i
. Grent Britain linn forty-nine vessel
ready for business in the far East
whenoTer there Iff anything for them
to do.
The sudden changes of climate en
countered by soldiers when troops nre
moved from one quarter of the world to
another ere estimated as Increasing the
aniutnl mortality of Europe by 60,000
men. '
I,e Matin of Paris slates Hint there
exists in France exactly 71.200 Jews
in a popntation of nearly 08,000,000.
These Jews nre divided an follows:
Paris 42,000; Bordeaux, IMMH); along
the eastern frontier, 10,000, making a
total of (14,000. The remaining 7200
are scattered all over the territory.
The active capital of France Is esti
mated at $10,000,000,000. Of this,
according to Le Matin, tho Jews pos
sess $(,000,000,000.
Poor old China is slowly but surely
breaking up, says a writer, and tho
nations of Europe are scrambling for
the pieces. It is tho oldest govern
ment in the world, but its people are
so superstitious, and they have been
oppressed for so ninny years by ruth
less rulers that they have no spirit
left to light. Japan bent them iu the
war of a few years ago and took a big
slice of their territory. Thou Ilussia
came and seized on a seaport. Eng
land has had a foothold at Hung Kong
for many years, aud only a few weeks
ago the Germans laudod and seized
another seaport. France is thinking
about getting possession of Formosa,
and Japan w ill no doubt wish to in
crease her share. In the meantime
the emperor of China, who thinks be
is the son of heaven, and the ruler of
the whole world, dares protest only
feebly. No doubt all of our boys mid
girls will live to see China as a nation
wiped oft" the map. We vau't help
feeling sorry that a once great nation
should1 thus disappear, and yot every
one knows thnt its people never will
make progress until they como under
the influence and control of the more
civilized nations of the earth.
The incidonts in tho trial of M.
Zola iu Paris ought to go fur toward
explaining why Frenchmen write such
vemnrkable books about America.
If these incidents prove anything, they
prove that Frenchmen are radically
different from Americans iu every con
ceivable way. For that reason French
men rlud it difficult to understand u,
our manners and our customs, just as
we ilud it difllult to comprehend them
aud theirs. All over this couu
1 try, it is safe to say, people are won
dering how it is possible that such
thiugs could occur at a trial of na
tional importance in ono of the lead
ing capitals of the world. Certainly
nowhere iu America, not even iu the
remotest frontier towns, could such a
spectacle be seen as a body of In wye re
going to a court to create a disturb
ance as two hundred barristers, in
wigs and gowns, did iu Paris. Aud if
anything even faintly resembling that
iucident should occur in America, the
Parisian newspapers would be the
first to say that uothing better could
be expected of a horde of ignorant
barbarians like us. Yet tile thing
happened in one of the most vener
able and cultivated ceutres of modern
Europe.
The public has long been familiar
with laws which are called dead let
ters. Thoy have been statutes which
were euacted long in the past, uudor
conditions that have ceased to exist,
and which gradually foil into "innoc
uous desuetude," until at last few
people knew of their existence.
Modern methods of legislation are de
veloping new kind of dead letter.
A bill is introduced which goes
through all the' stages to enactment as
though, it were designed to be a real
law, but it turns out afterwards that
the legislators never took it seriously,
and it was passed only to oblige some
body or comply with some request.
In his annual message to the Legisla
ture, Governor Woloott of Massachu
setts suggests that "it may fairly be
considered whether legislation pre
scribing after some future date a uni
form width of th e for the wheels of all
vehicles carrying heavy loads would
not tend to diminish the great cost of
maintaining highways alike to the
commonwealth and to cities and
towns." The Hartford Times charac
terizes this recommendation as per
fectly reasonable, but says it will
make some people who know what
has happened in Connecticut; smile.
What has happened 1 this; "A wide
tire law was passei in 1895, has been
steadily ignored, and ao far as we are
aware, there has never been a prose
cotioB nnder it, or an attempt to have
on breugbt," In other words, a new
law becomes a dead letter at ouoe,
rl nobody sees anything strange
deveTat.
A DOUBTINQ
Wbers are the swallows fled?
Frozen and dead.
Perohatinsnpnn seme bleak and stormy shore.
u nouniing nenri i
Fur over purple seas,
'J'hny wslt In sunny ease
The balmy southern lirees
To bring them to the northern home onoe
more.
Why must tlm flower die?
1'rlsonod tlinylln
tn the cold tomb, needle ot tears or rain.
A doubting heart!
They only sleep below
The soft white ermine snow,
While Winter winds shsll blow.
To breathe and smile upon you soon again.
A Cape Cod Sketch.
Ifow anyone ever came to take up
his abode at llooputchie 1 am sure 1
don't know.
I'oter Miles, on being nsked for his
opinion in tho premises, replied:
"Waul, I iloiino. It's ileHput biindy
for clnniH, to say uotliiu' about the
farmer's preclivities of the silo."
Dut Peter Miles' pretty daughter,
llouluh, declared shn believed the
original settler bad come there to bate
himself to death in peace, but, fulling
iu that, had left tho spot to bis de
scendants, who had grown poorer and
poorer, till now they could not got
money to carry them a niilo further to
tho poorhoiise.
Possibly, Jlculuh exaggerated. Hoe
putchie was roinnuticitlly situated
upon Cape Cod, a crooked projection
which mny bo said to form the nose
upon the face of New England, re
markable only for the vast quantities
of sand and fishermen to bo found
thereupon.
Hoepatchie bad the appearance that
somebody, in a fit of iiiHunity, hail
whcoled a truck load of brown earth
from some more favored portion of
Massachusetts and distributed it ns
evenly as possible over the surface of
a dozen ncres of sand.
A local poet, struck suddenly by
Hie muse, undertook a description of
the place, nnd his endeavor amounted
to tho following doleful doggerel:
"The Rile In lloeimtnhle Is poor nnd llilni
When the ruiu comos down it ruttlus like
tin,
An' I've offen been told by the dwellers
therein
That the crop was worth less than the seod
tlmy put in."
Home writers, happy at description,
will fascinate one with the spot thoy
choose to locate their story upon; buii
I fear my genius is not 'sufficient for
the tusk, and I shall give up trying
here and now.
Peter Miles' home was an ancient,
unpiiiuted structure, so low that the
winds from the ocean storms pussed
over it almost without touching the
shingles, and a tiny burn which shel
tered three scrubby cows nnd a uiulish
lookiug yellow horse.
Inside the house a bright lire blazed
in the stone chimney, aud the light
flickered out over the sanded floor
ami the white homo-spun curtains nnd
lighted np the tall old clock in the
corner, which snid: "Twilight twi
light twilight," ns plainly as the
words could do.
Over the fire mid out to the round
table iu the centre of the room llouluh
Miles flitted like a bird, with her
blue dress and white nprou fluttering
about her.
Her eyes were blue, nnd her hair
was black, and her cheeks looked bright
nnd smooth as the last red cloud out
over the witter. Hue was singing a
queer old time:
"I never loved yon In my life,
I cevor loved your baby
I was compelled against my will
To become your wedded lady."
The door opened, and there entered
a man, so tall that another inch upon
his slight brown head would have ob
liged him to Btoop iu crossing the
room. He planed his hat in the win
dow ledge and came over to the
hearth.
"You seem to be very happy to
night, Beulah," he said, by way of
greeting.
"Well, I don't know," Beulah an
wered evasively. "How have things
gone in school today?"
"Nicely, as usual."
Looking at him you would have
seen that he would compel life to go
nicely with him.
No more was said by either, but his
deep gray eye'i followed her figure till
the preparations for supper were com
plete. The old man was sorting potatoes,
only you might have mistaken a great
many of them for peanuts, as he sat
on the milking stool and handled the
tubers over, for ' it was getting too
dark to separate them by sight. Not
too dark, however, for Beulah's bright
young eyes to see the great tears
which rolled down the old man's nose
and plashed upon the floor.
"What is it, father?" Beulah in
quired, anxiously.
' "Nothing much," he replied, ns he
wiped away the glistening drops with
the back of his rough haud.
"Tell me, father," pleaded little
Beulah with her arms about hia neck.
"Nothiu' new, Beulah, You know
the mortgage is about out, an' they
ain't nothiu' to pay it with, and moth
er's so bad that I am afeared 'twould
kill her to move in this cold weather.
I was thiukin' perhaps I could sell
taters enough to pay reut till spring
if you think you won't"
"Won't what, father?"
"Marry John Melleu."
Benluh shook ber head. "Yon
know I caunot do that," aha sald.tira
idly.r "I have told you so every time
you have apoken of it. I have told
him ao, too," y
"I can't see why," laid old .Peter;
"he'e worth the. moat of any man in
Hoepatchie en' will give me the deed,
fair and square, of this place the day
you'll marry him." , , .
HEART.
The sun hss hid Its rsys
These many dnys i
Will drnnry hours never leave the earth?
(1 doubting heart!
The stormy nlouds on high
Veil the same sunnv sky
Thnt soon ('for Hprlng Is nlRh)
Bhall wake the Hummer Into golden mirth.
Fair hope Is (lend, and light
Is uuenohod In night.
What sound enn brenk the sllonne of des
pair? O doubting hnnrt. t
Thy sky Is overcast.
Yet stars shall rise at Inot,
ilrlithlcr for dark nous tinnt. 1
And angel' xlltnr voice utir the sir.
From Adetnldu Anne Proctor's "Legends and l.yrlcs."
"Hut, father, ho is my cousin and 40
years old," objected lieulnli.
"What of that? Ain't Hoepntchio
nil cousins? So t don't sen who you
can fake Hint's better, nn' ns for his
n?e, that's nothiu'; jest the prime of
life, you may say."
"I shall not marry my cousin any
way," said lieulnli, resolutely.
"Then you can't marry nobody,
that's sure," returned tho old man,
positively, " 'itliout it's the school
master," be added n moment atfnr.
Tho red blood rushed np to Hon
lab's temples, but she did Hot speak.
"Yon don't mean to marry llwight
Faruhaiii, do you, lieulnli?" her father
asked, looking up her through the
shadows.
"Why, father, what n uostion!"
lieulnli cried. "Mr. Fnrnlium never
said n word to me ou the subject;
what made you think of such n
thing?"
"Wind, I diinno; seems to me lie's
kinder bniigin' round. Ijearniu's a
good thing, lieulnli, but it won't make
Hie pot bile, nu' if ho bad money bo
lievor'd spend time keepin' school iu
Hoepatchie."
"Why, you know ho cnine down for
the benefit of the salt breezes, because
bo lind been studying too hard. Hut
that bus nothing to do with it, rich
or poor; be never snid a word to mo
of iin.v such thing," said lieulnli.
"I nin t mean, ' nnd the tears com
menced again to ran down his nose;
"I niu t menu, nir I don't want to
lose you, Jleuluh, but whnt can 1 do
about tho place?" nsked I'etor.
"I don t know, fat her, "said llouluh,
throwing her arms around his neck;
"don't fret about it, but come iu nnd
cat your supper while it's hot. I've
been thinking I might go to Lowell or
Manchester aud work iu the factory;
you know Nancy Eames earns ever eo
much there."
"Whnt do you think ubout it fnther?"
asked Beuluh, us they sat before the
tire after supper.
"About what?"
"Me going to tho factory to work."
"Oh!" suid Hie old mini, shaking his
head slowly, "that won't amount to
uotliiu'; times nro hard nnd pretty
soon there won't be uotliiu' to do iu
factories,"
Dwight Furnbnm smiled behind his
semi-weekly pupor (the only one which
came to Hoepatchie), but be did not
speak, and presently old l'eter arose
with it long sigh mid went to bed.
lleuluh begun to fold up her knit
ting.
"Don't hurry away, plenso," snid
the teacher, drawing his chair nearer;
I wan t to talk with you a little, lieu-
lull."
lieuluh commenced to work again.
"I happened to heur what was suid
in the burn before supper," he weut
on, with his eves on her face; "nnd
don't you really think you ought to
marry your cousin for your father's
sake?" .
"Ob, dear:" said Beulah, laying
her heud upon the table to hide her
tears. "I shouldn't think you'd say
that to me;" and then she stoppVd.bit
ber tongue and began again: "No,
Dwigbt Farnham, I wouldn't sell my
self to old John Mellen for all Massa
chusetts. I will go to the factorv and
work willingly, but uot that other."
"How would you like ti keep bouse
for a gentlemun instead?" the teacher
asked next.
"Who?"
"Me."
She gave a little start at that. "You
are not married, are yon?" she asked
with a tiny tremble iu ber voice.
"No, but I intend to be soon, unless
disappointed."
"I -I don't think I should like to,"
she answered, hesitatingly. Then to
show him thnt she did uot care, she
asked: "Is it a Boston lady?"
"No, indeed; she lives here in Hoe-
Eutchie. I love her very dearly, and
er name is Beulah Miles."
He lifted the crimson face from the
table and transferred it to his shoul
der, where it laid very comfortably in
deed, as he wjent on: "My father ia
a merchant, firm of Farnham & Snow,
and, my school being nearly out, he
offers ine a partnership in the busi
ness, but I want to form one here first.
Will you come into the Arm, Beulah?"
"I wish I could, "said Beulah, sadly;
"but I must help father abont the
mortgage some way"
"The mortgage shall be paid, darl
ing, and your mother shall have the
best medical advice that money will
obtain. Now what do yon say?"
"God bless you, V. Beulah answered,
with her eyes abining in happy tears.
And not a happier couple was to be
found in the Old Bay State that night
than aat over the stone hearth in Peter
Miles' cottage.
Guarding Alnt Accidents,
Twenty bicyclists having been killed
during the past year on a bridge at
aharp turn at the bottom of hill on
the road between Mentone and Nice,
netting has been put np at the dan-
nl. K U . Tn...; .Ink. .
France to oatoh reckless coasters who
are hurled over the parapet, ,
DOWN THE CHILKOOT PASS,
Toe tip Your Clothe., Kit, Down on the
Knew and AIMe-Tlme One Minnie,
In a letter from E, C, Patterson,
dated at Canyon City, Alaska, he says;
"This is a great country, and I am
glad I came, but the living Is more
than tough. I was tinder the impres
sion Hint t know something of camp
life, but this ia nn entirely new exper
ience. I am located nt whiitjt is char
ity to rail Canyon City scamp where
the lyea-Klondike Transportation
company boards the men who nre
working on its tramway. This is the
first day since my arrival, 10th Jn
slant, that 1 have seen the sun. It is
uot extremely cold (the mercury ranges
from zero toJIO degrees above), but it
Is nearly always cloudy, and the wind
blows hard most of Hie time.
"A few days ago I wont to the sum
mit of Chilkoot Pass. From this place 1
(six miles north of liyen) it is seven
miles to whnt Is called the foot of the
summit, and it seems like forty when
you walk it; but after so much tins
been accomplished, one's troubles
have just beiiu, The nscoht l, sny,
fiOO feot, nnd nlniost strnight up. It
would bo impossible to make the climb
but for the snow, which is, on an av
erage, forty feet deep; this provides a
footing, and it required more than an
hour for me to make the summit,
where n level stretch of about 101)
yards intervened before the second
climb, much steeper, was made, which
landed me ou tho reul summit of Chil
koot Pass,
"When ready to lenvo, and it was
not long, Hie Indian guide said 'do ns
1 do,' and proceeded to tuck bis
clothes uudor him, Rented himself in
the snow ou tho edge of the slope,nnd
nwny lie weut down the side of the
moiintaiu. I followed. The experi
ence whs exciting, aud after crossing
the level plateau, took another slide,
reaching the bottom in less than a
minute, whilo it had required more
than hour to mount. In watching a
man descend it looks for nil Hie world
like a cloud of snow shooting down the
mountain, and the victim hinds nt your
feet; such is the Chilkoot Pass. Two
moil wore frozen to death ou the sum
mit last week." New York Hun.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
King is the most ancient of titles.
It, or its erpiivnlont, is found in every
known lnugunge.
An Oregon inventor hns devised a
steam plow which he thinks cupnblo
of plowing fifteen acres a day.
Waterloo, Iowa, bus a church for
which one huge glacial boulder fur
nished practically all the material.
(linger is n tropical production of
Mexico, where it grows wild. It has
been cultivated from an early period
iu tropical Asia.
A lighthouse of lmiuboo hns boen
built iu Jupnn. It is snid to have
great power of resisting the waves,
and does not rot like ordinary wood.
There died recently in the village of
Maiivages, Alsace, a man by the name
of Jiocii.who is the lust of the family
from which Mine, du Hurry sprang.
Her real name was Been, and she was
born iu Vnitcouleurs, a short distance
from Mnuvages.
Themistocles' grave has been dis
covered by a Oreek named Dragntsis
on Cape Krakari. Its authenticity,
however, is not beyond doubt, though
the place where it was found fits in
with the descriptions of Plutarch aud
Dicdorus Hiculus.
Anrelian's city wall along the left
bank of the Tiber is to be torn down,
as neither the Italian government nor
the Roman municipality will repair it.
It contains fragments of older walls,
including, it is believed, part of the
wall of Herviiis Tullius.
Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical
studies from the manuscripts in the
royal librnry nt Windsor have just been
published for the first time at Home,
edited by Professor Piumati, under
the title, "Bel Anatomia." Besides
the artist's notes over 250 drawings
are reproduced.
The Gold Coast is a long way from
the Cupe of Good Hope. The latter
is one of the termini of Eastern Africa;
the former is wholly in West Africa.
The Gold Coast takes its name from
the precious metal having been dis
covered there in abundance by the
early Portuguese and English naviga
tors. France has a law forbidding the
slaughter of birds smaller than larks.
Nevertheless, piles of such birds are
offered for sale iu the markets of many
French cities. A movement is now
nnder way for enforcing the law and
saving the song birds and the fields,
which they keep free from injurious
insects.
' Among the multifarious duties which
demaud the attention of the Calcutta
police, the capture of sharks in the
Hooghly finds a place. During- the
past twenty years rewards have been
paid for the destruction of those ma
rine maneaters, and recently the Ben
gal government laid down a scale for
these payments.
The Soudan exhibition, while en
gaged in laying the new Nile railway,
has setn some remarkable mirages.
From a distance the men appeared to
be working into a beautiful lake, and
on all aides were to be seen beautifully
wooded bills, ship and cascades. When
looked at through field glasses the
illusion was heightened rather than
diminished.
A (iond Imitation.
"Are you satisfied with your den
tist?" "Perfeoily. He's a real artiat: his
false teeth are perfect jewels."
"Can't yon tell the difference?"
"They are exact imitations of na
ture. There is even one that'f'so
good an imitation that 1. aches eouo
timee." ; . ... .
mm
THE REALM
383!
Ifn.t Farlelan lists Have l.nw Crowns,
Most of the hat from Paris have
low crowns. A greenish -blue straw
baa a large bow of green-blue ribbon
placed jauntily in front, with wide
loops nt each aide, forming a mam
moth butterfly. Directly in front is
an ornament of steel and pearls, be
hind which gleam some whitish-pink
roses. The back of the hat is a mass
of white roses and violets, and the
brim is faced with an odd shade of
piuk velvet. Another modol, also
bine, lias a swirl of tonpioise-blrte
silk veiled in point do Geneve
lace around the narrow brim. This
"swirl" puffs np high on tho loft side,
but it is lower and-loss full on the
right side. On the left side is a group
of white flowers. A hat of heliotrope
chip has the brim covered with rows
of finely plaited heliotrope chiffon of
a paler shade. These frills end in a
soft twist of chiffon which encircles
the narrow, high crown. A mass of
white and purplo lilacs is placed at
the left side against the crown and
trailing along the brim to the back,
where they mingle with clusters of
fresh green leaves. A very chio tur
ban is of yellow straw braiding and
white chiffon, the latter puffing out
like mist between the yellow straw
ribbons, A bow of black velvet in
HANDSOME SPIT
the back and a cluster of white tips
fastened at the left side by an orna
ment of paste diamonds and smoked
pearls completes this odd bat pretty
hat.
Suit For a Small Boy.
Short knee trousers with jacket to
match and worn with a blouse of white
lawn make the accepted dress suit for
the small boys who have been pro
moted from kilts. The model shown
in the large illustration, writes May
Manton, is made of black velvet edged
with narrow silk braid, but velveteen
and black diagonal are equally correct.
The trousers are fitted snugly to the
legs by means of inside and outside
leg seams and are supplied with the
pockets without which no boy is ever
content. The jacket is seamed at the
center-back where it also extends to a
alight point and is fitted by shoul
der seams. The fronts, which
are extended to form lapels, are self
faced, and the entire jacket is lined
with farmers' satin. The sleeves are
two-seamed and in regulation ooat
style. The blouse includes shoulder
and under-arm seams only aud closes
at the center-front by means of but
tons sewed to the right side and but
tonholes worked in the box-plait that
finishes the left. The sleeves are one
seamed and are gathered both at the
arm's-eyes and at the wrists, where
they are finished with deep roll-over
cuffs edged with needlework frills.
At the neck is a deep sailor collar,
also edged with a frill, that turns over
the coat aud extends well down on the
baok.
To make this suit for a boy of six
years will require three and a half
yards of twenty-two-inoh material, and
one and one-half yards of thirty-six-inch
material for the blouse.
V.wmI -nine la Telia.
There is a novelty in a gray veil
this season which is highly approved
by the nltrafathlooable girl. The im
ported bordered veils of reel thread
TWO Bl'IIINO MOIIRLR.
if hL'
OF FASHION. 0
lsoe are considered chio for a calling
costume. White veils are affected by
very young girls. Black Russian net,
with every fine mesh, are seen for
street wear, but bine veils are most
approved of by the oonlist, though
unfortunately they are not always be
coming.
This year veils can be fastened
without tearing or straining by a new
devioe consisting of a rigid bar having
a slot along one side, into which the
veil is pressed and held in position by
a flexible cord attached to one end of
the bar and stretohed across the slot
to fasten at the opposite end,
Shirred flllkj
Hhlrred silk has' partially Usurped
the place of accordion-plaited silk. It
comes in a variety of pretty light
shades, with knife-plaitod frills to
match, and is employed for skirt
panels, yokes, sleeves and vests,
Prlneess down,
No model suits the well-ronnded,
graceful woman more perfeotly than
does the princess with its somewhat
severe, bnt always satisfactory lines.
The cut of the gown shown in the
illustration is simple in the extreme,
but it may be mado as elaborate in
effect as one please. As shown, says
Mny Manton, the material is violet
colored poplin, with an applied front
of vol vet in a darker shade and trim
ming of handsome ' passementerie,
which includes both jet and silk. The
fronts are fitted by means of double
bust and under-arm darts, the second
dart on each side extending to the
edge of the skirt. The backs, which
fit smoothly to a point slightly below
the waist line, are seamed at the centre
and nre joined to the fronts by means
of side-backs, which include the entire
length of the skirt. The fulness of
the skirt portion is laid in deep
underlying plaits, which fall in grace
ful folds to the end of the slight train.
As illustrated, the closing of the lining
FOR A BMALf, BOT.
is effected at the centre-front, while
the applied front of velvet hooks over
beneath the band of passementerie at
the left side. The sleeves are two
seamed and fit snugly to the shoulder,
where they are finished with the slight
fulness which is still in the height of
style. At the wrists are bands of pas
aementerie, below which frills of lace
fall over the hands. The neok is
finished with a high standing collar,
above which rises a divided frill of
lace. Cashmere, drap-d'ete and all
silks are eminently appropriate and
may be made either in combination or
LAJua' Pamelas oowv.
of the one color and material, as pre
ferred.
To make this gown for a lady In the
medium sise will require At yard
of forty-foar-inch material.