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Braids and the old-fashioned "saw tooth trimmim', made • 112 heavy satin rib bon are bint! much used for garnitures on hot 1 ! jackets and skirts. The new skirts sho-.v a return to the graceful plaited styles that are so much more be coming tliau the circular effects lately in vogue. A ■ wA ' <' JSmjL \ \ .1 1 'fey \ 2/0/ j Ladies' Fancy Waist in light yellow taffetas plaited into a square yoke of cream colored Irish lace. The yoke ex tends across the front only, and is fin ished with a narrow lace band or silk edging. Ihe collar and cuffs arc of the same lace and finished with edging to match. The back has three tucks 011 each shoulder, stitched down for about five inches. The pattern 2tot is cut 111 sizes 32. 34, 36 and 38 inclu s bust meas ure. Price 15 cents. Ladies' plain shirtwaist without lining. The very newest idea for waists of flan nel, challie, silk, madras or linen. The Mealthy and Happy on Twelve Cents a Day. 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My restricted diet, now that 1 have a good salary, is simply a matter of choice. It is the healthiest and happiest way to live." Facts From Many Lands. A substitute for wirt'less telegraphy, limited, however, in its application, has been invented by an officer of the artil lery branch of the United States army. Simple signals can be given by mean* of an enormous shutter, with slats a foot wide. These slats are painted various colors and are operated by a lever. The present high cost of the wireless sys tem may give the shutter an important place in the signal service. Maurice Chaulin, a French inventor, has perfected a clever apparatus for kill ing mosquitoes. It consists of a small lamp—electric or oil—hung between two rings, the rings being connected with tiny vertical and parallel chains. These chains are charged with a current of electricity, sufficiently strong to kill in stantly a mosquito which touches anv two of them at the same time. The litrht in the lamp, which is entirely sur rounded b yfhese chains, attracts these injects to their death. "Dearest," he said, as they were at breakfast, "there is but one fault 1 can find with your doughnuts." "What is it, George?" "You make the boles entirely too small." PTCTORTAL. MAGAZINE AM) COMIC SECTION A CENTURY OF .ROMANOFFS Continued from first page. be assassin, a pri>oin r, and, approach ing him quietly, ordered his removal. At that moment came the second ex plosion, which .shook the whole city, and a minute or two later, when the Grand Duke Michael bent over the mangled body of his brother and asked him if he wished to be removed to a nearby house, he caught these faint words: "Quick, home—carry to palace—there die." CZARS AS HOME LOVERS AND HOMF. MAKERS. In these last words of a great em peror stands revealed the latter day Romanoffs' love of home and family. Historians unite in declaring that both Alexander II and his son and successor, the third Alexander, in their home life were above reproach; and though Nich olas 11 is being damned for many things these days, even his bitterest enemies credit him with a good husband and father, and an intense lover of his home. The apple of Alexander Ill's eyes wa his son George. It was pathetic to see the father, a giant in stature, with the strength of an ox, with hapds that could crumple a plate of silver, tagging around after and doing the bidding of this delicate boy. One day the two went out hunting. The lad shot a duck, which fell into what looked to be a shallow stretch of water. The boy plunged in after the game, only to find himself swiftly sink ing in a treacherous bog. His cries brought his father, whose great strength enabled him to extricate his son, even after the latter had been swallowed by the hog up to his neck. Both returned to the palace wet through and chilled, and the boy in a high fever. In the middle of tlte night the father wished togo to the boy's room to see how he was. The Czarina, thinking of her husband, objected, say ing that the trip through the long, windy corridors to the other end of the palace would be dangerous, especially as he was still chilled from his experience of the afternoon. The Czar had never been abfe to stand up against the pleadings of bis wife; he lay back in bed, feigned sleep, and she, thinking that she had ac complished her object, returned to her room. A little later the Czar, clad only in a bathrobe and slippers, was quietly slipping to his boy's room. There he remained f.ir some time watching beside the sleeping child before returning to bed. A day or two later the chill had sei tled in the CzaFs vital organs; how it came to do so was brought out by the doctor's questioning. And a few weeks after that the Czar was lying cold in death. "THANK GOD FOR WORONZOFF!" Another story of this same Czar's parental tenderness has been told 'round the world. When Alexander traveled by rail his train was always divided in four sec tions, that the Nihilists would not he able to locate the section in which he was secreted and thus blow it up. But, despite this precaution, the bomb throw ers did ascertain once on which section the Czar would travel, and it was promptly blown to bits. The Czar succeeded in extricating the Czarina, his daughter and himself from the wreckage, strewn with dead and dying guards. A little group, they stood, unguarded and in the midst of carnage, on the barren steppe. Suddenly the nerves of the child gave way; she flung herself into her father's arms and sobbed out: "Oh, papa, now they'll come and mur der us all!'' And the Czar, oblivious to the prob able truth of his child's heart cry, com forted her, and was discovered so en gaged when protection arrived. Alexander 111 was not without a sense of humor; its possession is a saving grace to a Czar even. It was while he was Czarevitch that he assumed command of the famous Preobrajenski regiment, a portion of which recently revolted against the Czar. Shortly after he had taken com mand it became necessary for the names of the officers to be read to him. Ger man name after German name was reeled off. Clear down to the letter "W" not a Russian name was read. Then "Woronzoff!" was sung out. "Thank God for Woronzoff!" ex claimed the Czarevitch, with a dry smile and a sigh of relief. During his fatal illness the Czarina, the present dowager Czarina, was in constant attendance at her husband's bedside. They held hands like two lovers by the hour. One day, turning to his physeian, the sick man, who had been told that death was only a ques tion of weeks at best, exclaimed: "I have even before my death got to \ know an angel." His son, Nicholas 11, said something worthy to be coupled with that at the time his first child was horn. With tears in her eyes the Czarina asked the forgiveness of her husband because it was not a boy. "I am extremely pleased to have a little girl," he said, as he comforted her. "This child is ours, and ours alone. If a son had been born it would not have been so. lie would have belonged to Russia.'' It is not of record that he reiterated this sentiment as daughter followed daughter, even to the number of four. However, in this case, like father, like son. No matter how late he reached home, Alexander 111 would seek out his sleeping babies, kiss them, and cross himself over them. No matter how troublous the times, Nicholas II is re ported to romp daily in care-free fash ion with his five children. "What is Nicholas II?" asked Clem ertceau, now grown to be the greatest one-man power in all France, when the young man ascended the throne of his fathers. And he answered his own query in these words: "Nobody knows, possibly not even himself." Twelve years have come and gone since that day. In this time the Czar, either wittingly or unwittingly, has done and caused to be done mam things that should give a good idea as to the manner of man that he is. But to-day, as yester year, the question is heard 011 every hand, "What is Nicho lass II?" By the token of numerous widely antipodal answers it is plain that, excepting the Nicholas of the home, "nobody knows." And shall we add, "possibly not himself'? But, for that matter, what was the other Nicholas? What the first Alex ander—the second—the third? When the people of St. Petersburg shouted for "Constantine and a Consti tution"— Constantine was Nicholas' weak-minded elder brother—and naively a-kod if Constitution was Constantino's wife, Nicholas mowed them down with ■ cannon and fed them to the Neva through holes cut in the ice. Yet he pave his last breath to a plea for the freedom of the serfs. His son freed them; he also turned Poland over to the mercies of Mouravieff, surnamcd "the hangman." In the treatment of his fam ily no man could have shown a tenderer, bigger heart than Alexander 111. He it was who persecuted Nonconformists, Jews and Polish Catholics until the whole world rang with the horror of it all. The first Alexander was one of the three parties to the Holy Alliance, formed to stamp oilt the spread of re publican ideas. Yet when he came to die he said: "They may say of me what they will, but I have lived and died a republican." What is the modern Czar? A crowned Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? It is a question the right answer to which bafflles the conscientious historian. A MATTER OF MIND By JAMES EDMUND DUNNING. (Copyright.) The policeman I had been noticing for some minutes came across the station to where 1 awaited my train. He car ried a printed paper. "Where are you going, sir?" he asked me, looking to the paper and hack again. I had just bought a Providence ticket, but 1 replied: "Excuse me, but I'm not sufficiently decided to inform you." He did not seem so indignant as I ex pected, but smiled with an indulgent kindliness which angered me. "No offence, sir," he continued, "only —well, aren't yoit Mr. Martin—Gerald Martin, of Philadelphia?" "I'm not obliged to reply to such im pertinence,'' I said. "No; but aren't you?" "What ?" "Mr. Martin, of Philadelphia?" "No!" I replied, in a way intended to settle our growing difficulty. "I see," remarked the fellow, with amazing effrontery, because I could not understand what he could see; "then, sir as a special favor to an officer in the discharge of his duty, will you tell me who you are?" "A duty?" I asked incredulously. "An important one, sir," he replied, so earnestly as to win me. I picked up my bag to enter the Provi dence train. "Since you insist," I said, "I'll tell you my name is—my name—is —why—officer " Horrible, indeed! I could not recall it I The more I tried the less I could. It was a most astounding psychological incident. I was interested, but annoyed. The policeman enjoyed another in dulgent smile and made a sign which brought up two men; they must have been watching us. I did not find myself able to respond with sincerity to their greetings. One, a tall youngster, ad dressed me most familiarly. The other stared. "I'm not Gerald Martin," I said, laugh ing in spite of my mortification, "and but for the rather brutal way in which yon have assailed me I could not have been placed in this embarrassing posi tion. I've been working hard of late, I think, and " "What's your business, sir?" queried the silent member, suddenly. They all seemed deeply interested. "Nothing regular, you know," I re plied, conscious of a sense of impro priety in such an answer, though it was i the best I had. 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The young man who spoke little but looked at me hard said: "And how long have you lived in Bos ton, Mr Marsh?" "Oh," T answered, "not—not so long, you know —not so long." Really, it seemed to me that the time was of no importance just then. They spoke in low torn until my quiet acquaintance said: "Mr. Marsh, we are in a very difficult situation. We cannot get out of it with out your aid. I beg you will not insist on our at present informing you of the details. I want to ask you if. as a very special favor, to help persons in deep distress, you are willing to join our party and accompany us to Philadelphia, free of expense, and at a reasonable com pensation for loss of time." "How long?" I asked, wondering what was coming next. "Two or three days—perhaps," he re plied. "Yes," I agreed; "I will go if it will do you a service—because you seem to be agitated to an extraordinary degree." We started for Philadelphia with no delay, and 1 found myself in company whose agreeable manners were tem pered with a respectful reticence. On nearing our carriage at Camden station I halted and said: I insist that before going further I be "Gentlemen, you mu«t excuse me if I insist that before going further T he admitted to a knowledge of our errand." The slender youth seemed fit for re monstrance; but the other, whom I had begun to like, interrupted: "To be sure. Well, then, T am Doctor Wrangle—this Mr. Harold Martin, son of Mr. Gerald Martin —>—" "My double, I suppose?" I said. "Yes," replied the doctor, and I won dered what about his face reminded me of that policeman. "As to our errand," he continued, "Mr. Martin most mysteriously disappeared three weeks ago. We are searching for him, and we want you—a practical law yer with plenty of leisure, to take up the hunt as an entirely unprejudiced per son. The best detectives have failed. We have been seeking a man exactly— yes, I may say exactly like you." "You display astounding confidence in a stranger," I suggested. "We are desperate," replied he. "Mrs. Martin is frantic with grief and appre hension. Will you allow us to put you in entire charge of the search for a suf ficient period to make a study of the case?" I got into the carriage. At the door young Martin led the way past a pretty maid into a house set with obvious elegance. It occurred to tne that the missing Martin lived well when he was at home. The doctor and I waited. Harold ran upstairs. I heard a door un latch, and a woman's voice cried some thing indefinite. I hen Harold broke in: "Yes, mother," he said; "we've found him." The door closed. T found the doctor regarding me intehtly.. "Well, sir," he remarked, as if expect ing me to say something of importance. "Mrs. Martin was expecting me, then?" I inquired. "Expecting you?" _ _ "Yes—or some one in my capacity." "Yes." The doctor led the way to ward what looked like a library. "We needed you desperately." "It's very flattering to be in such de mand," I replied. "You'll be better than Jolworthy, the police detective who has been bungling the case," returned the doctor. "He has been outrageously careless of Mrs. Mar tin's feelings. This is Mr. Martin's library." "Martin lived well, anyway," I said. "A bookman, wasn't lie?" "No, a lawyer." "A good one, then." "Yes; good to all but himself." "How?" "Overwork. HisTast murder trial fin ished him." I surveyed the room in detail. It over flowed with elegance. "I've discovered a clew, doctor," I cried, as I stood before a ripping col lection of Byzantine teapots. He was by my side instantly, all alive. "Don't start," said I. 'Tve only dis covered that Martin was out of his mind. No sane man could stay out of this library three successive weeks and live." "Don't trifle, please," said the doctor, looking pained. But my opinion of Martin was fixed. "No sane man could quit these teapots three weeks." I repeated. "No proper mind could be lured from these Mon golian ivories, or these amazing brasses, or this luxurious Thackeray; hence, the poor devil is mentally askew. Clew one for me; has Jolworthy so much?" The doctor only pointed to the library table. "Look over his papers," he said; "his diarv is there, too, at the top of the pi'e. He was hot over the trial, you will see." 1 read aloud the last entry: "Jury has now been out twenty-eight 1 tirs. My head spins. I'll walk in the park an hour to tone me up." "That," I declared, "is where Martin went to smash." "It is," assented the doctor. "Can't you sotne way connect that jury business with the mystery? Can't you make that and the Walk in the park and the dizzy head mean something to you? Put your self in his place. Mr. Marsh, can't you?" "Can't see it," I replied. "I'm not a Vidocq, you know. In short, I make nothing out of it." "Nothing at all!" cried young Martin, in a despairing voice. T turned to see him at the door with a lady whom I supposed was his mother. They had been eavesdropping, and I did not like that. I bowed formally. In spite of Wrangle's detaining hand, Mrs. Martin, a most attractive person, I must admit, came quickly to my side and sank down with her arms about me. "My darling!" she whispered. "Won't my love help you to see it all as it is?" I leaped to my feet and flung the wo man off. Wrangle's face was an added insult. "By heaven, sir!" I cried; "if this is a joke, well sir," and I started for the door, "I don't wonder poor Martin left home." Just then the detestable Jolworthy en tered. 1 read insolent intentions in his eyes and met them in perfect kind. "They've enough of you, sir," I growled, savagely as I could. He grinned insultingly. "Oh, drop this bluff," he said. "It makes me tired." ''Will you leave, sir, and let me finish tny business with these people?" I de manded, very angry. Jolworthy sneered audibly. I started for him. lie dodged around the library table. I vaulted over it. As I alighted Jolworthy, possibly somewhat cut up by my violence, extended his fist quite vigorously. Something cracked back in my head, and I could do nothing but fall on the floor. It will always seem that it was a very long while later when I awoke. The slender youth and his mother were over me. They looked strangely alike—then it began coming back. Why, 1 was in my house. My wife and hoy? " " "Mr. Marsh," he said, "arc you bet ter ?" I was irritated. "Harold," I cried, "what's the matter with you? Don't you know your own father? Who is Marsh, and what's the matter with my head. Helena, how does all this happen? Why, Helena!" My wife threw a towel one way and a bottle of camphor the other, after which she shrieked in a loud voice and cast her arms about my neck. I will not say what she said into my left ear. I discovered that my right ear was cov ered with a huge damp towel. Harold was yelling like an Indian buck. And then that great boy kissed inc. 1 was angry. "Be quiet, you silly people!" T cried, striving to look not too deeply disgusted over such hysteria. "Now, tell me, did the jury report?" Harold whooped and Helena began to cry. "Harold," I commanded sternly, "something has happened. Tell me!" "Yes," cried Wrangle, who had been standing behind me all the time. "Tell him, Harold, all of it—beginning with three weeks ago." I reared my son to be truthful at all times, but I did not believe all he then =aid. After he had done I turned to Wrangle; "What brought tne out of it?" "That thundering rap Jolworthy gave you," he answered, grinning. "I don't know who Jolworthy is," said I, going over to Helena and taking her in my arms then and there; "but, white or black, or whatever, I insist that he he invited here to dinner and that the best in the house be his." But Helena did not seem to care about Jolworthy. CASCEH CI'RED BY ANOINTING WITH OIL. 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