New Haven, Conn., can fly no flag on "the green," the city board ol finance pleading ' that there ia no money which It can use to pay 'or tu erection of a flagstaff. Adrian, Mich., enjoys a three-cent street car ticket. The management has long Hold one hundred ticket for $!b Single fares are a nickel, but any one can liny one hundred ticket for 3. And the company make money by it, for people rido live time where they would once were the ticket five cent. The Pittsburg (1'enn.) Time, re ferring to the turbulence of the Mouth American republic, says: "The Latin-Americans appear to be the fiercest politician in the world, and their politic naturally rnua to powder. There have been more war and revolution in that fart of the world during the last 50 yeara than in any other." T While Germany hn progressed with tremendous speed, France ha remained comparatively stationary in it railroad facilities. During the decade from 188H-1897, Germany in creased the number of her locomotive 27 2-3 per cent., possongor cars 36 1-4 per cent., and freight cars 30 pel cent.; and France, iu the same period, advanced her anpplie only 5 per cent., 171-2percent, and 9 percent., respectively. It was stated recently in the English House of Commons that the provision of chiropodists to tako care ef the soldiers' feet was being con wkared by the military authorities. As an experiment several men of the Royal Army Medical Corp have been Instructed ia chiropoly and a c'nss lor non-commissioned officer ha been formed at Aldershot. An Ameri can woman nnrse says thnt the ex periment should be triel by the United States military authorities. Although it doe not seem so to those who advocate the cause of labor, there has been duriug the last forty years a steady progress toward the granting of all their just demands, observes the Christian Register. Ho far as the number of hours iu the day's work, the wages paid, the pro tection of women and child reu, edu cation, and sanitary reforms are con. cerned, the whole community has finally united in consenting to that which has been proved to be go;d for laboring men, their wives aud children, f According to the American Agricnltuiist the opposition becomes more aud more bitte.' on the part of the ateam railways and trolley rail roods to carry freight. But this must come. The trolley roads iu many cases can carry freight ot night or during the early morning hours when their entire plant would otherwise be idle. Reaching iuto the country from the cities as they do, 10, 20 aud 30 miles, the trolley roads should be able to take produce from the farm to the city ma kot at only a fractiou of what it costs the farmer to haul the same by wagon. A great manufacturing concern ot Dayton, Ohio, has notified its em ployes that henceforth preference will be given to young applicants for em ployment who have had a kinder garten training, and arter 1915 nc applications for employment will be considered unless the applicants have had a kindergarten training. The company has conducted kinder gartens for the benefit of children of their employes for a number of years and has observed the ve-mlts. The educational classes and other enter prises which have been carried on for the benefit of employes have resultod, In six years, in completely transform ing a poor factory suburb into a pretty residence district. The small city of Hillsdale, Mich., has been pursuing for three years a method iu the construction of side . walks akin to thut nuiversully adopted iu the paving of streets. Insteud of directing the property-owner to con struct a sidewalk of certain dimen sions and material ' in front of his premises, leaving to the property owner the burden of Sliding a con tractor aud making terms with him, the oity lays the sidewalk by the day labor plan and as -tenses the property owner a uniform price per foot. The benefits are uniformity of construction and economy. The city is now put ting down eeinent walks at the low price of Beven cents a foot. It would uot be a long step from this Michigan plan to the further oue of relieving the property-owner from all responsi bility over the strip of laud which he has surrendered to the oity for publio use, and over which he has no control THE INVALID. My! but I'vsbsen awful lok I Ma says t was out my head ' ' ' Runnln' rsoe. playtn' tag An' noh funny things t said I tVlsht that I cntild 'ninmbsr what . I wns doln' then.) but. ; I Course 1 can't No feller could. I wur. 'Ilrlous, you see! I've been 'way from inliool a week, Don't know when I'll kiisrsIoi 'Bp) 't will be a good lunir time, Though 111" doctor says I'll men' Pretty fits', cu I'm a boy Hut I Riirss 'twill take n slttht More days than he thinks It will, 'Fore I'm feelln' Jus' all rlKht. ODDIE'S WOOL SOCKS. A Story of a New John Sylvester came np from the field where he had been working and went into the barn chamber which he had occupied since his second cousin, Ellejenette, had come to live with him and his mother in the five roomed farm house. "Oddie! Oddie!" called hi mother, a he crossed the path which led to the kitchen porch. He neither answered nor looked at her, and disappeared within the shad ow of the great barn door. "Whnt's he come up to the house for.- Ellejenette, do you know?" Ellejenette signified that she did uot. Mrs. Sylvester took her knittiug and place ! herself upon the kitchen porch, so that she should not fail to see her son when he emerged. She was pant 70 years old, aud a natural propensity toward iuquisitivene, sedulously cultivated through a long life, showed itself in the unlovely form of a thirst for knowing the most trivial thing her son did. Ellejenette often wondered at John's patience, and warmly sympathized with his trials. "I don't see what he's after up here, this time o' dayl Ellejenette, fetch them pea and shell 'em out here! I want some company." "I suppose he's through work to day," Ellejenette ventured. "Why, no, he isn't, Ellejenette. What are you thinking about? Don't you know he said at dinner he shouldn't be through with the south meadow before tomorrow night?" She rose, walked across the grassy yard, and standing iu the barn door called again, "Oddie! Oddie!" Presently lie returned. "I can't got nothin' out o' that fel ler except 'AH right, pretty soon.' Ellejenette, you go and cull him. Ho always answers yon." "Oh, I don't want to now, Aunt Charlotte! I will when he comes down. Won't that do?" "Well, yes, s'pose so. Strange ho left off work this time o' day," and Mrs. Sylvester continued tiring the changes on this theme.till Ellejeuetto's mind wandered far away.and she took refuge in day dreams fro. n tho fretting and nagging. The round, fat pea slipped from their cases rapidly under her doft Au gers; she did not need to keep her eye on her work, aud looked instead out into the lovely summer world. Her home for the first 20 yea's of her life had been in a tenement house in a large city, it snrroundiug little short of squalid. Her father was a hard-working mechanic of small cali bre, her mother always an invalid; the two died within a few mouths of each other, and, oh! how gladly had Elle jenette given Up hor position as sales girl in a department store and come, at Mrs. Sylvester's request, to make her home at the farm. John came ont of the barn. Elle jenette saw that his working clothe were gone and he was dress id in his Sunday best nil except " "Oddiel Oddie!" screamed Mia. Sylvester. "Where are you going? wny man t you tell me you were goiug away?" "I'll be back pretty soon," said John, rolling ont the light wagon, and a moment later leading out the uriv ing horse. . "Cau't you tell lis where you're going?" pursued Mr. Sylvester. "What you so secret about? Should think yon wore going courting." Her gaze reached his feet, ufld her quer ulous tones fell to a shocked and dis mayed key. "John Sylvester, you've got on your wool uootsn "Well, mother," replied John, you 11 ouly stop calling me O Idie, I'll keep them on night aud dav." "lou go take those boots right off! I know where you're going! You cau't fool me, and yon can t make such show of yourself! . You're ftoiug to that weddiug, yon kuow you be screeched the old la ly. "I guess Tip rarunaiu wou t like it very well for you to march into church with them wool boots on aud all you're Sunday clottie. How you look! f olks won t get through ta'king for a year! Elle jenette, you speak to himl" Ellejenette shelled peas. "I should think you'd be ashamed! All the Famlia us' city boarders will be there. Go get your other boots ou ! You shu'n't behave so! You just John was iu the wagou, rolling smootmy over the grass and out into the dusty road. As he passed Kile jenette au early summer apple spun across tne snort, crisp growth am stopped at her feet. As she picked up tue gut sue saw Jonn s eves twinkle, aud she nodded her thauks, "I do decUrel" Mrs. Sylvester be gnu to whimper, coming back to her seat aud dealing the kitten, who had been playing set's cradle w'U the yarn, hearty slap. "Seems s Teaohar Sent m rotm' some flower. Hhuuks 1 I wlsht that they WUS JU, like the tumbler that I ate Hut you mns'u't ko an' toll. A' I'd like some choe'late cake, An lea arenm an' peanut stick These tilings never, never 'd do, Hays the doutor, when I'm sluk. I whs sicker 'n anyone. .Tlmmy limine he thought he WUS Orful sl'cki but, pooh! I beat Him clean out of sleht, becun It'll be a mnnf. at leas', Mo inn suys, (ore they dare let Mn eat stun" an' then I enn't II 0 to school nil clnv. I but ! Edwin 1.. Hnblu, In run':, England Courtship. thnt boy was possessed. Tip Farnliam wanted him to stand np with him and he wouldn't, Oddie wouldn't. He's so bashful " Ellejenette had her own opinion about John's bashfnlnes. "Now, the Methodist church i going to be filled cram full of folk tli is afternoon. You see if it ain't. Tip's girl's got lots of relation over at Salubrity Four Corners, and thoy'll everyone be there. Ellejenette, did yon know Oddie could have had that girl if he wanted her? And now he's going to her wedding iu that nice gray suit and them old wool boots! Oh, dear, oh, dear! Old folks might a well die a soon as their children are grown up to do a they've a mind to!" "Aunt Charlotte," said Ellejenette with a now-or-never feeling, for she had long ago resolved to make thin re mark to her aunt when she had an opportunity, "don't you think John would be more communicative some time if you didn't irritate him at first oft' by calling him that that pet name?" Ellejcnetle considered Oddie any thing but a pet name, but she thought she would put it this way. "Land alive, child, ' I've always called him Oddie. He always was odd; he's odd now, going to a weddiug with wool boots on wool boots!" and the song contiuned with variations throughout the afternoon, till even pntieut Ellejenette wns delighted when 5 o'clock came aud she might make a move toward prepariug the evening meal. John returned, but KUejeuette did uot hear him, as she saug aud worked in the roomy kitchen. The first she knew of his arrival was when he passod through to the milk room. "Timo to milk before aupper?" he asked, coining out with the milk pails on hi arm. He had resumed his working clothes, and still the wool boots were iu evidence. "I guess so," said KUejeuette, peep- ng surreptitiously through a crnck of the oven door at her iohuuv cake. Hut hurry up." Instond of hastening he stood look ing at the young girl, and KUejeuette added: "Was the wedding a uico one.' Did you have a cood time? 1 "Weldinu! What weddino?" said lie. "I haven't been to any wedding," aud went out with the milk pails mak ing a little clink, clink as he strode down the path. Ellejenette found herself wondering as to his absence, aud mentally shook herself for so doing. "I'm gettiug a bad as Aunt Charlotte." she said to herself. "I'm bound I won't be so inquisitive, it it kills me," and she tied on her sun hat aud went out to tho strawberry bed, picking straw berries uutil John came with the milk. "J. ve got something nicer tunu you have," she called to him, showing her rosy treasures. He preteuded to clutch a handful. and she ran before him iuto the house. He looked at her with animation as she sped. Ellejenette had a snub nose and a wide month, but John did not know it; be saw only a pretty smile and a creamy skin, aud thought Ellejenette waa a beauty. He loved her because she always cnlled hiin John. Ellejenette did not know that John had raudy hair and wns too brond for bis height ; she saw only two bright blue eyes and a candid, heart some look. She remembered with joy that he sometimes called her 13llie. These two were ou tho way to becom ing engaged, but neither of them yet kuew it. Ellejenette flitted blithely about the supper table. First of all . she made Mrs. Sylvester comfortable, with her cricket under her feet,-her shawl on the bick of her chair and her "eating glasses" (iu contradistinction to her reading glasses") in readiness by the side of her plate. Ellejenette passed John his cup of tea next. 'Did you look in this?" inquired be. "Because if you did you need't pass the sugar." "No, I was afraid I should tnrn the milk," said she; aud at this truly choice wit both' laughed. But uot so Mrs. Sylvester; the maid was yet nu boru who could make Auut Charlotte laugh when she was brooding over her woes. "Did you go to tho wedding, Oddie?" said she. "No, ma'am," said John. "Well, then, where did yon go?" "Oh up iu town, to the postofflce end here's a letter for you I most forgot it." Mrs, Hylvestor'took her letter with rapturous welcome. She seldom re ceived one. This was a collection of circulars, detailing the miraculous cures wrought by a patent medicine, aud containing portra ts aud letters of individuals who bad used the remedy. It entertained Mrs, Sylvester the whole evening, aud she went to bed happy, announcing that she would buy a bottle the first time she went te 1 the store. I Unwearied as ever, Mrfc 3ylvestet commenced early in the morning on the undying subject of John's attend ance at the Fnrnham wedding. HU asked what pew bo sat in; the nnmbet and names of the attendants. Bh begged for the items of the bride's tires and the bridegroom's behavior. She made a requisition for detailed information regarding the wedding supper. "Why don't yon tell her you wen not there. John?" said Elleienettt boldly. "Don't tense your mother." John laughed good liiinioredly, mid hostilities we e ended for the moment by the arrival of a neighbor on om farm business. But Ellejenrtte's re solve uot to grow no inquisitive as Auut Charlotte was put to a severe test. It was so strange, she thought, to see John dressed np in those nice clothe of his, which he hardly evel wore to the village to do errands, ami yet keeping ou those coarse, heavj wool boots, shabby with farm work. Slifl could not put it out of her mind, mainly because Mrs. Sylvester dwelt on it so long and persistently. II John was not at the wedding, where wns he? And loyal Ellejenette knew he wa not at the wedding, because he said he wa not, and John always npoke the truth. Day pnssed at the farmhouse, a they do everywhere, filled with th trifle of work and play which make up human existence. Neighbor called aud satisfied Mr. Sylvester's thirst for know ledge concerning the wedding; they anred her John was not present. Ellejenette kept the household rnuuing smoothly. One moonlight evening John. smok ing on the porch, spoke through the open wiudow to Ellejenette inside. "Have you seen how this moon- flower vine lights up iu the evening?" he said. "Now, Oddie, don't yon call bet out there, She'll catch cold," fretted Mr. Sylvester. But Ellejenette had already passed through the door. She turned to go iu again, John caught her hand and gently pushed her iuto a seat. I tuought IM tell you where I was the other day," he said, throwing away hi cigar aud producing a packet from bis pocket. "I only went; to sit for some pictures. You asked me to, you kuow. My boot didn't take. I didn't go to the wedding. I shan't go to any wedding until I go to my own.nnd I shan't go to that one unless you'll go, too. Will you, Ellie?" His arm slipped about her waist: hi rough cheek pressed her soft oue; their lips mot. "Oddie! Oddie! What are you iloing out there?" arose the shrill, tremulous voice of his mother. John turned and luolced through the window. She aw hi happy face and the dim outline of Ello'ouettfl be hind him. For once in his life John answered his mother without hesita tion. "lam courting Ellie," he Bald. Spriuglluld Republican. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. An ingenious person residing at Little Rock, Ark., bus patented au in- fla'nblo boat. One get into it, sits down, fastens a sheet of rubber about bis waist nnd blows the thing up, This doue, nothing cau sink it. The craft, moreover, may be adapted for the use of two or more occunauts if desired, A woman handles the mails in the smallest postofllae building in the United States. It is in San Diego county, Cal., betweeu San Diego and Escoudido. The structure begun its career as a piano box, and is six feet high. There are five private boes on one side fastened by Yale locks, and two stages stop daily to take and de liver mail. A strange fatality wa noticed among the turkey Hocks in ttica township, Indiana, and a poBt-morteiu was had over the body of a fine gobbler which suddenly succumbed. When the fowl's throat was cut open it was found to contain a live bug . which resembled the old-fashioned pinching bug. It had caught the gobbler by the wind pipe and choked the fowl to death Other deaths were traced to the same cause. A freakish rainstorm was witnessed one afternoon recently by l'hiladel phiaus. On tho west side of Broad street, betweeu Vine and Spring Gar dou streets, peoplo hud their timbrel las up, while on tho east side Hot drop of rain fell. The dividing liue of the shower was the middle of the street, the mark bemg as straight as if made with a rule. Had it not been for the city ordinance governing bicy clo riders ou Broad street, the unfor tunate "bikers" who were caught in the rain could have crossed over aud ridden on the dry side. While they had to take the wettiug the pedes triuus who were without umbrellas hurried over to where the mia fell not, A remarkable pebble, which was picked up somewhere iu Egypt, that land of dark mysteries, is in the pos session of a well-known lnpidist in Philadelphia. The stouo is translu cent, and at a-casuul glunoe looks like an ordinary seashore pebble. It is about half the size of a walnut aud oval in shape. Wueu the stone is held to the light its remarkable peculiarity is beheld. Inside is n drop of water that ciroles ubout the interior. How it ever got there is a mystery that nature alone could solve. The sur face of the stone is perfect, but there is no doubt ot the hollow interior. The pebble is only interesting as curiosity, but many wealthy institu tions have offered good louud sums of money for it MEW YORK MMg, Designs For Costumes That Have Be come Popular in the Metropolis. Nr.w Yon Citt (Speoial). There re a great many blue cheviot and serge costumes to be seen just now. They are not apparently intended for win ter wear, but yet the women are) in cluding them in their winter outfits. TIGHT QUAY CLOTH. STREET The material is the heavy weight of serge known as the storm serge, and is very well sponged and pressed, so that it cannot bo injured by wind or weather. The smartest of these cos- tumes are made np with the tight-fitting skirt with the seam in the back, -but oro not exaggerated in style, hav ing some fulness put in at the back. The coat is either a short basque coat or an Eton jacket, fits closely to the figure when it is fastened, and has. square revers, and a collar that oan be either turuedup or turned dowu, and that is faced with dark blue silk. A very odd and dainty tonoh is given to the garuieut by inside revers of blue velvet, trimmed with a fascinating braid of blue nnd silver. With this costume is worn a silk shirt waist of very dark blue with polka dots of white, or a heliotrope satin with white polka dots also. These costumes are supposed to be worn on mild days during the winter, and will undoubt edly be the smart thing for next spring. Aud a great variety of change con be made iu them by substituting differ ent revers. Tli Ktweit Klret Gowns. The newest street gowns show revers that are faced with the velvet panne, as it is calleda most fascin atingly beautiful material, very much like the velvet antique, but figured with different designs. A great many of the new skirts uow designed to wear with the coats that have these fancy revers ore severely plain, ex cepting in the lines of maohine stitch ing or in the bias bands of oloth. In the double-column illustration the dress ou the left is a light gray cloth gown, with walstooat of white lace fastened withrhinestoue buttons. Be vers are faced with white satiu aud edged with machine stitching. The only trimming on the gown are rows of maohiue stitching. The oostume in the oeutre is a street gown of blue oloth trimmed with fancy braid. Cuffs, revers and muff are ot blaok broadtail fur. The coat is fastened with hooks, Ou both BODICe' FOR SRnGB COSTUME. j N 14Mv coat and shirt are lines of machine stitching. The figure on the right depicts a silk and lace gown trimmed with belt and rosette ot black velvet ribbon. This gown can be made of either white or bluck lace. The blouse front is of white monsseline de sole. Crnnntmlt Blue ami Antotnnnlle. Cronstadt blue i one of the most beautiful tone in which cloth dresses are being made. It is the tint of the sea when the sky is bine and the sun brilliant. A sapphire sometimes achieves this glorious color, but is more often too sombre or too pale. A ribbed cloth in cronstadt blue is trimmed with bands of velvet in a slightly deeper tone. The triple cape itt in velvet, aud the high, flaring col lar is guipure over cronstadt blue i ,11. i . . , i , round. Periwinkle holds it ownf" among alt the new shades. It suit the fashionable hair, as no other colors could, aud almost invariably one finds that with marigold hair the floral trimming of hat or toque is shaded hydrangea, periwinkle, pale mauvd and softest rhododendron pink, deftlyV shading into each other. Automobile red is shown iu many woolen goods, and sometimes it is dotted over witli pea-spots, sometimes with irregular squares in velvet of the same shade, and occasionally the velvet pattern is in blaok or brown on a ground of the automobile cloth. Pretty and Becoming Scarfs. Crepe scarfs for neckwear are in creasing iu beauty and in softness of ooloring. They are pretty and becom ing. Dainty Ilrenkfnst Jacket. One of the permanent fashions l the separate breakfast jacket multi plied by thousands and varied in style QOWN. BILK AND LACE. From Harper's Bazar. in nrerv nossible manner. Those made of French flannel seem to be the most popnlar. The flannel jacket calls for some very complicated neck dressing, creamy laco, chiffon, mousseline and Liberty satin holding first favor among fashion's votaries. The most np to date of all the flan nel jackets this winter will be those of a creamy white, very fine French flan nel, the quality which sells for $1 to 81. 50 a yard. These flannels are so fine and soft as to resemble cashmere more than flannel, and as they are capable of such an infinitesimal amount of dainty gurnishiugs they will be much sought after' by the evsefi BHIAKFAST JACKET OP FRENCH FLANNKti women whose fad is aess and freshness. extreme dainti
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