THE WOMAN OF TACT- The Numtroua Ways la Which She Makes Herself 1 .oved. She had been talking pleasantly to two or three women. She hail made her good-byes all cheerful and bright, and, after she had disappeared, one woman turned to another and said in a tone that was scoffing: "She is a thorough woman of tact." Now, in this case, the woman who had said none but pleasant words, who, by a, bright story, had prevented the discus sion of a petty scandal, was a woman who was as brave-hearted as any that ever lived, and who bore, not only her own, but the burdens of a good many other people, yet she saw no reason why she should inflict her troubles on her friends, or why she should not be in its best sense a woman of tact. A woman of tact is one who feels that the story told to hurt your feel ings is essentially bad form, and in considerate of the feelings of others. A woman of tact is the one who is courteous to old people, who laughs with the young, and who makes her self agreeable to all women in all con ditions of life. A woman of tact is one who makes her good-morning a pleasant greeting, ' her visit a bright spot in the day, and her good-bye a hope that she may come again. A woman of tact is one who does not gauge people by their clothes, or their riches, but who condemns bad manners. A woman of tact is one who is cour teous under all circumstances and in every condition in which she may be placed. She is the woman who can re ceive the unwelcome guest with a smile eo bright and a handshake so cordial, that in trying to make the welcome seem real it becomes so. A woman of tact is one whose love for humanity is second only in her life's devotion, and whose watchword is unselfishness in thought and action. By making self last it finally becomes natural to have it so. I" Making a Corner Kola. With little expense a pretty corner | sofa may be made for a sitting or draw- ! ing-room. The platform, one foot in ; height, may be made by any amateur ' carpenter. Upon this is fitted a mat- I tress or cushion, which may then be : covered as elaborately or as simply as I desired, the same scheme being carried | A CORNER SOFA, out in the curtain at the back, which should be lined with a plain color. The looping is done by drawing the ful ness through brass curtain rings, the last on either side being finished with an ornament such as a Japanese fan, or any other effective bit of color. Piled up with cushions this makes a charm ing piece of furniture. Tea by Courteay. Every one is aware that much of the tea we drink is tea in name only, so much is it adulterated. But there are many beverages called teas which are not fraudulent manufactures, though they are called by the name of the delicious Chinese leaves. In Mauritius, for example, they make tea of the leaves of an orchid. in Peru, they drink mate, a tea made from a native species of holly. The Abyssinians make tea from the leaves of the catha cdulis, which has such stimulating qualities that to chew a single leaf will produce all the effects of a strong cup of coffee. It is most valuable to travelers. The Tasmanians are said to be the lucky owv.firs of no fewer than 100 i kinds of leaves from which tea can be made, while the Tonkinese have tea from berries, leaves, woods and barks of trees. in Sumatra coffee leaves are putin ; the teapot and the result is said to be excellent. Tli* Miunieae llriilcKroom. ICvery Siamese girl who reaches a certain age without marrying is tick eted and labeled and placed in a privi leged class, under the special care of the king, who binds himself to find a husband for them all. His method is delightfully simple. A prisoner in any of the Siamese jails may gain his par don and release by marrying one of ineligible class. Whether he is aire, married or not is not great conse quence, for in Siam it is not necessary to draw the line at one wife. Mlfelil lie Adopted Here. There are curious customs in some parts of the Middle Empire, as China is called. Young girls who are mar riageable wear their hair in a. long plait down their back, while in this a red ribbon is interwoven. This can only be worn by one who is unmarried and is not bound by marriage engagements. Hla In fortunate Argument. She —After all, you must admit that women are better than men. lie—Oh, I don't know. The Bible doesn't say anything about seven de vils being cast out of a man. She—No, of course not; he has every one of them yet. Proper Derivation. Gooseberry fool is a corruption of gooseberry foule—milled or pressed gooseberries. CAUGHT_AT LAST. At tl)Is time of year I am sometimes jaftiinded of an odd adventure which Uo§&n one mad March night during a JoWtfey from north to south, beginning ft town of Preston, Lancashire. Having adjusted my wraps and made comfortable in the corner of the third-class carriage which my porter had got for me, 1 took stock of the ttyee other passengers who occupied tho other end of the compartment. A big, lusty, fresh-looking fellow In Stout tweeds, and wearing a Scotch cap, was seated with his face toward the engine; a young lady and a young gen tleman faced him, the young gentleman having the corner, the lady resting her head on his shoulder. From an opening in the folds of his overgoat I caught the gleam of a pair of handcuffs. He was a captive. Ttie lady, however, smiled tearfully, aftH in soft, coaxing tones, said: "Mr. Sutcllffe, couldn't you loosen the irons? They're chafing his wrists 56." "Didn't he say he'd shoot me?" an swered the bjg mail, who I now under derstood was a policeman in plain clothes taking a prisoner south. Then the lady burst into tears, and with u laugh Sutcliffe met her half way, unlocked tho horrid bracelets, and let loose one of Dandy's wrists. "There, mon," said he, "you can put yer arm round 'er. But noan of yer little gaames wi' me. I've carried pri§'ners all o'er England, Scotland and Ireland, and never lost a mon yet." Then' the lady pleaded a splitting headache and the cap was drawn over the lamp by general consent, and I curled up in my corner. We sped on awhile. Sutcliffe was asleep—sound—snoring heavily. Then I dropped off. and remembered nothing clearly till we pulled up with a jerk. I woke. Sutcliffe woke. The lamp was burning low, but it gave lifjht enough to show us a car riage which contained only our two selves. "My groom!" roared Sutcliffe. "My tyrd has flown. Did we stop betwixt Crewe and here?" 1 couldn't say. He said no more. Swiftly he grab bed at his cap, his wraps and a small bag, slipped on his boots and opened the carriage door. One evening, some three years later, my wife being down at the seaside, and I finding the time heavy on my hands, dropped into the pit of a famous play house. Before the curtain had been up many minutes my attention was drawn to a big man who had a seat in the front row of the pit. I looked and looked —and then I rec ognized my friend Sutcliffe, the police man of my midnight, journey. After the first act he pushed his way out. and I touched him on the shoulder. "You don't remember me." He scrutinized me for a moment, and then nearly shook my hand off. "Why—for sure 1 do —eh! It cost me my place i' t' foorce, did that job. Ah've never clapped eyes on that pair since." Then we got to our places and J saw by his gestures and hi 3 looks at me that hv, was telling his buxom wife the story of that, mad March night. Suddenly I saw his face turn rigid, and he rose up in hts seat, as if he was about to leap into the stalls. His wife pulled him back and talked eagerly to him. Down came the curtain, out came Sutcliffe, grabbed my shoulder in his hands, and said out loud: "I'm dommed if that theer Dandy beant a-sittin' reel i' front o' me." I followed his eyes, and at once rec ognized that cynical curl of the lip, that rather efflemiuate prisoner who had escaped from custody between Crewe and Stafford. He was dressed iu the height of fash ion. He was standing with his face toward the circle, peering at fashion through a pair of glasses. "Hallo!" said Sutcliffe, "why he's getten a new missus." "Yes," hissed a heavily veiled woman behind us. "Now, arrest him, Mr. Sut cliffe. You're not going to let him go, are you?" We both started. It was the lady who had escaped with Dandy. "Nay, missus, I'm not i't' force now. Yo mon catch him yerself—yo let him go." She was trembling like a leaf in the wind, and casting venomous look at us swiftly left the theater. We both of us watched the unsus pecting Dandy during the last act, with scarce a look at tho stage or an ear for the music. But none enjoyed it more than the cynical Dandy and his charm ing -lady. A few minutes before the finale we saw him place a splendid cloak upon her fair shoulders and pass politely along the row to the door. Our party followed their example. We raced round to the front door, and were just in time to see the escaped prisoner and his new missus get into an elegant one-horse brougham and drive off. But behind them was a hansom, in which sat a thickly veiled lady and two men. Aad they drove off. "Conped as sure as eggs is eggs," chuckled Sutcliffe. "Scotland Yard is after Dandy." We've All Seen Them. There ought to be a school for teach ing 'm'en and women how to carry an umbrella. Most people seem to think that umbrellas were made to trip up Dgjestriaps or to swipe off their eye gl'asseg and put out their eyes. Chineae K»m. Over eleven million fans are export ed year from Canton, China. THE PARAGON. Mrs. Hudson was to give a dinner party that evening. It was not to be one of those elaborate receptions for which she was noted—merely an in formal affair, to which only a few of her most intimate friends had been invited. "My dear," she said to ber niece, "you will meet to-night a great friend of mine. He does not care for parties. Will you see that he is not bored at this one?" "Why must he be assigned to me?" she asked. "I want you to entertain him, Lil lian, because he is a stranger in town. He is by no means a bore. He is handsome, witty, interesting." "What a paragou. aunt," Interrupted Lillian. "I know 1 sliall hate him." "I believe you will." exclaimed the elder woman in despair, as she left, the room. » • • • Lillian resumed her preparations for what promised to be n very disagree able evening. "Handsome, witty, in teresting. That it. a good description of some one I know," she thought, as she twined some flowers In Iter hand. "He used to laugh at my fancy for flowers." . A tear rolled down her cheek. "How foolish." she said, as she hastily brush ed it away. A pretty picture she made in her white silk gown, wjth the flowers about her head like a crown, when a few minutes later she descended to the drawing-room. So thought a young man yvho stood watching her as she came down the stairs, and who held out his hands to her in welcome. "This is indeed u surprise," he said. "I did not expect to see you here this evening." "Mrs. Hudson is my aunt, you know, or, rather, you do not know. I never mentioned her to you, I believe. 1 did not know you were friends," she said. "I am happy to say your aunt is a friend of mine," he said, as they moved across the hall away from the drawing room. where her aunt ayvaited her. And the paragon? Lillian had for gotten hitu. "You have changed," the young man said, gazing long and earnestly at her. "You have grown from a child to a woman." "You also have changed,'.' she re plied, noting the sternness of the hand some face. "Yes, although fortune has been kinder to me than I dared to hope. She has been kind to me to-night," he added, bending over his companion. She turned and looked from the win dow near which they stood. The house was large, the guests few in number, no one molested them. "How well 1 remember the last night I saw you," he salil. "There were (lowers in your hair -daisies —like you wear to-night. One nestled in the curl above you ear. I wished to take it. I dared not ask for it. although one flower more or less would mean noth ing to you. You were a mere child, with no knowledge of the world you were so soon to enter, while 1 had nothing—-neither fame nor fortune. Our lives were apart. 1 bade you good bye that night, but I did not forget you —I could not." She did not move nor turn her head. "1 have offended you," he said con tritely. "No, no," Lillian answered, "Oh. but I have,"he cried in dis tress. "In my delight at seeing you I have overstepped the bounds of po liteness. J have been rude." "You do not understand. I was no child," she said hurriedly, and she turn ed to go. A flower fell from her hair. He stooped and picked It up. "Keep it," she whispered, moving away. He took the flower, and with it her hand, as if in that moment he had di vined the truth. "At one time." he said, in tones that trembled, "if I could have had a flower from your hair my happiness would have been complete. Now ray happi ness will not be complete without the giver. May I have her?" he whisper ed. "Say yes," he pleaded. Who could resist that tender voice? Not Lillian, who loved him with all her heart. Her answer was low, but he must have heard It, for he kissed the flower. "The paragon;" Lillian said, a few minutes later, suddenly remembering her aunt'B commission. Filled with emotion she approached that lady, who smiled benignly upon her. "Why, you have been talking to him all the evening." explained her aunt. "James, your paragon!" exclaimed Lillian, in astonishment. "He and 1 are old friends, aunt. I met him three years ago, when I was at the mountains with papa. Besides," very demurely, "he is to be my hus band." And Mrs. Hudson always declared she made the match. In a Primitive State. The Papuans of the Malay coast of New Guinea are still In the most primi tive state. They are wholly unac quainted with metals, and make their weapons of ftone, bones and wood. Bird .111 a ration. Among the many mysteries of bird migration is the fact that over-sea journeys are generally conducted in the darkness and invariably against a head wind A l.on( Canal. The length of the Grand Canal from Tientsin to Hangchau, in China, is 650 miles. It connects great ports with rich coal regions. PRETTYJ3CREENS. HOW TO BUILD A USEFUL BIT OF FURNITURE WITH LITTLE OUTLAY. •Japauoa* sud Chinese O rcein Can Bo Piireliatt«<t ut V«m> Krusouable Prlcae, But Tiiey Can Homo at Mucb Leu* The screens that eoin£ from Japan and China are best for the moderate purse. They <an be purchased at rea sonable prices in almost every town and city in the country. Or screens at still less expense may be made at home. First determine upon the size of the screen, the height of the panels, their width, and whether two, three or four shall be used. A screen of good pro portion is one formed of three panels, five and one-half feet high by two feet in width. Have a frame made by the carpenter, or, better still, make it yourself if ,ou are clever at such yvork. It is a aim- SCREEN MADE OF HU'K DENIM, pie matter to form the skeleton of strips of light pine from an inch to an inch and a half in thickness. Only the outside pieces and two cross pieces are required to brace the frame and make it taut and Arm. Once the frame is completed the rest is easy. Now stretch over the frame some fig ured burlap, that can be secured at the low cost of cents a yard. Choose this for the face of the screen. Place the frame upon the floor. Tack the edge of the burlap to the top piece of the frame, and stretch tightly and tack to the lower pieces and sides, in doing this the edge of the burlap should be drawn over the corner of the wood, so that when the back is covered in the same way all the surface is smooth except the rim of the screen. Tills rim is then treated by a covering of gimp or braid, or a narrow piece of burlap, hemmed and bound. Fasten It on with brass-headed tacks, and the panel Is completed. Light brass hinges Join the panels, and the screen is ready for use. Many other cheap fabrics may be used to cover these screens. Figured burlaps, blue denim, creton, or inexpen sive tapestries all make admirable sur faces. They can sometimes bo com bined with good results. Thus a screen may be faced with denim and the re verse covered with creton, or the pan els may be divided—the upper half eov ered with tapestry and the lower halt with some good tone of burlaps; or the three panels may be covered with different fabrics. Should the screen be intended for use in a bedroom it can be made to serve a double purpose by covering but one side with burlap o» denim. The cross pieces should be three or four in number, and the frame generally strengthened a little, when, SCREEN FOR A FIREPLACE, presto, the reverse side of the screen becomes a wardrobe and towel rack. By fastening hooks in the top strip of the screen dresses can be hung upon it, and towels, stockings, etc., can be placed on the cross pieces. There is really no end to the uses to which screens may be put, and their manufac ture is so simple and so inexpensive that every ingenious woman may pos sess one. Mrs. Frederic, widow of Harold Fred eric, the newspaper correspondent and novelist, who died at Kenley, Surrey, on Oct. 10 last, died ut London, Eng. guns which Yale gave to the cruiser Yale have been voted by Congress to the University campus, to be available, of course, for the coun try's service iu case of war. Harry Burton, the last of the dyna miters recently released from jail in London, has arrived at Dublin. Bur ton was a member of the famous Clan ua-Guel which for many years spread terror thoughout Great Britain. The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the guuboat Wilmlugton to proceed up the Amazon as far as it is navigable, to study the country and gather specimens of fauna for the Na tional Museum at Washington. The stockholders of the Itiverside Iron Works, at Bellairo, 0., have voted to sell the plants at Benwood and Steubeuvllle to the combination of which J. l'ierpout Morgan Is the head for *0.000.000. BEA BIROS AND THEIR EGGS ■natan Contnt With (lulls for Poun •lon of the Spoil*. If the rnurre Is disturbed by an egg hunter anil its single egg taken it will return ami replace its succeSlWely stolen ovum uutil eljjht have been laid.' It is loath to leave nest, even when the despoller approaches, and when he comes up she leans away from hint and moves over to the f«r side of the nest. But presently, yielding to the alarm within her breast, >.Jic emits a sudden squawk and llies off. flushing the en tire rookery as she moves toward the sea, leaving the plekers to till their pouched shirts with the booty. They must hurry the work, for as'soon as the eggs are uncovered the gulls hover close and become thick upon the scene. These the men must liclit off. for they brazenly interpose themselves and bat tle with the humans for the posses sion of the eggs. The opportunity being open, the gull sweeps down, upon the murre egg. seizes it in its mouth and goes sailing aloft, cracks it in its bill and gobbles what of its contents it can. the residue falling on the rocks below. Then it takes another swoop away and bal ances itself to spy out a new egg. Th-* gull's egg is palatable. That the islands in San Fran cisco bay were a great repository of edible eggs became known in the early tifties. At the time of the discovery of this fact provisions were scarce and gold plentiful in San Fran cisco, ami the rookery eggs offered 'u the markets of that city brought one dollar a dozen. The opening of this new and free opportunity to acquire wealth precipitated numbers of people upon the islands and in the business of egg gathering. Quarrels ensued be tween the competitors as to their re spective "rights" in the premises, with the result that a company was formed among a number of the pickers,which bought out the claims of the others. This company managed to hold onto its advantages for some years, not however. fCATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION 256 500 DRUGGISTS Removed! to my new store in the GAREY BLOK where I will be pleased to meet all of my old pat rons and many new ones. We fit the young and old of all nationalities and color with Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Fine Assortment at Popular Prices. CALL OUST ITS Remember GABEY'S BLOCK, t he Place, DUSHORE. DUSHORE. J. S. HARRINGTON. 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I 1 112 .<- * * I Mas>td Mo pauodap pun aaaqi tuntp I -jos ill. r.in.iOAOS jo juouii|.">mop H JAAS .•II •<>.)«!• II «S IB .;.)Il.tO)lIl JDfJJ -s|p -Minis I>d)|u;'| OIH ;<> uol|tl.>))li oill l-iiuit" <H Kir )j4 os .no.itf i(]3)Bni sa>ii;.ui>|.i|(| ,uu mull siiKtuu|,)Boj,» • lie DUU SISOUIO.) ~UU>UOI.IOdj£O IIIOUII U Gen. T. \V. Hyde of Butl), Me., has Wrlten a letter to Sanford L. Fogg, the Chairman of Sagadohoc county l(e --inibllcans, accepting the county in- I lorseinent for Congress and agreeing lo stand as a candidate in the Second ! District Convention for the Republl .•an nomination to succeed the late Congressman, Nelson Dingley. The women of Ohio, through the :»hio Federation of Women's Clubs, liave filed n petition with the Centen nial Commission requesting that at the coming celebration to be given at 1 Toledo the "couche couche" dance be 'orbidden. The ladies request that the i 'Midway" be given over to their ex- I 'lusivo control. They promise an edu- I :ational show. I Tl»e Surgical Ant. The native Brazilian. far removed as lie usually is from doctors and sur geons. depends upon a little ant to sew up his wounds when he is slashed or scratched. frutu to tell, the average surgeon could do the job no better than these little insects. The nut lias two strong nippers on his head. They are his weapons for battle or a forage. When a Brazilian lias cut himself, for example, lie picks up an ant. presses the nippers against ihe wound, one on each side, and then gives the bug a squeeze. The indignant insect nat urally snaps his nippers together, piercing the tlesli and bringing the lacerated parts close together. The Brazilian at that moment gives the ant's body a jerk, and away it flies, i leaving the nippers imbeded in the ! flesh, that kills the ant. but. as he lias served his most useful purpose, in life. It is well. The operation is repeated until the wound is sewed up neatly , and thoroughly.
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