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DIH If ary hsvs h little lemb
With fleece u white an snow?
If ’Mere » mere poetio eh am
Would Watte bavo told it eof
O, no I
Of one eo pioua, pure and prim
’Twere wloked to infer
That he who wrote a holy hymn
Prevaricated her.
No, elr 1
Suppose, for Uary'g lunoh was cooked
A “little lamb”-a chop?
▲wayorom school, where she was booked.
Of oouree it oouldn't stop.
D’ye drop?
And why did Mary love the meat
Which was her choaon feud ?
Her young digestion was complete,
Thus lamb and eho ayrceU,
Iudeed1
Materially true aro lots
Of tales which poets state,
And, hence, the fame of Mr. Watte
’lie mine to vindicate —
To date.
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A THRILLING STORY
Croat Cattle Ranges of New Mexieo
and Arizona.
BY FORTUNE L. STORR.
CHAPIER XVI.— Continued J
In ft deep grove the single street of
» little village was visible, nnd from
the houses vast corrals extended over
Hie plain, confining herds of many
horses. These were the wealth of the
outlaws, the fruits of many a raid of
theft and murder in the wide territory
abo ,t them brought here for safe-koep-
. ing until they could be driven away to
the markets of Texas.
Pausing for a moment in the wide
street of the little hamlet, lied Martin
received the welcome of such of his
followers was had not accompanied
liim upon his expedition, and giving
some directions as to the disposal of a
guard, he rode on with Judith until he
came to a house more pretentious than
the others and betraying evidences of
taste and ornamentation.
“Let me assist you,” he said, helping
the girl to alight, and by a frown dis
missing some of the more curious of
his band who gathered with looks of
admiration abo.it her.
"Come in.”
She followed him passively, and lie
led the way to a large and well-
appointed room, but gloomy and som
ber in the shadow of the failing day.
He motioned her to a seat, and light
ing a lamp upon a handsome table,
turned slowly toward her.
“You may rest in peace to-night, and
J r ou need not fear that I expect you to
ove mo. While I could, by mere force,
break yoifr proud spirit, and while I
know that you nowise sympathize with
the life I lead, yet I know your sex,
and understand what a strong will can
secure, if one has the determination to
enforce it. You shall bo mine in spite
of yourself. Good-uight.”
Turning upon his heel, he left her
without another word, and tho girl
sank upon her knees, frightened and
awed by his manner.
She could not but wonder at the sin
gular characteristics of this desperado,
and familiar as she was with the world,
she had never met his like. He could
be both refined and cruel, brutal, sav
age, and yet his voice had some gen
tleness, and an expression of the eye
at issue with the murderous spirit
which at times seemed wholly to pos
sess him.
At least she would have time for
thought and reflection; and comforted
by the hope that the future might en
able her to escape from his power, she
xetired to rest.
Scarcely had she sank into bed when
a knock upon the door startled her,
Wild with alarm she sprang to her feot
and rushed to secure the door, her first
thought that the cunning outlaw had
but lulled her to a sense of security
the better to further his dark plans.
“Open,’tis I," came from without,
and she recognized the voice of Winnie
Berrill.
“Thank heaven!” cried the girl as she
nnbarred the door and welcomed the
squatter’s daughter. “I feared for you
greatly.”
“It was the order of the chief,”
sobbed Winnie. “That frightful Faw
cett wanted to detain me; but his mas-
ter forbade it, and told me that I might
come to you. In pity’s name what is to
become of us?”
CHAt TER XVIL
THE PRAIRIE SLEUTH HOUNDS
“Heaven will protect us,” answered
Judith. “I. feel that our friends will
not rest until we are found, and to
morrow we wiil endeavor to think oi
some means to aid them.”
Kneeling together the two girls in
voked the protection of heaven, and
then retiring to rest, slept quietly
under the assurance of lied Martin
that for the time, at least, they were
safe.
In spite of tho security of the
mountain retreat of the Vultures, that
formidable band of outlaws would hav
been no little alarmed if they had
known the resolution, daring and
courage of those upon their trail.
Jerry Wind, urged on by love the
deepest, anger the keenest, and a dosii-i
for vengeance swelling within hie
breast, was traveling with the marvel
ous sagacity of a plainsman tho rout*
of the fugitives.
Ho know tho value of time, and bad
not waited fo’’ assistence, but bail
spurred away at once aftor the fleeing
outlaws.
He scarcely observed that Moulton
had left them, but with Lubber Higgs
at his side was noting with keen eye the
broken bushes and disturbed soil which
pointed out his path.
All this lio noted with such rapidity
as to hardly diminish tlioir speed.
He was riding after tho girl of hit
heart—that fair-faced creature whom
he loved better than his life—and h<
was alao riding • after tht villain wbo
bad stolen her f ram him.
The thirst fo * vengeance which ani
mated him w as felt with almost aa
much intensit g by his companion, upon
whom the f arce of the outrage had
not fallen, V/ut it was simply that in*
gtinct of fr outier justice, that sense o!
a common wrong, which made retalia-
tigu a du.ty, and marked the evil-doer
as a coDimou foe, and fit object for the
ipistol ej every honest cowboy.
Tho outlaws had relied upon haste
rather than aconeeatoont of their trail.
Becure in his mountain home, die
chief of the Vultures had little fear ol
capture.
The cowboys rodo with increasing
confidence as the trail lay fresh before
them; and under tho belief that he
would soon have his foes before him,
and an opportunity to rescue Winnie
Berrill, ,Terry Wind gathered heart,
and the look of sharp anxiety that had
clouded his face lifted.
“How many of tlieso devils are
ahead of us, Higgs? Can you tell
from the appearance of the trail?”
“I guess there's seven in the bunch
ahead, and what’s behind don’t make
any difference.”
1 hat is not more than we can wipe
out by ourselves, ”
“It's more than 1 want to run on to
without aid. We've got the girl to
get, and we must not jump them too
sudden or they may harm lier."
A dark look settled about the flam
ing eyes of .Terry.
“It will go hard with somebody if a
hair of her sweet head is touched,” he
muttered, hoarsely. “I can count on
you, of course, Biggsy ?”
His compauion did not deem this
speech worthy of answer.
“We won’t have long to wait for the
boys,” ho said. “Moulton’s started
with them before this time, and the
Cap’n’s black is pawin’ dirt not ton
miles behind us this blessed minute.”
They now dashed from the wood?
into an open valley, and the frail ol
the outlaws laid like a broad road be
fore them, a lino through the tail
grass marking tho course of thaii
horses.
They were careless, or they took us
for fools,” muttered Higgs.
Jerry Wind glanced over the broad
n'airie; the distance was groat, and
le hoped that they were so close
upon the fugitives as to bring them in
sight.
Hut the plain was deserted; and, as
far as the eye could see, the lino of
beaten verdure marked the course of
the outlaws toward the hills.
“They’ve ridden faster than 1
thought,” he said, in deep disappoint
ment.
“I hoped to ride on to them here"
said Biggs. “Can they know that they
are followed?”
“No; else why would they leave ae
plain a path?"
“They do know it,” said Lubber
Biggs, suddenly; “and they are watch
ing us from yonder hills at this mo
ment. Look, Jerry! Throw your
ayes into that cut ahead, and you’ll see
them hugging well up to a bunch of
timber. ”
“Where?” said Jerry, straining his
eyes iu vain.
“In the cut where we lost the cattle
last year, and found them in the bands
of the Chiracahuas. They must think
us blind, or they would never expose
themselves like that.”
Jerry continued to gaze earnestly at
the hills, but c*>uld distinguish nothing.
This did not greatly surprise him, for
Biggs was noted among his fellows for
a mnrvelous length of sight.
“They are waiting for us,” contin
ued his friend. "Their horses are
played out, and they mean to give us
iu ambush,"
“We can give them enough of that,”
said Jerry Wind. “Fortunately, we
have our VVinchesters, and can kill them
it a distance beyond the range of their
pistols.”
They pressed forward with greater
impatience, their horses bounding like
antelopes through the tall grass.
“There they go [’’exclaimed Higgs, in
a tone of intense disappointment.
“They’ve changed their minds, and are
leading off.”
“How many?”
“I can see eight, but can’t make out
whether the gal’s riding single or not.”
“They will make the woods south
and hit the stream that forks through
there. Now that they know wo are
after them they will try and cover their
flight.”
“We’ve hunted this country over too
often,” replied Higgs, with a chuckle.
‘It’s not a party of thick-headed horse-
thieves that will throw us off.”
Both cowboys were now sanguine oi
success.
They had so often followed the ob
scure paths of the Apachos through the
fastnesses of tho mountains that they
did not fear but they could keep the
trail of the outlaws.
They feit that ere the day should
fall they would run tho fugitives to
eurth.
They were not rash enough to be
lieve that thoy could overcome them
alone, in spite of their higli words, and
higher courage; but thoy believed that
they would compel them to make a
stand in the hills, and either abaudon
the girl, or defend themselves until the
arrival of the cattleman with their com
panions.
Thus cheered they spurred forward.
Their keen knowledge had not deceived
them.
When they had ridden through the
pass in tho uplands and rushed again
into the valley the trail o!’ the outlaws
lay in the direction of tho wood.
“They’re gone for the creek, Higgs,”
The reply was a grunt of satisfaction.
“Will they go up or down?”
“Wo won’t pass on that question un
til we come to it. If they go up we’ll
go that way too, and if they’ve gone
down we’ve business below. They
won’t dodge us.”
A dash through tho bushes, tho hoofs
of their stoeds crackling among the
twigs, and the trail led down into the
shallow stream.
“Seel” cried Jerry; “they do not gc
out upon the other side."
Every faculty of the cowboys was
now brought into )>lay, aud, much tc
their chagrin, ilioy were for a time de
layed.
Had the outlaws gone up or down
tho stream ?
They searched tho ehaunol closely
for a clew, bat It offered no evideBoet
the oarrent had washed ont every trace.
They scanned the banks on either
side; a bush displaced, a twig broken,
and thoy were answered.
“We will have to chance it for half
an hour,” said Biggs. “Let’s go down
the stream; wo can’t ride very fa*
without picking up something.”
“What’s that?" cried Jerry, sharply.
Lubber Biggs looked to where his
companion was pointing.
A strip of ribbon came floating down
with tho current.
“Hurrah!" shouted the oowboy. u \
ribbon can’t float up stream! After
them, Jerry, and we won’t go a mil*
before we find their tracks leading off
Into tho prairie, to where they hope to
tend us.”
They rode swiftly up the bank of
the creek, and shortly reached the
point whero Cutter and Black Bob had
left the stream.
“There!” cried Biggs, glceinlly.
“There’s the trail, and those empty-
handed rascals are laughing in their
boots at the thought of leading us
miles out of the way.”
“And some careless fellow lias
charged his pistol," observed Jerry.
“Do they think they have tenderfeet
upon their trail?"
He poiuted to somo shining brass
shells dropped by an outlaw in re
loading his weapon.
“They will ride out on the rift
above," ho continued. “I remember
the place well. If wo can run them
down before they reach the range it is
an easy thing to pick them off; but if
they reach the heavy canyons that I
recall to mind we must hope to take
them when thoy halt for sleep.”
They uow reached tho gravel shal
lows.
“Here,” said Lubber Higgs, “is
where we shall aguin find the trail.
Following close at the heels ol
Jerry, he rodo into tho woods and out
Upon the plain beyond, where the
route of tho outlaws was marked by
a deep indentation in the soil.
CHAl’lER XVIH
THE MOON OR THE SIERRAS.
Night descended upon the two friends
as they entered the hills, and rode into
the defile which led up the steep in
cline to tho canyon.
They had followed closely upon the
trail of the outlaws, and their panting
horses showed signs of fatigue.
They burned with impatience to go
forward, but their prairie experience
told them that they must rest before
penetrating the mountains farther, and
they also knew that precaution was im
peratively necessary. The outlaws
must also be wearied with their flight,
aud, under the belief that they had
thrown their pursuers from the trail,
would themselves seek repose.
“We can steal upon their watchfire,
and shoot several of them down before
they can defend themselves, ” said Lub
ber Biggs. “Let us rest, ”
They flung themselves from their
saddles, and, letting the animals graze
to the length of their lassos, seated
themselves for a hasty repast from
their pouches.
But their journey was not yet done.
A moon, full and beautiful arose to its
place in the heavens, its blazon front
a vast bowl of yellow light. Its rays
searched out the dark crevices of tha
hills, and dressed the surrounding
scene in a subdued and golden dawn.
High above them the somber peaks
were outlined against the sky, while
the vast canyon loomed away like the
entrance to some infernal province of
enchantment.
“Let us go forward,” said Jerry, ris
ing, when they had finished their meal.
“Wait,” continued Lubber Biggs.
“We will certainly overtake them now.
Unless they offer the girl violence, we
will let the rascals sleep, and then a
quick discharge, a sudden rush, and
the girl is ours.”
“They may not rest at all—they may
push on,” suggested Jerry Wind, fret
ting under the delay. “Their rendez-i
vous must be near at hand, and if we
delay until morning we might have to
face a hundred of the devils. ”
“True,” returned his companion
have heard the Indians say that these
mountains conceal their plunder, nnd
that thousands of horses are led through
these defiles.”
“Let us be off,” cried Jerry, impa
tiently.
“Softly,” said Biggs, rising and going
to his horse. “We will ride on; but re-
aiember that in tho stillness the hoofs
sf our horses can be heard for a long
distance, and it will warn them of our
ipproach. We must not ride reckless
ly on a nest of them. We are good for
six, but sixty are too many.”
“I do not care if tliere are six hun
dred!” exclaimed Jerry Wind, desper
ately, “I’m going to ride into them the
moment we cotuo in sight.”
“You can count on me," said Lubber
Biggs, quietly.
Jerry put out his hand and grasped
that of his comrade fervently.
They now rodo slowly into the
:auyon, their eager eyes searching the
darkness beyond. The moon overhead
lighted the flinty pathway, but made
long shadows in the gulch. Ghostly
forms appeared to start up on every
side, anil tall boulders stood like senti
nels about them.
But tho cowboys were made of stern
est stuff, and feared danger in no
shape. Bent low upon their horses
and peering watchfully about, they aib
vanced between the mighty mountains,
confident that tlio watch-fires of the
nutlftws would soon gleam ahead.
“Hold!” shouted Jerry, iu a voice oi
thunder.
“Great heavens!”
The exclamation burst from them
involuntarily, for they were looking
into a gulf of intense blackness, ami
far below they could hoar the fall oi
rushing water.
Tho dark bluffs bad shadowed th«
abyss from tho rays of the moon, and
they had riddeu to its very edgo, from
whence it sunk sheer downward, hun
dreds of feet liolow.
Their intelligent horses now recoiled
from tho brink upon which they bad
halted, tossing their heads ami trem
bling under tho knees of their riders.
Jerry leaped to the ground and
scanned the earth closely.
“The tracks are gone from the rocks,
but they lead toward the precipice,”
he said. ’ “See whore thoy come, from
Iho moonlight beyond?”
“They have gone further up the
eanyou," mM Lubber Biggs, joining
Jerry in the search.
They turned back from the gulch,
and, leading their horses, continued to
where the bed of the river narrowed to
a mere shelf, scarcely wide enough to
permit a man to pass between the
mountain and the abyss.
“It broadens further on, does it not?"
asked Jerry.
“Yes, but the ledge is so covered
with boulders thot they could not cross
there. We have followed a false
trail."
“No,” replies Jerry, with confidence.
"We could not have been deceived.
Tliere is a path through tho boulders
which we must find."
They retraced their steps, looking
over every foot of the ground. It was
Deaton hard by the hoofs of horses, and
i heap of ashes under a huge boulder
suggested that it was a frequent camp-
nig place. Nothing further was re
vealed.
“This is strange,” said Jerry. “The
moon does pretty well, but I would
give much for an hour of daylight."
“The patli leads directly to the preci
pice."
“Yes; but it veers away, and con«
tinues up the canyon to the ledge be
yond.”
“We must wait until morning.”
“I fear so,” assented Jerry, in a do-
ipairing voice.
He ground his teeth with rage, as he
leated himself on the ground and buried
liis face in his hands.
“Cheer up, old fellow,” said Lubber
Higgs, endeavoring to comfort him,
"The boys will be along by midnight,
and morning will see us rout those
devils out in a manner that will sur
prise them.”
“Hut Winnie!—Winnie in the hands
of that] ruffian through the lonely hours
of this night! Gh, but I will have his
blood!” cried the cowboy, yielding tc
bis intense anguish.
Lubber Higgs couid see his con
tracted countenance in the moonlight;
his fine face distorted with pain, and
his hands gripped upon the hilts of his
pistols as though his fingers were upon
the throat of the ruffian Fawcett.
“Hark—listen!”
A distant sound was borne up the ra
vine. It was like tho tramp of many
hoofs over the stony soil.
They were on their feet instantly.
“Thank God, it’s the boys!” burst
from Lubber Higgs, joyfully. “It’s
the Captain, sure. Let’s ride to meet
them,”
“Stay,” said Jerry.
“What is it?”
“We may have ridden ahead of those
rascals, and perhaps this Jis but an old
trail. Let us be cautious. ”
His shrewd brain, prompting alert
ness on the instant, sustained his repu
tation for praiiie craft, in spite of his
anxiety and grief.
He leaped into the saddle and drew
his revolver, while Higgs did likewise.
“Do you hear them?”
“Plainly,”
“They move very sluggishly, and
lack the dash of the Captain," ob
served Jerry, every sense awake.
They have ridden far, and their
horses are tired. ”
“Bo are ours; but we came at a bet
ter pace than that.”
Hiding slowly down the ravine for
some distance, they halted ns the
sounds drew nearer, and waited in the
shadow of a huge boulder for the com
ing of the horsemen.
A splendid pieture they made in the
somber background, as they sat silent
and motionless; their fine figures, erect
flpon the r noble steeds that stirred
Hot under the firm grip upon the
Veins; their brilliant weapons, that
flashed under a stray gleam of moon
light; their snowy chapparajoeu that
fell over their muscular limbs like
flakes of silk; two statues of bronze,
watchful, expectant, dangerous.
The newcomers approached leisure
ly, and on wearied horses. The tire
flashed from the flinty earth, struck by
the iron hoofs of their steeds.
“It’s not the boys!” cried Lubber
Biggs, in a sharp whisper, his dismay
expressing itself in a muttered oath.
"It’s more of those devils, and we have
a fight for it.”
Jerry Wind did not reply. He bent
forward over his horse’s neck, and his
pistol clicked softly. His companion
could see the luminous gleam in his
eyes, aud noted, by the rays of - the
moon, a wild joy in his youthful face.
“Keep your wrath bottled, Jerry,”
he admonstrated, “and do nothing rash. ”
, “Nothing that I can do will add to
the danger of the situation; and as
fortune gives us a chance at those vil
lains, let us make the most of it,” was
the calm reply from Jerry Wind.
It was the remnant of the band that
had survived the fight with the cow
boys returning to the mountain rendez
vous.
They had fallen in with Cutter and
Black Hob some miles back, nnd these
worthies were regaling their comrades
with an account of the capture of Ju
dith Colton and Winnie Berrill, aud re
citing how cleverly their unknown pur
suers had been thrown from the trail.
Clad of their near approach to their
secure home, they were laughing glee
fully, and approached without perceiv
ing the silent figures iu the shadow of
of the rock.
There was a sudden movement, and
each outlaw instinctively pressed his
bridle rein.
“What’s that?” cried the Vulture
leader.
Two slender jets of flame that
streamed from the dark recesses of the
rock was his startling answer, aud
Black Hob rolled with a stifled curse
from the saddle; n compauion shared
his fate, anil dropped under the rearing
horses.
It was a moment of wild eoufusimi.
The baud of ultures kuew noiibow
many foes were concealed under the
bluff, and the reports were wicked aud
rapid from the shadows.
“Now,” said Jerry, hoarsely, to hie
companion, "upon them!”
The two friends dashed forward, and
endeavored to force their way through
the bewildered outlaws, aud gain tlu-
prairie below; but Cutter, rallying his
men when but two opponents were
seen, barred their passage, and the
brave fellows were forced back.
“We can’t make it, xTerry,” gasped
Higgs, dropping an outlaw who rode
forward, and bring.ng lrs horse about
iu masterly style. "Heat into the ravine
aud dismount.”
Jerry paused for another shot at the
advancing foe, and following Lubber
BiggH rapidly up the canyon threw
himself from his horse and sought ref
uge among the massive boulders on ev
ery side.
They could hear the enraged cries of
tho furious outlaws as they followed in
mad haste.
“.Shoot them like dogs!” screamed
Cutter. “Shatter them with bullets,
or we will never dare look our Captain
in the face.”
“You never shall, if I can help it,”
muttered Lubber Higgs, firing his pis
tol iu the direction of the frantic voice.
A terrible cry answered the shot; a
cry that awoke all the echoes of the
gulch, and went quavering into the
uight among the volley of shots that
accompanied it.
“Cutter’s hit,” cried a tall ruffian;
“follow me!”
The peril of the cowboys was now
extreme.
Already their pistols were empty,
and they hail no time to recharge
them.
At short range their rifles were use
less, and bullets shot at random in the
dark, struck all about them.
The outlaws swarmed up the ravine
with yells of triumph, as tho tire
ceased from the rocks; they guessed
the cause.
Hut there was a rush of other sounds
in the canyon, the trample of fiery
hoofs, and with a wild cheer a troop
rode into the moonlight.
The closely pressed friends gave an
answering shout, as the cowboys, bend
ing low in the saddle, came up the
incline like a tempest.
Speechless with terror and dismay,
the Vultures awaited their doom.
The coming force was of sufficient
numbers to dispel all thought of suc
cessful resistance, for half the total
force employed at the ranch had fol
lowed the trail at the summons ol
Moulton.
The ruffians knew the tall figure
that rode at the head of the avengers,
and regarded him as a visitant from
the other world.
Trodden under the iron hoofs, dash
ed over the frightful bluff, and shot
without mercy, as they sought to flee,
the hapless Vultures struggled in vain;
and only when the last outlaw had es
caped from the gulch, or been sent tc
his last long account, did the cattle
man pause to take his rescued friends
by the hand and accept their thank*
for his prompt aud timely coming.
[TO BE CONTINUED ]
MEWS AND NOTES FOB WOKEN.
How to Prove the Earth’s Motion.
Any one can prove the rotary motion
of the earth on its axis by a simple ex
periment, for making which an educa
tional journal of Frankfort, Germany,
gives the following directions :
“Take a good-sized bowl, fill it
nearly full of water, and place it upor
the floor of a room which is not ex
posed to shaking or jarring from the
street.
“Sprinkle over the surface of the
water a coating of lycopodium powder,
a white substance, which is sometimes
used for the purpose of the toilet,
and which can be obtained at almost
any apothecary’s. Then, unou the
surface of this coating of powder, make,
with powdered charcoal, a straight,
black line, say an inch or two inches iD
length.
“Having made this little black mark
with the charcoal powder on the sur
face of the contents of the bowl, lay
down upon the floor, or close to the
bowl, a stick or some other straight
object, so that it shall be exactly paral
lel with the mark. If the line happens
to be parallel with a crack in the floor,
or with any stationary object in the
room, this will serve as well.
“Leave the bowl undisturbed for a
few hours, and thc-n observe the posi
tion of the black mark with reference
to the object that it was parallel with.
“It will be found to have moved about,
and to have moved from east to west,
that is to say, in that direction opposite
to that of the movement of the earth on
its axis.
“The earth, in simply revolving, has
carried the water and everything else
n the bowl around with it, but the
powder on the surface has been left be
hind a little. The line will always be
found to have moved from east to west,
which is perfectly good proof that
everything else has moved the other
way. ”
Best in the World.
Japanese sword-blades are beyoud
ill question the best now manufact-
ared, and are said even to surpass the
famous Toledo and Damascus blades oi
the Middle Ages for fineness of teiupei
and keenness of edge. A Japanese
lolilier has no difficulty in cutting a pig
in two at a single blow and bars of lead
or iron Lave been similarly severed
without leaving a notch or imperfection
of any kind on the edge. These swords
are equally remarkable for their power
of cutting light and unresisting objects,
such as a muslin veil, or a single hair.
One of peculiar excellence is preserved
in the Satsuma family, with which a
leaf floating down a stream can be cut
in two by merely being allowed to drift
against the edge.
Ho8TI'.ss (holding up a pitcher oi
majolica ware!—“Do you like majolica,
Mrs. Natural Gas?” Mrs. Natural
Gas 1 who has become suddenly rich by
the discovery of a gas well on her
Ohio farm —“No—er—that is to say—
v-vos, when it is well cooked."—Tracis
'Sifting*-.
“I say, Robinson, why don’t you wear
that new derby I saw on you the other
day? I’m sure the weather is fins
enough.” “My dear boy, I will tell
you confidentially that it’s in soak. 1
am saving up to pay for my wife's
Easter bonnet.”—New Haven Xew*.
Funny man (of Chicago daily)—A
sudden feeling of uausea lias come
over me. It must be something I've
eaten. Horse editor 1 sympathetically)
—Possibly it’s something you have
written.—Harper'* Ha ar.
There seems to be no tariff in for
eign comic operas. But, then, we sup
pose tlio English cousi ler them un 'or
the head of roar material.— Yonker*
S atesman.
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Lobelia is what the now French bln*
is called.
Fans wtth folding handles arc some
times seen.
The orchid is a favorite medal for fine
•namel jewelry.
There is a fancy this year for neck
laces of colored stones.
The ladies who skate in Pari* are all
wearing astrakhan jackets.
Never have dress fabrics been so magni
ficent as they arc this year.
Gauntlet gloves are very much worn
with the tight sleeves that now prevail.
Beautiful flower vases arc those of rain
bow-tinted glass in devices of 11 fanciful
character.
The Turkish fez, in enamel, with gold
tassel, constitutes the latest in queen-
chain pendants.
Gentlemen’s oval lockets of gold are
sought after with either upright or diag
onal lines of diamonds.
“The color of sun. gold and corn,” as
a gTeat critic has christened yellow is
most conspicuous in dinner toilets this
year.
Lady Alexandra Leveson Gower, only
daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, is
studying to be a nurse at the London Hos
pital.
Fashions are nothing this season if not
furry and feathery, and the point de re
sistance in every gown is its enormous
sleeves.
Strings'of mock gems are now employed
as epaulets, necklets and waist bands,
the stones being usually iu simulated un
cut state.
In the Postoffice Savings Bank in Lon
don women are doing exactly the same
work as men, and are doing it with few
er mistakes.
One of the largest land owners in the
world is Mrs. Emma E. Forsyth, who has
a plantation of 150,000 acres on an isl
and near New Guinea.
Miss A. B. Cleghorn, a Hawaiian
Princess, and in the line of succession to
the throne of Honolulu, is shortly to wed
a well-known Englishman.
Lady Anne Blunt, Lord Byron’s grand
daughter, is living with her husband and
young daughter iu a tent on the border
of the Egyptian desert, near Cairo.
Queen Victoria's favorite daughter-in-
law is the Princess of Wales. The Queen’s
affection for her is the natural result of
the great tact and amiability of the Prin
cess.
Mrs. Custer, wife of the great Indian
fighter, who since the death of her hus
band has received a pension of $600 a
year, has asked to have it made $1200 a
year.
The ex-Empress Eugenie is a daily vis
iter to the graves of her husband and
son. To say mass in the chapel of the
mausoleum she employs six priests and
four monks.
Mrs. Miles, the wife of the General
who is looked on as the nation's best
Indian fighter, is a niece of General and
Senator Sherman and a sister of Senator
Cameron’s wife.
The latest thing in necklaces is a chain
of pearls wound once or twice around th*
throat, the pearls strung upon a scarlet
thread and the thread strung in a little
bow at the back.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the statesman’s
daughter, is Vice-President of Sedgwick
Hall, Cambridge. She is noted for her
originality as well as her eccentricity of
manner, and is utterly regardless of
dress.
Black silk gowns are economical aa
well as stylish made with a yoke and
sleeves of some colored cloth, such as
heliotrope or bottle green, or of a soft
plaid combining white and heliotrope or
green.
The daughters of the Princess of
Wales are excellent pedestrians. For a
number of years they have been put
through a vigorous course of physical
training, and they think nothing of a
ten-mile walk.
Aprons are coming in again, but to be
quite of the approved mode tkey must be
in black Chantilly lace adorned with tiny
velvet bows. White ones are rarely
used, and are of Valenciennes lace and
insertion over silk.
Some ladies of high social position in
New York are said to have started a so
ciety “for the advancement of propriety
and frugality in dress.” Among the
things to be avoided are decollete dresses
aud sleeveless bodices.
Mme. de Stael turbans in plaid silk
stuck with jeweled pins are quite the
rage now. A pretty young girl inaugu
rated the mode at a 5 o'clock tea by
wearing on her dark hair a yellow silk
turban stabbed with a diamond arrow.
A new trimming which promises to
become immensely popular with society
girls is the tulle suzette, a coarse meshed
black net having a narrow border in
black and colors upon one or both edges.
This, plaited very full, is extrmeely
pretty.
Miss Mildred Fuller, the Chief Jus
tice’s daughter, who is soon to marry
Hugh Wallace, of Tacoma, Washington,
is the fourth daughter of the family. She
is attractive personally and is a graduate
of Wells College, Mrs. Cleveland’s alma
mater.
Lillian Blanche Fearing, the only
woman graduate at the last Commence
ment of the Chicago Union College of
Law, is totally blind. Nevertheless she
has written a number of strong magazine
articles and is a poetess of some promise
as well.
It was Mary Anderson-Navarro who
set the fashion of wearing tho “common-
souse’’ shoe in America. Once, when the
retired actress returned from Euglaud,
she made such a point of wearing low-
lieeled English boots that the ladies no
ticed it, aud as she always had a certain
amount of following, she really started
the fashion foi sensible foot wear.
THE CASE DECIDED
In the Behring 1 Sea Mattery-
Adverse to Petition.
The Behring sea case was taken tin
Tuesday in the United States luprcri*
court, pursuant to an order made by the,
chief justice. Tho courtroom was filled
with spectators. The United States wm
represented by Attorney General Killer
nnd Solicitor General Taft, and the gov
ernment of Great Britain by Joseph H.
Choate, of New York, and Calderon
Carlisle. Vice President Morton, Repre
sentative Grccnhalgc nnd Ben Butler, off
Massachusetts, and Mr. Stockdale, of
Mississippi, wero among the auditors.
Calderon Carlisle opened for Great Britain.
A fter considerable argument on both
sides the attorney general in his argu
ment opposed the motion for leaVe to file
a petition for a writ of prohibition on
the following grounds:
First—That the supreme court has no
power in any case to issue a writ of pro
hibition to the Sitka court, because it is
not a district court of the United States,
being merely a territorial court. He
argued further that the question of juris
diction of the Alaska court whi^h the
petitioner seek to present cannot be
raised on the record of the admiralty pro
ceedings on file with the supreme court,
because the face of these proceedings
show jurisdiction in the Alaska court,
and after sentence in suon case*, he
ajgued, prohibition “will not issue.”
In concluding his argument he held
that, conceding all the facts averred in
the petition, the question of the jurisdic
tion of the Alaskan court depend* upon
the extent of the dominion of the United
States in Behring sea.
Firing gatling guns by mean* of elec
tricity has proved so successful that the
naval guns of that type are hereafter to
be fitted with the motors.
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The time of taking each negative is cal
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