OLD
fits.
GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF CORN, MOTHER.
By AMELIA BLAXUFORD EDWARDS.
In the.! days, when a portion of the world ig underioina; severe fnmine, this
poem, which was inspired by the pent Irish fnmine of 1840, when the potato crop
failed throughout the Kraernld Isle, is of peculiar interest.
(live me three (trains of corn, mother,
Only three grains of corn;
It will keep the little life I have
Till the coming of the morn.
I am dying of hunger and cold, mother
Pying of hunger and cold;
And half the agony of such a death ";
My lips have never told.
It bas gnawed like a wolf at my heart,
mother
'A wolf that is fierce for blood j
All the livelong day, and the night beside.
Gnawing for lack of food,
I dreamed of bread in my sleep, mother.
And the sight was heaven to see;
I woke with an eager, famishing lip, ,
But you had no bread for me.
How could I look to you, mother
How could I look to you ' 1 j
For bread to give to your starring boy, '
When you were starving, too! i
For 1 read the famine in your check. I
And in your eyes so wild,
And I felt it in your bony hand.
As you laid it on your child.
r.
The queen has Innds and gold, mother
The queen has lands and gold;
While you are forced to your empty
breast
A skeleton babe to hold
A JiriLfl
Showing How One of
Empire Met His
By Claude
OW that la the position,"
sighed Kitty. She leaned
her pretty, tear-stained
face forward nud sighed.
Mrs. Chevenlx laughed a little, then
yawned.
"I know what I should do In your
place," she rested her bend bnck
against the chair cushions and gazed
at Kitty with dark Indolent eyes.
"And what would you do?" The
.voice was fretfully eager.
"Amuse myself, my dear child with
other men."
"That I would never do," answered
Kitty with a fine burst of indignation, 1
and she repeated tlrmly, "never
never." Sho -was a pretty little thing, Kitty
iOascolgne. A fair halved, fluffy little
person, with a pair of appealing blue
eyes and a soft babyish face. Plenty
of wit and character behind the curls,
though, and as warm hearted and af
fectionate a girl as one could wish to
meet. She was the wife of George
Gascolgne, a man upon whom the pow
ers that be looked with high favor, a
man who was climbing slowly but
surely the great ladder of success.
Mrs. Chevenlx but everyone in
Simla knows Mrs. Chevenlx. She is
the woman upon whom everything
turns and whom all men adore a won
derful, dark-haired beauty, a clever
skater on thin ice, envied and hated of
women.
' Yet Kitty Gascolgne and Olive Che
venlx had struck up a warm friend
ship, possibly because they were such
opposltes, this woman who loved her
husband and the other whose flirta
tions no man could number.
"George used to be fond of me," con
tinued the little wife; "ho was perfect
ly silly during our engagement and
whilst Tre were on our honeymoon,
but directly we got baclc to his station
lie became absorbed in his work and
even during this holiday at Simla he
studies blue books and native reports
anything but me."
"A good and faithful Civil Service
servant," sneered Mrs. Chevenlx, "gen
erally mokes nn Impossible husband,
dear."
"If I'm Just n good looking ns I
mi, why doesn't he love mo ns much?"
"Because, Kitty, you have the most
dangerous rival a woman can have
ambition."
i "Ambition?" repeated the other.
r "Yes, ambition. Don't you under
stand that you have married a man
whose one idea Is to be successful 7
George'wants to write his name in big
letters over some Indian province. He
yearus to hold the reins of power and
drive his chariot light up to the win
ning post. He loves you, my dear, but
Ton are only nn Incident In his life."
"I won't be nn incident," cried Kitty,
with ftnshlng eyes. "He ought to think
Of nie before everything."
The elder woniun lost her sneer. She
islso In the years that the locusts bud
eaten had loved and been miserable,
and she was sorry for little Kitty.
"There's only one force in the world
stronger thnn ambition." she replied.
Slowly, "and that's Jealousy. Make J
your husband Jealous." !
"I will ,io It." she said, aloud, with
quiet decision, "to bo happy again is
certainly warth a lie."
George Gaseolguo was writing let
Jters. Not ordinary letters by any
means, but missives addressed to iomo
very big men indeed missives these
men would read with attention, and
ponder over.
"Success," mattered the man to him-sclf-"success
at last:" IIo heaved a
deep, long sigh, nnd stretched himself
as one does who throws off n burden.
To-dny had brought George Gascolgne
Pood tidings. He was no longer the
man strlvlng-he wns tho man there.
Promotion? Yes. but something more
than promotion the ripest, reddest kiss
of Dame Fortuno for George Gas
colgne had arrived.
"I must tell Kitty!" He smiled a
little as he rustled up hlg papers. "She
won't understand a bit whnt it means
to me," be thought, "but she will like
the tltle-and, by Jove, wou't she play
the great lady splendidly? Dear little
muy ;
"Kitty's been a brick, a real little
brick. She's never bothered round as
other women do and talked chiffons
whilst I was trying to rule men, or,
nyway, to understand them."
1 "George, I want to speak to yoq for a
moment. Can you spare me a few sec
ondsr Kitty stopped her husband as
,e as about to leave tho drawing
room that evening. Husband and wife
had been dining alone, aud even George
gascolgne noticed vaguely bow smart
Jxlttjr looked for their tete-a-tete din
A babe that is dying of want, mother,
As I am dying now,
With a ghastly look In its sunken eye,
And famine upon its brow.
JVhat has poor Ireland done, mother-
What has poor Ireland done.
That the world looks on, and sees us starve,
1'erishing one by one?
Do the men of Englnnd care not, mother
The great men and the high,
For the suffering sons of Krin's isle.
Whether they live or die? "
There is mnny a brave heart here, mother,
Hying of want and cold,
,W liile across the ehnnnel, mother,
Aro n any that roll in gold;
There are rich and proud men there,
mother.
With wondrous wealth to view,
And the bread they fling to the dogs to
night Would give life to me and you.
Tome nearer to my side, mother,
Come nearer to my side.
And hold me fondly, na you held
My father when he died;
Ouirk, for 1 cannot see you, mother.
My breath is almost gone;
Mother! dear mother! ere I die.
Give me three grains of corn.
TRflQEDT.
the Great Men of the
Complete Undoing.
Askew.
ner. She had a vivid spot of color on
each cheek, aud her eyes glistened.
"Yes, if you have anything very im
portant to tell me, dear," be answered,
"but I am rather busy this evening."
"I wonder when you are not busy,"
she retorted bitterly. "Well, George, I
will be as brief as I can. I want to go
home to England. May I go?"
"My dear Kitty" (his astonishment
was obvious), "why on earth do you
want to go home? You feel well J"
with quick anxiety.
"Oh, dear, yes. I always feel well.
I want to go home because oh, be
cause," she added recklessly, after a
long pause, "you would not miss me,
and another man would."
"Another man!" he looked at her as
one who does not hear aright.
She stood her ground, though she
would have given worlds to revoke the
lie.
"Yes, George, another man. I know
you are absolutely Indifferent to me
but, well, he loves me."
"He who?"
"Ah, that I will never tell yon," Rhe
cried, playing her .part finely nnd with
n certain amount of artistic skill, "his
name must be a dead letter. But we
have both been true to you in word
aud deed, George."
"Also in thought, I suppose?" he in
terrupted, with n low, mocking laugh.
"I always remembered I wns your
wire, ucorge."
'How you must have cur3ed your
good memory," his face had grown
livid. "When did you first begin this
Platonic game?" ho added, sternly.
"I will not answer any more of these
questions," she said with n rush of
desperate courage. "That Is my secret,
and his. You have only yourseif to
thank for the rltuntlon. When we
were first married I adored nnd almost
worshiped you. It is your cold neglect
that, has killed my love, and only my
own self-respect that has kept mo
straight. Do you thiuk a wife Is only
n toy, who can be kissed and patted
when she Is new and put to one side as
soon as her novelty has .wqrn off? If
so. you have made tho biggest mistake
In your life. A woman once awakened
to love needs love, aud she gets it by
fair means or foul."
She " ended her speech by suddenly
bursting Into n passion of tears, nnd
covering her face with trembling hands
ran out of the room.
Gorge Gascolgne leaned b.tok In his
chnlr.
"Tho biggest mistake in by life," be
muttered between his clenched teeth,
"the biggest mistake."
lie put his hands up to his burning,
throbbing forehead, and wondered dim
ly why nil the furniture in the room
seemed dancing nround him. He be
came conscious of tlio roaring noise of
loud waters and it puzzled him whence
the sound came. Then for a few sec
onds George Gascolgne saw red. Only
for n moment, for suddenly with a
thundering roar nnd crash the man's
house of cards fell to tho earth, and
with a bablo of empty wovds and silly
InuguVi- George GHscolgne Joined the
ranks of the foolish, the men of no
understanding, merry phantoms cf
their dead selves.
So the servants found tho great white
snhlb, the man who was to have ruled
a province, he who understood tho
beating heart of tho strange brown
Innd and the complex mind of its peo
ple. A man who laughed shrill at them
and made ugly mouths, keeping his
eyes fixed on the door, shuklng a
trembling linger In their fearful faces,
babbling vaguely.
It was to see this man they sum
moned Kitty Kitty who, sitting In her
bedroom, was beginning to wonder
w hen the handle would turn and her
husband euter, ready Indeed to throw
up htr purt and confess her deception,
plcnd for forgiveness ou her knees.
"George, George!"
A sharp, wild cry burst from her
when sho eutered the drawing room
aud came face to face with the appall
ing thing who stood thero laughing,
laughing, but she got no answer to her
agonized cry, no return to her frenzied
caress.
"George, my darling, my hnsbnnd!
It was a lie; I never loved any one but
you! I only spoko as I did to mak.'
you Jealous to win your love back to
me!"
The wretched girl flung herself on
her knees before the mau, pouring out
her confession.
"Kitty, Kitty r
He put bis hand on her soft curls.
She caught and kCieed his fingers hope
fully. "Yet. daillug, yet." she answered.
"tell your Kitty that you forgive hcf."
"It's a very funny thing, Kitty," he
replied in a slow, inane voice, pointing
to n dim corner In the drawing room,
"lint the Viceroy is standing there bow
Ing to mo. But I don't quite remem
ber whnt I want to say to him, nud 1
know you are In n hurry to catch the
train to England, so shall we run away,
dear? Ha, ha!"
To the sound of his loud lnmrhter
Kitty fainted uf-nd away.
"I -rould have told you from the
first what would happen," a man re
marked a few months later to Mrs.
Chevenlx. "No man alive could work
his brains ns poor George Gascolgne
did without a breakdown. Talk of
high pressure and overwork why, th
Government ground the poor devil in
Its mill, ground htm to chaff and such
(t man of men, too! Where is the pool
chap now, by tho way?"
"Kitty has taken him home," replied
Mrs. Chevenlx nervously she was al
ways nervous on this subject. "Thej
have got a pretty little house at Ascot,
nnd she nurses and watches him with
most rare devotion, and the doctor
hope In time "
"That he'll recover to find his eareet
ended and his life work spoiled," an
swered the man bitterly. "Better tc
live on a merry fool.
The woman shuddered, for none
knew better than Olive Chevenlx
whose hand was responsible for thly
little Simla tragedy. New York Times,
The Unknown Swamp.
Within twenty miles of one of the
largest and most energetic of th
Southern cities of tho coast, and or
tho border lands of two of the oldest
Southern States, there lies a district
some two or three hundred square
tulles In extent, but little better knowt
at this day thafl It was 150 years ago
when Georgo Washington himself laid
out a route through Its wilderness,
The name alone, "The Dismal Swamp."
Is a by-word everywhere. When tb
spring Is far enough along for tlie
wild honeysuckle nnd Jasmine nnd thf
arbutus vines to be hunting in dell
clous masses over the sides of tin
ditches and reaching down to the red-
brown water, of a color so clear and
warm and sunny, then there Is a festl
val time In tho Swamp. Companies oi
young people come from the vlllnget
lying around tho borders of th
swnmp, twenty or thirty at a time
with some slight camping outfit, em
bark on large, flat-bottomed dugouti
that draw but little wnter, nnd theo
are poled up the ditches for ten ot
twelve miles from the fertile farm
lands of the outer world to the savage
ly luxuriant beauty of a lake hidden
In the midst of the wilderness. Then
at a camp on the lake shore they
spend a night or two, fishing in the
lake, poling along Its shores, doing a
little shooting perhaps, much dancing
In tho evenings nnd merry-making,
until they are poled out again, often bj
a different route. A real spring festi
val that has been a habit In that conn
try for many years. Leslls's Monthl
Massachusetts State Flower.
Women from all over tho State at
tended the meeting of the Boston
Branch of the Massachusetts Flora,'
Emblem Society Saturday afternoon.
The hall was decorated with garland!
and wreaths of laurel, nud the elec
tric lamps aud caudles were shadec
with pink.
Mni. Clara P. Blgelow introdueoc"
Mrs. Ellen A. Blchardsou, State Presl
dent, who said that for teu years a
society has existed In tho State to fee
the heart of the people in regard to a
flower that shall express tho churactei
of tho State. At one tlmo it seemed
ns If the mayflower or abutus would
bo the choice of the people, who "said.
but when we learned It had been adopt
ed by Nova Scotia as an emblem, wi
turned our attention to the mountali
laurel. We have now 124 branches ol
the society nil over tho State, und theii
representatives began work to securt
votes for the floral candidates. Tin
votes now stand -'5,000 for the tnoun
tuln laurel, 3000 for the niaytlower ant
pond lily, nnd loss than 1000 for tin
blue flag. So tho laurel Is the success
fill candidal, nnd a bill will be taker
to the Legislature to legalize the Inure
as the State floral emblem. We maj
yet find before ouc emblem Is decide!
upon that It may be a combination o!
leaf anil flower and the tendril of tin
trailing arbutus all lu ouc. Bostoi
Herald.
Pay of the Cook.
This Is a co"liimerclal nge. Granted
Women, as well ns men, have come tt
look upon a life's vocation from tin
standpoint of its promised returns li
dollar and cents. Some people com
plain of wages not keeping pace, in up
ward flights, with the cost of Hying
But this need not worry the accom
p'.Ishod cook, who works for salary, no
wages. 1 rusts and the coul questior
touch not the cook.
Girls who are working In stores a
ilie rato of from $5 to ?8 a week, am
endeavoring to appear well clothed am
wed fed, with the fe.-.r of losing thel:
Job ever before thoni, may prefer thif
precarious sort of Independence to do
mestlc service at the rate of 10 or $L'
per week, with food nnd lodglug lu
eluded; for whenever this alternative
is proposed to the average girl, win
has her living to got "somehow," sin
says sho would rather starve, nn!
then adds that sho does not know hov
to cook. But cooks ore made, not born
and she can now bo taught tha scleuct
as she is clever enough to get along oi
the plttauco paid for her eight hour
In a shop. Duluth News Tribune.
Origin of the nunylu.
In the fifties, when the gold feve
was still high, a walrus came usbor
near au Australian town, tho creutur
was captured and sold to an enterprli
In? digger, who constructed a booth
put tho walrus lu It, nud wrote ove
the concern In Dating letters, "Th
Bunylp has arrived." The show wa
a great tluaucial success, but th'
change of environment did not suit th
spurious bunylp. In two or tbrc
days, in spite of a compulsory diet o
fresh tlali, he died, and tho body wa
sold to the curator of the local mu
seum. Mr. Stock suggests that thli
uufortunuto walrus may have Iseei
stuffed nnd labelled "The Bunylp.'
Certainly tho popular Idea of the bua
yip has much lu common with the wal
ins, and many legends liavo grown U
from less likely beginnings. The Aca
deaiy, ......... .--
WORLD'S OLDEST LAWS
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE OREAT STONE STELA OP
HAMMURABI, THE ASSYRIAN, l-l ft ft l-l
DID Moses write the laws as
cribed to him In the Bible?
This question has been asked
, with considerable luslsteuce,
specially during the last century.
While the orthodox of all creeds nc
;cptlng the Bible have not faltered In
.'heir belief In the Mosaic authorship,
I large body of scholars, npon various
(rounds, have held that Moses could
oot have written these laws, find that
!hey were composed not earlier than
:hc time of tho Babylonian exile of
Israel.
The latest discovery In Persia will
3pset many ot the theories of the high
;rltles, for it proves that laws closely
resembling those ascribed to Moses
were the law of the land In the time
sf Abraham, a thousand years before
the great Jewish legislator was born.
It Is generally agreed by scholars that
Abraham lived 22.10 B. C, while Moses
did not live earlier than tho thirteenth
?entury B. C.
In tho book of Genesis, chapter xlv.,
there Is an account of a conflict be
tween Abraham and some of the neigh
boring kings, Amraphel nnd Chedor
Inomer by name. A few years ago
ho King Amraphel was Identified with
Hammurabi, of certain cuneiform In
scriptions, but Instead of being a
minor king, such ns might have been
.xpocted from the mention In Genesis,
he proves to have been tho mighty
monarch of Babylonia.
Now, frlm distant Persia comes the
llscovery ot tho hands of M. J. do Mor
gan of a great stone stela bearing on
jne side n picture of Hammurabi re
viving the laws from Shainnsli, the
tun god, nnd on the other side 280 laws
put In force by this monarch of almost
prehistoric ages. These laws consti
tute the earliest code of human laws
mown, and cannot fall to awaken
widespread Interest, not only among
Bible students, but among all who are
Interested in tracing the beginnings of
civilization.
It is more than surprising that 4300
years ago society was so far advanced
is to be possessed of laws implying
social relations of a complexity np
pronchlng those of our own day. The
fact of the existence of these laws
must broaden our conception of the
history of mankind and extend the
horizon of our uuderstauding of human
progress.
A DISCOVERY AMD A MTSTEF.T.
The discovery of this stela In Persia
instead of in Babylonia Is explicable In
the light ot the recent discovery of the
dominance of the ancient Elamlte
kings over Babylonia. When these
farly monnrchs of ancient Persia, or
Kin in, as It must have been called then,
took possession of the fertile land to
tho southeast, they carried away to
their capital the finest monuments
thnt they could find in Babylonia, and
among these was this remarkable stela
Df Hnmmrriihl, ns well as one still
older, dating from U0O0 B. C, erected
by Naram Sin.
The older stela has also been fottnd
by the French expedition to Suva, and
is a striking presentation of the mighty
conqueror lu the act of dispatching his
foes, while his retainers bring up tlu.
war.
The laws of Hammurabi are Intro
luced by these words: "By the com
mnnd of Shamash, the great Judge of
heaven nud earth, let righteousness go
forth lu the land; by the bidding of
Merodaeh, my lord, let no destruction
befall this thy monument. In the tem
ple E-Saggll, which I love, let my
aame be ever repented; nnd let any op
pressed mau, who has a case at law,
mi and stand before this my Image,
is King of Itighteousuess, ami let him
rend the inscription and understand
my preelons words, nud this inscrip
tion will explain to h!m his case, nnd
he shall tlnd whnt is justice, and his
heart shall be glad so that he shall
A RIGHTEOUS BULBn.
" Hammurabi Is a ruler wiio is as a
father to his subjects, who holds the
words of Merodaeh In fear and honor;
who has achieved conquest by the help
Df Merodaeh over the North and the
Mouth; who rejoiced ins etaolnetaoln
South; who rejoices the heart of Mero
ilach, his lord; who has bestowed ben
efits forever and ever ou his subjects
nnd has established order 111 the land.'
"When he reads the record let him
pray with full heart before Meroilach,
my lord, and Zarpanit. my lady; and
then shall tho protecting deities and
Hie gods who frequent E-Snggll gra
ciously 1 grant the desires daily pre
sented before Merodaeh, v:y lord, and
Znrpiiiiit, my lady.
"Hammurabi, the King of Righteous
ness, on whom Shamash has bestowed
right, am I. My words nre well con
sidered; my deeds have not their equal,
to bring low those that are high, to
humble those that are haughty, to ex
pel Insolence. If a succeeding ruler
consider my words, which I have writ
leu In this, my Inscription; I" he annul
not my law and corrupt not my law
md corrupt not my words, nor change
my monument, then may Shamash
lengthen that king's relgu, like that of
me, the King of Itighteousuess, that he
may reign In righteousness over his
subjects. If this ruler hath
wisdom, nnd he Is able to hold his laud
In order, then will he consider the
words which I have written In this
Inscription; the rule, the institutions
and laws of the land which I hnvc
given, the decisions which I have made,
will this inscription show him; his sub
jects let hlin rule accordingly, to spcHU
Justice to them, fo miiko right de
cisions, to drive miscreants and crim
inals out of his laud, aud to benefit his
subjects."
LAW or RCTtMATION.
Such is the Introduction to this great
body of law promulgated by the found
er of the first Babyloulan dynasty lu
tho twenty-fourth pre-Christian cen
tury. When wo come to the law it
self wo ure startled by its resemblance
to tho Mosaic code. Tho verblago Is
almost identical in many Instances.
Here Is the law of "an eye for nu eye,"
as given In the Babylonian code:
"If a man put out tin eye of auy one
bis eye shall be nut out.
"If a man break the limb of any one
his limb shall be broken,
"If a man knock out the tooth of any
one his tooth shall be knocked out'..
While In the Bible we read: "Eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot, burning for burn
ing, wound for wound, stripe fof
stripe." Exodus xxl.. 24-25.
So the famous "I.ex tr.llonls," as this
law of retaliation' Is called, for whom
Moses has been blamed by many
critics. Is nt least a thousand year?
older than he.
The laws of this ancient mighty mon
arch, engraved upon his monument
aud set up In the temple of the sun
god nt Slppar, dealt with the particu
lar relations of the men nnd women of
that time ns carefully as did those of
Moses with the relations of the He
brews nt a luter period. If we apply
the "deadly parallel," we see how
close this resemblance Is, nnd nre
forced to the conclusion that Moses
must have had many of these laws be
fore him ns he wrote, for while he has
.at times advanced beyond the ancient
Babylonian statutes, yet he seems to
recognize many of the same principles
of Justice, different though they may
bo from our views to-day.
SOUS UP-TO-DATE LAWS.
The old Babylonian monarch went
Into some details which are, however,
lacking lu the Mosaic legislation, and
approach more nearly some of tho
legal enactments of our day. Witness
this remarkable law: "If a man's wife,
who lives In his house, wishes to leave
It, plunges Into debt, tries to ruin het
house, neglects her husband, ami Is
Judicially convicted; If her husband
offers her release, she may go her way,
and he gives her nothing ns a gift of
release. If her husband does not wish
to release her, and If he takes another
wife, she shall remain ns servant lo
her liusbaud's house."
Here Is a humane provision, perhnps
higher than the enacted law by which
a man may secure divorce if his wife
be Insane: "If a man'take a wife, aud
she be attacked with u disease. If he
then desire to take a second wife, he
shall not put away his wife who has
been attacked by disease, but be shall
keep her in tho house which he has
built aud support her so long as she
live."
snow man civilization.
There are also peculiar laws as tc
the practice of surgery, which go tc
show how great the scientific attain
ments of the age must have been, nnd
commercial laws which show that
business even iu those early days wa
greatly diversified. There are nlsc
some old laws as to the responsibility
of builders: "It a builder build a house
and flulsh it, but does not make it
solid, nnd If theu the house fall and
kill the owner, that builder shall be
put to death. If it strikes the owner's
son dead, then the son ot the builder
shall be put to death."
There nre many other Intersting laws,
but these must suffice to give an Men
of the extent of the legislation of thnt
ancient day. Besides the stela of Ham
murabi nnd of Naram Sin, M, de Mor
gan has made many other discoveries
of early remains of Persian civili.a
tlou and of the inscriptions which the
conquering Elauiites brought back
with them from Babylonia.
At no time, however, In all the his
tory of the last century has so inter
esting a discovery been made as this
of the laws which underlay the Mosaic
code. Old Hammurabi must have lieen
a mighty monarch Indeed, but, more
than that, he must have striven for
Justice, cyen though ho did live 400'J
years ago. Chicago Itecord-Herald.
A Problem fctnrr.
The man approached the wire cage
of the adjuster of the life Insurance
company. His face resembled a cata
clysm of nature. He was on crutches.
"lii Insured here for ?2h." he said
gently. "I'd like $100 of it now,
please."
"How's thnt?" Inquired the adjuster,
rudely Interrupting.
"I got Into a Utile argument last
night with Mike Fiunesy. Mike half
killed me. Ho says so himself."
"Well?" queried the adjuster.
"Sure," said the man. "if I was dead
I'd get 82110. I'm half dead, as Mike
says, and I want SUM) of course."
He moistened his thumb mid put him
self lu position for counting the money,
"Oh, that don't do," said the adjust.-r.
"Then that makes Mike out to be n
liar." said the man, turning round.
"Mike!" he shouted, "tlm here gent
says you're n liar,"
A gigantic aud mammoth man with n
face of Iron and lists of cnrliorunilnm
came suddenly into vlrw, swearing hor
ribly. He carried with him n short
sealing ladder, which he threw u
over the adjuster's wire cage.
I'p up lie climbed. Moments sennud
like days. Days seemed like years.
Would he never reneh the top?
Tltn- alone could tell !
This, It will be perceived, is a prob
lem story, but the moral Is undeniable,
however It be construed. New York
Sun.
Ailgnml by Ilia Cnnrt.
Nine-tenths of the defendants l:i the
New York criminal courts have no
money to pay n lawyer's fee. The re
sult Is that these iiln.'-tenths are tiled
by counsel who are assigned by the
court when tho prisoner Is called for
trial. Hence these lawyers (number
ing about 200 in all the courts of th.
county), who frequent these courts for
tho express purpose of getting then.'
assignment cases, try nluety per cent,
of the criminal cases of the comity.
The remainder of the defendnnts-the
paying ten per cent. Is largely made
up of gamblers, poolroom owners, keep
ers ot all sorts ot dives, or, lu short,
prisoners arrested for vice as distin
guished from crime. The defense of
such clients has little to attract the a v.
erage lawyer who possesses a good
civil practice. Tho necessity, also, of
rushing cases through the courts has
done much to change the popular Idea
of what is necessary to constitute a
criminal trial. Tho World's Work.
rani 7 LATEST
OiMiEW'. YORK. . FASfWN&1
New York City. Blouses thnt close
Invisibly and are arranged in tucks
that extend from the shoulders nre
greatly In vogue and are much liked
BLOC8I OR 8ntBT WAIST.
both for odd bodices and the entire
costume. The stylish May Manton
model shown Is made of crepe do Chine
In pastel blue, with stltchiiigs of cortl
cell I silk lu self color and trimmings
of cream lace and narrow black velvet
ribbon. At the front aro drop orna
ments of silk. All wn 1st lug materials
nre, however, appropriate and the lin
ing can be used or omitted ns the oc
casion demands.
The waist consists of the lining, made
with fronts and bnck, and tho fronts
nnd bnck proper. The bnck is tucked
for Its entire length on lines that give
tho V shnpe and produce the tapering
effect, but the tucks in front extend
to yoke depth only and provide becom
ing fulness over the bust. At the front
edge are box pleats that meet and be
neath which the closing Is made. The
sleeves are lu the new bishop style,
tucked nt their upper portions and
left free to form full puffs over the
pointed cuffs. At the neck Is a stock
ntlNCESS
i 1
those of'tho cuffs.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is five yards twen-ty-ono
Inches wide, four and one-half
yards twenty-seven Inches wide, three
and three-fourth yards thirty-two
Inches wide, or three and one-fourth
yards forty-four Inches wide. v
Woman's Trlnrpss linwii.
Gowns cut In princess style are ex
ceedingly becoming to many figures
ami make nrost satisfactory home
gowns. The admirable May Manton
model shown In the large drawing Ills
snugly ami smoothly uinl becomes sim
ple or elaborate us material ami trim
ming are one or the other. As Illus
trated It Is designed for morning wear
nud Is made of cashmere In a pretty
shade of beige, Is simply stitched with
cortlcelli silk iillil finished with gold
buttons.
The gown consists of fronts, backs,
side backs und under-arm gores. Tin
fronts are lit tec by i:;eans of simile
thwt and nil the portions Mare freely
at the lower portion, so giving the
fashionable effect. At the neck is n
simple turn-over collar. The sleeves
are in bishop style wlih straight cuffs.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is eight yards
twenty-seven Inches wide, six and one-
half yards thirty-two Inches wide, or
live and one-fourth yards forty-four
Inches wide.
Tha Htrapptxl llrlm.
The motlitied turban shape reigns
niuoiig the models. Hue of these Is a
confection of ecru straw In u coarse
and heavy braid. The brim Is deep
and made Important by a monopoly of
all the trimming used. At intervals
of scarcely an Inch nnd a half It 1
strapped with minds of Ineh-wldo rich
black velvet ribbon. These come from
under tho hnt and aro fastened down
firmly on top of tho crown, thus hold
ing the brim a supporters. At the
left side Is a double cockado which
looks as If It were made of spun glass,
but It Is really made of glistening
horse-hair. This springs up from un
der a tint medallion of black velvet aud
pinches the brim bnck to the crown ou
the left side toward the trout.
No llrlm at lha Hack.
The brim of the bat tuny be lurge and
important in front, but It Is always
sharply cut off at tho back. Indeed, It
may be said that the hat brim doe
not exist lu tho rear. It ends not on
a straight across line, but in down
ward bending curves, and this droop
Ing tendency is emphasized by ends ot
ribbons, drapery of veiling, chiffon or
the long ends of flower stems, some
times placed there. '
A Smvr Plqua Waist.
A white pique waist has been mad
in rather on unusual way. l-'aney
bands of heavy cream lace are in the
front, nnd it has trimming of embroid
ery in a deep cream shade. The sleeve
show no lace, but there Is a small point
of It on the front of the stock. Tha
tops of the sleeves have the cream
embroidery.
Troarpnts of Black Velret.
I.argo and small crescents of rich
black velvet are In demand to trim
spring millinery. They aro occasional
ly used to decorate the edge of a broad
brimmed hat, and are then placed end
to end with the convex lino below, or
"upside down," with the concave curve
above.
A 'iv)lty In Wash Good.
I.inen gingham is a novelty shown
nmniig the wash goods. It Is highly
mercerized, nnd can be classed with
the silken fabrics that are said tv
laiiuder, no matter how high theht
sheen.
I.orelT New Uowns.
Lovely new gowns of gray, purple)
and black are seen everywhere, mod
eled mostly on the skirt aud short
Jacket or the shirt waist style, Witts
skirts Just clearing the ground.
For Dip filrllsll Flarnro.
Tor the girlish figure tho full,
pouched bodice will probably continue
long in favor. Variations from It are
tile lace berthas reaching as far aa the)
wide folded belt or girdle.
GOWN.
Skirts Longer and Fuller.
Skirts are cut a little, longer and
fuller this spring, and tho thicker lace
are In great request, as aro tho fancy
chenille and silk ornaments for trim
ming purposes.
Woman'. Blouio Jacket.
Blouse coats nre in the height of
fashion and nre shown with tunics of
all lengths mid none at all. The styl
ish May Manton model Illustrated Is
adapted to both the entire costume and
the general wrap, but, as shown. Is oC
tan colored cloth, with bunds of white
overlaid by fancy braid nnd stitched
with i-orticelll silk, mid makes part of
a suit. All suitings uud Jacket mate
rials nre, however, appropriate nud if
preferred the tiinle can bo omitted and
the blouse finished at the belt.
The Jacket is made with fronts, back
nud uii'lcr-nrni gores and is arrnuged
to blouse slightly over the belt at the
front. The neck U slightly open, re
vealing the stock of the gown, nnd the
front edges meet to form an Invisible
closing. The tunic Is smoothly fitted
mni Is seamed to the lower edge. The
sleeves ore In the new bishop style,
snug ut the shoulders nnd full nbovo
the wrists, which are finished wIUl
mil-over flare cuffs.
The quantity of material required rot
the medium size Is five nnd one-fourth
BLOtma J AC KIT,
yards twenty-seven luches wide, three
yards forty-four luehte wide, or twt
and oue-buir yards &Hf-tv
wldo.