CHK MAN THAT GETS CACTS,
ttlwii here' to the man whn vi - Kurt
' iWhrn fate has struck us between the
eyes,
When fondest hope in failure dies,
When black and angry are all our ikies,
Sere' to. tbe man who get back,
r
orKS oacK
Fiahta hnrk -
Yt tit Yn1-nr- ri I. tm mil
la hi own control
t Gets back. -ffbea
here's to the man who gets back,
t fio craven coward to ween and irrnnn.
! lie trusts to his God and himself alone:
! Ko whimpers, no cursings, no feeble
moan, ,
Here's to the man wh. "'
. ' Works tad.
! Fights l.ick
By the power of his- soul
. In his own control'
Gets back.
-George Comstock Baker, in the Masonic
unuern new xorKer.
WOMAN PROPOSES,
MAN DISPOSES
- By BESS MEREDITH.
k Harlan Anderson carefully re-ar-fanged
the pillows back of her head
and then sank back once more upon
. tbe divan.
k "Speaking of men " she began.
"That's all you ever speak of," her
- youthful cousin interrupted, sweetly,
i "Cicely!" Marian rebuked. "Hut,
as I was saying, my brother Tom is,
without exception, the most bashful
man I have ever seen as far as girls
are concerned."
) Cicely Warren arose and walked
ver to the side of the girl who was
eated at the rosewood writing desk.
r "Eileen," she remarked, "Marian
fa merely Implying that there Is abso
lutely no chance for you in that di
rection." ) . Eileen Donovan blushed and turned
again to her writing. This charming
Irish girl, on a visit to her American
cousins, had a habit of blushing when
ever the name of Tom Anderson
!rhom she had met three or four
limes was mentioned. At present
lie was at college, but was expected
liome toon.
" "Do you know," Marian wasspeak
Ing again, "Bob Webster, Tom's
chum, once said that poor Tom would
never be brave enough to propose to
a girl, nor would he be brave enough
to refuse one if she proposed to him."
"That's merely another hint for
you, Eileen," Citely Interposed, air
ily. "It's up to you, as Tom would
ay, to propose to him."
This time Eileen met her cousin's
saie frankly. "Are you sure it would
be satisfactory?" she esked, naively.
4 "Very," affirmed Cicely.
' Marian Anderson suppressed a
yawn. "Why don't you propose to
Him?" she asked languidly.
Eileen's blue eyes danced merrily.
"Why, I believe I will," she said in
nocently. Cicely giggled and Marian turned
ith a smile to her novel.
"It's leap year," Cicely reminded
Iter mirthfully, "and he won't dare
refnse you."
Eileen selected a sheet of her dain
tiest notepaper and occupied herself
for some minutes writing. Then she
looked up.
"Will this do?" she inquired, and
.with a smile she read :
"Dear Tom I trust that you will
not think me too bold, but as this is
lean year I wished to malm nu nf mv
prerogative and ask you to marry me.
Awaiting your reply, I am ever yours,
"EILEEN DONOVAN."
"Bravo!" applauded Cicely.
"Splendid!" assented Marian.
'And, after addressing the envelope
Klleen thrust the letter into one of
' the pigeonholes, intending to destroy
It later on.
It was almost a week later and the
girls were seated in the breakfast
Toom when the maid entered with the
nail. Marian, after assorting it,
lianded three envelopes to Eileen.
Two were postmarked from Ireland,
but one was postmarked Boston.
Wonderlngly she opened It and
pulled forth the letter.
"Of all things." she gasped, after
reading It through twice. "Listen to
this:
"Dear Eileen--I accept with pleas
are your kind proposal and trust that
you will make the date of our mar
riage an early one. I will be home
Monday on the evening train and ex
pect you to meet me at the station
with the trap. Until then I am ever
your loving fiance.
"THOMAS ANDERSON."
Eileen finished breathlessly. "Who
aent him that letter?" she asked, her
lace white with anger.
Cicely blushed and became sudden
ly Interested in the pattern on the
cloth.
"Cicely Warren, did you send that
letter?" Eileen went on.
"Why er er yes!" blurted
Cicely. "I took It out of your desk
and sent It" '
"Oh, you little wretch," Eileen
aald. "You'll have to explain, and
furthermore I absolutely refuse to
meet him. What time does his train
Bet la?" she .finished abruptly.
"Not until , Marian interposed
tastily.
"Why, It began Cicely, but
stopped as she caught Marian's warn
ing; look. .
"Wo- sre to go over to the Annes
leys for lunch," Marian continued,
' o we'd better hurry, as it's a long
drive." And the three arose from the
table. '
It was 5.30 and Eileen iad Just
finished dressing when Marian en
tered her room.
"Dearie," Marian b gan softly. "J
bate to ask you to do this and 1
mm
wouldn't If there were anyone else te
doit."
"Well, then, I've a letter which
must go to-night, and I wondered it
you would be kind enough to take It
to the station in time for that 6.10
train. Cicely Is out playing tennis
and I'm not dressed for dinner, so it
you don't mind I'll have the trap sent
around and you can drive over."
"Certainly, I'll go," the girl assent
ed, and ten minutes later she was on
the way to the station. '
When she had almost reached It
she heard the train whistle blow, and
she urged the horse on. Breathlessly
she Jumped from the trap and handed
tbe letter to the statlonmaster Just as
the train swept In.
, Then she walked back to the trap
and was about to drive away when
she heard her name called. Turning
she beheld a tall, well built young
man laden with suitcases and golf
bags hurrying In her direction. With
a gasp she recognized Tom Anderson.
' "Goodness," you're in a hurry," he
said, depositing his cases and climb-'
ing In beside, her. - .-.
"How did you get here?" Eileen
asked suspiciously. "Marian said you
wouldn't get here until 9."
' "Why, she knows there isn't any
train at that time," and he stopped
suddenly and smiled.
"Oh, I see," he went on. "You
weren't coming to meet me."
"Of course I wasn't," Eileen an
swered hotly, "not after that horrid
letter that Cicely sent."
"But you wrote it!" Tom said ac
cusingly.
And Eileen blushed charmingly.
"Anyway," said Tom, a few min
utes later, "I returned, and as long as
we accepted it's all settled."
The interruption here, was very Im
portant, for the horse almost ran Into
a tree and Eileen had a time fixing
her hair.
"You are a rude boy," she said se
verely.
"But at the same time I am your
fiance."
And she did not contradict him.
From the Buffalo Times.
ARISTOCRATIC ENGINEERS.
Khedive of Egypt Has a Private Rail
way King of Spain's Chief Di
version. .
The Khedive of Egypt has a private
railway from his palace at Ras-el-Tin
in Alexandria to his country place
at Montazar, and it constitutes one
of his favorite hobbies. It is, of
course, only a short line, ten miles,
but It is long enough to give him the
constant delight of driving the engine
himself, which he generally does.
He is a very keen engineer, as was
shown by the interest he took in the
great Nile dam at Assuan, but he la
perennially Interested in locomotives.
During his last visit to France he
rode on the cab with the driver of
the express from Calais to Amiens,
and took a hand at the levers.
The Marchioness of Tweeddale
drove the first locomotive that
crossed the Forth Bridge. The Mar
quess of Dewnshlre has a private rail
way at Hillsborough, and keeps a
Bort of "pet" engine which cost his
lordship 1000 guineas.' The train
contains a splendid saloon carriage
for his guests, for he himself is gen
erally on the engine, and a guard's
van, in which some of his guests
prefer to ride. He almost invariably
drives' the engine with his own
hands and his favorite speed is forty
miles an hour. . There is no speed
limit on a private railway line and
no police traps!
Earl FItzwilltam is another practi
cal engineer who delights in the lo
comotive engine. He learned the art
of driving when he was quite young
by going whenever he could with the
drivers of the coal trains on his own
estate.
It is well known that one of the
young King of Spain's chief diver
sions beforo his marriage was to ride
on the footplate of the royal train
with the driver and take lessons In
engine driving. He has become quite
expert and fearless, and he has fre
quently driven his mother and sis
ters.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria . Is
another royal engine driver. He
quite recently drove the express from
AbbeyviHe to Paris under the super
intendence of the regular driver.
From Tit Bits. '
T-wect Processions.
Among the curious sights some
times witnessed by entomologists are
the "processions" formed by the lar
vae of a moth inhabiting pine-trees
in some parts of France. They march
in single file, and the. leader spins
a thread which is added to by Its
followers.- A procession consisting
of 114 of these larvae was seen last
April In the woods near Arcachon.
The processions are formed both at
night, when the creatures make ex
cursions from their nest to feed on
the young leaves, and in -the daytime,
when they descend to the ground to
seek a place In the sand where they
may burrow and pass to tbe pupa
stage. A kind of fly was observed
attacking the procession above men
tioned, to lay its eggs in the marching
larvae. '
A School For Dogs.
A school for dogs has been estab
lished in Paris. The object Is to
teach them politeness. The animals
are trained to welcome visitors by
Jumping up, wagging the tall and giv
ing a low, bark. When the visitor
leaves the dog accompanies him to
the door, constantly wagging his tall,
and bows' his farewell by bending his
bead to tbe floor. He Is trained, like
wise, to pick, up a handkerchief, glove
or fan that has been dropped and re
turn It to tbe owner JF'i
The Dove and the Stork. v
' . By Edward A. Rosa. .
FIE friends of arbitration err
T
pride and hate anil greed.
the leashing of these evil
world's peace. Those who would lock the European nartlons In
some federal framework that would consecrate for all time the
existing frontiers overlook
unnerceived. is sowing the
Rvorir nn knows that the nrosrress
rate and the death-rate. Fecundity Is
cipation of women, the triumph of democracy. Mortality U lowered fty tne
progress of the healing art, higher medical education, better water and drainage
tor cities. The former factors, however, come In slowly, while the latter may
Introduced at a stroke. Multiply hospitals, universities and laboratories, fill
the country with good doctors, modernize your water and sewage systems,
organize your sanitary administration ami the mortality rate will drop at once.
The birth-rate, on the other hand, declines only with extensive changes in the
standards and aspirations of the masses.
Now, the latest censuses reveal to the startled eye of the sociologist that
the equilibrium of the European peoples Is being disturbed as never before
(by the simple fact that science, sweeping eastward through the Teutons to
the Slavs, Is civilizing the death-rate far more rmpldly than democracy, moving
slowly in the same direction, can civilize the birth-rate. During the last decade
of the century the birth-rate In Austria fell a fortieth, the death-rate a thir
teenth. In Hungary the shrinkage was a twentieth and an eighth. Since Be
dan the Germans have moderated "their fecundity, a tithe while lowering their
mortality a quarter. Russia retaining the barbarous birth-rate of forty-nine
has got Us mortality down lo thirty-four.
The result of this unequal spread of civilizing influences Is that the
population of Central and Eastern Europe Is growing with appalling rapidity.
While France Is stationary, German Increases five-Eixths of a million a year
and Russia a million and a third. Never has there been so rapid a shifting
of the centre of stravlty of numbers
Meteorology declares that when a
will ibe trouble. . The same Is -true of
must at last protect Us comfort hy
labor, and even the cheap capital of a neighboring people that overDreeus.
Then on the one side of the barrier the struggle for existence becomes more
Intense than on the other. Sooner or .later a current sets In toward the centre
of depression, which Is vulgarly known as an Invasion. Against such a move
ment the decree of a Hague Court will be as futile as Canute's command to
the sea.
By lhe time there are two German soldiers for every French soldier and
two Russians In uniform for everv Gorman, It will be realized that not pride
or greed or iove of flghWne embroils
the dove of peace Is not the peacock,
benignant stork. Woman's Home Companion.
By Rail Mecca.
Ry William Tyler Bliss.
'ERY pprlng, on the great day when the procession starts, the
Ms I housetops along the streets are crowded with a gayly clothed
I throng, showering blessings
bans, for those who will
crying the next, after the
al a curious eight for the
Bhould pass! For even
road is never completed to Mecca, yet
must soon become a thing of the past.
tive than a rug-laden camel, and the stuffy smoking compartment of a tnir
clan carrln.ee does not lend itself esDeclallv to romance. The Mecca "limit
ed" and the Medina "accommodation" wlll have to answer for many sins; and
yet, after ail, they will not be able entirely to destroy the delicious local color
of the East. Railroad travelling there becomes quickly naturalized. The land
of Bookra (tomorrow) .remains the land of Bookra still, even with the advent of
steel rails. The guards admonish the
Shwel!" (Slowly! Slowly) instead of ft
of Bmall American railroads In New
pick berries are true In the East.
Interesting happening along Us route.
tumble fights I ever saw was on a threshing-floor somewhere In the Anti
Lebanon, and the Damascus express halted to let us see the exciting finish of
It. At first, if you are newly arrived In the land, you will swear, but after you
have been there a few months, by Bookra, you will bribe anybody to put off
anything, and the beauty of It Is you won't have to do much bribing. Harper's
Weekly. .
A Woman's
with
By Mrs. A. M. Glenn.
HE surest way to retain
home. Pull up your shades and let God's sunshine Into your
homes and Into your hearts. If you are not your husband'B
equal, study and Improve your mind till you can converse with
him on any subject, and he will respect you far more than if you
spent your whole life toiling and drudging In the kitchen until
there Lsn't cheerfulness
coming. I know It is said the surest
the way of his stomach, but I believe
tetter than high living and low thinking.
There Is a why for every wherefore, and the why for family Jars consists
in not knowing how to manage. Now, we have got the best husband in tho
world, and I'll wager ten to one that
the matrimonial reins they wouldn't
over traces, smash up the whiffletree
understand the science of management.
way is to look humble and be desperately cunning, bait them with submission,
then throw the noose over their will,
pat their bump of self-conceit. It's a great mistake to contend with the "lords
of creation;" what can't be had by force must be won by stratagem. Make a
silken rein of love and lead them where
must you attempt to drive or they will
of the matrimonial pasture.
Then let us have homes In which
sion, no polar storms of coldness and hate; homes refined by books and glad
dened by song; homes In which wife and mother shall not lose all her attract
ing charms toy unremitting toil and drudgery, nor the husband and father
starve his brain and dwarf his soul
happy children shall ever see tne beauty
and homes of love.
Machine Education.
Statistics and Stupidities Bhould Be Avoided by
Lfcturern.
By W. Q. Parsons.
a"3W lecturers, alas, know anything about lecturing. It Is not lectui
lng to read off bibliographies. If every lecturer would first con
vince himself and bis audience that there was some reason for
his speaking rather than printing, there would be fewer lectures.
f The art of lecturing requires art. It requires a thing unrecog-
Ol . nized hy science personality. Tbe college lecturer comes stoop-
shouldered from his stack of indic- and recites the latest statis
tics; or he comes square-shouldered from the athletic field, and recites the
latest stupidities. Statistics are better in books. One may skip them. But
the true lecturer, who knows how to lecture, who has something of his own
to say, so Intimate, so earnest, so personal, that to convey it all a book is
Insufficient, but he must say K with his own Hps, looking in the faces of his
students he no longer comes. Or, if he does, he comes discredited, uncertain
of the tenure of his office; and It is only because he is either simple in his
innocence or determined in bis wisdom, that he continues to lecture, to be
lieve In heart and character, In feeling and taste. In moral uplK't and in
tellectual fire. In a world where tbe reigning gods want only facts. But the
students know the difference. How' refreshing to behold the cheerful sanity
with which they avoid the pits that have been digged for them, and go their
willful way! Where a true lecturer opens his doors, there they flock in. But
soon the teeth of prescription seize them. They are forced to -go here and
there. And thus the bores also win an audience. A fact which accounts for
their majority among those who Insist upon prescription. As most college lec
tures go now, they are nothing but oral books. The men have vanished out
of them. The typical college of today consists of a shrewd financier, libraries
arid 1'her librarians, and laboratories and their laboratorlans. Like the rest
of the age, they are made up of money and matter. Machine-mad, we have
tone far toward maklnf taucatlon also a machine. From the Atlantic.
In assuming that wars arise only from
The fact is, something more than
passions Is necessity to ensure the
the extraordinary process which, all
dragon's teeth for future strife.
of civilization lowers both the birth
checked by popular education, the eman
and of fighting power.
"low" forms adjacpnt to a "high" there
sociology. The people that underbreeds
barring out the cheap goods, the cheap
the peoples, but hunirsr. The- last foe of
the vulture, or the eaile, but the
on the pilgrims, walling loudly, per
never return, laugning one nnnuie u
ephemeral manner of the East all In
Occidental. A thousand pities that It
if Ahmed Bey tells the truth, end tne
the picturesque start of the pilgrimage
A puffing railway train is less decora
passengers with a gentle bnwei:
raucous "Step lively!" The stories
England which stop for the passengers to
The speediest express slows up for any
One of the most enjoyable rough-and
Way
Her Husband
your husband's love Is to make a, happy
enough about you to even smile at his
way to reach, a man's affections is by
that plain living and high thinking are
If any other woman undertook to draw
drive forty rods before he would kick
and raiBe Ned In general. They don't
You must lead, not drive. The only
walk around tho bump of antagonism and
you will, but tinder no consideration
at once canter off to the farthest limit
these shall he no searching blasts of pas
by hours of overwork; homes In which
of love and holiness; homes of culture
New York City. Every style of
blouse that gives the continuous line
over the shoulders Is in vogue and a
great many charming effects are the
result. This one, designed for young
girls, is exceedingly attractive and be
coming, while the result is obtained
by very idmple means, as the trim
ming portion, which gives the contin
uous line, Is cut all in one and ar
ranged over the blouse after - it is
made. In this instance sheer white
batiste is combined with embroidery.
The blouse Is made with the tucked
fronts and backs, which are Joined to
the yoke portions, and is trimmed be
tween tbe groups ot tucks. The
Blceves are inserted In the armholes,
after which the garniture is arranged
over the whole. The lower edge is
Joined to a belt, and In this instance
the belt is of lace insertion.
The quantity ot material required
for the sixteen-year size Is three and
one-eighth yards twenty-four, two
yards thirty-two or one and one-half
yards forty-four Inches wide, with one
and one-bait yards eighteen Inches
wide for the garniture, eight and one-
half yards of banding.
The New Shoe.
The tip is more pointed.
The vamp is shorter.
The wing tip Is ubiquitous.
The Cuban beet is seen most fre
quently.
Tan Is tbe most popular for young
people.
Gun metal Is thr selection of older
ones.
Ooze is tbe nev st leather.
As its name suggests, it is porous
looking.
Dull gray suede holds its own.
The Slender Figure.
Some one has discovered that the
slender figure ot fashion swathed
with clothes that outline it does not
harmonize perfectly with the rosy
cheek; that the woman without, hips
must have a pale face In order to be
fashionable.
Cost Front Finishing.
The front ot the coat Is finished
with a rose-shaped chou of velvet ot a
darker red than U.e costume.
Meteor Silk.
Meteor silk makes some ot the
prettiest robes for evening wear.
The fabric it soft, clinging and' tbe
coloring is wonderful.
Parasol In New Design.
One of tbe newest parasols to finish
a charming summer costume is of
white ' china silk embroidered all
around the edge with sprays of thistle
done in lightest mauve and palest
greens.
Dressing Jacket.
Such a pretty little dressing Jacket
as this one cannot fall to find Its wel
come. It Is dainty and attractive, it
is absolutely simple and It Is peculiar-,
ly well adapted to the incoming sea
son. In the illustration it is made of
white batiste trimmed with embroid
ery, but it would be charming if the
material chosen were flowered lawn,
cross-barred dimity or anything sim
ilar, and If something a little hand
somer Is wanted, Japanese silks will
be found desirable.
The Jacket is made with the fronts,
the back and the centre-front. The
sleeves are cut In one with the front
and back portions and are Joined over
the shoulders. The centre-front is"
tucked and the back is laid in a box
pleat at the centre.' Tbe closing is
made invisibly at the left of the front.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-fourth yards twenty-one or
twenty-four, two and one-fourth yards
thirty-two or one and one-half yards
forty-four Inches wide, with seven and
one-eighth yards of banding, three
and one-eighth yards of edging.
Hatpin Trimmings Are Xcw.
-Hatpin trimmings figure promi
nently among the modish eccentrici
ties of French women. Th3 fad has
grown to such an extent that the hat
pin outfit is a real necessity to the
wardrobe. This consists of cardboar I
boxes In which repose rows ot hatpins
as stolid as dead soldiers.
Linen Hats.
Linen bats will be worn u much m
ever this summer.