» JONATHAN AND JOHN. @hould Jonathan and John fall ont The world would stagger from that bout; With John and Jonathan as one The world's great peace will have be- gun. With Jonathan and John at war The hour that havoe hungers for Will strike, In ruin of blood and tears, With John stand Shoulder to shoulder, hand In hand, Justice and peace shall build their throne From tropic sea to frozen zone. and Jonathan sworn When Jonathan and John forget The scar of an ancient wound to frot, And smile to think of an ancient feud Which the God nations to good. of the When the bond and speech And kindred binds them each And each in the other's victories The pride of his own Sees, — of a common creml tO each, achievement How paltry a know That grudge of How small that blame In the blazonry of thelr common fame! —Charles G. D. Roberts, in tury. thing they both wiil a hundred years oor ago, the Cen- IN THE STILLY KIGHT. EY PAUL CARSON, I had tried hours to get had failed. The rain from a leaking the slammicyg much for with an in up, lit the gas, until sleep or matter which. ous, and w knew, being a tem clear conscience. blind still length 1 ing, “I'll stop that I opened my bed room door, led into the um hall, and by a rush of « ait. 1 stopped was alone in my fail were in and the vants taking a vacation I there at from an the hall, know that there very likely premises. 1 turned revolver and put ing to pe plain persons’ to sleep and of and steady dripping waterspout of a blind HErves vatlent exe amd s; proved my Jdamati down to read it did not was : 4 ii nora Of ng caine, course | thout re uery- Wwson, so far erate man noise anyhow." whieh was met oUse: the mountains only dra ight at the night. came open end and sever! 100 bullet ped into the hall. There w house, and ly uncanny. way turn, lower floor way down ness and silence, the parlor the library the door o had been fi the evening, the i ably chilly, and glowing. My side the hearth. see that it Dumb w stories hastily the a8 Do \oundG the dark to nothing at the f f ire Huseason- and in the dim was occunied by ith surprise, ith and flitt ering through ei with ghost my mind, I struck a mateh and turned on head that 1 might see of what material my visitor was made. She made no movement when the room was flooded with light, no yet when I faced her. She was rather young, very handsome. clad in a wrapper-like arcangemgent, a night robe possibly, and her big brown But chandelier above my loose eyes looking straight into mine those eyes saw nothing: the lady sound Here was a situat My guest was a sonambulist, of and had from some house in the neighborhood by a read known only to cats and sleep-walkers. She had raised the hall window which opened upon a little balcony, made her way to the library, perhaps uncon sciously attracted by the fire. and there she sat. The rain drove against the windows and I wondered that Ler clothing was not wet but concluded that her home was not far distant and that she had been sitting by the fire long enough to become dry. “I'l have to waken her,” T sald aloud, “but I'll walt a little and see if she doesn’t take tne job off my hands.” 1 thought my volce would have the desired eect, but it did not. and crossing the room I sat down at my desk, still facing the <eeper. I the truth, 1 sat down suddenly upon | reaching the desk because I had not! strength to stand, so abruptly was 1! made awage of the peril which ren! aced me. On the opposite side of the! library, behind the woman's chair was asleep. fon! COUurse, come " opening upon the street, My safe | stood In this alcove, the curtains were | drawn, and between them gleamed the barrel of a revolver, I haa read of Maggle Bragg and her husband, two of the most daring burg. | lars In the country. They alwavs. worked together and never had any partners, and my house was thelr dee alcove dropped the eurtains and wait. ed develbpments.. 1 membered a hissing sound that had swept through the room as 1 crossed the threshold, which I had taken to be some freak of wind and rain. It was Maggle giving the danger signal. I felt the revolver In my pocket, but the light played along that bit of steel between the curtains, and 1 was well aware that the other man had | the “drop” upon me. 1 heartily wish- not being fond of flwur- in a murder case, and then 1 would have had a chance for my life, i in some way, he had learned that 1 had drawn from bank the previous afternoon In order to meet a which should been presented but which had been delayed in the mail. He was mistaken, however, the money, along with the rest of our valuables, was the bank. I met the cashier the note on him to go to the bank with me and posit box. My laay ward eagerly. bead as if partly dazed, thrown up and a broke the silence. “Where, oh, where am 1%" She wonld have made a eapital act sne had not chosen to be a bur advanced knew still also had a part to play. “Do not alarmed, are a sleep-walker. be near here. 1 have ing for vou to waken, fearing moved slightly, Presently she lifted her then her arms wailing were ress if once, I ine, a at that revolver covered madam; 1 sec Your h been walt he you ome LO Arouse Rising gracefully, with an embarass ed laugh she sald. “What an awkward walked in my sleeg but never oil any thing fore. 1 fear | the situation! y all my life, fess tres x} N ing like this be. trouble af family for a or something suitable for street we and ee ii must some Indies of Your cloak ar wonld see gh fail greatini, if one of vour home I “Where “yt “That is servants wonld he do Hye? 1 ROVen Sprace You sald, fifleen Rireet blocks from here: far without conld Hnwise three You over oo wr Or Tded, iS A mystery how ulu ne 80 in wet, 1 bint thought it k o rotting n nown oniy to “But.” a detainlag milists,” she replied, trifle hmpatiently, “] am i ’ you" This able spoken wns a hint to go after the street dress of which 1 : muocee nerfe of the house they 114 iN dis i was rrligations; yon * ple ase hay dessly Be pt could and felt confident that no evoly 1, wire in the case, would i ! had dre window gone, which afterwards proved to true. 1 did not want both lars, but dared make no hostile pot being certain that my of the in al orrect. | lingered, however the alarm was working help 3 due. “How can storm?" 1 sald. would morning: “Oh, 1 don't mackintosh; be more than a ms the in 6. of [rim ad out oud to lose burg movements, diagnosis situation hie (fOVe Wis was you go out in such a “You and your broth- better remain my wires iv it won't be many hours” mind rain If I have a it is lucky.” glancing down at her robe, wh was a Htilk damp around the bottom, “that It was not raiping when 1 left home.” Again 1 thought it unwise to call at tention to the facet that when 1 left the library at eleven if was raining pitehforks. Unable fo find excuse for further delay. 1 passed out, turning as | onened the door, to find that she had again risen to her feet and was watching me. “You are not alone?’ 1 asked. “Afrald!” me a glance that made me wince; then, recollecting herself, “That is] won't be afraid if you will harry.” The front door was unlocked. Jim had evidently climbed in at the win er till toh afraid to be left Two policemen were coming up the and two more stood under the alcove window, “You've lost Jim Bragg,’ lils wife is in the library.’ She wasn't though, We I sald, “but rushed to was beating, and then that she could not have escaped that way because the policemen would i § i i i i had come upon them so nolselessly by the library door because I had not taken my eyes off it, and must there. fore be concealed in the room. We searched carefully--1 remember look: ing in a big vase that would have sheltered a cat with a little crowding ~but we found nothing. Two years later the enterprising couple were caught In an attempt to rob the same bank that held my val | uables that wet night, It was a braz. | en day light affair. The woman en ‘gnged the cashier's attention while [ Fortunately the cashier was up to the times, and a well aimed shot from his revolver brought the fleeing robber to the ground. Citizens came to the cash- ier's ald, and . Maggie, who had promptly taken a part in the general fusilade, was disarmed before dolag any damage. I was curious to know how Maggie escapes us that night, and in company with one of the policemen who fig- ured in the affair, I went down to the Jail to see If she would tell me, The lady was not as handsome as when she sat in my library In the role of a sonambulist, but she was just as full of grit. They bad had “reverses,” she explained. In other words the police were after them so closely that thev had been obliged to keep away from the city and had made no rich hauls. “1 belleve you hoodooed us,’ she said bitterly; “we haven't had a bit of luck since that night and we didn’t get any- thing then." . | “Did you always dress in that tame when you were out on business?” {1 inquired. | She laughed. “Often. The sonambulist act had to | be carried out en costume you know, {1 have played It repeatedly in Eu- | rope but that was the first time here.’ “How on earth did you keep from | getting wet in that storm?’ “Big pocket under my dress, tosh in it and all that, you jut how did you get “let's see; will 1 need that t ick No, 1 guess not. I'll tell vou, couldn't have hidden from a wy that way, but policemen are dif When you swung the library I flattened against the wall thinking that you would all window, as did, around 1 the bad COR mackin- know." away?" school ] ferent. door open, behind it, make for the turned flying down way. 1 ran out the Kitchen door, was walting for me in alley, we were miles away by daylight was dead easy.” ‘hey You Before you Was the door 1 the and It in doesn't are both and Jim courtesy to lis the penitentiary know that mv that night iver between now, wife i rev Wis entirely due to the curtains. LiCove HOW CUSTER FELL. “Buffalo Bill” Teils the Story Anew in His Recent Book. Few events in our history hs uched the bearts of the Amerk the destruction of ‘uster and his men ir battle w Sioux and ¢ the Littl Horn in the of 1876 William FPF. Cody Ww IVE Ss rie as fsener iu the heyvennes at summer ‘Buffalo Th ie tells the story Colonel BI) In bis ne Salt Lake Trail” Anes Custer's forees were divided into three edd bs Reno hook. paris, one by Majors Intte thes Iwo were se? ad Denton were » not (Cody severely blames to nnsupportie os] send relief. 1 vn from valleys Cre the hillside, dreadful and the little squad, to that ity massacre ronnd vn with one grand sw oon of fire $1it there the head, like Spartacus fighting the about a lion thunderbolts In formes the rush Bravely at battle shock, brave ly stood up and faced the leaden hail, nor aualled., when looking into the blazing muzzled of five thousand dead ly swallow it f uster was nt legions brave as at with His brave followers willow and met oar and fury of the demons, ireasted th ¥. and nds seuare thay } hey rifles, "Brushing away the powder grime that had settled on his face, looked over the bolling sea fary around him, peering through the smoke for some sign of Reno and Ben teen, but seeing none. Still thinking of the ald which must soon come with cheering words t8 his men he renewsd the battle, fighting still like A Hereunles, and piling heaps of vie tims around his very feet. “The fight continued with unabated fury until late in the afternoon: men had sunk down beside their gallant leader until there was hot a handful left—only a dozen, bleeding from many wounds, and hot earbines in their stiffening hands, The day ig al most done, when look! Heaven now defend him! The charm of his life is broken for Custer has fallen: a bul cleaves a pathway through his Custer of i his noble breast, Like a strong oak | stricken by the lightning's bolt, shiv. { ering the mighty trunk, and bending its withering branches down close tn the earth, so fell Custer; but like the reacting branches, he rises partly up again, and striking out like a fatally wounded giant, he lays three more Indians dead and breaks his mighty sword on the musket of a fourth: then. with useless blade and empty pistol, falls back, the victim of a dozen wounds, Kaives Made by Pressure. It is announced that an entirely new method for the manufacture of table cutlery is being introduced into Shef- field, England, and Is exciting much Interest. A round bar of steel is plac: "draulie pressure a perfect knife Is formed-blade, bolster and handle. The { “fash” ls taken off, and it Is subsp | quently grownd and polished by ‘ma. chinery. One such machine Is capa- ble, It 1s stated, of producing 5.000 of these all steel knives per day ar a comparatively small cost in laber, The machines are capable of dealing with | any kina of cutlery or tools. iYEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMI- NINE TOPICS. ——— When Black Is Stylish Patti's Youny Eyes —A Woman's Hotel—A Discourse on Hats ~A Charming School Teacher—Etc., Etc. WHEN BLACK IS STYLISH. Black is never really so stylish as when left entirely alone, Even natuo- ral, colored flowers worn with it seem to lower its rich quality, though one sees occasionally a black worn with good effect by a woman of artis tie taste—a trained toilet, for example. of black satin or moire draped with silk net, chenllledotted and trim med black tulle with just a touch of vivid royal red placed where the bodice, and an answering gleam set in the colffure, gown or on some YOUNG EYES, of Adelina Madrid, PATTI'S The birth ti, recently the thine of at 1843 So Patt] at fifty-five | ed of all the world; ful, with eyes that by a Berlin paper—*"absolutely When in New York, many Patti told the writer the her young “1 never read I ean eyes 1 1 certificate Pat found birth of at sstillth Patti is still youth nre—as eandmlir described young not ngo, of eyes. night,” said does you sleep af at help it. It not hur ry, if 10 ( mihe my eyes in hot and ns best, tol foels things } al . HIRO ODSeTrvYe ghily b ! fF OVes free by tired. That Is all” Patti's eves They are are abundant, are the dazzl nies te them Her lay a moven fro Pi ’ FINE nd in the portion of ¥ hots tows club men moddntions, a purpose of Justis Jou Inand won g in may Somerville Mass.) nal, A DISCOURSE dis ON hats prone HATS, q well wo To % on is to ths Aad on he recent ness of men to fairs an wear § small three-cornered af color of felt, faced ther. For example, a sweet y felt will its looped away from the nlaces and covered all on the under side with a warm shade of dahlia felt. then a big bow of dahlia velvet is set upon with a tumuolse from ings a big OSNITeY, sort hat youthful ars to advantage. while most becoming possessions matrons winnets made of creamy lace In a perfect ape, showing a wide winged bow of velvet up in front. The all of birl breasts hold their own gallantly, and with demi-tollets it is no longer ut common to see a stately fowl with breast, head, wings and tall settled down, as if for comfortable nesting, on a woman's head. The head rears up finely, with a black osprey topknot amd diamond eyes, right over the brow, pletely covers the hair. Unfortunate. Iv these birds are dyed the most une natural tints of pale pink and green and lac, and thus all semblance of nature is destroyed, somewhat of one with pearl have brim face in three one side heart, which spr That Is the beauty among young black dd » of that wi the its of are 1 cap s&h fogues more appropriate bans and consist of ropes and wings skeleton wire frame. woven into the tulle, but spangles, Is conveyed. Pins with spangle heads are used to hold them in place, and convey a deceptive notion that the bonnet is resting by magic in place. New York Sun, em A CHARMING SCHOOL TEACHER. Miss Zebriskie, who is in charge of the cooking classes in the Thorp pub. lie school at Chicago, Is a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Miss Zab. riskie is a charming young wowan, she Is very enthusiastic over her work and her pupils. The lessons begin at B30 a. m. and continge until school closss., ach class of seventh and eighth grade girls Is taught separately, The predominant feature of the work is the absorbed Interdst of the pupils, They are all as eager to learn as Miss The Thorp school Is a light and spa- and this is turned in to a most excellent kitchen classroom, Two long gas tables are placed side by side, and are beautifully equipped not only with gas burners and stove apparatus, but with deep drawers and sliding seats, which may be pulled out or pushed in at will. Besides the | gas table is a gas range, the baking and broiling | are sinks, and lent supply of bread boards the le up to loosened, during there where There excel is done, with nn cooking utensile, from to patty pans. After there is the cleaning closets son Is over done, and here tongues are | “We don't forbid talking dishwashing,” says Misss Za’) riskle, “bec there seems and sufficient reason why not talk, We do presery the be A186 no good they should | e order during the In nterfered with” where I'horp i the population is gely composed of the better and factory most of the girls to be their the culinary ith deepest meaning lesson otherwise though, would be | In Bouth Chicago, the school Is located, class of and dos employes in the classes are own housetecners, fraught to and Hence art is “econ i% not word. an empty WOR. of the WOMEN'S INTERES general women to f home St. Paul, STH STING movement further onus pat indastries, the wo Minnesota, Their work foods claim to in con exhijbi ft. a4 Year ago, was ant In effort in conjunction with Manufacturers’ As Auxiliary Ix rized Oppenheim wis coun of foods, A cook who gave using, foods, basic fname the MOT import the made at that time, the Northwestern Ladies’ and recog Ansel first ef HRRO \Mrs ort engaged, daily, Paul food whose Was nstrations ble, St. BO By ele diate ross was meant produced in Paul nature Banged. Wheat local corn hominy, One of the the ment was Nt Or was re *0 nt its or form was made into into coro exam most interesting fe the IMR, and the like, are ii £ of the exhibit was prepas St. Paul women of ries of itive dinners, the {ted Prizes were won. There for brain aged in m and a se ou by t cost of each awarded were four oti ner workers, a 1r3iiznl Or persons eng FRTTEE] cooking for invalids, ook far ob IR hi 1 he raged dren. first exhibit en ile broader lines cess of this SI workers to attempt umn lasted brilliant success riaan, aARsistants, ial ical arts, chi {ions al Instruments furniture, book illustrating, building ma work and potiery, me. and to were most interesting the exhibition, and the tention of Japan and the Philippines is called to #t, was the possibilities Minnesota's swamp grass, which has been considered heretofore merely a It was demonstrated that in be made into twine and into beantiful and durable matting. A ma at work showing the pro-| through the fair.—~Harper's Ba- | musi and lace, mosaic banical designs, women's cloth ing. from hibited. A boots bonnets, La fact at shown in of nua nes this os chine was ORS zar, went off to school, her husband to his business, and even the mald, ‘who had become a convert, went through her morning duties, all without breaking thelr fasts. The theory on which these two-menls-a-day folk base thelr con duet is that, no work being done after the late and hearty dinner, and little tissue waste following during the hours of sleep, the body has sutficient energy stored from the evening meal to meet the demands of the next fore. noon's work, To take a hearty break- they claim, Is simply to provide us of supply, and by juwt that overtax the syvatem, The elim therefore, of 365 meals year means conserving of enoersy Lich, in the very valu They after the a sur these aggregate, in say, too, that the without food, and Mocha steaming house produces no effect resolution. Chicago Reco begin even the through upon their ord. day aromatic the NATURE BEATS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Former Cuts a Channel at Scituate Where Man's Efforts Had Bezn Unsuccessful, The following information is given the Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commissioners: “Reports continue of the condition in ine is left by the great Engineer Hodgdon lent photog tures of the Marl daily Coast Chief an excel secured pic the head of 500 tons of tide mass on Marblehead Neck, necessary for the to work to dig a roadway be- in the io come which storm. who is apher, has conditions at w here lifted by deposited in a dehiead harbor, paving stones were toe gently Causeway making it put men at to town fore at ‘OTe any teams could The wonderful ins nate, at and ween ACTOS, of nature between At this and fourth for many years the mouth of the riv- tion of engineers and given get most work North River, Marshfield third been i town point, bet cliffs a neck of land and the atten lias for tnere lias at or, a long time been ty of cutting a channel others to the possibili through “Wi President, be and the Na od wn Quincey Adams was looked the ground over, tional! Government attempt to make chaonel, but it was a failure “When the accomplished it ina few what ossible, and now there is a channel 250 feet wide, and from thir teen to fifteen feet deep at low water. At extren igl 4.000 acres of me covered storm came, however, hours seemed water are ®Oe now h never were ebb tide this channel, thus deepening sadow with water, whic covered and the all the time, “loside the harbor before, ROVUTS at water it channel there Is a new than the Seituate arger than the boat ] wor and land constructing several at narbor Yim har «comm hors jegion is at ast, and which forty feet inderf il taken "or to perform, by the tide, to any! the many “Al would deep, work, which of costly la- done in a wit! have years ehort Ye Was time absolute! i expense ody, either.” Part a Needie Played in a Dream. When Elins sewing machine well until he came Howe Invented the he got along very to the making of a needle: then hie was at a standstill for he could not discover where the eye of the needle should be placed. first he thought that a needle fashion ed after the ordinary needle for hand sewing might be all right, but after much experimenting be found that it would not do. One night he in a far dreamed that he was country that was a savage king. The king distant COMPLEXION AND DIET, Hot milk is the newest panacea for all complexion ills, If the face wrinkled, sallow, freckled or other wise afflicted, hot milk, says the en- thusiast over this new remedy, wiil produce a cure. Converts deciare that the face, after being washed with bot milk, at night, feels wonderfully re freshed, while the skin soon becomes very white and soft. They also clair that a generous quantity of milk poured info the bath Is positively mag ical mm removing fatigue. | Fruits, being refreshing, nourishing, | appetizing and purifying have a great | effect on the complexion. Grapes and apples are very nutritions: grapes gen erally agree with the most delicate people, as they are very easily diges:- ed, Black grapes are fattening. Ap ples are more easily digested when baked and eaten with cream, awl be Oranges, lemons and limes affect most directly the complexion, and are especially good if taken before break. fast. Ripe peaches are easily digest. ed, but are also fattening. Strawber. ries, containing a larger percentage of iron than any other fruit, enrich the All fruit with firm flesh, such as thoroughly masticated; otherwise they will cause indigestion. The skin of raw fruit should never be eaten, amd small fruits should have all impuritios | removed by wiping or washing, Acid fruit should not be eaten with farina: ceous food unless the digestion is very good. The most recent and popular fad in the way of diet Is the “nonbreakfast” diet, and it already has numerous ad. herents, in both this country and Eng. land. A well known woman sald the other day that not a morsel was cook: ed In her home any day in the until the noonday meal. Her chil chine, and, not daring to disobey or ders, he at once set to work, All went well to the location of the needle’ then his troubles be- gan. he king grew Impatient and finally gave the inventor*® just twenty-four hours in which complete the ma. and told him he must forfeit his life if he falied to finish the task. Put he could not invent a proper needle, and had to give it up. Just as the king's warriors were about to take him away to execute him, he noticed that the spears they carried were plerced near the head. until he came 8 eye; fo problem came to him, and, while imploring the savage king for 14 little more time, he awoke, Although it was but 4 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Howe arose at once, and went to his workshop, and by 8 o'clock bv had modeled a needle for his sew. ing machine with an eye at the point. Philadelphia Times, Savages Holding Their Own, It is believed that the inhabitants of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, where the struggle for existence fs in. tense, are at least holding thelr own: and the Eskimos of West Greenland, in recent years, have certainly been increasing in number. in fact, enly very limited parts of the world are known to be actually decreasing in population, the islands of the Pacific, where the natives are dying ont, be- ing the exceptions. The a : of the Hawall gvoup are about hold. ing their own; and the natives are growing In nunibers in the Loyalty group, and in Wallls, Guam, Tahiti and a few other regions: but 3 the myviads of other islands in the Pacific there is as yet no evidence 1 the natives may éscape the fate of the Tasmanisng whey are now : xtinet
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