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Then, gently lifting the hat from tho face of the dead, and looking at it with tearful eyes, he said, with proud tenderness: "Well done, my boy!" Soon replacing tho hat, he strode ofT, with soldierly erect uess, to where his duty lay, to die, a few months later, of disease contracted at Santiago. COULD NOT SLEEP. Mrs. Pinkham Relieved Her of All Her Troubles. Mrs. MADGE BABCOCK, 170 Second St., Grand Gapids, Mich., had ovarian trouble with its attendant aches and pains, now she is well. Here and since taking it all troubles have gone. My monthly sicknessused to he so painful, but have not had the slightest pain since taking your medicine. I cannot praise your Vegetable Compound too much. My husband and friends see such a change in me. I look so much better and have EOIUC color in my face." Mrs. I'inliham invites women who are ill to write to her at Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is fraelv offered. Aft Effects n v r\m ©f the vlKlr fe i Grip is & treacherous disease. 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A few weeks ago, however, two of tho newest !).2-incli wire guns, thirty-six feet in length and firing a projectile of 380 pounds' weight, were mounted on Europa Point. These guns have a rango of fifteen miles aud are most formidable weapons. Ilemurkahlo Whiat llamis. F. H. Johnson, \V. W. Beck with, S. A. Weller, Mr. Tracy and Mr. Fallon were playing whist at Holihan's Inn in Derby when a deal was made in which overy player received a full suit of cards. It is said that such hands have been reported only three times, twice iu London and once in Now York.—Hartford (Conn.) Cour ant. THE OLD CARRET. Swing ajar the ganet door, How the rusty hinges create I Pause before you venture o'er The old threshold, woru and weak. Comes, as oft such questions will— Who knows what's beyond the sill? Here, all things are plain to soe— There all things are mystery, Where old treasures are shut fast In the storehouse of the past. From the rafters ovorhoad, Wi hered herbs, in dusty rows. Hang like branches sere and dead ; But, whene'er a soft wind blows Through the window's broken pano Faint, swoet fragrances again From their leaves are shaken freo, As an old-timo memory In the cobwebbed minds of men Stirs, and tries to live again. Here tho spider's web is spun In the dust and in the gloom. Hero are woven, ono by one, In a viewless, noiseless loom, Fabric* lit for fairy wear, Frail as frost and quite as fair, Showing patterns rarer far Than those of old laces aro When a light from heaven's blue Shines the silken meshes through, lu that shadowy corner stands An old eradle, and it seems Slowly rooked by phantom hands While a baby sleeps and dreams On a pillow, long impressed, And a lullaby of rest Trembles softly through the gloom Of this moiuory-hauuted room, From the lips that long ago Turned to dust where gnvc-flowert grow. In that old, worm-eaten ehest. What quaint things are stored away 1 Stomacher and 'broidered vest— Satin gown and wig of gray, 112 can fanny phantom folk Dancing at tho midnight's stroke, lu the g irments hidden here For who knows how many a yoar? 'Twere an eerie sight to see Their grim, ghostly revelry. Almost hidden from the sight By tho wreckage of the past In the dim and dusty light From the cobwebbed window oast Shows a mirror, and therein Many a ghost of what has been Seems to rise and swiftly pass i.ike a shadow o'er the glass, In the depths of it I see Things that almost frighten mo. Faces mouldered into dust Long ago look out at me Fr 'in the tarnished frame, whoso rust Mocks at human vanity, As a shadow forms, for they Form, and fade, and puss away, J.ike the ripple on a stream, Or tho fancy of a dream. Here—then lost in shadows va6t, Tho procession of the past. Logger here I dare not stay, For it somehow seems to me A e are trespassers today, Shut tho (loor and turn the key, Leave it to tho dead, who quit Their old graves to visit it. Whence they come or where they go. What they come for -who shall know? ] shall solve the mystery When the grass grows over me. Eben E. Itexford, in Boston Transcript. | HONESTY i I • IS THE $ 5 BEST POLICY. I X By ANXKC. HYATT-WOOI.R. X A merchant of Constantinople went to the baths, as is the custom in Tur key, before morning prayers. After performing his ablutions, on his way to the mosque he lost in the street his purse. Devoutly he said his prayers, and it was not until he was leaving the mosque that he became aware of his loss. At once he sent for the town crier. "I have lost my purse," liesaid; "it contains 200 gold pieces; proclaim my loss throughout the city, and whoever brings it back to me shall be rewarded with one-half its coutents." The crier didas he was bid. A sailor had found the parse, and when he heard to whom it belonged, immedi ately he took it to the merchant, glee fully anticipating the rich reward that he thought was to be his. He gained admittance to the merchant's house ; immediately he saw him he produced the purse, saying, "Here is your purse, with 200 gold pieces inside." "Ah, let my see!" ejaculated the merchant. He counted the money, and found thero was exactly the sum the man stated, the amount he had lost. "You aro a thief!" said the mer jhant. "What! you dare to call me a thief when you have just counted your gold in front of me, and found there precisely the 200 pieces, just as the crier proclaimed?" "Yes, I shall say that you are n thiof!" ejaculated the merchant. "In my purse there were two emerald ear rings, and they are not there uow. Restore them to me at once or I will have you imprisoned." "It is false; there were no earrings in your purse," shouted the sailor, angrily. And what tho sailor said was true, but the merchant thought that by ac c.isiug him of theft to frighten him so that he would go away and hide, and by this base device he hoped to save his 100 gold pieces. "Yon have stolen my emerald ear rings. Give them up to me at once, or 1 will take you before the kadi," repeated the merchant, who, having once told the lie, thought he must stick to it. Again the sailor again stoutly denied this wicked accusation, and demanded the promised reward. The merchant, seeing that this was not a mau to be frightened into silence, and feeling every moment that he delayed less and less inclined to part with his money, said: "Come, you are a thief, and yon shall go with me before the kadi, and ho will justly punish you for stealing my valuable emeralds, and if you r.ou't come I will have you dragged along." "I am innocent and quite willing to appear before the kadi, so that he may judge between us," replied the sailor. So together they went to tho kadi's court. The merchant there stated his case, how he had lost his purse, how the sailor had found it, and returned it with all the monev in: but two emerald earring l ?, worth, he declared, double the amount of the 200 gold pieces, had been stolen from his purse, and evidently by the sailor, seeiug he was the man who acknowledged hav ing j>ieked it up. Again the sailor denied having stolen emeralds or any other precious stones. "It is true that I picked up the purse," he said, "but there were only the 200 gold pieces in it, just as the crier proclaimed." The kadi was greatly puzzled and mystified, not knowing whom to be lieve and whom to disbelieve. The merchant was a rich man and held an honorable position in the city, while the sailor looked so fearlessly and frankly in his face that he could not believe ho was a thief. So in his per plexity lie pronounced this sentence: "That the sailor be acquitted of the charge of theft, but because of his carelessness in losing such valuable articles he forfeit the promised re ward. " Great was the sailor's anger at being thus cheated out of his hundred gold pieces. At this time there lived in Constan tinople the celebrated Chorluli Ali Pasha. The sailor decided to present his case in a petition to him. Ali Pasha, always willing to give justice to the poor, summoned the merchant, the crier and the sailor to appear be fore him. "What was it that the merchant told you he had lost, and bid you cry throughout the town?" he asked the crier. "A purse containing 200 gold pieces," was the prompt reply. "Yes," interrupted the merchant, "that is true; purposely I did not tell him about the emeralds, fearing that if the purse fell into the hands of an ignorant man, who knew not the value of gems, he might perchance under such a great temptation, when he dis covered their value" —here he stut tered and stammered—" he might be tempted to keep purse and jewels,and say nothing about what he found." Ali Paslii shook his head as the man jumbled out these ridiculous rea sons. "What do you say you found?" he asked the sailor. "A purse with2oogold pieces,'' was the unvarying reply. "Then," said Ali Pasha, "it is very evident that since the purse the mer chant lost contained two emerald ear rings, as well as 200 pieces of money, that the purse found was not lost by the merchant but by some one else. So let the merchant have his purse cried again and again until some (lod fearing person having found it restores it to him; and let the sailor keep the purse he found for forty days, and if it be not claimed within that period, then let him keep it for his own." "Nay, nay, Chorluli Ali Pasha," said the merchant, bowing low; "now I come to think of it the emerald ear rings were not in that purse. Until this moment I had forgotten, but now I remember that for better security I hid them away in a place known only to myself." "You speak too late," said the pasha. "And by this lesson learn that they who go about to deceive others oftentimes deceive themselves; and sometimes one falls into the ditch that ho himself made." NIAGARA'S NEW BRIDCE- It Will Span the (Joi't'o on tlie Site of the Structure Destroyed ill 1804. A new suspension bridge is to be built across the Niagara gorge. Dur ing the past two years both of the fa mous suspension bridges at the falls have given way to steel arches,and the new suspension bridge will therefore bo the only structure of the kind to counect New Y'ork state with the Do minion of Canada. The bridge will extend from the points near the village of Lewiston, N. Y*., and the quaint old town of Queenston, Ontario, where in 1850-51 auother suspension bridge was built to connect the Lewistou mountain with Queenston Heights. That old bridge was many years ahead of the profitable demands of the times, and when it was destroyed it was never rebuilt. The wrecking of the old bridge forms one of the important events in the history of the Niagara region. Early in 1864 a mighty mass of ice came down the Niagara river from Lake Erie. The owners ot the bridge were fearful for the safety of the structure, for the guys were anchored just above high water mark. Orders were issued to loosen the guys and lift them up out of the way of the icy mass. This was done, the ico jam went out, and no damage was caused. The guys were not reanchored, however. Sud denly, out from the southwest there came a fierce gale, which swept down the Niagara chasm. It caught the bridge full on the side, and soon the structure was swinging back and forth. The men in charge could do nothing to protect it from the wind. About II o'clock ou the morning of Feb. 1, 1864, it gave a great surge and then the greater part of it fell into the river below. It was a complete wreck. Back and forth the old cables swung until last fall they were cut away. From tower to tower the span of the new bridge will be a little more than 1000 feet, while the span of tho sus pended portion will be about 800 feet. The outside width of the bridge will be 28 feet, nud the roadway will have a width of 25 feet. This width of floor will afford room for a single trol ley car track laid through the ceutre, with space on either side for teams. The towers are four in number, two being ou each side of the river. An Explnnatlon. The Fox—Good morning, friend. I'm afraid there is something about me you don't like. The Bird —Well, you're right! It's your ap««tite. Puck. 1 NEW YORK FASHIONS. 1 m & g| HANDSOME DESIGNS FOR DRESS AND SKIRT. !§ NEW YORK CITY (Special). —Colored costumes may be selected with a view to becomingness and the fashion of the moment, but a street toilet of fine black cheviot or broadcloth is un- LADIES' WALKING TOILET. rivaled for elegance and refinement of style. Black cheviot is here shown united with velvet (both of good qual ity), the closing being made in centre front with tailor-covered buttons and buttonholes. Simplicity and smart ness are equally combined in the basque, the tailor-made style being greatly relieved by lapels, collar and Buffs of velvet, that makes the finish ing of such a garment easy of accom plishment. The waist portion is ren dered glove-fitting by double bust ilarts, nnder-arm and side-back gores, the back portions being of full length ind ending in coat laps below the waist line. The cutaway basque por tions, fitted over the hips by short single darts, are joined to the pointed LADIES' SEVEN GORED TETTICOAT. lower outline of waist, meeting the backs in deep coat laps that are marked at the top by single buttons. Above the closing the fronts are re versed to form lapels that meet the rolling collar in notches. The fashion able two-seamed sleeves are fitted at the top by four short darts which may be omitted in favor of plaits or gathers, if so preferred. The wrists are fin ished with flaring pointed cuffs of vel vet. The sleeves are striped with bands of ribbon velvet. The skirt comprises seven gores, the novel fea ture being the shaping that gives a distinct spring at the foot of each gore, suggesting the flare of a circu lar flounce. A close adjustment is presented at the top and the fulness in back is laid in siugle backward turning plaits that meet over the placket finished in the centre back seam. Basques in this style may match or contrast with the skirt in broadcloth, velvet, poplin or satin. Braid may be used as decoration 01° a simple tailor finish of stitching may be adopted. The skirt may form part of a cos tume or be made separately to wear with odd waists, which are still fash ionable. To make the skirt in the medium size will require five yards of forty-four-inch material. To make tlie waist will require two and oue balf yards of material forty-four inches wide. A Styllslt Petticoat. The very handsome petticoat shown in the large illustration is made of violet taffeta, the foot decoration con sisting of two narrow frills with head ing of black silk applique embroidery. Silk skirts are the rage and it does not require great wealth to make it possible to indulge in this luxury of refinement. The design is economical in the ex treme, as the front gore can be cut of one width of silk and all the others on the double fold of silk twenty-two inches wide. The yoke that extends to the back gores can be of fine cam bric or nearsilk in the same color and a double easing is made at the top of the back gores through which tapts are inserted to shirr the fulness to po sition. The oircal&i' flounce which forms the lower portion is lined throughout with good crinoline and joined to the lower edge of the upper portion of the proper skirt with a cord or folds of silk, the flouuce being finished at the foot with velveteen facing exactly |in the manner of a dress skirt. Tiny | frills of satin ribbon, velvet, braid or auy preferred decoration may be used in place of that here shown. While specially designed for silk this skirt may be made of moreen alpaca, mo hair, brilliantine, sateen, percaline nearsilk, cambric or any preferred material. To make this skirt in the medium size will require elevon and one-fourth yards of tweuty-two-inch ( material. Fabric* For tlie Sheath Skirl. It is very evident that tho sheath skirt has come to stay with us during the spring and the summer at all events, even though having a few rivals in somewhat less severe skirt models for tall, slim figures. The fabrics composing the sheath skirt may be slightly draped or decorated j without addiug bulk, because the I materials thus treated are almost in | variably soft and pliable. But these eftects are not for brocades, satin and | velvet stripes and similar tissues. The Spring; Skirts. The spring will see nearly all skirts I made with side closiugs, either real or I simulated by buttons and lacing cords. | Tho lengthened skirt with its close I sheath effects will remain in vogue; open-fronted coats and basques will j continue in great favor, aud every j thing designed to impart u look of ! slenderness and grace will be followed ! by the modiste and tailor in tho mak | ing of gowns for the new season. Aii Ornament For tlie Hat. | A new hat ornament consists of an ! enameled ball studded with mock ! gems, and fastened spiral fashion on a J long gilt hairpin. The ball stick" | straight out of the knot. I ; A Child's Coal. No outer garment worn by little j girls is more generally becoming or ! more completely protective than the long coat that is snug about tlie shoul ders, but allows perfect freedom for the limbs. The model shown is ex ceedingly smart at the same time that it is simple, and is suited to both smooth and rough-faced cloth, as well as to velvet, when that material is preferred. As illustrated, however, it is made of heavy cheviot in na tional blue and is trimmed with a rib bon frill of the same color headed with fancy black braid. With the coat are worn a quaint picture hat of blue felt, faced with ribbon frills, and comfort able suede gloves, fleece lined. The yoke fits the shoulders per fectly, and the pleated skirt portion falls snugly enough for warmth with out iu the least incumbering the wearer. The sleeves are small, but not tighi, there being just sufficient fulness at the shoulders to support the epaulets. Ribbon frills at both neck and wrist muke a tasteful finish that is eminently childish at the same A MTTIiF. GlMi's COAT. time. The coat is lined throughout with silk and can be slipped on and off with ease. To make this coat for a child of four yeaia two yards of mate rial fifty-four inches wide will be ro au'i-ed.
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