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' OF A COWARD. 5 i * ' Two officers of a British regime t stationed in India were scattered ill front or the hotel near their quartets. "I can't tell for the life of me. whether that fellow's really a cowarrl "*or not." "Vv'Lut fel'.o.v : Capt. Medwin asked his companion. "Why, this new doctor of ours. Hackett —nice name for a surgeon, by the by," said Lieut. Vane, instinctively fixing with his eye a widewinged vul ture whicn hovered just above the tcp ! of the tall palms on the river bank. | "The first nignt ne dined at mess, just j before you came back, the colonel of- j fered to send a man with him, lest he | should miss the road home to his ! quarters in the dark, and he answered : quite eagerly, 'Oh, thank you, Cel. j Carr; I don't at all like being out alone auer dark!' And when old 1 Brown asked in joke if he was afraid he said, as gravely as could be: 'in deed I am.' " "Well, do you know," said Capt. Medwin, "that's just what would malte i me think he wasn't; for no man who was really a coward would own it us plainly as thet." At that moment a tremendous noise 1 was heard within the little hotel in front of which they were sitting, and out rushed three or four Hindoo ser vants, yelling with fright. Behind them, and to all appearances quite as much frightened as any one, came a small, rounu-faced, red-haired man in spectacles, whom the two officers at once recognized as Dr. Hackett Uhu- Beif. Both drew back, rather hastily, and no wonder; for coiled around the doc- ' tor's rignt arm, with its writhing neck firmly clutched by his fingers, was a large and hideous cobra di ca- | pello, the ueadliest snake in all India. "Kill him!" shrieked the doctor: "hit him, somebody! 1 daren't let him go!" One tuiimp of Capt. Mcdwin's her.vy | sword hilt pounned the flat, shining head to a jelly, and the doctor, seem ingly immensely relieved, went back into the nousc again. "No mistake now about his being afraid, anyway," said Harry Vane, tri umphantly. "Hum!" rejoined Medwin, "if I were ' a coward, I should hardly begin by catching up the deadliest snake I co".!d find and running about with it. There's something in all this that I don't uu- j derstand." Nor did any one else understand it; 1 and the question of the doctor's cour age or cowardice soon became a ooue of contention for the whole regimer.t. ! But the officers had something else to I think of. For now reports began to ; get abroad of a grand picnic that was about to be given by the head off.- i cials of the adjacent town of Begum- ! abad, to which all the Europeans of the neighborhood, whether civil or military, were to be invited. The day came at last, or rather the j night, for the entertainment was to be held by moonlight, a daf picnic ia , Bengal during the hot season being very much like getting up a party in a baker's oven. Dr. Hackett created j some amusement by appearing with a pair of long pistols in his belt. "Hallo, doctor!" cried Vane, "are : yeu going to fight a duel?" "One can never tell what may nap pen." answered the doctor, with a nervous shake of his head. With the gay dresses and bright ur.i- ! forms, the bright moonlight, the arrk faces and Oriental costumes of the r-t- j tendants, the wide clearing lit up by j the glare of an immense fire in the J centre, and the black, shadowy masses of forest all around, the scene was ' wonderfully picturesque and striking. 1 But the general merriment was suit- j denly and startlingly interrupted. A | roar like thunder shook the air. r.r.d j the dusky outline of an enormous ; tiger, carrying a human figure in its ! ! jaws, flitted past the central fire and was gone. | Instantly all was confusion. Ladies ! fainted, children screamed, native ser j vants ran httaer and thither, while 'lie I English officers secured their guns anil ; started in pursuit of the tiger, though i [ with little hope of saving his victim. "Who is it?" asked Lieut. Vane, as | he and Capt. Medwin sped along side by side. "Hackett, poor fellow," answered the captain, sadly. "Poor fellow. echoed Vane, re- j morsefuily. "I wish I hadn't made fun c( him so." A sharp crack, "like the report of a i pistol, followed by a short, angry roar, ! was heard a long way ahead. The next | | moment came another shot, and all the j ; officers rushed at full speed in the di- ! j rection of the sound. And there, lust i at the point where the clearing melted i into the untamed forest beyond, lay | the body of a tiger, seated upon which, as coolly as if on a sofa, was Dr. Hackett. | "Thank fate, you're safe, doctor'" I cried Col. Carr, grasping the little i man's hand warmly. "We never ex pected to see you again. But how did ! you contrive to finish that tremendoui beaat single-handed ?" "Well, you see," answered Hackett, as composedly as if he were delivering a lecture at home, "the tiger seized iije by the waist, luckily for me, and car Vied me feet foremost, with my head v and arms hanging down by hia side, go, having both arms free, I passed my hand along his flank and felt for the -beating of his heart. ' The perfect,coolness of the doctor's tone was too much for his hearers, and the silence of the night was broken by a roar of laughter. "You didn't take out your watch to ■ count the pulsations of the heart, did you, doctor?" inquired Col. Carr. "No," said the doctor, witft unbroken gravity "I only wished to ascertain the exact spot where it lay. The mo ment I succeeded In doing so, I drew a pistol from my belt and fired as straight as I could into that very spot." The officers exchanged significant glances, and Harry Vane, catching Medwin's eye, felt positively ashamed as he thought how he had once set down such a man as a coward. "The shot evidently told," continued the doctor, "for the beast gave a growl that almost deafened me, and shook me in his jaws as a terrier shakes a rat; but still he trotted on. I saw there was not a moment to lose, so I whipped out my other pistol, and plac ing It close to his heart fired again. This time the snot was mortal. The brute let me drop, rolled over upon his side, and died." There was a moment's silence and then Col. Carr said: "Well, doctor, we'll have that tiger skin taken off and dressed for you and hung up in your room . But don't you I think it was rather too bad of you to j let us goon thinking you a coward | when you've got courage enough for j a dozen of us?" "Well," answered the doctor, laugh- . ins. "I must confess that, having heard of your fondness for playing jokes on newcomers, I've played a little one on you, but I hope you bear | me no grudge for it." "Not in the least," cried the colonel, heartily, and the rest echoed him. From that day forth no one ever doubted Dr. Hackett's courage.—New York News. RAISING VALUES. ITJiat Aro Hie PiiHftiblllt l«»A of liars of Iro». rinml In llnnrU ot' !>iffW<*nt Artisans? Success contains an interesting ar ticle showing what may be produced from a number of bars of iron,one each being placed in the hands of various mechanics. The writer says, in part: The man who takes the first bar may be a rough blacksmith, who has only partly learned his trade, and has no ambition to rise above his anvil. Ho thinks that the best possible thing lie can do with his bar ia to make it into horseshoes and congratulates himself upon his success. He reasons that the rough lump of iron is worth only two or three cents a pound, and that it is not worth while to spend much time or labor on it. His enor mous muscles and small skill have raised the value of the iron from sl, perhaps, to $lO. Along comes a cutler, with a little better education, a little more ambi tion, a little finer perception, and says to the blacksmith: "Is this all you can see in that iron? Give me a bar, and I will show you what brains and skill and hard work can make of it." When his work is done, he shows the astonished blacksmith S2OOO worth of knife-blades where the latter only saw 510 worth of crude horseshoes. The value has been greatly raised by the refining process. Still another workman, whose pro cesses are so almost infinitely deli cate, whose product is so little known, by even the average educated man, that his trade Is unmentioned by the i makers of dictionaries and encyclope dias. takes but a fragment of one of | the bars of steel, and develops it's higher possibilities with such marvel lous accuracy, such ethereal fineness of touch, that even mainspring's and hairsprings are looked back upon as i coarse, crude, and cheap. When his work is done, he shows you a few of the minutely barbed instruments used i by dentists to draw out the finest I brnnchcs of the dental nerves. While a pound of gold, roughly speaking, is worth about $250, a pound of these i slender, barbed filaments of steel, if ■ a pound could be collected, might be ; worth hundreds of times as much, i Just as each artisan sees in the crude iron some finished, refined pro- I duct, so must we see in our live 3 glorious possibilities, if we would but realize them. If w? see only horse shoes or knife-bladea, all our efforts and struggles will never produce hair springs. We must realize our own adaptability to great ends: we must resolve to struggle, to endure trials and tests, to pay the necessary price, confident that the result will pay us for our suffering, our trials, and our efforl's. American" Mn*t R« Profronioniils. Ours must be, not "a nation of ama teurs." but a nation of professionals, if it Is to hold its own in the coming ; struggles,—struggles not merely for ! commerual dominance, but for the su i premacy of political and moral ideals. Our period of national isolation, with : all it brought of gooo or evil, has been | outlived. The new epoch will place 1 a heavy handicap upon ignorance of the actual world, upon indifference to international usages ann undertak ings, upon contempt for the foreigner, i What is needed is, indeed, knowledge, and the skill that knowledge makes • po3«ible. The spirit with which we j confront tne national tasks of the fu ' ture should have the sobriety, the ' firmness, the steady effectiveness, | which we associate with *he Drofes ' fdonal.—The Atlantic. and ' § gy^ New York City.—Norfolk styles are in the height of fashion, both for young girls and their elders. The exceed ingly smart May Manton waist shown MISSES' NORFOLK WAIST. exemplifies one of the latest designs, and is desirable for many materials. The original is made of velveteen in a black and white Shepherd's plaid; but flannel corduroy, and all the sea son's waist cloths are equally appro priate. As shown the waist is made over the fitted foundation, but can be left unlined when preferred. The lining is simply fitted and ter minates at the waist line. The fronts and backs of the waist are smooth at the upper portion, but drawn down in gathers at the waist line. The box pleats are applied, stitched at each edge, and are graduated iu width to give a tapering effect to the figure. The yoke is cut in points, that are stitched Hat over the pleats, and the neck Is finished with a novel collar that matches it and the cuffs. The sleeves are in bishop style. To cut tlijfi waist for a miss of four I A SMART BLOUSE WAIST. teen years of age, three and five-eighth yards of material twenty inches wide, three yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and one-fourth yards thirty-two Inches wide, or two yards forty-four inches wide will be required. Woman'! Shirt Waist or BlouHe. The smart blouse waists are acknowl edged favorites of fashion aud grow in favor and variety with each change of season. This latest -May Manton design, shown in the large engraving, includes many novel features and is admirably adapted to afternoon wear. The original of white moire poplin, stitched with heavy white silk, shows gold ball buttons with white silk corus effecting the closing at the centre front. All waist materials, such as taffeta, peau de sole, tlannel, serge, cashmere, pique, cheviot, and the more substan tial wash fabrics are appropriate. The foundation, or titted lining, which may be omitted, extends to the waist line only, and closes at the centre front, but separately from the outside; over it are arranged the parts of the waist proper which extend below the belt in shirt waist style. The fronts and back are seamed together at the shoulders before the deep pleats are laid that extend over the tops of the sleeves to give the lengthened effect now so fashionable. These pleats are double stitched like tucks tor some distance on both front and back, two extra rows of ornamental stitching be ing added at evenly spaced distances. The tiny breast pocket is finished with a stitched welt, but may be omitted, if not desired. The sleeves are in bishop style, with the new deep cuffs, and the neck is finished with a regulation stock that closes in the back. To cut this waist in the medium si-/;-, three and five-eighth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, throe aud one half yards twenty-seven inches wide, or two yards forty-four inches wku. will be required. The Usefulness. The usefulness of the ordinary, dark tinted daytime boa goes without say lug. Not so many have considered that the dress boa for those who go about much to receptions and the like Is even more useful. Whether of os trich feathers, tulle, chiffon, ribbon, rose petals or some two or three ot' those fabrics in combination. If it be truly beautiful and becoming it may cover a multitude of sartorial sins. Or, If one is not burdened with any clothes that have seen better days It Is very comfortable to draw round one's bare shoulders between dances, or when the doors are on a continuous swing. Pinned round the neck of a nice cape it transforms it into a pre sentable evening wrap. The prettiest seen so far was composed of delicate pink rose petals, loosely set. in a foamy mass of cream white chiffon. Stripes in the Foulard*. A tendency to stripes appears in the foulards, though this Is not pro nounced, but quite a side issue, like the dots on some of the other designs. There is a foundation of tine lines on some of the silks, giving a combed ef fect, nnd over this appears the pattern proper. Or perhaps there is something more of a stripe, but it is always as a foundation for the various patterns which have a tendency to small all over clTe.cts. Antique I.:un as Trimming*. Antique lace and embroidery form the trimmings of the up-to-date wom an's costume. This fashion comes from Paris, where reproductions of old designs ami colors are worn by those who do not possess choice pieces as heirlooms. Antique embroideries, even if damaged by time, are much coveted. Materials For I>ressy Waists. The fashionable materials for drossy waists are the colored Swiss lawns, white dotted and figured Swiss, Per sian lawn and the soft Pongee silks. The latter are seeu in pretty self-col ored figured and dotted effects, which afford a pleasing change from the plain goods so long worn. Use on Oowns and Millinery. Delicately tinted velvet appliques In artistic Persian effects, and likewise black velvet designs, to be used alike on gowns, fancy wraps and high-grade millinery, are greatly in evidence this season among ilie most expensive and vcclierche importations from botli I'arU and London. Sosiie I'relty Combinations. Beautiful and effective galloons of lace and spangles are iu black and steel combinations. l'rett.v Petticoats. Those white or delicately colored hrilliantine petticoats are pretty and serviceable. Five-Gored Flare Waist. The skirt that tits snugly about the hips and flares freely at the feet is in the height of style for young girls as well as for their elders. This ad mirable May Mantou model includes all the latest features aud will be found very satisfactory in every way. As shown, the material is broadcloth ir tobacco brown, but all cloths aud chev iots, as well as the lighter weigh wools and silks arc appropriate. The skirt is cut in Ave gores, tha being found the most becoming o all styles. Each gore is carefull; shaped, and widens as it approache tile fashionable Care. The fulness a the back is la'-t in inverted pleats tha are quite flat, but produce graeefu fulness at the lower edge, where th skirt falls in becoming folds. [ To cut this skirt for a girl of fom (ceu years of age. four and three fourth yards of material twenly-on inches wide, four and one-half yard /jfi / s - MISSES* VIVF,-OORF.I> FLARE SKIRT thirty-two inches wide, two and thr' fourth yards forty-four inches wii or two and one-half yards fifty incl wide will be required.
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