Days Like These.
I like the tangled (brakes and briers,
(The hazy smoke of forest fires;
.
'fftoe mlstjr hill's soft robe of brown,
'the ravished field's regretful frown;
I .
'(The wrinkled road's unconscious
I snare,
'Ste free, unbreathed and fragrant
a'r'
I like the wide, unworrled sky,
The resting wind's contented sigh;
The rustle of the vagrant leaves,
The whisper of the standing sheaves;
The bird's lament for summer lost,
The stinging challenge of the frost.
The sturdy life of stalwart trees
Thrills in my veins on days like
these.
B. E. Egbert, In Country Life in
America.
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The Man Who
Never was Found
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M. Scipion Desruelles kept a small
chop in the Rue de Seine, Paris. Ho
tad a wife, but no children. He was
email tradesman and his wife, a
large, coarselooklng woman, quite
capable of taking care of shop and
Goipion.
Sclplon's past life had been singu
larly uneventful. One single circum
stance had ruffled it, and that he used
often to relate. One night, ten years
back, Scipion had gone to the thea
tre, and after the performance had
taken madame to a restaurant. Re
turning home, after he was in bed
Bclpion heard a noise in the shop.
He armed himself with a bootjack
and captured a burglar.
The man, who said he was an Ital
ian named Vedova, disclaimed earn
estly all felonious intentions, but
could give no good account of him
self. Scipion prosecuted htm vig
orously, and he was convicted and
sent to Brest. Tivo years later Scip
ion met Vedova in a cafe and had
bim arrested as an escaped convict.
In 1852 Scipion received official no
tice from Martinique that a bachelor
cousin on the Island, whose name
was Pache, was dead, and had left
Wm heir to all his large property.
Desruelles was further asked by
the notary at St Jean to come out In
peraon, in order to save hlmsolf
great loss and inconvenience.
When Desruelles reached Martin
ique and went to St. Jean, he was
struck dumb to find his cousin alive
and well, and all the notarial papers
be had received forgeries! There
twas nothing to do but go back
again.
The brig was to sail in a day for
New Orleans, and Scipion determined
to go thither in her, take train to
New York and steamer thence to
Havre. Arrived in New Orleans,
Scipion put up at a boarding house
In the French quarter, and devoted
himself to sight-seeing.
At breakfast the second morning,
he was warmly greeted by a strang
er, who said: "I am truly delighted
to see you Monsieur Quentineau!
When did you arrive?"
Scipion gently Informed the man
that he was not Quentineau, but Scip
ion Desruelles. The stranger with
violence said the dodge wouldn't go
down there! Next thing he'd want
to repudiate that bill of 725 he
owed Marals & Hughes!
Scipion Desruelles, alias Quentineau,
iwas cast into prison. A lawyer with
difficulty, and at the cost of half his
money, proved he was not Quenti
neau, but Scipion Desruelles, a pas
senger aboard the brig Braganza, of
Bordeaux But for the captain he
iwould have been convicted, for sev
eral witnesses swore he was Quenti
neau. ! At Memphis he was misdirected,
enticed into a low groggejy and rob
bed of every cent he had left Scip
ion then wrote to Paris to madame
for a remittance. A cotton broker
gave him some correspondence to
iDook after, and he earned enough
to eat But no answer nor remit
jtance came from madame. At last he
'iwtrote to his cousin in Martinique,
'and received shortly a draft for 2,500
francs.
Solpion immediately started for
New York. Here, while waiting for
the Havre steamer, he was again ar
rested as Pierre Quentineau, a fugi
tive from Justice and a bond-forger.
By good luck the cotton broker
from Memphis happened to be in
the city, and Scipion established an
alibi.
While waiting in the customs of
fice a man came behind him, slipped
something in his hand, and whisper
ed: "Don't be afraid, Quentineau!
Tbey have nothing whatever against
7u! Here's what I owe you."
Desruelles turned quickly, but the
nan was already lost in the crowd,
and Scipion found eight gold Napo
leons In his hand. Mechanically he
put the money In his pocket, cursing
thlB Quentineau whom everybody
persisted in mistaking him for.
His baggage proving all right, Scip
ion was permitted to start for Paris,
but still under suspicion that he was
not Desruelles, but Quentineau. At
Rouen, in the railroad restaurant, he
changed a Napoleon to buy a bottle
of wine and half a chicken. As soon
as he reached Paris he drove to Num
ero 79 Rue de Seine. His modest
sign was no longer there, but in
stead one of "Lamballe, coiffure et
parfumeur."
Astounded, he rushed Into the lit
Us shop: "Madams Desruelles," he
said, "where Is she?" The attendant
answered "In America. It is four
months since she went at the sum
mons of her husband."
Before he could say another word,
a sergeant de ville entered the shop
and laid hands upon him.. "You
are wanted, Quentineau." "I am not
Quentineau I am Desruelles," shout
ed the happy man, but the officer
led Scipion off.
He was examined on a charge of
coining and ot passlue counterfeit
Napoleons at the railroad restaurant
at Rouen, and committed for trial
as "Quentineau, alias Desruelles, faus.
Balro."
The rebutting testimony not only
convinced the Jury, but ovenwhelmed
Desruelles. It was a letter which
one of his neighbors, a woman, testi
fied she had received from Desruelles'
wife, from New York, that she and
heir Scipion were happily accommo
dated with a shop and a thriving- cus
tom in Broadway in that great city!
When Scipion had served three
years visitors were announced to
Quentineau. In the office of the
prison he found his Martinique cou
Bln, Pache, and his wife! He at
tempted to throw himself into the
arms of the latter, but was repulsed
with severe dignity.
"We know you are not Quentineau,
but Desruelles," she said, "but there
are crimes charged against Desruel
les." After various delays, the case of
Desruelles or Quentineau was again
called up before the Court of Cassa
tion. For the Procumrrti side wit
nesses positively identified Desruelles
ns Quentineau. In addition, substan
tial proof was brought that Desruel
les himself was dead. A sailor of
the brig Braganza, who had made the
Martinique voyage with Desruelles,
testified that after cargo was dis
charged at New Orleans, Desruelles
was taken with yellow fever, and died
as the brig dropped anchor at Basse
Terre, Gaudeloupe. He was buried
on the extreme eastern point of the
island after difficulty with the author,
ltles, wfoo deeply resented the brig's
anchoring with such a fatal disease
aboard. The log of the Braganza
and the burial from Guadeloupe were
presented in court in corroboration of
the sailor's testimony, which made
a deep impression.
The president of the court question
ed Mme. Desruelles as to her sud
den trip to New York.
She pointed to Desruelles with a
scornful finger. "Ca!" she cried, "he
had a mistress; he wished to aban
don me; he called me Cosaque! He
appointed to meet her in New York
after settling up his cousin's estate.
I pursued the woman to New York.
I pulled her hair; I boxed her ears;
I made her flee in dismay to Cali
fornia; then I returned to Paris."
The unhappy Scipion lifted his help
less hands and denied everything.
His wife turned away with an in
credulous, scornful shrug. "I have
your letters, Monsieur. I compelled
the creature to surrender them to
me."
The president ordered Mme. Des
ruelles to produce the letters, and
while the messenger (was gone ex
amined M. Pache.
The latter gentleman testified as
to Desruelle's visit to Martinique, the
false will, etc., and positively iden
tified Desruelles.
"Have you ever seen that will?"
asked the president
"No," said Pache.
"I have it here," said the presi
dent "It is duly authenticated, sign
ed and sealed look at it!"
"Mon Dleu! that is my own signa
ture, and that notarial signature I
would swear to as Alphonse Domalr
on's!" The prisoner, reviving, stared
around htan with a ghastly face, and
the president looked down upon him
gloomily.
"The court" he said, "Is not able
to determine with satisfaction wheth
er the prisoner is Desruelles or Quen
tlneau. The evidence preponderates
In favor of Desruelles. But It does
not matter. Quentineau was a bad
man, but Desruelles is evidently a
man much worse. The prisoner Is
remanded to serve out his sentence,
and at the expiration is doomed to
transportation to New Caledonia for
fifteen years."
Desruelles fainted oce more and
was removed. That afternoon, wait
ing wearily in the salle des gardes,
a man came and stood before him look
ing at him fixedly, then turning away.
Everybody paid him the utmost re
spect Desruelles asked the sergeant
by his slJe who that personage was.
"It is M. M. , chief of the se
cret police."
"Good God!" cried Desruelles "Ve
dova!" He fell in an apoplectto fit, and be
fore morning brought the question of
his Mentlty to the tribunal of a
higher court Edmond Spencer, It
Parisian Police Archives.
Scorpions Everywhere.
In the cold weather, when my wife
and I were camping at Dharchula, al
though we had scorpions in our bed
ding and under our pillows, and the
servants were continually finding them
In their quarters, we had all escaped
In the most fortunate way; but this
time one stung the cook on the fore
head in two places. He had a sleep
less night r-om pain, but In the morn
ing a couplo of Injections of cocaine
brought immediate relief. From C.
A. Sherring's "Western Tibet."
The Sultan of Turkey possesses the
largest Turkey carpet Juxown. It Is
valued at 30,00Q.
Ihe Girl Graduate
By Jamea Monroe Taylor, President of
Vasaar College.
1GREAT deal Is ealdof the
home. It Is time that something was said of tne attituae oi u
home toward the girl graduate. Too frequently the parental
view ot education is that it is completed when the diploma is In
hand, and that now having enjoyed every advantage that a col
lege can give, the girl should return to her home to make her
self solely a part of Its social life, and to disseminate the light
mi
which she has been so long gaining.
The rights of young womanhood for larger development, which are real
ly at the base of the willingness of every parent to sacrifice for the education
of the child, do not cease at graduation. It Is a very poor investment that
tha parent makes if every opportunity for this development is cut off the mo.
ment the student turns her back upon the college. These four years have
awakened new energies ot mind and soul which must have satisfaction, ana
opened new vistas oi truth and of activity which muBt not be closed because
of the pressure of professional or domestic or social life. Just here the re
sponsibility ot the home for the education of the girl must continue. K
must be remembered thnt the girl lias passed from a very large and most
generous life into what is, not in importance, but in relationships, compara
tively Marrow. All the fulness of the life of youth is gathered about her
through four years, with that lack of responsibility ot anything beyond oa
can not easily continue outside of school and college life. The home should
recognize this and should be patient in waiting for the adjustment which is
ofte:i necessary, and which will always come it the parent Is wise, and If the
girl hai tho attitude of the average student.
But something more than patience Is called for. If we have spent our
time in training our girls in science, history, philosophy, literature and art,
we assuredly should recognize, since we have been broad enough to educate
them at all, the desirability of their continuing that education and the neces
sity therefore of some time for reading and study. Here, perhaps, more than
anywhere else the average home is at fault in falling to provide by the i ar
rangement of duties, domestic and social, for at least moderate opportunities
ot reading. How easv it would be for the homo to recognize that an hour or
two In the day should be understood to belong to the girl for her own study.
Parents frequently (resent this withdrawing from what is called the family
life, in forgetfulness ot the larger good that must come to every member or
the household through the conUnued advantage of the one. Remember that
the ccllego course has been an investment. Remember that it has opened
the mind of the student to new Interests, large and broad, which ought to be
kept and fostered. Remember that this requires opportunities, and that many
a-stndent who finds the demands of the average society irksome would con
tentedly meet all its claims If there could be even a moderate answer to the
demards of the awakened Intellectual life. Collier's Weekly.
Swirls.
By John C. Van Dyke.
m
S the.-e not a swirl of the universe as well as of the sea ana airt
And is it, too, not caused primarily by difference In tempera
ture? The extremes of the equator and the poles are sufficient
to set In motion thousands of miles ot air and water. But what
Is the heat ot the equator to the blaze of the sun Itself or the
cold of the poles compared with the possible absolute zero ot
- - .. , , - i-L fl . tnn wa V(inttf It
upper splicer ll tne neat oi iue euu uuw uji i "
does), must not the cold of space flow in? On the tremendous currente thus
set in motion would the planets ot one solar system be any more than tennis
balls floating in tho maelstrom?
Ours is but a single circle in space. For millions of years perhaps we
have been eddying e lowly in a Sargasso Sea, seeing on the other side of tne
pool Jupltor and Saturn and Neptune whirling around the rim. It is mit a
little swirl in the universe; but, had we but the eyes to see and the mind to
grasp, we should perhaps find it not different in principle from the greater
swirl. That vast clustering star belt which we call the Milky Way heaps up
from our horizon to a glittering ring in the heavens. What It circles no one
knows, but there is little doubt that it is a circle. What power swung that
mighty swirl into motion? Where blazes the luminary that drives those stars
together? Are they themselves the central dynamos of the universe, and are
all the constellations that plunge hither and yon through space driven off upon
great ellipses by their stupendous heat? , ,
There is no answer. The great truths were evidently not meant for us.
We havo never been able to understand them. We grope blindly for causes,
dragging to light plausible theories that last a little time and then go their
way being wholly insufficient The long argument of science but proves US
weakness. If the truth is ever known, there will be no need ot demonstra
tion, for everything in human experience will immediately confirm it ine
Opal Sea."
Ihe Pan-American Railway
"feSSETS. Monroe Doctrine
By Charles M. Pepper.
ui st is apparent that a railway line or series of lines traversing
.1 twelve or fifteen countries from the United States to the Argen-
111 tine Republic, and sending out lateral branches, only can be
J made effective through international co-operation. When each
of tho countries interested makes provision for building to its
borders along the north and Bouth route, this means ultimate
through communication, ana as one nauou uVViu.u u ----fieri
of a neighbor nntlon that neighbor is given the Incentive for construe
tion within its own limits. All the governments follow the plan which ob
tained in the United States in constructing the transcontinental roadsthat
is, of state aid by means of land grants, bonds, and other forms of subsidies,
or outright payments for completed sections. In this way the gradual unifi
cation of disjointed lines will be obtained. It may be said that In the be
gltning of 190G every Central and every South American country has a defi
nite policv of aiding railway construction as an integral part of the Pan-American
system, and some of them, as in the case of Peru and Bolivia, have en
acted special legislation. All of them are sympathetic tow-ndm '"tercon
tlnental trunk line because it coincides with their plans for internal develop-
ment and external trade. M
Fo;- the United States the project Is the commercial corollary to the Mon
roe doctrine. The moral influence makes for the increased stability and po
litical progress of the various Latin-American republics and there is the
trade benefit of industrial development and enlarged commerce There tawj
peciully the reciprocal Influence of the Panama Canal. And it may be added
that an educational good is derived from the enforced knowledge of geog
Shylrrom "Tne Railways of the Future"-The Pan-American Railway, in
Scrlbner's,
What College
By T. F. Lindsay.
HE assumption of the elective system, that a man win cnoose ad
jects for his college course that he likes, and consequently de
vote himself to them more earnestly, seems perfectly reasonable,
but where there comes a question of education and training on
the one side and the personal comfort and the A. B. degree on
the other, which course Is the eighteen-year-old "man" likely to
T
What is the result? The young man takes the required number of
courses for bis degree in elementary subjects only; one year of history, one
French, onl year of Spanish, etc., and at the end of his college course
hS a Smattering of a dozen or so subjects with no complete knowledge of
my andTworst of all, little mental training. But he has his degree; that is
what he went to college for. and be goes out into the world as a college man.
ftu educated man.
If a college education falls to give a man training it falls in Its principal
duty Intellectual culture and refinement are admirable, but training is es
sential The majority of college graduates In this country go into business
after graduation, where they compete with men who havo been in business
while they were in college. The college man can only outstrip those men by
enlering the race with a well developed intellect, and his chances of having
such and his chances ot winning are but small if he has frittered away his
time In college.
An Englishman living near Lon
don has had his new motor boat
and the Home
altitude of the girl graduate toward the
Training
Should Do
named Expedience but the spells It
Xpdnc"
THE EMERGENCY WOMAN.
SHE HELPS OUT HUMANITY IN
VARIOUS WAYS.
8weet Things for Bachelors Her
Smattering of Talents This Pair
One Has Carefully and Indus-
triously Fitted Into the Pattern of
Life.
The untalented woman when she
faces the problem of bread winning Is
perhaps the most deserving of sym
pathy ot any of her sex.
One who found a field calls herself
"emergency woman," and gives it as
her experience that there Is plenty ot
opportunity for other women to follow
In her footsteps. She admits, howev
er, that the preliminary years of
drumming up custom were not so
easy that one cares to dwell upon
them.
The emergency woman fills in any
gap in the domestic fabric at a mo
ment's notice. While she has no one
great talent she has a smattering ot
many, and it is by making a patch
work of them, which has been care
fully fitted to the pattern of life, that
she has been able to manufacture a
cover for the very coldest weather.
She Is called upon to do all sorts
and kinds of work, and has discover
ed that every sort and kind of inform
ation that she has ever gained can
be put to practical use. The trouble
with the woman who is obliged to be
come a wage-earner is that she Is dis
couraged at the outset because she
cannot do one thing so well that she
is In Instant demand.
The emergency woman when the
New York Sun reporter saw her was
putting up fruit cake and plum pud
dings for a long list ot customers.
"I used to do this In my married
days as a joke; now I find that I can
turn a pretty penny by It. Of course,
I could not depend on this for my sup
port, but It is a fraction, and It doesn't
take so many fractions to make a
unite, if they are only important
enough to begin with. ,
"Housewives know the value of the
cake and pudding that are prepared
in the fall for the Christmas table,
There Is as much difference as there
Is In the vintage of a wine that Is re
cently bottled and one that has the
bouquet of age."
In her spare moments the emergen
cy woman has perfected herself In
the triple need ot modern days, mani
curing, facial massage and shampoo
ing. She does not care to make ";r
money In this way if better opportunl
ties offer, but she can fill in unem
ployed hours.
In the neighborhood of private
schools she can often be seen, a trim
little figure, leading one or two child
ren to their dally tasks, and when
school Is over Bhe returns to escort
them home. Many women are unable
to spare a servant or to go themselves
while the child cannot be trusted to
go alone.
Her care of children extends to a
wider field. She takes them to the
dentist, to the matinees, to any and
all kind? of amusements. Often at
children's parties she attends,
to help out in amusing them,
and on her child list are the names
of two little ones whom she takes
once every week to visit their grand
parents, from whom the parents are
estranged.
While you might think that trade
would lag in the hot weather, the
contrary has been the case, and she
has been kept hard at work. Her
mall Is a large one, consisting of re
quests from out-of-town folk to send
some forgotten article left In the
flurry of departure, to do some shop
ping, to purchase bridge whist prizes
to take advantage ot some bargain
noted In the Sunday papers.
"Just to give you an example," Bhe
says between hurried steps from
pantry to visitor, "one of my ladles
telegraphed me to get her some ar
rack punch for a 5 o'clock tea she
was going to have, and the very
same mall I get a hurry call to meet
a pet dog and have it taken to a
veterinary."
She is called upon often to open
and air apartments before the home
coming, to find maids and have them
ready the most herculean labor of
all and in lieu of that to do such
work in ta apartment as may ren
der it habitable.
Another of her interesting duties
Is the entertainment of guests who
want to shop or to go to places of in
terest of which their hosts are tired.
By filling in a day cf this kind sho
relieves the situation and brings the
guests back at night tired and nappy,
to find the woman of the house de
lighted to welcome them, having had
her own day free.
"My scale of wages, of course,
fluctuates with circumstances. Some
times I am paid by piece
work, whatever that may- be;
again, with a great many of
my customers I receive a
monthly sum for all services render
ed. I keep an account of what I have
done during the stated period, and
the items ot time and services have
their separate values; so far no one
has ever disputed them."
8H0ULD WE SLEEP LONGER?
Women Need Less Repose Than Men
Beerbohm Tree's Rest for a
First Night.
"Women, I say without hesitation,
need less sleep than men, and I say
that after observation of many hun
dreds of tkem."
Dr. Josiah Oldfleld, the well-known
specialist, cannot account for the fact,
but yesterday he told a Dally Mall
representative that, whether they are
of the working classes or of higher
station In life, women need, and their
nature la satisfied with less sleep than
their husbands or other male rela
tives demand.
Meantime man differs as to what
he needs. The following are expert
ences or advice as to the duration '1
of sleep sent to the Dally Mail by dla- 11
tingultjihed men: f
The. Bishop of Riponi: When I
j 14 " n i " " i' -
need; when old, as much as you can
get.
Sir Frederick Treves: , The aver
age amount of sleep for, myself is
seven to eight hours.
Sir George Lewis, the well-known
solicitor: I think eight hours suf
ficient I sleep nine hours.
Mr. Vincent Hill, general manager
of the South-Eastern Railway: I
think it Is well that people should
sleep as long as they can, and that
Is my practice.
Mr. Beerbohm Tree: I should say
in my case eight hours' sleep Is bet
ter than seven, and nine hours better
than eight. I take nine hours when
ever I can, and invariably sleep for
that period when on a holiday, and as
near to it as possible at all times.
Further, I consider sleep before any
effort, with the power to go to sleep
at any time, most valuable. 1 have
cultivated that power, nnd Invariably
recuperate by Its aid before the ex
hausting strain of a "first night;' or
before playing a new part.
Sir Edward Ward, Permanent Under-Secretary
for War: I find six and
a half hours enough. I daresay I
could manage nine or ten hours with
an occasional wake up; but I should
call that "slacking."
Dr. Josiah Oldfleld: It is certain
that every man must have a certain
minimum of sleep per twenty-four
hours. Most find that minimum
eight hours, but an enormous number
are satisfied with five and a half hours,
I always sleep eight hours and re
gard that as, on the whole, the prop
er minimum for a man. Certainly
five and a half hours Is not enough.
Sir Robert Ball: Don't expect an
astronomer to confess how many
hours of the precious night he wastes
by staying In bed.
The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Lieuten
ant of Ireland: I find that much can
be accomplished In either, direction
by training and habit. But as' to the
saying that one cannot burn the can
dle at both ends I have heard the
suggestion that It Is one of the ways
of making both ends meet
During the six months which Mr.
Charles Frohman, the theatre man
ager, spent in London recently his
hours of sleep averaged not more
than flve. He rose at 7:30 a. m., and
rarely got to bed before 2 a. m., some
times later.
At the Bank of England a high of
ficial said he liked twelve hours when
ever he could get it that is, be
tween Saturday and Sunday. "Other
days I don't get enough. ' V JL
The principal of a leading ivrm of
stock brokers said: "Members of my
profession sleep well because we lave
easy consciences. I myself find iine
to ten hours sufficient." London Mall.
Is,-
The Circus.
"The circus must have taken
000 or $20,000 away from Charlotte,"
said a calculating business man. f
"They more than earned it," jde
clared a man who understands. "If
1,000 children saw the circus and
the animals, I don't grudgo the money
the show got." f
Where the return? Certainly the
mere two hours' of pleasure finder
the tent would not be worth so much
money to a few children. But It does
not end there. What Immense treas
ures for a child's imaeinatlon! How
Tlvid w.lll be his memories of some
of the sights, and how he will see
live forms In every-day objects. How
much longer his imagination may live,
and when that dies a great part of
the beauty and sweetness has gone
out of life!
Yes, let the circus come, If It takes
away twice $20,000. Charlotte Ob
server. Captured Chinese Flag.
The recruiting office in this city
has hung on its walla a Chinese flag
which was captured rom the Chinese
forces by the Nintt. infantry of the
United States in command ot Col.
Llacum.
The flag Is twelve feet long and Is
shaped as an uneven triangle. The
base, which was fastened to the pole,
Is six feet wide. A many colored
dragon four feet long-, with fiery tongue
Is striving to reach a bloody
moon Just out of his reach. The drag
on is In this position on the flag
to show the Chinese belief that the
empire would pull down that moon
could It but reach It Several bul
let holes decorate the yellow portion
which surrounds the moon and the
dragon.
The finest of workmanship la dis
played on the flag. The toes, eyes
and the fiery moon are carefully in
laid against the sombre background.
The Chinese flagmakers consider a
well make flag an estimate of their
love for the Emperor.
The crimson moon and the fiery
tongue do not attract the attention of
the observer as does the blood which
is spattered in many places on the
flag. The blood 13 sure to remind
that war Is not of the gentlest occu
pation. Wichita Eagle.
Joseph Phillips, originator of the fa
mous Phillips cling peach, the finest
canning variety ever produced and
the enrlcher of many orchardlsu, died
In a hospital, at Yuba, Cal.. a pauper.
Almost 15,000 women work about
the mines In the German empire.