TRUST THE HELMSMAN. If It s*cms but a stubborn old world That won't bo reformed in a day, Don't fall to lamenting that all things ire wrong And refuse to be righted your way; Just guide your own course by the truth, As the truth seems apparent to you, And when in snug harbor you anchor at last You may find all the others there too. There's many a ship on the sea, And all by the same tempests blown, But one ship can't steer by unother ship's helm; It has to be steered by its own. They'll answer a cull of distress And help till the danger is past, But on its own compass each ship must rely To reach the home haven at last. —Kipley D. Saunders in St. Louis Republic. Ho>or l o5ot.oeo>s>oHoo>oHo{0.*5 ° ° I The tin of Chance. I 0 o 'tfofco*o*o r *o4o*o*o'4o*o'igo'*oii "A rascal more or loss of those scamps won't count. Try some of these pheas nuts, your honor. Thoy were sent me by a friend, a trusted old friend. Yes, as I wns saying, a rascal more or less." And the speaker, a broad shouldered, blond boarded man in uniform, launched forth into a tirade against the Arabs that from any other man would have brought down swift vengeance from these hardy sons ol Algeria. Rut Vandier's cheery smile and kindly sympathy for the very men ho was engaged in execrating were prover bial beneath the white tents that dotted the sandy plains around us. We, the judge of El A/.creg and I, the military doctor, were seated at Vandier's table. In spite of the disparity of oui positions—Vnndier bad risen from the ranks to a sergeantcy—we loved him for his geniality, devotion to his duly and, above all, to his family, for whom he. lived, breathed and thought. No, decidedly our good friend was ex empt from the risk other men had incur red. Rut what did worry me was his perpetual and incurable fondness for winging anything feathered that came within gunshot, despite the stringent laws that forbade sueli sport and the dan ger he, as guardian of these same laws, ran when he infringed upon them. I wondered silently whether the judge was deceived by this excuse of an old friend, and as I glanced at the sweet faced little wife and her two bonny chil dren I resolved to repeat my warnings to Vandier at the lirst opportunity. Alas, fate willed it otherwise! The day after our pleasant little visit 1 was returning from a long and some what cheerless journey into the desert, whither I had been summoned to relieve a suffering Arab, when I was stopped by a crowd of people, headed by my friend. Gnrieti, the judge. "Quick, doctor," he cried. "I am off to El Azorcg. Vandier has been assassi nated!" "Dead?" I repented, chilled to the; heart. "No; hut a pistol shot in the groin. He is in great danger." Mechanically I wheeled my horse's head in the opposite direction and gal loped rapidly along beside -Garien, who informed me_that the police were al ready on the spot. The minutes grew Into hours in my dis torted fancy; I hoped my colleague had been summoned in my absence for I felt myself too excited to handle my patient with the calm deliberation so necessary to a physician. Rut, then, would he be still living when we arrived? "Oh," cried the village smith as we dashed into El Azereg, "he is alive and the murderer has been caught. Justice, justice, your honor." We entered the house hurriedly. As I had hoped, my colleague had preceded nie. Vandier, his face tensely drawn with the agony (J his wound, lay among the white sheets that were spotted by a few drops of blood. Mine. Vandier knelt sob bing beside biin. The doctor straightened as he saw us. "lie still lives. You will have time to take his deposition." Vandier opened his eyes with a groan. "Oh!" he whispered, "it's nil over with nie. Watch over Marie and my little ones. The government must provide for them now. Don't abandon them." 1 could not answer; my grief tugged at my throat, and I nodded sorrowfully. Again the doctor spoke: "To save his strength I will repent the story of his mishap. Listen carefully, Vandier, so that you can sign the declara tion when it is finished." Vandier nod ded, and his face set in more dolorous lines than before. "Vandier was shot at very short range; just how I cannot say, as it is impossible to search the wound—some Arab con trivance, loaded with stones perhaps. The murderer is a well known rascal, Chenefi Omar Alidelknder, living yonder at Mnhoudi. lie has just been arrested. Vandier was returning from the farm of ; Pftvanni in bis runabout. He was alone, armed as usual with his gun and car tridge holt, both carelessly thrown under the seat. Everything seemed ns usual until lie approached El Azereg, when this blackguard sprang upon him from some j hushes at the roadside and without a word shot at him. Vandier, though grave ly wounded, reached for his gun: the trig ger caught and the gun went off, the bul let passing through the flooring of the carriage. This accident gave the assas sin time to escape in the brush, but not before the victim had recognized him as a scamp who had just been imprisoned for six months for theft. Then, by a su preme effort of Ills will, he managed to drive into the village." Poor Vandier! He had, then, fallen n victim to his hasty words. During the narrative his pallor had increased, and ns the judge glanced up, expectantly nwaiting his affirmation of the details, ho opened his eyes with an expression of anguish I have never before or since, thank God. seen on any face. "Well. Vandier, as you hope for im mortal salvation. Is this the truth?" "Just an Instant," interrupted my col league. "Did the Arab shoot from the right or the left side?" "Left." "Strange," murmured his interlocutor. "We must Investigate this. The wngoh is very high." Wo filed out to inspect the wagon, and when we returned convinced that a very tall man could have accomplished the deed the Invalid took the oath, and we turned from the painful farewell scene between husband and wife. Outside the crowd surged and shouted for justice, for Vandier wns a universal favorite. Had it not been for the pres ence of the guards the culprit would un doubtedly have been torn limb from limb. He sat there impassible, his sinister face the embodiment of evil, awaiting the mo ment of identification. At last my colleague summoned us. "Fetch the Arab, or it will be too late." Vandier opened his eyes as we entered with our prisoner, then closed them with u shudder. "Vandier, is this the man?" The sergeant's features wore convulsed by some mental struggle, and his threat ening words against the Arab rang in my ears, why I could not tell. Then, with an expression of pity, al most penitent remorse, he murmured; "It is." Noble soul, true hearted Vandier griev ed that his murderer should suffer the penalty of his crime. Rut Oinar cast himself beside the dy ing man and cried, with a refinement ol hypocritical sincerity: "In Allah's name, I have never injured this man!" And before we could prevent him lie had kissed Vandier's hand with passion ate devotion. The excitement overwhelmed the inva lid, his breath came in gasps, his eyes closed, and then followed an ominous si lence. The following days we devoted to care ful investigation of the facts. Needless investigation to 1113' mind, convinced as 1 was of Vandier's absolute loyalty. As Impartial judge, however, I pretended the absolute necessity of investigating the prisoner's unswerving asseveration? of innocence, and my colleague, for some reason unknown to me, hut based, ho told us, uiion pathological reasons, supported him. Our researches, however, confirmed nil the details of Vandier's story. That Omar's friends and relatives swore he had not been absent from his tent at the hour specified we did not heed, for the Arabs would naturally seek to protect their kinsman. One thing,, however, impressed 11s ns strange. The terrible hemorrhage that must have followed had not stained the bottom of the runabout, and yet the ground where the attack was made had been flooded a deep crimson. "It dropped through the cracks," I as serted, when Garien mentioned the im probability of the wounded man having climbed from the wagon in pursuit of the villain. "Rut in that case we would find traces of it all along the road." I left the judge in anger at his implied doubt of Vandier's veracity. Our Arab maintained an attitude of dignified res ignation. Allah would not desert his child until his innocence had been prov ed! Early in the morning of the day ap pointed for the man's conviction Garien came to me with something clasped tight ly in his left hand. "What do you make of that?" he ask ed, extending a bullet of the caliber used by Vandier instead of the Arab, and in the place of the rags they use, a hit of wood. "Why, wood; rather superfluous in a wound it seems to nie." "Where did you get them?" I asked, vaguely disconcerted by the occurrence. "Your collengue brought thorn to me after the autopsy," replied Garien, be tween his teeth. "Come, let us examine the wagonette again." We went out together, I still seeking an explanation to this undefined accusa tion against my departed friend. Garien quietly fitted the splinters into the small hole in the bottom of the run about. Not a morsel was missing. Van dier himself had explained this hole by the accidental discharge of his gun. "There," said he at last. I could not believe my eyes. "Impossible!" I cried. "Tlioy are not the same color as the wagon." The judge gravely scraped away the blood 011 the splinters. The bright yel low that Vandier had used to stain his wagonette gleamed beneath tl somber bloodstain. "I—l don't understand," I stammered. The judge looked at nie; then lie suid: "You know Vandier hunted, or, rather, pom-lied?" he said coldly. I nodded. "Well, ho shot himself, and Omar is in nocent. It is all quite clear. Returning that morning; he discovered one of the pheasants his trusted friend was so fond of sending him. Dismounting he started to pull out his guri, but the trigger caught, discharging the bullet, which lodged in his groin." Garien illustrated just how this had happened. "Ry a marvelous effort of love and devotion, Vandier, realizing what the consequences for his family would be if the true cause were known, forced bis way back into the runabout and drove home with his carefully planned tale. For one of Van dier's frank, honest nature the stupen dous deceit with which he dared face his Maker, from sheer love for his wife, amounted to a real heroism. It is superb and abominable. And to think that a man's life should depend upou such a chance!" We entered the little courtroom where our prisoner was already seated. "You are free," said Garien, "to return to your home." The Arab answered simply: "Allah be praised. May he watch over you for long days to come." Then, with the easy grace of a man who feels his innocence proved in the face of doubt, he added: "The tongue of the witness is a serpent who drinks of lies, but innocence is re flected in the eyes of a just man." "That is sometimes a truth and some times an error," murmured Garien, as we watched the Arab wending bis way along the sunlit road. 1 thought of Vaudier in his grave, with that lie in his eyes. And, strong man that I was, I wept.—Translated From the French For Milwaukee Sentinel. Cannllmliniin In tlie Kongo, Since coming first to the Kongo, the further 1 traveled the farther cannibal ism seemed lo recede. Everybody hud to say that their neighbors on beyond were bud, that they "eat men," till 1 began to grow skeptical. Rut here at Bungala 1 absolutely caught up with it and was obliged to allow what I had hoped to be able to maintain as "not proved." 1 will not sicken you with the details of the preparations, as some of our boys gave them when they came to tell me, in the hope that I should he able to inter fere, but before they reached the steam er the big drum's dum-duni announced the final act. The natives could not, or at least appeared not to, understand why the white man and his people should take exceptions to their proceedings. "Why," said they to one of our boys, "do you interfere with us? We don't trouble you when you kill your goats. We buy our nyama (meat) and kill it. It is not your affair." From this point on the evidences of cannibalism were continually recurring, though the reluc tant manner in which at spine places the people acknowledged being "man eaters" leads us to hope that a sentiment against It already exists.—"Pioneering On the Kongo" by Rev. W. U. Bentley. WOMAN AND FASHION. Gown of Spotted Rod Fonlnrd— I Tlie lllouiit* 111 Autumn—A Walk ing Hat. Tlio gown shown Is of red foulard spotted with black and trimmed with black lace. The double skirt has the under one very long and full round the bottom and Js finished without garni ture, while tlie upper skirt fits snugly SPOTTED RED FOULARD. round the waist, is tucked at tlio hack, expands gracefully at the bottom and is decorated in front with an emplace ment of black lace. The bodice Is fancifully cut out at the neck and bordered with black lace. —Philadelphia Ledger. The IHoiine In Antnnin. When the autumn begins to create a change in the momentous affairs of dress, the blouse waists will appear under tlie guise of black and white silk muslin or chiffon webs, lichl.v em broidered and laid over tinted silk lin ings. They can be worn with any sort of silk, satin or fine cloth skirt, and those women who invariably foree ev ery season have been appearing in beautiful hand worked bodices nt smart country house morning enter tainments. In heavier and more durable goods the novelty blouses are already mak ing a show, and a new silk, called peau de suede, Is what they are built of. A peau de suede surface, tinted in a pale tan, displays interwoven spots of brown velvet of graduated sizes, tech nically termed the mushroom pattern, and to find a blouse of more Interest ing and modish goods than this n wo man will he obliged to search far and wide. It seems almost essential to mention here In connection with blouses that any maid or matron who is obliged to conduct at once with skill and economy the destinies of her wardrobe for the approaching fall will do herself a good turn by investing in a white satin skirt. It Is to be the basis—ln fact, it has been the basis all summer— of every variety of Idolise. No woman who knows the laws of clothesland mounts her blouses, be they grave or gay of aspect, on a black satin skirt. She buys instead the richest ivory white satin she can find, gives It to a good dressmaker who will cut it on hand some lines, hut decorates it with noth ing more than a narrow, thick fold of satin at the foot or with three inch wide tucks. It is amazing what rough, steady usage such a skirt can endure and how with a few blouses it will answer as the fvry backbone and cornerstone of theater toilets, dinner dresses, at home costumes and at a pinch for a hall gown. Now, important as it is to dwell on the merits of tlie white satin skirt, just so important is it to caution every woman against its black satin fellow. That garment is an old soldier on un limited furlough, some day undoubted ly to be recalled to active duty.—Mil linery Trade Review. A Walking lint. One of tlio autumn novelties in mil linery—a walking hat of blue felt faced AN AUTUMN NOVELTY. with pearl gray and having a scarf twisted about tlie crown that combines both colors. The Irony of Fute. By ft curious irony of fate the great fortune made by Erckmann of tlie Erckniann-Cliatrian combination in praising tlie military glories of France lias now been Inherited by a Prussian officer. The officer in question mar ried Erckmann's niece almost imme diately after the cession of Alsace and Lorraine. MATRON AND MAID. Mmo. L. J. Velasquez Board is plan ning to put through a railroad from Ben derey lmy, on the Pacific coast, in Mexi co, to Phenix, A. T. Baroness d'Aiictlinn, wife of the Bel gian minister at Tokyo, Japau, lias em braced the Catholic religion. The baron ess is a sister of Uider Haggard, the nov elist. Mrs. Charlotte Barnwell Murray of the Chicago Athletic club says that tlie ath letic club for women is not nu amuse ment; it is a mission. It preaches the gospel of heulth ami strength. Elisabetta Marchetti, the 19-year-old daughter of Eieauora Duse, is not in clined to follow iii her mother's footsteps. Instead she will become u schoolteacher and is now studying to that end in Mu nich. She is said to be tlie image of her mother. Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, whose plnys once enjoyed a great vogue in Germany, is not yet entirely forgotten, for at least one German theater, at Mannheim, ar ranged a performance, which was well attended, of one of her plays to celebrate the centenary of her birth. Mrs. Kruger, wife of Oom Paul, has a great dislike for railway trains and re fused to be present nt the arrival and departure of the first train which estab lished railroad service nt Pretoria. It was not until last year that Oom Paul succeeded in persuading her to take her first trip. The Marchioness of Douro, so famed for her beauty in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the second Duke of Wel lington's widow, whose privilege it was to close the dying eyes of the great duke, is still alive, in her eightieth year, and is said to be regaining strength after an ill ness. The widowed Duchess of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, according to The Westminster Gazette, has an income of £O,OOO a year from the British treasury, besides a join ture from the Coburg ducliy estates. The Russian estates of tlie duchess and her own invested money and her life allow ance from the imperial treasury give her £OO,OOO a year. THE DOMINIE. St. Paul's cathedral was completed within 03 years, while the building of St. Peter's, Rome, was extended over 170 years. A novel building removal recently took place in Chicago when the Woodlnwn Presbyterian church was moved across the Illinois Central tracks. The tracks are elevated, and the church was hoisted about 15 feet high and lowered on the other side. The Rev. John Contant, pastor of the Reformed church of Lodi, N. J., was forced to preach in blue overalls and a boy's coat on a recent Sunday morning, because a burglar had stolen his clothes during tlie previous night. Tlie minister prayed for tlie burglar in tlie course of the morning prayer. The Rev. L. J. Coppin, colored, of Philadelphia, who was recently elected bishop of the African Methodist Episco pal church in the Transvaal, will sail for Africa next January. By that time the members of the denomination hope to raise $20,000, and when lie arrives in the Transvaal there will be a reorganiza tion of the conference, and work on the college will be commenced. THE WRITERS. George Moore, tlie English novelist, dramatist and art critic, is to visit this country about next Christmas time for the purpose of studying art conditions in America. Mr. Richard Whiteing's new novel will deal with the fife of the British farm la borer. The author is again at work, though slowly, us he is not entirely re covered from his recent severe illness. Beatrice Ilarrnden, it is said, wields a saw and plane with as much skill as her pen. While living on a ranch in Califor nia for her health's sake she became quite expert as a carpenter, helping upon occasions to build a fence. She set out with her own hands a small orchard and attended to the gruftiug und pruning. M. Sardou frankly admits that there is nothing but plebeian blood in his veins. For three generations his ancestors lived in very modest circumstances at Cannes. Before that they were Sardinian fisher men. His great-grandfather, lie says, may have been wrecked on the south of France and settled there; hence the family name Sardou, signifying an in habitant of Sardinia. POWDER AND BALL. Chinese soldiers live on rice and cab bage. The earliest known system of fortifica tion was the stockade. It lias been em ployed at one time or another by all na tions, but is still in use in Turkey. In enlisting for the cavalry recruiting officers never accept an enlistment from n man who weighs over 103 pounds, while for infantry or artillery recruits who weigh up to 190 pounds are accepted. An otliccr in tlie Austrian army in Vi enna lias invented balloons which will float both men and horses across a river. They are to be fastened to tlie belts around the men und the harness of the horses. UNCLE RUSSELL SAGE. It must almost break Russell Sage's heart to think of Mr. Huntington's giv ing away all that money und getting nothing iu return.—Detroit News-Trib une. Uncle Russell Sage has no doubt that a man can live on 13 cents a day, but lie doesn't see why President Harper should encourage such extravagance.— Kansas City Journal. If Russell Sage will continue to give country excursions to poor children, he may he allowed to dine on apples and crackers without further molestation.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. GENERAL CHAFFEE. As an Ohio man General Chaffee has a certain Ohio reputation to sustain—that of getting there.—Boston Herald. We are so pleased to learn that the English are satisfied with the way Gen eral Chaffet does things.—Pittsburg Dis patch. What's to bo done for Chaffee? That's what's agitating the hero worshipers now. Anyhow don't let's give him h house in Washington or build a perish able arch for him and neglect to make it ! permanent. These are laurels that fade aud pull on the senses.—Boston Herald. I SEEDLESS ORANGES. Tholr Introdnptlon In America Dne to a Woman. The introduction into the United .'States of the seedless orange, the cul ture of which has assumed such large proportions 011 the Pacific coast, was primarily due to an American woman. Traveling in the province of Buhia, Brazil, in 1800, she incidentally men tioned in a letter to a friend in the United States, Horace Capron, then commissioner of agriculture, that the oranges of Balila were of superior quality to those raised in the United States. No chance expression of taste probably ever was fraught with more magnificent results. Mr. William Saun ders, then as now in charge of the gardens and grounds of the depart ment of agriculture, had already de voted some attention to the improve ment of orange culture in the United States and had introduced a few new varieties from foreign countries. This letter, being brought to his attention, suggested the possibility of a new find in the field of orange culture. A re quest was sent for specimens for prop agating purposes. A box of cuttings from trees was returned, which unfor tunately proved worthless. A specific order was then forwarded for plants, and in 1870 a small shipment of 12 young trees, all of the same variety and well packed in wet moss and clay, arrived in Washington in fairly good condition. This was the original stock from which have sprung all the far famed orange groves producing what is commercially known as the "Riverside navel (or seedless) orange" of southern California. All of the 12 plants were planted in tile department grounds and thrived. At the proper time buds from these 12 trees were grafted upon small orange plants then under cultivation at tlie department and the process of propagation repeated at proper inter vals. As the supply increased hundreds of the young plants were distributed through Florida and California, at first under the name of the "Bnhia orange," afterward as the "Washington navel." For some undiscovered reason condi tions in Florida proved unfavorable to the productiveness of the trees, but the development and success of their cul ture in California constitute a subject of unusual interest. Ancient Sundials. It Is probable that the earliest sun dial was simply the spear of some no mad chief stuck upright in the ground before his tent, says E. W. Maunder in Knowledge. Among those desert wan derers, keen to observe their surround ings, It would not be a difficult thing to notice that the shadow shortened as the sun rose higher in the sky und that tlie shortened shadow always pointed in the same direction—north. The rec ognition would have followed very soon that this noonday shadow chang ed in its length from day to day. A six foot spear would give a shadow at noonday in latitude 40 degrees of 12 feet at one time of tlie year, of less than two feet at another. This instru ment, so simple, so easily carried, so easily set up, may well have begun the scientific study of astronomy, for it lent itself to measurement, and science is measurement, and probably we see it expressed in permanent form In the obelisks of Egyptian solar temples, though these 110 doubt were retained merely us solar emblems ages after their use as actual instruments of ob servation had ceased. An upright stick carefully plumbed standing on some level surface may therefore well make tlie first advance upon tlie natural hori zon. A knob at the top of the stick will be found to render tlie shadow more easily observed. Tlie 'l'eleu rn phnnc. A special kind of phonograph called the telegraphone lias been Invented by V. Poulsen of Copenhagen. As described by The Electrical Re view, the invention eouslsts largely in substituting a steel ribbon for the wax cylinder used in the ordinary phono graph and in magnetizing points in this ribbon instead of marking it with a pointed rod, as Is done 111 the case of the wax cylinder. The oscillations of a magnet near the ribbon when one talks into the instrument produce a perma nent magnetic record In the ribbon which is given out as words when the ribbon is afterward moved near a simi lar magnet suitably mounted. All additional feature is found in the fact that the words spoken into the re ceiver can bo recorded at a distance, at the end of a telephone or telegraph wire. A message arriving in one's ab sence will be Impressed 011 the ribbon and can be read off when one returns , home. By arranging tlie ribbon as a continuous band, like a band sack, a message can be sent to a large number of subscribers nt tlie same time, each having a small vibrating magnet to take the message from the telephone wire. The steel ribbon used is about one five-hundredth of an inch thick. Tlie Kit 111111 >1 i ot rn pit. In the kammatograph nearly 600 pictures are taken on a plate 12 inches in diameter, the turning of a handle causing a slow rotary and lateral nu>. tiou, with the necessary stop for ex posure nt every fourteenth second. The pictures thus Impressed in a spiral com bine in an "animated photograph" when a positive plate J* passed through the camera iu front of a lantern.— Uopular Soteiree. Cornl Ileefn In the Moon. A. E. 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