1 1 AUtUMNLEAVit. Fiower and l,if of vine ami tree, Oraaa ot meadow, wted ot niiro- Hummer gathered tliem to be Faggot tor Ihr utumn'i fire. Riooke hke lu.e on vala and liill: 1 Flamea of fold and criuiton bright Into life noir leap and fill Field and forest wall their lilil. AH the glory of I lie year Kindled into beauty so: fioon the winter will be here. boon the curfew then Hie anew 60 theae lovely Inavea t lav In my book, all gold an.) red: Kmhera for winter's day yVhen the autumn a hie is dead. -I rank Dempster Sherman, in (he Araer iran Illustrated Magazine. IN A TERRIBLE FIX. By Ebea E. RexforJ. 1 I I ill OW, "Kastus"- ami lit sis ter lltcLeri n thl-eml ,,r tn-n Nl off lii coat, and hesitated. I as if thinklns bow to break the news gently "I want to tell you about a I'l.ui I've got ill my- head." "I know what tt Is." interrupted her brother, turning pale, 'i kuew all about It before 1 came down here." "I'd like to know how?" asked Mis. Green, ill great surprise. "I never told anybody except John, and I'm sure be hasn't lot It out." "No, lie hasn't," answered Mr. Uuiioa. "P.ot tUe minute 1 rend your letter, I felt what was In the wind. You didn't say la so many words (but you'd got n match planned out, but I understood it well enousli. Who Is it, Selina? Wel ter get the load olT your mind as soon as possible. I'm prepared to know the worst," and Mr. liangs save utterance 1o a nigh of forced resignation. "If a widow." answered Sellim; "just tbe kind of a woman to suit you, 'Rastus. I do hope you'll be .sensible this time, aud not let your foolish bn sh rillness spoil your chances of gelling a good wife." "A widow:" Mr. Bangs turned n triB" paler, aud shivered "I I'm afraid I can't stand this siege, Seliua. I canie mighty nenr knocking under to IbA old maid lust summer, but I was helped out of the scrape, some way. I've always heard s;iy that u mau couldn't bold out long aguinsf a widow If she'd Kit her ml nil really made up to get lilni." "Don't be a fool, 'fiaslui." said lier sister, tersely. "Maria's too good for you, and, if you know wheu you're well off, you'll make sure of her." "Maybe she won't be made sure of," said Mr. Hangs, to whom this conver sation was somewhat alarming. ",0h, yes, she will." nuswored Seliua. "I've talked with her about matters, ami I know she'd have uo objections." "Good, gracious, Selina!" exclaimed Mr. Rang, perspiring all over, "you don't mean to say that you've actually talked witb this womun about my mar rying her, do you? Why. she'll expect me to do it, if you have, aud, if I don't, Kb a' II be having me up for brum h of promise." "Of course she expects you to marry iier. and So do I." answered Seliua, as if that settled the matter. "Be a man. 'Rastus. I wouldn't be afraid of lb womeu, if I were lu your place." "You dou't kuosv what you're talk ing about." said Mr. Hangs, shaking bis head dolefully. "You're a woman, and can't be expected to know."' "Well, tome down, and let me intro duce you uow," said Si linn, and sh finally got iiim to consent. "I feel like a lamb being led t the slaughter." said poor Mr. Hangs, us he paused at lb? parlor door to wipe bis face. "I wis'.i t were home again. Selina." "Dou't be such n fool, 'Lnstiis." re peated bis sinter, by way or dieour agernent, uud llien be was dragged over the threshold, a hi be remembered afterward thai something in the shape ol a woman row up. and said some thing, after Selina Uud Mid siu:i-rli i if. But what those KoinMliiiiK were. Ii never knew. When lie came lo. sutHcieuiiy U realixe what was g.iiug on about him. lie was alone- Willi the widow. She wuu't a bad looking wouino. In- I' id in admit. In la", he rather liked her looks. Well, l Uo result was. he full in lo' wilU Mrs. Smith. He generally f-il in love. Willi tlu women Selina selected as proper subjects lor .matrimony. But I (ll Clint lie- felt Ml c 0OiOlW.: f done for that he w is sure all his capabilities far falling in love were exhausted. He would in-vv. love tiitain. AJ the end of u week he fell liui hi love had reach il lis climax, lor li pi' ked Up a rose she hud droppud. ami slept with 11 under h!s itU'.ow. "You poor, old fool," he said to him self the next, morning, a he Mood be fore tui? gluvs. 'To think that you've got spoouy -iiouyii for tbul. I'm y!:ul uo one ku .ws it. I'.iH tlr widow is very allt active, and I don't urn as I'm to blame, t-l can't help it." One day Seliua and Mrs. Suiilh win! out shopping ul'ier " h. Ah Mr. Kuc;- was golug tbroiiKh the ball he saw that Mrs. Smith's room door stood partly pen, and au irresistible Impulse to lake Just one pe"l Into It came oyer liliu. He did so. UaitDg over the back of a chair was a walking skirt, aud that mysterious article ot feminine apparel fascinated him so much that h veutured in, and begun to exanwna it. "Well, Dow, If that doesu't bent the Dutch!" laid Mr. tiangy, holding it up. "I wonder how I'd iook In uch n thing? I'm going to try It on." Accordingly, he got hold of the boil, and proceeded to luvest himself in it, after the manner of putting on trousers. "It buckles, I tfpose!" lie taid, pulling tbe belt together. ". there it Is. Lord I wouldn't I cut flue figure In akbrts," aud Mr. lliingi danced horn pipe to the accompaniment of a wish ing skirt. Tbe ball door banged. "flood, gracious!" cried poor Bana. "They're come liotue!" Every Lair on his head stood up with fright, lie grabbed at the licit, but It wouldn't uubuckl. He Itejwd slept Mt tbe Stairs, ami women' volets track ntor terror to hj guilty itoiil than tbe sound of Gabriel' trumpet would bT done. ' He glanced about him. Ther was to evupe. A closet door stood partly open. Into that he crowded himself, and pulled the door together Just as Mrs. Smith came In. He could hear her hustling aboul, laklng off her Jacket and bonnet. Wba If she were to come to the closet? It was altogether likely tbut she bung her things there. He felt as If he were golug to fainl. Thn he thought of the ridiculous appearance a fainting man lu a skirt would make, and made up bis mind that he wouldn't faint - he'd die flrst! There: She was coining that way! What was to he doue? A thuusnud wild thoughts flushed through bis lu iilii. H. felt her hand upon the door knob. "There's a man In your room!" he roared out, lu awful bass. He didn't know bow ha came to say It. It was the inspiration of desperation. prob ahly. "Ob-h. o-o-b!" shrieked Mrs. !?niMi, and fled in terror. "I've got to get out of this before anyone comes." said Mr. Hangs, giving a push to the door. Horrors! Il would not open. There was ooly one way of opening It. ami thai was from the mclside. A clammy perspiration covered him from bead to foot. "You slay here, and I'll go lu." he heard Selina say, in the hall. "I ain't afraid." He put his eye to ihe keybui. anU saw bis sisler enter the room. "Seliua!" he called, in u sepulchral lone. "Selitm!" "Who calls me S-lina':" demanded Mrs. iiv?u, dramatically, doitrisblng the feather duster, which she hud brought along for a weapon of Oe fense. "I do," answered Mr. Hangs. "It's 'Itanltis, your brother. I'm ehut up in ltd closet." "Well. I never!" excluiui-d Mrs. tirceu. staring at the closet as If she expected to look It out of countenance. "Let me out. and dou't bo a fool!' cried Mr. Bangs. Thus appealed lo, Mrs. (ireen ven tured to open Hi1 door, and out stepped Mr. Bungs, with his skirt wishing about his legs. 'Tor the land's sake!" cried Selijin, will uplifted hu'iida, and mouth wide opeu. "Why, 'Raslus Bangs!" "I -I thought I'd have a little spoil," explained Mr. Hangs, looking ubout as roollfh as It is possible for n man to, "but you came back loo soon, and 1 couldu't get 11 oh, and slipped into the clo.set. Help me out of the confouuded tiling. Seliua. aud keep it to yoursW:', aud I'll buy you the nicest dress !u town." 'Seliua! Selina!" called the widow from Ihe bottom of the stairs. "Do you want any belpV" "Hurry up!" exclaimed Mr. Bangs. "She'll be here iu a minute." "I'll tell you what I'll do," said Se liua. "If you'll promise to ask her to many you inside of threo iluys. I'll help you out of Ibe scrape. If you don't, I'll call her lu." "I -I dusjiotii," groaued Mr. Bangs. "Tlieu I'll call her." said Selina. "I- I will!" said Iier brother, desper ately. Mrs. Green gave a peculiar twitch to the strap, the buckle let go Its hold, uud the skirt fell to the floor. Mr. Hangs stood itp a free man. ".Vow, remember," suid Seliua. warn Insiy. "if you haven't proposed to Mrs. Smith in three days from this time--at hall' past six precisely, on Thursday, the tiine ll be up I shall tell tbe whole story." Ob, those three days! They seeuu.d three years to poor Bangs. He tri'd S'-ven dlflVreiit times to muke his prom ise good, but every liuie his tougue dove to the roof of Ills mouth, and he was speechless. Thursday, at d o'clock, Seliua came to hi in. "Have you ask-d her. Raslus':'' she demanded, solemnly. "No. I hnvi-n't." answered Mr. Kaugs. "I can't. Selina." "You've gul just haif an hour's time left," slid Selina, iiufeellngly. "Sup per'll be ready in fifteen minutes. The half boiir'il be gone before we get through euiiiig. and 1 shall tell the story the uiiuute the time's up. Maria's !u th parlor, alone. If you wuut to se. bey, you'll never g-t a better 'bailee.'' "If you had any sisterly ivgard for me - " beijuu Mr. Bungs, but: Mis. i.Ve.-n ,-ot ii ui short -wit u the remark: "A lijruiV a bargain. Do as you agreed lo, or I wWI. I-I'ni'l be a fool, 'liusius." And with thai sli opened lite parlor door and p ished hiiulu.. Mr. Batiks doesn't know what he raid. He never ku-w. But the widow suid he asked hr If she wanted to marry hliu. Being a trutlntil woman, -he said she did, and so iue poor man itps spared 1he recital of the story ef li s terrible tlx. "!i was lucky that it happened, aftr all," he told Selina, "for. If it hadn't, I n.-ver would have got courage to propose-nivfr." -New York Weekly. Why single I'ltildlra Kaiu. "No." said the ouiuiaker, "for fast padullug the single puddle cannot com pute with the double paddle; but you see 100 slagl puddles where you do one double paddle. Of course, soma canoe enthusiasts think that the sin gle blade is more picturesque, but It Is the uii'ii who sell canoes that hare brought the single blade iuto vogue. "It became the custom for the dealer to give uway a double paddle with every canoe purchased. One denier began it. and. of course, all the rest hud to follow. Hut the double pad dle are rather expensive. So some bright dealer conceived the scheme of puutug lu a big stock of single pad dies aud giving one wllb each pur chase. Tbls continued the courtesy of throwing In something with every canoe sold, but tt cut down greatly the egpeuse of the gift." New York I'rcss. Nut Hi tat to "Knocli." The evening school poplin were dis cussing Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. A brawny young fellow was In. cllued to belittle the deed. "I dou't see as it was anything so great," lut seld, scornfully. "See here," said a lilllc fellow at bis s!d '. "Did jroii over try to get uu ele piuut ovttr'a mountain? Well, until you have tried, you don't want to knock lUunlbsi." !J9:A'3 RESOURCES. Waatih or Ihe Afrloaa Hapnbtla f th i'otorad People. Liberia Is considering the expediency of a new foreign loan In order to make needed public Improvements and to re organise the public debt. It I now eighty-three years since Ihe negro re public In Africa was rounded by Amer b'au philanthropists and more than half century slu. it was recogiilned as au lodepeudent State. Sir Harry Johnston, the Africa a ex plorer, recently spoke very favorably of Liberia's natural resources. Its great wealth, he said, lies la Its for ests, which coutaln most of tbe West African timber trees. In India rubber producing trees, bushes and vines it Is richer than any other part of Africa except one or two small areas of Ihe Congo basin. The luterior of the country Is in clined to be billy, and from forty to 100 mill's Inland the ranges of hills reach altitudes which Justify calling them mountains. The ninrsby character of the country. Sir Harry Johnston say, has been exaggerated. Hvoud Hie forest region there Is a park-like coun try, r.lephunts are abundant lu all parts of I.iberlan territory. Through the forest many of the paths are littl more than elephant tracks. Very little la k uotvti about the miu eral weal Ui of the country. Hematite Iron appears to exist everywhere, and truces of gold are found lu nearly all the rivers. In the Mandlngo uplands beyond the forest regioa ullnvlul gold is said by the natives to exist over it considerable area. I.eud uud slue have also been discovered In ihe eastern ills tricls. On the whole Liberia is said to be less uuhealthful lor while men than Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, the (iold Coast and Lagos. Hut Ihe high plateau regions are naturally thought lo be most five from fevers to which white men are especially subject. WORDS OF WISDOM. A man of pleasure is a tnr.u of pains. Young. Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen us our sun declines. Young. It cuu not be too often repeated that it Is not helps, but obstacles, not facil ities, but difficulties, thul make men. W. Mathews. There is no life so humble thitl.'lf it be true and genuinely human uud obedient to (Jod. it may no! hope lo shed some of Ills light. Happiness depends much less upon external things than upon the disposi tion of the mind and the affectum of the heart. Madame Rolaud. Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therfrore an ele meut of peace; but love, which Includes obedience, is the whole. Elizabeth M. Sewell. There is dew iu one dower and nut hi another, because one opt us Its cup to take It in. wblle the oilier closes Itself and the drop run ofT. So (lod raius goodness, a ud mercy a wide as the dew, and If we lack thru). It Is be cause we will not open our hearts to receive them. London Pratliara. Pew Loudon preachers will be found Iu their pulpits to-morrow. The ma jority will be discovered, let us char itably hope, listening to their country brr-threu. It may be interesting to glance at the recreation of some of "our departed friends." The Bishop of Loudon Is addicted to golf, cycling, and lives, though the wear and tear of the latter game Is so great that after a short period he is all sixes, and sev ens. Dr. Clifford, who is ut Alx-les-Balns. Buds pleasure Iu long walks, though some will have it I hat the "w" iu walks Is a misprint for "l." The Kev. R. J. Campbell, who only will be absent from the City Temple for four Sundays, dellghls lu horse ruling, and is noted for his high jumps, his record being a leap from the Kiug's road, Brighton, to lb Holborn Via duct, London. Canon Hi.nsley Heuson believes in cycling aud walking, but we suppose never disobeys warnings such as "Keep Off the Orass." "Tres passers Will Be Prosecuted." or "Pri vate Koad; No Thoroughfare." Canon Scott Holland, on the other hand, who Is equally fond of cycling, rarely sees such notices, and in couaeaiueuce often gets Into trouble. Doubtless hi ex cuse is that b!.s eyes ore loo wide open to observe thein; thin, of course, Is ut terly foolish, worthy Indeed of his lieamlsh friend, Mr. Chesterton.--London News. Child KtHaM Bafcr Butkr. The rigble.eu-oioutus-old sou of -VI i tuid, Mrs. (i. T. Kyser, of l'all River township, while playing iu the yard fell iuto Ihe well which was twenty two feet. deep. His sisl'r. eleven years of age, bearing his cries, rau to the well, and by clinging to ihu well rope, started to descend anil rescue her brother. The rope turned her hand aud she realised that fhe 'must let loose. Throwing her body lo the opposite side of the well, for she was right over tbe baby, she let go, uud dropped safe ly to the bottom. The water was I be tween two aud three feet. deep, and tho infaut wus submerged and strug gling feebly. The little heroine gruhued up Ihe drowning baby, aud. holding blui lu her anus above tbe surta. of the wuter, called for help. The niolher heard her cries and came lo her assistance. Kansas City Jo mini 1. A Matro h'iOtn Mloa. "Meerschaum Js milled like coal," said u pipe deuler. "It Is a soft, boap llke stone, and lu Asia Minor lis min ing Is an Important Industry. "Tbe crude meersehuuui Is called bumtash. It Is yellowish white lu color, and a red clay coat or skin en velop it. The blocks cost from 125 to liax) a cartload. They tire soft enough to cut with u knife. "These blocks In summer are dried by exposure to tho smi. Iu winter s bunted room Ii necessary. ."Finally, the meerschaum blocks are sorted Into twelve Li'udes, wrapped lu cotton, and packed In cases with tbe greatest care. "Tbe bulk of all this uicrscbauni goes to Vienna. Thera thd best p.pe makers lu tbe world llve. 'i-Phlladei-rbia Bulletin. I Nasal for Good HtafS.'i XOJav HE good roads question continue to attract wide Q r ' o spread public Interest, i judging from the exten- TttfrT sive discussion of Ibe sub ject lu the public press. The proposi tion of Federsl support in tbls respect seems to be gaining strength In the country at large, sud tbe good roads propositions as preseuted to receut Congresses are being earnestly exam ined by many interested citizens, as tbe demand upon the Capitol document rooms at Washington attests. These bill seek to eullsr the flnauclal sup port of the Federal Covernnient In the improvement of the wagon roads ef the country, the plan being for Uncle Ham to supply a sum equal to the sum any Slate will supply up to the maxi mum provided for. Congressman Browulow, iu explain ing tbe provislous of bis bin, said that Federal co-opei atiou In tbe promises was but Just In order to fairly distrib ute (he burden of taxation necessary to Improve the public highways. He makes this telling point: "So long as we pursue Ihe original method of taxation the rat ire burden of cost for highway Improvement fulls upon the owners of agricultural lumls and the persons living In Ihe rural dis tricts. When the great mass of Ihe people lived lu the rural districts this was u Jtisl and equitable distrilmtiou of tuxes for such purposes, but with the changed conditions of the present day, when one-half of the people live iu cities, aud much more than one-half of the wealth Is couceutrated In these cities and lu the corporations that are so powerful at the present time, It Is absolutely necessury that some moans should bo devised whereby the reven ue requisite for the great improve ment that Is called for sboti'd be de rived from all of the people ond -resources of the country ns nearly as pos sible, and not rest, as heretofore, upou the farming clusse.s, who are the Imme diate losers by every failure of crops and suffer by every decline In price of agricultural products." Another Important consideration is that, iu the last analysis, the cities and towus benefit from good roads just as much as do the people living along them. It I to the Interest of tbe mer chant as well as of the farmer to have an Improved system of roads In every part of the country. Tbe development of tbe rural free delivery system has served to bring the people of the country lulu closer touch with not only the towus, but with the Federal Government, thai ever before. The tlovernment, speak ing and acting for the country at. large, has. therefore, a direct Interest lu tbe welfare of the people living In tbe rural sections, aud tile beucUts to lie derived from good roads would be shared not merely by those living upon them, but by all the people. Atlanta Constitu tion. Tha Movamaat'a Prograaa. Thai the good roads movement Is popular and has come to stay Is evi denced by the attention uow given to good road engineering In our educa tional Institutions. The Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts bus recently Issued a circular con cerning Its course of Highway Engi neering, which circular can be bud from the president by addressing him at Kingston, It. I. This medium Is to call the atteutiou of any young men who are thinking uf doing engineering work to the advantages of including education along good roads Hues, This lust addition is badly needed and will be of Immense value in the Southern Slates of the Union where less ulteu lion, perhaps, has been given to this tbaa lu those further north. That it seriously concerns ua all Is evident without any argument, and the action of President Buttertleld. of tke P.kode fslaud College of Agriculture, Is to be highly commended. In addition to this we learu lhat iu the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, tbe Iowa highway commission bas es tablished a road school lu which every piece of tbe work, Includlug class work, work, field work, modern road macbln ory, cement lu highway Improvements, etc., is taught, Plans are being made to build model sections of earth, gra vel and macadam roads, and prat cinl men have been engaged far the school, and It Is thought that tbe results will be very flattering. Cr.taiuly tbe Iowa peode deserve great credit for their enterprise in ttris direction. , or Bpaclal V.lua. in Southern Louisiana tbe good roads movement Is of special value from tbe fact that out' great crous of cane ant rice weigh more In proportion to the area of land on which they ore grown than do tbe crops of any other of the Htules of the Cnlou, Thousands of acres of sugar cane have been lost lu Louisiana during rainy harvesting sea son from the practical Impassabtllty of our roads, aud wbilo do good road movement can change our climate, we can unquestionably cuaugo some of tbe effect of our climate by reiterating the iuiH)i'tunco of road dralnago and other physical ameliorations, as well as sug gest tbe Quanclnl aud polltiiw-econouilc methods for road Improvement. Lou isiana Planter. " It Mode DlSfaraoco. A story Is being told of a Sibley young lady who found a package uf love letters tbat bad been written to bar mother by ber father before they were married. The duughter saw that she could have a little sport aud road one of them to ber mother, substitut ing her own name for tbat of ber mother aud tbat of a Six Mile young mau for tbat of ber father. Tho mother seemed ut telly disgusted and forbade ber daughter to have anything to do with tbe youug mau wbo would write sucb nonsensical stuff to a girl. Wbeu tho youug lady handed tbe letter to ber mother to read tbe bouse became so still tbat on could almost bear tbe grass showing in the yard Oak Urove (Ms.) Banasr. BREAKING TRAIL. STrarlaonao and Parllon I.ahor la Mia ' Cold ttcajlona. To break trail Is to pack wllb your nowshoes tbe soft and tincrusted snow Into a more solid path, so that the dogs and the toboggans may tie brought forward to where you make ramp. Even Ihe suowsboea, two feet la width, sink a foot or eighteen Inches at every step. Tbe snow crumble) and pllea In on tbe top ot the web, ao that you have to tear cacb step with a wrench aud a kick aud a cloud of fro r.en white. You go forward, 7011 rest, you go forward again, forcing your way laboriously through no oue can say how many feet ot snow. The wea riness enters Into tbe very marrow of your bones. Tbe snowshoe strap moves back and forth Just enough across the moose-bide moccasins to gall the foot to the flesh of the toes', the muscles across the I usee p ache with knife-like cuts with every step as you lift the heavy weight of snow that covers the shoe out of sight. I remember this first duy out we stopped midway across the lake to rest. Tbe guides dropped the tump Hue from the forehead to their shoul ders, cut some tobacco from a plug, rubbed It between their hands and filled short black pipes. Tbe dogs lay I flat on the snow and bit and chewed i at the solid lumps of l"e that bad gath ered on the paws. With the handle of my axe I scraped from my snowshoe the frozen musses of Ice that had gath ered under my moccasins and were wearing blisters ou my feet. We rested here only a few minutes, aud then tbe bitter cold drove us ou again, for uo man dures to stop long iu such a temperature. This breaking trail Is very pictur esque to nn outside observer. Ofteu times afterward, when, unencumbered, I bad gone on ahead, I would stop and turn and watch the guides bluck pyg mies struggling through the boundless stretch of white, with their heavily loaded toboggans in great cloud of snow. With their shoulders thrust forwurd and their bead beut to the trail, they would swing along at an even stride across the level expanse of frozen snow, broken only by tbe thin Hue of trail stretching behind them off Into tbe distance, and by tbe many still narrower tracks of the for criss crossing here and there on the smooth. 6urfaca From "Breaking Trail," by Frank K. Scboonover, in Scrlbnef's. Caroaaonahlo Boardara The ease In which Mr. Boggs had passed bis days was sadly disturbed wheu his wife begau to take, summer boarders. The experiment was made for one season only, uud Mr. Boggs gave one of tbe reasons to bis friend and neighbor, Mr. Nash. "No use talking, city folks are too fussy for me," he said, as Ibey sat popping corn oue September eveuing during Mrs. Boggs' absence at a neighboring house; "their Ideas are set up altogether too high for me to suit em." "Wanl to know," mumbled Mr. Nash, wbo had been, away from home for 1 a fortnivbt. "Didn't vuur food nleae I em?" "Yes, seemed to," admitted Mr. Boggs. "That wasn't the trouble. I put screens lu tbe windows ot their room aud In the dining room good sliding screeus, the best to be bad round here. Aud they hadn't been here more'n a week before they both came to me those women did and required of me to put a screen ou tbe windows out lu the entry where no body ever sit but me, and where I like to feel the air blowing without being tillered through a mess of wire. "But even that wasn't all. Not long after one of 'em asked me if we couldn't screen the frout door or else keep it shut! "That was the cap-sheaf, aud I told 'em so. No more bourders for our fau-ily, at any rate not iu fly time." Youth's Companion, Soma Itamarkable IaTOalloaa. Among remarkable receut Inven tion are the pueuuioallto, the topodict tbe telemeter, tbe telepboue-ears and tbe tbermophlle, which are described in tha Strand Magazine. Tbe pneu mosllto Is au automobile especially deslgued for use on ice, but which can just as easily be used ou land. It is moved by a propeller wbeel ruu by a two and three-quarter . borsa power kectrie motor, tha propeller turning in the air and moving tbe carriage at a speed of twenty miles au hour, Tbe topodict is the combination of a pan tograph and telescope, by means ot wb It'll any person can make a draw lug iu correct perspecUva ot any scene befora him, evtui If be know uotbluc whatever of drawing. By weans of tiia telemeter tbe exact distance of far away object can be measured: and re corded. The- fe-lefibone-ear is an ap paratus by which a ship Is automat ically warned of submurlue dangers. By the aid ot tbe tbermophU it Is possible to furnish beat by means of a flue electric wire which can be wov en Into rugs, blankets or cushions, aud all tbat is required is a very small electrtc batlery. The luvenror claims for it that It will do away with the necessity of ever having flres Iu even the coldest weather. The Hatloia Vaabloa aa Old Oua. The fashlou iu London of golug out bareheaded, which ia becoming ao com mon, 1 not a new oue, but a return of a very old custom. Time waa when only kings wore hat, other people be ing cooteut with having hoods attached to their outer garments, which they wore or discarded at pleasure. Stow, the historian, usurious tbat no oue wore anytblug except tbe Lord Mayor of Loudon, wbo sometime donned a bat ou state occasions. Iu tbe relgu of Henry VIII., be aays: "Tbe cltixena began to wear flat caps of woolen yarn, so light tbat tbey were obliged to tie them under their cblu, else the wind would be master over tbem." Loudon Tatler. Hlh Price Fo Hubblab. Tbe habit of attending art sales bat become a society erase, and tbe wealth it people iu Kugland are to be fount la tbe rooms for the two or three day upou which the tblugs are on vlw. Wealth aud artistic perception do not necessarily go band in band, and these people are asldooi found . to posaart el tiler Judgment or Idea of value, TJu res ait t tUat grotosauely oxtrav-sgaat pi1 ice smt frequently been obtained for rubbJrt.-Burllugtou Magaalna, IT O New York City. The fltted coot makes the very latest decree of fash ion, and will be a pronounced favorite of the autumn. Here is one of the aim- plest and best that can be made In either three-quarter or half-length nnd that is adapted lo all suitings. It Is severe, but in Its severity Is found smartness, while the simplicity of Its cut renders It less diiUcult to make than are the more elaborate cues. - As shown the material Is chiffon broad cloth callow gray lu color btitcnert wllb beldlng silk, while the buttons are ot crocheted silk in matching colon the shade being n new and most desirable one, while the material is always hand some and peculiarly well adapted to early fall. But the suitings of cool weather are many and one and nil can be utilized for the design. The coat is made with fronts, becks, side-backs and under-arin gores and Is finished with regulation collar ami lap els. Tho sleeves are rn the preferred A LATS PSSJGK ceat style, with nil-over cufia at tbe wrists. When liked the coat can be made shorter to half length. Tbe quantity of material required for the medium size Is sis yardsi twenty seven, three and three-eiglilli yards forty-four or two and three-quarter yards fifty-two Indies wide for three quarter length; Ave and three-qimrtov yards twenty-wen, two and nevcn eighth yards forty-four or two nnd Ore eighth yards flt'ty-two inches for halt length. fabric C'nveraJ hhauaa l High Favor. BJiccpt uow and asain when felts arc unquestionably to be the bats of the season, I have always noted tbat the balance Is nt the oponing more or loss iu fa vol' of fabric-covered shapes, at lei r,t among models of ibe most elegnut and costly description., It Is so tbls year. At:d ihe fabric chosen is. 1 need linrdiy say, velvet, sufficient having been done nlrcndy with this material to convince us that It was bound to tnku the lend. It will also lie very much used ns n trimming, together with ribbon. Most of tho new hats I have seen are very liberally trimmed. But trimming with velvet ribbon Is not aa a rule adopted with a view to tho complica tion of colors; sucU trimmings are more often than not of the same color ns the shape, particularly when this Is cov ered wllb velvet. The Vulo does not apply quite so much to felts,' Millinery Trade Itcview. Aa EJabarale Vuwa, Ono fashlonuble gown was a mauve satin cloth, and was meant for cere monious day wear, it had a shirred skirt with two wido folds simulating tucks, aud vas untrimined save for these folds. Thero wns a delightful little Dircctolro Jacket, sliarply pointed iu front, and fastened wlib a doublo row of enameled billions wllb gilt edges. The Jacket bad 11 yoke or uu derbody of bcitvy Itltli crochet nnd poiutcd vollnr mill lapc'u of r deeper sbude of ninuve velvet, Tha sleeve ware short Juffi ol the cioili sLlirtd It the bottom. T!ii lower Iwo-t'.ilids J all of tbe sleeve were tight-fitting, and draped In tbe seams. JUbboaa for rail Trliaaala. Ribbous of taffeta and satin textures, of glistening finish, and as limp chiffon, or as unstarcbed cotton mull, are those chiefly employed In the con struction of the new French bats, and In their trimming. About six inches Is the width ot the ribbons used: and soft euougli to draw through an In fant's ring, they are seen not only on tho greater number of the hats on which ribbons have place, but they seem to have supplanted tbe long fashionable narrow velvet ribbons as bonnet strings. Millinery Trade Re view. A Crapa lie China Gown. A lovely while crepe de chine gown bad a deep flounce of lace cut In points at the lop, the poluts outlined, witb bauds of palest pink roses. The draped bodice had a deep-pointed bertha of lace. There were no roses on the waist except to outline tbe short, draped sleeve. . ' Willi a full ftklrt. One gown of tobacco brown In some kind of tbln, facile cloth wns made with very full skirt slashed from knees to hem all 11 round to admit pointed gores of brown luce, lighter lu color than the cloth. A Pretty Coat. A pretty coat In dark blue rajnb silk was made with the waist line high under the arms nnd dipping slightly in front. The waist bad a little vest of velvet, and was outlined on either side of the vest nnd around the waist with a fiat bins band of the silk sewed ou by blind. 'asll(o Jaoaat. Negligees are among the desirable possessions of which uo woman ever yet had -too many. Tbls one is excep tionally graceful and becoming at the same time that It is essentially com fortable and satisfactory to tbe wearer while it can be made from a generous variety of materials. In this Instance batiste Is combined with Valenciennes lace and fancy stitching, but while many women prefer washable negli gees to all others for all seasons ot BY MAY WANTON. the year there are others wbo find the warmth of light weight wool accept able in cooler weather, and for these last challlle, albatross and the like will be fouud Iu every wny desirable for the coming season. Trimming Is al ways a matter of taste, banding, lace, embroidery aud almost everything that may be preferred being equally correct. Tbe slightly open neck and elbow sleeves are always pretty as well aa bygJenlc, for-we long ngo learned that beautiful throat aud beautiful arms are to be .obtained only by perfect free dom, nod whatever contributes to that end Is much to be desired. Tho Jacket Is made with fronts and back that are tucked at their upper edges nnd Jolucd to the square yoke. The sleeve are generously wide, the fulness being arranged in tucks at llielr tipper edges. Tho quantity of material required or the medium size Is four yards twenty seven, threo nd ojie-bulf yards thirty- two ur two and flvo-elghth yai'd forty four Inches wide with three yards of Insertion and four and one-bait yards ot edging to trim an illustrated. 1
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