j DESTINED BY FATE. \ ■wwwwwwwwwwwwww The waiter ostentatiously placed the small bill before her. "One and a penny, please, Miss." Raymond Hillyard, handsome and distinguished looking, sitting opposite, glanced up with assumed lazy indif ler?nce and resumed eating. The waiter was busy whisking about his napkin, preparatory to being paid. "Some more coffee, please," said th 3 girl. "I'll remain a little longer." The man disappeared, shortly re turning with the order. She began to sip her coffee very slowly. Hc-r table companion had am ple opportunity of studying her. What he saw was this: A broad, smooth forehead, with dark hair clustering in rebellious curls around her temples; a pair of deep gray eyes, with long lashes'; a short, straight nose; a dear little mouth, and a rather square jaw, which showed resolution and determination. The hands, small, well kept and shape ly, were devoid of rings. "Let me see," he mused, "the hat cost one and sixpence three farthings, and is home trimmed, very neat, and suits her. The blouse was four and eleven off the peg, and the lace round the collar could be bought at any cheap milliner's for seven three far things the dozen." "Waiter, one omlette aux fins herbs," he said suddenly, to the man who hovered round like a phantom bat. He vanished like lightning. A few minutes later the proprietor strolled up to the table, glanced suspectingly at the girl, coughed once or twice, then said: "We shall be closing very soon, ma dam. Are you expecting a friend?" "Yes," was the answer. "I won't •wait much longer." The waiter appsared again and add ed the coffee to the bill. "Thank you," said the girl, "you needn't stand here." The waiter withdrew. Hillyard smiled and began his omelette, which had been brought him. "Pardon me, but I believe I am right in saying that you haven't got the money with which to pay your bill," putin Hillyard at last, in a low tone. "The manager, I fear, is of the same opinion." For a moment her eyes flashed in dignantly; the mouth quivered. "How dare you speak to me like that?" she said. "What do you take me for?" I take you for what you are—a lady, he answered gently. The answer flabbergasted her for a moment. She could not meet his scru tinizing gaze. "Pray allow me the favor of adding your bill to mine, he continued caln.- ly. "You must admit that you are in an awkward corner, and that your friend is a myth." The waiter, somewhat agitated, drew near again. "Curaeoa," he ordered sharply, and the gentleman with the napkin disap peared with remarkable celerity. "Really," stammered the girl, "I—l —don't know what you mean." "I mean what I say," he answered firmly. "I will repeat it again if you ■wish. I don't believe you have th<! money with —" She motioned him to desist. "Hush! hush! You have r.o right to say that. Don't, please don't." Her earnest entreaty compelled him to stop. "You cannot deny that I am right?" be demanded, in a manner that plain ly showed ho would have a direct an swer. Her face wert a deep crimson. "Yes, you are right," she replied at length, but with a great effort. "It was very, very wrong, I know, but I was so— FO hungry, and I thought that "That it was possible you would /neet with a good Samaritan," putin Hillyard, accurately divining her thoughts. "A very risky game to play. Suppose you had not met me—what then?" She laughed uneasily. "But you see, I did meet you." '"Yet you seem very reluctant to al low me to add your bill to mine." The color flamed her cheeks again. "It must be a loan." she declared, empnatically. "I came in here in sheer desperation. You don't know what it is to be poor, and oh, so hun gry." "Yes, I do," he answered quietly. "I am so sorry," she whispered gently. "I did not know. I had n-j idea. I never thought—" "Prey don't apologize," he inter rupted, again assuming his lighter vein. "If you are really sorry, you will pass me your bill." "Believe me," she replied gratefully, handing him the flimsy bit of paper. "I am truly grateful. Fortune his not been too kind to me of late." "Nor to me," said Hillyard. "Dame fortune is a fickle jade, and ha? to be treated accordingly. Woo her too much, she often turns and rends you. Treat her with indifference and she will veer round and fawn upon you," "She has. at any rate, been good to me tonight," said the girl. "One mo ment. I shall consider this bill a (ltbt of honor. Where can I send you the amount? It—it is not too much, is It?" "Too much for you to pay now, though," he answered laughing. He produced his card, which bore his name and address. She put it carefully in her purse. "I will send you the amount tomor row," she declared. Hillyard smiled. "To what address shall I write an acknowledgment?" "Oh, Miss Delling, care of Mallev's library, Westminster Bringe road," she replied hurriedly. "There will b<* really no occasion to reply," she has tened to add. Hillyard made a careful note of the address. The account was settled. As they quitted the shop the manager bowed and smiled in a manner that baffles description. "May I see you to your door?" asked Hillyard. "No, I would rather you did not. thank you." "Then I insist on seeing you into a cab." "No, I really—" "Come, I insist." And before she could make further remonstrance he had hailed a han som. He put her inside and handed the man two shillings. "I have paid your fare. Where to?" "I will tell the cabman, thank you." "Certainly," he said rather coldly. "If that is your wish." He raised his hat. "Good night." "Thank you, oh, so much for youf goodness. Gcod night." In another moment he had gone. * * * * "Hillyard, congratulate me,'' cried Fairleigh, a handsome young fellow, overflowing with good spirits, hurry ing into his friend's comfortable cham bers. "I'm engaged." "I do congratulate you most hearti ly," returned Hillyard, warmly. "Who is the unfortunate lady?" he inquired smiling. "A Miss Cunningham, whom I met last summer at a friend's house. Th-» best girl in the world, I assure you " "They are always that," answered Hillyard, quietly. "Oh, you needn't be so beastly sar castic," putin Fairleigh, "just be cause youv'e never been in love." "How do you. know that?" asked Hillyard. "Because you are not a lady's man at all." "No, perhaps not," said Hillyard. He was thinking of the girl whom he had met at the restaurant. Had he made such a bad impression on her? He knew she had made a great impression on him. In short, he had fallen in love at first sight. "Here, let me thow you her por trait," rattled on Fair'.eigh, taking a small photo from his letter case There, isn't that a sweet face'" "Very," declared Hillyard, but with a touch of bitterness, for he realized that all the sunshine had gone out of his life, for the face he gazed at was the face of the girl whom he had befriended. "It is just like my ill-luck," he mut tered. "What's that?" asked Fairleigh, sharply. "Nothing, nothing. I hope you will be very happy." "I'm sure we shall. Ta-ta, old man, I must be off now. I'll look in again soon." "No wonder she gave the name of 'Delling,' " mused Hillyard bitterly. He extracted a postal order from his pocket for one and five and a short note, which ran: "With Miss Delling's sincere thanks." "Perhaps," he thought, "I ought to tell young Fairleigh. But no; it would compromise the young lady. Better leave it as it is. I may be wrong." Then he settled down to write an article, and by the time he nad posted it to his typist it was 9 o'clock, so he went to the restaurant where he had met "Miss Dolling." Needless to say, he ate his meal in isolation. Three months passed away. Hill yard was unable to find any trace of "Miss Delling," though he had visit ed Malley's library many times. Fair leigh had gone to the country pending his coming marriage. Hillyard still kept his secret. It was a strange fate that one day led him to visit his typist's to call for a manuscript which he especially wished for. But when "Miss Delling" came forward in answer to his inquiry Hillyard was completely taken aback. "You have certainly succeeded ad mirably in keeping out of my way," he stammered. "Allcw me to con gratulate you on your engagement 10 my friend Fairleigh, Miss Cunning hair,." The girl was visibly agitated. "How did you find out my nanw was Cunningham, and who told you I was engaged?" "My friend showed me your por trait." "There is some mistake," she whis pered, hurriedly. 'Years ago my fa ther left America for England, taking with him my twin sister, leaving me with my mother in America. My fa ther died, ane shortly after, my moth er. My name is Cunningham and I have been trying tor months to find the whereabouts of my sister. None will ever know what a struggle I have had for existence. Can you help me learn whether your friend is engaged to my sister?" "Believe me, I will do all I can," leturned Hillyard. "Give me three days. This is Tuesday. Will you meet me at the restaurant on Friday evening at 7?" She smiled an assent. They dined togetnr-r on Friday—a happy pair. Fatrleigh was indeed en gaged to Miss Cunningham's twin sis ter, and all the mystery was cleared up. "But why did you not give me your proper name?" asked Hillyard. "You —you see you were quite * stranger to me. I thought It was »>»t ter we should not meet again," she answered shyly. "The Fates have thought otherwise," he said smiling. "Fate has brought us together again. This lime you will have no hesitation in adding your bill to mine?" There was a pause. "Dearest," he whispered, ever so softly, "won't —won't you add your life to mine, for me to keep always; for better, for worse, till —" Their eyes met. It was enough.— Penny Pictorial Magazine. THE SNAKES' PARADISE. On the Borongo Inland*, In the l*ay oi llengal. The Borongo Islands lie about half way between Calcutta t.nd Rangoon. When the snakes die thsy goto the Borongos. That is th ?ir paradise: there they hold high carnival. I spent three years among them and know of these things. From the giant python down to the deadly karait they are all there, all the ophidians. Even the salt water snakes, that are all poison ous—they, too are there. Two Euro peans had preceded me on the Boron gos, so there was considerable natural history on tap when I arrived, and we rapidly acquired more. One can't live among snakes without studying them; they insist upon it Each evening I killed an hour or so of the monotony by walking up and down the path in front of the bunga low. A big cat was my usual com panion. Hi 3 method of introducing himself to my notice was generally abrupt. He would lie in wait and as I came along, spring out upon me, alighting against wy of my legs. At other times he would lie on his back in the path and claw at my feet as I passed. One evening, just after turn ing into the path from the bungalow. I felt something soft and yielding against my foot. Thinking it was "Billy," I gave the mass a gentle push. As I shifted the something, I saw a twisting gleam of white, not at all like the soft gray of Billy's fur. Of course I knew what that meant. Jump ing back I brought my walking stick down on the twisting thing, and yelled for a light. The servants came run ning from the cookhouse with a lan tern and I saw that I had laid out a most villainous daboia. One touch from the catlike fangs on my cotton hosed instep and within an hour I would have been dead. One of our party had occasion to visit a Mr. Savage, a half caste land owner on the other side of the island. He went in a boat, and while the cool ies were bringing up his traps went up to the bungalow. He was sitting in a big chair on the veranda talk ing to Savage, when he felt something drop from the leaf roof onto his shoul der. Leisurely he started to rise to see what had fallen, when the other nian cried out, "For God's sake don't move—keep perfectly still," Dnnlop knew what that meant. Stealthily the old man took a Burmese dah (sword) from the wall and catlike crept toward the white man with the thing on his shoulder. Within striking distance he paused and raised the dah high in the air to cut the thing in two with one swift downward stroke. Then his nerve, rattled and tuggea at for 60 years until it was weak, failed him, and the sword clattered from his numbed fingers to the floor. "My God, I can't do it,"he whined in a broken voice and reeled back against the wall, where he stood staring with weak eyes at the sahib and his burden. Dunlop neither moved nor spoke; his only safety lay in keeping perfect ly still—motionless. It might oe min utes, or a thousand years; they would have to wait till the boatmen cam". What would happen then he could not say. He could feel the clinging, pull ing thing on his right shoulder. There was an undulating pressure that told him the head of the snake was sway ing back and forth just above his neck. Then the song of the Madrassi boatmen as they came swinging along with his luggage broke upon his ear. Those gin thickened voices, carolling the coarse refrain to the time of the measured trot, were angel voices. What would the muddle brained coolies do he wondered. If Emir Ally, his trust ed servant, saw the ming. it might be well; he had nerve and judgment, even close to that of a sahib. Emir Ally was in the lead. When he came to the steps Savage jerked out an expression that called his attention to the tableau Gathering his loongy tight about his loins he slipped along the veranda likf a shadow, grasped the fallen dah, and poising his black lithe body for 8 swift, strong stroke, brought the sword through the air with a swishing cut tnat laid a full grown cobra in twe neat pieces almost at the feet of the man who had waited.—W. A. Eraser in the Canadian Magazine. The Socinl Oyster. Oysters are widely distributeo throughout the world. Their chin! habitats are in the United States and in Franco, with scattering colonies in England, Holland, and other places, nut the whole number In other parts of the world is inconsiderable as com pared with that in the United States- Maryland alone produces twice a? many oysters as all the rest of the world put together. Oysters and pov erty, Dickens says, go together, but it is not so In this country. Baltimore cans an immense number for both foreign and domestic consumption, the revenue from which Is enormous. The Indians of the coast before the dis covery of America, used them in great quantities. Near the mouth of St John's river, Florida, there Is a forest clad mound of over 50 feet in height, etending over many acres of ground, consisting entirely of old oyster shells.—R. Meade Bache, in New Lip pi ncott. New York City.—Short jaunty jack ets that extend only a few inches be low the waist line, take a permanent place among the latest styles, and will WOMAN'S JACKET. be much worn both en suite, with skirts to match, and as general utility wraps. The applied yoke is a marked feature and stamps the garment as being up-to-date at the same time that It is generally becoming. The smart MayManton model shown is made of zibeline in the new shade or garnet, but corduroy in dark blue, gray, brown and tan is exceedingly fashionable for walking, shopping and WOMAN'S IIIMONA. DUt-door sports, and all suiting mat - rlals are appropriate, -while cheviot and covert cloth make satisfactory iackets for general wear. The backs fit snugly to the figure, being cut with side backs and under arm gores, but the fronts ere loose tit ting and include single darts only. The yoke is applied over the cloth, but can be omitted when preferred and the lit tle coat left plain, as shown in the small cut. The neck is finished with a regulation coat collar and lapels, but the velvet facing is applied in novel manner, tha edge being cut In the Van Dyck points that appear in the newest designs. The sleeves are in bell shape and flare becomingly over the hands. To cut this jacket for a woman of medium size two and a half yards of material forty-four inches wide, or two and an eighth yards fifty inches wide will be required when yoke is used; two yards forty-four inches Cl one and three-quarter yards fifty iaclic3 wide when jacket isuade plaiL. Woman's llintona. Tlio loose flowing liimona is a recog nized and deserved favorite of wom f.nkind. It is picturesque at the same time that it is comfortable, generally becoming at the same time that it is a negligee in every sense of the word. The May Mantou original, from which the large drawing was made, is of white India wash silk, with figures of rich red and bands of plain silk to match, but Japanese crepe, simple cotton crepe, cashmere, flannel, flan nelette, cotton velour and fleece lined albatross are all equally appropriate, which is best depending upon the use to which the garment is to be put. Silk and all fine materials are charm ing when it is to become a lounging robe worn in the boudoir or bedroom, flaunels and the like are better when it is to serve as a bath robe. The yoke, cut without seam, fits smoothly across the shoulders, but the main portion is arranged In gathers and Joined to its lower etige. The sleeves are ample and in bell shape. The front and neck edges are fiuished with double bands that are turned over tj form the collar, but the lower edge and sleeves are simply faced. To cut this kimona for a woman of medium size nine yards of material twenty-one inches wide, seven and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide, sis and a quarter yards thirty-two inches wide or four and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide will be required, with three and an eighth yards for bauds. Popularity of the Pendant. The pendant is so popular that It i9 to be found now on bracelets. Beau tiful silver bracelets, rather heavy and round, the silver representing a ser pent, two heads of which meet. In the top of each of these heads is set one large or three smaller stones of some kind, precious or imitation, and a good-sized pendant hangs from the junction of the two. Woman's Yoke Shirt Waist. The shirt waist with a pointed yoke makes one of the notable features of autumn styles, and Is shown in vel veteen flannel, corduroy and similar materials. The May Manton model il lustrated is made of the new, soft fin ished corduroy in Napoleon blue, worn with a tie and belt of black satin, and is singularly handsome and effective, the severe style suiting the material to a nicety. The original is made un lined but lighter weight materials are more satisfactory when the fitted foundation is used. The yoke Is cut with two points at the back, one at each front and is somewhat deeper than those of former years. The lower portion of the back is plain, the two bos plaits being ap plied and stitched on each edge; but the fronts arc arranged in three nar row box plaits each, which extend sev eral inches below the yoke, then fall free and form folds. The sleeves are in shirt style with narrow cuffs that are buttoned over. The neck is fin ished with a regulation stock; the but tons are oxydized metal showing raised heads, but plain gilt or pearl are equally correct. To make this shirt waist for a wom an of medium size three aud seven eight yards of material twenty inches wide, three and three-quarter yards YOKE SHIRT WAIST. twenty-seven inches wide, three yards thirty-two inches wide or two and au eighth yards forty-four inches wide will be required. Horses vs. Passes. A railway director, who can take a joke as well as he can give one, is the good-natured subject of the following st<*j:y: One of the employes of the road made application io him for a pass, in order that he might go home to visit his family. "You are in our employ?" asked the director. "Yes. sir." "And you receive your pay regular ly?" "I do." "Well, let us suppose that you were working for a farmer. Would you ex pect jtjur employer to take out his horses every Saturday night and drive you home?" "No, sir," answered the man, with out a moment's hesitation. "I should hardly expect him to do that; but if the farmer had his horses out and was going my way, I should think he was a pretty mean man If he re fused to give me a lift." And the more the director thought of it, the more it seemed to him that his question had been very satisfactor ily answered. The tnan got his pass.—Youth's Com panion. !Yotl2iiig' Equals St. Jacobs Oil. For Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Cramp, Pleurisy, Lumbago, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Soreness, Bruises, Toothache, Headache, Backache, Feetache, Pains in the Chost. Painß in the Back, Pains in the Shoul ders, Pains in the Limbs, and all bodily aches and pains, it actß like magic. Safe, sure and never failing. Even the clock stops for awhile when it feels all run down. It's always a (jood idea for people who jump at conclusions to look before they leap. Each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors cither Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. Sold by all druggists. 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