MffrssssssssWssFlssssssffl?TT?firB'!ssrig i JsssssssssWssWsssWWssssgssssssssssssssssssstssssssWsss eaaaasaaaesaaBsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaisaaMaaaaaM&sffllMsBaaisBMsaaaESaaaW M wffHPKSKKPlfKtIKfBKKBfK OUR BOYS AND THE JOLLY PAPER CHASE. A Game fop Boys 1 ho Do Sot Like root ball Hon- the lives Fool the Hounds Droppla; a False Trail So a Good Thing to Vt ear Red Qoo I Health. rWEITTti- FOB THE DISrATCK. J OH those boys who hare not the strength or the inclination te play football there is no other game that may be Indulged in with so much pleas ure and benefit as racer chasinc. More reel exercise may be got In lew time from running than from any other sport, except sparring, and the former has the very great advantage that it may be practiced In the open air. The objection which most boys have to running is that it lacts excitement. I grant that trotting a dozen times or more around a quarter-mit: cinder path may be monoto nous, but when the three or four miles cov ered is over a pleasant stretch of the open country, embracing field, wood and meadow land, following a trail laid with intent to deceive; and when there is added besides the element of competition roused by the desire of each runner to be "first In," the sport is one that should appeal to every lad. Kiulrenirnts for the Sport. The stock-in-trade required for a paper chae isrerv simple, all that is necessary beingalicht canvas or leather bag with open mouth, which is hnng over each hare's shoulders, and a quantity of paper for the "scent." The hares are allowed a start of from 5 to 15 minutes, depending on the length of the chase and the character of the countrr. The allowance should be sufB cieat to permit the hares to get well out of sight before the hounds start. Every halt dozen strides or so the hares thould drop a mall handful of the scent. The paper used should not be torn into small bits, as is uvually done, but into strips about eight inche) long. These ore more conpicuo s than others.and instead cf being blown awav by the windthey curl around the crass and bushes, forming a very distinct trail. As long as there is any see it left in the bags the hares must lay a (air and continuous trail. When the scent Is exhausted, however, the bag is dropped. This is a signal to tli bounds that their prey has started "home" on a "bee-line," and" they are of course at liberty to follow likewise. The hares must surmount all ob stacles over which they lay the trail. They may cross fordabie streams only, and must keep within hailing distance of each other. Too Sorts of racks In rarsnlt. Often both "slow" and "fast" packs start In pursuit. The slow pack receives a start on the fast of about one minute for each mile to be run. E3ch hound of the last pack is his own master, and may follow the trail at whatever pace seems best to him. The members ol the slow pack, however, must keep together until the "break" Is or dered. They are under the direction of a master o! the hounds and two whips. The master acts as a pace-maker, adapting his gait to that of the slowest hound, while the duty of the whips is to keep the stragglers together. When the point is reached where the hares have dropped the scent bag, the matter orders the break for home. Then the pack becomes fast- The master ceases to order, the whips leave the straeglers to ttrazgle, mid everyone goes for come as straight and fast ss he can. The "time" of the hares Is that of the slower of the two home. If the first hound In reaches home tewer minutes after the hsres than the start the latter received, the rack wins; otherwise the hares are the victors. Often the hares are required to gain some minutes on their original start in order to win. Should the hares in their haste or through neglect fail to lay a fair trail, the run may be protested. The de cision in this case is left to the master of hounds. Decelitnc the Hounds. Whenever the nature of the oouru pen re Its, the hares should lay a false scent. Oa the artfulness with which this is done de pends the success of the hares and the con tusion of the packs. By the use of 3 little judicious deception the hounds may be led to run hundreds of yards farther than the hares, and also to lose much valuable time. The hares, cf course, should take turns in laving these false trails. For instance, at a crossroads one hare continuing straight on lavs the scent as faulty as he fairly can. The other turns to the rigct or left, dropping a verv strong scent tor 50 or 100 yards, and then " gra luslly making it fainter until it disappears altogether, after which he re joins nis companion by a short cut. The hounds come dashing along, and see ing onlv the lalse trail especially if the first handful or two of the real h'as been dropped in the ditch follow headlong. When they get to the end they look right and lett, and finally concluding that they have been hoaxed, return to the junction of the reads to nr.d the teal trail. By way of variety, the real trail may be made taint at the next crossroads and the false strong. Mindful of this Ian experience, the hounds will probably follow the latter and azaln come to grief. lloir One Gooi C'tase Ended. I recollect one hare snd bounds chase in which I took part a tew years ago that ter minated rather disastrously for the hares. After following the trail" hotly for about three miles we came upon oneof the pair resting on the sturap of a tree. He had turned his ankle and was suffering from a tad sprain. His companion, knowing that we would soon be along, and not wishing to spell the afternoon's run entirely, had gone ca ahead. We lett two of our number to accompany the unlucky fellow home while we continued the chase, supposing, now that there was but one hare, that we would have no lalse trails to follow. What was our surprise then, in crossing an extensive bit of meadow land, on which vas pastured a herd of cattle to come sud denly to the end of the trail. We looked to the ri'ht aDd left, but no tiny bit of paper could we se that would give a clew to the direction :n which the hare had dis appeared. Certainly it was no false scent for the couutry round about was so level Leading Ox Bound a Bard Out. that wo could have seen the hare, had he wasted the time necessary in laying it, half a mile away. We spread out and covered every vard "of ground for an acre. We had just armed at the conclusion that the here wa plavins a trick on us when a faint liallo'-ing attracted the attention of one of tl e sharper-eared of the pack. Three or foitrhurdred yards ahead of us was a big oik tree at the'f.iot of w liich stood an angry bull, teai""sr tin the ground with his horns. Wc looked and soon saw what appeared to lie a ml , flag waving from the treetop. Arming ourselves with sticks and stones we approached cautiously, ready at any mo ment lo retreat if the brute showed an in clination to fight Evidently he considered our uumbrs there were a dozen of us too great, and he moved unwillingly away. In the top of the tree was the unfortunate hare. He lost no time in gettinc down. According to his story he had jumped the fence into the meadow and was making tracks across when he heard a snort. Look ing back, he saw the bull with head down and tail uo, charging him at full gallop. Behind him was the fence and safety, but there was no going back. Before him wag the tree, and he made for in. Luckily be had a good start, and the animal wasn't mnch of a sprinter, but the race was excit ing, and the hare won by an eye-lash only.as he put it Just having time to grasp a low hanging limb and pull himself up. into safety as the bull charged down beneath. He thought then that the beast would climb the tree after him A few minutes later he had seen us looking for the trail, which in his haste he had neglected to lay. Will Not Wear Bed Again, He endeavored by shouting and waving his red jersey to attract onr attention. The wind was against him though, so it was some time before we heard him. He has taken part in lots of paper chases since then, but I don't think he ever wore red again when there was any chance of his running on pas ture land. There is one charge that has been made against cross-country running in reply to which I want to say a ward of defense. The sport is one that is most practiced in the cool weather of late fall and early spring. Because diseases of the throat or lungs have followed a paper chase in cool weather some people declare it dangerous and would condemn it Such misfortunes are not due to the sport but to carelessness. Heavy colds are sure to follow any exercise that in duces perspiration it the body is allowed to cool too rapidly. To prevent this when running is a simple matter. On no account on a cold day should one walk more than a few steps at a time, no matter how tired he may be. Jog or trot The Bare Won a Bed Jersey. home, no matter how slowly aslongas itisa run. Wearing an all-wool undershirt will also prevent too rapid evaporation and the consequent sudden and dangerous reduction of the temperature of the body. Over the shirt may be worn a jersey or sweater; a pair of thick flannel knickerbockers, long worsted stockings, and rubber-soled shoes complete the outfit for the paper-chaser. Walter C Dohm. C0KF0BT FOB THE BABY. A Moccasin of Chamois Skin That Any Clever Mother Can Make. Imim tor tiie dispatcii.1 In spite of the fact that the chamois moc casin makes a perfect infant's shoe by far the greater number of children are left to endure the everlasting sock. The moccasin is soft and pliable, warm and pleasant to the touch; it presents no holes through which the toes protrude, no meshes in which the tiny nails catch, and it is far simpler and easier of mv-'sg' m r i. V. f if ' , J It J J tm memesmsM332iszk4 The Perfect Moccassfc. construction than the worsted shoe. Yet only a few lucky infants have learned the comfort it has to give. Whosoever will fol low the directions given below can make herself as perfect a moccasin as the one the illustration shows. Cut two p'eces of hue chamois skin of the shape given in the diagram, and let . the proportions be as follows: The dis- tance a-b in the larger piece should measure six aud three-eighth (6 3-8) inches, c-d ten . i . and one-eighth (10 1-8), " A e-f five and one-quarter (6 1-4), 1-2 four and one-half (4 1-2), and 8-4 four and one-eighth (4 1-8) inches. i For the smaller piece a-b should measure three and tl three-quarters (3 S-4), c-d two and five-eighths (2 6-8) inches. When both pieces are care- fnllvnnt nrl mRCf1wri rD J gather the curved space Vk 3-4 in the larger piece so that it shall exactly fit c-d in the smaller. & Then seam the two pieces together from 1 to 2, and also the back of the larger piece from 5 to 6, when the moccasin will be pei fect so far as shape is concerned. After all the seams are neatly stitched, go over each on the outside with a row of fine line stitch ing, which must be made to open the seams so that there may be no roughness on the inner side. Lastly, turn in all edges neatly, finish -vith line stitching; cut slits round the ankle, run a ribbon through them and the shoe will be ready for wear. THE HEAD OF A FLY. llow It Looks When Magnified and Be ducrd to a Photograph. One of the last experiments in the photo graphic department of Edison's laboratory was a photograph of the head of a house fly. This photograph lies before me. The head as magnified is as big as that of a New foundland dog, and it has hair standing out from its center in all directions as though about 50 camels hair brushes with bair two inches long had been driven into a place the size of a trade dollar. Its eyes stand out from the head, and in the photograph each eve of thi3 fly, which in the original was not larger than the head of a pin, is bigger than the palm of your hand and it is made up of thousands upon thousauds of little bits of eyes fastened together like a honey-comb, aud Mr. Dick son, Edison's photographer, says that if you will lay your watch, face upward, down near the eye of a fly under the microscope you can read the time in each one of these 10,000 eyes, for they are fine as French plate mirrors. ' ' " wtf J JM& V r -. "? GIRLS. THE FLOCKING OF BIRDS. A Babtt ot the Winged Beauties the Scien tists Cannot Explain They Evidently Hhto Some Sort of Language Sentinels of the Groups Keeping: Together Is Beallr a Disadvantage. tWBirrex fob tin dispatch. OT erea the owl is as much of a hermit as he appears. The little fel low that all summer long has slept by day in the hollow apple tree, and hooted by night from the adja cent tree tops, has a taste for company, and when two meet their booting gives way to a varied range of lowly murmured chatterings very different from the conventional cries of all owldom. Keep a pet one (and they are easily tamed) and you will find them not only as wise as they look, but not averse to rough and tumble fun. But a few days ago in my wanderings I reached the bank of a river long after sun down, and pitched my little tent by the fit ful light of a green wood camp fire. Ejacu lations were not smothered, but explosive, and the whole strange scene brought not one but three little red owls to the front They were not afraid, and discussed my companion, the dog, and myself vigorously. They enjoyed the novelty, and all through the night their tremulous tones broke the stillness of the dense, dark woods. I dreamed of huge flocks of owls, such as no man ever saw, and was roused at dawn by a great rushing of wings that seemed danger ously close at hand. It was a flock of black birds. Genuine Marriage Among Birds, Let us go back of the formation of these huge flocks and give a moment's notice to another phase of a bird's existence. This, fromarecentpaper, covers the whole ground: "Host birds, we are told, 'pair once for all, till eitherone or the other dies.' Dr. Brehm, the author of 'Bird Life,' is so filled with admiration for their exemplary family life as to be led to declare enthusiastically that 'real genuine marriage can only be found among birds.' " The initial point of Socking is there, that of mating; later the family keep largely together; toward the close of the summer the families of a neighborhood unite, and, urged by the approach of autumn, the birds of a whole river valley will merge into some two or three great flocks and in such close companionship migrate; or wander to and fro from one feeding ground to another. When did birds begin to flock? This has often been asked, but never can be told. A close study of this habit, as.of many other bird wavs, points to the conclusion that it is a survival of a much more fixed one. There is now a vast deal of irregularity about it Certainly the red-winged black birds, which form our largest flocks, are not all gathered in, and single ones, pairs, and half a dozen together remain all winter scattered up and down the river valley. It is true of every other flocking bird. The majority keep up the old custom, but so manv stand aloof in everv instance that it might almost be said the custom is dying out Onr Birds Are Rapidly Going. I am disposed to make the statement that man huso modified the land that bird life is rapidly losing its one-time characteristic features. It is sad to think that birds have seen their best davs, and whaA we now have left as as the chief charm of our outings is bnt a lingering remnant of the great con course that not only filled the valley, but made glad the most uttermost porta and neglected nooks or comers of the land. Making due allowance for travelers1 exag gerations, it is still evident that we have, except of English sparrows, not one-half of the birds of some two centuries ago. Even though the flocks of red wings may sometimes reach well into the thousands, I have positive knowledge of much larger flocks than ever Wilson or Andubon chanced upon. 'In 1722 a flock of these birds appeared one September afternoon on the Crosswicks meadows "that shut out the sun and caused ?reat concern among the tanners, who eared, if they came to the fields, every green growth would be laid waste." Black birds then were feared and for years efter, by reason of their numbers; and, seemingly, when in such flocks they were far more bold than ever as individuals. Why do they congregate in such num bers? It has been suggested that in early autumn their food was to be found only in limited localities, and they naturally drifted there, moved, one aud all, bv the same cause. In other words, the upland fields, the spring holes, the grassy nooks in old field corners, where they nested, oflered nothing but shelter, and to stay longer than during summer meant to starve. .Nothing to Be Gained by Flocking. The fact that scattered birds do frequent the nesting places contradicts this, and the food found In the meadows is not greatly different, and often too many gather In one spot for all to be fed. Whatever the bird, there seems to be nothing gained by flock ing, and much is lost. It appears to be an inherited instinct that once a safeguard and delight is now doubtless a source of pleas ure, but directly disadvantageous. We are accustomed to look upon certain species of birds aa flocking in autumn and that others never do so. I am convinced that all were gregarious originally, but changes of environment have caused it to Tttt StOorle Flock of TfU. be relinquished; bnt it is astonishing to find that there are few birds that cannot be found at least "in loose companies," as it is com monly worded. In September the bluebirds occasionally At in pretty compact flocks of CO to 100 Individuals; and a company of 20 or 30 is a common occurrence. The common king bird is another well-known species that flocks to some extent, and a third is the Baltimore oriole. I have seen the females and voung of theprecedingsummerin flocks of certainlr 100 individuals, and when on the wing they kept so well together as to merit being classed as a flock, rather than a semi-independent gathering. It is evident that racb close association as in the case of redwings, of bob-o-Ilnks, of rusty grakles, and other birtls could notoccur if there was lo power of communication and no prede termination aSjto movement Evidence of Bird Language. I have yet to see a large flock of birds without' guards perched in commanding outlooks, and know from experience how difficult it is to outwit these sentinels. It has often been my afternoon's amusement c) fat 'Ms''ssaBs TOE FOTSBTJEG'' HHBPATOB, to try to plunge into the midst of a thou sand feeding blackbirds, and I never suc ceeded. I have reversed the conditions more than once, and, being concealed, have had them pass within arm's reach, and then I took notes of them as fast as possible. That they talked faster than they ate was evident, and mv disguise never was effec tive for long. They always suspected that something was wrong, communicated their suspicions, and now the mystery one and all rise from the ground as one body. .Not always, but so frequently that tele graphic signal is evidently theirs that in forms 1,000, it may bo at the same moment Without this power, this possession of rudimentary language, a flock of birds would be at the mercy of every enemy, and they are legion. Suggestive as is every flock of birds, we really know but little about them. No naturalist has yet fathomed the mystery of bird-life, and bird-slaughter has accom- H5 My Disguise Was Kezer Effective. plished nothing. But no class of animals afford so much pleasure whatever we ramble. However fixed the determination to observe a snake, a lizard or a fish, let the bird come near and how qnicklv we turn to it 1 If it is a thrush in early June, or the Carolina wren at any reason, and it breaks forth in song what power have we to turn adeafeir? 'Though the problem at our feet may be almost solved, the rhythmic rush of a thou sand wings overhead will draw os away; earth and its creeping creatures will pass from our minds that moment the heavens are darkened by a flock of birds. 0. C. Abbot, M. D. PBEITT IDEAS IK EO0B8. Two Designs Brought From Across the Seas hy a Tasty Toung Lady. rwatrxxH roa the dispatoh.3 NSTEAD of knick nacks and curios a young girl has put her two small feet in nearly every country on the globe where a young women's feet may safely go, has brought back with her boxes full of original things and a head full of original ideas. Two of the most delightful things th3t she brought outside of her head were for head wear. One was Japanese and one . came from Brittany. Both these she had adapted for evening wear to slip on over her crinkly locks when she tosses them up into a light crown on her dainty head, before she goes out to dine or to danoe. The Japanese one is made, as one would expect, of silk crepe and looks llktf this when she has ii on. The jSflpi$3WMi A crepe was in one straight piece, two and a half yards long and three- fourth of a "yard wide. It is gath ered at the top with a chenille ros ett e The Japanese Hood. and at the neck it is plaited in fine little plaits, where it ties under the round, pretty chin with wide strings of watered ribbon. About the face the crepe is embroidered in scallops, and blue violets are tossed nere and there in del!cate nedlcwork. They finish the end of the broad scarf, and when Madelaine draws the si ky thing about her head and gives the long scarf just the propercoquettish twist about the neck and looks ud at vou. yon BackofPrlsctUa Hood, wish you could write rondeaus to tell her how she looks. The other hood is the covering the Brittany peasants wear on their heads, adapted in material to this country and Madeline's own tastes. It is of dull blue cloth, lined with dull vellow silk, and having a delicate pattern in gold thread wrought about the outer edge. The back of the hood is cut after the pre ceding outline, but larger, and a straight, plain piece is gathered lightly on to it for the body of the hood. If de sired, this piece may be cut wide enough so as to fold back from the face, show ing the yellow lining for an inch. Pale yellow strings' Front cilia Hood. tie under the chin. AN ATJCTIOW. wsiriia yoa Tin DtsrATcn.1 "Here's a wonderful baby," said I, "With o es as blue as the sk v;" 1 said this to the children playing nigh. For I m' an auctioneer; "What will you give for baby here, Babv upon mv kueo? What will you give for baby and me?" "Here's a beautiful baby wtth hair, 811ken, and shining, and fair;" I tatd tills to the childin smiling there For I was nn auctioneer; "What will you give for baby here. Baby upon my knee? What will give for baby and met" "Here's an exquisite baby, with faoo Like a i-aint in his holy grace;" I snld this to the children, each In his place, F. r I was an auctioneer: What will you clve lor the baby here, Baby upon my kneet What will you give ror baby and met" Then up spake the eldest nine Tender, and thoughtful, and line: For the others to bargain seemed not to in cline: "I will give for the anotloneer, And the beautiful baby sitting here. Sitting upon your knee Let me see; the whole of us three.'' "Going ind gone," said I, "It took thiee boys to buy;" I said to the children scrambling high 'I'm -no longer air auctioneer, I'm mamma with the beautiful baby here, Baby upon my knee, v And, let me see, the whole of the three." CAttx E. Wbitox-Stose. Blissful Is the relief afforded by the laxative action of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in cases of constipation. There is none of the griping produced by it that Is caused by drastio cithartlcs. Not only does the Bl ters afford unspeakable relief, but it tones the bowels, tho stomach and the liver. Beneficent, too, is its action in malarial, kidney and rheu matic diseases. "fWw Mlhl Jiyf Aiv '"" aw7iBW 5 ipsa- HHHH3 of Prit. ssSawwrif-o- i &&&9GI '""OTTTiTvA V NOVEMBER -WWA J-'- J. f STORIES BY WILDER. Solace for the Feelings of a Drug gist Who Was Called Out of Bed. LYING BOUT BETWEEN DRUMMERS. A Jit of Intellectuality That Egeaped Amonj the Crysanthemums. ME DAEK SECRET OP A POKER GAME pntrnnr ran Tns EisrATCK.1 Among the many business men who are good natured enough to let me bang about their shops and offices and study human natnre as it comes along, is a druggist. He is a very good fellow, and answers all sorts of idiotio questions that stupid people ask him, as if he were paid by the eity to run a public information bureau. A day or two ago, though, he told me that be had been made very cross the night before. He was roused by a violent ring at his night beU just after midnight Putting his head out of the window, he asked: "Who' there?" "Me,',' answered a child's voice. "Well, what do you want?" "Our baby's got an awful stomach-ache," was the reply, "and mother wants 3 cents' worth of paregoric." "Oh, she does, eh? Well, do you think I'm going to get up for 3 cents?" "I dunno," piped the young one, "but I had to git up for nothin'." She got tne paregoric. Human Mature and Medicines. This same apothecary tells me that there are a great many people that would rather take a patent medicine that tbey don't know anything about than be prescribed for with out charge by the best doctor living, and that they'll believe any yarn that patent medicine owners can make up. Two drum mers for new quack medicines dropped in on my Triend at the same time one day and wanted him to take a lot of their stuff on sale. Of course each medicine was war ranted to cure anvthing, from headache to consumption, and they had written testi monials to back them up. One of them read oil the following! Dear Sin Six months ago I hid the mis fortune to fall from the top of a five-story honse, breaking most of the bones in my body and Injuring myself internally in many distressing ways. I was under the care of distinguished physicians for some time, but got no rellof until a friend sent me a bottle of your Invaluable medicine. I lelt better from the first day after taking It, and within a fortnight was as good as new. Went Him Several Points Better. The drummer thought that letter printed in circulars would be a catching advertise ment, and the apothecary agreed with him, saying that the bigger the yarn the more likely people would be to swallow it. "Just what I think," said the other drum mer, getting out bis documents, "so just listen to this one, it's a daisy that leaves all the rest of the garden a howling wilder ness. Get onto it now: Dear Sir I had the misfortune to be born without either lights orliver, and often experienced grea discomfort from the lack ofoneorthe other of thee molul organs. A sample bottle of your medicine was left at my houie one day. and the first two or three dose; made me feel like a new man. I went on taking It, and now I have a 10-pound liver and electric lights. The first drummer was so used np by this certificate that he went out of the business and joined the church. At the Chrysanthemum Show. The big crysanthemum show last week was the biggest thing of the kind ever held in the world so I am 'told by men who know all about such things. 'Twas the big gest kind of a beauty show, too; I didn't need anybody to tell me that, for I was there myself. P. S. I wai not one of the exhibits. Women have a heap more sense than some men give them credit for, and one point of it is that a prettv face never looks prettler-than when it is bending oyer a lot'of flowers. A good many young women played hearts at that show, and the young men lost every time. Girls don't know everything, though; there was one sweet young thing at the flower show who went into raptures over almost every thing that the orchestra played, so the young man who was warming himself by the light of her eyes began to talk to her about music. "How do you like Wagner?" he asked. (This is always a safe question to ask nhen vou want to get up a long talk with any body who cares for music!) "Ob, not a bit." said the sweet thing. "I never take Wagner when I can get a Pull man." Then that young man retired within him self for the space of five minntes, and the band did not play 'Annie Laurie." A Lesson In Stock Dealing. I happen to know a lot of young fellows who thought they knew jdst how the stock market was going during the recent awak ening, and most of them were so far off that they don't know how they are going to get out with enough money toseethem through the winter. They fell to falking about It at breakfast a day or two ao at a pleasant little restaurant where I frequently take my rations, and finally one of them did me the honor to ask my advice. As the only stock I ever put any money into is that which is in the soup I take at dinner I couldn't give them any points about the street, but I told a little story that a lot of fellows who hang about Wall street will have to lay to heart before lone. A lively youth was playing baseball one day and his father had gone out to see the game. The youngster was making a run, and was half way between first and second base when the pitcher came for him with a balL Tbe'boy yelled: '"Father, what shall I do?" "Compromise,my son,compromise," replied the old man. The Man Who Went Out West. If some of the fellows who have been down in "the street" don't take this advice their visible surplus will be in the condi tion of the mortal part of Mr. John Jones, who went out West to look at some mining property, and whose family afterward were informed by telegraph that he was dead. "Please send on the remains," the sorrow ful relatives wired, but back came the mes sage, "There aint no remains. He met a bear." There's been a great deal of growling in political circles here about the way some things went at the last election, and each side has been telling about men of their own party who made the mischief. They're in the state of mind of a colored gentleman who one evening freed his mind at a poker tame, tie and several friends nau met everv Wednesday night for years, for a quiet little game; they'd all played squarely and cautiously, so no one was much ahead or behind, in the long run. When they took a one-eyed man into the crowd, how ever, everybody began to lose everybody bnt the man with only one eye. The Mjet-ry of the Game. Finally they skinned their eyes and found out that the one-eyed man was wear ing cards inside his sleeve. "And the same with intent to deceive," as truthful James remarked in a familiar poem. They talked it over among themselves, and finally one evening, after they were so thoroughly cleaned out that there wasn't the price of a beer in the crowd, one of the members re marked: "Gen'lmen, things aint as dey used to be, nor asdey ort to be. We used to end dese here seances about even, an' hab enough left to open de pot nex' tinie.but now we'ze nebber able to light ourselbes borne with a eeegyah. It's all come about because ob one man. I aint a naoiin' no names, an' I don't want to make no bad feelin', 'specially 'mong gen'lmen, but all I'ze got to say is, ef dat man don't see de error of his ways, an' stop makin trouble' 'mongst friends, why why, we'll shoot his other eye out." Merrily yours, MASSHAIJ. P. WII.BKK. . New Toek, November, 1891. ' " r,i5iiB9iwtT--r' -nrv " t v ,x,wTm SOW TO HID3 THI YFAJtS. A Petticoat for the Chandelier Will Take Off Ten Tears at a Time. WB1TTEX TOB. TUB DISPATCH. How many women know that there is one little tell-tale in her drawing room that will nnmber her years as accurately as the fam ily Bible? Let her light the gas in the upper chandeliers and standing directly under it, look into the mirror. She will see every sharp lino in her face accentuated, every hollow in- her cheeks, every line under her eyes graven deeper. The un shaded light from the chandelier falling di rectly on ber face is what does it, Not long ago an ingenious woman put the the globes in her drawing room in what she called "petticoats' of pale pink silk and saw ten years slip away as she stood under them for' the first trial. Sew ing the ends of a long straight piece of the silk together she ran a narrow pink ribbon through it at the top and bottom, leaving a tiny ruffle at the top. Putting the the silk upon the globe she drew it c!oe above (fortunately the globe had a slight flaring edge at the top, making a neck about which to tie the ribbon) and then gathering it smoothly she brought the lower part down not only to the lower part of the globe, but clear down to the brass bracket, and tied it closel v just above the stop-cock. This is the trick. It is the unshaded lieht that comes down through the open circle at the lower part of the globe that works the mis chief in a woman's face. A CEAZE OH ASTUTCIAL ZOOS. The Product of a Han Now at Washington Glvet Great Satisfaction. There has been quite a sensation in Wash ington during the last month on the subject of artificial eggs. A person who claims to have invented a process for making them Eatent newly applied for has been exhi Itlng examples, and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in the clubs, boiled, fried, poached and scrambled, and the general verdict is that It would be impossible for anybody to dis tinguish them from real ones. Externally they look exactly like the sort laid by hens. Break the shell of a raw specimen, and the contents flop into a glass in as natural a manner as possible, the yolk and white un mingled. It has been claimed that no imi tation eggs could everbe made to "beat up" or cake, but these do perfectly. The inventor says that bis eggs are, chem ically speaking, a precise reproduction of natnre. Cornmeal is the basis of their material. The white is pure albumen, of course, while the yolk is a more complicated mixture of albumen and several other elements. Inside the shell Is a lining of what looks something like the delicate, filmy membrane formed by the hen, while the shell itself is stated to be made In two halves, stuck together so a'tfully that no eye can discover the joining. The very cerm ot the chicken, with unnecessary faith fulness of imitation as one might think, is counterfeited. The eggs are made of vari ous shapes and tints. One will be able to buy, as soon as tbev are placed on the mar ket, counterfeit pullets' eggs or eggs laid by elderly hens, likewise selecting white eggs or dark-colored eggs, according to choice. Most surprising of all, they will be sold lor only 10 cents a dozen, and tbey never get rotten. To confectioners and others who use large quantities of eggs the yolks and whites will be sold separately, put up in jars and hermetically sealed. In .this shape they will also be convenient for household employment. There are certain points which render these artificial e?gs easily distinguishable as such. For in stance, the lining is evidently made of some sort of silk-like tissue, and one can see that it is woven. AJUDGEGIVINGTESTIMONY. AN MPOKTANT CASE SUMMED UP A3 FOLLOWS. Chronlo Catarrh Twenty Tears Settled on Long Could Get No Belief Per manent Cure at Last. New ViEinrA, CLnfTOjr Co. O. Dr. S. B. Hartman & Co. Gents: I take pleasure in testifying to your medicines. I have used about one bottle and a half, and can say I am a ne.w man. Have had the catarrh about 20 "years. Before I knew what it was it had settled on mv lanes and breast, but' can now say I am well. Was in the army; could get no medicine that would relieve me. Tours trulv. W. D. Williams, Probate Jndge of Clinton county. While it Is a fact that Pe-ru-na can be re lied on to cure chronic catarrh in all stages and varieties, yet it is not often that it will so quickly cure a case bl long-standing as the above. Hence it is that so many pa tients fail in finding a cure because of their unwillingness to continue treatment long enough. Many people who have had chronic catarrh "for five, ten, and even fifteen years, will follow treatment for a few weeks nrd then, becaue they are not cured, give up in despair and try something else. These fiatients never follow any one treatment ong enough to test its merits, and conse quently never find a enre. It is a well known law of disease that the longer it has run the more tenaciously it becomes fas tened to its victim. The difficulty with which catarrh is cured has led to the invention of a host of reme dies which produce temporary relief only. The unthinking masses expect to find some remedy which will cure them in a few days, and to take advantage of this false hope many compounds which have instant but transient effect have been devised. The peo ple try these catarrh cures one after another, but disappointment is the in variable result, until very many sincerely believe that no cure is possible. CATABBH IS A SYSTEMIC DISEASE, and therefore requires persistent internal treatment, sometimes for many months, be fore a permanent cure is effected. The mu cous lining of the cavities of the head, throat, lungs, etc., are made of a network of minute blood vessels called capillaries. The capillaries are very small elastic tnbes which, in all cases ot chronic catarrh, are congested or bulged out with blood so long that the elasticity of the tubes is entirely destroyed. The nerves which supply these capillaries with vitality are called the "vasa-motor" nerves. Any medicine to reach the real difficulty and exert the slightest curative action in any case of catarrh must operate directly on the vasa motor system of the nerves. As soon as these nerves become strengthened and stimu lated by the action of a proper remedy they restore to the capillary vessels of the various mucous membranes of the body their normal elasticity. Then, and only then, will the catarrh be permanently cured. Thus it will be seen that catarrh is not a blood disease, as many suppose, but rather a disease of the mucous blood vessels. This explaius why it is that so many excellent blood medicines utterly fail to cure catarrh. Colds, winter coughs, bronchitis, sore throat and pleurisy are all catarrhal affec tions, and consequently are quickly curable by Pe-ru-na. Each bottle ot Pe-ru-na is ac companied by full directions for use, and is kept by most druggists. Gct'your druggist to order it for yon if he does not already keep it, A pamphlet on the cause and cure of all catarrhal diseases and consumption rent free to any address'by The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio. .Don in a Petticoat. ' ' ' 'L m WEITTEN TOR THE DISPATCH :b"Z" :Ej:DG-.A.:e, .'VvrcET'r, Author of "The House at High Bridge," "Romance and Reverie," "The Adventures of a Widow," numerous songs and poems and several plays. STNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The story opens with a ball Alonzo Llspenard has given In his palatial residence In honor of his betrothed, Kathleen Kennaird, the daughter of a cold and calculating mother. In the midst of the festivities Alonzo's Dncle Crawford arrives and informs him that by the racallty ofa member of his firm who hs just committed suicide, his immense fortune has been swept away. After the ball Alonzo informs his sister, Mrs. Van Rantvoord, a frivolous society woman who has set apartan allowance for herhnband on condition thas be leave her free to enjoy society without his company. The news almost prostrates Mrs. Vanbantvoord. At her home, Alonzo and her husband. Hector, quarreVthe Utter claim ing Alonzo's nezlect of tho business made the defalcation possible. Mrs. Van Santvoord restores peace and Alonzo goes back to his home to meditate. After learning the worst Alonzo visits Kathleen and thinks he observes a coldness In her manner. A few days later be requests his clo-e friend, Philip Lexington, to ask Kathleen her real feelings. Philip turns on him, and Alonzo discovers that all Philip's rezard for him vanished with his fortune. Desperate. he visit-KathIeen. Mrs. Kennaird meets him and says Kathleen is ill, and, furthermore, that the engagement must be broken. In a raze Alonzo c ills Kathleen, who comes to him. avowing love and constanov. But Sirs. Kennaird exercises a kind of mesmerism over her daughter and forces her to repulio Alonzo. When affairs are finally adjusted It Is found that Alonzo and his sister have $S,0O3 a year each. Alonzo sets npars half of his for his sister. Just at this point Alonzo's friend, Erio Thaxter, confidant of the Kins of Snltravia. offers him the position or art superintendent for the realm. Alonzo accepts and soes to Saltravis. Meanwhile Kathleen, disgusted with herself for repulsing Alonzo. with her mother for ber mercenary motives, and wtth socletv for its hypocrisy, re solves to sell her Jewels to pay off her mother's debts and then take her to Stuttgart to live a quiet and economical life. She sivs she will never marry. Alonzo Is greeted cor dlallvby the Elnz of Saltravia, and finds It Indeed 4 realm of beautr. At the clos of his first day there the Princess of Brindisi, mother of the Kin?, whom Eric cillsthe most In solent and arrogant woman in Europe, arrives on a visit to the palace. S'le brlnjts with her B anca d'Este, of noble blood, beautiful, but not extrnordlnarilr brain v. She designs this girl ror Kinjr Clarlmnnd's Queen, bnt the latter ts not taken with" her. Dnring Alonzo's absence at Munich the Kennairds arrive. The Kins gets a zllmpse of Kathleen and fs lm- 6res8ed. He asks Eric to see she is presented to him. This meeting soon occurs, much to irs. Kennalrd's delight. Indeed, she confesses to Kathleen that the visit to Saltravia was for the sole purpose of this meetinsr, the hope beinz that the beauti.ul American girl might become qneen. Both are unaware that-Alonzo had come to Saltravia. The dis covery gladdens Kathleen's heart and fills her aspiring mother's with woe. CHAPTER IX Kathleen obeyed. After the ladles had left the balcony Erio again joined them. "If you will kindly wait just there by the fountain," he said, pointing toward a charming aquatic design in bronze whose spirts of water bad caught the slant sun rays and turned to liquid gold, '1 will at once cause you and Monsieur to meet. And remember, please, we call him 'monsieur' he prefers it." "And I am to speak with him in French?" asked Kathleensomewhat nervously, "If you wish. I suppose you do not speak; Saltravian?" "Heavens, no 1" she exclaimed still more nervously, and not noting the dry twinkle In Eric's eyes. "The King will probably address you then in French. But if yop prefer English he will accommodate yon. It is one of the great self-delusions of his reign that he speaks English at all reputably." Here Mrs Kennaird broke in with her blithest laugh: "Ob, my dear child speaks French very prettily," and as Erio departed with a bow she turned to Mrs. Madison, who hod just rejoined her, and said in a voice made purposely loud enough for him to hear: "What a delightful man this Mr. Thaxter isl No wonder the King likes him sol" Clarimond, who did everything with U.VVMvS2 IT 19 BUB, HB grrce, soon had himself presented to Kath leen and her mother precisely as if he were some ordinarv friend of Eric's, with whom the latter had chanced to be moving among the paths. "And it all went off so easilyl" as Mrs. Kennaird afterward remarked. "Before we knew it, Kathleen, he had shaken hands with both of you, and had asked you if you didn't want to go with him and see the carp fed in the great marble basin of the grandes eaux." Kathleen and the King walked side by side, it is true, but they only paused for a moment to watch the carp dine, afterward passing on to where the terraces of the pal ace dropped grandly down to an artificial lake, and a hundred windows blazed like huge diamonds or rubies where the western sun smote them. Above, on the long mar ble balustrades, two or three peacocks were perched, one pure white as the sculptured stone itself; and below, half-way between the lilypads and the rustic landings, floated a few stately swans. Somewhere behind one of those radiant windows the Princess of Brindisi sat, and near her was Bisnca d'Este. It was quite probable that the King knew he risked maternal observation during his present saunter with the young American lady he had sought to know. Since the arrival of his mother he bad not presumed thus pub licly to associate himself with any new for eign acquaintance. If Kathleen had been a man, her disrelish might have had its lim its. At present, there in her palatial am buscade, with her cherished Bianca to share the humiliation, whether real or fancied, this disrelish became a boundless disgust. "It pleases me greatly, mademoiselle," the King was meanwhile saying, in his flexible and almost native French, "that you should so care tor Saltravia after so brief a stay here." "How can one help caring for it?" re turned Kathleen, as they paused on one of t hevelvet-swarded terraces. Looking side ways, across her shoulder she perceived that the same group which had accompanied the King before they met were following him now at a distance respectful and dis creet. She perceived, too, that her mother and Mrs. Madison were also not far behind them. This was possiblv what her com panion wished. It struck her that he was a gentleman, this comely and fascinating monarch, who wished many things most decisively, and who had the art of making his desires operative with the same cool ease that belongs to the touching of an electric bell and the summoning of a needed lacquey. 'The weather here," she continued, "Is always so enchanting." And then she looked into Clarimond's face with one of those smiles that his dislike of common place women had even thus quickly caused him to feel was the harbinger of something at least quickened by piquancy. "I aa already sure, monsieur,"she added, "that la pline et le beau temps are subjects whom you control at pleasure; you keep the first amia bly exiled, and you allow the last, like one of your ancestors' court-jesters, to do all tho genial things that it pleases." Clarimond laughed. "No, mademoiselle," he replied, "you overrate my poweis of dominion. I'm more sensible than that far-away English King who commanded the sea to obey bim, or that Persian one who whipped it with rods." For the first time Kathleen looked full into his face. Let it be forgiven her when recorded that the curious complexity which we call a woman's heart throbbed strangely. No woman was ever the lover of two men at the same time; but many a woman has believed that she could have loved (and passionately loved) some man whom she has known while still loving the object of her first allegiance. Perhaps it was this way with Kathleen; perhaps the fact of Clarimond's great rank wrought with her more than she would have wished to telL Women are shaped from self-contradictions, not because tbey are in the main weaker than men (it will some day be scientifically disclosed, no donbt, that they are strong where men are weak, and weak where men are strong), but because millions of years have lapsed in which they have served as slaves to the alleged lords of crea tion. Yet is this, after all, atruephilo sophio view of things, aud is not a stern few EXCLAIMED. wrong done to Kathleen when we assert of her that she felt one whit more disarrayed than a like environment would have rend ered one of the other sex, this nearness of sovereignty being feminiue, not masculine? Few men, if history does not err, have re sisted the blandishments of queens." And Clarimond, if he dealt in no blandishments, bore himself at all times with that mag netic demeanor which would have made his greatness quite secondary in the eyes of not a few womeir"cn whom he might have chosen benignly to beam. Lightlv he now pursued, with his gaze fixed upon Kathleen's face in a way that somehow belled the levity of his wordsr "Oh, yes, the weather here is my only rebel and my onlv traitor. I've an idea about it; I've decided that it is only endurable when we don't think of discussing it. Am I not right, and do we not respect it most when, like Casar's wife, it is above sus picion?" Laughing, enjoying the pleasantry, Kath leen threw bttfk her head. Now, for the first time had she a moment of real, vivid social distraction. "I resent this rebellion, monsieur," she said-, "on the part of your Saltravian weather. Still, as vet, I've no personal grudge against it. When a rainy day comes l shall asc yon 10 give me sik parlia mentary edict, that I may read it to the insurgent elements, signed with your royal seal.'7 "Have you as much faith in my power as that, mademoiselle?" ho asked, drawing closer to Iter. "I assure you I am a very small sort of king." 'Vou're the first that I've ever met," she answered, gathering boldness. "If they are all like you, monsieur, I shouldn't be afraid to meet any of them, not even the TsarofORussia." ".Russia?" he said, his sunny face cloud ing a little. "Do you care for that coun try?" "It's so romantic to us who do not know it- 'It's so far away, monsieur, and so " "Barbarous," he supplied a little harshly. "Yes, being the most uncivilized of Eu ropean countries, Bussia is hence the most romantic. Her very patronymics, with their bristling thickets ot consonants, seem like lairs for theimps of assassination; and one need only hear the words 'Moscow' and 'Odessa' and 'Volga' to feel as if one had been assisting at a conspiracy of Nihil ists." He ended these words almost sternly, but at once lis face lightened and his voice grew kind. "Pardon mc, mademoiselle," he pursued. "I try to be without rancors. TJsnally I succeed in showing none. Of all times, this is the last when I should remember them. Shall I tell you why?" "If you wish, monsieur." "Then, my reason is thist That Z read ia Tew fisea, la Torn mutter illljw paidw r I i 4 3 i . f , .& '" .& kic . -4s!1 I.:: ifife'lJe., ; .,. - t&2
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