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' The immigration authorities are de
viling means to prevent immigrants
from entering the United States in the
guise of sailors. At jn'eseut foreign
sailors who desert or are discharged
can enter the country simply by goiug
©shore.
At last Norway has been granted a
"clean flag," as it has been called.
That is the insignia on her flag which
indicated her union with Sweden has
been voted oil*. The constitution
allows Norway to have a separate flag
but the Swedish flag was forced on
her in 1811. Since then the Nor
weigans have been constantly lighting
to get tlieir own flag, and much bitter
ness lir.s been displayed between the
two nations on this and other scores.
There's little to wonder at in the
statement that women were such a
success at census-taking iu Cuba the
other day, where they were lor tho
first time officially employed in a gov
mental capacity. It was because ol
the other women. One chief diffi
culty of men census-takers has always
beeu to get tho respective members of
the femiuine population to give their
correct age. Womeu census-takers
would not only be pretty sure to make
a victim give her right age, but if it
came to the point she could always
guess at it more acsurately thau a
mau. It takes a womau to catch a
woman, aud it is just as well that tho
Government should recognize it.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
says: While Alabama is furnishing
Japan with iron goods of various maim
facturc and while the cotton States are
furnishing that country with raw aud
manufactured cotton, Maury County,
Teun., is furnishing phosphate from
I.er inexhaustible stores. All this is
merely a straw to show which way the
wind blows. It shows that in spite of
the roundabout aud expensive way of
reaching there, the trade of the South
with the East is increasing and that
it is not confined to cotton and iron
product; alone, but extending to all
Southern products. When the Nica
ragua Canal is dug and the useless
waste of time and coal ii; steaming
11,700 miles around the Horn is douo
away with, the South will be tho
nearest manufacturing point in any
nation in the world to Japan and the
nearest of any nation in the world to
China with the exception of Japan.
XVhcre Rati* Are in Demand.
Oao of the local mining companies
is buying rats in a small way, which
are being put in a raiue recently uu
watercd. Hats are very valuable scav
engers underground. Much refuse is
left from tho meals eateu by the
miners, which would in time become
offensive if it were not devours d by
the ravenous rodents. There is never
any scarcity of the rats iu the old
mines, as they multiply rapidly aud
keep the workings clean, but rising
water drives them from a deserted
property, and they do uot return very
readily after a redemption. In this
particular case it was deemed best to
increase tho colony by buying and
placing a number of rats in the work
ings, They are purchased from the
clerks iu a local store.—Marquette
(Mich.) Mining Journal.
Waited I.onjj For Tlieir Letters.
In 17(10 there wore but eight mails
ii year from Philadelphia to the Poto
mac River, and even then the post
ride need not start till he had received
enough letters to pay the expenses of
the trip. It was not until postal af
fairs were placed in the capable and
responsible hands of Benjamin Frank
lin that there were any regular or
trustworthy mails.
The Altitudes of Alaska.
A bulletin is soon to he issued by the
Geological Survey on the "Altitudes of
Alaska." Among the mountains whose
heights arc given arc Mount McKihley,
the highest, 20,464 feet; St. Elias. 1K.024
feet; Cook mountain. 13,750 feet; Cril
lon mountain, 15,900 feet; Fairwcathef
mountain, 15,292 feet; Tillman moun
tain. 13.300 net; Vancouver mountain,
15.666 feet; Wrangel mountain, 17.500
feet. The mountain which is known
by the name of McKinley was formerly
known as Mount Allen.
A new directory of Toronto places the
population of that city at 250,000.
Atlanta is to have a $1,000,000 cot
ton mill.
THE FAR_DESICN.
Life Is a woven woof, Death Is the paling night,
"White wing and cloven hoof, Dim eye and falling light,
Weakness and mastery. Hues blent and meaningless,
Glory and grieving. Grief and past sweetness.
Look you, O Head of Gold! Trust, hope und hold the thread.
See the bright thrend of gold Endless und gold the thread!
Running below, übove. Follow. The dark shall glow.
Out and in? That is love And the glad pattern show
Tingeiug the weavingl In its completeness.
Post Wheeler.
| THE GHOST OF THE VAN VLEETS. 1
AS UIEST and
/J weather-b eat eu ,
JH the bouse of the
tsy ij Van Vleets stands
H , /{fl JX 011 a Hill- It was
I\\\'l It fil " roomy ruam-.lou
'.h >3 in the days gone
E?i- ■ ' 9, te Hy> auti > uotwith
: | standing a bint of
L • . dilapidation here
atul there, it still
holds its own in point of respectabil
ity with the more modern houses
growing up around it, but little by
tittle land ami money has slipped
from the Van Yleet's grasp until there
remain but a trifling sum aud the
homestead, with its old-fasliioued
garden.
Miss Katheriue Van Vleet lives in
tier ancestral home with her one ser
vant and a huge English mastiff, but
now and then her solitude is enliv
ened by a visitor; at the time of our
story there were two—a greatniece of
the same name aud a young mau who
was a distant cousin of Miss Van
Vleet.
Kitty was a bright, sweet-natnred
girl of eighteen, who had been lured
from her home by an entrancing ad
vertisement beaded "Learn and take
positions," so she was earnestly
studying stenography, and Aunt
Katberine's furnished a safe aud con
venient home for the little country
girl.
Formau Van Vleet, a musician of
promise, was living quietly aud rest
ing his voice according to medical ad
vice, and ho found 110 place quite so
free and comfortable as bis cousin's
home, where one could unite rural
quiet with the possibility of an easy
and speedy journey to the metropolis.
It would naturally be supposed that
the two young folks thus thrown to
gether would have enjoyed each
other's company; but Formau re
garded Kittle with a friendly indiffer
ence, and she, poor child, was too in
tent 011 her studies to notice how he
treat 2d her. To he frank, Ivittie was
apt to be a little shabby. All liergar
ments were made by liev own un
trained fingers, and Formau missed
the stylo that he saw in the profes
sional ladies with whom he came in
contact.
One evening early in May Kittie
and her friend, Helen Parkes, sat by
the open lire watching the flames.
Forman was there, engrossed in his
newspaper. Miss Van Vleet had long
since retired.
"It's such an old house," said
Helen. "It would seem as if it must
have a ghost. I mean to ask Miss Van
Vleet "
"You will if yo.i don't care anything
for her friendship," warned Kittie. "1
just hmtad it once and she was very
angry. She said she was alone here
too much to make it either safe or
pleasant to have such a story get
about." Aud then tliey fell to telling
weird tales until the suppressed yawn
from Formau reminded then of his
presence.
"Half past eleven!" exclaimed Kit
tie, "we Uiur.t go to bed at once, but
first I must go to the kitchen lor u
drink."
She took a candle from the closet
and disappeared into the dark hall. A
moment later she rushed back into
the room white and quivering. "There
is a ghost," she said, huskily; "I saw
it on the stairs."
Helen did not reply, but stood star
ing at the open doorway.
"Pshaw!" said Forman, going at
once into tho hall; "nothing is there.
You two have talked ghost so much
that you are ready to believe any
thing."
"I tell you I saw something tall and
white and it was gliding upstairs."
"Katheriue, probably," he said.
"No, for it neither turned nor
spoke. I saw it. plainly by the candle
light and it was tho face of nothing
human." And then Kittto sank into
a chair aud began weeping hysteri
cally.
Evidently the girl's fright was too
real to be either scolded or reasoned
away, aud not until the first faint
6treaks of dawn appeared iu the East
could she be induced to go upstairs.
Days followed each other in quick
succession and by aud by she could
afford to laugh when Formau teasingly
referred to the ghost, though she in
sisted that imagination did not and
could not conjure up the thing she
Baw 011 the stairs.
One night late in September For
mau was returning from a concert with
a friend. They had a long walk, for
the street cars in that vicinity were
still too young to be out so late. They
climbed tho hill togther and then
parted. Forman entered tho garden,
fumbling for his night key.
•'Bother!" he exclaimed, "I don't
seeru to have it. I must wake Kath
eriue, and it's long after twelve,
too."
Ho hesitatad an instant, glancing
lip at the house an he did so, and was
more than pleased to see a light in the
window of the stair landing. He could
Dot tell the source of the light, but it
was at first faint and then grew bright
er, as if some one were goiug up stairs.
He gazed intently upward, meaning
to call as soon as he saw who was
there. What ho saw was so sur
prising that he stood as if chained to
the spot.
A tall figure gliding up the stair
way, with face aud d/apery of white;
great cavernous eyesockets and an in
describable nose, lorg, piuched aud
pointed, giving the fa ie a look of gro
tesque horror. It passed, the light
died away with it aud he stood there
before the darkened house, shaking
l'rom head to foot in abject fear.
"Kittie's ghost," he whispered,
hoarsely, aud then, as if anxious only
to put space between the thing and
himself, he turned and fled till he
cume upon the friend he had left a few
minutes before. The meeting gave
him a sense of bis ridiculous position
and also away of relisf from his dif
ficulty.
"Harris!" lie exclaimed, grasping
that gentleman's hand with effusive
cordiality, and speaking quickly and
uervously, "you're just the fellow I
want. I've lost my key—don't like to
to disturb the house—would it be
convenient to have me spend the night
with you?"
"Certainly; come right along; but,
good gracious! Van Vleet," lie said,
as the street light shone on Forman's
face, "you look as if you had seen a
ghost."
"Only tired out from running and
the concert," he replied. "A night's
sleep will iix me all up."
And so it did. It is remarkable
how brave we can be in the broad day
light and away from tho object of our
fears. The next morning he could
not understand his cowardly flight of
the previous night, though, like Kittie,
he was perfectly sure he had seen
something with which he did not care
to come iu contact again. He longed
to have the matter investigated, but
he dared not mention it to Miss Van
Vleet, and so there was no one to turn
to but Kittie, and he determined to
tell the girl at tho first opportunity,
never stopping to consider that it was
unkind to awaken her fears.
Not until Saturday afternoon did tho
longed-for chance occur; then he saw
her take chair and mendiug basket out
into the garden to make the best of
tho lingering warm days. As bo ap
proached Kittie he noticed for the first
time in his life that she was pretty.
Her toilet, too, was now all that could
be wished.
"Kittie," lio said bluntly, "I saw
the ghost tho other night."
"Oh," she said with the slightest
hint of triumph in the sweet voice,
"you've seen in yourself, have you?
Then, of course, there must be a
ghost."
"There is," he answered solemnly,
"and I don't wonder you were fright
ened. I never knew what real fear
was until that moment," and then he
sat down on the grass at her feet aud
told her the whole story.
It was little wonder that, as they
ontered the dark hall together, Kittie
turned to him with the appeal:
"Please don't go out to-night, For
mal!, and leave us alone; I shall be so
frightened."
"No, I won't," he answered, sooth
ingly. "It was awfully selfish of me
to want to tell you."
That was the first of many pleasant
evenings that they spent together, for
he did not like to think of the girl at
home frightened and nervous, and
only business could succeed in get
ting him to leave her. Even rehear
sals were made as short as possible,
and he hurried home, knowing that
she was listening for his footsteps,
and sure of meeting her glad face and
warm welcome at the door.
Neither had again seen the appari
tion, but it was not forgotten. They
subjected Miss Van Vleet to a series
of questions about their ancestors,
but in vain. The career of none of
tlie family had been marked by crime
or tragedy. But some one else had
seen tho ghost, for it began to be
rumored about the neighborhood that
the house was haunted. One Sunday
morning as Miss Van Vleet aud Kittie
were returning from church loud talk
ing reached them from the side of the
hill below tho garden, where a group
of rough-looking boys had gathered.
"Boys," said Miss Ivatherine, as
she approached, "I am glad to have
you come up here if you enjoy it, but
you mustn't be so noisy."
"We was just talkin' about the
ghost," was the reply.
"What ghost?" she asked, in amaze
ment.
"The ghost that haunts the hill up
here."
"Nonsense," said Miss Katherine.
"Ob, yes, there is a ghost," put in
Bob O'Lcary; "my pop he see it. It
was tall and w'ite and had big holes
where it orter have eyes, aud it went
along quick."
"Pshaw," answered Miss Van Vleet,
"you know there is no such thing as
a ghost."
"Oh, yes, there is," said Tom, star
ing in round-eyed wonder at such be
lief; "why, my pop say 3 in Ireland
indubitable testimony that the lady
stood silenced.
"Very well," she said; "if there is
a ghost up here it is my ghost, and I
don't want it interfered with," and
then she walked away, while the boys
gazed after her too astonished to re
piy-
Kittie' repeated the talk to Formau
that evening.
I "Aunt Katherine was BO annoyed
about it that I am aure Bhe knows
something about the ghost;" she added.
One evening as Kittie was return
ing home she met one of Forman's
friends, who jokingly asked her what
had become of him in these days.
"He snys it's bad for his voice to
go out much in the night air, but 1
guess there are other reasons, eh?"
The remembrance of the secret be
tween them brought a hot flush to
Kittie's face.
"He came here for his health, you
know," she answered evasively.
"And finds both health and happi
ness," was the playful reply.
There was no mistaking the woman's
meaning, and poor Kittie's mind was
in a tumult. She was sure that For
man's attentions to her were prompt
ed by mere kindness, and she was not
sure but she wished they meant more,
and she blamed herself for beiug so
blind to what people would think.
She would stop it that very evening
by going out herself.
After dinner, when the curtains in
the sitting room wero closely drawn
and Forman sat there in the cheerful
glow of the fire, waiting for Kittie to
come in, he caught the sound of a
light step in the hall and the rattle of
the chain and bolt that fastened the
front door. Hurrying from the room
he faced Kittie, who stood in hat and
wrap, with her hand upon the knob.
"Where are you going?" lie asked.
"I am going over to Helen's," she
answered, half apologetic and half de
fiant.
"And ieive me," he said, rebuking
ly, "when I have remained at homo to
keep you company?"
"Really, Formau, you must not do
that any more," she said quickly.
"You have been very kind to me and
I am grateful for it, but I will try not
to be such a goose and you must go
out more. Your friends are asking
about you, and people will talk, you
know."
She talked OD, too embarrassed to
stop, but when she paused from sheer
lack of words ho stooped toward her
and said gently:
"No one but yon, dear, shall have
the right to say whether I shall spend ,
my evenings with you or not. I am
sure you will stay home with me to
night."
Miss Kfttherine heard them talking j
in the hall and then euter the sitting j
room together. They were still there
two hours later. Miss Van Vleet be-!
lieved in the golden rule and, al
though she would not admit ever hav
ing had any experience that would
have acquainted her with the proper j
course of conduct to be pursued by a
third party under the circumstances,
she had, nevertheless, sufficient tact
to withdraw to her room.
It is a trifle unusual, but every one :
seemed pleased with the match, and i
Miss Katheriue insisted that, as the
little romance had begun under her
roof, it was fitting that she should
have the privilege of managing the
simple wedding.
One morning just a week before the
important day Miss Katl urine's atten
tion was called to a disagreeable erup
tion rapidly spreading over Kittie'a
chin.
"I guess we cau soon beal that,"
said the lady briskly. "I had some
thing of the same sort a few mouths
ago, and I made up some of grand
mother's ointment and wore this everj
night until it disappeared." And from
her bureau she produced a face mask
made of white cotton, and held it up
to her face.
"Mercy, Aunt Katherine, what do
you look like?" exclaimed Jvittie, for
she instantly recognized in the hollow
eyes and queer-shaped nose the ap
parition she bad seen on the stair
way.
"I was a fright, that's true," was
the reply; "but you may bo sure I was
careful to let no one see me. On two
occasions I was'almost caught. After
I had the thing on and my face got
warm I was afraid to take it off and
go into a chilly place for fear of tak
ing cold. The first time I went into
the kitchen some one passed through
the hall while I was on the stairs, but
I hurried to my room very much re
lieved to get away unnoticed. The
second time I did a still bolder thing.
It was about the time our pears were
being stolen that I heard voices out
in the garden. It was about 12.30.
Form an was not home, so I took the
dog and went myself. I saw 110 one,
but some one must have seen me, for
just about that time there began to be
talk about a ghost, and I must have
looked liko one in a white dress and
shawl and that mask."
When Fornian came home that even
ing Kittie told him the story, but bo
was not to be convinced. As if Kath
erine in that ridiculous rig could
feeze him into the awful terror he felt
that night. She might be what Kittie
saw, but his ghost was a veritable
spirit. And she, wisely, did not con
tradict or argue, but, looking up at
him, her soft brown eyes full of teu
der feeling, she said:
"Never mind, dear; it was a good
ghost, since it brought us together."
—Chicago News.
To Fly in Your Dream*.
There is a peculiarity about the
flying dream that seems to bo con
stant. Of all those whom I asked
about the matter, and who are con
scious of the Hying dream at all, not
one has ever known himself to make
any high flights in his dreams. One
always flies low, with a skimming
manner, slightly but only slightly
above the beads of the pedestrians.
And one's critical attitude in a dream
toward one's own performance is al
ways interesting to note, both in re
gnrd to this particular class of dream
and oveu more toward one of the
other classes. It is an attitude that
is well brought out iu "Alice in Won*
derland," where Alice is made to ex
claim or to think while she is falling,
"How brave they will all think of me
at home not to mind a great fall like
thisl"—Longman's Magazine.
I WOMAN'S WORLD.'- f
FACIAL MASSACE AND ITS BENEFITS.
For Those Who Cannot It each a Profes
sional Masseuse.
To be beautiful is womau's great
ambition. If she is passably good
looking, she does everything in her
power to pass from mediocrity to the
actuality of genuine loveliness, which
can be achieved as any other accom
plishment if she but perseveres in the
way that leads thereto—never swerv
ing in lier determination and follow
ing absolutely those rules which ex
perience has found to be the best.
To go to the beauty doctor is not
always convenient, though much the
more certain way. Therefore, any
simple methods that can be lollowed
at home are those which appeal to the
average woman most. Face steaming,
which is one of the best aids to beauty,
can be indulged iu as often as is de
sirable, and without all the scientific
paraphernalia which frightens the
seeker after beauty when she goes to
the parlors of the masseuse. Given a
tea kettle, a Turkish towel, a big piece
of stiff paper or cardboard, two dabs
of cotton, some cold cream or lano
line, the latter preferable, as it is an
excellent skin food, and alcohol, and
any woman cau give her face as thor
ough a beautifyiug as she craves.
To begin with, wash the face thor
oughly in soap and lukewarm water,
being sure that the soap is pure. The
unscented variety is always the best.
After this take little dabs of ianoline
and manipulate the face and neck
thoroughly, beiug particular about the
lines on the forehead and those au
noying crows' feet that creep about
the corners of the eyes, as much from
mirth as from Ihe advance of years.
With the tips of the Augers gently,
but with a firm pressure, traverse the
forehead from the center, using a
rotary motion for the crows' feet and
the cheek, the corners of the mouth
being smoothed outward. Hold the
chin high, so that the tendency of
flabbiness, which comes in a woman's
throat, will meet an habitual stum
bling block. Nothing HO quickly de
notes age as a woman's throat, there
fore, massage must be given it with
as much regularity as the bathing of
the face.
After the lanoline has been care
fully worked iu, yet while the skin is
still greasy, tic up the head iu a plain
towel, so as to prevent the hair from
beiug steamed our of curl iu the lat
ter process. Have the kettle boiling,
so that the steam comes out iu a ver
itable cloud from tho spout. Set it
on the table. Then, with the stiff
piece of paper or cardboard, cut in
the shape of a Shaker bonnet, cover
the head completely, placiug the face
as near the spout of the kettle as can
be borne. Iu this position the pieces
of cotton are necessary to protect the
eyes from the stiugiug of the steam.
Cover kettle, Shaker bonnet and all
with a Turkish towel and remain five
minutes, or until perspiration of the
most generous sort has been induced.
Then, when the face anil neck are
in this moist condition, begin the
manipulation again, finally closing the
pores l>y sponging the lace with a
little diluted alcohol. The process is
simple, wholesome and effective.
Cleanliness, which is the great
est of beauty aids, if not the
beauty itself, is most perfectly ob
tained by this method, and the wom
an who has tried it will be surprised
beyond all reason by discovering that
she never before had a really clean
face.
One word of caution is necessary.
Too frequent steaming sometimes re
sults in flabbiness, the consequent
laxity being the reverse of beautiful;
therefore, once in ten days is as often
as the average skin can stand. Mas
sage, however, both at night and
morning will never hurt, but will
beautify instead any surface under
such manipulation.
Plcture-Hanclng a ultiiKinesff.
"I hang pictures for a living, and
enjoy my work," said a little blond
woman in New York who only a few
years ago was a society butterfly. "I
never considered a job for less than
§lO, and often received ten times ten.
Yon see, so few persons really under
stand the proper hanging of pictures.
Of course, where they have lots of
money and can employ a distinguished
artist or first-class decorator they
have no need for me. 33ut it is the
people of moderate means to whom I
am useful. As a rule such persons
hang pictures according to their size,
putting them in spaces where they
will tit and make as much show as
possible.
"It seems impossible to make them
understand that each room or part of
a room should be invested with an
idea that can be attained by artistic
arrangement of pictures on the wall.
Engravings should bo hung with en
gravings, etchings with etchings,
photographs with photographs, uud
paintings with paintings. They can
aot be distributed simply as regards
size, colors or framing. Not long ago
L was called on to rehang pictures in
a house, and found a fine collection
of water colors just simply killed by
being bung with a beautiful collection
of Japanese prints. One can readily
see how different the hangings in a
room decorated with Japanese prints
must be from one decorated with
water colors. The job took ouo and
a half days for myself and the colored
boy who work? as my assistant, and I
received SOS for it. As to training, I
had none. I received as good an edu
cation as the average daughter of
well-to-do parents, and when reverses
j came I fell into the only niche which
seemed open to me."
I A Convenience For Invalid*.
Almost every one has seen the dain
tily embroidered covers for tumblers
used in an invalid's room, with sprays
of forget-me-nots or tiny roses wrought
on the white linen, and a ring covered
with silk crocheted in single-stitch,
pink or blue to match the flowers, t
lift them from the glass. But some
body has invented a variation upoa
this design, which greatly increases
its usefulness when the cover is
placed over a tumbler containing
medicine which is to be given at stated
times.
Women who spend part or all of
their summer leisure in making fancy
articles to be sold at fairs for charity,
or in exchanges to put extra pennies
into their own purses, will, find this
little novelty very saleable.
Cut from any of the art linens a cir
cle half an inch larger than a circle ot
pasteboard which is large enough to
cover the top of a tumbler without
fear of falling in; then draw n circle
on the linen exactly the size of the
pasteboard. With white silk work a
row of buttou-hoie stitchiug, the
straight edge just on the marked line,
the inner one irregular, so that its
outliuo will be waving. Within this
stitchiug work the figures, from one
to twelve, seen ou the face of a clock,
and between these figures straight
lines of unequal length to represent
the half and quarter hours, the half
hour, midway between the figures,
being the longest, the quarter-hours,
placed between the figures and the
half-hours, a little less than half its
length. A small brass hand is fast
ened in the centre of tho circle with
a brass or gilt button.
When the whole is finished, the
linen is laid ou the pasteboard, the
edge projecting beyond the edge of
embroidery is basted securely ou, a
second circle of the same size also has
a covering of the linen basted on in
the same way, and the two are sewed
together with "over-ancl-over" stitch.
Or the second circle of linen may be
basted ou, without the pasteboard lin
ing, and hemmed down, but it is more
difficult to do this neatly, unless the
seamstress is unusually skilful.
By the use of this pretty little cover
not only are the contents of the tum
bler kept free from dust and all im
purities, but the nurse or patient can
mark the hour when the last dose of
medicine was taken, or set the hand
to fix tho time for the next.—Harper's
Bazar,
Tho Reign of Panne.
Pauno improves on acquaintance.
Its soft, silky quality makes it admir
ably adapted for drapery and for the
innumerable and narrow pleats and
tucks demanded by fashion this sea
sou. In colore and design it is ex
quisite, and wiiether pale daintiness
or rich and striking effects are desired
the lovely now fabric seems finer and
fairer ahan ordinary velvet or tho
richest and rarest of brocaded silks.
A smart frock of a new material that
resembles camel's-hair cloth is in pale
biscuit color; the skirt has pleats down
each side, each one edged with guipure
lace; bands of sable stripe tho white
panne front of the pretty bodice.
A frock of pale pastel-green cloth
has graduated strappings of green vel
vet and throe little box-pleats at the
back. The little bolero is also strapped
and shows an open waistcoat, aud a
soft vest, of white panne, painted in
soft shades aud embroidered with
gold,
A Self-Sat IKUPCI Oiirciilct.
Queen Wilhelmiua, who takes great
pride in her own persoual appearance,
is at last satisfied with a medallion of
herself. Tho lucky artist is Hans Jan
sen. So pleased is tlie young ruler
with the work that she has ordered
the likeness put on all the coins and
postage stamps. This necessitates
the destruction of all the dies at the
mint and all the plates at the postage
stamp factory.
This is the third time that tho Queen
has done this. She has never been
satisfied heretofore with the likeuesses
of herself that adorn the currency.
"They make me look fifty years
old," sho said to tho trembliug post
age stamp factory superintendent.
"Perhaps I may look like that when I
am a grandmother, but the thing is a
libel on 1110 now."
Wliai Retailer* Arc Sliotring:.
Lace and lawn tacked nllovers in
entirely new arrangements.
Satin-striped monsselines in soft
tiutings aud delicate designs.
An immense variety of absolutely
new weaves iu black silk crepons. <
Lace, openwork, lisle thread hose
in striking shades aud combinations.
New ideas in silk warp novelty
ginghams iu cords, stripes and plaids.
fine silk and wool mittens
and bootees iu vhite and light colors.
Many new luntlins iu which all the
choicest foulard patterns are repre
sented.
Manufacturers' lengths of jacqnerd
Swisses, striped and polka-dotted
dimities.
Beautiful designs in embroidered
derai-fionueings aud extra wide mar
gin goods.
Pink, bine, rose and violet chain
brays in plain colors and neat novel
ty patterns.
Pretty styles in children's aprons
and dresses trimmed with crabrcid
ei'y or lace.
Handsome French tapestries with
plain dark grounds interwoven with
tinsel threads.
Immense assortments of cnir-brie,
nainsook and srviss edgings and bands
in open patterns.
Choico lines of ginghams that show
French loop, pineheck, bar, cord and
cluster stripe desigus.
Excellent values in this season's
sample lots of shirt waists, including
percales, lawns and madras ideas.
Very high-elass shirt waists mado
entirely of alternating stripes of white
or colored washable ribbon and lace
inserting.
CETTINC BACK THE EDITOR.
rile TerrlUle Hove- 5. or Koxlue IlaJJn
tor, tin Poetess.
"Ah, say yes!" pleaded the young
editor of the Tombstone Magazine, as
he knelt at the feet of the beautiful
heiress, Bromo Moneytou. "Do nob
so cruelly kill the hopes that I have
abolished that you would one day be
mine!"
The exquisite girl moved slightly
away so that she could get a good
view of his attitude. She looked cold
ly, pityiugly, almost mockipgly, at
him. Then she spoke in calm, meas
ured tones:
"I regret," she said, "that, after a
careful examination, I find that you
do not fulfill all the requisites for ac
ceptance. In short, you won't do."
A cold chill seemed to strike and
clutch his heart in an icy grip. Her
words souuded straugely familiar.
"I wish, however," she went on,
i "to thank yon for so kindly submit
ting yourself. and at the same time to
remind you that the refusal does not
necessarily imply a lack of merit."
"Be merciful, Bromo!" lie moaned.
He recognized in what she said the
regular rejection form of the Tomb
stone.
I "In judging the acceptability of a
husband," che continued, many ques
tions of individual plan and policy
must bo considered, It frequently
happens that a man unsuited to the
tastes and inclinations of oue girl may
come within the scope of some other.
A more careful study ot my peculiari
ties would have informed you more
thoroughly of the general character of
offers desired. .1 wish, however, to
thank you for the piiviloge of consid
ering you, and will promise you a
prompt decision ou the value of all fu
ture "
X"EnougU! Enough! Bromo," he
gasped, grovelling on the rug. "What
is your non de plume?"
She glared mercilessly into his eyes,
then drew herself to within an inch ot
her full height.
"Koxine Raditor,the poetess, whoso
verses you have been steadily refus- '
ing for the last year and a halM" she
hissed iu his ear as she swept from tho
room,—Kato Masterson, in Life.
Why We sit on Tables.
About ten milliou women are exas
perated every day by men sitting on
tables. So far as lam aware, women
do not pay for the furniture, aud it is
none of their business how it is used.
The habit of men sitting on tables
has led to the invention of the cush
ioned billiard table and will no doubt
ultimately result in other clever no
tions. At one time it was supposed I
that meu chose to sit ou tables be
causo they could get exercise without
exertion by swinging their own legs
aud by kicking the legs of tho table
Tho scientific fact is that tables are
more magnetic than chairs. If three
men walk into a room where ttiere is
110 woman two of thorn will make fot
the table naturally. Tho third one
will try two or three chairs ami
finally give it up iu despair aud join
the others. The source of this mag
netism is the friction that women
create by polishing tablos so fre
quently. Of course, women say that
they only polish tables because men
sit 011 them atul spoil them, but this
is illogical and feminine. No really
clever men sit on chairs. They use
their chairs for keeping their papers
and things ou, also their feet.
Chairs aro notoriously immoral.
You will notico that a well-bred man,
wlieu he finds himself losing his torn
per, invariably gets up from his chair
aud makes a direct line for the nearest
table. This enables him to keep his
temper and to argue -reasonably.—
The Criterion.
I'rol* lent of Coal Supply.
It is difficult to imagine what might
have happened if the Americau Flyiug
Squadron had visited tho coast ol
Spain. Imagine a fleet arriving all
the enemy's coast with its coal bunk
ers practically empty and uuable to
coal at sea. The advantage would lie
with the enemy, putting out from
home ports with bnukers well filled.
Tho programme would be, of course,
first to capture a base where colliers
could lie aud warships have thoir
bunkers replenished. But the cap
ture of such a base might result in Wu:
loss of a ship aud, oven though it did
not, the campaign of attack would bf
hampered by tho necessity of main
taining a defense of the colliers, es
pecially against torpedo boat attack.
This point is made doubly important
since the submarine torpedo boat has
proved a success. In contrast to this,
imagine that each collier is fitted to
coal at sea and under headway as well.
—Engineering Magazine.
Mentflllv UefUdrnt Children.
That, on an average, fifteen pet
cent, of all school children are par
tially deaf was the statement made bj
E. B. Johnstone, tho vice-principal
the Training School for Feeble Minded
Children, iu his recent speech before
the New Jersey Association for the
Stndy of Children aud Youth. Ho nlsc
said that there is not a public school iu
tho country which has not at least
one meutally deficient child, lie
spoke of tho great- need of suitable
teachers, those who realize the re
sponsibility of their positions "Such
teachers," said Mr, Johnstone, "are
born and not made."
llnthor Cold- Clouded.
Of the tactics of infantry there is
no end, but there are somo simple
rules for the individual foot soldier to
remember when lost in the chaos of
battle. If you cannot bayonet your
eu6iny, shoot him; if lie goos away,
aim at the base of his spine. But da
not let your attention be distraoted
from business by the consideration
that other people are making a mark
of you, Jt is your duty to Mil the
highest possible number of those op.
pooed to you, not to save your own
skic.—From "How Soldiers Fight."