Q'JIITUS.
Man and his strife! and beneath him the
Earth in her green repose.
And out of the Earth he coineth, and Into
the Earth he goes.
O sweet at last is the Silence, O sweet at
the warfare's close!
For out of the Silence he cnmeth, and into
the Silence goes.
And the great sea round him glistens, and
above him the great Night glows.
And out of the Night he coineth, and into
the Night he goes.
—William Watson.
riiiisn
J BY SUSAN HOBBABD MABTIN.
She was waiting in Madam Jack
eon's dressmaking parlors, where the
large easy chair nearly enveloped her
email, shrinking figure.
She was not old, not more than thir
ty-five, but already the bloom and
beauty of her youth had gone. There
were streaks of gray in her brown
hair; fine lines revealed themselves
under the sad eyes. The cheeks were
pal and a trifle sunken, and the hands,
folded over a parcel in her lap, were
rough and calloused. Whoever she
was, life had gone hard with her.
Madam Jackson came ia. "You
wished to see me?" she asked.
Madam Jackson was a large, impos
ing-looking woman, clad in a rich black
dress.
The little woman rose timidly.
"Yes'm," she answered. "I —I want
you to make me a dre'ss If you will.
I've made all my own clothes ever
since John and I were married. They
haven't been very many, either," siie
added. "But this is something differ
ent. We live on a farm, and we raise
fruit and vegetables for market. liv
ery year John has said to me, 'Well.
Lottie, I guess this fall we can afford
that blue dress.'"
She unrolled her package carefully
and smoothed out the cloth it con
tained with a tender hand.
"I was to have had this blua dres'a
the second year we were married,"
she explained, "i was young then —
but somehow something always hap
pened. Often we'd have a dry year,
then again we'd have to buy an extra
plow, or maybe a cow would die, or
something else would come up, so 1
never was able to get the dress until
now, and we've been married sixteen
years. The last tiling John said to me
when he gave rne the money was,
'Now, Lottie, don't buy anything but
a blue dress, and just forget how long
you've waited for i7.''
"I'm afraid, though," she added, with
a wistful little sigh, "it's too late to
look well on me. Vou see getting up
at half past two in tne morning to be
ready for market will make any one
old, and I've worked hard. Sometimes
we have six men to cook for; that is in
ir> the busy season."
Madam Jackson took the roll of
cloth in her hands. It was a soft,
beautiful biue, fine and rich in texture,
but it coukl make a dress suitable
only for a young girl; some one with j
rosy cheeks and golden hair and dim
ples. It was so far from being appro- I
priate for the little, stooping figure j
opposite.
Madam looked Kindly at the pale
llttl-5 woman. "I'm afraid," she began,
"you'll find this color a little trying.
A black or a gray, or perhaps a dai'k
brown would be more becoming. You
understand —"
The woman clasped her hands.
"Don't say it!" she cried. "Yes, 1 j
understand, but if you only knffw how i
all these year.s I've wanted that blue
dress! Something different from any
thing I've had. Ah, you needn't tell
me! I know I'm faded and old, but,
oh, I do not want that bit of color I
for my own! If I can't wear it, I can
at least look at it."
A large tear shone in worldly Mad
am Jackson's oyy—and she was not |
much given to tears. "Very well," she
answered; and then followed a discus
sion of lining and thread.
The woman came again in a few
days to have the dress fitted, one
hand she carried a basket of purple
grapes with the bloom still on them.
"I've brought you these," she said
to the dressmaker. "I picked them
myself early this morning."
"Thank you so much!" was the
warm answer. "I de'arly love grapes,
and those are especially fine."
In a few minutes the blue dresi went
on over the thin little figure. Some
how its bright hue seemed a mockery.
It brought out so' clearly the gray j
hairs that would have been softened
by a more sober color. The pale
cheeks, too, looked whiter than be
fore.
The little woman saw her reflection
in the tall mirror opposite, and sighed.
"You were quite right," 6he said,
slowly; "a darker color would have
been best, and yet-—somehow I
couldn't give it up. I've thought about
it so much all these years. Why, of
ten when the work was hardest and
the days longest, I've said to myself,
'Never mind, Charlotte, some of these
days you're going i"o have a beautiful
blue dress,' and the hope of it some
how kept me up."
"I understand," Madam Jackson
raid, gently.
In a few days the dress was done.
The customer came for it one morn
ing. in a wagon driven by a tall, broad
shouldered man with a rugged, weath
er-beaten face.
"Her husband," thought Madam
Jac'kson, looking out of the window.
The pale little woman came hurried
ly in. "John came with me today,"
she said, smiling, "and the dress—oh,
Isn't it beautiful!"
The blue gown lay across a chair.
Madam Jackson had done well with it.
It was finished off with silk of the
I same shade, and tEere was a pretty
lace collar and soft, fine ruffles of lace
at the wrists.
"You must let me see you in it be
fore you go," Madam Jackson sairl.
As the dress was being fastened, a
faint color stole into the woman's
white cheeks.
"Isn't it pretty?" she whispered,
wonderingly. "The very prettiest
thing I ever had! It seems wrong
somehow for me to have it now. Some
body young and beautilul ought to
wear it. If ouly I could have had it
years ago!"
Madam Jackson's loft fingers were
busy with the brown hair touched
j with silver, combed so severely back.
"You must not wear your hair quite
jso plain," she said. "A looser effect
| softens the face wonderfully. There,
that it is better."
She 'straightened the lace at the
throat and settled he skirt. "Wait a
moment," she added, stepping into the
next room. When she r.#urned, she
held a dainty lace-trimmed handker
chief, fine as a spider's web. She
tucked it into the rough lltCTe hand.
"A present from mo," she said. Tight
ly. "When you wear Co dress you
must carry that."
Over the thin litee there swept a
beautiful flush.
"Is that for me?" she 'said, in an awe
struck voice. "Oh, thank you, thank
you!"
There was so much radiance in the
lcok that Madam Jackson was startled,
and then a wonderful thing happened.
For the moment it seemed as if the
years had rolled back, and the worn
face shone with its lost beauty and its
lost youth.
The eyes were very bright, a tender
smile hovered over the tremulous
mouth, and Madam Jackson saw what
the woman must have been long ago,
before the hard years had robbed her
of her bloom.
"I wish John could see me," the lit
tle woman whispered.
As if in answer to her wish, there
came a knock at the door. Madam
Jackson opened it quickly.
"Come in, won't you?" sne said,
pleasantly. "Your w"e is anxious to
have you see her in her new dress."
The man entered. When the blue
gowned, radiant vision faced him, he
started. "Why, Lot Lie, he 'said, "why
my dear, is it really you?"
"Do you like it, John?" she said.
"Like it! Why, you look just as
you did when wo were married, only
somehow, sweeter and dearer," and
then, regardless of Madam Jackson in
the background, he took the small
woman in his arms and kissed her on
her glowing cheeks.
A few minutes later Madam Jackson
stood at the window and watched them
drive away with the blue dress care
fully wrapped up. The flush still lin
gered on the little woman's face as
she waved a last good-by.
Madam Jackson waved back. She
knew that before long the flush would
fade from her friend's cheek, the
lines would come back, the cares re
turn. The burdens must be taken up
again.
There would come, too, the weary
hours and the lonely ones that must
be lived through. The blue dress
would be folded away as something
sacred, seldom worn, but never forgot
ten. There would be something beau
tiful at lea3t to look at in the bare old
farmhouse.
As the rattling wagon disappeared
Madam Jackson turScd away from the
window with a smile that was half a
sigh.
"That blue dress —It as a succesa,
after all," she murmured. —Youth's
Companion.
PRIMITIVE BRITISHERS.
Font-Warmer* In U«e on ttio Ki gltn-i
ItBll«»v«.
That American criticism of the prim
itive ways of our English cousins is
not unwarranted is shown by the
great to-do being made in the London
Times over the inadequacy of foot
warmers, which 18th century device
b still used in cold weather ou Brit
ish railways. The Times not only
Kives up its valuable space to com
plaints of travelers, but actually de
votes a column of editorial matter to
the subject, and in describing the way
in which the railroads manage things
it observed recently:
"A train backs into the platform
some five minutes or so before it is
timed to start. All this bustle and
confusion. The platform is crowded
with passengers and their luggage, all
struggling to get into the train at once.
In the midst of the turmoil, a non
chalent porter is discerned leisurely
trundling along with barrowful of
loot-warmers, and grudingly deliver
ing them here and there to the pas
sengers who seem most likely to pay
for them. There are seldom enough
togo around, and there would hardly
be time to take them round if there
were. It is first come first served,
and the poorest of the least pushing
go without. And this is a first-class
railway terminus In London at the be
ginning of the 20th century, in a
country which invented railways and
for many years had no rival in their
management! '*
This is so primitive that one does
not wonder that the Times is 'excited.
Foot-warmers belong to the warming
pan age in the United States, but in
dear old England they are not only the
thing, but the American way of heat
ing cars is looked at askance, though
IT has now secured the a'pproval of the
Times, which seems to have stirred to
its depts the dereliction of the rail
way porters. No wonder Kipling
wants "the islanders" to wake up!
Philadelphia Press.
Dulgarla is shipping more fhan sl,«
000,000 worth of eggs to Belgium annu
ally. Italy for years had almost a
monopoly of this trade.
New York City.—Fancy waists that
Include boleros with elbow sleeves are
much in style, and are charming for
odd bodices and gowns made en suite.
FANCY WAIST.
This tasteful May Manton example
combines a waist of white silk mull
and guipure lace, with a jacket of pas
tel pink satin saplio, lace trimmed,
and is designed for Avcar with odd
skirts, but pompador silks are exceed
ingly smart for the bolero, and all the
plain and flowered sorts are appro
priate, as are poplin, etamuie, veiling
and the like, when the skirt matches
the bodice, while the waist may be of
any soft material and in the same or
contrasting color as preferred. The
full puffed sleeves are graceful and
stylish, but snug fitting ones can be
substituted when found more becom
ing.
The foundation lining is snugly fitted
A SEASONABLE DESIGN.
and closes at the centre front. The
waist proper is plain across the shoul
ders and drawn down In gathers at
the waist line, but the front Is made
with a yoke of lace, below which the
material is tucked for a short distance,
then falls in soft becoming folds, and
closes at the left side beneath the
jacket. The sleeves, as shown, are full
and gathered into deep pointed cuffs,
but can be made plain when preferred.
At the neck Is a stock that matches
the yoke and closes at the centre front.
The bolero is both novel and graceful.
The back is smooth and plain, but both
fronts and sleeves are laid in narrow
tucks, stitched with corticelli silk.
Furnishing the neck is a round collar
that is extended down the edge of the
fronts where it gives a jabot effect.
The sleeves, in Hungarian style, are iu
elbow length and are slashed at the
lower edge.
To cut tills waist in the medium
size three and an eighth yards of ma
terial twenty-one inches wide, two
and a half yards thirty-two inches
wide, or one and seven-eighth yards
forty-four inches wide will be re
quired, with seven-eighth yards of all
over lace for collar, yoke and cuffs for
the under bodice; three and a quarter
yards twenty-one inches wide, three
yards twenty-seven Inches wide or one
and a half yards forty-four inches
wide for bolero, with four and a half
yards of lace applique to trim as illus
trated.
A Handsome Costume.
Blouse waists make the accepted
models for all simple gowns and odd
bodices. The satisfactory model shown
in the large drawing includes the new
deep pleats at the shoulders, and is ren
dered peculiarly effective by the shield
and collar of contrasting material.
The lining is snugly tit ted and closes
at the centre front. On it are arranged
the various parts of the waist. The
shield is attached to the right side and
hooked over onto the left, but the
fronts close separately at the left
side. Deep pleats are laid at the shoul
ders that extend to the waist line.
where the extra fulness Is arranged by
gathers. The hack Is smooth fitting,
simply drawn down in gathers at the
waist line. The sleeves are full, sug
gesting the bishop, but include deep
cuffs, pointed at the upper edge.
To cut this blouse for a woman of
medium size three and seven-eighth
yards of material twenty-one inches
wide, three and a half yards twenty
seven inches wide or two yards forty
four inches wide will be required, with
one-half yard for shield and collar.
Skirts that include variation of the
circular flounce and that flare freely
at the lower portion are in the height
of present styles. The smart model
shown is peculiarly satisfactory and
singularly well adapted to all figures
as the front gore is plain, the flounce
being joined to the side portions only.
The unbroken line of the front gives
an effect of height and slenderness,
while the flounce provides the needed
fulness at sides and back.
The front gore Is plain, shaped to be
close fitting at the top and to flare at
the feet. The side portions are circu
lar, and to their lower edges the circu
lar flounce is seamed. Short hip darts
effect a snug fit at the sides and the
fulness at the back is laid in inverted
pleats.
To cut this skirt for a woman of me
dium size eight and three-quarter
yards twenty-one inches wide, seven
yards twenty-seven inches wide, three
and seven-eighth yards forty-four
Inches wide or three and seven-eighth
yards fifty inches wide will be re
quired.
A New Idea in Hack Combo.
A new idea in the form of oack
comb is one .hat has a slight curve in
the centre of each tooth, giving it a
firmer hold on the hair than the ordl
nary comb.
MlRBtR' SHlrt Waist.
Waists with deep tucks at the shoul.
ders are in the height of style for
young girls, as they are for their eld
ers. Pique, duck, cbambray, madras
and Oxford make the favorite washa
ble fabrics, but taffeta, peau de sola
and such simple wools, albatross and
veiling are all in use for the cold
weather waists. The admirable model
shown is of white mercerized duck
with handsome pearl buttons, used
for the closing, and Is unlined, but the
fitted foundation is advisable for all
silks and woolen materials.
The lining is carefully fitted and
closes with the waist at the centre
back. On it are arranged the front
and backs proper, laid in two deep
pleats that extend over the shoulders,
but are stitched to yoke depth only.
The sleeves are in shirt style with
deep cuffs, and at the neck is worn a
plain stock collar with a bat-wing tie.
To cut this waist for a miss of four
teen years of age, three and three
eighth yards of material twenty-one
MISSUS* 3KIRT WAIST.
inches .wide, two and five-eighth yards
twenty-seven inches wide, two yards
thirty-two inches wide, or one and
three-quarter yards forty-four inches
wide will be r?auired.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Each man his own fortune in his
own hands.—Goethe.
It is wonderful how near conceit 1s
to insanity.—Jerrold.
National enthusiasm is the great
nursery of genius.—Tuckerman.
He that may hinder mischief, yet
permits it, is an accessory.—E. A. Free
man.
Fixed to no spot is happiness; 'tis
nowhere to be found, or everywhere.—
Pope.
He that thinks he can afford to be
negligent is not far from being poor.—
Johnson.
Fretfulness of temper will generally
characterize those who are negligent of
order. —Blair.
No man ever became great or good
except through many and great mis
takes.—Gladstone.
The first duty of life is to be calm;
for the calm mind seeks the truth as
the river seeks the sea.—Lawrence.
If you resolve to do right you will
boon do wisely; but resolve only to do
wisely und you will never do right.—
Ruslcin.
There is no policy like politeness;
and a good manner is the best thing in
the world to get a good name or to
supply the want of it. —Dulwer.
QUAINTEST VILLAGE IN THE LAND.
Queer Little Town in Ohio Where Eng«
iifth Is Never spoken.
There is one village in the United
States whore no modern improvement
has ever penetrated, where not tha
faintest echo of the rush anu overwork
of modern life ha« ever sounded,
where American newspapers are not
read nor the English language spoken.
This is the little German village of
Glandorf, in Putnam county, Ohio,
where COO frugal and industrious in
habitants have lived for years in a
contented and idyllic simplicity.
In the building of the town, as In
everything else about it, the people
have held very closely to the customs
of Germany, from where its founders
came. There is but one street, and
that extends for over a mile, general
ly north and south. Quaint, durable
and homelike are the houses scattered
along either side, interspersed hero
and there by the stores. All the resi
dences haw spacious and well-kept
dooryards. Back and away from this
principal street —yet so near that the
laborers can bo seen and heard at
their work in the fields —stretch the
thrifty farms of the German country
folk. It is not an uncommon sight to
see women and girls at work in the
fields with the men, and the whole
population shows that rugged health
so characteristic of the race.
Among themselves the people con
verse almost entirely in the German
language, and, indeed, there are a
great many in the community who can
speak no other. They are generous
and clever, and the stranger who goes
among them always finds a hospitable
welcome, and is impressed with their
simple kindness. Nowhere can be
found a more devoutly religious peo
ple. They are of the Catholic faith,
and possess one of the finest church
buildings in Northwestern Ohio.
This edifice has in itself been means
of making Glandorf famous, because
of its size and the beauty of its archi
tecture. Although most of the work
of construction, the quarrying of the
stone for the foundation and the haul
ing of the material was given gratis
by members of the parish, the cost
outside of all this was over $50,000.
The structure is of brick and is orna
mented with white sandstone.
Back of the church is the convent,
and all of the work of the farm con
nected with it is looked after by the
sister 3.
The people of the parish are very
strict in their church duties.
Lafayette's I.HIXII.
When Lafayette came to the Unitea
States in 182-1, at the invitation of
congress, that body, on December 28
of that year, voted him a grant of
$200,000 in money and a township of
land to be located under the authority
of the president on any unappropriat
ed public lands. This location was
made in what was then known as
West Florida and contained 23,028.53
acres. The city of Tallahassee stands
upon a part of the land so located.
The patent for the land was Issued on
July 4, 1825, and presented to Lafay
ette in person by George Graham of
Virginia, then the commissioner of
the general land office. Prior to 1825,
congress, by act of March 3, ISO 3, au
thorized the secretary of war to issue
to Major General Lafayette warrants
for 11,500 acres of land, and by act of
March 27, 1804, authorized him to lo
cate the warrants in what was then
known as the territory of Orleans.
The location was accordingly made on
the west bank of the Mississippi, in
the parish of Pointe Coupee, in the
present state of Louisiana. Patents
to these lands were issued to Lafay
ette early in 1810. It is known that
he sold the Louisiana lands, and sup
posed that he did the same with the
Florida lands. —Detroit Free Press.
A Qnery.
The latest scientific proposition is u
shock the consumption bacillus to
death with electricity. Eighty thous
and volts are to be disseminated
throughout his diaphragm, and this nc
doubt will prove a settler; but we are
somewhat at a loss to understand
how the effectiveness oT this dose ol
chained lightning can be administered
to a microbe without slightly disar
ranging the placidity of the body that
acts as a storehouse for the microbe.
If the body can stand this Tremendous
current when it is turned on gradual
ly, why can't the hitherto indestruc
tible bacillus stand It?— Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal.
SCIENCE AND IND'JSTSr.
Prussia has 200 meteorological sta.
tions fully equipped, 2,200 rain-gauge
stations, and 1,400 stations that re
cord storms and unusual phenomena.
The results of thsir observations are
reduced and published for each weak,
for each month, and for each year.
Provided little tin is present alumi
num is an exceptionally useful in
gredient in yellow brass. It makes
tile useful metal run more free."/ an J
enables much cleaner and saundei
castings to be made. The best brass
founders are accustomed to use alumi
num for all cheap yellow brass work
that is to be used for sand castings;
it is not a desirable ingredient iu
brass intended for rolling.
Riihvay traveling in Russia is pro
verbially slow, but has not the com
pensating advantage of safety, judg
ing from some statistics furnished by
the ministry of ways and con-muni
cations. The* latest compiled data ara
j for the year 1900, in which year there
were 44-17 accidents; that is, on an
average, about a dozen per day. 01
this total 1362 were derailments, 750
collisions and 2335 of various other
descriptions. Altogether 1226 persons
! were killed and 6933 injured.
Dr. C. K. Leith, who i3 preparing a
monograph on the great Mesabi iron
range of Minnesota for the United
Stales Geological Survey, says that
the rapid development of this range,
! since its discovery 10 years ago, has,
i in itself, been sufficient to give; An»r-
J ican steel manufacturers the ad van
j tage in foreign markets. It is the
j greatest iron range known in the
j world, and the amount of ore in sight
on the Mesabi is roughly estimate J
jat 500,000,000 tens. Several of the
I mines are shipping more than 1,000,-
| 000 tons of ore a year.
The xeropliytic, or drought-resistant,
• wheats of Russia and Algeria were the
! subject of discussion at a recent meet
; ing of the Biological Society in Wash
| ington. There are several groups of
j this species of wheat, and they differ
j from ordinary wheat not only in their
j ability to resist the effects of drought,
j but in their appearance. The heads
j are big and flattened, with much chaff,
' long beards and very large yellowish
j white grains, which are extremely
: hard and viteous in fracture and often
| somewhat transparent. It is found
: that these wheats are especially adapt-
J ed to the semi-arid plains from North
i Dakota to Texas. They make excel
lent bread and are particularly suit
• able for macaroni.
Within the past year the population
j of the so-callei Colorado desert in
j southern California has grown from
1 nothing to about a tnousand persons,
' and a still more rapid increase 19
j looked for in the near future . Irriga
! tion is turning the desert into farm
lands. It is calculated that 1,000,000
| acres will have been reclaimed in this
| manner, in southern California, Ari
j zona and Lower California, within
; two or three years. These lands lie
' in the basin of tne Colorado river,
| where the great heat and extreme dry
i ness of the air are not unfavorable to
! human beings, provided that plenty of
; water is at hand. Most of the water
j used in the new irrigation enterprises
j romes from the river, but in southern
j California much is also supplied by
• Artesian wells. The irrigated land is
very fertile.
oT Fxorclie.
Next to bodily cleanliness, exercise
may ue reckoned as the greatest aid
Ito beauty. In fact, exercise is almost
' necessary to cleanliness, for it is a
j great incentive to perspiration, which
| is nature's way of throwing the impu
rities of the body to the surface of the
! skin, from whence they are then re
j moved by the use of water. Open-air
i exercise should be taken every day,
i but according to strength. One should
i return home after walking, riding or
| cycling with a sense of being pleasant
: ly fatigued, but without any feeling of
j exhaustion. Exercise should be taken
| regularly, and, if possible, duinb-bells
I should be used night and morning. The
! corset should not be worn while exer
| cising with dumb-bells. Skipping is
i an excellent exercise for the figure, and
' it is one of which our grandmothers
I were fond. It is usual with children
. to throw the rope forward when skip
j ping, but it is far better to throw it
bacKward, for it expands the chest
much better.
Patents In France.
In order that a patent may be ob
i tained in France, the three following
! conditions are necessary; That the
j invention be absolutely new; that it
j possess an industrial character; that
\ it be not contrary to public order or
! security, good morals, or the laws of
! the country. An invention is not
considered new when, previous to the
date of filing of the application, it has
received sufficient publicity in Franco
or abroad to render it easy of imita
tion. Tln> patents arc not guaranteed
by the government, which delivers
them at the risk and peril of the ap
plicant; there may be noticed on thou
sands of patented inventions the let
ters "S. O. D. G.," meaning, "without
the guaranty of the government." The
cost of a French patent is 500 francs
($96.50) for five years, 1,000 francs
(Sl!>3) for ten years, and 1,500 francs
(?289.50) for fifteen years.
Sh« nefnnil* Him.
Mamma —I'm glad you didn't ao
cept Charley I.itewate. He's a brain
less fop.
She —Oh, I don't know, mamma. His
opinion of me proves that he is not
entirely lacking in judgment.—New
. York Sun.