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FRAGMENT. dweller i ralley, lift thine eyes o'llgvixfiwrle'} ix?)%\?e‘lili‘e llle'ltftt of cloud, the‘ ' stone Endures in silence, and to Giod alone 1 Upturns itz furrowed visage, and is wise. Taere yet is being, far from all that dies, And beauty where no mortal maketh | moan, gty ‘ Where larger planets swim the llqmdl And \\‘«Pctx spaces streteh to calmer skies. Only a little way above the plain L Is .«imw eternal. Round the mountain's KNess Hovers the fury of the wind and rain. Look up. and teach thy nohie heart to cease Prom endless labor. There is perfect T'eace : Only a little way above thy pain. —Qeorge Santayana. C¢L2H0000060909 NN < N 9/ ’ \§. @ SISO X 9 & LOVE, ANDAVIOLIN S X ) *® @ S K HGIOBIGIIOIBIK @ @K oy cuaries ravvon macauey. SK 0%%@%%%%%%%%3 Q6L 09H9 Autumn chill was in the air. Dead brown leaves were strewn in little heaps along a street that sprawled its way at the foot of a mountain that rose in easy gradients upon the one hand; upon the other a turbulent riv er tore its way to the sea through a canoned pass. The sun had but just dipped Dbehind the white-topped crags, and the frontier village was sunk in sweet obscurity in the purple shadows that stretched along the base of the hills. It was as though the everlasting mountain had drawn its roval rohes about its rugged form, donned its white nightcap, and was preparing to sink to sleep in the calm bosom of approaching night. Just another touch of realism was given the metaphor by the moon that flirted a moment with the silhouetted crags, and then, with a cold, passionless, good-night kiss, parted reluctantly from them and sailed majestically off into the star-lit dome. ¥From afar out upon the plain came the mourn ful howl of a solitary coyote, which was echoed dismally from cliff to beetling cliff. The faraway murmur of the rock-girted river and the oc casional hoot of an owl among the towering pines were the only sounds that disturbed the stillness of the evening. Dan Cupid stood at the intersection of two well-nigh deserted streets and bethought him of some congenial oc cupation for his meddlesome and mis chievous fingers. - Upon the opposite corner a youth and a maiden met, stopped and con versed in guarded undertones. Dan unfastened his bow from an invisible baldric and drew an arrow from th> well-filled quiver -at his back; fit.ing the notched shaft care fully to the taut string, he took delib erate aim and let flyat the pair across the road. The downecast eyes of the maiden, the blush upon her cheek, the abashed look of the youth, gave un questionable evidence of the little god’s unerring aim. It was an excellent shot and pretti 1y planted, yet it afforded the little sportsman no more satisfaction or amusement than would have been felt by a mighty hunter upon potting a sleeping antelope. The game was too easy, and scarce worthy the skill of the marksman. Dan turned disdainfully upon his chubby heel and wandered aimlessly down the darkening street. Being the author of his own code of ethies, he did not hesitate to peep through a keyhole here or between the chinks of a shutter there. Whenever occa sicn offered he winged an arrow from his tiny bow. He arrived at length near the point where the street canted up into the mountain. There, at the end of the level thoroughfare, stood a ram shackle, two-story structure, which might have been said to have been an “old Curiosity Shop’ transplanted. Within its grimy windows was ar rayed a wondrous variety of unsal able knickknacks. So far as could be seen they were thickly mantled with dust, and a busy spider had set the anchprage of his intricate web from the headpiece of a stringless guitar to the rusty muzzle of a revolver that was fashioned after the manner of another time. The room opening off the street was untenanted, but from somewhere within came the plain tive strains of a violin. The most eu phemistic would have hesitated to dignify the sound by the name of musie, yet upon occasion a note rang true, and as it quivered on the night air spoke of a genius untutored and’ a deftness and sympathy of touch once acquired, but long since forgot ten. Glancing above the outer door Dan Cupid noted the half-obliterated name, Thomas MacWhirter. Without a moment’s hesitation he melted through the two walls and stood with in the inner room. The room was meagrely furnished, and the table, benches and chairs were of the most primitive pattern. The wood fire that glowed within the open grate performed the double duty of pro viding light and heat for its two oc cupants. Bathed in the ruddy fire light sat an old woman bent far for ward, with her elbows sited upon her knees, her chin resting within her open palms. She might well have been a rustic figure cast in bronze, so far as any outward semblance of life was concerned. By the side of tke curtainless window, illumined by the pallid radiance of the moon, an old man sat, drawing a listless bow over the strings. Dan Cuapid shivered, eclimbed to a seat upon a high-backed bench neor the windcw, and bent his gaze upon the aged musician. The old man paused for a moment: his bow wandered aimlessly over the strings, and then came tne first notes, low and sweet, of “Robin Adair.” The old woman raised her head, clasped her bony hands together, and looked straight before her into the fiickering blaze. It was her initial movement since Dan Cupid’s entrance. From *“Robin Adair” the musie swept into “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye.” The notes were falling firm, resonant, true, and not without a touch of mys tie sentiment. Dame MacWhirter's hands were clasping and unclasping; once she stole a glance at MacWhir ter, and it could be seen that an ex pression of pleased surprise dwelt upon her wrinkled countenance. The music was breathing the breath of life into a multitude of dead memor ies. She was traversing again the circle of her existence by way of its ‘diameter. Once more she saw herself ‘a lass, and a right bonnie lass, too. Again she saw sturdy Tammas Mac- Whirter come tramping across the moor—she even fancied she heard the cooing of the amorous doves, the drumming of the frogs in the tarn, the lowing of the stabled cattle, as :she listened to the sweeter music of Tammas’ whispered declaration of llove. She lived again her marriage, and was thrilled once more with their iglowing hopes, their lofty ambitions, as they embarked together for the ’.\’ew World., She felt again the joy land pride at the birth of their chil dren, and the sorrow of their passing. ' She realized, for the first time how, ]dvn'ing the last score of years—years | of poverty, vears of privation, years of utter loneliness-—they had drifted apart till they stood, metaphoriecally, at the opposite ends of the world. Love had receded from their life and left it bleak and barren. She steath ily gathered up her chair and moved it nearer the figure by the window. Dan Cupid saw and smiled. Here offered a quarry worthy of his sub tlest dart. He felt somewhat of a culprit, teo, for having flown through the window—thus leaving these’two bereft of his presence— at the first how!l of the wolf at the door. He was determined upon retrieving him self, and so took most ecareful aim. Swift and true sped the feathered shaft. MacWhirter straightened in his chair; he lifted his shaggy head: a deep flush mounted to his furrowed brow; the last note of “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” meltéd into the tune of *‘Annie Laurie.” The melody was rich, powerful, impassioned. As the last note trembled on the air the old woman rose from her chair and came to the old man’s side. She put her toil worn hand tenderly upon his shoulder and placed her tear-wet cheek lovingly against his. . “Tammas,” she whispered, just as of old, and in the olden dialect, “I'am mas MacWhirter, d'ye ken ye'er e'en yet a braw laddie?” ““An’ I dunno, Janet, but what ye'er a bit bonnie lass, yersel’,” hg answered.——New York Times. Weekly of the Future. The strong and successful weekly paper of the future will collect strictly in advance for its subserip tions and collect and settle all other accounts on the first of each month, so that the publisher will know twelve times a year low he stands and get the added benefit of being a cash customer. It may. even dis count its bills. It will accept only one ptfice from any source or under any condition. It will accept only cash payments for church, city, the atre aud all show advertising, taking tickets only for after notices. It will get cash for all railroad adver tising, and the editor will pay cash when he travels like any other busi ness man, and, besides, he can use any limited train on the road. And incidentally he will have more time to build up and maintain his paper.. Railroad companies cannot get, along without newspaper advertising. They are experimenting now, but they will all recognize this fact and come to be among cur best cash patrons. The paper of the kind we are talking about will accept no trade contracts unless the publisher at the time needs some article from the adver tiser, and even then it's better not to definitely agree to do it. It will keep an accurate expense account and will enter every item of stock, labor and every other outgo for comparison month with month and year with vear. It will keep an expiration book and kill all advertising promptly when dead. It will prove its circula tion to advertisers. It will let the other fellow alone and pay strict at tention to its own business. It will be well printed and contain actual news and not stuff to fill when copy is slack. It will have mechanical composition and good machinery, It will be able to compete against the dailies, because people would rather have it or because they need both. It will have an editor who needs no apology for his existence.—Geo, E. Marcellus. The Shadow of Fear, | The terror of failure and the fear of coming to want keep multitudes of people from obtaining the very things they desire, by sapping their vitality, by incapacitating = them through worry and anxiety for the effective, creative work necessary to give them success. Wherever we go, this fear-‘ ghost, this terror-specter stands be-‘ tween nmien and their goal. no person is in a position to do good work while haunted by it. There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake., The mind, always ful of doubis, fzars, forebodings, i 3 not in o condition to do effective creative work, but is perpetually bhandicapped by this unfortunate attitudz.—Sue <OBB, e \0 P ' e ] /A 3 Py k | ‘r,‘ LN _.:f‘:'._ B o W : s "-_\‘;.-.‘.'. E‘ ‘~ - \ ‘:A('}“:". i: »fi \\’ ‘S‘:‘-‘ ,’? AN 6 ‘U‘ _I \ i oot tente Sao. 23 & /\ (a 3 N RO bbbl SN ~2§) LTSN & P PSR . e W ! 1 . ) LI T vk O ETES (ZRAY S [l A SN £ M| i T 522 i ONG| SR \ ) osy NS A ’,***;"" : A N\ e ‘ - ik » - New York City.—Every variation of the blouse that is cut in one with the sleeves is to be noted just now, u.;ff:‘ 5 ;‘\t\ -t gaeeohy A 3 v & 20 IBQNNNI7/2, EC TSy A\ QS P)5 (3 -~ éjfi; ’gffl - [t = //,’f /) == e flfllf =4 '6 = % / b ] v// _'-2';.‘* Uiy o A [/ g ‘() R "."‘ 5 /// ‘ ¥ wlll ) [ : W B \\\\\q.\‘\\“'} 2/ /1 Lfi;' M‘.\t SANY A Sty s Tiie Tt i >y DR G v ,' '.. ) Mm[’ /"/ A il A , an [ W) /’ /y//’/‘ i 4// ' & 4 gg. and here is one of the prettiest and most graceful that yet have appeared. It can be made either with elbow or £ B 4 NN /o \b2 "; %”Lipi?"' v iy DY AN y & ) O N / o 37@ N % /fi\\\ ’:‘ 75 @M&‘?fi%m@m (5 @,‘lv ~i/ }7) | O [ O a 7 /4//,49‘ Ul9 | 7 &,/fl\\\\"' ,'M/l; : @ @ \ \ 'g‘fu { .n/’ * ‘\'\4 ) \i\‘\ u{}l‘/{/ . 7 S\ > o A // 8. \‘Q\n{;? J 1;?0 e '% d-\‘ ,l""j‘,’//‘* \\ 7L 4 N I & Wi . SN T A T A L\ 4 \ l“» &?' / i/. ‘\ A \W/ I d | 4ll\\" \‘«'\ ' h\f/ | 3_)4:,_?&..\? 7 TN / \ s S \ //f//% w ~ Q’-- 7 ‘W‘qu/'{] Ol '//‘ i S \l\ ’/_“’a/ "/ 5‘ @ fi.v‘ Q/ ) (b. . \», 1o | ety A P&, G 4@ f [L, Q) - %’ T 4 b ‘ %@' lLé d 7 ,‘ /7 J|‘l % ,‘t;ii ;) ,4 @{//, / Ji,A & / <SSP IoILS S = eSI e ’ long sleeves, and is adapted to all the pretty thin materials, which are very nearly legion. In this instance, how ever, it is made of banana colored crepe de Chine, with trimming of vel vet ribbon and bands of stitched taf feta, The long narrow chemisette is a feature, and the high girdle gives the short waist line that is so popular Just now, In this_instance tucked mousseline makes the chemisette, but all-over lace and lingerie materials are having equal vogue. The waist is made with the fitted lining that serves as a foundation. This lining is faced to form the back of the chemisette and the front por tion is arranged over it. The blouse and sleeves are cut in one and are tucked and arranged over the lining, while the girdle finishes the lower edge. Cuffs complete the lower por tions of the sleeves. The New Skirts. The new skirts are long. They fit the hips smoothly. They sweep into generous curves at the foot. Color Schemes, ‘ Peacock blue and green hadtngsi are among the loveliest of the color schemes employed for the fine feath-l ers, ard these peacock tones are em phatically modish, though they do not ccmbine well with other colors, Newest Colors, The newest colors are strong in tone, and are either very becoming or quite the opposite. Lines of black serve to tone down the vividness of many of the new materials. Elaborate Braiding, Elaborate braiding is seen on many of the newest ‘models, both in cloth and velvet, the narrow soutache being the moest popular. Braiding, com bined with heavy embroidery, is par ticularly effective on broadcloth or velvet. Empire Skirt. ‘The skirt that is made with the round Empire line is one of the latest developments of fashion and prom ises to gain still further favor as the aehson advances. This one is emin ently graceful and attractive and caw be made with the circular portions laid over onto the front gore, forming the inverted pleats as illustrated, or with the front gore laid over onto the circular portions, forming one wide box pleat, as liked. In the illus tration chiffon broadcloth is simply stitched with Dbelding silk and trimmed with little buttons, but the heavier silks, pongee and henrietta cloth and all materials that are of sufficient weight to take satisfactory folds are appropriate. The skirt is cut in three pieces, the front gore and the circular portions. The fulness at the back is laid in in verted pleats, and it is perforated both for walking length and for the natural waist line, so that the Empire line is not obligatory. The quantity of material required lfor the medium size is six and three quarter yards twenty-seven, four and < : . “ * \\\\ ! 1 IU ‘ 3 .‘“‘l‘ : \\\ f 5 t y i ae o\ i R 41 | ";"//?"v" J / 1y \(M,, JAIA ! \ ‘\‘ i i "‘{'/’// AL qdi s by 7 e! i 1 %\' / / | \f!'fl A '{;f\§.\\,\ . 1 (1 7 AR\ 7 TR XY A M' 4‘s\\\\ Al R/ 07 W7T AN /J"' 7' / ‘. i‘//‘ ? '/3"i' "\ A /: “ / ;Ai/ $~ |)) Q\-},"\‘a g /o) % J ¢ 7z | D 2 |; N W one-quarter yards forty-four or fifty two inches wide. ~ Tiny Folds of Taffeta. Tiny folds of satin or of taffeta are used to trim semi-dress costu mes, and lend themselves admirably to original effects, They may be applied in broadening designs and also in ser-. pentine lines and sharp zigzags on hems and waistcoats, and are also used to frame motifs, Al Kinds of Skirts, Lonrg; skirts, short skirts, skirts clln..zlnc_ or skirts ample, all are to be soaß, it Good Roads. 7 ot e Grange For Improved Highways. Following is the report and reso lutions submitted by the Committee on Public Highways of the National Grange, at its last annual meeting, and unanimously adopted: Your Committee on Public Highe ways has had under consideration, not only the broad question involved in the improvement of the public highways, but it has given special attention to the plans of the Execu tive and Legislative Committee to make the Grange campaign, in favor of IMederal aid, effective. That plan is approved by the committee, and the large amount of work already ac complished, in preparation for a vig orous campaign in support of the Grange plan, is in the highest degree commendable and reflects great eredit on our Executiveand Legislative Com mittee, who have effected arrange ments to bring to the support of the Grange campaign, to secure the en actment of the necessary legislation by Congress, the aid of the large in dustrial, commercial and manufactur ing interests of the country. In addition to this, arrangements are perfected to prosecute the cam paign vigorously among the farmers in all unorganized soctions of the country and through farm organiza tions not affiliated with the Grange. The plans are so perfect and com prehensive that a vigorous prosecu tion of the campaign all along the line is assured, and one that we may feel confident will bring early suc cess. | Your committee, therefore, unani mousl§ approve the recommendations ~of the worthy master and the Execu -1 tive Committee. ~ The resolutions rveferred to this - committee are in harmony with the ~plan and are hereby approved and incorporated in the following—which if approved will become the platform, as it were, on which the Grange cam paign will be fought: Whereas, The improvement of the highways of the country is a matter of general public concern, and should properly receive the attention and as sistance of the National Government, and : Whereas, The revenue raised by taxes paid by the people of the coun try as a whole should be devoted as far as possible to purpoges which will benefit the greater number of the tax-" payers in all sections of the country, ‘ and Whereas, No argument can be ad vanced in favor of the annual appro priations by Congress on behalf of river. and harbor improvementsg that ' does not apply even more strongly to the improvement of our public i roads; therefore, Resolved, That the National Grange favors a general policy of good roads construction by the var ious municipalities, counties and States, and } Resolved, That we favor the im - mediate enactment of legislation by Congress making liberal Federal ap propriations for the improvement of the public highways of the country, these appropriations to be extended in such manner as Congress may pre scribe. Arrangements are made for giving these resolutions wide circulation in the press and in circular form. We therefore ask your unanimous en dorsement., Fraternally submitted, Cemmittee on Public Highways, Olis ver Wilson, Chairman. Barbarvic Highways, =~ It is obvious that under local in "itiative and construction we should have no proper system of State roads. For that there must be central direc tion, an organized plan having in view the interests of the entire State, and such a co-ordination of effort and expenditure as would result in the creation of a system of through roads that, while serving local needs, would also provide well-built high ways between remote points, That, in outline, must be the plan if the $50,000,000 is not to be wasted, If the people of the State and their law makers have paid some attention to the experiences of the New York to Paris contestants in thelr struggles with our barbaric highway conditions, we should suppose the outlook for such legislation as the committee recs ommends must have been thereby im: proved.-—New York ’l‘lmes.\ | ! A Popular Service, Justice John R. Kelso, of Milwaue kee, Portland's Clackamas County suburb, is becoming popular ag a mar riage official. He is sent for, far and near, whenever any young couple in that neighborhood want to he mar ried, His popularity is said to be due entirely to his short and unigque ceremony. This always appeals to the nervous couples. His ceremony is about as follows, after the couple have been brought before him: “Do you people want each other?” “We do, we do,” is the answer re quired, “Then, goodness gracious, have each other, for nobody else wants you. You are married.”—Portland Oregonian, S ——————————— Reclaiming Southern Missouri, In the eleven counties of Southeast Missouri containing swamp or over flow lands thirty-one drainage ditches or canals have been constructed with a total length of about 660 miles. These ditches have reclaimed 255,000 acres of land, an area amounting to nearly 383 square miles. These landg, which were practically worth less before drainage, are now worth from $35 to $65 an acre.~Doniphan Prospect News. | A 0 O D), e, BT RAGE) 7 Quaint> o gt T : i ‘ N ¢ b and U 7 \ a bl ) s (117108 5,485 @) @l&) k @"m\; ! A ARSI e ‘f’" S roptay ‘.?\'\ RS T CT» Scariet liveries in KEngland are the King's exclusive privilege. A single bee collects a teaspoonful of honey during a season. Cabbages in Cuba grow to such size that a single head often weighs twenty pounds. There were 62,000,000 pieces of rioney struck at the French mint last year for France, Indo-China, Bolivia and Tunis. Columbia University has added a “chalr of humanity,” and the first man to occupy it will be Professor R. C. Mcßae, The ants of South America are great tunnel builders. They have been known to construct a tunnel three miles in length, A woman in Manchester, England, has eyes which magnify objects fifty times their natural size. The occu illsts consider her a wonder. There are thirty-two millionaires in the United States Senate and four teen in the House. REvery third man in the Senate is a millionaire. - - The smallest inhabited island in the world is, we believe, the rock on which the Rddystone Lighthouse stands. It is only just large enough to admit of the foundations of this structure being laid. A woman in Muscotah, Kas., has sued the city and the Congregational church for SIO,OOO damages for a fall on a defective sidewalk. She enumerates in her claim injuries to the back, ribs, spine, kidneys, liver, head and hearing. Perhaps the highest fire from the ground ever fought in any city was that extinguished in New York on the fortieth floor of the new Singer Building, 500 feet above the side ‘walk. It was caused by the upset ting of a plumber’s fire pot. Perhaps the largest sale of raw furs ever made in New Ingland by one party was that of Fred D. Blood, of Houghtonville, Vt., who sold about $75,000 worth to a Manchester man. In the lot were 1200 red fox skins, 2000 skunk skins, 200 raccoon and 5000 muskrat. ! , 7 4 In 1777 nails cut from cold iron were for the first time thus manufac tured in this country at Cumberland, R. I. Some men who had deserted from the British army began the manufacture of glass in 1780 in Temple, N. H. Two years later a firm in Philadelphia began manufac turing fustiansg and jeans. oy GREATEST CONCRETE BRIDGE. Just Finished at Washington and Ree markable For Several Reasons, The largest concrete bridge in the world hag just received the finishing touches at Washington. The Con necticut avenue hridge, as it is known, spans the deep gorge of Rock Creek, not fifteen minutes by trolley from the centre of the city, ’ The structure is *remarkable for | several reagons. In the first place, it is built entirely of concrete without being reinforced with steel. It is 1421 feet long, with a fifty two foot roadway and a walk on either side. The floor of the bridge is 136 feet above the ground. There are gseveral 150 foot arches and two narrow ones of eighty-two feot. Work was begun about seven years ago on the foundations, though the plans had already taken about two years to complete. The work halted owing to the failure of Congress to appropriate enough money to come plete it, L But about three years ago the necesgary. bills went through, and a really beautiful bridge is now. the result.—The cost was a million dole lars.—New York Sun. Momrfy From Secaweed, Japan, which wastes nothing in its domestic economy, realizes $2,000,- 000 annually from its seaweed pro ducts. According to the report of C. J. Davidson, an attache of the British Embassy at Tokio, more than fifty varieties of the seaweed found along the Japanese coast are utilized either for food or as manufactured pro ducts. The traveler sees bundles of dried seaweed, white with the crystallized salt of the sea water, hung from the front of every food stall. The coars er varieties are stewed and served with fish. Some of the delicate sprigs of sea grass are boiled with fish soups and remain a vivid green, float ing against the red lacquer of the soup bowls. Other species of seaweed are used in the manufacture of glue, of plas ter and of gtarch., Whole villages are given over/to seaweed fishing and the drying and packing of the product for shipment to the manufaciuring plants in the large cities. In the country along the seashore the farm ers use the coarse and ropy kelp for fertilizing their vegetahle fields.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.