A Rene oh A yawn. | Yom bave met, perchance, with the chronic | Who 530 you the tales he bas told be ; Yio have triid to smile as bt mann . And dered poarly burst with en mo yawned yawn, | Or Be youth who comes six sight in| seven, woos the maiden sit half. Who tia, ag she ¢ thinks, “Will | ey _ dawn sr Tg loge Bh ll og T on | And inwardly groaned with an wsyawaed | yawn. 1m at Chareh — but here woud be yor ak; Tod ktow, can't stay awake in chanh dom’t Es cet mie er tt a i And the frame eomvulsed with am wn yawned yawn. Aid ut, or aur sm of scivnes wy [ Them is _sothing thats lout, ar Wastes Scere § in the yawning depths of space | All the unyawned yawns may have found : hey face. VER on the West Bide--No. 48 DeKalb strest. to be definite ~Jives a bacdoome. cleanout | young [silow, Just of age. and | whose name fs Michael J. Bodinger Haw many people are there 1a whos tha name means saything, or wlio after | thought can remember having beard {It before? Budinger Is a Chicago boy, and be cathe ack In the city the 5! other Qay stor a Pile more than thres | years’ siwence, snd outside of the members of hie family, the mother, the father, the sisters and the brothers, wie live In the Little home on the West | Side, no ome met him with any great amount of scelaim. Yet this boy Bud | | inger suffered mors personally for his | country “40 8 recent occasion than did | soores of men whose coming te Chit : | cago wonld mean many winings snd | dings and nanny Interviews io the * 9 9 Bodiager was only one of the boys behind the guns. In the battle that) gave the Philipploe Islands and many | millions of people to the United States | { Michnel J. Badinger sufferad mote than + any other wan fo Duwey's great Beet, RE. DIDN' T any ANY BEEAKF ART. : »e Budinger did not hear them. In 1 fact, the surgeons and his messmates | “| fully believed that the boy wonld get Bis first knowledge of the American victory fn another world. The Chicago 18d was shell man of one of Se an i get 8 free ride. I know of one woman six-inch rifies on board the TU. Baltimore. Captain Dyer an, Up to the time that Dewey gave the | order to withdraw temporarily that bis men might have a cup of coffee Bud. Inger had stood behind the thin shield | 1 of the six-inch rifle and had passed a wot the ip took a rord war over the into twe River some ree fect. 1 shell every minute or two info Ha yawning breech. Then for reasons 1 anaply sufficient to himself and to his i commanding officers be ceased pass. ing shells and took no further Interest in the proceedings. Budinger was one of the seven Americans who wire burt | | In the Baitle of Manila Bay. All theses men were on board the Baltimore and all were‘serviog the same gus. Bad Inger was the most serfously injured one of the lot. and it was bellived for several weeks that his pame would £0 on the record as being that of the “only American seaman killed in the conflict. The other night Captain Joseph W. | O'Donnell, a man who has seen service, | ran into Budinger. O Donnell bas a! long memory and the name strack him lite & flash, He questioned the boy and goon saw his Manila medal, his | discharge and record papers, and the | scar that circles the eye from forehead | to cheek hone. O'Dosnell toll of the sailor's presence. The boy hax a Hite Store on the West Side, and there { when pressed a little, he told his mod. ‘est tale of the first part of that Manila | Bay fight from the standpoint of ene of the little group of men every one #1 of whom was sent to the sick hed by a Spanish shell. LS Se 2Oulside of the actual personal ex perience of one of those who got hurt a little,” sald the sailor) “the story of the battle of the bay Is wearisomely old to everybody. We went into the down by the fac of the eu. any drawing ther fire fret ut a dis a an. and tet “ ng | 1000 broadsides as we went past The | And Tors: thunk : ought, net dead, yet |p Pus rer has wept for he siyyswned at we made are old stories I was shell man of one of the six-inch rites. This gun bas a shield ghont the breceh to protest the men mance. The Baltimore was hit only five times, but the Soanish shells went iy. They made mie pervous: they made j everybody nervous at fra, snd there men world duck thelr heads when something etrnck or thers was an ei i» pot a success. Every fimo that we { taken ar sone aliip, 2nd our Dervoue {ness soon wore off in our anxiety to soe If we cond follow the Sight of our | shells to their destination. We thought | wa did & lot of damage with our rifle, bur whers things were fiying so thick shell that did that which wa took eredit for. fast getting bevoud the front of the | enetny’s line prior to going ont to get thing happened. A short distance fram ish shell went through the side of the knocked the beams upward asd oul and bit and expioded that ammunition thom of a crash. AH the rest 1 jearpsd | subsequently. The chances nmre that the seven of os who were behind the shield of the six-inch rifle were manition which the Spanish shell ex: i ploded. “1 didn’t pet any breakfast that gmorning. soy supper that night or any breakfast the next morning 1 was wdenmcions for more than twenty-four hones A places of a shell strack woe BGuarely Af the shies of Ge fl oye Si =. Tw ’ there 1a fo the when you waked up after tweniy ars” sleep” “The bovs told me that 1 opened my pliad Bedingor Pig we lek them? That Is the Srt safer. Nd we lok them? Record-Herald. i People Who Attend Fanersls. said 3 Washington undertaker a few days ago. “This may seem strange, not an underisker in this oity who oes mot come in contact with this clidi of Jovy gearly every dag in tis week, 1 them pests. for that is the only same that consistently ap | plies to them, bood, or in any part of the city. for that paatter. they lose ne time In get: ting to the Louse of motrning They | tlways evince sn interest in the fame fy, and, of coprse, desire a final look | at the deceased. “They are prompily oan band at the funeral, and. as & rule, are dressed In inte sents reserved for monrners-in- dead. They are as a rule. among the first to got to the carriages, and wi dot fail to riog themslives In” for a) ride to the conietery, friend the family does not care to make & scene, snd the professional mourner in Washington who haa attended as many as three funerals in a single day. Bhe evinced the sarge intersst at each, and believe me when 1 say that, although ashe was not connected with any of the familirs she actually trim! and “took on’ ax if each dead “Undertakers know these wolgen, and many of thers have tried to put a stop to the morbid practice, but it ls coe that 1s bard to contend with. It would seem that the professineal monrner bad rome to stay with oa” Ww Ashington Bitar. Pension Manet. Unele Sam sends peasion money al} over the workl Every country Is mi presente, and geariy every inhabited island of the ses. Un ! toners are on the Istand of Comers, Beal the eoast of Routh Afrien; on the Reyvobelles Island, in the Indian Ovean: ‘in Blerra Leone, near Liberis, and on the Island of Manritiox. In Grea Britain there are 570 of Uncle Sam's : pensioners. In Ireland 427 receive $360, ik annually: England bas 328 who pet (845 5050 Scotland bas 102 with 817.000, {mhile 15 in Wales receive $140d0 Ip | Guremany theve are 810 wands of the ' United States. who draw SE05000. | France has T2, who get $100: Rus gig, 0 who receive $1400. Norway, 45 drawing 87x and Denmark, 27. re ceiving $581 Down in Spain 7 pen stoners get S835. and Portugal bas 4 i who take $346. So it gues into Italy, i with 33. drawing $4300; up into Rus gis, where 00 ref 246058: over fo Turkey where 7 receive $1000, and down inte Africa, where 13 are pald B0000. Om (this eontinern:, in Canadas. Mesico. and South Amicries. there are many more} in proportion. Every cammunity holds | Shem = Baltimore into an officer's cabin, *In all cities there are persons whose | one great alm is to attend funerals” but ft is true, nevertheless. There Ia “If there 2 a death In the neighbor | black. Same of them have heen known | to get 20 bold as to crowd themselves | mediate members of the family of the =f course, at the hisr of 8 dead person bad boen her nearest loved one. | sgaisst small arms fre but it owas practicnlly useless against heavy onde | ver ux around apd alent Be omstant. wis something fanny in the way the | plosion. Ducking as a means of safety | ‘fred. of courses, a definite alm was | it might have been some other fellows ia bite of something fo eat when som : us on the deck was a box of three | potinder shells just seat up from way | Topas down in the ammunition bold. A Span. Jf ward, took a glanciog direction itself | box. 1 bave a sort of a dim recollec: | knocked out by pleces of American am | Here in the parlor I sit) ina moment or Two eel be downy” ge, Be iy privk just & bit— i neler # _y —_ or enh. B +b % i pi it 3 ausrier be koew that Td wall oh an at . es ies 3 Hite TETAtion, I yom. I re mot doonwd to be late! But, then tha a goddess, a cuern- A rR, at beet. ow die, #0 1 Predestined to pale, all serene, Man wait or beatir, 3% her will. Fight hissy? Great Caiwar! (lame on, 5 we're ming the fan A round doen parte cold 1 don While Fou ave been Pasing with poe And thin is “8 moment or two’ ! 7 # deem that Than sitting here prot ng fn my hat’ 245 & z ricther place Bit me in the chest, and | still another, a sunaller hit, Bit me dn | the hand. I was in the hospital for a! A guarier tn mine’ Faith snd | Ives! B's more than ot ad AR! There's a rastie ahs A frofrog of silk on the stair “We Bad made the last Joop and were She's coming quarter a nine’ I must emile and peetand. J supose “I never | Sw ot God Blows her! As wt BA 4% poses wElwin I.E Sin, § is Puck. di Re The Millionaires After all. my amey hasn't brought us happiness” Who does not fear 49 fel] the truth Is pretty brave, but, my! More heave iv he wha'u not, forscoth, Afraid tor teil a le “Philadelphia Prem. She" Mr. Niblack i & very skill (fal golfer, n't he? He-*1 don't! koow about that bat Le cortainly Is Hest Hal? the wash doesn’t Now York OC bp Ther hssgne walt, firtnd with smooth eaderars pores rials far better than any other sort for occasions of formal dress As | wadet and tie entive eostanie Ths waist proper is plein asl smeoth at the back with and sxivoding slightly over the skirt eults many guns and mauy mate | : ualvictis boapnts T= | tive viriting dress of dark green velvet pitted” with white is richly rbmed ol elie, are trenrtnd By the deesapaker precise i This smart Muy Manton model in His Wife~Nut it has made us ob | (WIS thes dewirable features and at) joots of envy "—Lifs | the Same time has a fapey front and ; Lo sleeven that regder it elaborate 2nough white pitting on hrowns. Undersleoven 4 vestep qr BMonse front or collar and cuffs are all mwde of pitted velvet, to combine with cloth of fanned. Ag ee with dark furs. A Pink Homespun, The wand “homespun” strmests § “Backabomt™ or general gtiiity cose tre. BL this season we have them in trae evening shades Ths new year brings os <ear pink and sky blue Sompreptine as well ax the “water greens pearl and biscuit shades ranged ander the generic name of pase Thess arty homespuns 7 He doth gownn. They have border deseratiog of binek velvet or dark for, ‘aad are Dep word to afternoons teas. Chillon, Pink Eoses and Lave, A fea gown of sirpassing lovelinesy is of fine white chiffon over ping wating falling to the feel, where it rosts on 8 ruche Of plak roses This agains is | vedled by a lace ovendess axguisitely embrakiered with garlands of pink © tin riblon and ohiffon fowers the os hatiging from a beri of pink roses: i {leh Jdecerateldl la the same ; manner. the lace adaed with tiny { shown the material is Saphio satin in! . pastel blve with front and sedersiseros i of cremm Jace over white and tay edge! trimming of fancy werolled brald, but : pumherless manriabexnd combinations | ut I might De suggested both for the odd | 8 very Saent goifir-Philadelphin bonillonnes of pink chiffun. completes Lhe costae, Shiree. Thera his We a great deal of talk shout ub skirts and they certainly 1d 1 Pare petting fuller. Ther are frog fron The Hein is snugly ded 2nd fo : Celeales donde davis wader-arm gores know how the other Mil Dyer” Jow | and side backs, ert-1 think you Arerastimate the | mamber of people who i thelr own | smooth eipdherarm pores bat f= slighty | Ee rn po § ¥ at was the Ors thing yon all eves and sald: Dd we Helk Tem? 7 re. : Peal at rhe front The sest or full 1 “I wonder whe this pan 8 who! ing round the feet, thourh #51] kenping that graceful, clinging sppearanes round he dip. We ail vine a ten depey towand shortening the walking REL An animely seusible ote. an ig ae dees net Interfere wlth our wants to know whether or sot life je | warth living?” “Oh probably some! Ctollow who haw mee ooensy than be | | kows what fo do with tie Lavra-"Yes you ses she fold him her father haa fost all his wonlth, dus : thought of every true sollier and men Ars Well, he wil koow | | It is of such stuff that men are made, | ~Edward B. Clark, fo the Chicago : iter States pen | conking school to Bit her for numrrisge.” engaged to found it out Judge sliger to Kaew she has lost her voles? My. Praclere-"Its much nore tortur | ite. troyed hy fre!” Young Arntist-“Hip | out expressed a drawing on that train ~=Ldfe. thrown out of the Boston library.™ {mings apd was ser before Kir The the wiiter: “How mach YY He turned happened to be there and the young azul to sit dewn and oper what be to test Lie love for Ber” Adg—“And | better next time" The Smart Set. Mrs. A "1 send suv Saati to 8 Mrs. B"Was (be experiment a suo cess Mra ADs homing she wad If Miss Mineres brerved to slay Football, ‘muds other studious cares, Thows hang rushes, ME WAY, Would ¥oon he sercom faire ~Wiahington Star. Miss Gushlece—~"How tartariog. how fenrful the thought most be for a great | BY when she dossu kaow ie." Tit Tee Rangle~"T've adviriised for 5, servant for a whole week with no result” Mra Comso— "Well I adver | timed for a good-leking, lady-help, and | bad thirty four to select from the first day.” Tit-Bits. ‘Her Father-*Ahal 1 cagpght you kissing my daughter, vir What son mean by that ser: of business? | He~"1 don't consider © business af all, &lr, bat plegsare, purely plessare™- Philadelphia Press Bofuly who fell overboant and was ~faint when you heard them yall Maa overbiard "Helen sobbing “Noun, Cholly. 1 never once sus pectad they could mean you” Tit Bits | The Yisitor-"Horrors! The If hn sing express wrecked apd totally de tab! Good!” “Are you crazy? “Na and I valued It at £80. Now fhe press company will have to pay for it" Backstop—“I'in glad 10 see that you are making a name for yoursell as ap author, old man.” Scribler mad 30 ~"Yen, Honors are belig beaped o, I learned that my latest hook bad Bees Harper's Pazar. Ordered » Canvass Back Dueck. B was in a fashicoable restaurant and at shout T o'clock in the evening. A young man of ordinary appeannoe sal at a table. and after studyisg over the DUI of fare for soos thae, ordeperd anvas-back dock. Alter a long wait | B® oarrived In all ita glory and trim gurgvousness. of the oslevy fed fowl arousad Bis suspicious and he said to pale a8 the walter said, “Three filvyy” aml rushed to the desk with the bl af fare in his band. The proprietoy man showed him where a printer's under had been made, and the aought | dropped froma the LIL and explaiged ghat be had but thirtydive cents to pay with. He was excited and talked +0 loudly that all in the neighborhood Geant Rim ax be begged to be lot off Pha proprietor said it was all right sould aftond. The young man, Bow. ver, Was too badly seared to temam aos} left the place. An hour later the lish was served to seine one who really | wanted it New York Post. California nan Buriey State, California ranks Jrst anioug the i faced fate the linimes but dramatically rescued Hd -panoaw faced late the SR, Sh STYLISH 8 NGLE-BR EARTEDY BLOUSE amd walst edges and fs stitched into ate the fell ers at the bedt. Ar the fieok i 8 beg and Sffortive The wuder portions gr the uppw portions ame quite separate and fal froely over the deep ots Toon thls waist in the medium sin four and an vighid sards of water) quarter yards thirty two laches wide, deraleeved Waman's Sage Bressiod Blovnwe, than the stoaple blonwe Young girls and women: slike hold It the most sat isfactory of all medels, both for the gut and the coat of velvet, velours and: we. * Why, it was ouly yesterday that | the like. The example shown in the large drawing bas ihe merit of abe lute simplicity combined with siuart ness. The origioal fs made of broads ~ploth In bacco brown apd mak i part of a suit. the extension bein omitted]. but all suiting materials am aniropriste ns wall a4 those already | nyentinged, Back be plain and wmeuth, withont ful silphily over the edt. The eck le ad natehed lapels apd oo poachiat dn In meets] in the Bet fran The sleeves at the bands, When the basque ex bBonvath the helt Too ent this blogse for a woman of yards of material cwanivione inchos ty-seven inches wide ope and three quarter yanls forty fuar fnches wihiln or ope and Sveelghth yards 8fiy four gail yard of velvet for collar, 4 »Piaed™ Velvets, Mach In favor are the new velvets pith surface of black, blue op dark green, “pitted” with white, You see a chestnut brawn velvet pitted with am States for the production o* barley. A | ber or Luff, and this looks better than or two yards forty-four inches wide ee ak will be required, with tes and a ball | ante wiieh Se Joke . Ee he yards of all-over Jace for front sat yp | Which (an be cut away to yoke de | when a transparent effect is desired The foil partion is gathered at both ups No ater panpent 8 more papules + ® Pa I havk. Phe sleeves are in Blagop style ¢ tension is used [bis Jodaed to the Mowe | front of facw is guihensl at doth neck place ar the righ wide hooked over: The froma gre ald | threes toe pach and avranged jp ogathe | : Proneh snsdel aug litte 22 0 & Jatin stock, The sleeves are noted Lont Trackin which for grace aud SHarte wus should always be fairly loog. Child's French Dress. The king waisted dress known as the uicety aml 8 the Leight of present styles. The very pretty May Manton ample shown is made of nainsool with yoke and trinoning of Hoe needie twenty-one Delis wide, two amd (hrees work, amd is worn with a richon sash, all washanle materials are equally sppropriate, white cashuere. henriet 4 albatross and simple siike are all {tn vogae for the heavier Frocus, Pa wails is ade over a A22ed lining por amd lower edges. byt the waist and A RSH A A Uaing clase together at the centre with pointed culls, and over the shoul ders, fledshing the edge of the yoke, 8 A pointed berths tha: suits childish feures admirably well Atl the peck ia a stamding collar The skirt is circular and fares freely and gracefully at the lower portion, while the upper edge is lained to the axtrr. the seam wing concesled by the x RAs oon thin dress far a old of eight { yonrs af nge five and a hall yards of The Blanes fx peinently simple, Tih | material twentyans inches wide, five | vards twonty-seven inches wile, Tour poss, bat the Greats, wile plan aor | the shoulders have the fulness atyliah | Iv arranged ar the walst Une and draw | finished with a repdadion rent dallas gre fa coat syie sliphitly Bellslapadd ewqliam size three anil three-quarter | whie, theee and a guarter yards twon- | cies while will be required. with one: | and a halt sands thivtyiwe inches wide, or three apd dvewighth yards forty-four inchex wide will de SrA Bb £5 or SE I i OR A be et FRENCH DRERSE YOR A CHILI aired, with one-half yard of atbover embrofdery, three of edging and two and an ¢ighth yards « insertion to WE
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