FATE. Fair as tho summer azure A timiil violet blew (Close to tho fort's embrasure O'er which the hot shells flew. 'Neath battle-sqaoke and thundor The (ort WHS quietly stilled, Its huge wall blown asuuder. Its brave defenders killed. Still on the fortress battered, Whose heroes lay entombed Beneath their banners tattered, The peaceful violet bloomed. •~R. K. Muukittriek in Collier's Weekly. | A City Tragedy.* • • "My goot frient, what shall I hat' ! ione mit this?"inquired Stomp pathet- ! tcally us I entered bis room one day. ! " Tere is a man who hat' to see me ;ome, and he cannot speak del - words nor hear, and he haf hurt der haud so dot he to write is not aLle." Stomp was. evidently in a state of •oine excitement,for his ner\ ous energy .vas always in direct ratio to his in ability to speak the Queen's English. "What's wrong?" I asked. "More monkey dricks, "said Stomp. "Fah! I with der human race dis gusted am. I come home aad my din aer expect, and I find dot, and he haf give me dis!"—saying which he flung * dirty scrim of paper across to me. 1 unfold® it, and saw an erratic icrawl, evidently written with a blunt peucil, and so much smudged and * mearetl as to be illegible in parts. I managed to decipher painfully a few words. "Komraen sie gleic'i. F.dgen . j Sie haben mich gefangen. Bringen sie ein anderer in . pres- ' sirt. A. de B." "Explain this drivel," said I, toss ing the paper back. "Ach, drifel you shall gall it, my so goot friend! Dot is der language of der gods." "Fossibly, "I answered. "It's Greek to me, anyway." "The paper haf say," said Stomp solemnly: " 'Come at once. Follow (brobably der bearer). They haf ?aught me. Bring another man with you. Urgent.' Und it is signed 'A. j de B.' Dot is De Brenne, who haf been gone from England six months. I do not understand, but I haf think : that rows there will be. This bagan is der servant of my frient. He was j born mit dree senses only. You will come with me? Und on der way I will tell you der story of De Brenne." "Yes; of course I'll come," said I. "I'm spoiling for a row. "Dere shall be der very big rows," said Stomp. All this time the deaf-and-dumb messenger sat motionless as a carved statue, watching our faces as we talked. [ tliink that, in common with others afflicted us he }vus, he had tlie power of understanding our speech by the j movement of our lips. At any rate, liis face brightened when lie saw Stomp making preparations to start, and sprang from his chair with a low gutteral sound unlike anything L ever heard before. It gave me quite a shock, and, turning rapidly to the man, I saw that the hair on the back ! Df his head was darkened and matted together. Stomp's eyes followed Inine. "Ya, I haf noticed," he sain. "Dere ♦ill de der tirst-glass rows. Haf you a Revolver?" I shouk my head. Stomp unlocked a case on the man telpiece and handed me one, a long barrelled 32 Smith Wesson; the lellow '„»> it he slipped in his pocket. "They're not loaded," said I, snap ping the breech to. Sto.np grinned. "I have der shells in my bocket. But der moral force is fier safest; you might shoot me in der 4eg or der pinafore." "You do make a fair target," I re /orted, a little nestled, for I think fometliing of myself as a revolver shot, *nd Stomp'r waist measurement is a jeccrd. He lcckeil at the uncanny mes- who, with another of his gut tural sounds, nodded, and made swift for the door. When we got outside Stomp hailed h four-wheeler, and glauced inquir ingly at our guide. "Piccadilly?" he *sked. The man grunted, and Stomp Repeated the word to the driver. "Now,"said he,as the cab lumbered »long, "I shall tell you der story. This De Breuue of whom I spoke,der •criter of der note, is a great friend of inline. I haf known him many years, file is very rich man; his uncle haf left him all the money. There is also X>usiu of De Brenne dot is named silvestre; he haf de Bortuguest blood ]n der veins, und is also der nephew t>f der rich uncle. "Silvestre he haf hated my frient pecause he haf der money, und he haf i>p?e, dwice, und again sworn dot he with him will be level. Once ders was * shooting accident, den dere was a tire. Oh! der cousin is a very clever man, I tell you! At der last he was »o enterprising that De Brenne he came to me and say, 'Stomp, der at mosphere is not healthy. I think I will travel on der confine it for a liddle whiles.' Dot was six months Ago, und now they haf caught him, und there shall be rows. Der cousin Is a scoundrel. So, I haf said." The cab rattled drearily along the wet, half-deserted streets, and finally pulled up at the entrance to a narrow little passage at the back of Berkeley »quare. "So,"said Stomp, "they have caught Vim in own house." The deaf-and-dumb messenger scrambled off the box and opened the door for us, and we followed him along the narrow pavement in the pouring rain. About fifty yards from where the cab v.as standing he stopped op posite a small door let into the wall, and motioued us to be quiet. He the door noiselessly with • una!! key, and we walked softly* ■ along a dark, narrow passage of con siderable length. As far as i could make out we were entering one of the Berkeley square houses by a private entrance. I whispered as much to Stomp, who nodded in reply, at the same time holding up a warning finger not to speak. Our guide, who was leading,stopped suddenly, and Stomp aad I stumbled up against him in the darkness. Just ahead I could see a tiny spot of light, evidently a hole in the panelling, through which the interior of the bril liantly lit room beyond was visible. Stomp applied his eye to this, and for a second or so the point of light was blotted from view; then he drew back bis head with a jerk, and with a sudden hissing, indrawn breath. "Ach! der villains!" he said, in a hoarse whisper; and,slipping his hand into his pocket, he handed me some shells. "Der play-agtiug business is over. Den - rows shall be real rows." And he snapped the breech of his revolver to wish a vicious snap. The j auel slid noiselessly into its casing in the wall, and Stomp and I stepped into the. room. I shall never forget the view that met my <-y *. It seemed us though I were dreaming, acd had suddenly been wafted back to mediieval days; it was incredible that such a scene should be enacted here in the end of the nineteenth ceutury, in a smart house in the very heart of a great city. Firmly lashed to an ordinary kitchen table chair sat a man whom I immediately recognized as De Brenne from Stomp's description. His head was bent forwards, and round his temples was a piece of tliiiy cord twisted so tightly that it had cut into the fl< sh. A man behind him was in creasing the pressure from time to time by turning a short piece of stick which was inserted in the cord, whilst two others were making preparations for even more ghastly and inhuman torture. De Brenne's face was a putty color, and great beads of prespiration were streaming down it. On a small table iu front of the group was what looked like a legal document, pens and ink, and a jug of cold water, which had evidently besn used to revive De Brenne should he losa consciousness under the terrible ordeal. The room was perfectly quiet, save for a low moan now and again from the victim as an extra twist or so made the pain unendurable. The three fiends were so occupied with their brutal tusk that they did not notice our entrance. "Will you sign?" asked the mani pulator of the string iu a low,pleasant voice>. A stifled moau was the only answer, which rose to a sharp wail as the stick wus turned another half revolution. Stomp raised his arm, paused for a secotul stea lily as a rock, presseil the trigger, and the man's arm dropped limp from the elbow downward. He gave n yelp of pain and surprise, which was echoed by his two companions, and clapped his other hand to the wound. TLi3 string relaxed and De Breune's head dropped forward on his chest—he had fniute 1. "Hands up!" shouted Stomp. One of the two uninjured men slipped his hand behind his coat-tails. Crack! we lit the revolver again, and a small pocket-pistol droppeil to the floor, whilst the fellow's haud was splashed with crimson drops. It was wonderful shooting. I be lieve Stomp cauld have picked out the buttons ou tho man's waistcoat had he chosen. "Now," said Stomp to me, "will you haf der goodness'totake down the der curtain-ropes and to tie up eler hands of our friends therewith?" This I did whilst Stomp still kept them covered with that ominous black smudged barrel. After which he crossed the room and, throwing open tho windows waked the stillness of the night by requesting the presence of "a boliceman" in stentorian tones. Marvellous to relate, one came in less than five minutes, followed by three more whom he summoned. Meanwhile I had been doing my ut most to revive De Brenne, with suffi cient success to enable him to make a short statement to the inspector, which resulted in our three friends being marched off iu safe keeping. The story was briefly as follows: De Brenne had gone to the coutiuent, but his pursuers had tracked him, anil with fiendish ingenuity had hunted him buck to England to his own house, so that he would be lianily for signing the required documents. The house was empty,save for a caretaker, whom they had spesdly got rid of,and De Brenne's own deaf-and-dumb serv ant, whom they retained after ensur ing themselves against the possibility of his communicating with the out side world by writing. They had then calmly kept De Brenne a close prisoner iu his own house, and started to torture him systematically until such time as he would sign a will iu his cousiu's favor (datsd some years previously). Had they accomplished this, they would have again carried him abroad and en sured a fatal alpine accident by the simple process of dropping him over the edge of a convenient precipice,and ; leaving hiui to be discovered. Luckily for De Brenne, however, j he had been able to get a note con . veyed by his servant to Stomp unob ' served, anel so was enabled, as the ; latter remarked, "to finish up on der ! topside." He Got the Penny. "Why is a great strong man like you going about begging?" asked a lady of a tramp, who begged for a 1 penny. "Ah, madam," replied the tramp, i "mine is the only profession in which ! a gentleman can address a beautiful j lady without the formality of an ia t reduction." —Tit-Bita. WAR CURE FOR YELLOW JACK. A British Naval Surgeon Says It Wa* • tSurreai Off the Chinese Coast. "Yellow fever, I see," said a mid night wayfarer as he stopped before an alarming war bulletin. The man looked as if he had just got off a train from anywhere, and he was in a mood to chat with any stranger who stood next him, as men so often ara in these war times, when all Ameri cans seem to be kin. "Yellow fever, I see. Well, that doesn't scare me worth a cent. No, sir. Yellow fever doesn't do much harm to an army that has plenty of excitement. Now, if the Spaniards would suddenly get quite peaceable and orderly so as to leave the army there without any excite ment " "Yes, I know what I'm talking about. There was an old doctor I knew in Canada that used to be a sur geon in the British navy, and he told me how he stopped yellow fever on his ship when they were doiug some kind of naval work at the mouth of the Peiho river, or some such river, 011 the Chinese coast. He said the Chinese fixed a chain across the mouth of the river, and before the British could get in they had to file that chain in two. Every time a boatload of men went to do some filing the Chinese would pepper them with musketry from under cover of the shore, so that filing was a slow job, but a very ex citing job. Lots of the men in the boat got hit. "Just about the time this filing be gan one of the crew reported sick with yellow fever symptoms, then another, and another, until it got about the ship that yellow jack had come aboard. The doctor said he knew that if the men had got to thinking about it they wouid a'll get the fever, so the next man that re ported with the symptoms he just or dered him, instead of lying down, to stand by and wait for further orders. In that way the doctor got together a g(A>d half dozen of yellow fever pa tients ready to join the next gang that was ordered off to do cable filing. "He told me that those patients of his didn't the least object to his pre scription. They would just as lief have a Chinese bullet in the open air as die of yellow fever between decks. But of course only some of them got hit, and the doctor declared to ma that not one of tliern died of yellow fever. So, you see, he saved the lives of all the balance, according to that, and the fever didn't get any hold on that crew. "Do I believe it? Why, certainly I do. No, I don't understand much about faith cures, but I do know that it's more than any one man can do to face bullets and have yellow fever at the same time." Tills Court Hits Hard. William Jennings, a litigant before Justice Robert M. Bowling of Kansas City, Kan., was beautifully whipped for contempt of court anil by the trial judge the other day. He appeared before the court ami offered to tile an affidavit in an attachment suit setting forth that he did not own the wood in question. "How is this?" inquired Judge Bowling. "Did you not testify when this case was up before that you did own the wood?" "No, I never said anything of the kind, and any man who says I did is a liar," retorted Jennings, excitedly. "So you meau to say, then, that I am a liar?" said Justice Bowling, in dignantly, rising to his feet. "This court will take a recess for fifteen minutes, and we will go outside and settle this matter." "Do I have to fight?" exclaimed Jennings, in some confusion. "Yes, sir, you do!" thundered the judge. "It is a rule of this court, sir." Saying this the judge pulled off his alapaca coat, and in less time than it takes to tell it the two men were out in the street and were at it hammer and tongs. In ten minutes Jennings' eyes were closed, and he was so badly battered that he looked like he had been run through a stone crusher, while the judge, sans hat, sans coat, sans shirt, stood panting for breath, but with the dignity of his court upheld. Judge Bowling did his man up in style. He called a car riage to reqiove him. As the carriage was pulled up to take Jennings away Judge Bowling was heard to say: "Any man who insults this court will have to fight."—Cincinnati En quirer. The Winsome Shaker Girl. "A Shaker girl comes very near the poet's ideal iu all the sweet endow ments of maidenhood," writes Made line S. Bridges of the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, New York, iu the Ladies' Home Journal. "She is frank, modest, gentle, refined in voice and movement, and with that utter uncon sciousness of self as rare as it is de lightsome in this age of self-assertive femininity. The Shaker boy—but why speak of impossibilities? I will not say that 110 Shaker was ever a boy, but I firmly incline to think that 110 boy ever was a Shaker. The growing youths at Lebanon were hearty and healthy as outdoor air and exercise could make them, and full of fun and mischief—the exuberant vitality that makes itself heard and seen—this iu striking ooutrast to the extreme quiet ude and precision of the grown-up members. "It is sometimes asked how Shakers amuse themselves. A pertinent an swer would be that they do not appear to feel the need of amusement, because their days and hours are so full of in terest Nevertheless, such need is provided for, two evenings iu the week boing set apart for social pleasures, conversation, music, recitation, read ing aloud, etc., iu which both sexes participate. In summer pleasant out door reunions are held. 1 THE REALM OF FASHION. S Garb Between Dresses anrt Tronsers. While it is unquestionably true that irousers are worn by extremely small Doys, the kilted skirt still has a place ind fills the inevitable gap between BOY'S DRESS. iresses anil genuine mannish garb. The suit shown in the illustration is aiade of dark blue galatea with collar ind shield of white duck and trimming Df blue brnid, but pique, gingham and linen crash, as well as flannel and serge, are equally suitable. The blouse is fitted with shoulder and underarm seams only and pouches well over the belt at both back and front. The neck is cut low and fin ished with a genuine sailor collar which is seamed to the edge. The sleeves are one-seamed and have the ' FANCY BLOUSE WAIST. fulness at the wrists laid in narrow* j pleats which are stitched into place, j The skirt is straight and hemmeil at ! the lower edge. The fulness is laid in j box pleats and the upper edge is seamed to a fitted waist which holds it securely into place, a placket being placed at the centre back. The shield portion which completes the neck is faced into the lifted waist, so avoiding all unnecessary complication. To make this dress for a boy of four years of age four yards of material tweuty-seveu inches wide will be re quired. Laillei' Blouse TVaist. Lilac and white striped taffeta with shield of tucked and sailor collar of plain white edged with frill of Liberty silk combined to make the May Man ton model shown in the large engrav ing one of the most effective of the faucy blouse waists. The waist is arranged over fitted linings that close in centre front, which may be omitted if not desired. The fronts are gathered at the shoul ders and waist line and pouch fashion ably in centre over the belt. The V opening ends just below the bust between the edges of which the shield is disclosed, the standing col lar and shield being tucked before be ing shaped as shown by the cut. The shield is sewed to the right lining front and closes with the standing col lar over the left shoulder and under edge of sailor collar. The full back is gathered and arranged to a square yoke, which presents a flat adjustment under the sailor collar, gathers at the waist line collecting the fulness in cen tre. The large sailor collar with pointed ends is a stylish feature of this waist. Under its edges ends of lilac satin rib bon are tacked and tied in a smart sailor knot at the front. The two-seamed sleeves are mounted on fitted linings, the fulness at the top being gathered to puff out stylishly and the wrists are completed with frills of Liberty silk. Belt of lilac satin with gold buckle. To make this waist for a lady of medium size will require two and one quarter yards of material forty-four inches wide. Concessions to Women Doctors. Concessions have been made to women doctors in Russia. It has been officially announced that they shall be equally entitled with men to all State privileges connected with their pro fession. This includes both political and social rights; it will open to them all official posts and will entitle them to pensions, which will not be taken away hy marriage, and may descend to. their children. With women's progress in political and social freedom and . in education, the young Empress has great symyathy, and she is saitl to have had a good deal to do with the concessions just granted to women doctors. Frills For tlie Dresses. Many of the pretty silk, crepe de chine and veiling dresses are finished with three tiny frills of ribbon, lap ping each other, and gathered mod erately full. These frills, though not novelties, are newer than those made of the dress goods, and they are given a novel effect by the deft manner in which they are adjusted, and by the beauty of the various two-toned or double-faced ribbons used. If the frills are made a bit too wide the effect is spoiled. They must not measure, all told, more than three inches; there fore, ribbons a trifle over an inch wide are the proper selection. Passing of a Famous Millinery. Owing to the growth of Paris, France, the once famous milliner's shop, "A la Belle Anglaise," in the Place du Roule, will shortly disappear. It was founded in 1765. Elizabeth Foster, the Duchess of Devonshire. Mme.» Recamier, Pauline Bonaparte and Marie Antoinette patronized the place, and Chateanbriaud bought his eravnts there. It is a picturesque lit tle house, one story high. The Fashionable Lorgnon. The newest lorgnon or fan chain is made of small pieces of red coral un evenly cut. It reminds the average woman of her childhood days when she wore a white frock with a red sash and a long chain of these little coral beads wound round and round her neck. Any womau who kad the fore sight to save her coral beads has on hand n fashionable chain, for there is next to no change in them. A Handsome Sailor Gr.wn. A handsome model for an autumn tailor gown is made of pale heliotrope cloth in a bourette weave, figured with tufts of white camel's-hair. The jacket of heliotrope cloth turns back with re vers of olive-green velvet, showing a blouse vest of white cloth braided in green and gold, with narrow belt to match. The skirt is open up each side to the waist, revealing panels of white cloth with cloth straps crossing them piped with velvet and almost covered with the green and gold braidwork. A French Organdy Design. French organdy, showing a bluet design, with green leaves on a white ground, is here tastefully decorated with blue baby ribbon and white lace. The full waist has the front r.nd back shaped in one portion with a perfectly straight upper edge. This is gathered in five evenly spaced rows, which are distributed over the neck of the glove-fitted lining which sup ports the fulness. 'Smooth underarm Korea separate the full fronts r.nd back, and the lining closes in centre WOMAN'S BLOVSE WAIST. front.' The full waist may close at iho left shoulder and unlerarni seam, or the more practical centre-front closing is quite possible and can be readily made invisible, if so preferred. To make this waist for a woman of medium size two and one-half ysrd®» of material forty-four inches wide will be rec aired. Doa't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Toar Lift Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mat' netlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Hoc, the wonder-worker, tbat makes weak men atrong. All druggists, 50c or 11. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Ca, Chicago or New York. 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