A r AKA.
t wntult tlin wiiltn snlln n lliey pr.ii
Tlmlr wliu. Hk blr Is nut tr i
Anil noma o'er illsln.nl w iv will itljita,
Hm In tlif wiolie.l-fnr Imvim bllr ,
Anil soma lin lust nl son.
Anl thus, iMn bile's ohninrnful main,
Wlillo Hnpt anntt merrily,
Full imny a linnpia fnm olT the strand
W laum-liml wild caer limirt nnl Imu l,
Nor dreamt of l"s nl sea.
Hut wuri' tliora tronoiinroiis neks nnd sliosl
All, nil unknown to tluv' .,
II tnnltors mil -Hie hmirt Until knotf ....
That iTiikI storm Imltl sunkm low
Tim venture, out nt nw.
Mnvhsp II won ni eolly freljt'il,,
Thii" rich In yen nr inn i
Ami M'Miuiry, n llni iliys go lv.
Will (onntnlli e'er with teirfiil oyn
Her Irons'iras lest nt
Ah, well, tlicra In n haven w."t
Whiw nMpwreok cannot I
And lieirln, who ll In pat Hit p tin,
Them shall y git her Inelt nirilii
Miii'li Hint wn lout nt s.ia.
-Limy It. Hemln-, In lliirpcr's rtsssr.
A CIRCUITOUS SUCCESS.
HV INAHKI, Mill. Mm.
7 AT was rsthrr ilnrk
Uhj In tho ' hnllw'ny
w urn n n 1 1 a n
Jones wont up
stairs to liirt now
qunrtcrs, fourth
tiiior back.
Homo, lin ailun
W W wns,, , thosi, m:
Ha discerned n woman's form in tho
niche near tlm second flour nnd tint
glimmering of n lutml holding hack
skirts fur him to pans. There wan n
faint lironthuf exquisite perfume about
her.
"Excuse mo," he said. JiihI then
Iho gas thircd out in tlm lower hull.
Ho made out n noft, oval fnoo mi l a
dainty figure, a he passed. Jnlinn
wan Inn follow, with features of
Urength rntluir thnn of beauty, lmt
for nil Hint ho wan a "sensitive,"
whoso impressions of pnoplo wore an
tnro ns n dog's iiiHtinct nliont li in
master. Tho young woiiibii'b "atmos
phere" wnn agreeable. It followeil him
to li in room. .
Ho lighted the ga and looked
around. It wan goodish dun for ft
literary worker, Tbo carpot of pnlo
ffTocni mill olive was almost now.
i'ho windows had lnca curtains, nu.l n
fair outlook.
Ho nut down nnd tilted hack hi
ohnir. A curious plot for a story hnd
oomo into hin mind. It seemed to start
out of that chnurn encouuter on tho
ntairf, yut he nonroely rcnlixod it thou,
o nn lit lo in the Action of tho lirnin.
II ii huurt 1ikk to lct iiickly.
Ho hnd done a kodiI denl of pativnt
work in tho pnnt, with indiflorcut buo
oenn, but inch impromptu moiitnl
kotivity was now. Ho took it oh a good
omen. He had a n train of whnt wo
anil nuporntition in hin nntiire, A
itraugo droam hnd improKHod him with
tho belief that with his chaugo of
tjunrtcr nomething wan to happou
lor tho better.
Tho bright, nnio.ua idennonmo pour
Ing into hin mind like a flood. They
elamorod for exprenniou. He found a
poucil in liia pocket, nnd looked
around for paper. Ho hnd not a ncrap.
Hin trunks would not oomo till morn
ing. If he stirred from the room to
hunt up A ntntionur tho aroma of tho
tory would be suro to encapo. He
thought donporatoly of hit ouIVh, hin
thirt bosom, and exooratedthe motley
-call paper. Had it been plain, it
should have done duty as a tablet
He sprang from his chair. Tho
tfOTcriug of the square table in the
aorner was of white oilcloth imita
tion "marble." He sat down and
marked it off in spaces. Tho pencil
glided over it smoothly. Ho wrote
quickly and without effort, lie knew
he had nover dono anything like this
before. Some one seomed to bo dictat
ing at his elbow. He had heard And
read of such canes. Now he was the
subject. He wrote column after column,
till the oloth was covered. He loaned
bAok and surveyed it. Ho knew the
thing was unique and exquisitely
wrought out.' It was a love story, with
that dainty creature on the dim stair
way flitting through it. Julian's eyes
grew mUty. He looked at his watch.
The three hours he had been writing
had seemed bat five minutes.
- It was early yet, not 11 o'clock. He
looked the door and went out on the
street. He had a vague idea of getting
paper from some hotel clerk. He eould
sot fel easy until .his story was In
manuscript.
He turned into the avenue. The
thunder of the elevated was in his
.ears. A team was dashing along reok
ileasly underneath it. He attempted
to cross. Bound the corner was the
House. The subtle iascination of
.the story was yet upon him. In the
midst of it he was conscious of a sad
den shock, a paiu crossing the sweet
making horrible discord, then all be
snw blank.
He was palled from under the feet
f the horses. The blood flowed from
wound made by the cruel hoof.
No address eould be found on him
and he was carried to a hospital. He
had been severely but not fatally in
jured.
Brain fever set in, but an exoellent
constitution was in his favor. In his
eaaons of delirium the marble oil
cloth haunted him. Sometimes it
bung over him like an awning with
the letters like a thousand eyes star
ing at him. Then they changed into
Chinese hieroglyphios, and the young
woman on the stairs was wrinkling;
her lovely brow in vain endeavors to
decipher them Again the oloth was
waviug like banner from the roof of
the Dauv VizUm, . .
Through careful nursing be came
out of the tang) at length, ud began
tto recall iust what had happened.' JJis
previous nlory, wliirh wnn to limiit-u-rnto
a Hew em, whnt had Im-oomui of it
Four works ho hnd been lying there
tlmy told him. In that time the room
would bo lot to a now tenant, and his
Mory scrubbed o(T tlm rloth by noma
wooilon-hondod chambermaid, He
fretlod and fumed over it. Hit omen
of good luck hnd boon demolished by
A nledgn hummer.
"pou't you wnut to look over theno
pn(iornT" ijuerled tlm pretty, eheerfiil
II II rue, plni'lllJ A pile before liim,
"Vim need to keep up with the times. "
iliillnn tunned them over hnlf nnvnirn
ly and enino presently upon somothiuu;
that iiiniln hin heart thump, Hinntory
wnn looking him in tlin fnoo from tlm
columns of the l'.anrnlor. It wan
entitled "Into llin Kingdom." The
let tern neeine.l tn willk lllld llliuk at
him knowingly.
lie rend it through. There hnd
been nemeely nny nlterntton. Home
body hnd got nhead of the chamber
maid Mti.l copied it, selling it hi his or
lu r own production. He should never
'in nblo to prove iti authorship, Ho
groaned in spirit.
rrosonlly he enmo upon a copy of
tho Daily Flz.lcr, tlireo weeks old.
Tliero hn found tlm story, headed by
a sensational paragraph, which wnn
evidently its rlrnt nppenrnnee, the
other pnper being a copy.
Julian nan half mtumcd, half an
noyed over the conjectures about tho
author. The paragraph nut forth tho
production found oil tho oilcloth an
the lait olTort of an unfortunate noti tif
genius. Driven to extremity, without
a penny even to buy paper, ho hnd
llxod hin Inst ideas upon thn only whito
siirfneo ho could comuinnd, nnd then
he had gono out into tho uight and
committed suicide. One of thoso nn
identified bodies nt tho mogiio wns his,
probably. Could ho have staved off
despair twenty-four hours longer tho
ion would have been broken.
Julian breathed freer. Tlin eopvlHt
then had not palmed off tho produc
tion an hin or her own. Ho could yut
claim it without dispute.
An noon nn ho wan on hin feet ha
culled on tho oditor of tho Daily Fix
r.lor, who knew him by sight, ami had
prophesiud success for him nomo day.
"it seems I have been llgiiring in tin)
Fizzlcr lately nn nn impemiiiiimn sui
cide," said Julian, bluntly.
Tho oditor taiil down hin pun. "Ex
plain," ho said.
Julian told tin) story.
"Liko another man, you awake to
find yourself famous," said tho oditor,
offering hin hand. "That story has
been copied all over tho country. It
in a gum of its kind."
'I'm not suro I shall ever do so null
njtain," nnid Julian.
What in once dono can be dono
again. Vou will now commaml a
hearing."
"How did yon get hold of it?
"It wnn miut iu by by " consult
ing a memorandum "by Minn Corn
Wheeler, 1 tVl street."
vVhv, I wroto tho story At that
Iiouho 1"
"Mhs sent a note stilting tho facts,
nnd llolton, yon know-, touched them
up a trillo. None of us nuspootod you.
Tho landlady believed your namo wan
Jones, but, on second thought, didu't
know but it won Smith.
'I had only a word with hor whuu I
ongngod tho room."
"I may as woll pay you to-day,
said the editor an ho tilled out a uhock.
A glanco showed Julian it wasdrawa
for ono hundred dollars. He wnn in
luck after all, it s mod.
Next he rodo uptown and rang tho
boll at 14'i Btroot. How much had
happened since ho 11 rut went up those
stups, loss thnu six weeks ago!
Iho girl who opened the door
looked at him blankly when he asked
for 51 las Wheeler, and nhowed him
into a small reception room whilo she
took his card.
He was presently asked to step up
stairs, third floor, front.
The door was half open, showing a
prettily furnished interior. He tapped
gontly. There was a rustling behind
a dark green portiero, and a young
woman stepped out from behiudit and
grouted him with "Good morning."
She was tho one he had mot on the
stairs in the gloom, he could swear.
There was the same faint perfume
about her (rsrmontsr and, besides, he
knew her atmosphere.
"Yon are Miss Cora Wheeler?
She bowed.
"And I am Julian Jones. I wrote
the story on the oiloloth. I Am told it
found its way into print through you.
I have oome to thank you."
Alias Wheeler was About as breath
less as Julian. She motioned him to
a chair and sat down. The foots he
had presented rapidly grouped them
selves at onoe logically in her mind.
"Then you did not commit sui
cide," she said, with a mirthful
glanoe at his muscular frame, adding,
"I never thought you did.
i suppose i came pretty near
'shuffling off,' " he said, and he re
peated his story.
1 expected something of the sort
had happened," said Miss Wheeler,
tbouga tnere were all sorts of con
jectures. The landlady called me up
to read what you had written, she
thought it might denote, denote"
"InsanttyT"
"It enchanted me. I write a little
myself, you see. I sent it to the Fix
tler. It was copied everywhere. You
area genius."
"With the right sort of inspira
tion," oorreoted Julian.
It looks now as if the pair would go
into partnership. New York Mer
cury. . . . - ,
Gertrude "I heard that Mr. Brash
paid me a very nice compJjmeut to
day.", Carrie "Yes? What was it?"
Gertrude "Why, he said that among
the most beautiful yoang ladies' at the
dance was Miss Gertrude Crandall."
Carris (cuttingly) "Yes; J I noticed
you among tljem." Brooklyn Life.
or
KAIt WICSTKUN PLAINS.
The Knrlv Heltlern' Ueslitcne.-J Were
the Dnnuiit nml thn Nnd IIoiikx
J he litliit-. Htlle TrnlU nnd
Cowboys rrnlrleMelioonern.
7T M(ll'N'I) of enrlh, n tiny swell
ill tlm limitless oeenti id level
r nod, the dugout wnn the first
(" refuge of tho dweller nn thn
plains, It wnn thn emblem of thn
mound builder ngo iu western develop.
inniit. Near to nntitrn a lienrt Indeed
were those who inhabited It. The
Walls of their homo touched everv
Imul mid lint ion, Tho first step In IU
i reetiou wnn to shovel out thn rich
dnrk virgin enrlh nn If for a eellnr. In
building no oilier kind of hoiisn does
one begin nt tlm top. When tho ex
envntion renelied a depth of four or
live feel slanting rnftorn were thrown
neiosM, sod and dirt piled on, a chim
ney opening left and the residence wan
complete, A blanket wan thn first
door wooden panels enmn later. On
fiouo Prairie ono such dwelling had
two window panes fixed roughly in iti
front wall and for mile Its famo an
the shuck with glan even" spread,
giving lis owner considerable prestige
ami renown.
Three or four steytn downward led
Into the dugout, much as did a stair
way out In tho rock conduct ono to
thn hlimblo dwellings of highlnnd cot
tars iu ancient times. Once Inside
you often found a most homnliko nnd
roy apartment. Whitewash fre
quently covered the onrth-wnlln, and
nn ample heart li and Mazing lire com
pleted a cheery picture.
Homi'times there wnn morn thnn one
room, board or cloth iinrtitionn divid
ing tho interior. I'pon thn rnrth
covering of the primitive dwelling
many a hounewifo sowed thn little
pneknge of Dowel seeds brought with
precious enro from tho old New ling
laud home, and produced a veritable
roof garden. Old-fashioned holly
hocks, four-o'eloeks, pinks and mnri
goli'n tossed and nodded their gny
heads in tho pralrio breezes, strange
visitants among tho wild flow ers and
tuitibluwecds of tho went.
A I'llAllllR ncuooNKll.
Winds shook not nor eould waters
wash away the dugout. It wan an sub
stantial as the prairie itself, and many
A plaiiiHiiiuu risen to better things, re
tains tlm bumble structure in which
hn began tho Hew life on the prairies,
as n refuge, should a tornado threaten
his more modern home.
Tho dugout as a family dwelling in
no inoi'u. Locomotives' smoke rolls
over nearly every section of the
cheaper, moru primitivo dwulliug.
Only n herder hero and there, or u
hunting party making a long stay,
ooniUoonds to souk its hlimblo pro
tection. The sod house was an evolution and
an advancement from tho dugout. It
w an above ground instead of below.
It had windows and shape nnd parti
tions. Iu a uuighborhood where dug
outs were tho rule, the owner of a nod
hous i wns nu aristocrat. Tho dugout
hns never been celebrated in song, but
seldom is there a western "school ex
hibition" or "lyoeum" meutiug at
TKS SOD
whioh is not rehearsed a crude favorite,
beginning :
"I'm looking rathtr saedy now, walla hold
ing itown my ulalu:,
My vttuals ars not always ssrvsd ths best i
And tba mice play slyly round me to my
shanty on the olaim
As I lay me down alone at night to rest,
"The hinges arn of leather aad ths window
vary small,
Ths roof It lets the bowlia blizzard In ,
But I'm happy as a olam on this land of
Vnole Barn's
In my lit t Is old sod shanty on theelalm."
It took skill to build a sod house.
Not every one could oonstruot a wall
of earth that would stand the winds
and storms of year. Slabs of the
firmly knitted grassroots, undisturbei
for centuries, were out two and a half
feet long by two feet wide, and laid
one on another as in buildings of
stone. Rough window and door
frames were built in and sometimes a
board roof was afforded, though more
often it was poles oovered with sod
and hay.
The sod house was the most common
first residence of immigrants. There
was a poetio appropriateness in mak
ing their very shelter out of the lend
they had acquired after so long a
jpurney suusetward, and, so, tauoh
planning and effort.
Within the' sod boose you found
VANISHING rp.ct'id AKITIKf.
morn thai In the dugout. Thorn wns
A stove, a enrpet, sowing mailiiun,
rocking chairs, niul mayhnp ah organ,
pnid for b tdosn conomixiug iu tho
uiniingiiiuent of thn elalni.
In those early days of pralrio ds
rnlopmetit school In in sen and even
churches worn of sod, small, to bo
sure, but large enough for that gener
ation. With milled prosperity the
sod wnlt linn been relegated to tlm
stable nnd the tool liousot but nn
ninny n homestead the father nnd
mother, now grown gray nnd care
worn, look through laeuhimg windows
nt tlin queer forsnkcli nod slninly
standing back among the trees, and
recall, not without regret, the happy
days spent therein days when hearts
worn young, when earn wnn yet to bo
known, when life wns all before them
mid tint now decaying, despised soil
A MM) NI'IIIMIf, IIOIIHR.
house sconiod a palano because It was
home.
To toil slowly over weary lengues of
pathless plain or to race mold a mail
cataract of rushing humanity at thn
crack of a rifle, to slop suddenly and
call thn pluao your own that linn been
the experience of the settlers who dur
ing thn past two decades have, either
by entry or iu thn opening of Indian
reservations, secured claims on thn
prslrles. The land once obtained, thn
battle wns, however, but begun, Thn
plainsmen culled thn prairm "wild,"
nnd said it must be "tamed." They
well expressed thn situation, for there
In no poetry In developing a wull-tillod
ami Improved farm nut of a hundred
ami sixty raw seres.
Mighty hopes centered around tho
lialf-milo squaro on which after so
much preparation tho settler began
life again. Thoso roared beneath
ancestral roofn can littlu realign thnnll
absorbing optimism that prevades tho
1rairio home. Inspired by its radiuuae
Disband mid wife allium and save and
struggle, enduring nnd sudoring all,
in order to ronlixn tho more perfect
prosperity that the futurooffcra. From
the claim to the city addition with its
streets, alleyn, electric lights and
trolley wires in a long step, but west
ern lands have often taken it, and there
is to the settler no reason why his own
possession should not repeat tho his
tory. There wan something inspiring lu
tho word "claim." Tho land repre
sented was not purchased, leased or
loaned it was "claimed" by tho
holder us his right us an American
citir.eu to tho unused territory of tho
nation. The first who cama were first
served and eager sometimes bloody
were tho contests over desirable
quarter-sections "claimed" by mure
than one settler.
The claim was thn I'.nniicial salvation
of thoiisnudn of deserving families
during the past two decailos, ami it is
unfortunate that (Juelu Ham has been
Compelled to tell bin children that he
can no more "give them all a farm."
Tho claim and tho settler can figure
no more iu western development bu
online tho claims are all taken and thn
settler ban become a farmer, or a real
ostttte speculator, or an ofllcs-holder.
Leading up from tho ranches of tho
southwest to thn northern ship. ing
points, taking their way ovur hill,
valley nnd river, washed by rsins,
swept by tho winds, trodden by mil
lions of pattering hoofs, the cattle
BHANTT.
trails of the prairies for twenty years
were unique features in western land
scapes. Great furrows they were, two
to three hundred feet wide, ohooolate-
oolored bands on tba green of the
plains. Along their undulating course
herd after herd plodded its northward
way. None ever came back for the
little seas of thin, nervous faces, slen
der branohing horns and hairy backs
that became sueh familiar sights were
but supplies for the waiting shambles
of city market place.
The wealth of an empire moved over
these broad highways. In a single
season nearly a million Texas cattle
traversed them. To see the herds in
stinotively arrange themselves in order
like an army, with the same leader
day after day was a study for the na
turaliut. Bivers were orossed with'
out confusion, herders riding their
swimming bronohos beside the bovine
commanders of the battalion. At
night, "rounded up," the cattle lay
olose together, a huge oirole of breath
ing, living animal force. The crackle
of a stick, the snort of horse, the
howl of a coyote," and tea 'thousand
panio-strioken steers, any one of which
would not hesitate to attack a man or
horse alone, were stamneded. to be
ajra,ia controlled only after bout of
nlianing and the less of scorn of tnr
ketnble nnlmaln,
Thn enttlo trails, first located by
thn herder as convenience illetntnd,
became reeognlr.od as thn prairie's
thoroughfares, just a oowpaths arn
reputed to have beeonin an American
city's streets. Hut thn new develop
ment of the west I making them ob
solete, Freight cars carry call Id morn
swiftly mid safely. Thn "man with a
lion" needs tlm bind and is plowing up
the (rails ami running hin burbed-wiro
fences across their courses, Thn open
ing of the Clierokeo Strip and Okla-
I m iMlded Iho existniinn of thn
greater olio- feature around which
clustered so much of trsdo, rotmiuon
mid adveuturn.
tllonely connected with thn caltln
(rail, yet not wholly noiiUnnd to It Iu
Iran, ye
his splie
re, wns tlin cowboy, thn stngo
''ibi.avt"
hero of thn west, llin character has
been so maligned and lauded, so
heaped with glamour and notitumnly,
that ono who has not met thn real nr.
Hole considers him either a prlnen of
romance or a monster. Occasionally
a man stalks down a Chicago, Nnw
York or Huston street wearing A wido
brimmed whito hat, leathern trousers
mid blouse, broad belt and high boot
with long jingling spurn, Ho glares
fiercely from snlo to sldn mid tho im
pressionable slam wotnleringly at thn
swaggering creature, thinking they
gn,a nt a cowboy. They are mistaken
it is tlm liisest Immitatioii. Thn
ronl cowboy does not wear outlalidinh
dress nor swagger. Ho is engaged in
too serious business to make a travesty
of his nailing. Not without training
and a clear brain can onn take part In
untuning a lienl of wild Texan steers
from tho batik of a still wilder bron
cho.
Thn cowboy work hard seven dnys
In tho week. Ho In usually mi ambi
tious young man who ha nomo west
to aenk a livelihood, and if you watch
him you will see him occasionally take
from an Inside pocket the picture of
a brighteyod eastern girl, tho memory
of whoso smiles is his inspiration
through tho long night when a driv-
AN IMI'ilO)T3l IXKIOI.'T.
Ing storm compels constant riding in
order to ooutrol the her 1.
Eleven months of the cowboy's year
are spout on tho raugo whioh mean
on the monotonous prairie twenty or
thirty miles from a railway. Tho other
month goes in taking the cattle to tho
shipping station, and usually includes
a woek of ruvelry, which gives snob
placos the name of being the worst
towns on oartu. Ine cowboy is tut
human, and hi lonely life tends to
make his weakness more notionable
when he cornea before the publio's
eyes.
The dividing of the great ranohoa
of the prairies into farms has driven
the cattle owners and the cowboy to
the ranges of Montana and Wyoming.
In Texas and Kansas, whore he gained
his fame, he is forgotten, except as
some old-timer recalls the early days
of his prominence. Brave, chivalrons
and faithful, the cowboy is not a bad
fellow. He is neither the tinseled
desperado of the stage nor the vin
dictive villain of fiction. Like the
troubadour and the puritan, he has a
fixed place in popular ideas, and so
seldom is a representstive of his olass
seen that it is doubtful if the current
impression of his character can ever
be corrected.
The prairie schooner was the May
flower of western immigration. The
family that crossed the Mississippi to
the sound of iU creaking wheels feel a
decided advantage over the one that
was hurried westward on the luxurious
divans of a Pullman car. Not nnlike
a vessel was it with its huge poke-bonnet-like
white oanvas eovor, sailing
steadily through the sea of waving
prairie grass. It was of this ship of
the plains that Wbittier thought when
he wrote the "Kansas Emigrant's
Song:
"We crow Ihs prairies as of old
The rilgrims crossed the sea."
A lean and lazy team, a bearded
man on the front sest, a wife and babe
surrounded by bedding, oooking uten
sils and provisions just visible beneath
the half raised side onrtaius, some
chairs tied to the rear and a colt or
cow led behind that was the prairie
schooner's cargo. In early days, when
danger thiea toned, soorea of these
unique vehicles traveled, together and
plodded toward tho mountains along
-
lh well iloflnnd wngnn trnlls leading
across thn plains. Hut In Inter year
each has gonn by Itself, mid thn single
rnmlly Hint liss mndo it a habitation
while In aenrnh of an abiding-place
has steered as fancy or Interest (Ho
isted. Thn Inst grand review of thn nrairlo
schooner fleet was when on a beautiful
dny of thn autumn of 1 HUH hundred
(if them lined up, ready to bo hurried
nun minting groiimm or the redskins.
When thn slgnnl wns given at high
noon, and the memorable "rush" hail
taken place, senttering thn congre
gated fiomonookers In a moment over
the waiting lands, the display was
ended for American history. Never
again can so many of these old wagon
bo irathnrnd.
Thn pralrin schooner wns frelulited.
a I thn whltn-wliiged trnveler of tho
onenti, with hopes mid sorrows. Oft-
times the long Journey, tho furnace
healed soiitli wlnils mid thn Constant
jnr worn out thn tiny spark of life in
tun linliy's breast, nod thn mother
never recall thn pilgrimage without
thinking of n little mound that nestles
low amid tlin prairie grasses nouiu
where along their course,
At mi artists exhibition last winter
A western railroad president purchased
at an exhorliltant prion a large paint-
M " IJI'll HI I'lnill,! IWIIIMIUIT. A
. . w i,.iMai i . ..... 1 1 r
shnll hang It," snid he, "hnsidii A su
perb drawing of my private car. Had
my parents not ridden In a prairie
schooner I should not now enjoy tho
luxury or A pnlnco on wheels.
Had thn pioneers of thn Wnslerti
Hlntos disdained thn picturesque but
lumbering vehicle mid tho sturdy toil
of which it may well be considered mi
emblem, thn splendid development of
tlin trans-Ahsslsslppl region might lin
ynt fsr from aceomtilishod. Detroit
Free I'resa.
Holland' (llrl (Juecn.
Tho lit tto Oueoti of Holland seems t
have passed out of that del lent sUta
of health which so alarmed her loyal
subjects a year or so ago, if this pin
turo ruprnaouts her aco.intnly. Hh i
in oortniiily a blooming enough youn ;
person burn, It is her latest portrait
ami delights her pnoplo gruatly, not
only because it shows her in so nlmxt
a stilt but because slio is we.'.riiu iu
it tho national poviaut dress. Xuw
York World.
A Very Smart Jncl.pt.
Hugo log-o'-miitton slcovfs are seen
on tho natty jacket showu hers. It is
cut from light beige colored cloth,
made tight lilting, and fastens iu
front with small ivory butt ns. A
Fig) ro is imitated by a wido bin fold
of cloth stitched thruo times. Tim
sleeves are also machine stitched nt tin
wrists, an well as at tho sides an 1 bot
tom of tho garment. It in finished liy
wido rever of whita cloth triinrno I
with three buttons esuli, au I two
collars, also of white cloth, thu sosuu I
ending At the shoulder sea-n sad b9in
considerably higher tbsa the other,
as shown.
Italy has 4,800,000 lemon tree,
whioh produce about 1,200,003,000
lemons annually.
Bespoken.
Lady of the Houso "I am a poor,
lone widow, sir ; and"
Ragged Haggard "I'd like to ao
commodate you. Ma'am ; bat I am al
teady betrothed." Puok.
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