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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