It is estimated that $2,000,000, 000 at war material was afloat on the occasion of the British naval review at Hpit bcad. This is a pretty little sum. Evidently peace nowadays comes at a Ligh price. Alaskan enthusiasts who are not to be discouiaged by the stories of high prices of the necessaries of life per haps think they can innke up for the other expenses 1y saving on their iue bills, suggests the Chicago llecord. British enthusiasts who wished to celebrate what they call the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of England's navy ly King Alfred have been snubbed by young Mr. Cham berlain, who is Civil Lord of the Ad miralty, with the statement that the navy department hns had enough cele bration for this year. The Paris correspondent of the Medical Record tells us that in France "ideas regarding the treatment of fevers have undergone a change dur ing the last few years. For instance, considering fever as a symptom rather than as a disease, even in certain specific fevers, French practitioners respect it, as they say. That is, they regard it as a kind of pathological compensation, an effort of nature to throw off morbid process, and hence to be looked upon as benign, and if not actually encouraged, at least left to itself. But it should not be treated actively." That scheme for a state railroad to tun from its northern boundary to the Gulf is again being agitated in Texas. Borne of the tnlk is wild, but lots of it is quite sensible, maintains the New England Homestead. If Now York state can build and operate the Erie canal, finally making it free and ap propriating an extra $9,000,000 for its improvement, why may not the Em pire state of the great Southwest have n state railway. The purpose of both enterprises is regulation of freight rates. If the Texas scheme should work as well in this prospect as the Erie canal has done, it would be more than vindicated. The Indian mail brings a remark able detective story. The detective was a profossor Haukin. It was the cholera microbe ho was after. Thirteen people had sat at mess in Bangor. Nine of them got sick. Three had cholera. One died. The microbe was detected in a water-pot in the kitchen. , But the supply from which that pot was filled was pure. The dish cloth,however turned out to have beon dried on an infected sand bank. Conveyed into the kitchen, the microbe bad not only got into the water-pot, but into a chocolate pudding. There it yielded 4000 million cholera mi crobes in eighteen hours. Chocolate pudding has been off at Saugor since, One of the most promising fields in the world for the motor car is West ern Australia. There are thousands of miles of flat country, and into this auriferous region English capital is flowing in big blocks. The Western Australian government is borrowing all the money it can to open np this region, and for many years to come there will be a great deal of activity here in connection with property that bas to be carried long distances. The camel is the beast of burden now, but the bicycle is beginning to drive him out. Miners find that they can pack fair-sized loads on the wheels and get over the country rapidly. A local syndicate has been formed in Mel bourne to manufacture motor cars, and it is expected that this means of conveyance will force out all others, The New York World in a recent is sue publishes official data showing that the situation in the state is most distressing. From the figures cit'1 by the New York paper it appears that within the past two years something like 131 murders have been committed in New York city, for which only seven persons have been sentenced to death and eight to life iinpuisoninent. Out of the total number of murders com mitted during this interval, fifty-one are shrouded in deep mystery, and the perpetrators of these foul crimes are still at large, Based upon the penal records' of the paBt two years, as reproduced in the columns of the World, the chapees of a murderer's reaching the gallows or the execu tioner's chair in New York are one in eighteen; of life imprisonment, one in sixteen, and of escape altogether one in three. This record is, indeed, most appalling. Balling tho Wind. "You told me last week that you would try to raise my salary," said Vnggaj un, yes," replied his em ployer. "Well I did. I raised it after wiua trouble. Believe we, I bad . 1 I !!... 11 I 1 .. Tsr urn uui raising u tuis wees. I SOMETIME. flnms tlmo wo shall know wot Our sunniest mornings change to noons of ruin i Anil why our steps are shadowed so by pain. And whv we often lie Ob oouche sown with thorns of eare and doubt i And why our Htps nrethlnkly hedged about Vt Ith burs that put our loftiest plans to rout. Homo time wo nil nil know whv Our dariBt hopos are swi-pt so swift away, And why our brightest flowers flrxt decay Why song in lost In sight i Why clasping llngrs slip no noon apart Estrangnmont, epaoe and death rend heart Irom h'art, Vntil from deepest depths the tear-drops einrt. Rome time w all shall know F.aeh other, aye, a we otirsolves are known) And sen how out of darkness light has grown, Ann no wno loves us so, pnspite our wlllf tilnuss and blind eomplnlnt Will show us how His kind and calm restraint Can mould a human soul Into a saint. Boms time our eves shall sen The silver lining to the darkest cloud, n bile silvery echoes follow thunders loud, Home time our hearts shall be Content, forgetting nil our ritless mood. And- knowing everything has worked tor good The how. and when, and why, be under stood. Lillian Gray, In the Boston Watchman. ?f ff ff ff tf ffff ff f fff ff f f PHEMIE. fffTf Vf fffVtff fff fftfff WW "It's no use trying," said Phcinie. "Mother hates me, and everything I do is wrong." "Your mother enn't help it.rheinie," said Dr. Jasper. lie was the new medical man, in huge favor with Mrs, Albatross, Phemie's mother. "Your mother is highly strung quite a woman of geuius,and allowances must be made for her temperament, my dear young lady; temperament rules every thing." Indeed, Mrs. Albatross's tempera ment seemed to rule Dr. Jasper, the the parson, the squire, the parish, but it did not rule Phemie. "Look here," Baid the girl she wafl just twenty "yon and mother are al ways croaking about me, I know ; but you do nothing to help me at least, I think you would, but you're afraid it "Your mother used to take an in terest in you, but yon did not meet ber half way. Is not that so?'' "No, it isn't. When I wns sixteen she had a fad of dressing me np in last-century costume and making a doll of me not my style at all, just to show off her own cleverness and queerness at my expense. Hhe said I was ngly, and only 'dressing could make me fit to be seen." "Well?" snid Dr. Jasper, who was a rising young medico of thirty, as he looked gravely and judicially at the Eretty-much tried girl, who only hnlf elieved in his good will. "Well," snid Phemie, "every ono laughed, and I showed mother I would not stand it." "And then?" "Thon she packed me off to school. The mistress said I was sort of dazed for a time, as if I had beon ill-treated and so I had and quite neglected ; but they were kind to me there, aud I was very happy for more than a year, except in the holidays, which were always odious. Then you came along " And Phoniio paused and stole a doubtful glance at the doctor. "What then?" said the doctor, like a person coldly inquiring for ordinary information, yet with a certain little twinkle in his eye which did not escape the aggrieved Phemie. "Then," said the girl, "I thought you wore my friend at first, but I don't now; at least " At that moment Mrs. Albatross en tered, and, turning sharply on Phemie, said with a snap, "I suppose you haven't fed the fowls, or sorted the linen, or done anything but idle away your time, as usual?" "I was called when Dr. Jasper came, because you cbuld not be found. " "I'm sick of your exouses. Dr. Jasper does not want to see you. " Then, in quite an altered tone, as Phemie shrunk awny out of the room, "Do you mind ooniing np to my sit ting room? I want to have a talk with you about those changes at the Infirm ary. 1 am sure you will agree with me, and you will be most useful. We can't allow things to go on," eto. Dr. Jasper always did agree with Mrs. Albatross. But, somehow, he molded her, and she usually came round to bis opinion, lie listened and she talked : he could wait, and when he had taken her bearings without ver interrupting or contradicting she listened and he talked, and not then, but next time, she echoed his opinions and fancied they were all her own. "It is such a comfort to find a sen sible man to talk to in a stupid place line tnisl" said she, laying bor arm confidingly upon the doctor's as he sat smiling and agreeing with her. Mrs. Albatross had worried one husband into the grave she was too clever for him but her intellectual vivacity, imagination and enterprise made ber an interesting oompauion. She was only a little past forty, and well preserved, and she meant to marry Dr. Jasper. Whether it was hypnotism or will power, the doctor came aaain and again aud would not send his bill, and the doctor's bill never was paid he paid himself. "Don't speak to me," said Themis bnrriedly as she met the doctor com ing down stairs after a long confab with nor mother, "mother's about Bus's out all tomorrow afternoon. I've got to paint the doors, , , ." And Jasper passed out with a sympathetic smile. Hha knew be would call and advise her about painting the doors, Be did call. "What a deal you know about mix ing paints and things t I'm sure I want good advice a great deal mora than mother does. But, then, I'm not clever like mother," added Phemie, with a little aggrieved pout, "so it I not worth while talking to me." "I do feel for you," said the doctor. with an unusual warmth of manner. "I have done all I could to get your mother to be fair to yon. . . Phemie" Iue bad never called her Phemie be fore, and she' felt her color rise). " but st lie matter?" he added hastily, for suddenly Phemie's eyes filled with tears, and she just went off then and there and left the paint pots and things without saying another word. Dr. Jasper's visits became more frequent. Mrs. Albatross was con stantly soon about the villnge with him ; they met in cottages ; she wns devoted, so she snid, to nursing the sick (it was certninly a new develop ment). Hhe was never seen with her daughter, nor was Jasper, but he saw her daughter oftener than she kuew ; still, it seemed less and less possible to do without Mrs. AJbntross. Her nbility, her cooked foods and port wine for "cases;" her influence with the squire, who disliked and obeyed her; with the parson, whose good will was importance to the doctor,nnd who was afruid of Mrs. Albntross, for she browbeat him in the. chair at parish meetings, picked holes in his sermons and organized the penny readings, which he disliked, under his very noso. All this and a good deal more for Mrs. Albatross was a woman and not above feminine arts put Jasper in rather a tight place. He knew thnt Mrs. Albntross wanted to marry him, and there were many days, yes, whole days, when he really thought he should be obliged to marry Mrs. Albatross. The moment came. It was in the little sitting room upRtnirs. Something had happened. Dr. Jasper saw that plainly enough. The lady was Hushed and excited, and he missed the usual confidential squeeze. "I I wanted to see yon," she snid, and paused. "Nothing has come to your ears, I suppose?" The doctor looked inquiringly. "Well, then, I'm dreadfully troubled; annoyed beyond measure; put out. Of course, you know my maid, Susan; she hns been with me ten years, and is not a gossip " "What on earth do yon mean? Do be plain; surely with me you might be quite plain," and he moved a little nearer, feeling at that moment a curi ous kind of attraction which almost compelled li i tit to lay his hand upon her arm and force her to be quite honest. "Don't keep me on tenterhooks," he said eagorlv; "tell me!" "I will," said the lady; "I feel I can tell you anything. 1 don't think I have any other friend in the world at least, not like you; no one under stands me, no one has helped me as you have, and we've got to part, that is all " "What, on earth," said Jasper, really shaken and troubled ; he hail never seen her grow pale like that, nor her lips quiver like that and she was not of tho crying sort she did not cry now. "What what has Susan been saying?" "Only that it's nil over the plocp, aud thnt she thought at Inst sho ought to tell me " "Yon don't mean " He couldn't qnite sny it. "Yes, I do." she said, and rose and walked np and down the room full of a sort of angry vexation, mingled evi dently with a conflict of pnssionnto feeling she could neithor coucenl nor subdue. "Sit down," he said, ne had risen. He took bor arm ; she was positively trembling. He led her to the sofa by the fire. "I shall have to leave this place," she said in a sort of hard voice. The angry tears came into her eyos. He had never seen her weep. This was the nearest approach to it. "I know what you are going to say. Don't say it. You shan't go; you are useful. The people trust you. It is your sphere. I am the marplot." "Why should you go?" said Jasper, hardly measuring his words. "Why should either of us go? Why not stay and stay stay together?" "You don't mean it?" Men at such times are more fools than knaves. "Yes, yes I do." Jasper hal taken her hand. The woman with the iron will, the keen intellect, the nature self-contained, which seemed at times as hard as nails; turned toward nim, and in another moment fell crying and laugh ing hysterically into his arms. At that moment, as ill-luck would have it, Pheniio, hearing unusual sounds. and thinking some one needed assist ance, entered. "Go and fetch some sal-volatile; vour mother is not very well. Indeed, at thnt moment Mrs. Albatross seemed to have really fainted away. Whether she fainted or not, no one will ever know the doctor himself was doubt' ful. Jasper never entered tho house again. Ho wont home, packed up his things, wrote a hurried note in a dis guised baud to Phemie, who on the following day would bo 21 years old and come into 500 a year, which had been reft her, to the disgust of her mother, by her fond father and Jasper went to bod. He must have risen early. No one at his lodgingB saw him go out. His hot water was brought np at 8 o'clock, His boots had not been put out over night. The servant knooked at 9. The door was not looked. Hhe entered, She saw boxes packed and labeled "Left till called for." The bad w I empty. I Ike station was mile off. There were only two passangcrs by tho early train. When Mrs. Albatross came down to breakfast she inquired for Phemie. Phemie was gone. Rev. II. R. Uaweis in London Sketch. AUSTRALIAN ABORICINE. An I'ntamaM Savagti With ths Stone Age Habits. The Central Australian aborigine is tho living representative of a stone age, who still fashions his spear heads and knives from flint or sandstone, and performs the most daring surgical operations with them. His origin and his history, says a writer lu the Ad vance Australian, are lost in the gloomy mists of the past. He hns no written records and few oral traditions. In appearance he is a naked hirsute savage, with a type of features occa sionally pronouncedly Jewish. He is by nature light-hearted, merry and prone to laughter ; a splendid mimic, supple-jointed, with an unerring hand that works in perfect unison with his eye, which is keen as that of an eagle, lie has never been known to wnsh. He has no private ownership of land, except as regards that which is not over-careful ly concealed about his own person. (In this respect there are un doubtedly some territorial magnates.) He cultivates nothing, but lives en tirely on the spoils of the chase, and nlthoiigh the thermometer frequently rnnges from 15 degree.i to over 00 de grees Fahrenheit in twenty-four hours, and his country is teeming with furred game, he makes no use of the skins for clothing, but goes about during the day and sleeps in the open at night perfectly nude. - He builds no permanent habitation, and usually camps where night or fa tigue overtakes him. He can travel from point to point for hundreds of miles through the pathless bush with unerring precision, and can track an auimnl over rocks and stones, where a European eye would be unable to distinguish a mark. He is a keen ob server, and knows the habits and flmnges of form of every variety of auimal or vegetable life in his country, llcligious belief he hns none, but is excessively superstitious living in con stant drend of an evil spirit, which is supposed to lurk around his camp at night, ne has no gratitude except that of the anticipatory order, and is as treacherous as Judas. He has no traditions, and yet continues to prac tice with scrupulous exactness a num ber of hideous customs and ceremo nies which have been handed down from his fathers, and of the origin or reason of which he knows nothing. Ofttimes kiud and even affectionate to those of his children w ho have beon permitted to1 live, he still practices, without any reason except that his father did so before him, the most oruel and revolting mutilations upon the young men and maidens of his tribe. Nevertheless, ho is a philosopher who accepts feast or famine without a murmur either at the pangs of hunger or the discomforts of repletion. His motto is Carpe diem, and when fortune sends buu a supply of game he con sumes it nil, regardless of tomorrow. He is not a cauuibal. No cold joint of missionary graces his sideboard, and should hunger, as a penalty for his improvident gluttony, overtnke him, he simply ties a thin hair girdlo round his stomach, and almost per suades himself that he is still suffer- iug from repletion. After an experi euce of ninny years, I say without hesitation that he is absolutely un tnmable. You may clothe and care for him for years, when suddenly the de mon of u n rout takes possession ; he thrown off his clothing and plunges into the trackless depths of his native bush, at onoe reverting to his old and hideous customs, and when sated, after months of privation, he will return again to olothiug and civilization, only to repeat tho performance later on Verily, his moods are as eocentrio ai the flight of his own boomerang. Wanted to SImj In Jail. Recently Sheriff Kinney of Carson informed a Chinese who had been in jail fifty days for soiling whisky to Indians that his time was np. The poor fellow's jaw dropped nearly foot when this intelligence was com municated, lie was having a very nice time in jail with a sure bed, and three positive meals a day. The idea of being thrown out on the street with a hot summer coming on was anything but pleasant, lie began to argue with the jailor that there was some mistake about the time, and that he had three more days coming. The sheriff wouldn't listen to him and, taking him by the arm, led him out into the street. The poor fellow argued and begged and pleaded for a few more days, but the sheriff was in exorable and told him to get out. He told the sheriff of a lot of crimes he had committed that ought to land bun in the lockup for years and still the sheriff refused to let hsin stay in jss.il another hour. When but seen he was headed for Chinatown weoping like a child. Carson (Nev.) Appeal. What the Itoy Haw. The bright boy's mother is culti vating his bump of observation, "Now, Johnny," holding np a picture card, "shut your eyes and tell me what you saw on this card. "A cow, a barn, a horse," rattled off the bright boy, glibly. "What else?" "Noth in'!" "Oh, yes; think now, what did you see behind the cow?" referring to the trees in the background. A iuo ment's reflection. "Her tail," shouted Johnny ecstatically. Chautauqua As sembly Herald. Evolution. Lawyer That man was a thief un til he got rich. Client And what is he now? Lawyer Kleptomaniao.- Fliegeade matter. A Tarlatan Touch. A Parisian touch is given to the regulation white pique Eton coat aud skirt by wearing a white tulle vest and a black gauze scarf, which fastens un derneath the jacket ou either side of the front, crosses the waist, and tios behind with long sash ends. The front of the jncket should be cnt out some odd shnpo to displny the vest, and, with a stiff white linen collar and a bright plaid necktie, the effect is stunning. New York Suu. flirt Swims Liken Fish. Miss Ethel Murray isayoung woman of Detroit who can swim like a fish. Recently she swam a mile and a half in the excelleut time of forty-four minutes. She is only eighteen years old, and in ordinary dress has no suggestion of the athlete, but she has a 12 3-1 inch biceps, and her general muscular development is on the same liberal scale. Swimming is only an amusement with her, but she is likely to break some records before long. St. Louis Star. The White Change Purse. The latest addition to the list of feminine knick knncksis a natty pnrse made in white suede, the wrist strap finished with a brass buckle, and a light ring of the snmo fastening the purse with a spring snap. Altogether as regards finish aud general appear ance, this little palm purse is one of the smartest novelties possible, and charming to wear with the white gloves now so much the fashion. Neither is its hue any drawback, as might at first be supposed, as it only needs the application of a little pipe clay to make it quite new and fresh-looking when the effects of wear are begin ning to tell upon it. Costliest of lllryrles. One of the wedding presonts given by the Queen of Italy to her daughter-in-law, the Crown Princess of Naples, was a bicycle, magnificently finished in every respect. The Queen herself possesses the most costly bicycle in the world, presented to her some time ago of which all the fittings are of gold. This bicycle is kept more for show than use, much as the Queen was delighted with it. The gold fit tings naturally make it heavy, and are therefore not practical. The Dowager-Duchess of Aostn lcnrned to ride much earlier than Queen Margaret, and she may be said to have intro duced the sport into Italy for women. New York Tribune. Increase In Kleptomania. Truth says that the release of Mrs. Walter M. Castle has been followed by an alarming increase of kleptomania in the West End of London. One leading storekeeper Btates that he has been obliged to take the law in his own hands, recognizing the futility of legal proceedings, and in view of the fact that the disgrace of the arrest, etc, falls npon innocent members of the families. This storekeeper says that he watched a well-to-do lady and caught her stealing several times. Finally, he took her, he says, to his private office and offered her the choice of arrest or summary chastisement then and there. She accepted tho latter and the proprietor left her with his sister, the manageress of the store, who then birched the lady nntil the latter howled for mercy and solemnly swore never to do it again. Becoming Neckwear. The high, fluffy effects continue on wraps, bodices and the extra pieces sold separately. Ostrich feather boas in black, gray and black and white are selling with renewed favor. A new cravat is of white Or light silk, kilt plaited, folded around the throat and bowed in front in four loops aud two short fringed ends. They are made to book over at the back. Black net collarettes, just covering the shoulders, are of frills edged with i narrow quilling of taffeta silk in changeable shades. White tulle cravats are tied in a large bow without ends. This is a fancy that returns every season, though it does not always take. The little white lawn dress tie worn in London aud New York with tailor suits and shirt waists is just making its appearance, as the ladies crave a softer effect. Victoria's Wealth. Victoria is a multi-mil lionaire what the multiple may be will never be known, for the wills of monarchs are not proved in court. She owns Bal moral and Osborne house, estates valued at 82,500,000, aud a bequest fsom an eccentric old miser, John Camden Neild, has rolled the sum up to some $10,000,000. Parliament, on her accession to tne throne, placed her beyond the reach of actual want by an annuity of about $2, 000, 000, but this has siuce been somewhat re duced. As Duchess of Lancaster her income fs estimated at 100,000 year ly. But her expenses are enormous, though they are less now than during the life of the Prince Consort, when the more frequent royal hospitalities were magnificent, and the entertain ment of visitors was truly regal. At ths time that the Czar of Russia was there in the seventies, some 200 were in his retinue, all being entertained at the Q-teeu's table. Fancy Braid (larnlture. Oolden beige and green cloth form a striking costume with green or black nnd gold mixed brnid. This is nsed as an edging.and for the braided chain on skirt and jacket. Bauds on the skirt have s panel effect. The jacket is close in fit, with revcrs, eollnr and Vandykes on sleeves of the light material, and a tiny V and collar front on the pointed vest. Seven yards of fifty-inch cloth will cnt this design, with one yard of the lighter shade. In tan cloth with white moire and brown silk and gold brniding, this gown wns prepnred for a foil bride. Narrow black braid in several rows trims a nntty-looking cheviot intended for general fall wear. The basque opens diagonally, with the skirt piece cut out on a bodice formed by the brnid, back aud front. High collar with turnover tabs and ordinary sleeves plaited in the arm holes. A four and one-half yard skiit wi thout trimming makes eight yards of forty-inch goods necessary. The Injnry of Too Mnrh Sewing. Women wenricd with much sewing will appreciate and ngreewith this bit from Harriet Martinean's "Household Education:" "I believe it is now gonerally agreed among those who know best, that the practice of sewing has been carried I much too far for health, even in,. houses where there is no poverty p4 J pressure of nny kind. No one Af well be more fond of sewing than fv am; and few, except professional seam stresses, have done more of it; and my testimony is that it is a most hurt ful occupation, excopt where great moderation is observed. I think it is not so much tho sitting and stooping posture as the incessant monotonous action and position of the wear and tear. AVhatever it may be, there is something in prolonged sewing which is remarkably exhausting to tho strength, and irritating beyond en durance to the nerves. The censorious gossip during sewing, which was the bane of our youth, wasted more of our precious youthful powers and dispo sitions than any repentance and amendmont in after life conld repair." Fashion Notes. A gray feather boa is one of tho necessities of a fashionable outfit just at present. Organdies and Swiss muslins, when not worn over a silk skirt,should havtT one of thin India linen quite full. Lavender bine and iris purple are two very fashionable colors just at the moment, both in dress and millinery. India silks, grenadines and barege are worn for dressy toilets. Velvet, lnce and ribbon are all employed in decoration. Clover and horseshoe stickpins am said to bring good luck to the wearer. Acorn and pearl drop pins are neyr and pretty. Turn over collars cut in snnnre. tor. ret-shnped pieces and made of lace edged Swiss or the material of the dress are fashionable. Women who are much out doors walking, cycling nnd playing golf, will . find that the best possible shoo for comfort, protection and economy it the ordinary tan-colored tie made for" the boys. Double-warp cashmere is one of the prettiest among the light wool fabrics fur summer wear. It closely resem bles drap d'ete in beauty of finish and delicnto tints, but it is not quite so expensive. Large and medium plaids and checks have been so extensively copied in the cheaper woolen goods that the pattern has become a weariness to the eye. The checks have not the clear defini tion of the old-fashioned shepherd' plaid, the edges being brokeu ami waving. A real novelty in womeu's bathing; suits is a black silk with a fitted boned bodico. The bodice is made with, three box plaits down the front; th back is finished with a jaunty collar, edged with braid, and to it the full bloomers, also of silk, are fastened. A short silk skirt finished w ith a deep, hem completes this attractive suit. There has beon a steady demand this season for fancy mohairs, and these the manufacturers have pro duced in a very attractive variety of patterns. Some of tho designs have, narrow stripes in open 'work effects, and these are made up over silks of whose contrasting colors show ef fectively through the fancy meshes. Soft and delicate light-weight silks figured with a tiny dot on satin of a, contrasting color are made iuto charming toilets with bodice cub down in corselet style, aud completed by a guiinpe of sheer India silk or shirred silk batiste. Ou one model tno goreu sicirt is trimmed above the hem with three rows of black Bilk gui pure insertion underlaid with ribbon the color of the satin dot. The same, trimming is nsed on the corselet and ; sleeves with pretty effect. l:
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