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THE ISLE OF SLEEP.
In the tropically languorous sea of sleep
There stretches a coral strand,
Where the moonlight plays ’mid the leafy
That palms
grow in the dream-world land.
And here it is that fond dreams meet
And dance on the sands of gold:
While the misty shapes we chase in sleep
Within our arms we hold.
A land where the gold-brown poppy bud
And Sways gently in the night.
Lulls with its opium-laden realms of light. breath
us to
There are no sins, there are no fears,
No sorrows or vain regret;
Tis a silent kingdom of happiness
Where we wonder and—forget.
—Edyth W ? . Skerrett. In Life.
ONE MUST ECONOMIZE!!
1 BY HELEN G. FORRETT.
“I really don’t know what I shall
do about it,” said Mrs. Peveril.
She was sitting on the arm of a sofa,
in her own room, confidentially dis¬
playing the treasures of her wardrobe
to Miss Sally Siphon, who had been
her bridesmaid, just two years before.
And the particular article which in¬
spired so much doubt iu her mind lay
ou a chair opposite—a soiled, white
silk dress, with the gores out of fash¬
ion, a wiue-stain in the front breadth
and the long train bearing evidences
of considerable wear.
“No, I really don’t,” continued
Mrs. Peveril, surveying the garment,
with her head on oue side. “It’s too
passe to wear, and yet it’s too good to
give away.”
“Why don’t you sell it?” said Miss
Sally Siphon, b.iskly.
“Sell it?”
Mrs. Peveril opened her blue eyes
in surprise.
“Yes,’’nodded Miss Sally. “People
ofteu do. I know a very respectab'e
woman who makes a regular business
of buying ladies’ cast-off dresses; and
she gives you a good price for ’em,
and you know that’s so much toward
a new one. Oue must economize in
these hard times.”
“Oh, that would be charming!” said
Mrs. Peveril. “But—but I’m afraid
Horace wouldn’t like it.”
“Don’t say anything about it to
Horace,” said Miss Siphon, iu a
whisper.
“I won’t,” said Mrs. Peveril.
“Shall I send Mrs. Isaacs to you
dear?”
“Do,” said Mrs. Peveril.
Miss Sally Siphon took leave accord¬
ingly; and Mrs. Peveril took her silk
dress, and laid it carefully away iu a
bureau drawer.
“It’s very stylish-looking yet,” said
Mrs. Peveril to herself, “and I
shouldn’t wonder if I got a decent
price for it.”
YIrs. Isaacs made her appearance
that afternoon.
“1 understand that yon have some¬
thing in my way, ma’am,” said she,
courtseying and smiling. “Miss
Siphon mentioned—”
“Yes,” said. Mrs. Peveril, “a white
silk dress!”
“Dear me,ma’am,” said Mrs.Isaacs,
“I could have wished it had been
black, or garnet, or plum color, or
some o’ them neutral tints. White is
the unsalablest color as we have in
stock. But I’ll look at it, ma’am. I
never refuse anything in the way of
trade. ”
And seated
smiling, until she seemed all white
teeth and red lips, while Mrs. Peveril
brought out the depreciated silk dress.
“Oh,’’said Mrs. Isaacs, with a glass
at her eye; “old-fashioned, soiled,and
a good deal worn!”
< l The fashion is a little old,” said
Mrs. Peveril, feeling the color mount
to her face. “It may be slightly
soiled, but I have oqly worn it about
a dozen times.”
“I know lots of ladies as only wears
tlieir dresses once or twice, and theu
gives ’em to their maids,” said Mrs.
Isaacs. “Then we can afford to pay a
good price for ’em—”
“What will you give me for this?”
interrupted Mrs. Peveril, shortly.
“I couldn’t say more than teu dol¬
lars, ’’replied Mrs. Isaacs, with another
display of the white teeth. “If it was
plum color, or myrtle green — ”
“Ten dollars!” echoed Mrs. Peveril.
“But it cost a hundred!”
“When it was new,” said Mrs.
Isaacs. “But one can really get noth
iug for second-hand goods. I shall
lose on P at ten dollars, but I would
like to obtain your custom for the
"future.”
“Take it!’* said Mrs. Peveril,
abruptly. almost that had
She was sorry she
sold the'dress when Mrs. Isaacs had
courtesied herself out of the house,
with the bundle projecting itself be¬
neath the imitation shawl, and she
was a little ashamed. But there was
a ten-dollar bill, and she could have
one of those exquisite bits of honiton
lace, like Mrs. Chesterfield St.
John’s. I’ll another dress
“And coax out of
Horace,” said she to herself. “Good¬
ness me! wouldn’t he be augry if he
knew I had sold anything to one of
those second-hand dealers?”
“Dear!” said Mrs. Peveril to her
husband, that evening.
“Well, ducky?” responded the un¬
suspicious victim.
“I want a new white silk dress to
wear to Mrs. Jennings’s reception
next week.”
Mr.Peveril put down the newspaper
and twisted himself around in his
easy chair, to obtain a better view of
his wife’s smiling face.
“Another white silk dress!” said he.
“Why, you’ve got one already,haven’t
you?”
“Oh, that’s worn out long ago!”
promptly responded Mrs. Peveril.
“Times are hard, Rosabel,’’said Mr.
Peveril, impressively.
Mrs. Peveril felt for her handker¬
chief.
“You wouldn’t have your wife go
into society looking like a dowdy,
would yon?” said she.
“Can’t yon wear some of your other
silk frocks? ’
‘Tv set my heart on a white gros
grain,” said Mrs. Peveril, plaintively.
Mr. Peveril took up the newspaper
again, and his wife had the good sense
to say no more.
“He’ll get it for me,” thought she;
and she chuckled to herself in a secret
sort of way, as she thought of the ten
dollar bill she had made out of the
old dress.
Mr. Peveril stopped at a dry goods
palace the next day, and priced white
gros-grain. It was four dollars a
yard.
“And how many yards does it take
to make a dress?” asked he.
The polite clerk really could not
say. It depended so much on the
height and proportion of the lady.
From twenty-five to thirty yards, was,
however—
“And the dressmakers’ bill on top
of that,” almost shouted Mr. Peveril.
“No, I woq’t take it today!”
’And he strode away, muttering dire
anathemas on the extravagance of the
age.
How he came to select Blessington
street as the especial down-town route
for that particular day he never knew,
but seleot it he did. And iu front of
an establishment which was half con¬
cealed by a grove of dresses swinging
from above, as if half a dozen ladies
had committed suicide by wholesale,
he espied the following placard:
< t Bargains in Eall-dresses. Iuquire
Within.”
“By Jove!” said Mr. Peveril, star¬
ing up at the fluttering flounces and
the empty sleeves, which seemed to
beckon at every gust of wind, “I never
thought of that!”
The next instant he felt himself
taken insinuatingly by the arm and
hurried into the store, with a persua¬
sive voice in his ear, begging to show
in what way they could possibly serve
him.
“Jot any white silk ball dresses?”
demanded Mr. Peveril.
Hoiv fortunate it was protested Miss
Naomi Isaacs (who was exactly like
her mother, only a size smaller), that
they had just received au invoice of
that very article from Paris!
“They must be gros-grain!” added
Mr. Peveril, remembering his instruc¬
tions.
“Gros-grain is the exact material!”
cried Miss Naomi, with clasped hands
and uplifted eyes.
And she brought out a white silk
dress, trimmed with cheap Spanish
blonde, and smelling rather strong of
benzine.
« i That’s the article,” said Mr.
Peveril, his face glowing with satisfac¬
tion. “Almost exactly like the last
one she had. What is the price of that
dress?”
Miss Naomi, after referring to the
books of the establishment, answered
that the dress was dirt cheap at
seventy-five dollars.
“Seventy-five dollars!” repeated
Mr. Peveril. “Isn’t that rather steep,
now, for a second-hand dress?”
“But look at the material,” smiled
Miss Naomi Isaacs. “And theu, yon
know, sir, the dress is all made and
trimmed so exquisitely. You have no
dressmaker’s bill of thirty or forty
dollars to pay!”
“That’s very true,“said Mr.Peveril.
“In hard times one must economize.”
So he paid down the seventy-five
dollars, and walked out of the store
with the “bargain,” neatly folded in
a monster paste-board box, under his
arm.
And all the day he smiled mysteri¬
ously to himself whenever he thought
of the agreeable surprise which he
had in store for Mrs. Peveril that
night.
< t Well, darling,” said he,as he came
into his wife’s sitting-room—boudoir,
she called it.
“Well,” she answered, with a re¬
sponsive smile.
“I’ve got it!”
“Got what?”
“The white silk sown,” flinging the
box toward her. “Just from Paris.
All made and trimmed, and ready to
put on!”
“Oh, you darling!” cried Mrs.
Peveril, effusively, as she jumped up
and kissed her liege lord on each side
of his countenance, and then iu the
middle.
And theu she cut the striug with
her scissors, and opened the paste¬
board box, expecting to behold some
marvel of Worth’s or exquisite crea¬
tion of Madam Elise’s.
“Oh, my goodness gracious!” said
Mrs. Peveril, recoiling.
“What is it, my dear?” questioned
Mr. Peveril.
“Take it away!” said Mrs. Peveril.
“What for?” said Mr. Peveril.
“It’s the same one!” sobbed the
lady—“with the grease-spots taken
out by nasty benzine, and a few yards
of cotton blonde basted across the
front. Horace Peveril, where did yon
get it?”
“At Madam Isaacs’ on Blessington
street, said Mr. Peveril, beginning to
realize that there was some terrible
mistake somewhere, “And I gave
seventy-five dollars for it.”
“Seventy-five dollars!” shrieked
Mrs. Peveril. “And I sold it to her,
yesterday, for ten.”
And then Mr. Peveril went into
hysterics in good earnest.
Mr. Peveril went down to the dry
goods emporium, the next day, and
ordered twenty-four yards of the four
doliar silk ; and Mrs. Peveril eco¬
nomizes no more in the cast-off-dress
direction. And l\pth of them are par¬
ticularly snxious to avoid the subject.
“Because,” says Mrs. Peveril, “I
was such a goose!”
“And I was the biggest fool in New
York!” says her husband.—Saturday
Night.
SAVED BY US WIT.
Hitmorntr* Examples of a Shrewd Law¬
yer’s Refuge From Punishment.
Detroit used to have a lawyer who
was shrewd enough to show contempt
of court without incurring danger of
the penalty that would have been vis¬
ited upon an offender less diplomatic.
He was at one time being heard in an
important matter before the supreme
court, and made au assertion which
elicited from one of the judges: “That
is not the law,, sir.”
“Pardon me, your honor,” with a
deferential bow, “it was the law until
a minute ago. Now, we accept a new
principle established by a supreme
authority.”
On another occasion he was reading
from an imposing looking book in
support of a position that he had taken
upon a legal question.
“Just a moment,” interrupted the
supreme justice himself; “doyou mean
to say that you are reading good
law?”
“Not at all, your honor; only su¬
preme court decisions.”
The most cutting thing he ever said
to this same court was during the
consideration of a desperate case iu
which he had not a leg to stand upon.
He made a bold contention which was
fallacious but plausible from begin¬
ning to end.
“Blank,” said the court, severely,
“I would not try to convert the aver¬
age justice of the peace with such
au argument ns that.”
“Nor J,” was the quick response,
“but I had what I considered reliable
information that none of the honora¬
ble members of this honorable court
had ever served in that capacity.”
“Y r ou have "practised before me for
years, Blank,” said a circuit judge at
oue time, “and this is the first time
you have shown contempt.”
“Yes, your honor,” answered Blank,
“I have wonderful self-control !”
The Watcher on the Stair.
The little son of Law Director Hog
sett evidently believes that there are
occasions when the good citizen is
justified in taking the law into his
own hands.
Every night before retiring the lit¬
tle chap carefully places a toy pistol
beneath his pillow.
Of course they have laughed at him,
telling him that he might wake up
some flue morning and find that pis¬
tol, pillow and all had disappeared
together.
of For sound he certainly sleeper. has^the reputation
a
But the other night his mother
awoke and remembered that some¬
thing had beeu left unlocked in the
lower part of the house, So she
quietly stole down the stairs and at¬
tended to ihe errand, She was on
her way back and was slowly ascend¬
ing the stairs when a hoarse little
whisper assailed her ears:
“Who’s that?”
She looked np quickly, and there
on the top step, outlined against the
gloom, stood a tiny white figure.
And the figure’s arm was outstretched
and in the small hand was a gleaming
toy pistol.
Of course he knew her as soon as
she spoke, and was presently back in
bed again, with his precious shooting
iron beneath his head.
At the table next morning he grave¬
ly remarked:
“If was a mighty lucky thing for
you, mamma, that you spoke when
you did.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Queen’* Comment.
A former servant of the Queen on
her Osborue estate gives this account
of a visit paid by her majesty to his
humble home, which, it may be added,
was the first cottage built after the
Queen’s arrival at Osborne. “Yes,
the Queen and two of the princesses
Princess Royal an’ Priness Alice, if I
minds right—have eaten at my table.
They have. It was this way. My son
used to have his dinner set out for
him alone, ’cause he worked later than
me, an’ one day tho Queen and the
princesses came into my cottage just
as he was a-set down, an’ he run away
a bit nightened, yon know, an’ the
Queen set down an’ tasted the dinner
an’ give the princesses some of the
’taties, an’ they says to my missus,
“They’s better than we get’s up
Osborne.’”—New York World.
ALL FRANCE IS TREMBLING
Trouble Is Confidently Expected Over the
Dreyfus Affair,
REGARDLESS OF AN ACQUITTAL OR A CONVICTION
An Alleged Imposter Appears As a Witness Against
the Prisoner At Monday's Session.
Advices from Rennes, France, state
that as the end of the Dreyfusf court
martial trial comes within sight the
French government is beginning to
display a fear that the verdict will
give rise to troubles, and orders have
just been received by two regiments of
infantry and one cavalry regiment,
already within hail of Rennes, to hold
themselves in readiness to march on
the town at the first sign of disorder,
to occupy all strategical points and to
repress manifestations in their incep¬
tion.
The local anti-Dreyfus organs, by
their anti-foreign articles, have al¬
ready singled out foreigners as ene¬
mies of the country, and there is little
doubt that foreign journalists will be
the first victims of the violence of the
mob—not so much Anglo-Saxon' as
Austrian, German and Russian Jews,
who form a'majority of the press rep¬
resentation of their respective coun¬
tries.
Monday’s session opened rather
badly for Captain Dreyfus, as a sur¬
prise was sprung upon the defense in
the advent of an Austrian political
refugee, Eugene Cernuschi, who came
out with a flat-footed denunciation of
the accused, which, even though it
may eventually be proved a pure- fairy
tale, is bound for the moment to exer¬
cise a malignant influence upon the
French people, who have not seen
Cernuschi and are thus unable to
form a personal opinion of the man
who launched these direct accusations
against Captain Dreyfus.
Cernuschi’s appearance is undenia¬
bly against him. Nobody even sus¬
pects that he is what he claims to be,
a scion of the royal Servian house. On
the contrary, one would take him to
be a groom dressed in his best Sunday
suit.
It was remarked that as soon as he
had delivered his testimony and M.
Labori had asked to have him put on
oath at Tuesday’s session behind
closed doors in order that he might
be punished, if guilty of perjury, he
left the room hurriedly.
Cernuschi’s testimony which was in
the form of a letter tp the president of
the oourtmartial, Colonel Jouaust,was
most unequivocal. He claimed that
on three distinct occasions, twice in
France and once in Geneva, he was
told a officer
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS MEET.
They Have a Rig Rally In Cooper Union
and Listen to Addresses.
The Chicago platform democrats
held a meeting Monday night in
Cooper Union, New York, addressed
by ex-Judge James Tarvin, of Coving¬
ton, Ky., and Congressman John J.
Lentz, of Ohio.
Both of them declared for the re¬
nomination of William J. Bryrn and
against the policy of President Mc¬
Kinley in the Philippines. Cooper
Union was crowded to its capacity.
At the conclusion of the speeches
resolutions were read endorsing the
whole Chicago platform and each of
its specific details, recognizing Will¬
iam J. Bryan as the leader of the
democracy and the exponent of the
principles contained in the Chicago
platform and pledging the earnest
efforts and endeavors of those present
to the presidency of the United States
in 1900, declaring that the war against
the Philippines is a grossly immoral
assault on American principles of gov¬
ernment.
Mormon Elders Mobbed.
The Mormon headquarters in
tanooga Monday received notice of
mobbing of Mormon elders at
ville, Va., forty miles from Richmond,
a few nights ago.
LAST YEAR’S COTTON CROP
A Record Breaker, According U Mr. Hei¬
fer’* Annual Repori.
The totals of Secretary Hester’s an¬
nual report of the cotton crop of the
United States were promulgated at
New Orleans Friday. They show re¬
ceipts of cotton at all United States
ports for the year of 8,579,426 bales,
against 8,769,360 last year; overland
to northern mills t 1,345,623, against
1,237,813; southern consumption,
taken direct from interior of the
belt, 1,353,701, against 1,192,821,
making the crop of the United
for 1898-99 amount to 11,274,840
against 11,199,994 last year and
757,963 the year before.
that Dreyfus communicated treasona¬
ble documents to a foreign power.
In the third instance Cernnschi said
the officer showed him documents
emanating from Dreyfus, and that
this officer left France hurriedly two
days prior to the arrest of Captain
Dreyfus.
The allusion was evidently to Col.
Schwarzkoppen, the military attache
of the Germau embassy in Paris in
1894, whose movements were coinci¬
dent with those described as the
movements of the officer of Cer
nuschi’s
Now this evidence is of transcend¬
ent importance to The prosecution,
and it is incredible unless Cernnschi
is proving to be a humbug, that the
government commissary, Major Car
triere, should have admitted that he
had received a letter from him offer¬
ing important testimony and thrown
it aside on the ground of its coming
from a political refugee.
The deposition evoked expressions
of incredulity. One suspicious feat¬
ure was the fact that although the
witness said he could not speak
French fluently, his letter to Colonel
Jouautt, asking an opportunity to
testify was drawn up in perfect
French. He explained that he had
been assisted by his wife in writing
j the letter.
This introduction of a foreigner as
a witness for the prosecution gave M.
Labori an opportunity to submit the
most important request he has made
throughout the trial, a request which
if granted by Colonel Jouaust, though
this is extremely doubtful, would cer¬
tainly have momentous consequences.
May Apply to Germany.
M. Labori announced his intention,
in view of the Bteps taken by the
prosecution in calling foreign evi¬
dence, to ask that inquiry should be
made through the regular diplomatic
channels as to whether the documents
mentioned in the bordereau were ac¬
tually communicated, and if so, by
whom?
This involves an application to the
German government, which the court
martial is scarcely likely to approve.
In any case the application means the
lengthening of the trial for several
weeks.
The introduction of Cernnschi and
the other developments of the day, it
is generally predicted, imply another
fortnight’s sitting, at the least.
CHANGE OF VENUE
Granted the Delegate At Darien By Judge
Soabrooke.
“I am opposed to trying cases that
involve human life, where the shadow
of the courthouse falls upon the mili¬
tary,” was in substance the statement
made by Judge Seabrooke from the
bench of McIntosh superior court in
session at Darien Monday, as he an¬
nounced his decision to grant a change
of venue in the cases against John
Delegal, Ed Delegal and Mirrandy
Delegal, under indictment for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Townsend.
This statement created a stir in the
courtroom and a great discussion on
all sides. The judge then set the case
against the three negroes for trial in
Effiugham county superior court.
CAR FULL OF PRISONERS.
Atlanta Police Make ihe Most Unique
Raid on Record.
The most novel wholesale arrest that
ever occurred in Atlanta, Ga., took
place Monday night when a trolly car
was transformed into a 'temporary
black maria, and about forty negro
men and women were rolled through
the city from Lincoln park to the po¬
lice barracks.
An officer stood at either end of the
car with a revolver and club, and each
had a citizen whom he had deputized
to help him keep any of the prisoners
from esca ping. __
PUBLIC DEBT DECREASED.
A Washing dispatch says: The
monthly statement of the publio debt
shows that at the dose of business
August 31, 1899, the debt less cash
treasury amounted to $1,157,806,555,
a decrease as compared with last month
of $4,281,116.
Chief Arthur Criticised.
Birmingham (Ala.) division, No.
152, Brotherhood of Locomotive En¬
gineers, at a big meeting of the divis¬
ion held Sunday passed resolutions
severely criticising Grand Chief P. M.
Arthur for riding on boycotted street
ears at Cleveland. t