San Sa AA AANA Sh GL 0K A GN at it finds no parallel in any other people. In a by months and ) forward intoths | het — of commercial nations, © #lp you up? single bound have taken d a know ledged place owers , with whom in dg questions other must consult, remarks t and vice president | and pot by the inter |g Hector chosen in the sev. tre Again exeriing them: petitions to congress | in of resolutions and | In meetings which they some of the states. § Buch te in the method of nt as loey proposs, | ‘only by a constitu ent, which after ado congress, would have to be the legislatures of (wo states, a slow proceeding six exceptions all the | six =piions, pod looking, and she made a quick | resolve. now biennial sessions, story of English navel Just found its way int) n the Ophir. with the Duchess of Cornwall on nearing Bt. Helena, the de to the attendant crud e and Juno, 88 it wax pach port before night: steams snother knot?" i, “Yes, four if at ans wer was regard and when the ves smouth, as a mild iment the Juno wag or the harbor, while the ; ig “That is all 8Y doe | he not. £0 after The horses suffer ‘ fron is slapped mp five feet into be objects of par. the English. We are of the American pi , as well as the of famnye % nd brushes, In her Iap a Hght camp stool | Peated. | “4nd It is absurd for me to attempt to | r | paint ft; but what can one do? We | | must begin ambitions work sometime, ef Toe 4 cracking of decayad rafls and the next moment the pretty girl with | ons” she added calmly enough, | though tears came to the bine eyes as | she spoke. Then, fore she could re- | gtrver hersel! and her equilibrium a Dyke's workmen? she sald His | sang-froid, with the svident common- mentarily by his band A throb of ar- | your time while I have #1. but be is a i rich man, 1 understand. and he would Bit koow anything about 1.” pose for you. Mr. Van Dyke fan’ any “i tand Dorothy, breathing easier now that 8be saw the man was inclined to be | | respecttul and glad of the opportunity she found for a “figure” study. “I'l ihe ready In a moment. Just Jean | against the fence and turn your head Why you have it now. Don't look at And her small fingers began to fly over the block of water color Paper as she isketched in, with a hard pencil the! rough outline of the well knit figure ® | betore her, “If 1 can only get him as “ibe really is,” she sald to herself. “It ners of her pretly mouth as she thought of! what Lida McCane ther | her how she had stopped one of Mr. + joed doing things in the country that | she could not do in the city. she carried a box of paints and CMR 1a pretty. " she said, after a Hie. or we will never be classed among the * { mmortals of art ‘Hiteh your wagon {10 a star’ or——Oh! oh!” The quotation was cut short dy an the yellow curls and the high ambi- .. tion had sat down very hard and very | ~ imddenly in a patch of clover on the : it | other side of the fence. Memeyon cannot hops ta become fam. | enim voice back of her asked, “May i Porothy Mann turned quickly. al ; Bearded man, with a much worn suit | {of corduroy, and carrying a beavy rake, was holding out a helping hand to her. “No, thank you,” she an- | swered, getting 10 her feet with all the | dignity at her command, while her theeks grew hecomingly red ee b—The fence is not very strong” "No," sxid he gravely, “It fst 3 hope (0 get around to it nis week, ean.” offering her and looked st the man as If she had expected the interruption to her noble resolve, ] “I suppose you are one of Mr. Van ness of attire seemad strangely incon grucus to her. “1 am——Yes, Miss" he sald, tguch- Ing his bat respectfully. The motion was not awkward, and the hat seemed | faclined to come all the way off in | place of being merely disturbed mo- title fervor made itself felt in the lit tle artist's breast. Tha pewcomer was “Are you busy now?" she asked fn her most business-like tone. “if you are pot 1 wonld Hke to have you poss | for me to paint you. Half an hour | will be long enough. You can do it eisily, 1 am sore, and it would be hall | & dollar extra for vou, without work. Of course Mr. Van Dyke would Jose A brief smile flittad over the labor. er's tired face, and Dorothy wondered quickly If she had been guilty of any high crime In suggesting the matter to him. Then the man poke, “Thank | you, miss” be sald. “I'll be glad to friend of mine even if I do work for him, snd he wouldn't dare BUY BDy- thing if be found It out. Wherell 1 "Right thers by the fence” sald the other way. Yes, hold the rake the ms, but just think of what you have to do on the place to-morrow. There!” however, and will repair it as well as : of her pletares. at the Spring Pix hibit and sald, in the hearing of Lids herwelf, that he had a notion to find the girl who bad painted ft. and fall in love vith ber? And, adding insalt tas believing that he would marry her, too! His impudence bad made Doro- thy stamp one small foot with anger | and resolve to make him tor |, wry. be had said some day. int him carefully and exhibit the picture next spring.” she thought, “background of meadow, and ail. Then the self-satisfied Mr. Van Dyke will | See that 1 prefer $5 uss men—sven hia | 7a “Just eam aguinet tha fence ™ OD Workmeni--as subjects for art, not | ms Wyvere” Al the end of a sient halt hour for Dorothy was eminently business like when she chose to be-ghe said Dorothy took the camp #100] Be was Ir “That will do. I Bops you are not tired. And here is the money.” As $he handed it to him, moment, and she thought he was go- ing to burst inte fears his shoulders | shook so. But she did not say any thing more, although sha rescived to | have him pose Aanin for Ber. “I Dave ! ittle money came as a God -zendd to him and his Hite family” “He told ma himsell, just before be went to work | {Again that Mr Van Dyke was the | Worst enemy he kad. Buange, fant it, Bow men of weéallh do oppress those no doubt that | she write tha! night under them?” But though several sittings followed | this, and Dorothy, in the goodness of | her sympathetic little heart, endeav- | ored to secure the poor feliow's confi- | denice with a view to helping Nim | further, be always avoided telling her | much about himself i When Lids McCane ran down to spend a week with Dorothy, who was | ly, stepping with an aunt in the tiny countrys town, she found Dorothy's in- | terest in her modul still on the in- | crease. "He ia a really lovely model, | Lida,” she sald, “and wears such ple | turesgue corduroys. He doesn't talk muck, but he looks At me in such 8 strange way at times that | wonder | if he isn’t going to tell me the story fof Bis te! 1} hope pot, for | don't like much elaborate narratives. Yew terday he did say that Mr Van Dyke iis not as bad as some people think. though he often says things that he does pot mean. | want you to come | with me tomorrow and tell me what | your (hink of him-—the model. He car- | tainly has pot always heen a laborer for he shows evidences of gentle blood aud good Lreeding svery day. 44 "What a paragon you have found” lauglied Lida as she kissed Dorothy | again. “1 really think 1 will have to | warn Mr. Van Dyke that you are thinking of kidnapping bis star Iabor- er, or, at least. trying to make him dissatisfied with his work ™ “Oh, bat I am not” sald Dorothy. "And, besides, he seems to work only when he pleases. Did I tell you that he hus asked me for a picture of him- self—10 give to hin wife tor Christmas, 1 suppose. He bBinted as much.” not ong alter they had settled them- selves the model appeared, Ax he i iook off his cap to acknowledge the presence of the newcomer and the in- t troduction, Miss McCane hit her lip sharply. Then she discovered she had eft her Dest brushes at the houses and | Innisted on going after them herself i Bhe did not return. “It is pretty” she said. will be a second ‘Sower.'” Once or twice a fleeting smile curved the cor- ‘best friend. would say when she told Van Dyke's workmen in his labors and made him pose for her; but Dor- othy was on her vacation and she en- Then. too, although she had never met Mr. Van Dyke, he was the one | the world whom she be centric ved she bated. Hag be Rot seen After lunch Lida put one arm about | } Dorothy as they walked through the iftls orchard. “I wish you would Jet me ask Mr. Van Dyke to call, Dolly. dear.” she sald. “He i really very nice, and as kis laborer says he does not mean to say unpleasant things. You know | used to know him quite weil. May I not?” a i “Perhaps, some day,” answered Dar. othy, “bul you must never tell him | about my model. 1 want him to dis | cover that next spring” Lida smiled slightly stopped. and. turning Dorothy about till she faced her, she sald: “I think he knows about that now. Dolly. He's | pretty clever even if he does do ec- | things—like wearing old | clothes and working about his estate, just tor the love of manus! lahor™ Dorothy gave a little gasp. “What | do you mean?” she cried, turning red and white by turns, while her blue { eyve grew hig with frightened surprise. “Nothing. except that for the past month or 80 you have been industri- ously painting pictures of a gentle rustic gamed Robert Vas Dyke.” sald Then she n'a color portrait of unter fr ¢ con ~painted by his wite a LIVING EXPENSES IN LONDON. go te [Ls marants An American who, in the classical |p) language of his country, Is at present | “located” In London wants to know whether any city in the world in quite | 80 piggardly ss our own. He has been | going the round of the London restan- rants, and Mas encountered In the! management of them a piriy which | distresses him “There is. to begin with "he save, ehmrge of from 34 to 6d for guard. } ine your hat and coat in the cloak- room. and a tip in addition is expects od. You want to wash your hands another 24 or anotiher 64. and an j other tip. You take up the mens, and behold! thers is an intimation that a charge of 3d each person will be made | tinder the guise of ‘table money.’ This | charge varies according to the nature of the place—2d {4 the Joweast, 64 per. haps the averages. at a groat many res taurants if ix 15, and in at least two ithat 1 have visited, 13 14 The only in iba ft is oxiled difference is that Table mosey” and in the higher-priced ones placed puder the captivating heading of convert. To my mind an entrance foe frankly de- manded &t the door would be much j lees offensive thas to find yourself! asked at the end of a dinner 10 pay for ihe trouble and expense of cleaning up 1 the cutlery you have need” i His conclasion of tas whales matter fa thal “London lives by imposing a | fixed tari on the gevessorien that is | every other ¢ity | have ever been to are thrown in gratis” and he thinks that being a gentleman fs cue of the most expensive professions an Eng | flshman can have He declares It to | (Be an utler delusion that Londen fn {8 cheap place to live in-—London | Chronicle : the Imborer turned his head quickly away for a ah Le SON WE - Twe Criticlewms on Sermons, The Rev. Dr. W. 8 Rainsford, ree. Lior of Bt. George's church, New York, derives much efijovment from the criticiema of his germsons which he hears from time to time. He haz an artful way of calling forth these expresuloms. and enjovs telling of some very {rank replies he has receiv. ed. He recently asked a young pars ishioner, who ia my attentive fstener: "Weil, Dorothy, how did you like my Advent se: ga Tit was very opeedline doctir” re piled the prococionm fl-vear-old “You | restd So many textih frown the Ribhje” The doctor missnd from the services 4 stern-faved hut Nindly old woman of New Engiasd stork, asd sought her GRE. i Be wld “The fact ia doctor, | have been go- “Don't you like Rt Georges? the clergyman asked, “Yes! was the Nesitating reply “but there Ix pot sacugh helifire in your sermons. You are too easy on inners” mS A Bombarding the Sky Feof. Willis 1.. Moore of the agricul tral department in & recent report | ridicules the idea that storms of any kind may be indueoed. dispelled or con. | roiled by bombarding the clouds | Prof. Cleveland Abbe of the weather | bureau agrees with his conclusions | and in 3 foceni piper criticises Prof : Franklin's argument for the rational plansinility and possibie effectiveness | of cannonading the sky with vertex | rings for the prevention of huilsiorms Div. Moore and Dr. Abbe shogld know that a great many people in Europe besides Ignorant peasants believe that balistorme may be averted Ly the in. : fluence of explomives, and the faith they profess ix too well grounded in experience or what passes for experi. ence, to be shaken by anybody's ips ixit, No dosh they are inistaken, but to show that they are would re The following day Lida accompan- | ; led Dorothy to the meadow which ad- { Joined that of the Van Dykes and quire that experiments be made poder vonditioms similar 10 those wiich have satablished thelr cinfidencs, Egypt's Valled Women. white long or short, plain or emibel. lower ‘lusnes wear for the most part hiack vells from one to three fue long, those higher in the social grade | wear white ones, asd occasionally they reach to the bem of the dress. These are held in place by a metal tube that 1s fastened over the noseand lower part of the forehead by cords securely tied behind. When worn with this habara, in the orthodox fashion. thers js noth. | ing visible but the woman's bright black eyes, which ses everything guing on. mnie Gatta Pereha From Past Advices from Germany are to the of. | fect that a very satisfactory artificial gutta percha has been derived from! peat, and great things are expected to! in resuit from the discovery in cheapen~ ing the vost of insulating ocean cables Gutta percha is the only substance thus far discovered for protecting a wire against the (orrasive sction of salt waier and the product is nat unly limited, but is controlled by an Eng lish firm of cable manufacturers. who own the forests in the East Indies trom wilt the ta percha ta ob tained. tower<priced reRlaurants Indian mutiny “qeeseeivesen: than one hundred from several ani- mals Pe | had ravoed and penned up | | for that purpose. Other cases were an- earthed where from #ftesn to sixty of these animals Mad been rearsd. In Oc {tober and November they were killed | {and thelr scalps presented for redemp- thon at the office of the county clerk of each county, The state Jaw mathorizes the county clerk to pay $3 from the county fund | for each coyote or wolf scalp presented and be certifies the fact to fhe andi- farmers have tarsed their attention to this industry | The law was passed years ago when | foes of the cattle and sheep men, In | the last ten vedrs $150.000 Bae been paid by the state alone as bounty. What makes i flats authorities | i the wolf and the rovole were the Ereat 3 5 number, Ts the less desaily’ op lated parts of the stute Derk the wolf snd the coyotes find thelr tion. the ofee of county clerk | nok #0 remunerative that the ocdupant may not he tempted to awit fn (he enterprise in the matier of ceiftifie Yor. who pars $1 additional. Four dol. | HORS, or. if he bas any qualms about iurs Tor each wolf or coyote pays let- | ter than hog raising. and paturaily the | Bis oath, he may be careless [ax tO how the scalps are disposed of] after be hia passed them, Auditor Weston save that {ph one case to which hls atiestion Bad Deen calle} the county clerk threw the seaips out of the window after Ne had i received them ard they wire again pleked np and prosented to him Thin i rould te contizued until phy | eX Bausiion ~-t fa If theught wise. | g eg < Fashions Which Can Readily B Thers are any Eo amber of Werte cas tome and fashions which are survivals of primitive times, ot have 8 more modern historical getiests which bas Been forgotten generxily, but which ean be traced reulily. Cate posts. be they wood or stone, standing in front of & house, frequently have round balls | jat thelr tops. This Is said to ba & survival of the tioe when our ances tors had & barbaric iad of decorating thelr gates with the heads of thelr enemiion taken in battle - | (eo : i i Troced to Events Tn ee Snttons at f your cost date from the time] when ait gentlemen wore swords 4d the buttons were placed there to kedp the sword belt from slipping down. | ¥ Not cnly ancient larbarie eouetos snd historical events have ereatell inde i i and fashions but popalar sovels| often are responsible for popular styles of dressing. There waz the Dolly] Var- den Bal i & replica of the one worn bx the hero~ Buch un plens. | Ant iittle custom eoudd not be allowed | to be forgotten altogether. 36 wo Bave | kept the round knobs ca sur gate posta as Femiuilers of the good eid {inten The wearing of “spats” ments employed In that war wore spats i and those troops. for the refer of “1 Bave not seen you At church ates | Lucknow and other brave doedr he cAme most posuliae in Egelans so Lihat | thelr custom was muh affected Children were clothed in Highlund costume, 8 practice in vogue in thoss daye. As staid and portly merchants , | would mot Have looked well fn kilts, they compromised by wesring spats, and thas started a fashion which has | become aiversal. Ca a a ai? lw : Senses Fail seecocesessnse sessscscesns Man's vaunted faculties are far less ae of Barnaby Rudge” and ant the Pamela Bat which wad supe posed to be jike the heal cofering [of Richardson's persecuted rotue. LARA speaking of hate for what drimey of feminine headeear has Galps ar overgiit. | ers is traced back to the davs of the | The Highland regi ongh’s pleture of the Dachess of Dew onshire fot ben reapofigibie? It Is weserted that the present [popue lar style of high, tursed-down [collar aw a distinctive part of thelr uniform. | the Rind that grips your seclitie so : thal yoit cannot haul it around ito tie Lit properly, and that nips your Adam's apple every mow gad then th & Vicious ploche-was first soon ia Pl : nero’ play of “The Squire” THe cole Tar was designed for Mra Kendhd to i wear ay Kate Verity, the heroine The { shape chught the popular fancy of both | pexex, But seemed to especially dog to the men. Ad the result we|lsbor : with daily ~ New York Press fessoeesesnene Bute than ome of the lesser crea- ren The human eve is a wonderful piece | of mechanism with its Httle bundle of | nerves, that in some mveterisug way i make vizuaiisation poigibie Yet this | eye with all its delicacy of discernment Le ts but a circumscribed organ compared with the eve of the exgle which sees | infinitely farther than any lutpan eve The same is true of the human ear. 5 The rate and mice thet haunt our | pnimals, all hear better than we do. ! They may pot! race refinements in Tha a | goun crurately &s can man, but ‘Le tasmak or veil may be Blac nd as acrurately i Tha tasmak « ui may be Mack or i for emtohing sound st jong range theirs 57 he @ st perfectly constructs | lished with rows of drawn work op; 2° the ears most perfectly ill tucks, and of any sort of fine. soft ma- i terial. The women of the middle and | od. The seuse of touch Is more accurite- WRN rr be cine Mee. Clavers ourtese. vos ens SOTHO O000VOB RON I¥ ve) oped sisewhare in he Litto supplant the Sndings of & houses, the squirrels that caper about | the woods, and numberiess other little | | there are birds with whose fv : man's rousic cannot be compared. Patti herself aver sang more sw ese active oifnctory nerve, aan the meadow lark at break © Don't worry—aud try sot to ~ | other people worry But one American woman courtesimd | tn President Roosevelt on the ocea- | pat Soaleney by the surnam son of the recent diplomat reception. | Mire. Clover. daughter of W. A Clark, ‘the millionaire senator from Montana, | gxecuted a bended-kner bow before the was so elaborste and prolonged that be presened to Mr and Mrs Roose Lyelt Coartesies aie cimmon at diplo. | mathe receptions, however. The great er number of the idles connested with the foreign enilmssies and Pritish Association traces the ar oa an examina jon of 14.561 : ] shiteres. of ant Absinenuiim, chief magistrate of the nution, whieh | ig Latr and iz delayed fir the ster part of a | minute the {ne of guests walting 1a | commanit oa vert Iyiug the tn : that ihe fishing population CSeetiand is of Belgian origin iegations | bring thelr court mazmers with them ust as they wenr thelr court vlothes They greet the President of the Uxiteg | States as if he were a ruler born by right. Bui American women proffer their hands to the President and bow | —perhaps a little lower than if they | were meeting an acquaintance eo» the Thompeon show most ped hair street. Mrs. Clover, who has resided | ouch abread and mingled with Euro. pean society. atmained ber proficiency in making & courtesy WhUS auross the | } water, : mother be wants to get married: SUrLaInRnE, stgmenttiocn of Highland sur corresponds olivest with thet of distrivts of origin, The suranm Wallace, Pirie, Grant Park. and Rave mane blond tendensios tn Cordiners, Cruikshank, Stephen § Ban. Buchan, Paterson and Whe darkest; and Rennie Scott. Gran A eA A a When a bachelor thinks of he thinks of Liz sisters Ne waa | wait awhile. whieh wie zopposed [to be 1 . . *
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