The hanging of a man aud a woman back to back iu a Quebec jail is a practical illustration of Canadiau sen timent on equul punishment for both sexes. A Missouri young man was acquitted the other week of murdering his mother, but he has yet to answer for killing his sister. The other members of the family are no doubt glad they died some years ago. The governor of Indiana says that large tracts of land iu that state have been exhausted and abandoned, amounting iu a single county to 10,000 acres. By deep plowing and proper fertilization, those lands would aga ; u become fruitful. Tho richest silver veins in England were found orly two yards beyond where the original prospector abandoned his work as hopeless. The saddest of all failures are the uot-quite-enough. A little more courage, a little more top-dress ing, ami a little deeper plowing will alter tho whole face of theduy's work. Historically, the Declaration of In dependence cannot for a moment be put upon the same plaue as the Con stitution. The former was a political manifesto, issued by a revolutionary body, and like most such manifestoes was a rhetorical appeal for support, philosophizes the Yale Beviow. The bitter is the fundamental law of the country, which can bj quoted iu courts, aud according to which the rights of the individual may be ganged. Leaving aside rhetoric and an appeal to the feelings, it lays down carefully and exactly the really essential maxims of good government. It very wisely leaves the subject of political rights almost untouched, but it does lay great emphasis upon the maintenance of civil rights. A Loudon doctor, Tucker Wise by name, has issued a solemn warning against the keeping of canaries. Ten per cent, of these birds, he avers, die of consumption, and they often dis tribute the disease among the un feathered bipeds who entertain them. Well, one more danger of this sort hardly counts in these days when everything from kisses to Bibles has* been denounced as a source of infec tion. A while ago folks were advised to get rid of their parrots, nominally for the same crime now charged against the canaries, but tho sugges tion is bel eved to have come from somebody who hated parrots—there are such persons—and no attention was paid to it. Possibly the smaller birds may also have their enemies,and Tucker Wise sounds .like the name of a man who would be inclined to sleep late o' mornings. Nursing is now a profession iu whicn the most cultured and refined women are glad to serve, though the duties are arduous and demand more than au ordinary amount of both bodily and mental streugth. Their predecessors under the old system, or rather lack of system, could hardly be said to be ad vanced beyond the alphabet of the present requirements. The trained nurse of today must have enough med ical knowledge to second the efforts of tho most skilled physician, aud iu the hospital as well as tho home practi cally shares responsibility for recovery of the patient. As a rule she has learned self-mastery in trying emer gencies, and brings to her task a prac tical sympathy displacing the fear aud sensitiveness ordinarily expected from' her. As her training keeps pace with the latest improvements iu medical sci ence, she will have ail increasingly im portant share iu bringing them to the aid of the sufferer. The knowledge that the horse is on his last legs, so to speak, has come with such suddenness that we are un able to realize its full effects, face tiously observes Puck. Witness the agonies of those persons who, solicit ous for the graces of language, feel im pelled to coin a word that shall spe cifically note the horseless state of the new vehicle. They are having verita ble Gra>co-Boman wrestling matches with variations of "auto." But, bless their hearts! they are taking a lot of trouble needlessly. Even if they find a word that satisfies the demands of euphony and accuracy, it will be ig nored as soou as we get used to the new method of propulsion. Even the awkward term "horseless-carriage" will disappear. Ten years from now it will be as absurd to speak of an ' 'auto-truck,''' 'automobile, "or' 'horse less-carriage," as it would be today to speak of the Pennsylvania Limited as a train of "horseless carriages," or of the St. Paul as a "sailless ship." The automatic vehicle will be called sim ply a truck or carriage or whatever it may be, aud we shall take the absence of the horse as something toe trite to seed notice. THE STREAM'S SOLILOQUY. Some say that I'm a babbUr and I chatter Where X glide along at evening softly o'er on my way, the shallow pool. O'er the Bands through many lands with .is they go, cattle low and quench their heart of stone. thirst. Cut there's music In my babble, and my Ana tho plowboy gets a hatfull of the watar chatter is 11 lay, ?lear and cool, That I love to s'ng when quiet and Standing where the summer posies blos alone. som first. Oh, tho woodlands are my playgrounds and How I love to soe the bossy with her pretty the dales my sweet delight, soft gray eyes, And the shaded nooks my rapture as I steal And a coat as red and glossy as the sunlight along from sight. iu the skies. dome say I'm never quiet; that I always fret If a stream can fall In love then I have sure aloug, ly lost my heart Through tho glades and in the shades, To a raniden,sunshlneladen,who each day with discontent, comeß to the wood. But because I like to ramble is it such an ar- From the banks she looks with laughter rant wrong— where the light and shadows part, Must I fret in some secluded channel, And I'd tell her of my pasnon if I pent V could. 3ut I have my dreaming hours, and the bab- But I'm just a restless fellaw, and my love ble of my Bong must go unknown, Brings its pleasure to the flowers aud its So I chntter on forever just a little stream, trensures to the throng. alone. TOO CAUTIOUS. 5 £ BY S. T. Z There was a sad group of ladies gathered in the parlor of a pretty house ou the outskirts of the town of Tophnm. Miss Martha Joyce,spinster, of uncertain age, sat iu a low rocking chair her eweet face clouded, her ten 3er heart sore; while her two nieces, May aud Bessie Joyce, twin sisters of 18, blue-eyed and pretty as rosebuds, sat one each side. The three ladies all wore mourning and bore iu their pale faces and heavy eyes the traces of recent sorrow; but while Aunt Mnt fcie meekly folded her hands and sighed May and Bessie gave voice to consid erable inward indignation. "I don't care for ourselves," said Bessie, using the plural that meant the inseparable twiuship; "we are young and can work, but it is too hard to have Aunt Mattie turned out of liouse and home after all she has doue tor Mr. William Oldtield." "Don't blame your uncle, dear," Degan Aunt Mattie. "We wasn't our uncle," snapped jut May. "He did what he promised to do," iontinued Aunt Mattie. "And then undid it," said Bessie, tngrily. "We nra not sure of that, dear." "Now, auntie! He made a will, eaving you this house aud §10,001) and SIO,OOO apiece to Bessie aud me," said A'ay; "but afterward, if he did oot destroy it, where is it?" "Yes, where is it?" echoed her sis ►3l'. "If it was in the house,surely it would have been found in the general turning out of our household posses sions today." "Well, dear, it can't be found, and ive must go back to our old rooms and try to re-establish the little school I left five years ago. We have had a comfortable home for that time." For the facts of the case were these: William Oldtield, a widower of many pears, possessing large means, had been attacked late iu life with a pain ful, incurable sickness,trying to nurse, distressing to witness and having an irritating effect on the nerves of the sufferer. After enduring the trials of Jishonest servants and nurses, incom petent housekeepers aud careless at tendants for a time he had persuaded his dead wife's maiden sister to give up a small but flourishing school, by which she supported herself and her brother's orphau girls,and keep house for him. In default of salary, he gave i home to the aforesaid nieces, who supported themselves by sewing, and promised a legacy to Miss Mattie, who, however, hardly expected and never demanded it. Yet, most assuredly, she had earned it, for her brother-in law, by reason of pain and bad temper, made her a slave to his sick whims, keeping her actively employed as nurse, as he grew worse and worse, till, during the last year of his life,she rarely left his room. Faithfully and patiently she en- Jtired the monotony of her life, the :aprices of her patient's temper, the fatigue of nursing, till death claimed the invalid and released her. The promised legacy had been left to her and the girls in a will made a year be fore William Oldtield died; but the lawyer said the document was not in trusted to his care. Failing to find it in the house, the ladies were notified that William Oldtield, Jr., the nephew and heir-at-law of the dead man, would lake possession of the entire property at once. It was well kuown iu Topliain that this heir was by no means the one to whom the uncle desired to leave his property, as there naiuder of his es tate, after tho legacies meutione 1, passed, by the terms of the last will, to the town to endow a hospital. The young heir-at law had been on dl terms with his uncle for years, being a spendthrift,a gambler aud a man ad dicted to drinking,heartlessly indiffer ent to his uncle's sufferings aud laugh ing boisterously when the lawyer pro posed to him to make some compensa tion to Miss Mattie for her services. "The old maid was fishing for my uncle's money, of course," he said, "though she is not even a relative. Let her go back to her proper place and learn to keep her busy fingers out of other people's pies." Ho the lawyer, Mr. O'Byrne, of kindly heart and great, legal knowledge, was obliged to give Miss Mattie notice to quit the house she had been prom ised should be her own, giving vent as he did so to some opinions of his own in the matter, not strictly profes sional. "You are sure you have searched faithfully for the wilt?" he asked. "Quite sure." "He certainly had it," said tho law yer. "I drew it up myself—ten tliou sand apiece and the house and person al effects aud furniture to Miss Mar tha; the rest of the estate for the uso of the Topliain hospital. Pear! Lear! why won't clients put snch papers in proper keeping instead of clinging to them as if they were life-preservers? lam very sorry, Miss Mattie. I havo represented matters to the heir,but ho fails to see them in a proper light." So the ladies packed their trunks aud gathered in the little pallor to spend their last evening, preparatory to an early start in the morning. Aud while they sat,mournfully conversing, a strange event occurred. A shock lieaded boy rang the bell and handed iu a note, which ran in this wise: "Miss Martha Joyce: I do not know that the disease of which my uncle died was contagious, but I have a horror of illness iu any shape or form. I therefore beg of you, before you leave his house, to burn the bed stead and bedding ne used,that I may not find it when I take possession. Yours, very truly, "WILLIAM OLDFIELD." "Well!" cried Bessie, "if impudence can reach asublimer height than that I am mistaken." "Burn the badstead! that splendid black walnut bedstead that matches the chamber suit!" said Miss Mattie. "It really seems a pity!" "Let him do it himself," said May; "we are not his servants." "I'll tell you what I will do.dears," said gentle Aunt Mattie; "I have had everything washed but the tickings; I'll just empty the mattresses and have those washed, too. But I really can not reconcile it to my conscience to burn up things that are perfectly harmless." "Oh, Aunt Mattie,give the bedding to old She will be delighted. The blankets are soft and tiue an 1 the sheets all clean. The young sinner only wants them out of his waV." So old I'egi.v, an aged woman, pen sioner to all the charitable folks in Topham, was sent for and told of this stroke of good fortune. "We will go with you," Bessie said, j "aud help you carry them." The four women ascended one flight ; of stairs to the room where William Oldfield died. Everything was in : order thera and over the mattresses was spread a whits Marseilles quilt that I'essio put with the rest of the bedding, while Aunt Mattie and May dragged the mattresses to the floor. 'They are all stuffed with hair, : Peg;v," Aunt Mattie said. "I or- j dered them myself." "Yes, inarm," said the old woman, feeling them carefully and lioddiug her head; "I'm thinking I'll sell the hair. Husk stuffing will do for my old bones, and I can buy some flour ami coal, likely, with the price of the hair." "Just as you please," said Aunt Mattie, tying the mattresses securely with a stout cord. "Sow, girls, are yiu ready? Haunah will help Peggy with this bun lie, and we will carry the sheets, blankets and spreads." So when William Oldtield took pos- | session the next day he found the bedstead bare and a note from Hessie tied to it, respectfully declining to make a bonfire of the furniture and stating the fact that the bedding had i been given away for a charitable use. "If he doesn't like it he is welcome . to dislike it," that young lady said, | graciously, as she signed the dainty epistle iu her finest handwriting. The heir said a bad word, locked ; up the room and occupied auother apartment, where there had been no "confounded sickness," as he said, and there reigned in the house where Aunt Mattie had kept dainty neatness ; the confusion of a young bachelor's ; household, the disorder following fro- i quent- late suppers, wheu the city friends of young Oldfield oaine down to "make a night of it and help him spend the old man's money." Quiet Tophain was scandalized and sighed over the days when the dissi pated nephew was a far-away disgrace for mild gossip, but there seemed to be no help for the trouble. The funeral had been over nearly three months, aud Miss Mattie had collected a goodly number of little folks once more around her, when one morning, while Bessie was busy in the little kitchen baking pies and May was running a sewing machine in the sit ting room, there came hobbling up to the door old Peggy. "Come in, Peggy," Bessie said, cheerily. "You are just in time for an apple pie I baked for you." "Bless your kind heart and sweet face," said the old woman. "Yon are never so poor yourself but you re member those who are worse off. But it's Miss Mattie I want to see." "You are just in time, then. There's the noon bell ringing, aud here comes Aunt Mattie and May to help about dinner." "Miss Mattie," said old Peggy, "did you ever lose a paper when you were at the old house?" "A paper!" screamed Bessie and May in chorus. "Oh, Peggy, did yo* find one?" "Yes, dears. I can't read myself, but here it is." And from the folds of her shawl Peggy drew forth a large folded docu ment, indorsed iu round legal havd ou the back: "Last will and testament of William Oldfield." Aunt Maltie sat down and cried softly. Bessie danced around like an insane Indian, and May,seizing a hat, darted off to Lawyer O'Byrne. "How did you find it?" Bessie cried at last, when she was exhausted witl her solitary dance. "Well, dears," said the old woman, "I've been waiting till the warm days to empty the mattresses,for tbey were wonderfully comfortable for my old bones iu the winter, and so today I ripped thorn open, as Mick Galloran said he'd give a fair price for the hail and fill them up again with husk. I And pushed in one of them, near-the ! middle, iu a little slit cut with a knife, I found the paper. And it's thankful I am this ilay that's it's good news I bring, if your face 'tells the truth, honey." j "Good news! the best of news!" said Bessie. "You shall have the warmest I shawl next winter to be found in Top ham, Peggy, and the softest bed." And hero May entered with Mr. I O'Byrne, and the whole story had to be told again. "It is the will, sure enough," said | the lawyer. "And so Mr. Oldfield i wanted you to burn the bed and bed i ding! H'm! I shouldn't wonder il he was afraid of this very discovery I and was too great a coward to risk hunting for it himself. It is my opin j ion that he will burn the whole house down yet if he keeps possession long. Topham never heard such rioting." The will was given to Mr. O'Byrne'a keeping and iu due time proved and | executed. The heir-at-law made a ; great bluster, but knowing his rage j was useless left the house once mo' e, | considerably the worse for his brie) sojourn in it. The fact that even the temporary enjoyment of his uncle's money was an altogether unexpected event probably aided his acquiescence . iu the legality of the will. The house was cleaned and purified j and once more given over to Aunt j Mattie's quiet rule and the happy oc i cupauey of the twin sisters, who gladly gave up sewing and teaching to joir in the social pleasures of Topham. The hospital flourishes,and old I'eggy never tires of relating how she found the fortunes of the Joyce ladies in the hair mattresses William Oldtield or dered to be burned on the day wher fear made him too cautious. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Among the Egyptians embalming ceased about 700 A. D. The year 47 B. C. was the longest year on record, as it had, by order o/ Julius Ca'sar, 445 days. Stockings first came into use in the eleventh century. Before them clotl] bandages were wound round the feet. The first e juestriau statue erected in Great Britain was that of Charles I, at Charing Cross, London, facing Parliament street. According to high authorities, tin nerves, with their branches and min ute ramifications connecting with tha brain, exceed ton million in number. The use of coats of arms as a badge for different families did not come into practice till the twelfth century. The Germans are said to have originated it, while the French developed th< science. Every day the Thames scoops out of its banks 150 tons of matter, or half a million tons a year. All the rivers of the world are doing similar work, the Mississippi at the rate of three huu died million tons a year. At a philatelic exhibition, opened at Birmingham, England, there are on view the two most valuable stamp? iu the world - a penny aud a two penny Mauritius. The market valui of the two on exhibition at Birming ham is SIO,OOO. The laborers who built the pyramids did not work under such disadvantage! as have long- been attributed to them. Recent research shows that they had solid and tubular drills aud lathe tools. The drills were set with jewels, aud cut into the rocks with keenness and accuracy. The Secret or the I>rej'fui» Case. The fact that Dreyfus is a Jew fur* nishes a key to the mysteries of the cause celebre which is connected with his name. It is impossible to under stand how the French nation—an im pulsive, generous people, who, although bliud iu their anger,are temperament ally incapableof remaining deaf to thfi appeal of justice after the initial fury of their wrath has spent itself—car persist in withholding from the con demned officer an opportunity to jus tify himself before the courts of hit country. The paradox may be under stood when it is remembered that, after the memory of Sedan, the great est passion of the French is a deep aud enduring hatred of the Jews as a race. The cry, "A bas les juifsl" it almost as potent iu France today as was that other cry at the close of tha last century —the cry that gave utter ance to the hot resentment of more than a hundred years and drove tha disdainful Marie Antoinette to tha guillotine—"A basle roil"—S. Ivar Tonjoroff, in The Arena. First Aid to the I>rowning. Qniller-Couch's Cornish Magazint relates the following of the dwelleri on the stern Cornish coasts: "All the crew had been saved, but one poor fellow was brought ashore uncon scious. The curate turned to the by standers: 'How do you proceed in the case of one apparently drowned? •S'arch his pockets,' " i THE REALM OF FASHION. |, Nisw YOKK CITY (Special).—Alauve drap d'ete, velvet of a darker shade, white corded taffeta aud irregular in sertion are stylishly united in the charming waist here illustrated. The A CHARMING WAIST. pretty bodice decoration of velvet is finished separately and applied over the completed waist. It may be used as an accessory, for other waists may be worn with low pompadour neck and short sleeves for evening dress. The full fronts are supported by fitted lin ings that close in centre back, the square yoke of corded or tucked taf feta being applied over the lining. The collar is of taffeta to match the yoke facing. The two-seamed sleeves have becoming fullness at the top and are arranged over fitted linings, the wrists being decorated with bands of velvet and insertion to match the bretelles. The mode presents oppor tunity for the introduction of three contrasting materials, which is oft- WOMAN'S ETON JACKET. I times desirable when remodeling misses' waists. The bretelles may be of the same material decorated with ; braid, ribbon or passementerie, the yoke and collar facing being all-over lace underlaid with satin in white or some becomiug color. To make this waist for a miss four teen years of age will require one and one-half yards of material forty-four inches wide. A Natty Eton Jacket. The natty Eton jacket of blue serge, shown in the large engraving, has a | trim tailor finish of machine stitching, and forms part of a costume. It is smartly fitted by single bust darts and under-arm gores that extend far back to meet in graceful curves the smooth seamless backs. A belt of the ma terial or of leather is worn which passes under the extended fronts and closes with a faucy clasp in the cen tre. The fronts are deeply under faced with the material, and may roll back to the waist or be lapped di agonally over the bust and closed with buttons, as shown iu the small sketch. The sleeves, iu regulation coat style, may be dart-fitted or gathered at the top, the wrists being plainly finished with stitching. Jackets in this style may be hand somely reproduced in cloth or velvet of any fashionable shade, to wear with separate skirts of plaid or other con trasting material. To make this skirt for a woman of medium size wilt require one and a half yards of material forty-four inches wide. A Beautiful Costume. A beautiful barege creation is in very light gray over white satin. It is trimmed with bands of white satin and white lace insertion. The skirt is trimmed with three bands of the white lace. They form broad Vandyke points in front. The bodice is trimmed with the insertion and white satin bands arranged in slight festoons. The sleeves are extremely small and are trimmed from wrist to shoulder with horizontal bands of white lace. About the waist is a belt of white satin fastened with an antique silver belt set with coral. An elaborate model of lavender eloth has a tunic and double-breasted bolero of the cloth. The skirt proper is of white mousseline de soie, embroidered witb lace, and mounted on white silk. The eloth is also trimmed with embroidery vf laoe figures, and the bolero buttons with crystal buttons. The chemisetta is of white mousseline tie soie. A Picturesque Tea Gown. A picturesque tea gown of lace over white chiffon has a long mautle of Lyons laco caught in a point at the back of the neck, and angel-sleeves flowing from beneath transparent laco ones. The soft front is drawn in at the waist line by a black velvet band and is made of bouillonnees of chiffon inserted with stripes of black velvet. A tea gown of white silk brocaded with lilacs and roses is trimmed with narrow black velvet ribbon and has a front of white plissee chiffon with motifs of cream lace. A primose tinted silk tea gown has a front of white mousseline with three frills at the foot of the skirt, each one edged with black lace. A ceinture of coral velvet with a steel fleur-de-lis holds it at the waist-line. Cnata For Outdoor Wear. Outdoor coats of bright blue cloth, cut with long, pointed back and orna mented with stitched bands of cloth and gilt buttons are called Municipal Guard coats by the Parisiennes, who are wearing them with dress skirts of tan or white cloth. To Have a Clinging Gown. If you want to have your new gown cling and hang in the most approved ft shion, wear a divided skirt of soft taffeta or China silk. This is fully trimmed with rufHes at the bottom and is the only petticoat required by fashion. Pretty Boleros. Boleros of renaissance lace are a feature iu dress and are very effective over the soft nuns' veilings and crepes de chine. The Skirt of the Season. This skirt can be made up in two different w"ays. The flounce and froDt gore may be joined to the circular portion and the trimming applied over the edge, or the front gore and flounce may be joined to a liniug cut exactly the shape of the circular portion and the material, allowed and inch wider all around, may be finished separately to form a tunic, the edges overlapping the front gore and flounce. As here illustrated Cyrauo-red broadcloth was trimmed with black velvet ribbon, ap plied in V shape all around the cireu lar portion, small placket buttons with ioops decorating the pleats that meet over the centre back seam. The placket may be tinislie.l in centre back or at the left front seam, if so pre ferred. The top of skirt is smoothly ad justed over the hips by small darts taken up at the waist. The foot 18 finished in the usual way and meas ures a little over four and three fourths yards in the medium sizes. Stylish combinations are of plain and brocaded silk or satin, broadcloth with fancy polka dotted velvet or other contrasting mater rl. Skirts of one material made separately as sag gested may have the tunic portion edged with irregular point de Vetiise WOMAN'S CIRCULAR BKIUV. insertion or frills of lace, ribbon quilU ing, ruching of silk or inousseliue, braid, gimp, passementerie or decoration. 112 To make thin skirt for a wowyfn a f medium Hize will require five ytjrds of material forty-four inches wide.
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