So as tho dollar goes around and aroaad a com munity each man into whose keeping it comes makes a profit on the han dling of it aad the dollar grows Into two. But what would have happened had the farmer taken that dollar to buy his greseries of the nwUordor or the tho city far his dry Z- f-MtLnn nf tli wouM have been broken. taatdelsaf woaM have cease earn proflts tk.' Moate of the ebsamasJty. wonM have began earning dollars far the city into which it was sent . , It is the dollar that is spent at home that makes the savings deposits, of the home hank grow; that in creases the wealth of the coamanitn and decreases tho -tax rate. ,Bayiag at home means saving the commun ity. but Mr. Merchant, do not preach this trade at home doctrine unless yon-practice it Yon must buy yeni stock of merchandise to the city tc be sure, but aside from what Is spen. for your stock of merchandise see to it that every dollar it if possible to keep at home remains to the com manity. Keep them circulatiaa among your neighbors, and they will . make money for yoVi as well as foi them; they will ball the home com. munlty, aad make of It a prosperous , community in which your business will grow, and your town holdiags will grow in value at the same time the farmer's acres grow in value. The home trade problem Is a many sided one, and the home merchant's side ef the problem Is not the least of them. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. REASON. FOR ALL THING. Cuts me That Now team Poculiar Haul Orifin in Wledem. It yon are patient enough to ferret it out you will find that there ia a rea son for every little idiosyncrasy we have, for every queer thing we do. Take, for example, the wearing ot widows caps. Why do widows cover their beads with these curious little arrangements of maltoe, crepe and lace? It Is a custom haaded vdowa to us from the Romans, who shaved their heads when they mourned the loss of a dear one. This idea was all right for men who did not mind appearing without a single spear of hair on their heads, but of course it was most un attractive for women. No one, not even a Roman matron, liked to be seen bald-headed, so the women ef the Tiber devised a little cap to hide their baldness, and thus the eastern has come down to us, even though heads are no longer shaved as a sign of mourning. The reason that bells are tolled for the dead is that years ago, when toll ing was first established, the people thought that the sound of the bells frightened away evil spirits who hov ered near the dead. Why do men. and women, too, wear bows on the left side of their hats? The reason is simple enough. When the head covering built upon the dnler of hats of today was first introduced' it was ornamented with a ribbon which went arouad the crown and hung down in two ends on. the left side, reaching below the shoulder. These ends were a sort of anchor, or safety line, aad were put there expressly to be seized when a sudden gust of wind threaten ed to blow the hat away. The ribbons were put on the left side because, as a general thing, the left hand was more apt to be free than the right Eveatu ally these ribbons were knotted in a fetching bow with flowiag ends, aad then they were cut off quite close to the hat, so that they form a very small and stiff bow knot. It is always the custom to throw old shoes after a bride and this queer custom came into vogue when pareats were in the habit of usiag their slip pers to keep their girls obedient aad good. Now the slipper is not really iateaded for the bride, but for the bridegroom, who is supposed to use it for the same purpose the mothei and father of olden times did. "Will" Yourself to , Fortunate is the woman who has successfully cultivated (he habit of sleeping at will, ft Is said that Mis Julia Marlowe can rest htw. scenes of the most exacting plays by her ability to drop asleep Whea she pleases. These little periods of uncoa consciousness are great restorers, aad there need be no special preparation for them. We associate steep with darkness aad bed. but daylight soft couches aad easy chairs are inat a good for sleeping purposes only the power oi wiM-concentratioa is lacking, and that is so general as to be a se rious drawback to good work in all directions. We see woaaen of splendid health aad poise, of straac mihit and we marvel at their "gifta" when the whole secret of their power Jfes to concentration. Of Diotlnnnlaho- Mme. Liza Teaman, the is a granddaughter of tho late era Chambers of Btinburgh. tho orin A iaator and publisher at tfc --a ' work. "Chambers Encyclopedia.- Her ibutct, Jiraoipa ieasnoa, was a we; i anowa portrait painter. 1 MMMiaaH u ft i t Wi ,J.-.; K.'r ra .LAf-H '' Si5t.is2-siiy2r. :&i j&M2i&m tt-.U- ijtogr;.- f