THE OLD HOME.
An o.'d la nr. an old date, nn old home bv a tree.
A wild wood, a wild brook thrv will not let me be;
In boyhood 1 know them, antl till they call to me.
IViwn deep in my heart' core I heat them, and mjr eves
Thrmiith teur mists lu-lmld Ihcm beneath the o'.ii time kie,
'Mid bee-boom und rine-bluum and orchard lands arise.
1 hear them, and hcmmi-k with lotions in my oul
To walk there, to drenm there, beneath the sky's blue bowl;
Around me. within me, the weary world made whole.
To talk with the wild brook of all the Ion ago:
To whisper the wood wind nt thing we lined to know
When we v.ero old companion, betore lay heart knew wo?.
To walk wilh the morning and watch its rose utifoiJ:
l'o iltsivs? with the noontide, lulled on its heart ot Kold;
Jo lie with the night-time and dream the dreams ot old.
Tn tell to the old tree and to each listening leaf
'the longing, the yearning, a in my boyhood brief,
lne out hope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief.
'Hie old lane, the old gate, the old house bv the tree,
'""" wjl wood, the wiM brook thev will not let me be;
In boyhood 1 kuetr them and still they call to me.
Madison Cawetn.
TWO AOTHSRS.
By Winifred Kirkland.
JtOM, OV certainly linve the most
il -sr-r- K curious friends. Agatha
O y O Day:"
"Do you Include your-
-"0'r self. Kate?"
"Yes. miss. Another
lump. If you'll be so good, but don't
disturb the lemon; It's just right. Yon
muke the most agreeable tea In col
lege, by the way. To resume, you have
curious friends, for Instance, there
was that gaunt grad from tbe Middle
West, with tbe sunken cheeks, the
voice of a nor-enster, and frizzes. Now
who would suppose that a person like
yourself who shows generations of
culture In the very lift of your eyelid
and slope of your shoulder would have
taken up with that came grad?"
"She was a girl who had never Had
o good time."
"She had a sleepless eye," meditated
Kate.
''She promised me to go to bed at 10
every night. She's doing it, too. She
.wrote me so."
"And that wild little f lorida fresh
man, with the picture hat and hysterics
In chapel."
"It was only that onoe, Kate, and
Ruby doesn't have them now at nil."
"But of all your varied cabinet,
Dutchy was the most extraordinary."
"Nobody but you ever calls her
Dutchy now, Kate."
"I see her still ns she was that first
flay of lectures, four years ago, so big
big us to pompadour, side-combs,
bands, feet, belt-buckle, redolent with
perfume as any modest violet, and
wearing a pink satin waist, gold chain
und earrings! Do you remember bow
she said 'already' three times the first
day she was called upon to recite? Yet
Dutchy had good eyes even In those
Says. I grant you great, black, burning
thiugs, that took in everything. Hun
ger nd thirst after knowledge
Dutch? has ulways had that. Think
.what sue has grown to be In four
years! The mos; regal young person
In college, the president of the Stu
dents' Association, the buyer of rare
books and Hoibein prints, and tlnaily.
one whe never forgets to say bean and
ware under all circumstances."'
"College has done everything fur
Lei!" cried Agatha, glowing.
"Agatha Day has done everything
for her," answered Kate. "I should
think It would frighten you, Dutchy's
devotion. Doesn't it ever?"
"No, of course not. I never thought
of It that way."
"And yet," said Kate, slowly, "and
yet Dutchy doesn't in the least appre
ciate either you or college."
"Helen Shelihamiuet doesn't appre
ciate college!" Agatha's amazement
was profound. "Kate, how strangely
you do talk! Ilel .'ij worships college!
I never knew any girl who loved It so,
She say3 it lias meant everything to
her: that she loves every slick und
stone of the place; that she would give
anything to have the chance of serving
tbe college In any way. She can hardly
speak of commencement and leaving."
"Nevertheless. Dutchy does not ap
preciate either you or college. She is
taken with the show of things the
6how of culture, the show of scholar
ship, the show of servi'-e. even. She
thinks that learning und stvdy and
beautiful buildings and Greek casts
and the Students' Association, too, are
college, nnd they're not. She thinks
that your bonks ami your pictures and
your dresses and your music and your
travel are you. win teas what you real
ly are is" hero Kate, with one of her
sudden flashes of great tenderness,
stooped to the little figure seated by
lior knee, and drew her close "what
yon really are Is the sweetest, sweetest
girl I ever knew."
A moment's silence In the twilight,
nnd then Agatha, troubled, for Kate
was so horribly prone to be right,
nsked:
"Do you really ihink Helen has
missed missed what I most wanted
bet to get?"
Kate, the truthful, answered, "I
should not trust her to choose In any
crisis the thing that you nnd I count
ns best. But perhaps I am wrong, so
don't worry. You do too much worry
ing over the good-for-nothing, anyway.
Why Is It, Agatha, that you've been so
busy mothering people ever since you
tame luto college ancient gruds, fresh
men in arms, Duichy, not to mention
that tiulien nnd cynical -Kate Pratt
Hlgglus why have you mothered us
nil?"
Agatha whispered, "It was mother,
Kate."
Thoy were both quiet again, think
ing of Ibo dead mother of whom
Agutbu never spoke, whose picture
never appeared anywhere In her room.
After a while Kate said, "Your
mother would be glad about you,
Agnthu;" nnd then, because she felt
that she had started memories that
made Agathn wish to be atone, she
preyed a light kis. on the brown curls,
snrt went nut.
To the chair that Kate had left, the
chair on which Aentlia had bowed her
bead, there came a gracious presence.
Jt$ in the day thr year before,
Agatha tut by her mother' knee iu the
twilight fire-glow. She felt a hand
upon her hair, she looked up Into eyes
shining with love. Not a thought had
Agatha had lu all those five years
which she had not spoken Into the car
of that shadow mother. "She knows,
she knows, she knows!" said Agatha
to herself.
Now Agatha spoke low; "Mother, Is
It true what Kate says? 'In any crisis
Helen would not choose right?' Be
cause. If that is true, then I have
failed, and you told me to take care of
Helen you told me to take care of
bet four year ago. I've only two
weeks left to be with her; but you'll
help me, won't you? You've helped all
the time. It ought to do some good,
somehow, all my wanting you."
Agatha pressed her tense bands over
her eves and buried her head deener
In the chah- cushions, but there were
no tears; there never had been any
tears in Agatha's loneliness.
The gongs clanged out C o'clock,
and Agatha rose and lighted the gas,
and began dressing for dinner. Half
an hour later a dainty little person in
n white muslin of Parisian make, a
little person whose eyes and cheeks
glowed brightly, and who hummed n
bit of a Brittany sailor song, passed
out of Agatha's door, and went tripping
down the hall.
Other girls, rustling out for other
doors at the dinner summons, called
Agatha to wait for them, and linked
arms nbout ODe another's waists, so
that they were six abreast by the time
they reached tbe diuing room. But
there in the doorway another girl "ns
waiting for Agatha, and for this girl
Agatha slipped awny from her other
friends.
Helen had stood there waiting for
fully five minutes, not unconscious,
for nil that dead-earnest face of hers,
of the admiring glances of certain
freshmen, and the more familiar, but
nlso more flattering glances of her
classmates. She heard the words of
one of these last, knowing that it was
more than half-meant that she should
hear them:
"What a stunning creature the Shell
is, to be sure!" Little did the freshman
drenm that any one had ever dared
to call the glorious Miss Shellhammer
"Dutchy."
Kate had been right when she called
bet a most regal young person. Big
ish" was. most certainly, but graceful
nnd stately. Beneath her dark hair
her black eyes burned eagerly.
As little Agatha slipped a hand Into
hers, Helen's face brightened, and the
two walked together down the hall,
ami seated themselves side by side.
It was a beautiful diuing room, with
its dark, carved wainscoting, Its great
fireplaces, its old English windows, its
candle-lit tables. Never before she
came to college bad Helen Shellham
mer seen any of these things.
Helen was eager with her news.
"What do you think, Agatha? l'rexy
sent me a summons to-day, and told
ice that Miss Ainsley is considering
giving up the secretaryship. In order
to live abroad with her invalid brother.
It isn't settled yet. Miss Ainsley Is
takiug two weeks to decide; but if she
does decide to go. I'rexy wants me to
take the position! () Agatha, think of
being able to stay hero iu college! I
can hardly stand the waiting."
"It would be beautiful, Helen." an
swered Agatha. "But." she tidded.
"but how will your family feel about
having you stay on here'.'"
"They're expecting me to be at
home," answered Helen, a dark shad
ow coming over her glowing face. '
"Have you written them about It?"
"No."
"But you will?"
"Why?"
"Because " But Helen Interrupted
in a low, eaget tone: "I couldn't give
up the chance if it comes. I can't! Y'ou
don't know what It means you who've
had nil this, and much more, all your
life! Why, Agatha," and the red In
Helen's cheeks deepened, "at home
they, my family, talk Pennsylvania
Dutch!"
Agatha's hand stole into Helen's ns
she whispered:
"But In your heart you know they
want you, Helen. You will write and
ask them, anyway?"
But Ueleu said nothing. She turned,
nfter a moment, nnd began talking to
the girl on her other side, Ilei Hps
were set in a sullen way that Agatha
knew well. There was no use saying
nny more thut evening, or, as Agatha
discovered, saying anything more In
the days that followed, for Helen
steadily avoided further confidences,
and Agatha could only wait.
Those last two weeks are the busiest,
the most bewildering In nil the four
years. It Is just as well, perhaps, that
one Is too hurried to realize how much
It hurts to go away.
Then toward the end tbe relatives be
gin to arrive, welcomed so Joyously by
those to whom they belong, and re
garded with such frank curiosity by
those to whom thry do not belong.
There ran an awed whisper through
college, "Have you seen tbe Shell's
mother 7" There were rumors not Ill-
natured, merely startled and wonder
lng of n bonnet of Imposing plumnff,
of a gown of most curious manufac
ture, of a coiffure belonging to the
fashion of faded family daguerrotypes,
of a heavy, vncant face, of the English
language spoken In a way never before
heard In those high halls of learning.
This was Helen Shelllin miner's mother!
"Kate." said Agatha, one afternoon,
"why do you suppose Helen doesn't In
troduce me to her mother?"
"I suppose because she's ashamed of
her. I told you that Helen doesn't
appreciate either yon or college."
There were many thoughts In
Agatha's bead those last days, but one
thought never left her, nnd that was of
Helen. Still no opportunity to speak
to her, to find out, to know not until
the very morning of commencement.
fifteen minutes before the time
when the class must assemble for ths
entering march Agatha knocked at
Helen's door, and found her standing
before the bureau, Just putting on the
black gown and bachelor's boot'
Agatha wasted no preliminaries.
"Tell me. Helen." she said.
"Miss Ainsley Is going."
"And you, Helen?"
"Oh. I don't know! Mother Is here,
you know, nnd I can't tell her. She
thinks I'm going home now to live.
But. Agatha, I can't give up college!
I love It so!"
Agatha spoke with n strange stern
ness: "If you loved It more you could
give It up." ,
Helen turned upon her. "Would you
give It up to go home, to my home
you, Agatha?"
Agatha raised wide eyes to Helen's
face, and in them there was for the
first time to Helen's view a great
weariness.
"Do you ask me," whispered Agatha,
"If I would give up college for the sake
of my mother?"
Just then came a tapping at the door,
and some one entered who stnrted back
shyly on seeing a stranger. The bird.
In her bonnet was purple and orange.
The hnir was drawn from the temples
In little braids looped over her ears,
from which dangled Jet earrings. Her
dress was made with n basque. The
black mitts showed the hands of the
farm wife who works along with her
maids. She spoke witli a drawl, nnd
with a softening of g's and an inter
change of w's n;:d v's.
Agatha held out both her hands. 'I
am so glad to meet Helen's mother!"
she said. '"I'm Agatha."
"Oh, I have heard my Nellie speak ot
you!" cried the mother. "You ore the
one she loves the best of them all. Shq
Is a good girl, my Nellie and smart?"
Call that face dull or vacant, all
alight with love as It was!
"Now she comes home nt last to
her papa and nie. Papa says, when he
put me on the cars, 'At last she comes
home to stay!' Tapa be couldn't come,
and Nellie thought maybe I'd get tired,
but I guess mammas don't get tired.
And now we go home together! It is
quiet in the house without Nellie, and
four years is long at home alone. The
others are all gone away. Nellie Is our
baby."
She turned from Agathn to gaze
proudly at her tall daughter. Helen
was quiet, looking Into the mysterious
dark eyes that met hers in the mirror.
The two weeks' battle was nt Its crisis;
it was to be fought through now.
The mother spoke again to Agatha:
"Sometimes I worry. I do not say it
to papa, but sometimes I think Nellie
will not like to stay at home. It is not
like her school. Perhaps she will not
like to stay with papa nnd me." The
wisttnlncss of her words made them a
question, which Agntha answered:
"Oh, yes, I know Helen will be happy
nt home with you."
They were speaking to each other,
but they both looked at Helen.
"So?" asked the mother, but of
Helen, not of Agatha, seeming almost
to guess the conflict. Then, when
Helen gave her no reassuring word,
she turned to Agatha with forced po
liteness. "Your mamma, Is she here?"
The words were like a stab, under
which Agatha grew white. "I have no
one here," she said. "My mother is
dead."
What was there in that still voice
that made the mother nnd daughter
turn so quickly to each other? A veil
fell from Helen's eyes. The battle was
won forever.
Helen folded her mothei close In her
nrms; she kissed her.
"Mother," said Helen, nnd her voice
was solemn with love, "I would rather
go home to live with you nnd father
than anything else In nil the world."
Tbe mother did not speak. The
tears were running down her cheeks,
but her face was beautiful with the
beauty of a mother who has missed
her child, nnd whose longing is sat
isfied. It was not Helen, but her mother,
who first remembered Agatha. She
put nslde Helen's clinging hands, and
turned to the other girl. She stretched
out her arms to her. "Deary!"' she
said.
Agntha put her arms round her neck
nnd bowed her bend on her shoulder.
"Kiss me," she whispered. "Kiss me,
because my mother isn't here."
Youth's Compnnion.
King Cilwaril Playing; Croquet.
The King has taken up croquet again
and His Majesty played on three af
ternoons during his stay at Goodwood,
on the ground Iu the private garden
behind the bouse. The royal croquet
ground on one of the lawns near Bal
moral Castle is to be put into thorough,
order during the next month. At one
time the ground was played over near
ly every day when Queen Victoria wus
residing at Balmoral, but croquet grad
ually went out of fashion at court and
elsewhere. However, there bns been a
general nnd successful revlvnl of the
gume of late years. London Truth.
Army Clltcers Moat Swim.
A writer to the London Times urges
the War Office to Insist that all com
missioned men In the army and nuvy
be required to pass an examination in
swimming. Itecrults for the ranks
should be instructed iu this art, be
thinks, as regularly as the drill regula
tion. "Iq soldiering," be sayt. "whether in
peace or war, there ore countless oeca
clons when the absence cf this power
may Involve the sacrifice of valuable
lives."
To swim with the Angers closed to
gether prevent a crsuip.
CATCHING "PILES'
- - j !- 1
Hunters Board Up the Reptiles' Caves-Then Dig 'Em Out,
jrX3rn!OW the native crocodile
Sf l i "VP 1 '' native home,
H or the method employed of
capturing him. is little
thought of nnd less known
by the thousands upon
thousands of winter visitor who see
these immense saurians basking In the
sun or lazily lounging upon the edges
of the "slides" In the pens at Palm
Beach or Miami, where they are kept
In captivity for exhibition purposes.
Neither In captivity do they appear to
be the quick, alert nnd rapld-movlug
creatures thnt they really are.
As is well known, there Is only one
region of the United States where these
animals nre found in a native state,
nnd that is nlong the lower coast of
f lorida, a very few being found along
Blscaync Bay, but in lurge numbers
down among the numerous small isl
ands or keys further south nnd in the
vicinity of Flamingo nnd Cape Sable.
They Inhabit the mangrove marshes
nnd swamps, nnd are bard to get at
by any one, even n native Florida
Cracker or Seminole Indian. They can.
of course, be shot, especially by fire
light, but ns the (lend "dlle" is only
worth so much as bis skin will bring
In the market, his value when dead is
not near so great as If captured alive,
nnd very few are ever killed by the
native hunters. There arc numbers
however, who hunt him to capture him
alive, and the methods adopted for bis
enpture nre securely guarded by the
successful hunter. It is said thnt only
two or three, at most, know of these
methods, and it was only by chance
that the writer obtained the iuforma
tion that is here given.
A crocodile in his native haunts is
not only so quick nt hearing, seeing.
smelling, and it would seem nt feel
lng, that the ordinary layman may have
little hope of ever securing a good spec
imeu alive unless by the merest of ac
cidents. They are swift to dive, run
or swim, sink In the mud and lay so
still thnt no ripple of wnter will betray
their presence, whilt they will smell a
"tenderfoot" nt such (l distance that
nil he will see upon his arrival is a
streak of muddy wnter, showing thnt
ills "dileshlp" was there, but nt present
is chuckling to himself nt the bottom
of some deep marine enve, where he Is
going to stny until nil intrunders nre
gone, nnd ns he only has to eat two or
throe times n year, and can get on well
nnd stay fat on less, hunger is not like
ly to drive him forth. He is different
from his first cousin, the nlligator, who
Is dull, lazy, hungry always nnd gen
erally fearless nnd full of curiosity to
see what all strangers look like, nnd
comes up to see, thus falling nn easy
prey to the rifles of his enemies.
To successfully enpture the crocodile
a good roomy bont is secured that, is
very shallow of draught, so as to en
able it to enslly float among the num
erous creeks and shallows into which
it is destined to go. This bont is load
ed with n good stock of camping uten
sils, food and wnter (there is no drink
ing or fresh water to be found among
the lower Florida keys), and a good
supply of ropes, planks, axes and
spades. Thus equipped you arrive at
toe grounds and estnblish your camp
in what looks to be a good locality from
the signs, both old and fresh. These
nnimals are not migratory, nnd unless
from good caust rarely ever leave the
locality' in which they were hatched,
although they may have a range of
four or five miles in senrch ot food.
The party now separates in small
boats and begins the seorch for caves
up and down nlong the muddy banks
of deep, muddy, Ill-defined creeks and
inland lakes, nnd having found a cave,
they next ascertain If it Is in use, and
if so is the "diie" large enough to cap
ture, and if he is, nnd the hunters are
professionals, his doom is sealed, for,
although the crocodile may be off on n
Junketing expedition in search of food
or on n visit to bis relatives, the hunter
is not in the least discouraged, for a
patient and secret wntch is set nnd
when he is seen in the vicinity he is
easily frightened and runs to his cave.
This cave is n hole nbout two feet in
circumference ou the banks of the
creek or lake, and may extend back
sixty or seventy-five feet under the
ground into the woods, but is always
near the earth's surface, and in this
retreat his "dileshlp" feels secure.
However, his enemies first go to the
mouth of his cave, nnd secretly fasten
It up with boards and planks brought
along for that purpose. Next the un
derbrush Is partially cleared away nnd
soundings are made to ascertain and
locate the cave. Then blocks nnd tackle
nre brought nnd set up, fastened secure
ly to an adjneent tree, nnd then all be
ing in readiness, a bole about ten
Inches square Jsdugdown so as to strike
the cave and through this hole is in
serted the rope with a slip noose at tbe
end of it, which noose so hangs that
when the crocodile passes along bis
nve it will catch bin) around the neck,
A sharp stick Is then shoved down, and
the animal, receiving tbe prod, runs
along the cave and right into the trap
set for him. Immediately . the man
hauls away on his blocks and tackle
and his head, secured in the noose, is
hauled up in the bole, which Is not
large enough to permit bis body to pass
through; the end of his nose is pulled
through, however, In spite of tho ter
rific struggles of the saurian, and se
curely tied with ropes.
Then the bole is enlarged and his
head, neck and forefeet are pulled
through and securely fastened and two
stout scantlings are now drawn along
each side of him, and to theBe be is se
curely tied or wrapped by numerous
turns of the stout rope, great care be
ing taken to hold him down in tbe hole
until all that Is outside is securely fas
tened. Now he is drawn out slowly
and slowly wrapped to bis scantlings,
until at last tbe dreadful tail is secure,
ly lashed to two stout scantlings and
Ms dileshlp is a helpless prisoner. If
be could but get bis tali loose for two
minutes, though, thiugs would be dif
ferent, for at a single blow he cau kill
a man, and be knows bow to use it
with a speed and skill that bring fear
ful results, and on this account bis
captors take no chances. He is now o
holpless captive and laid away in the
bottom of the boat ready to be trans
ported to bis future home In some mu
seum, where be is looked and wondered
nt by thousands, and where, by being
so closely confined nnd overfed, be
comes to n certain extent, lazy, stupid
nnd fnt. He Is not, however, near so
stupid ns be looks, nnd should be tnke
a notion can show you some wonderful
nntlcs In the way of Jumping, diving
and swimming.
Winter visitors nre often Invited to
go out nnd see n crocodile captured,
but they certainly should know thnt nil
due preperntlons had previously been
made, and the crocodile duly anchored
at the place, where he wns to be cap
tured before the hunt started, Also
thnt the 'dlle," after being so nncbored,
wns prepared in such n wny thnt be
could In no mnnnet escape, nnd thnt
the usual gyrations carried on by the
valiant huuters were only nntlcs "cut
up" Just to please nnd excite the enthu.
slnsm of the sightseeing tourist. Jack
sonville (Fin.) Times-Union.
CAUGHT BY A WORD.
Otil and New World Methoris of Detect
ing Ohm' Fnruiiee. ,
Senator Stone has been telling a
story and It bns been taken up by the
newspapers and given wide circula
tion. According to Senator Stone the
Inhabitants f Missouri, In the early
days of the nnti-sluvery ngltntlon, met
every prospective settler at the Missis
sippi lllvernnd pointing to a cow asked
tho newcomer what it was. If the
stranger said "cow." be was allowed
to enter the State. If he said "keow,"
he was spotted as nn abolitionist nnd
turned back. On the other hand, the
Kansans, who were largely free sollers,
had a bear at the State line. If the
newcomers called It "bear," they were
welcomed to the territory. If they
called It "b'ar." they were turned
back, being Missourians and pro-slavery
in their sentiments.
This Is a good story, but It is like
nil other good stories merely a varia
tion of a story told amid the Judean
hills three thousand or more years ago.
The Ephraimites waxed wroth at the
Glleadites because they bad not been
asked to help in the fight against the
Ammonites, and ns a result the Eph
raimites nnd the Oileadltes went to
war in earnest. The Oileadltes got the
best of It, nnd posting men nt the fords
of the Jordan, stopped the fleeing
Ephrnimlte as they made appearance.
Being men of the same race and not
wearing distinctive uniforms, it was
difficult to tell enemy from friend, so
the Glleadites framed up a scheme that
gave tho early Missourluns nnd Kan
sans their clue. Whenever n rann
showed up at the ford he was stopped
by the Glleadites pickets and asked,
"Art thou nn Ephrnimlte?" Of course
the scared fugitive would deny it.
Then the pickets would say to him,
"Say now 'shibboleth.' " Owing to
some peculiarity of their lingual np
pnratus the Ephraimites could not
sound the aspirate, nnd they would say
"s'ibboleth." A moment Inter there
would be a dead Ephrnimlte concealed
In the bushes. According to biblical
lore there were "forty and two thou
sand" aspirates dropped at the fords
of the Jordan that day.
The whole story may be found in
the twelfth chapter of Judges, first
six verses.
The ltasso-Jitpaneie Ledger.
The London Times estimates the
casualties of the Russo-Japanese war
up to July 4 last as follows: Russian
killed and wounded, 320,779; Japanese
killed and wounded, 10(5,756. It is
stated that the above figures for the
Russian losses are minima. Such
items as these appear in the detailed
list: LInoyang, September 4. Japanese
loss, 17,013; Russian loss, 25,000.
Shnho, September 14, Japanese, 15,
879; Russian, 09,201. Battle of Muk
den, Japanese, 52,500; Russian, 152,
500; Port Arthur, .Trpnnese, CO.000;
Russian, 20,000.
Russian lost seventy-three war ves
sels (twelve of which were battleships)
with a total tonnage of 340,588. The
Japanese lost twelve ships, with a
totul displacement of 40,025 tons.
Of non-combatant ships Japan cap
tured forty-five, with a total displace
ment of 107,929 tons.
The Russian sunk twenty-six non-
combatants, with au average tonnage
of less than 234.
To accomplish this beneficent work
of destruction It has cost each of tho
contestants not less than $500,000,000,
and, probably, indirectly, twice this
amount New Y'ork Globe.
Cure for lnaect Pests.
When insects, mice or other creat
ures infest grain bins, burrow out of
sight, or attempt to make their places
Bccure against ordlnury methods of
attack, the best remedy Is bisulphide
of carbon, a very volatile liquid, which
becomes rapidly converted into gas,
penetrating into every bole, crack or
other harboring place.
As this gas is heavier than air, It
sinks down to the lowest points, hence
goes wherever the creatures can go.
Poured into a rat bole (about a table-
spoonful), and the hole covered with
dirt, the rats must come out or perish.
To destroy weevil in wheat it may
be used with advantage. Being very
velatlle, and also highly explosive, no
flame or light of any kind must be
brought near it, not even a lighted pipe
or cigar.
It has given excellent satisfaction
when used at the roots of trees, after
removing the earth for that purpose, in
destroying root lice and other depre
dators that work near the roots.
Philadelphia Record.
Has Its Advantage.
The relative from the East, who had
cotno to visit bis cousin, the Post
master at Boom City, was surprised
at the smallest of tbe place.
"I expected to see a larger town than
this," he said. "Surely there can't be
much salary attached to a job like
yours." ,
"Why, as to that," said the Post
master, "the salary is only $12 a year,
but it Is paid with tbe utmost prompt
ness, and with, my life and Are In
surance agency, law business, car
penter shop, agricultural Implement
business, drug store, and cigar shop
I manage to get along. In addition to
that tbe position gives one a sort of
er standing in tbe community," Chi
cago Tribune.
irnei
New York City. The possibilities of
the shirt waist seem literally without
limit. Season by season It Is found In
new and attractive styles nnd always Is
novel at the snme time that it fills its
established place. Here Is one that is
among tbe very latest shown and thnt
is equally well adapted to silk nnd to
wool fabrics nnd to the many cotton
and linen wnlstlngs which ninny wom
en like for the entire year. It Is tucked
on quite Individual lines, the closing
being made Invisibly nt the centre,
where there Is nn effect obtained of
two box pleats, while the back gives
the tapering lines that are always so
becoming. The sleeves follow the fav
vorlte trend nnd nre full nt the shoul
ders nnd narrower nt the wrists nnd
are finished with pointed cuffs thnt
give a distinctive air, while the collnr
nlso is tucked lu harmony with the
waist.
The wnlst consists of the fitted foun-
A LATS PSSIGH
datlon, wulch can e used or omitted
as material renders desirable, fronts
and back. The lining Is closed nt the
centre, while the hems of the waist are
lapped beneath the tucks nnd closed
Invisibly.
Tbe quuntlty of material required for
the medium size Is four and seven
eighth yards twenty-one. four and one
fourth yards twenty-seven or three and
one-fourth yards forty-four Inches
wide.
Modes For Chlldlen.
The general mode for children, es
pecially for children over ten yours,
does not differ materially from thut of
grown women. There is considerable
latitude nllowed In the matter of col
ors, little girls being permitted to weur
more bright colors than elders. For
example, the brilliant plaids, which
are hardly suitable 'or ordluury wear
for adults, nre cburmlng for little girls.
This season they are very fashionable
and numbers of bright red, blue and
green tartans are being made up for
the first dnys of school.
Triminlnga In Parisian Millinery,
The choice of trimmings is left al
most entirely to the funcy and tasto
of the milliner, Ostrljh, birds, wings,
cocks feathers, quills, palettes, para
dise, goura, aigrette and funclful ar
rangements of plumage are all as fash
ionable one as another. At the sume
time flowers figure rather more prom
inently than usual at this season, while
there is every reason to suppose that a
great deut will be done wlin furs Iuter
on.-Mllllnery Trade Review.
. Worsteds to He Used.
Worsteds lu neat effects will be used
fot the constriistlori of the plain tail
ored suits for practical purposes.
Gray will be a leading color in such
fabrics. Then there are the shadow
plaids, which have already had a good
success among the garment manufac
turers who have exploited them.
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Long Oloves,
While white mousiuetnlre gloves
reign supreme for smart afternoon
wear, or wherever the elbow sleeve
mnkes their soft, wrinkly lengths ad
visable, there Is a future before the
new mouse colored suede. This is a
grayish shade of mouse, very pretty
nnd soft. Vndressed kid Is preferred
to glace for smart occasions. Delicate
pastel embroideries nre seen on the
bucks and around the fastenings of
some very advanced gloves In the soft
est white suede or glnce kid. but these
gloves, which are known ns Pompa
dour, are, of course, not adapted to or
dinary occasions. Washington Times.
The Plalils Kevlved.
In spite of this being a plain -color
season, though some of the colors are
pretty bright, the revival of plaids Is
apparent. A fa.shlon writer who has
observed modes In more than one cli
mate warns the American woman
against plaids, tn England and France
they nre both appropriate and attract
ive for autumn wear out of doors, but
in this country with our mnrvelously
clear atmosphere, nnd especially in our
city streets, the plaids nre entirely too
conspicuous.
The Slip Interchangeable,
A1 smart gown was Ideal nnd would
be sweet carried out In rose colored
voile de sole hemmed with rose lace,
could well have a separate slip of white
glace, which might be utilized for a
white broderle anglalse, or a black
marqulsate Inserted with Chautilly
nnd so on.
Contrasts In Jewelry. -
I'p-to-date settings are designed to
bring out the beauty of the important
stones ns much as possible. The con
trast between a large colored stone and
the diamonds or pearls which surround
It Is one means to this end now In
much favor.
BY MAY ttANTOK.
For Erenlng- Wear.
For evening wear white and the pas- .
tel shudes will be In demand, for af
ternoon wear both the pastel and med
ium shades, and for practical purposes
the darker shudes ot the fashionable
colors.
Five Clored Tunked Skirt.
There Is no skirt better liked and
none more graceful than this one. It
is absolutely simple, reducing the labor
of making to the minimum, while It
takes most satisfactory lines and folds;
The model is made of royal blue mo
hair, stitched with belding silk, but the
skirt is one suited to all seasonable
materials and will . be a favorite
through the entire autumn and winter.
The tiny tucks over tho hips give a
yoke effect without curtailing apparent
height and do away with bulk at that
point.
The skirt la cut in five gores that are
shaped to give generous fulness to the
lower edge.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size Is eight and one-halt
yards twenty-one, seven and one-half
yards twenty-seven or four and three
fourth yards forty-four Inches wld